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Survivor describes the terror when a ferry capsized in Tanzania, killing 224 people

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A man who survived a ferry capsizing in Tanzania described the harrowing ordeal that left six of his relatives dead and the East African nation mourning 224 people killed.

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What we're covering here
What we're covering here

9:30 a.m. ET: The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

What comes next? This would set up a final vote in the full Senate early next week.

Calls to delay: Democrats, a few Republican governors and the American Bar Association are urging the committee to halt the vote until an FBI investigation is completed.

less than 1 min ago
Sarah Sanders doesn't say if White House believes they have the votes

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did a brief gaggle with reporters this morning on the White Hose driveway, following her morning show appearances. Here are a few key things she said:

Do you have the votes?: "I think it's less about whether the President has the votes, but can America get what it's asked for, which is a vote. Certainly, we think Judge Kavanaugh deserves that."

On Graham: "I don't think anybody could lay out a better or more compelling case than he did on why it's important to move forward with a vote and confirm Judge Kavanaugh."

On testimony: "He felt like Judge Kavanuagh, his testimony was powerful, was riveting. It was honest. Certainly, I think all of America thought Dr. Ford's testimony was compelling and I believe something likely happened to this woman, but not at the hands of Judge Kavanaugh. And I think Judge Kavanuagh laid out not just a very compelling testimony by a corroborated one. He had a number of things and individuals and statements that backed up what he said."

On the American Bar Association: "What we've said before is that he's been through 6 different background investigations by the FBI and having gone through one of those myself I know how thorough the process is. They knock on your neighbor's door, they talk to your classmates from everything back to elementary school, high school, college. At no point has this ever happened. And there's a process this goes through and it went through it yesterday."

On prosecutor: "I think all of the questions that needed to be asked yesterday were. It was less about who asked the questions and more about who was giving the answers."

9 min ago
Sen. Bill Nelson will vote no on Kavanaugh

In a tweet, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida says that he will vote "no" on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Remember: Nelson is not on the Senate Judiciary committee, so he won't be voting today. He'll vote if Kavanaugh gets a full Senate vote.

16 min ago
American Bar Association: Delay Kavanaugh until FBI investigates assault allegations

From CNN's Manu Raju

The American Bar Association is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to halt the consideration of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until an FBI investigation is completed into the sexual assault allegations that have roiled his nomination.

In a strongly worded letter obtained by CNN Thursday, the organization said it is making the extraordinary request "because of the ABA's respect for the rule of law and due process under law," siding with concerns voiced by Senate Democrats since Christine Blasey Ford's decades-old allegations became public.

Robert Carlson, president of the organization, wrote in a Thursday night letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein:

"The basic principles that underscore the Senate's constitutional duty of advice and consent on federal judicial nominees require nothing less than a careful examination of the accusations and facts by the FBI.
"Each appointment to our nation's Highest Court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote. Deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senate's reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court."

The comments are striking because the organization gave Kavanaugh its highest rating of unanimous, "well-qualified" for the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh himself touted that rating at Thursday's emotionally-charged hearing where he denied Ford's sworn testimony that he attempted to rape her when they were teenagers.

Kavanaugh has noted he was "thoroughly vetted" by the ABA.

27 min ago
Republican-led Judiciary Committee races toward a Kavanaugh vote

From CNN's Eric Bradner

The Senate Judiciary Committee will once again be the scene of a national drama Friday as its members prepare to vote on President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Friday's scheduled vote is an effort by Republicans to bring a swift end to a confirmation process roiled by sexual assault allegations, even as Democrats demand more answers.

During an intense, day-long hearing Thursday, California professor Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both teenagers in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh later offered a vociferous and emotional defense, alternately shouting and tearing up on national television.

A day after the drama, it's not clear whether committee Republicans have the votes to move Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate, with Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona appearing to be the swing vote on a committee with 11 GOP members and 10 Democrats.

The vote will be the first one in a series to determine whether conservatives lock in a favorable court for a generation with a 5-4 majority.

Read more: Decision time on Brett Kavanaugh

What we're covering here

9:30 a.m. ET: The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

What comes next? This would set up a final vote in the full Senate early next week.

Calls to delay: Democrats, a few Republican governors and the American Bar Association are urging the committee to halt the vote until an FBI investigation is completed.

less than 1 min ago
Sarah Sanders doesn't say if White House believes they have the votes

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did a brief gaggle with reporters this morning on the White Hose driveway, following her morning show appearances. Here are a few key things she said:

Do you have the votes?: "I think it's less about whether the President has the votes, but can America get what it's asked for, which is a vote. Certainly, we think Judge Kavanaugh deserves that."

