Set off a major backlash. A threatening message from a stranger leads a new jersey mom to thwart a potential School Massacre hundreds of miles away. Plus all of 2018s stock gains may have been wiped out but will that deter online shop dprerz lo dprerz from looking for the best holiday deals . Im phillip mena. And im marlie hall. This morning federal and local authorities are investigating a series of pipe bombs mailed to several prominent democrats and critics of President Trump. One of the devices was sent to cnns new york offices, prompting an evacuation. Officials say the packages were all nearly identical, made from pvc pipe, containing a timer, pyrotechnic powder, and likely shrapnel according to xrays. Lawmakers from all sides condemned the incident. New york mayor bill de blasio calling it an act of terror. Vice president mike pence tweeting, these cowardly actions are despicable and have no place in this country. And President Trump also weighing in from his rally in wisconsin last night. Nbcs tracie potts has the latest from washington. Hey, tracie. Good morning. Good morning. At this rally the president avoided partisan attacks and focused on the investigation of these pipe bombs and how and from whom they were sent. Heres the president last night. Any acts or threats of Political Violence are an attack on our democracy itself. The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories. Reporter those packages were mailed to former president barack obama, to Hillary Clinton. She was not home. She was in florida at the time. To congresswoman Maxine Waters and other highprofile democrats, many of whom have been publicly and frequently critical of President Trump. The device to brennan as you noted went to cnns headquarters, and it was evacuated. More on that later. Mayor bill de blasio is calling this an act of terror. And of course authorities are investigating. And we are told taking a look at many of the places where those bombs were mailed, to new york, to washington, to florida. That authorities now have from some of those packages an important clue. They contain postmarks that postal inspectors can look at and get some sense of where the devices came from and start looking at cameras at those facilities. Most of them were mailed to mail facilities and got nowhere near their intended targets. Back to you. And for that we are very thankful. Tracie, thank you. The devices also throwing a major Media Organization into chaos. The package addressed to former cia director john brennan was sent to cnns offices in new york, forcing an evacuation during live television. Heres nbcs rehema ellis. Reporter an emergency inside cnns new york headquarters. Excuse me. That sounds like a fire alarm here. Well keep you posted on that. Reporter alarms rang out live on the air. Minutes later the Time Warner Center evacuated as the bomb squad moved in. This clearly is an act of terror attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence. Reporter a chaotic scene outside as cnn anchors continued reporting. The lights shut off. We walked down six flights of stairs. Were out here. Theyre now moving us. Reporter anchor jim sciutto tweeting a photo of the package containing the live explosive device. The device was removed and taken to a secure location. I live down the block, and its frightening. This is not the first time this has happened. Reporter a close call with many questions still unanswered. Rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. And as the fbi investigates who sent these devices, there is growing concern over the countrys increasingly heated political rhetoric. George soross son writing in a New York Times oped he sees the bomb threats as a result of the new normal of political demonization that plagues u. S. Or plagues us today. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell takes a look at just how threatening some of the rhetoric has become in recent weeks. Reporter just this week another fiery speech attacking his favorite targets, democrats. Democrat immigration policies allow poisonous drugs and ms13 to pour into our country. Reporter going after Hillary Clinton and the media, especially cnn. If you want the Fake News Media to finally investigate [ crowd chanting cnn sucks ]. But if you want the fake news to finally investigate Hillary Clinton [ crowd chanting lock her up ] reporter and last week praising a republican congressman for attacking a reporter. Any guy that can do a body slam, hes my candidate. Reporter while there are no answers yet, President Trump has the biggest megaphone and there are growing questions over how hes using it. Cnn worldwide president jeff zucker saying theres a total and complete lack of understanding at the white house about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media. Words matter. Anger now spreading in all directions. A republican candidate in sacramento fighting off an antitrump knife attacker. Hes screaming im going to kill you. Reporter senator ted cruz and his wife chased out of a d. C. Restaurant. Let my wife through. Reporter a republican dmnd pennsylvania tlaengt the democratic governor in a video. Because im going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes. Reporter raising the question is politics becoming dangerous . Its a time of deep divisions, and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together. Reporter republican congressman Steve Scalise almost dying after a political shooting targeting republicans in a softball practice last year, tweeting we must agree that this is a dangerous path and it cannot become the new normal. Andrea mitchell, nbc news. Were just 12 days left until the midterm elections. Democrats and republicans are battling it out over health care, making claims about whos really working to protect people with preexisting conditions. Heres Peter Alexander with more. Reporter President Trump touting his administrations progress against the opioid epidemic. Seized more than 2. 