the scene. >> line shot, and it is caught. >> plus, wild night. the dodgers celebrate. >> the dodgers are headed to the world series. >> and thursday night football's wildest ending ever. and why these guys really wish they had paid their $7 bill at waffle house. and a good friday morning. i'm erielle reshef in for diane macedo. >> and i'm kendis gibson. we're going to start with the white house chief of staff getting personal as he comes to the president's defense. >> general john kelly delivered a passionate statement invoking the memory of his son killed in combat. what projected his response and the growing questions this morning about that deadly ambush on u.s. soldiers in niger. serena marshall begins our coverage. good morning, serena. >> reporter: good morning. it was a surprise visit to the white house briefing room for general john kelly hoping to end the controversy that's consumed the white house all week. it was an emotional defense of the president, not from chief of staff john kelly but gold star father and retired general john kelly. >> there's no perfect way to make that phone call. my first recommendation was he not do it. >> reporter: kelly lost his own son when he stepped on a land mine in afghanistan in 2010, something he doesn't talk about often but addressing an unusually silent press corps. >> in my son's case in afghanistan, when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends. that's what the president tried to say to four families. >> reporter: kelly frustrated and brokenhearted over the politicalization. >> it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. >> reporter: it's the president's words versus intension. kelly not disputing that the president told the widow of la david johnson that he knew what he was signing up for but it still hurts, even echo those same words in his defense. >> he knew what he was getting himself into because he enlisted. >> reporter: the president just hours later hitting congressman frederica wilson for being on the call and giving a total lie on content. what the president and kelly didn't address, wilson's relationship with the family that guess goes back decades according to "the washington post" and sergeant johnson's mother who told the paper, president trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband. wilson now saying she's done talking about it. seemingly lost in it all the four soldiers killed in niger including sergeant la david johnson who's been at the center of it all. his funeral is scheduled for saturday. kendis, erielle. >> serena marshall there in washington, thank you. speaking of niger, senator john mccain is threatening to subpoena the trump administration for more information on that deadly attack more than two weeks ago. the four americans who were killed were overwhelmed by the isis militants. a pentagon investigation is under way. officials say the unit did not expect to be in combat. the question now is whether they had proper intelligence and backup support. u.s. forces have been in niger for the last four years because of the increasingly dangerous threat from terror groups. >> there's a reason we have u.s. army soldiers there and not the peace corps, because we carry guns. >> general mattis there and also raising some red flags, the body of sergeant la david johnson was not recovered for at least 20 hours after the ambush. military officials deny he was left behind. they say that's how long it took to find him. breaking overnight, the senate has paved the way for president trump's tax reform package. lawmakers passing a $4 trillion budget overnight in a party line vote. democratic leader chuck schumer called this one of the worst budgets congress has ever passed. it included language that would prevent democrats from using filibuster against tax reform measures by allowing the bills to pass with a simple majority. a new warning about the danger posed by north korea. the head of the cia says the north koreans are now months away from perfecting their nuclear weapon capabilities to hit the u.s. mike pompeo says washington still prefers diplomacy. that said, the national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, warned that the u.s. is running out of time to deal with the threat diplomat atticly. former presidents george w. bush and barack obama are back in the spotlight and blasting the current state of american politics. at a voter rally last night, former president obama said messages of division threaten our democracy echoing a speech by president bush earlier that day. >> our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. we've seen our discourse degraded by casualty cruelty. at times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. >> we shouldn't use the most painful parts of our history just to score political points. we saw what happened in charlottesville, but we also saw what happened after charlottesville when the biggest gatherings of all rejected fear and rejected hate. >> neither obama nor bush mentioned president trump by name during their speeches. white nationalist leader richard spencer was all but silenced when he tried to speak at the university of florida. as soon as he took the stage in gainesville, the majority of the crowd booed and shouted drowning him out. he ended early and left the school campus. outside you can see there hundreds of protesters outnumbered by 500 police officers who were on patrol. a few clashes were reported with two arrests and a handful of minor injuries. there's a manhunt that is under way this morning for three inmates who escaped from a tennessee jail overnight. the men were serving time for assault and resisting arrest. two of the men escaped from the same facility just last month. they reportedly got out through an air vent. $1 billion, that's the estimated cost of the damage from the wildfire disaster in northern california this month, and officials expect that figure will rise. 42 deaths are blamed on the fires. about 7,000 buildings have been destroyed. now let's take a look at your weather for this friday morning. well, all the rain hitting the northwest was too much for one hillside north of seattle. it gave way triggering a mudslide. it slammed into a house and caused a natural gas leak. 30 homes in the neighborhood evacuated while the stability of the hillside was evaluated. no one was injured. it'll be 53 degrees in seattle today, we should mention, with more rain on the way. warmer than usual for the midwest to new england. 