On Graham: "I don't think anybody could lay out a better or more compelling case than he did on why it's important to move forward with a vote and confirm Judge Kavanaugh."

On testimony: "He felt like Judge Kavanuagh, his testimony was powerful, was riveting. It was honest. Certainly, I think all of America thought Dr. Ford's testimony was compelling and I believe something likely happened to this woman, but not at the hands of Judge Kavanaugh. And I think Judge Kavanuagh laid out not just a very compelling testimony by a corroborated one. He had a number of things and individuals and statements that backed up what he said."

On the American Bar Association: "What we've said before is that he's been through 6 different background investigations by the FBI and having gone through one of those myself I know how thorough the process is. They knock on your neighbor's door, they talk to your classmates from everything back to elementary school, high school, college. At no point has this ever happened. And there's a process this goes through and it went through it yesterday."

On prosecutor: "I think all of the questions that needed to be asked yesterday were. It was less about who asked the questions and more about who was giving the answers."

9 min ago
Sen. Bill Nelson will vote no on Kavanaugh

In a tweet, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida says that he will vote "no" on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Remember: Nelson is not on the Senate Judiciary committee, so he won't be voting today. He'll vote if Kavanaugh gets a full Senate vote.

16 min ago
American Bar Association: Delay Kavanaugh until FBI investigates assault allegations

From CNN's Manu Raju

The American Bar Association is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to halt the consideration of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until an FBI investigation is completed into the sexual assault allegations that have roiled his nomination.

In a strongly worded letter obtained by CNN Thursday, the organization said it is making the extraordinary request "because of the ABA's respect for the rule of law and due process under law," siding with concerns voiced by Senate Democrats since Christine Blasey Ford's decades-old allegations became public.

Robert Carlson, president of the organization, wrote in a Thursday night letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein:

"The basic principles that underscore the Senate's constitutional duty of advice and consent on federal judicial nominees require nothing less than a careful examination of the accusations and facts by the FBI.
"Each appointment to our nation's Highest Court (as with all others) is simply too important to rush to a vote. Deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senate's reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court."

The comments are striking because the organization gave Kavanaugh its highest rating of unanimous, "well-qualified" for the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh himself touted that rating at Thursday's emotionally-charged hearing where he denied Ford's sworn testimony that he attempted to rape her when they were teenagers.

Kavanaugh has noted he was "thoroughly vetted" by the ABA.

27 min ago
Republican-led Judiciary Committee races toward a Kavanaugh vote

From CNN's Eric Bradner

The Senate Judiciary Committee will once again be the scene of a national drama Friday as its members prepare to vote on President Donald Trump's embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Friday's scheduled vote is an effort by Republicans to bring a swift end to a confirmation process roiled by sexual assault allegations, even as Democrats demand more answers.

During an intense, day-long hearing Thursday, California professor Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while they were both teenagers in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh later offered a vociferous and emotional defense, alternately shouting and tearing up on national television.

A day after the drama, it's not clear whether committee Republicans have the votes to move Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate, with Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona appearing to be the swing vote on a committee with 11 GOP members and 10 Democrats.

The vote will be the first one in a series to determine whether conservatives lock in a favorable court for a generation with a 5-4 majority.

Read more: Decision time on Brett Kavanaugh

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Downtown drivers are having to get around a different problem Friday morning after a huge sinkhole opened up at 10th and Walnut.

A water main break overnight caused the sinkhole, and crews have been on the scene since with heavy equipment. They had to tow three cars from the street to prevent them from falling into the sinkhole.

The Kansas City Water Department says it is a 10-inch water main that is broken. Water is shut off and affecting two businesses in the area. It's not clear how long the repairs will take, but the street will be closed off to traffic until they're made.

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Mark Judge, Kavenaugh's friend from high school, wrote in a letter that stated that he never remembers Kavenaugh acting in the manner that Dr. Ford describes, nor does he remember the event occurring.

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Mark Judge, the high school friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, wrote in a letter Thursday that he does "not recall the events" described by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during her testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford describes," he wrote.

Judge directed the letter, "under penalty of felony," to Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Diane Feinstein, through his attorney Barbara Van Gelder.

