hi, en. i'm zinhle essamuah? and i'm kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, monday, january 8th, 2024. cabin chaos, hundreds more flights are cancelled today after part of plane blows out mid-flight. what passengers say happened 16,000 feet in the air and what you need to know if you're flying. secrets and scrutiny,

secretary of defense lloyd austin is still in the hospital, so why did it take days for the pentagon to tell the white house, how the biden administration is responding to a growing uproar. all rise the man seen on video body-slamming a las vegas judge faces her yet again. and golden moments. hollywood kicks off awards season at the golden globes, we're in beverly hills with the night's big wishes and even bigger surprises. >> all the parties, the watch parties. >> you find yourself looking up all the movies that won to see if you've seen them. >> yes. but we'll start this hour with the story that everyone is talking about that jaw-dropping scare aboard an alaska airlines flight. >> a door plug on the plane blew off, shortly after takeoff friday in portland, oregon the plane quickly made an emergency landing and no one was hurt. what is a door plug?

a hole cut in the main body of the aircraft as an optional emergency exit, alaska airlines in this case didn't need the exit, so the door was plugged, sealed and turned into a window. >> we know that door plug was found, get this, in a man's backyard in oregon, take a look at the photos just release bid the with nbc news correspondent dana griffin the door plug itself has been recovered, so were cell fons that were sucked out of the plane. >> reporter: they're going to look at that door plug and try to figure out why it failed, they say those cell phones are key to this investigation because it will give them more indication of as to when this happened and other important data. investigators are trying to determine if this was a one-off situation or if it's an affect

the entire fleet, that's why boeing -- that's why the faa has grounded all of these boeing 737 max 9 planes. they've issued new guidelines for investigating and checking these planes and that includes looking at both the left and right cabin door exit plugs. now, when you talk about what happened here friday night, this plane was taking off, an altitude 16,000 feet when that plug disappeared sending whipping wind through the cabin. those doors are steel-proof, tough to break open, that flung open and it sent the communications headset off the pilots' heads and terrifying moment for people onboard including one person, listen to

what he did during those moments. >> yeah, i was starting to text my girlfriend, my mom, my loved ones, and didn't know if i was going to make it on the other side. a lot of intense emotions. >> reporter: a lot of intense emotions. again, investigators are looking into what went wrong and day say this could have been worse, deadly, had they reached 34,000 feet cruising altitude people could have been sucked out of the plane and they could have lost oxygen. >> the faa has temporarily grounded this plane model, boeing 737 max 9. how many planes are we talking about and what has the impact been on air travel today? >> reporter: kate, we can show you some of the graphic that shows you some of the numbers here, so alaska and unit ready the only u.s. carriers that carry this particular fleet, 79 for united, 64 for alaska but other countries are flying this

plane as well, so right now, those planes are not going through that inspection process, this has impacted hundreds of flights. 140 flights have been cancelled for alaska, so this could impact air travel for these particular flights through midweek, so, you know, a lot of people if you have cancelled flights check and make sure that you can get on another plane, because this is an investigation that could take several weeks. >> dana griffin, thank you so much. >> our coverage of this air scare will continue later this hour. the pentagon says it will review its procedures as criticism grows over the handling of defense secretary austin's hospitalization. one week ago the secretary was

admitted to icu from complications over a recent surgery. courtney kube joins us now. secretary austin is still in the hospital today, can you walk us through the time line of who knew what and when about the secretary's condition. >> reporter: we keep learning new details making it even more confusing to figure out how this unfolded. friday, secretary austin went into walter reed for an elective medical procedure. fast forward to january 1st new year's day, he experienced severe pain and he was taken via ambulance to walter reed hospital late that afternoon or evening. he was only accompanied by his personal security detail and a junior military aide. he spent the night there in the icu the next day when his condition worsened he

transferred some of his responsibilities to his deputy secretary, she was on vacation in puerto rico at the time. she was not told why these authorities and responsibilities were being transferred to her. now, we do know now that secretary austin's chief of staff and his senior military aide and the pentagon press secretary and the head of public affairs here at the pentagon were all notified of his hospitalization on tuesday but no one shared that information until thursday as you mentioned when the white house national security adviser jake sullivan was informed the secretary was hospitalized. he also informed president biden. we're still trying to figure out exactly what happened for those 48 hours that no one in the leadership in the white house was notifyd that secretary austin was in the intensive care unit. >> still at lot of questions, courtney. they say his job is safe at

