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shapes up to be a soggy couple of days for the east coast. >> let's get the details from justin povick of accuweather. good morning. >> thanks and good morning to you. joaquin keen continues to churn slowly now to the north. that is very crucial. we've been watching the system meander south and west the past couple of days. now picked up by deep upper level low system. this churn its way to the north eventually bending its way back to the north and east. east of the eastern sear board. rip currents, beach erosion, coastal flooding, gusty winds and some very, very heavy rains. some spots could actually see over a foot of rain, including the carolinas right through early next week. charlotte on west bound with lighter amounts. still significant though toward d.c. reena and kendis, back to you. >> russia is defending is escalation of air strikes inside syria and says it's on the same page as the u.s. and allies. but washington is questioning
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russia's motives and choice of targets saying moscow is actually going after opposition forces, some of them backed by the u.s. rather than islamic terrorists. syria's foreign minister plans to address the u.n. general assembly today. benjamin netanyahu used his speech at the united nations to blast the nuclear deal with iran. and to get his point across netanyahu stared in the audience without speaking for 45 seconds. he then asked the delegates if they had forgotten the lessons of the holocaust. >> investigators in illinois are finally revealing some details about the shooting death of police officer charles glen know witnesses last month. they are confirming that he was shot with his own weapon and there is evidence after a struggle at the scene. glen witnesses was found dead after he radioed that he was chasing three suspicious men in a remote area. despite a massive manhunt, police still have not made any an arrests. >> five airline passengers taken
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to a florida injury for minor injuries caused by turbulence. flight 9 2 was on its way to miami when it hit a patch of turbulence at about 36,000 feet. on board, some passengers were thrown from their seats. the airline says the seat belt light was on at the time. >> residents of an small southwest with michigan town are trying to figure out who is their new best friend, the person holding the winning powerball ticket worth $310 million sold at the shell gas station in three rivers. the station, by the way, is just minutes from the indiana border. so the healeder of the ticket could technically be someone from out of state. that person is gaining new relatives this morning, as well. while the american workday is getting longer, sweden moving to a six-hour workday. employers say their workers are more productive during the shorter period. >> trying to say that for years. they say it's hard to concentrate on a single tacking for eight hours straight.
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after all, most of us take lunch, chat at the coffee machine or sneak a peek at facebook once in awhile. it's hard to argue with the country that gave us volvo, ikea and abba. >> i forgot abba. >> could you not use social media. >> for eight hourses? >> yeah, i think people would probably start going into -- >> withdrawal. >> facebook went down for 45 minutes, i was sleeping but i woke up because i got that sense. i was that connected to it. >> i think that would create palpitations for a lot of people. >> absolutely. coming up, the woman behind the donald. >> meet melania trump, the potential first lady who would break new ground the first to ever pose nude on a magazine. that would be interesting. and a twist. donald's spouse is an immigrant herself. i don't think he would deport her but you know. >> but first a strong reaction from president obama to the tragic shooting in oregon. the anger, frustration, with the
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the horrific shooting at a community college in oregon. the gunman reportedly targeting christians when he opened fired in a clam identified as chris harper mercer. police say he was among ten people killed. the sound of gunshots set off panic across the rural campus as sounds ran for their lives. president obama visibly angry. he lashed out at the gun lobby and said the nation's response to mass shootings has become routine. >> and president obama meantime had been briefed at the white house. in fact, he watched live coverage from the oval office as the tragic events unfolded on that campus. >> he shared not only wrords of shi and comfort but also a tough clarian call again for tougher gun laws. >> somehow this has become
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routine. the reporting is routine. my response here at this podium ends up being routine. the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. we talked about this after columbine and blacksburg, after tucson, after newtown, after aurora, after charleston. it cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people 0 to get his or her hands on a gun. and what's become routine of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common sense gun legislation. when americans are killed in mine disasters we work to make mine safer. when americans are killed in floods and hurricanes, we make
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communities safer. so the notion that gun violence is somehow different? that our freedom and our constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon when there are law abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt and protect their families and do everything they do under such regulations? it doesn't make sense. >> i don't think there's any other issue we've seen this president get so emotional and almost angry pretty much in this last clip that you saw than gun violence. really feels he hasn't done