"I did not ask to be involved in this matter nor did anyone ask me to be involved," the letter said, and referred to his previous letter sent on Sept. 18.

The letter said he has told the committee that he does not want to comment about the events publicly.

"As a recovering alcoholic and a cancer survivor, I have struggled with depression and anxiety," his letter said. "As a result, I avoid public speaking."

Van Gelder told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Judge needs to avoid the spotlight for his health.

"I told him to leave town. He is being hounded. He is a recovering alcoholic and is under unbelievable stress," Judge's attorney told the paper. "He needed for his own health to get out of this toxic environment and take care of himself."

Judge also said in the letter that he and Kavanaugh were friends in high school but have not spoken directly in several years.

Ford claimed Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed during a party in Maryland, attempted to remove her clothes and put his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming. She said he and Judge had also turned the music up to a loud volume.

Ford claimed she was able to escape to a bathroom and then outside of the house when Judge jumped into the fray and sent everyone in the room "tumbling."

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked Kavanaugh during the hearing if he was one of the characters, Bart O'Kavanaugh, in Judge's book called "Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk," which was written in 1997. Kavanaugh said the book is a work of fiction and Leahy would "have to ask him [Judge]."

Judge has become an author, filmmaker and journalist who has written for conservative outlets including The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, according to reports.

Following the explosive and, at times, highly emotional day of testimony, all eyes turned to several key swing-vote senators who remained outwardly undecided on Kavanaugh's fate late Thursday.

After the hearing, moderate Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowksi, R-Alaska, as well as Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., huddled to discuss the nomination, Fox News confirmed.

They talked for approximately 30 minutes before a GOP conference meeting Thursday evening ahead of Friday's planned Judiciary Committee vote on whether to recommend Kavanaugh's confirmation to the full Senate.
Fox News' Gregg Re, Edmund DeMarche and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Amy Lieu is a news editor and reporter for Fox News.

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A St.Louis man died in an accident while driving thru a Jack in the box drive thru. Charles Wood Jr. was driving thru  the drive thru when he had to open up his door to get the food. When grabing his food the car accelerated backwards pinning Wood againist a tree.

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Instagram model Avital Cohen reveals eating disorder made her 'afraid to eat'

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Instagram model Avital Cohen's life may look picture perfect online, but offline, she struggled with how she saw her body.

The 23-year-old Israel-based influencer opened up about struggling with a "severe eating disorder" in a recent Instagram post.
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She posted a 2014 photo, where she weighed 92 pounds, next to a recent picture, where she weighs 116 pounds.

"I was afraid to eat because in my mind I was fat," she wrote in the caption. "I struggled a lot since food was my enemy."

But she said she turned things around by "dealing with my mental health," and began to see food as a means to live. She now eats six small meals a day and works out regularly.

"Since then I'm a much happier person, positive, healthier and treat my body with the love it deserves," she told her 1.2 million Instagram followers.
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Her post has gone viral online and now has more than 92,000 likes. The Instagram model said she hopes her story will inspire others who are going through similar struggles.

"Use the struggles as a drive to work harder on your mind and body," she said. "Not just in being fit but in everything you do."

Eating disorders affect people of all ages. In March, The Post reported on Diane Butrym, a 57-year-old microbiologist who developed anorexia after an injury in 2002 and is still recovering today.
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS This article originally appeared in The New York Post. Read more from The New York Post here.

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Jared Goff threw for career high of 465 yards and 5 Touchdowns

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LOS ANGELES -- His excitement couldn't be contained.

Jared Goff, known for his even-keel demeanor, ran to the sideline and delivered a celebratory chest bump with coach Sean McVay.

Rams QB Jared Goff had a career day, and L.A. constantly exploited mismatches in the Vikings' defense. Mike Zimmer's D has suddenly crumbled.

Goff put up his best game as a pro, shredding the Vikings' defense for big touchdowns and finishing with 465 passing yards.

Moments earlier, the Los Angeles Rams' quarterback had delivered a strike down the right sideline to receiver Cooper Kupp in stride for a 70-yard touchdown.

The throw was among Goff's best of the season, but it wasn't even his most impressive moment of the night in a 38-31 win over the Minnesota Vikings at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum on Thursday night.

Goff set career highs with 465 yards passing and five passing touchdowns. He completed 26 of 33 attempts, threw no interceptions and finished with a perfect passer rating of 158.3. He is the third quarterback in the Super Bowl era with a perfect passer rating on at least 30 attempts, joining fellow Ram Kurt Warner in 2000 and Ken O'Brien in 1986.

