a good friday morning to you all. i m diane macedo. and i m kenneth moton in for kendis gibson. e we begin with president trump delivering stinging comments about former fbi director james comey. in an interview with nbc news, the president offered up his account of how and why comey was fired. he s a showboat. he s a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that. i know that. everybody knows that. you take a look at the fbi a year ago. it was in virtual turmoil. less than a year ago. it hasn t recovered from that. while the white house pinned the decision to fire comey on the justice department, the president made it clear that it all started and ended with him. abc s janai norman has the latest from washington. reporter: the white house clearing up conflicting messages. from the press secretary to the vice president, saying for days, the president s decision to fire fbi director james comey was triggered by the recommendation of deputy attorney gener
from abc news this is world news now. i mean this is big. this is huge. big. huge. you want to stick around for that. big time. all right. we begin this half hour with a stunning allegation in the aftermath of the firing of fbi director james comey. a new report that president trump allegedly demanded comey s loyalty. sources close to comey told the new york times he was summoned to the white house for a dinner a week after the inauguration. they say the president asked comey to pledge his loyalty to him, but comey offered his honesty instead. the white house is denying the report that comes on the heels of an nbc interview in which the president has a few choice words for comey. he is a showboat. he s a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that, i know that, everybody knows that. you take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil, less than a year it hasn t recovered from that. monday you met with the deputy attorney gen
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breaking news up next a little girl found dead inside a van what we ve learned in a live report. red flags up swimming banned . a tropical storm warning in effect. .. what you need to know about a storm brewing off our coast. a police officer hurt and a suspect dead in raleigh. what we know about the case and why some people couldn t get home hours after the incident. eyewitness news starts right now. breaking news first at ten i m tisha powell in the breaking news center. a little girl found unresponsive in a van neighbors say c-p-r couldn t save her. it s happening on sargent place, off of south alston avenue in durham. angelica alvarez is on scene. what have you learned? police confirm theyre here for a suspicious death. coming from an eyewitness. that eyewitness tells me she was outside grilling when she saw several people move fast around that van. she says she saw someone break a window and carry a little girl out. this is video from earlier of p
95 corridor, we ve had our share of heavy downpours here in the triangle throughout the night. some of our rainfall totals already to-4 inches. 1 to 2 inches to the middle of central north carolina including the triangle and much less than that of by the virginia border. highest rainfall total, stationed in carter county out by morgan city. more than 9 inches in the past highest wind gust came up the road. 52 mil per hour. a lot of this rain you see along the coas and audis, that s got to wraparound is a system continues to pull off to the northeast. thlatest fm the center of the storm, it started in georgia it s moved all the way into north carolina about what by tomorrow morning at 8 am, it will be over the outer banks that out to see shortly after that. we did heavy rain will continue to be a problem overnight. gusts around 30 miles an hour. we ll tell you when we g at someone in here in just a few > wear the southeastern tip of the state. last i spoke to was it was pour