82 degrees in dallas and new orleans. 80 in denver. 87 in miami. coming up, o.j. simpson getting back to normal life after his release from prison. we'll show you how he's embracing his new-found freedom. but first, serious new allegations against harvey weinstein. the bombshell claims from an oscar-winning actress. and a new legal battle this morning over a key ingredient in we're back with a pretty stunning view. so that's amazon ceo jeff bezos smashing a champagne bottle celebrating the company's latest wind farm all the way up there as you can see. that is in texas. more with dozens more in the works. the company hopes to eventually produce enough clean energy to power the equivalent of 330,000 homes for a year. oscar-winning actress lupita nyong'o is the latest to come forward with disturbing allegations against movie mogul harvey weinstein. in a "new york times" op-ed she details several incidents she describes as sexual harassment. that includes an encounter at his home where she says that harvey weinstein asked her for a massage while his children watched a movie in the next room. a spokesperson for weinstein says he, quote, has a different recollection of the events but believes lupita is a brilliant actress and a major force in the industry. last year she sent a personal invitation to mr. weinstein to see her in her broadway show "eclipsed." this comes as los angeles police launch a separate criminal investigation into claims by an italian actress who accused weinstein of raping her in her hotel room. some high school students in the charlotte, north carolina, area just barely managed to escape before this fire broke out on their bus. the quick-thinking driver smelled smoke, stopped the bus and evacuated the students moments before it burst into flames. everyone made it out safely. and in texas, a substitute teacher has been banned from an elementary school in the dallas area for duct taping the mouths of ten students. the school district says three of the fifth graders followed the teacher and put duct tape over their mouths. they were checked out by a nurse and were not injured. o.j. simpson is three weeks into his new life after being released from prison. part of his return to normalcy included smiling for 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rifles, eight handguns, two shotguns, thousands of rounds of ammunition and even a baseball bat with nails sticking out of it. but most disturbing they found aerial photos of two schools and a water treatment plant and notes on how to make explosive devices. police say the suspect, 24-year-old randall drake, has no criminal history and no history of mental issues. even his parents claim they had no idea about his collection. >> these are the people that are most concerning to us, what we call the lone wolves, you know, the sleepers that are out there, the people who are not on our radar. the people who have fallen under the radar or off of it. >> the suspect's handwritten note mentioned hatred and revenge. right now authorities say he is not talking. it's unclear what he may have been planning. air travelers may soon face a new laptop ban if the faa gets its way. the agency wants the global airline industry to restrict laptops from checked luggage to avoid potential midair fires like that. the faa says when rechargeable batteries in laptops overheat near an aerosol spray can, they can cause an explosion and catastrophic fire. makers of the motor popular soft drinks are facing multiple class action lawsuits. the makers of coke, pepsi and dr. pepper are accused of using the word "diet" in advertising which the lawsuit claims is false and misleading. the suit also says the companies are fooling consumers into thinking they won't gain weight drinking those beverages. >> products that are marketed as diet products should be helpful in helping people lose weight, and these products are not helpful in losing weight. >> the suits also claiming that the artificial sweetener aspartame used in diet sodas is more likely to cause weight gain than weight loss. how about this thinking here, walmart may be creating its own mall online. the company has reportedly offered upscale retailer lord & taylor a section on its website. it may bring more traffic to both to better compete with amazon. children are spending more time than ever staring at computer screens. the group common sense media says that the screen time for kids under 9 years old is now about 2 hours and 20 minutes every day. that's up 25 minutes from just a few years ago, and kids now spend about 45 minutes a way on smartphones and tablets. it was an exciting night for sports fans, especially in baepgs. >> yeah, but there was also some great football action. highlights now from espn. good morning. it's "sportscenter" from los angeles. stan verrett along with neil everett. dodger fans waited 29 years but the moment is finally here. >> yeah, you know your moment is finally right here to see the highlight. the dodgers were up three games to one. it's the best of seven. first team to win four wins the series. kiki hernandez off hector rondon. that's his second first pitch home run in this game. first first pitch home run in this highlight. clayton kershaw, hug me. one shot ain't enough, jack. you better make it three, hernandez again, first dodgers player with three home runs in postseason -- in a postseason game in dodger history. they've been around a long time and going back, first time since 1988 when they beat the a's. they celebrate, tommy lasorda in there somewhere. thursday night football, raiders and chiefs in oakland. what a crazy ending. raiders down by 6, 23 seconds remaining. derek carr throwing it up. jared cook pulling it down. ruled a touchdown at first, but then they say he was down inside the 1. after three penalties on three straight plays, carr, michael crabtree, that tied the game at 30. giorgio tavecchio's extra point to win it, and he knocks it through and the raiders snap a four-game losing streak and win it 31-30 over the chiefs. the chiefs have won nine straight on the road, 12 straight in the division but that's all done now. >> so are we. >> back to you. >> thanks, fellows. and astros and yankees tonight. world series starts on tuesday. well, just 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