"It feels really good," the former No. 1 pick said. "You work for that. It's what you strive for. We got into that zone in the first half, and we're really clicking right now."

Goff's previous career high was 355 passing yards, set last season in a victory over the Houston Texans. He had two performances with four passing touchdowns, in wins over the New York Giants and Tennessee Titans last season.

Tight windows? Goff threw it there. Double coverage? Goff dropped it in. Receivers on the loose? Goff hit them in stride.

"It was just great command by him," McVay said. "I think he's having fun. No moment is too big for him, and it gives you confidence when you see him playing like this."

Goff's five passing touchdowns tied for the most in Rams history and are the most by a Rams quarterback since Warner in 1999. His 465 passing yards are the third-most in Rams history behind 554 from Norm Van Brocklin in 1951 and 509 from Vince Ferragamo in 1982. It also is the most yardage by a quarterback on fewer than 35 attempts since Joe Namath threw for 496 yards on 28 attempts in 1972.

Goff became the first quarterback in NFL history with at least 350 passing yards and a 75 percent rate of completions in three straight games, which helped the Rams to their first 4-0 start since 2001.

In the second quarter, Kupp got behind Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr as Goff found him for the 70-yard touchdown, the third-longest of Goff's career, to give the Rams a 14-10 lead.

Later in the quarter, Goff rolled to his right, kept calm under pressure and dropped a pass into double coverage in the back corner of the end zone for a 19-yard touchdown to Kupp.

"Jared put it in about a 6-inch box that only he could fit it into," McVay said. "He had great command and poise all night."

As if that weren't enough, the next series, Goff completed a 47-yard touchdown to Brandin Cooks to give the Rams a 28-17 lead.

And then in the third quarter, Goff completed a 31-yard pass for a touchdown to Robert Woods to put the Rams up 38-28.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Women from a Washington Catholic High school a breaking the culture of silence.

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NBC News 14 hrs ago Mary Pflum and Brandy Zadrozny

Christine "Cricket" Keating had a close-knit circle of friends growing up in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the 1980s - but there were some things they never discussed.

Keating and her friends - classmates at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and other all-girls Roman Catholic schools in the area - were part of the same privileged set as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, though Keating was not friends with them. At that time, alcohol-fueled parties and drunken carousing were the norm, Keating and her schoolmates said.

But it was not until this month - after Ford alleged publicly that Kavanaugh assaulted her at one of those high school parties more than three decades ago, an allegation he vehemently denies - that women who attended the parties as teenagers began sharing their own stories of sexual assault and the shame and fear that kept them quiet afterward. Many are now taking a fresh look at their high school experiences and are grappling with a new understanding of misbehavior that took place decades ago.

"We had a strong friendship network and yet there was a curtain of silence," said Keating, who graduated from Georgetown Visitation in 1985 and has been horrified recently to read her classmates' accounts on private social media groups of what they experienced.

Ford, she said, "is breaking that culture of silence."

A dozen women who attended Catholic and private prep schools in the Montgomery County area in the 1980s spoke to NBC News this week, seven of them on the record. The women - most of whom signed an open letter saying they believed Ford's allegation, and all but two of whom did not know her or Kavanaugh personally - shared their memories of kegs, bonfires and unsupervised beach houses where heavy drinking fueled sexually inappropriate comments and behavior and attacks that were never spoken of afterward.

The women said they were warned by other girls about the aggression of boys from neighboring Catholic schools, particularly Georgetown Preparatory School, which Kavanaugh attended. Raised from an early age in their moneyed, Catholic community to remain chaste, the women said they believed anything that compromised that chastity was their fault - even if they were forced.

These stories from alumni of Holton-Arms School, where Ford graduated from, as well as Georgetown Visitation, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and others, are now emerging in news articles and op-ed articles and on closed Facebook groups like "We believe her too," which was started by a Stone Ridge alum and has 117 members.

After reading other women's stories in one of the Facebook groups, one graduate of the all-girls Stone Ridge shared for the first time with some members of the group that she was raped in 1982 at a high school party, two weeks before she was scheduled to leave for college.

"It's been cathartic," said the woman, who asked not to be identified out of fear of bringing shame to her family, who still live in the Washington area, and damaging her professional reputation.

