A good wednesday morning, im diane macedo. And im nick watt in for kendis gibson. We begin with the ultra tight race for the white house. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are preparing to talk National Security set to appear separately tonight in a televised forum. That discussion follows the latest tit for tat on the campaign trail. We turn to abcs maggie rulli in washington for the latest. Maggie, good morning. Reporter good morning, guys. As new polls show the race for the white house tightening, both candidates are ratcheting up their attacks and narrowg going to count the most. Both candidates are focusing in on key battleground states. Hillary clinton wrapping up yesterday in florida where she accused trump of insulting americas veterans. His whole campaign has been one long insult to all those who have worn the uniform to protect our most cherished american values. Reporter and of lacking any real Foreign Policy plans. To defeat isis, but the secret is, he has no plan. Reporter Donald Trump Bashing clinton right back while in North Carolina calling out clintons use of a private email server. Hillary clinton has taught us all how much of a problem we have by cybersecurity. Reporter and saying hes the candidate who can unite america. Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working toward one people under one god. Reporter and with less than three weeks until the First Official president ial debate, the two candidates squared off in backtoback interviews with abcs david muir pressing clinton about her familys foundation. Lets look at the Trump Foundation that was just fined by the irs. The Clinton Foundation has just been judged by an independent watchdog called the Charity Navigator to have the highest score. Reporter and trump on his immigration policy. Whats going to happen is if youre going to be a citizen, in. Reporter and both candidates will face off again later tonight as they appear back to back on a town hall style forum focused on National Security and veterans. Plenty to watch here, nick and diane. There always is. Abcs maggie rulli in washington. Maggie, thank you. And trump went even further on the email controversy saying that it actually disqualifies clinton to serve as president. Trump said his temperament is his single greatest asset and not the National Security danger that clinton alleges, and he took aim at clinton saying she doesnt have the right look for the white house. Well, i just dont think she has a president ial look, and you need a president ial look. You have to get the job done. I think if she went to mexico she would have had a total failure. We had a big success. Clinton shot back at trump. She criticized him for making a contribution to Florida Attorney general pam bondi as bondi decided not to join a lawsuit against trump university. Trump also bungled his trip to mexico. Its been the mission of his whole campaign to demonize immigrants, to call mexicans rapists and criminals, to do everything he could to stir up all kinds of bad feelings about hardworking people, and he didnt raise it, so he did choke. Clinton also told reporters that trump sometimes gets a pass because people expect less from him. The Obama Administration has acknowledged that a 1. 7 billion payment to iran earlier this year was made entirely in cash. The Treasury Department says the payments in nonu. S. Currency were necessary because sanctions had isolated iran from the International Financial system. Critics have called the payments ransom for the release of american hostages, but the white house insists that the money was a settlement for a decades old arbitration. President obama is wrapping up his historic twoday visit to laos. Hes holing a town hall tile event this morning with young people. Rehab center that treats survivors of bops the u. S. Dropped on laos during the vietnam war. The president announced a 90 Million Program to clear unexploded bombs in the country. We have breaking news from las vegas now. A murder suspect who managed to escape Police Custody has been recaptured. Alonso perez had been a subject of an intense manhunt by both police and the fbi. He escaped from an Interview Room from Police Headquarters break his handcuffs. He is suspected of killing a man outside a mcdonalds. A judge has ruled bill cosby will stand trial in a pennsylvania sex assault case setting a june deadline for the trial to start. Now the big question whether 13 additional accusers will be allowed to testify. Abcs Danya Bacchus has more. Reporter bill cosby back in Court Tuesday learning he will go to trial in june of 2017 to face charges of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home in have 13 cosby accusers testify and use a phone call recorded by constands mother. The call should come in. Its a call that was made into canada, and it was legally obtained there, and we should be able to use it. Reporter cosbys lawyers trying to keep that evidence out of the case wanting to suppress several days of testimony cosby gave in the accusers lawsuit a decade ago where he acknowledged giving constand several pills and wine before what he calls a consensual sexual encounter. His attorneys claiming cosby is the victim of racial bias and prejudice saying hes already been tried in the court of public opinion. To accept the assumption of guilty by numbers or guilt by volume is really the same thing as accepting the assumption of guilt before innocence. Reporter Danya Bacchus, abc news, los angeles. Hurricane newton is moving causing some damage power outages. Two people are dead and three missing after a shrimp boat capsized in the gulf of california. Newton is expected to reach the u. S. Border as a Tropical Storm by midday today. Parts of arizona and new mexico will get several inches of rain with the threat of flash floods and landslides. And this may send more gold diggers to california. A prospector found a gold nugget the size of a steak. It weighs about 18 ounces and melted down. He said tbone steak, we think filet mignon. Not surprisingly, the prospector isnt saying exactly where he found the nugget and isnt giving interviews. The severe California Drought has sparked a modern day gold rush with more gold diggers heading into the dried up riverbeds. Coming up, apples big day. What we can expect from the companys unveiling event. 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Former fox news anchor Gretchen Carlson says shes ready to move on aftet a Sexual Harassment lawsuit against her former boss at fox. Now, as part of that deal, carlson received an apology and a multimillion dollar payout. Big lawsuit, big payout. 20 million. Fox news is making headlines of its own, just two months after the bombshell Sexual Harassment suit by former fox friends Gretchen Carlson against the powerful fox news chief roger ailes, the networks Parent Company is settling for 20 comes after a scathing new York Magazine article alleging carlson had been secret ly recording conversations with ailes since 2014. I think fox, the Parent Company, wanted this to be over and done with. Theyre trying to have this be part of the past, not part of their future. Reporter in an unprecedented public apology to carslson, 21st century fox said we sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve. 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