least for now. what will the review look like here. >> reporter: they'll look at the procedures, he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, he was to the point his condition was to the point he could no longer perform his duties as secretary, but yet no one notified his chain of command, the president the national security adviser, we also learned just today that in fact the secretaries of the services and the chiefs they weren't notified, congress wasn't notified not until friday afternoon. this is an enormous blunder here. >> courtney, thank you. secretary of state blinken is heading back to israel for a new round of high-stakes meetings there as fears continue to grow about a widening conflict in the middle east, in northern israel the idf and the lebanese militant group hezbollah have been trading missile fire over the weekend

and continuing into today, hezbollah said one of its top commanders was killed, though israel hasn't taken responsibility for that death, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins me once again from tel aviv, israel. the elephant in the room here is iran which supports hezbollah and hamas and now secretary blinken is hoping to lower the tensions and avert a larger conflict, is that possible? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, you know, hezbollah, hamas, the houthis in yemen, those shia groups in iraq that the u.s. struck with a drone just last week, they took responsibility for that, you know iran controls a lot of things in this region all part of their axis of resistance, this sort of self-style group that's against israel, against the united states. here's the thing, kate, a good question you're posing, it's a

formidable challenge for secretary blinken because there's no real diplomacy between the united states and iran or any of these iran-backed groups. that's major hurd toll get iran to step back from the brink. even if the u.s. was able to talk to iran it's not entirely clear the extent to which iran actually controls these groups, houthis in yemen, hamas in the gaza strip, et cetera, they all have their own constitueies at the same time. unclear even if we did, even if secretary blinken was able to talk directly to tehran, they would be able to control all of these groups. >> israel has been saying they're entering a new, lesser intense phase, what does that mean for the hostages who are being held there?

>> it's hard to know, kate, again that's a really good question, the fact is israel has been bombing gaza so intensely, now it's past 23,000 dead gazans just today. it's only going to rise. some of the hostages have been released through negotiations, but not through this fighting, only one israeli hostage has been released because of the israelis have gotten them back by fighting. kate. >> matt, thank you. it's time for today's money minute. tiger woods is parting ways with nike. >> and apple is paying up after a class action lawsuit. bertha coombs joins us now. that's right, nike has been getting out of the golf business, so tiger woods breaking up his decades-long partnership with nike now over. he announced on social media

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vote to pass a resolution tomorrow night. we're taking a look at the rules committee hearing. many of those speaking out to say this war is deeply personal and they'd like local officials to take the next step in passing the resolution. now, this is the scene right outside the main hall shortly before the meeting started where rallying crying started. local groups by healthcare workers dressed in their scrubs with statements on the war written on them were in protests against the ongoing war. they read the names of some 300 healthcare workers and professionals that have died during the war. the resolution was first introduced in early december at city hall to the board of supervisors. it calls for a cease fire, humanitarian aid, the release of hostages, and a condemnation of antisemitic, antipalestinian and

islamophobiaic rhetoric and attacks. back then, it drew support from thousands of community members and was considered to be one of the largest public turnouts for a supervisors meeting. now, the resolution although symbolic means a great deal to those supporting it. >> we are hoping that this kind of resolution puts more pressure on our elected officials, our government agencies, senators, congressional representatives and essentially our president. who can and has the ability to stop this. >> now there have been some proposed amendments from the supervisors. namely supervisor dorsey, to the resolution that is being discussed this morning and a vote is expected to happen to see whether or not that resolution will take the next step and make it to the board of supervisors meeting tomorrow where it will then go to a final vote. to see if it will pass.

nbc bay area news. >> thanks so much. in san francisco, it is holding a final meeting to discuss reparations for local. you may remember the city's board of supervisors created the african american reparations advisory committee. it was created four years ago and one of its recommendations was to create the office. but the mayor funding stripped way from that office because of the city's budget deficit. despite the cuts, the human rights commission says the city will work on implementing other recommendations. it's a chilly day in the bay and temperatures continue to drop. kari hall has more. >> looks very nice and cool today with sunshine but more clouds will be moving in soon as we see the arrival of the next storm system that's going to keep it wet on and off throughout the week.

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bottom of the hour here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." a california woman has been rescued after being trapped in her pickup truck for several days the woman survived four nights of freezing and cold temperatures in mountains near louisiana a. her truck careened 200 feet off the hill. she was trapped there without a cell phone -- excuse without cell phone service until a hiker stumbled across her location.

officials say she's in stable condition. breaking news out of washington, d.c., nbc news has learned the judge overseeing the former president trump's judge was swatted over the weekend. police and firefighters were called to the judge's home following false reports of a shooting, police determined that there was not a shooting. a private u.s. moon mission is running into technical problems after launching earlier today. the rocket is heading into space with commercial deliveries for the private company known as astrobotic. if the rocket can't charge with the solar panels it will be unable to land on the moon. they're aiming to be the first private business to successfully land on the moon by the end of february. the door plug that blew off a plane mid-flight on friday.