"So many of us thought we were alone," she said. "But we weren't. When we heard Christine's story, we knew that story. We'd experienced it."

'GEORGETOWN PREP BOYS WERE KINGS'

By 1990, off-campus parties had become such a problem that headmasters from seven of the Washington area's elite private schools, including Georgetown Prep and Holton-Arms, joined to warn parents about the gatherings. According to a joint letter sent out by the schools, hundreds of unsupervised teenagers were regularly attending the parties.

"It would be hard to devise a better recipe for disaster than a social scene that includes the anonymity provided by an 'open party,' no adult supervision, considerable amounts of alcohol, and teenage hormones which encourage sexual or violent behavior," the letter said, according to The Washington Post.

Julie Swetnick alleged this week that Kavanaugh had spiked punch at house parties in the early 1980s to cause women to become intoxicated so they could be passed from boy to boy and assaulted, an allegation Kavanaugh denied and called "ridiculous and from the twilight zone." Swetnick's description did not surprise several women who spoke to NBC News and had attended Montgomery County high school parties in the 1980s.

One woman, who graduated from an all-girls school just south of Georgetown Prep the same year as Kavanaugh graduated, said she was 15 the night she was at one of those parties and lost track of her friends. She was alone with four boys and she was raped, she said, but she didn't call it that until many years later.

"I don't think I walked away knowing I'd been raped," said the woman, who asked not to be identified out of fear that sharing her story could affect her professionally. After the assault, the woman said she sneaked back into her home through the window she had left from hours earlier.

"I walked away being ashamed," she said. "Why would you tell? Who would have listened?"

None of the women who spoke of their assaults to NBC News said they had reported them to authorities.

Allyson Redpath, who graduated from Stone Ridge in 1982, said she heard from other girls from an early age that she should be wary of the boys from Georgetown Prep, which she and several other women who spoke to NBC News said had the worst reputation for misbehavior of the boys' Catholic schools in the area. Georgetown Prep was considered a brother school to Stone Ridge.

"The assumption was, if something happened to you, that it was your own fault because you should have known it was going to happen to you," Redpath said. "And nobody was going to do anything to protect you. The only thing that would happen is you would be shamed. So there was really no point in saying anything or in telling anybody."

Redpath added that back then, "Georgetown Prep boys were kings."

"There was a sense of entitlement," Redpath said. "It was 'boys will be boys.'"

Georgetown Prep did not respond to a request for comment. The school released a statement this week saying that sexual assault and alcohol and drug abuse are problems at many high schools, both public and private, and that Jesuit schools, including Georgetown Prep, have worked together for decades to address the issues.

"It is demonstrably false that such behavior or culture is tolerated, still less encouraged, at Georgetown Prep," the school said. "In fact, our curriculum is designed to guide students away from these malignant influences, and to guide them through reflection away from selfishness and towards a life of service for and with others."

"Certain individuals have recently presented themselves as representing the culture of Georgetown Prep authoritatively. They do not," the statement continued. "The views they present may well represent their experience, but they do not represent our institutional or pedagogical goals, nor our efforts to implement those goals on behalf and out of a deep and abiding care for our students and their families, and for the larger culture in which they will work and live and raise their families."

WOMEN BEGIN SPEAKING OUT

When Ford broke her silence on Kavanaugh - accusing him of sexually assaulting her at a party and covering her mouth when she screamed for help - she spurred other graduates of Montgomery County Catholic high schools to begin sharing their #MeToo stories.

One of those women is Grace, who attended Stone Ridge in the 1980s and said she was assaulted on a beach during Beach Week, an annual tradition in which students at Montgomery County Catholic high schools rented beach houses in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Ocean City, Maryland, and threw blow-out parties during the first week of summer.

"I was assaulted by one boy," said Grace, who asked not to be identified because she never told her family about what happened. "And then the boy that pretended to comfort me tried to assault me, too."

She told no one, she said.

"My reputation would have been ruined," she said. "It would have been, 'What would you do to provoke that?' or, 'Were you coming on to him?' We never would have spoken about any of that."

Grace said that, like many of her classmates, she had come to accept the behavior of boys at some of the parties as "normal," but that reading other women's stories on social media over the past week helped her realize that the behavior she had accepted as a teenager was unacceptable.

Melissa Meers, who graduated from Stone Ridge in 1982, said date rape was never spoken about when she was a teenager. And neither was the heavy drinking.

