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• Leaked campaign emails show ‘moderate’ side of Clinton

  08-10-2016 23:03 via wivb.com
  
   WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton took nearly every precaution to ensure voters would never know what she told investment bankers, lobbyists and corporate executives in dozens of closed-door paid speeches before running for president.
  Turns out, the Democratic presidential nominee had good reason to do so.
  The private comments strike a tone starkly at odds with the fiery message she’s pushed throughout her campaign, particularly during the hard-fought Democratic pr
  
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• Trump vows to press on as GOP calls grow for him to quit

  08-10-2016 22:31 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP)- A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would “never” abandon his White House bid, rejecting a growing backlash from Republican leaders across the nation who disavowed the GOP’s presidential nominee after he was caught on tape bragging about predatory advances on women.Trump’s own running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, declared he could neither condone nor defend Trump’s remarks, which sparked widespread panic inside Trump Tower and thro
  
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• Buffalo volunteers head to Haiti to help with medical, relief efforts

  08-10-2016 18:14 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – As Hurricane Matthew moves across the coast of the United States, it’s already done deadly damage to parts of Haiti.  Now, some Western New York volunteers will soon head to some of the most damaged areas to help with recovery efforts. And you too can help.
  Katie Braisted and Nick Stroczkowski have been to Haiti before as part of the Western New York Impact Foundation.
  Stroczkowski said, “When we go down, Katie and a group of other physicia
  
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• Hurricane Matthew winds continue in Georgia

  08-10-2016 14:25 via wivb.com
  
  BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Powerful winds from Hurricane Matthew are still hitting downtown Savannah. The storm was were bending treetops at dawn Monday in Savannah’s downtown historic district, where shattered limbs from burly live oak trees littered East Bay Street near the city’s riverfront.
  The hurricane weakened to a category one storm with winds around 85 mph Saturday morning.
  More than 100,000 residents were without power in coastal Georgia as gusty winds strengthened and rai
  
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• HS Football Friday: Week Six Recap

  08-10-2016 07:08 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A fight broke out between Timon and St. Joe’s at Tifft field after Chad Kelly’s brother, Casey, took a late hit. News 4’s Tom Martin was recording the game and captured video of Chad Kelly being pushed back to the sideline after he rushed the field. According to the Buffalo Police Department, no injuries were reported and no arrests have been made. Because of the fight, the game was suspended during the second quarter. Nearl
  
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• Trump apologizes in late night video release

  08-10-2016 06:37 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After being caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet he claimed the astonishing revelations amounted to “nothing more than a distraction” and argued his words were not nearly as egregious as former President Bill Clinton’s marital affairs.
  “I’ve said some foolish things,” Trump said in a taped apology
  
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• WNYers living in FL describe damage and uncertainty left behind by Hurricane Matthew

  08-10-2016 05:36 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The eastern coastal communities of Florida are in the clear, at least for the time being. Right now, most people in areas away from the coast are dealing with flooding, power outages, and downed trees
  Buffalo native Bob Calamita lives in Jacksonville, he said, “Branches are all over the streets, trees are all over the streets, we did drive around the area and we did see some pretty good sized trees snapped.”
  Calamita says his neighborhood only had so
  
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• St. Joe’s – Timon football game suspended after fight

  08-10-2016 03:32 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Former St. Joe’s star and University of Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly had to be restrained on the field at his brother’s high school football game Friday night.
  A fight broke out between Timon and St. Joe’s at Tifft field after Kelly’s brother, Casey, took a late hit. News 4’s Tom Martin was recording the game and captured video of Chad Kelly being pushed back to the sideline after he rushed the field.
  According to the Buf
  
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• Trump battered by cascade of missteps, new lewd comments

  08-10-2016 02:04 via wivb.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump reeled Friday under a barrage of campaign missteps and scandalous revelations of lewd comments he made about women several years ago, undermining the Republican’s attempts to steady a presidential bid at risk of imploding.
  Trump tried to head off some of the damage by issuing a statement apologizing “if anyone was offended” by vulgar remarks captured on a 2005 tape and made public Friday for the first time. In the recording obtained by The Was
  
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• Local Red Cross volunteers start relief work in Florida

  08-10-2016 00:34 via wivb.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Buffalo-natives in Florida are waiting out Hurricane Matthew by enduring strong wind and rain, and massive power outages.
  “Over here it seems perhaps a lack of power is what’s driving people to the shelters,” said Vicent Jacob, a Red Cross volunteer from Amherst.
  Jacob arrived in Sarasota Florida on Thursday afternoon. He said the area, south of Tampa, was spared major damage. They spent time on Friday reducing the number of shelters from about five t
  
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