>> the faa has temporarily grounded that model of plane, they can return to the air once they pass an inspection, let's bring in aviation analyst john cox, we so many questions about this, if someone is getting on a plane this week, and watching these stories, what should we know, is there any way for example that we can look up safety records and know what type of plane we're boarding and whether it's had problems before. >> all of the airlines will tell you what type of airplane that you're scheduled to fly on, and if you watch it carefully you can learn the safety records of each individual type, but put this in perspective, as it stands right now this appears to be a single airplane event. in other words, they haven't found any other problems in the feet with the inspections that have been conducted so far. so the question is going to

arise to the investigators, what was unique about this particular airplane? so, they'll look at the assembly records, boeing constructed the airplane was only a couple of months old, so the concern first was, is there a fleet issue as it stands right now? it does not appear that there is, but the faa and boeing and alaska are looking very carefully at. >> we know that this plenty had a few red flags over the past few months, include pressurization, for this reason, the airline barred the plane from long flights. >> the light that kept coming on was part of the pressurization automatic system and they were getting what they call an auto fail light.

but the pressurization from what i understand was still acting normally, maintenance looked at it, trouble-shot it, you put the airplane back in service if it passes the tests. it reoccurred, so they did the next level of maintenance, out of being very cautious, alaska said this is an anomaly that's reoccurred more than once. we'll take the airplane off of over water flights. if it were to come down, have to come down, it's not two hours from land, over land, they can make a diversionary landing very quickly. >> john cox, fascinating stuff. appreciate you being with us. leaders in the house and gnat have reached a spending agreement to avoid a partial government shutdown, the top line deal calls for nearly $1.6 trillion in total spending it also includes billions of dollars worth of cuts in irs funding and covid-era relief

funding. lawmakers still need to write the bills and figure out how that money is going to be spent. unclear how long the process will take. overseas, the israel/hamas war is feeling tension on can college campuses all across the country. shaquille brewster sat down with several students from the university of michigan for a wide-ranging conversation about race and racial healing. here's part of that conversation about the war. >> if there's a word to describe the mood being on campus right now, what would that word be? >> anxiety. >> difficult. >> we're at a time where everyone i think needs to take a deep breath, calm down, try to diffuse the situation at least on campuses. >> raise your hand if you have felt on campus a concern about your words or your feelings being misconstrued? everyone. >> every day you have to watch your words. you can be labeled something if you misspeak once.

>> does this feel new? >> i'd say it kind of really started election season when i first was a freshman, me and my roommate had differing opinions on political candidates and sometimes i hear him say some stuff. we'd look at each other, what do you really think. >> for me personally the only thing to be concerned is genuine physical safety. i was in attendance of a protest and there was a helicopter circling and that's kind of unsettling to see, no explanation. >> a lot of times when it's misconstrued as us stating that we want to like completely eradicate the jewish population and i'm like, no, our safety comes with the safety of the jewish population. >> i'm just curious when we talk about liberation, like, what palestinian liberation means to you in conjunction with jewish safety.

>> i think that's going beyond the system that's currently embedded in israel and hamas, and i think it means establishing a state that initially is going back to what palestinians called palestine while also allowing all ethnicities, religions, and people to live there with the same rules. >> you both used anxiety at the beginning of this conversation, what's the feeling that you get now. >> we come from the same shared values of like love and respect and empathy and humanity, it's a sharing and it's also disheartening because it's become such a polarized issue. >> i think that's a great way for us to start a conversation like that, shared grief, the shared fear of what the future holds, and i do hope that that's what paves the path for people to have the conversations. >> conversations like these make me more optimistic about what

college campuses can be and the future can hold not only for our democracy but democracies across the globe. that's just part of shaq's conversation, be sure to join kate and me as we host an in-depth conversation this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern streaming here on nbc news now. >> an hour-long roughly, it's really valuable conversations, about rac in this country and how to talk, how to have what can be difficult conversations. every year in america, an estimated 400 families are devastated by the unexplained sudden death of a toddler or a young child and usually they don't get many answers about why it happened, but a new study published in the journal

neurology. this family's youngest died overnight in 2022. >> i mean, we both sat on the floor next to our kitchen, just, you know, holding our heads in our hands, you can't process reality. >> i just remember saying over and over again, i don't understand. i don't understand what happened. >> aelt ahealthy 17-month-old boy. >> he's fine. he was fine last night, why didn't he wake up? >> so heartbreaking. he's a twin and they were the youngest in the family, researchers at nyu study this family and four other families who lost, video from cribs, they're hoping this prompts more research and more conversation.