"It's all about appearances in the Georgetown area," she said. "It does not matter if you are a complete drunk - all that matters is if you look good and are making the family look good."

Meers said she started drinking heavily with her Catholic school friends at age 13. By 18, she was attending her first Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

"I live in Las Vegas now and I've never seen people drink as much as people drank at those high school parties," Meers, a mother of two teenagers, said. "That should tell you something about those parties."

'WE TOOK PRIDE IN HEAVY DRINKING'

Two men who attended Georgetown Prep in the 1980s also described parties with heavy drinking and no parental supervision.

"The entire school was beer-driven," said William Barbot, who was a freshman at Georgetown Prep when Kavanaugh was a senior. "We took pride in heavy drinking. The central vibe was, 'Where am I going to get drunk?'"

Barbot and William Fishburne, 53, who graduated from Georgetown Prep with Kavanaugh in 1983, both said they've faced pressure within alumni circles to stay quiet regarding their memories of the school's culture, after they both said publicly that they believe Ford. Fishburne said he's received calls from pro-Kavanaugh Georgetown Prep alumni he hasn't spoken to in decades.

"A lot of people are saying that I am being brave for sticking my neck out," said Barbot, whose high school girlfriend was Ford's classmate. "What's being brave is Dr. Ford stepping forward."

The women who spoke to NBC News said they, too, were heartened by Ford's decision to step forward, but, even as Ford testified before a Senate committee on Thursday, they worried that it won't make any difference.

"I fear what will happen now is what happened back then," Redpath said. "And that's that nobody will do anything, which is why nobody said anything in the first place. Your life becomes hell - and they get away with it."

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Women from Catholic high schools in Washington area break 'culture of silence'

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NBC News 14 hrs ago Mary Pflum and Brandy Zadrozny Christine "Cricket" Keating had a close-knit circle of friends growing up in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the 1980s - but there were some things they never discussed.

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Susan Clements went missing Tuesday in the national park when her and her daughter separated. The search continues this morning with more than 40 trained searchers.

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A hiker went missing in Great Smoky Mountains National park on Tuesday evening, triggering an extensive search operation across the park, authorities said.

Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements, 53, was hiking with her daughter near Andrews Bald mountain when the two became separated, the National Park Service said in a statement on Thursday.

"Last night experienced searchers spent the night on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to locate Clements and to interview any hikers in the area," the statement said. "The search continues this morning with approximately 40 trained members of the park's Search and Rescue Team."

Searchers are scheduled to remain outside until late this evening and depending on the weather, overnight, Julena Campbell of the National park Service told ABC News on Thursday afternoon.

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Clements, who is from Ohio, is described as a 5-feet-6-inch tall white female with light brown hair and blue eyes. She weighs 125 pounds and was wearing a green zip-up sweater, black workout pants over black leggings, a clear rain poncho, and white tennis shoes when she was last seen.

The National Park Service asked the public or anyone who saw Clements on Tuesday afternoon or since to contact the agency's investigative branch through email at nps_isb@nps.gov, or call them at 1-888-653-0009.

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A hiker went missing in Great Smoky Mountains National park on Tuesday evening, triggering an extensive search operation across the park, authorities said. Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements, 53, was hiking with her daughter near Andrews Bald mountain when the two became separated, the National Park Service said in a statement on Thursday.

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A 6 year old body has been found in a creek and is being suspected as the missing boy with autism who went missing 6 days ago.

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A body believed to be missing boy Maddox Ritch was found on Thursday, days after the 6-year-old vanished in broad daylight in a North Carolina park, leaving the community "heartbroken," the local police chief said Thursday.

Maddox, who has autism and does not talk, was at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia with his father, Ian Ritch, and another adult when he disappeared Saturday.

The body believed to be Maddox was found partially underwater in a creek Thursday about 1 mile from the park, officials said. His body was camouflaged and in an area that had been searched many times this week, officials said.

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"Maddox Ritch was a beautiful young man," Gastonia Police Chief Robert Helton said, holding back tears at a news conference Thursday.

Helton added that "a lot of unanswered questions" remains.

Authorities want to hear from everyone who was at the park that day as they piece together what happened, including how Maddox went from the park to the creek, how Maddox died and if foul play was involved, FBI officials said.

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Ian Ritch had said his son had started sprinting roughly 25 to 30 feet ahead of him before the little boy ran out of sight.

"As soon as I got to the point where I couldn't see him anymore, I started panicking," he said this week.

