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Ron Wallace is renowned in the world of giant pumpkin growing as the

first man to break the 2,000-pound barrier, after he grew a 2,009-pound

pumpkin in 2012. This month, he broke the North American record with a

2,230-pound pumpkin, the largest grown worldwide this year and the

second-largest ever grown in the world. The pumpkin will be on display

in the New York Botanical Garden through Nov. 1.

Here are some tips from Wallace on how to grow a giant pumpkin:

GETTING STARTED

Wallace recommends that anyone who's interested in growing giant

pumpkins should check out www.bigpumpkins.com , a website for

growers to ask questions and swap ideas. There's also the 1993 book

"How-To-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins," by Don Langevin, once

considered the bible for pumpkin growers, and how many pumpkin

growers today got their start.

IN THE GROUND

To get a really big pumpkin, there's no substitute for hard work. The

plants need to be checked and tended to at least daily. They need

fertilizer, lots of water, pruning, and to be checked for disease, rot and

other issues. Wallace spends so much time growing and swapping tips

with people that this year he developed his own line of products called

Wallace's Organic Wonder. The product includes, among other things,

mycorrhizal fungi, a superfungus that helps get water and nutrients into

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THE WEIGH-OFF

"Pumpkins always tell you when it's time to get weighed," Wallace says.

Often, it's just that a disease has started to creep in, and it's time to go

for it.

Wallace has developed several strategies to keep his pumpkins' weight

up. He waits to cut the vine until the last possible moment, and cuts it

long enough so it can be kept in water. He'll cover the gourds with damp

sheets to prevent evaporation.

ADVANCING SCIENCE

Wallace sees practical uses for what he and other growers have learned

as the hobby has developed. He says medical marijuana growers havealready approached him because they're interested in maximizing

yields, and that what they have developed has even broader

applications.

"I really feel that giant pumpkin growers are shaping how the world

grows produce," Wallace says. "We are doing a lot for farming."

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Democratic Presidential frontrunner and former Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton is set to spar this morning with Republican members of the

House Select Committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack that

killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Washington observers and political junkies have been fixated on this

testimony -- beginning at 10 a.m. -- for months, waiting in anticipation to

see what impact it may have on her campaign.

The pressure is on Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy to produce

results or information that differs from Clinton's full day of Congressional

testimony on the attack nearly 3 years ago.

The lead-up to today's testimony has seen vicious political sniping from

Democrats on the committee, who have seized on remarks in recent

days from two Republican congressman and one former committee

staffer, each of whom suggested publicly that the committee has

disproportionately focused its attention on attacking Clinton.

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The House Benghazi Committee Chair Has a Familiar Question for

Hillary Clinton

Gowdy has vehemently denied those claims, calling on his colleagues to

"shut up" about what they don't know. Last Sunday Gowdy said in an

interview with CBS he plans to question Clinton about her role indenying requests to increase security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi

prior to the attack. He says thousands of previously unseen emails to

and from Stevens obtained by his committee will help inform those

questions.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi was created in May of 2014

with the purpose of conducting a full and complete investigation of the

2012 attack. Prior to Clinton's testimony today, the committee had held

only three public hearings. Most of the testimony it has received so far

has come in private sessions.

The aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in

Benghazi and the nearby CIA annex instantly became a source of

political tension. President Obama faced questions about the military

response, allegations he misled the public about the nature the attack,

and lax diplomatic security in a war zone, all as he awaited a vote on his

reelection the following month.

Numerous investigations and reports were written about whathappened both on that night and in the lead up to the attack, and what

needed to be done to ensure it wouldn't happen again. Two of the

higher-profile reports were conducted by the Accountability Review

Board (ARB), convened by Clinton herself who was Secretary of State at

the time, and another later on by the Republican-led House Intelligence

Committee.

In December of 2012, the ARB concluded that there was no protest

before the attack (which the Obama administration has previouslyalleged), that the terrorist bore sole responsibility for the loss of life, and

that "systematic failures of leadership and management deficiencies" at

the State Department led to an "inadequate" security posture.

Clinton was never directly implicated in the report. Clinton has admitted

that the State Department could have done more to address security

needs in Benghazi prior to the attack, but said those decisions were left

to other people and she has denied any wrongdoing.

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence focused on the

CIA's response to the attack following accusations personnel on the

ground were instructed to delay their response to the consulate, which

was being overrun by militants less than one mile way. The report

concluded that no such order had been given, despite contradictory

witness accounts given by some contracted security officers who were

there that night. It also concluded that a mixed group, including Al

Qaeda affiliates, were responsible for the attacks. It found that there had

been intelligence to support the administrations claims that the attack

was borne out of a protest, but said there was early intelligence to

counter that false assessment as well. The report declared itself as the

"definitive House statement" on the Intelligence Community's

involvement in the Benghazi attack.

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A man confessed to shooting a 4-year-old girl in connection with a road

rage incident in Albuquerque, New Mexico, police said.

Tony Torrez, 32, was charged with the murder of Lilly Garcia, who died

Tuesday from a gunshot wound to the head. The shooting happened

along I-40 in Albuquerque.

Torrez was taken into custody Wednesday, after police received an

anonymous tip. Albuquerque police chief Gorden Eden, Jr., speaking at

a press conference, said Torrez confessed to shooting Garcia and had

been charged in her murder.

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Tony Torrez (32) was arrested tonight for the murder Lilly

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Lilly's father Alan Garcia, who was driving the vehicle at the time of the

shooting, spoke to ABC News about his family's heartbreak.

"She was so proud to tell people she just turned four," Garcia told ABC.

"She just started school two days ago. She was very bright and very

smart."

"She is my world," he said.

Police in Albuquerque also arrested a suspect -- later identified as

Davon Lymon, 34 -- in the Wednesday shooting of a police officer, who

was critically injured, authorities said. The officer is an eight-year veteran

of the department. It appears the officer was engaged in a traffic stop

when there was an altercation, Eden said. The officer was shot multiple

times.

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