8 Million Pounds of illicit and deadly drugs. Reporter the rate of Overdose Deaths beginning to slow down. But its another health care claim for the president under scrutiny. Tweeting republicans will totally protect people with preexisting conditions. A line hes repeated in recent days. Republicans will always protect americans with preexisting conditions. We protect you. Reporter in fact, republicans and the Trump Administration are aggressively trying to undercut obamacare that guarantees protections to people with preexisting conditions. But you wouldnt know it from watching these republican candidates ads. Earlier this year we learned our oldest has a rare chronic disease. Preexisting condition. We know what thats like. I support forcing Insurance Companies to cover preexisting conditions. In wisconsin preexisting conditions are covered. And as long as im governor, they always will be. Reporter but theirs were among 20 states that signed onto a republicanbacked federal lawsuit arguing obamacare including its popular preexisti preexisting condition provision is unconstitutional. Republican congressional candidates embraced the issue as well. Everyone agrees were going to protect preexisting conditions. Im fighting to protect preexisting conditions. Thats why im taking on both parties and fighting for those with preexisting conditions. Reporter but all three of those republicans voted to repeal obamacare. In response 15 republican senators are now cosponsoring a bill to prohibit insurers from turning away people with preexisting conditions. But insurers could exclude treatments for them. Phillip . Peter, thank you. If youre just waking up this morning, the Powerball Jackpot climbed into top five territory after there were no winners in last nights drawing. The winning numbers are 3, 21, 45, 53, 56, plus the powerball 22. Now, the estimated jackpot rolls to 750 million with a cash value of over 428 million. Seven tickets did win the milliondollar consolation prize by matching all five numbers. But they failed to match the powerball. The next drawing is this saturday at 11 00 p. M. Good luck. Meteorologists are calling its strongest storm of 2018 as it slammed into a u. S. Territory in the west pacific. The National Weather service warned of devastating damage for the mariana islands, where super typhoon yutu brought category 5 intensity gusts with winds around 180 miles an hour. The storm has been described as one of the most intense hurricane strikes on record for the u. S. And he its territories. My goodness. Bill karins is here. What else it goes down as the fifth strongest worldwide ever to make landfall. 180mileperhour winds. Well see what those pictures look like later on today. Will probably be pretty ugly. Lets talk this weekend forecast. Noreaster or the coastal storm. Not a snowstorm. Just a rain and wind event. Saturday we wake up to very rainy conditions d. C. To new york. During the day it shifts all the way through the northeast. It will linger in areas of new england right through saturday evening. Notice that south of about philadelphia saturday night at least it clears out. Then on sunday the storm will kick to the north. Minor coastal flooding. Some minor power outages. Not a huge impact noreaster he to a cold ports. Star, a chilly morning. Its not going to warm up much this afternoon either. Highs in the low 40s. Well give you the rest of the weekend forecast coming up. All right. Sounds good. Thanks, bill. The red sox and dodgers faced off yet again. 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Marco finley was overseas with his Army National guard unit while his wife cassidy was back in iowa counting down the days to her due date. Neither expected him to be home for the delivery but in a matter of moments everything changed for the best as they welcomed their new baby boy together. Thats amazing. Best day ever. Leading the news, a mother in new jersey is being called a hero after stepping in to prevent a School Shooting by reporting a racist facebook message to police. Nbcs ron mott picks up the story from there. Reporter colberly bull is a mother of three biracial children in new jersey. So when she got a facebook message from someone in kentucky she didnt know threatening her kids she was concerned. Basically used the n word a lot. He hoped that my children something in the back of my mind was do not let this go. Reporter she called authorities and may have stond a School Shooter in his tracks. Police confronted 20yearold Dylan Jarrell as he backed out of his driveway armed with a gun, kevlar vest, more than 200 rounds of ammunition and what police say was a detailed plan avenue tack to carry out shootings in two Different School districts in kentucky. The commonwealth versus Dylan Jarrell. Reporter he pleaded not guilty to charges of making terroristic threats and harassing communications. In may Kentucky State Police says the fbi questioned him about threats to a school in tennessee. Back on facebook new messages to colberly bull from kentucky. Everyone needs to be vigilant and Pay Attention when something doesnt feel or sound right. Thank you. You are our superhero. You didnt know your mom was a superhero . Well. I already knew that part. But i didnt know she would do Something Like this. It was that mama bear instinct. Reporter a potential tragedy avoided because one mom saw something and said something. Ron mott, nbc news. Just ahead, a flood of reaction to megyn kellys onair apology for her comments about blackface that set off a major backlash. Youre watching early today. My mom washes the dishes. Before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do . Cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuckon foods, the first time. Wow, thats clean cascade platinum. Geand take 50 off hundreds of select items storewide plus take an extra 20 off plus take an extra 10 off when you spend 50 or more plus get kohls cash layer on the savings this weekend at kohls. Introducing the allnew corolla hatchback. Toyota. Lets go places. And while things are very unpleasant here on planet earth, President Trump says theres a good chance the space force could be up and running sometime next year. Thats right. If all goes according to plan, donald trump will have created the first ever branch of the military that is completely imaginary. But Everything Else is all too real. Now to a story that concerns this network. Nbcs megyn kelly issuing an apology on her show after comments she made tuesday about blackface were met with major backlash. Our Morgan Radford has the latest. And i want to begin with two words. Im sorry. Reporter megyn kelly apologizing for her controversial remarks about race. During a Panel Discussion about halloween costumes. I learned that given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country it is not okay for that to be part of any costume, halloween or otherwise. Reporter kellys mea culpa coming after she defended the use of blackface. No, stupid. Reporter a once popular form of entertainment used to mock africanamericans. But what is racist . Because truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for halloween. Like back when i was a kid that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character. Reporter her comments received fierce backlash among critics and colleagues. While she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is a history going back to the 1830s, minstrel shows, to demean and denigrate a race wasnt right. Reporter in a prescheduled annual town hall nbc news chairman andy lack said, i condemn those remarks. There is no place on our air or in this workplace for them. Two black panelists addressed the controversy on her show. For africanamericans we know the history, and too many white americans dont know or wont accept it when the reality is it is american history, yours and mine. Reporter a lesson in history with the hope of progress. Morgan radford, nbc news, new york. Just ahead, happily ever after in the afterlife. The shocking secret at disney world. And a war for your wallet. How retailers are upping the ante ahead of the holiday season. 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The dow plummeted over 600 points, wiping out all of its gains since january. The selloff hit the tech sector especially hard. The nasdaq falling over 300 points. The nasdaq is now down nearly 13 since its august high, which puts it firmly in correction territory. Its not all bad news, though, for investors. Futures are pointing to a slight rebound at the open. Let the shipping wars begin. Its not even halloween yet, but big name retailers like target and walmart are already rolling out big savings to win over customers this holiday season. This year the brick and mortars are fighting harder than ever to gain a foothold against amazon online. Nbc Business Correspondent jo ling kent has more. Jo, good morning. Good morning. Its expected to be run of the biggest retail seasons ever, with more than a trillion dollars up for grabs being spent both online and off. And now target is competing with walmart and amazon aggressively announcing new free twoday shipping for customers without any minimum purchase or membership starting next month. The move comes after walmart rolled out free twoday shipping for products from third parties on its website over the coming months. Also touting free twoday shipping on any order 35 or more. And amazon now offering prime customers who pay 119 a year free oneday shipping for purchases of 35 and up. And experts say consumers will not be paying for the shipping through higher prices. When it comes to free shipping, its not the customers thatll end up paying the cost but the companies that provide the product. The prices that the customers pay have already been predetermined. Reporter thats good news for shoppers. According to a new survey, 88 say its more important to have their packages ship for free than to get them fast. As major retailers compete to show customers how low they can go. And every single dollar is going to count this holiday season. Online shopping and shopping in general is expected to be up about 4 according to the National Retail federation. So theres a lot of money on the line. Phillip . Sure is, jo. Thank you. Many people want the happiest place on earth to be their final resting place according to the wall street journal. Former and current custodians for disney parks are reportedly spilling secrets about vacuuming up human ashes throughout the magic kingdom. While disney says this behavior is strictly prohibited, custodians tell the wall street journal they have found ashes on lawns, outside park gates, and most frequently all throughout the haunted mansion. Well, that just makes the mansion even more scary. If it was not haunted before, it is now. Hope your thursdays off to a great start. Im phillip mena. And im marlie hall. Be sure to follow usanother sus this one allegedly se breaking news at 4 30. Another suspicious package. This one allegedly sent to property owned by actor robert de niro. This is video of that package being hauled away by the bomb squad. Lets get right to it. The most recent package sent to Lower Manhattan building ucti, offices of de niros tribecca films. A worker who saw the package called police at 4 00 this morning. He told police the package arrived a day or two ago. Sources telling nbc the package has similar markings as pipe bombs