The disappearance sparked a massive search by local, state and federal investigators, who scoured the land with police dogs, searched dumpsters, waded through the park's lake using sonar and divers and scanned the area with helicopters and drones, police said.

The search for 6-year old Maddox Ritch is leaving no place unchecked. Gaston County Police went down a man-hole just to be sure. #FindMaddox. Call the tip line! We desperately need to hear from those in the park on Saturday. 704-869-1075. pic.twitter.com/BiIUHfoftn
- FBI Charlotte (@FBICharlotte) September 26, 2018

Authorities also recorded messages from Maddox's parents and played those messages in the woods in the hopes that their voices would persuade him to come out if he was there.

"Maddox is my whole world and my reason for living," his mother, Carrie Ritch, said at a press conference Tuesday.

"I want my baby back in my arms," she said through tears.

The FBI's Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team is in the water at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia as part of the continuing search efforts to find 6-year-old Maddox Ritch. We desperately need to hear from EVERYONE in the park on Saturday. 704-869-1075. #FindMaddox pic.twitter.com/LCb1CDQ2sl
- FBI Charlotte (@FBICharlotte) September 27, 2018

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Body believed to be missing 6-year-old found

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A body believed to be missing boy Maddox Ritch was found on Thursday, days after the 6-year-old vanished in broad daylight in a North Carolina park, leaving the community "heartbroken," the local police chief said Thursday. Maddox, who has autism and does not talk, was at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia with his father, Ian Ritch, and another adult when he disappeared Saturday.

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Woman allegedly kept mother's dead body for months so she could 'see the stages of death': Police

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A woman in North Carolina allegedly concealed her mother's dead body for months in their home so she could "see the stages of death," police said.

The case began when Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, went to a funeral home to make arrangements for her mother, 93-year-old Nellie Mae Hudgins, Enfield Police Chief Tyree Davis said in a statement Tuesday.

Donna Sue Hudgins claimed that her mother died "that morning but that she did not know where EMS had taken the body," police said.

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When funeral home employees weren't able to find the 93-year-old's body either, they became concerned and called the Enfield Police Department, police said.

Authorities went to Nellie Mae Hudgins' home in Enfield and spoke with Donna Sue Hudgins, who lived there as well, police said.

She did not report the death because she was curious and wanted to see the stages of death.

Once officers went inside, they "discovered a badly decomposed body," police said.

Investigators determined that the 93-year-old's body "was in the home for several months before the daughter notified family members of their mother's passing," police said.

Detectives interviewed Donna Sue Hudgins and "learned that she did not report the death because she was curious and wanted to see the stages of death," according to the police statement.

Nellie Mae Hudgins died about 2 to 3 months before the day of the offense, listed as Sept. 7, police said.

She died from natural causes and no foul play was suspected, police said.

An obituary published in the Rocky Mount Telegram states that Nellie Mae Hudgins' funeral was held Sept. 11.

Donna Sue Hudgins was charged this Monday with felony concealment of death, police said. She is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 7, police said.

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A woman in North Carolina allegedly concealed her mother's dead body for months in their home so she could "see the stages of death," police said. The case began when Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, went to a funeral home to make arrangements for her mother, 93-year-old Nellie Mae Hudgins, Enfield Police Chief Tyree Davis said in a statement Tuesday.

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New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was ejected on Thursday's game against the Tampa Bays, for deliberately hitting the Tampa Bays pitcher Jesus Sucre in the leg in the sixth inning.  He entered the game having pitched 148 innings and he needed to get through the seventh inning to get a bonus of $500,000.

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New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was ejected from Thursday's game for deliberately hitting Tampa Bay's Jesus Sucre with a pitch, and it proved costly.

Sabathia was two innings shy of earning a $500,000 bonus before he was tossed from the game in the sixth inning for hitting Sucre in the leg. Sabathia entered the game having pitched in 148 innings and needed to get through the seventh for the bonus to kick in.

"I don't really make decisions based on money, I guess," Sabathia told reporters after the game, according to ESPN. "Just felt like it was the right thing to do."

Sabathia stared down the Rays' dugout as he walked off the mound.

The ejection came after the umpire warned both teams following Rays pitcher Andrew Kittredge throwing a pitch behind Yankees catcher Austin Romine - in the middle of a blowout.

"You don't throw at someone's head. He did what he felt he needed to do," Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton said of Sabathia.

