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 pip bombs mailed to several prominent democrats and critics of ptrsident p. One of the devices was sent to cnns new york offices, prompting an evacuation. Officipas say the ages were all nearly identical, made from pvc pipe, containing a timer, pyrotechnic powder, and likely shrapnel according t 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 thi country. And President Trump also weighing in from his rally in wisconsin last night. Nbcs tracie potts has the citest from washington. Hey, t 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 ast night. Any acts or threats of Political Violence are an attack on our democracy itself. The media also has aty responsibio set a civil tone and to stop thendless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attac and stories. Reporter those packages were mailed torr 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 crital of President Trump. The device to brennan as you noted went to cnns headquarters, and it was more on that later. Mayor bill de blasio is calling this an act of terror. And of courseuthorities are investigating. And we are told taking a look at many of the places whese t bombs were mailed, to new york, to washington to florida. That authorities nowm have f 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 startin lo at cameras at those facilities. Most ofhem were mailed to mail facilities and got nowhere near thei intendedtargets. Back to you. And for that we are very thankf,. Trachank 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 liv television. Heres nbcs rehema ellis. Insiderter an emergency cnns new york headquarters. Excuse me. That sounds like a fire alarm here. Well keep y posted on that. Reporter alarms rang out live on theai minutes later the Time Warner Center evacuated as thed bomb sq moved in. This clearly is an act of terror attempting to undermine our freeress and leaders of this country through act of violence. Reporter a chaotic scene outside as cnn anchors continued reporting. The lights shut off. We walked down six flights of stairsre were out theyre now moving us. Reporter anchor jim sciutto tweetingth photo o package containing the live explosive device. The device was removed and taken to a. Secure locati i live down the block, and its thfrightening. 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 the ng concern ove countrys increasingly heated political rhetoric. George ross sonriting in a New York Times oped he sees the bomb threats as a o result the new normal of political demonization that plagues u. S. Or pgues 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 andhe 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 tre are no answers yet, President Trump has the biggest megaphone 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. At reporter s ted cruz and his wife chased out of a d. C. Restaurant. Let my wife through. Reporter a republican dmnd pennsylvania tlaengt the democratic goverr 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 divions, and we have to 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 t midterm elections. Democrats and republicans are battling it out over health care, making claims about whos really working to protecteople with preexisting conditions. Heres Peter Alexander with more. Reporter President Trump touting his administrations progress against the opioid. Epidem seized more than 2. 8 Million Pounds of illicit and deadly drugs. Reporter the rate of s overdose deaeginning to slow down. But its another health care claim for the president under rutiny. 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 adminiration are aggressively trying to undercutca obamare that guarantees protections to ople with preexisting conditions. U 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 condions. N wisconsin preexisting conditions are covered. And as long as im governor, they always will be. Reporter but theirs were among 20 states that signe 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 setors 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. 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What else d it goesn as the fifth strongest worldwide ever to make landfall. 180mileperhour winds. Well see whathose pictures look like later on today. Will probably be pretty ugly. Le s talk this weekend forecast. Noreaster or the coastal storm. Not a snowstorm. Just a rain andind event. Saturday we wake up to very rainy conditions d. C. To new rk. During the day it shifts all the way through the northeast. It will linger in areas of nht england rhrough saturday evening. Notice that south of about philadelphia saturday night at ast 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 besides the airports. That could b problematic. Thats a look at the big weather story of the day. Now heres a closer look at your day ahead. So for today that storm is located fwn along the gul coast. Its just a rainmaker from areas of new orleans to mobile, panama city to pensacola. 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Police confronted 20yearold Dylan Jarrell as he backed out of his driveway armed with a ev gun, kr vest, more than 200 rounds ofio ammun and what police say was a detailed plan avenue tack to carry out shootings in two Different School districts in kentucky t commonwealth versus Dylan Jarrell. Reporter he pleaded not guilty to charges ofakg 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 attenti when something doesnt feel or sound right. Thank you. You are our superhero. You didnt know your mom w a superhero . Well. That part. New but i didnt know she would do Something Like this. It was that mama bear instinct. Reporter a potential tragedy avoided because one mom sawg somethnd said something. Ron mott, nbc news. 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Nbcs megyn kelly issuing an apology on her show after comments she made tuesday about blackface wereh met wjor backlash. Our Morgan Radford has the latest. Two d i want to begin wit words. Im sorry. Reporter megyn kelly apologizing for her controversial remarks a race. During a Panel Discussion about halloween costumes. It learned t given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country it is not okay for that be part of anye, cost halloween or otherwise. Reporter kellys mea culpa coming after she defended the use of no, stupid. Reporter a once popular form of entertainment used to mock africanamericans. But what is racist . Because truly, you do get in troublete if you are a w person who puts on blackface for halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for halloween. Like backn i was a kid that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a reporter her comments received fierce backlash among critics and colleagues. 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Seat heaters again thiin mo for a lot of people, even me. Even i turned the seat on. Ater its true. And it was only on for about two minutes. 30 right now in gaithersburg. 31 in manassas. A cold start to the day. Wakeup weather keeps us in the 30s in most areas. Bright sunshine will leave us with nice day to be outside, much like yesterday. Todays high temperatures in the mid topper 50s. Still cooler than average, but plenty of sunshine and less of breeze to contend with today. Rain chances for your friday and saturdayin re near 100 . Ill time that out for you coming up in a bit. Foronow, lets to melissa. Happy thursday. Happy thursday. Looking at the beltway right now, no complaints. Had some earlier roadwork, that has all cleared out of the way. As ye