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enough. >> and this was the 15th time he's addressed the country after a gun tragedy. the president sounded is hoping it makes a difference but he knows he'll be back up there doing one of these speeches again. >> we know that the accused gunman no police record apparently. no rap sheet. and has led to one of the worst shootings in oregon. ten deaths in ten minutes. police apparently were pleading to send as many ambulances as possible when they got word of this initially. >> we'll be right back. "world news now" continues
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well, back in the '80s, we couldn't get enough of the woman behind the man who was donald trump, the donald. and that was ivana trump. >> but even as he runs for the highest office in the land, very little is known so far about the current mrs. trump. here now is abc's david wright. >> at home with the trumps. a people cover spread unusual not for its content but for the timing. why is it we're only hearing from her now? she spoke with joy behar about her husband's political aspirations in 2011. >> he still didn't make the decision and he's very passionate about the country and
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it's a big mess. the country's in a big mess. >> but on the campaign trail. >> my father donald j. trump. >> trump's 33-year-old daughter ivanka plays the role normally reserved for the candidate's wife. melania trump was there when he announced. there for the debateds. but even after this. >> you called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. >> she has spoke be not a word. my husband is traveling all the time, she told people noting that their son needs somebody as a parent so i am with him all the time. adding she was not ready to get political yet. michael dantonio author of "never enough a trump biography if i," says melania is his silent partner. >> i think she's far more comfortable in the support role. >> her 2005 marriage to trump made her a public figure. >> to marry a man like donald
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is -- you know, you need to know who you are. >> a fixture on the red carpets and on news shows before the campaign. >> moo people really have a great, great feeling for my husband. >> the former fashion model would be the first first lady to have posed nude on the cover of gq or in a red bikini on a presidential carpet, that photo from a talk magazine piece 15 years ago. now since louisa adams has there been a first lady born outside the u.s. she was born in the former yugoslavia but shares her husband's views on the importance of english. when you come to america, you speak english. david wright are, abc news, new york. >> first ladies in general have had huge influences on the president and first ladies in marriages. >> michelle obama was controversial during the early part of the campaign. and turned it around.
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start healthing. ♪ yeah, click all right. insomniacs what's new in theaters this weekend. >> so first up, we have the martian" a new sigh sty flick starring matt damon starring as mark watney stranded on mars after left behind his crew. a storm causes them to abort their mission. stranded, watney must figure out a way to survive until the next manned mission to the red planet. in four years. >> i got to figure out a way to grow three years worth of food here. on a planet where nothing grows. luckily, i'm a botanist.
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mars will come to fear my botany powers. >> he's a botanist. who knew? the critics seem keen on the martian" with david kaplan saying the film makes "gravity" look like a junior high science project and fred koppel of nerd says he would love to tell you what the best part of the martian is but it's all the best part. >> okay. >> next up, the walk. joseph gordon will levity and robert zemeckis looking to bring the story of felipe petite, his famed walk between the newly erectomied twin towers. it chronicles his dream of walking the wire a quarter of a mile in the sky. his nerve transforms a routine circus act into a lasting piece of performance art. >> calm down. they tell me it's not possible
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and there's no sign of possibility. there's nothing telling me it can be done. >> yo, how you doing? >> they're going up. go back to the hotel. if i'm not back in five hours, look for me at the police station. >> and critics telling audiences run, don't walk to the movie. get it? get it? the rap saying it's the rare movie that might please practically everyone and renee rodriguez calling it a love letter to lunacy that lets you feel like it's tread where only gods dare. did i make sense on that one. >> you did. that accent not much sense.
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this morning on "world news now," campus tragedy. >> the latest details in the horrific shooting on a college campus in oregon, a community reeling with grief overnight, ten dead, several others injured as we learn more about the victims, the shooter and what his motives may have been. >> and keeping kids safe. the tragedy in oregon is a painful reminder of what millions of young americans face in the classroom and what they would do in that situation. generations now being prepared for worst. and tracking joaquin, the major hurricane threatening the entire eastern seaboard right now. what the latest models indicate and the massive amount of rainfall forecast for many regions. accuweather's predictions just ahead on this friday, october 2nd. from abc news, this is "world news now."

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