New York ended up beating Tampa Bay, 12-1. The Yankees' magic number to clinch home field advantage in the wildcard playoff is down to one. The Yanks will play the Oakland A's.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was ejected from Thursday's game for deliberately hitting Tampa Bay's Jesus Sucre with a pitch, and it proved costly. Sabathia was two innings shy of earning a $500,000 bonus before he was tossed from the game in the sixth inning for hitting Sucre in the leg.

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The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 aircraft carrying 47 people -- 35 passengers and 12 crew members -- plunged into the water after it "landed short of the runway," at the international airport on Weno.

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Dozens of airline passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday after their plane missed a runway and landed in a sea lagoon on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 aircraft carrying 47 people - 35 passengers and 12 crew members - plunged into the water after it "landed short of the runway," at the international airport on Weno, the main island of Chuuk state in Micronesia on Friday, according to a statement from Air Niugini, the national carrier of Papua New Guinea.

The airplane proceeded normally until final approach when the weather conditions suddenly deteriorated and it began raining hard, according to the independent website JACDEC, which monitors airline safety and crash data.

Within minutes, local fishermen were on the scene in small motor boats to rescue people. Everyone on board survived, Air Niugini said.

"At this point, it is still unclear whether the aircraft overshot the end of the runway or ditched in the lagoon before reaching the runway," JACDEC said.

"Despite water ingress, the aircraft managed to stay afloat for some time allowing passenger evacuation via the over wing exits and the forward passenger door. The Boeing later submerged below the window line."

Bill Jaynes, managing editor of a Micronesia-based newspaper, was on the plane when it hit the water.

"It's just surreal. I thought we landed hard until I looked over and saw a hole in the side of the plane and water was coming in, and I thought, well, this is not, like, the way it's supposed to happen," he said in a video posted to Facebook.

Jaynes said people on the plane were in water up to their waists and used the emergency exit to escape.

Reports of an Air Niugini 737 overrunning the runway in Chuuk, Micronesia (TKK). That's a 6,013-foot runway, which is on the shorter side for an airport with airline service. https://t.co/DKY11XENhV I flew into this airport in July, you can see how hard the braking is on landing. pic.twitter.com/1odaL4z8gy
- Ethan Klapper (@ethanklapper) September 28, 2018

Photographs and video footage posted online showed small fishing boats surrounding the stricken, semi-submerged plane, ferrying passengers to safety.

James Yaingeluo, one of the first to arrive at the scene, said the plane landed more than 500 meters short of the runway.

"Luckily, it happened during the daytime," he said. "When the plane came to a stop all the civilian boats came to help transport passengers to dry land."

"Once the doors opened everybody fought to get out," he added. "All the passengers were scared and in shock."

"The airline is making all efforts to ensure the safety and immediate needs of our passengers and crew," Air Niugini said.

The airline said it had received reports that "the weather was very poor with heavy rain and reduced visibility at the time of incident."

Passengers and crew were taken to the hospital for checks and no serious injuries were reported.

The runway, like others in the north Pacific, is relatively short at 1,831 meters, surrounded on three sides by water, AFP reported

Air Niugini lists only one 737-800 among its fleet of 21 aircraft on its official website.

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Dozens of airline passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday after their plane missed a runway and landed in a sea lagoon on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Man decapitates 82 year old grandmother in San Francisco, California

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A San Francisco man allegedly decapitated his grandmother inside her residence at a senior living facility, officials said.

Authorities found Chii-Chyu Horng, 82, dead around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday during a welfare check, SFGate reported.

Horng's grandson, Andrew Luke, 30, was arrested at the scene and taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation. He is charged with murder and elder abuse, the paper said.

A police spokesman did not confirm details of the killing and would not reveal a suspect, only saying he "is a family member of the victim."

Luke's ex-stepmother, Eva Fok, told the paper on Thursday that Horng raised him after his mother died of lupus when he was a child.

She said he had been living with Horng when he allegedly killed her.

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A San Francisco man allegedly decapitated his grandmother inside her residence at a senior living facility, officials said. Authorities found Chii-Chyu Horng, 82, dead around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday during a welfare check, SFGate reported. Horng's grandson, Andrew Luke, 30, was arrested at the scene and taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation.

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Elon Musk is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission because of misleading comments made for making Tesla private.

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SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud

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Sources close to the company told CNBC the company was also expecting to be sued, though Tesla was not named as a defendant in the complaint.