much more on this whole subject tonight on "nightly news" with lester holt. right on your nbc stations. >> really important reporting, kate. with the holiday season in our rearview mirror, time to return those unwanted gifts, wonder where those returns actually end up. brian cheung got a firsthand look at retail returns and how companies and shoppers are cashing in. >> reporter: if you remember returning this grill, these mouse ears, or this holiday lawn flamingo, that holly gift that you didn't want, well, it didn't go back on the shelf, it comes to places like this where tens of thousands of items that will come in, returns that will be someone else's treasure.

so, how big is this facility? >> this building is just over 100,000 square feet and it has 10,000 items coming in everyday. >> reporter: jeff is the manager of liquidity services and part of the growing industries that have made a business off of returns with a boost from the holidays. americans spent nearly $1 trillion this holiday season and will likely to return 15% of that, more than $148 billion worth of stuff. for retailers checking returns and then putting them back on the shelves takes time, cost money and requires more staff. >> there is also, the unboxing that has to happen, if the retailer is online only, there is a warehousing aspect. >> reporter: so instead, companies like jeff's take the stuff off of their hands and then turn around and sell it, and they are busier than ever. >> sometimes we will do this as a service to retailers and sometimes we'll just buy the inventory from them directly. >> reporter: each day bringing in literal truckloads of surprises. so what is coming off of the truck, you don't know what is in there? >> it could be anything under the sun. >> reporter: step one, sort

through all of those returned items. >> we are walking by pallets of mostly returns and again, this is any kind of product. we see furniture, we see home items and kid pools. >> reporter: step two, inventory the items and check the quality. then, a quick photo for listing online where buyers bid. >> you win the auction and then you come and pick up your items. >> reporter: so you come here once a week? >> about once a week. >> reporter: wow. stacy buys home products at 80 to 90% off and then re-sells them on facebook. >> reporter: it is kind of like treasure hunting? >> it is like christmas every time. >> reporter: it is a win-win for her, and shoppers say that unwanted stuff does not end up in a landfill. >> the consumers really want a great deal and they want products they feel good about buying. >> reporter: though, once taken off of the lot, all sales are final. no returns. brian cheung, nbc news,

pittston, pennsylvania. >> you can resell -- >> it's amazing the lengths people go to find some good deals. brian, thank you. coming up, good as golden. hollywood's biggest stars step out for the golden globes. who was snubbed? we're following it all from leverly hills. today is the first day in a week of protests by farmers across germany and here you can see their tractors lined up on a street in front of the bradenburg gate in berlin. a new government plan to scrap dee several tax breaks forry cultural vehicles. the farmers association is insisting on a full reversal. insisting on a full reversal. more

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and actors strikes crippled hollywood for most of last year. chloe melas joins us with a lot of the highlights. we covered a few of the winners and losers, who were the big winners last night and what were some of the surprise and oppenheimer, five golden globes awards. oppenheimer won best drama best director for christopher nolan. best supporting actor for robert downy jr. and best original score, listen to a little bit about what christopher nolan said when he took the stage to win his first-ever golden globe. >> the only time i've been on this stage before was accepting one of these on behalf of our

dear friend heath ledger and that was complicated and challenging for me. i thought it would be simpler accepting for myself but as a director i realize i can only accept this on behalf of people as directors we bring people together and we try to get them to give their best. >> a few weeks until the nominations for the oscars come in. kiln of the flower moon, it's also long like oppenheimer it's worth seeing, lily glaldstone won and she made history as the first indigenous to win. >> this is for a little urban kid, every little native kid out there who are seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words

with tremendous allies and tremendous trust from, with each other. >> listen, it was a great night. i was in the room. i mean, i was literally standing in line going to the bathroom next to selena gomez. i was like, should i talk to jennifer aniston should i say hi? >> please tell me you talked to jennifer an zblon i did not, but i was next to jon hamm at one point and standing next to him and his beautiful wife, she's so gorgeous, i remember at one point i was talking to alyssa milano, selena gomez was standing on my dress at one point and i had to ask her to like -- >> you looked great. >> look at me, i couldn't figure

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