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today, wednesday, january 10th, 2024. taking the blame. boeing ceo speaks out after that terrifying alaska airlines flight, what his company is doing right now to ensure their planes are safe. surprise guest. hunter biden crashes his own contempt hearing on capitol hill. the fiery exchange between the president's son's lawyers and how republicans. coming of age, puberty is starting earlier than ever sometimes in kids as young as 8 years old. how parents can help their kids cope. easy as pie, new ways to track the food you eat, how that could be a game-changer for your health, maybe even your waistline. >> new year and new a.i. technologies. >> yeah. but we begin this hour with the alaska airlines scare and the growing scrutiny for the company that built that plane >> cell phone video captured the

aftermath of door plug that was ripped off the plane nearly 15,000 feet in the air now the head of boeing said the incident, quote, can never happen again. ceo dave calhoun made the comments during a town hall staff meeting on tuesday, all boeing 737 max 9s being used by u.s. airlines, 171, are grounded until they pass a federally approved inspection. >> cnbc reporter phil lebeau was if washington state at the factory where boeing actually makes those 737 max 9 planes. the max plane involved here is actually pretty new, certified back in november, you spoke with boeing's ceo. >> reporter: they're trying to figure out what fuselage plug, the door plug to be sucked off the alaska airlines flight on friday night.

dave calhoun is not wasting time saying we need to learn from this and make sure it doesn't happen again and how we can improve in the future. >> this one is a horrible escape. a horrible escape and we'll talk this one the same way. engineer answers and be certain it can never happen again, whatever information we get or glean we'll look everywhere around the spirit factories, our own factories and we'll make sure that we take steps to ensure that it can never happen again. >> reporter: part of determining what might have happened is going back over the work history for the alaska airlines 737 max 9. every plane that's built here, every plane that's built boeing, airbus, any work that's done that job is detailed. in other words, you can't pick up a particular wrench work on

something and work on something else, it's your job, you have a specific job, it's documented. it moves down the process. they'll be able to go over the work history for all of the max 9s and get the feedback from both alaska and united and their other customers about what the inspections are showing for the grounded airplanes. they found loose bolts, botts of holding that fuselage in place wasn't at the right torque or at the right place. to determine what happened with the alaska airlines flight and what needs to happen with getting these grounded max 9s back in service. >> phil, it's not the first time we have heard about boeing and manufacturing issues congressional hearings a few years ago following crashes involing the max, a different

plane, something systemic here at boeing? >> reporter: well, dave calhoun knows that the reputation that's developing out there, every time they have to stop the production line, people will say here we go again, another problem with the max, keep in mind however, the max investigations on capitol hill, those were spurred by design flaws in terms of that aircraft was designed and led to the two deadly crashes, this is slightly different. still horrific but slightly different. >> phil, thank you so much. a special programming note for you tomorrow, we'll talk about the alaska airlines scare with captain sully sullenberger. >> he'll mark 15 years since the miracle on the hudson. join us for our in-depth conversation tomorrow right here on "nbc news daily." a stunning showdown today on capitol hill involving president biden's son hunter biden.

>> appeared at a house committee hearing to hold him in contempt of congress, house republicans accuse him of defying a subpoena. his arrival set up off fireworks? you're the epitome of white privilege. ignoing a congressional subpoena of being deposed -- >> let's take a vote and let's hear -- >> i think hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail. >> he left that hearing room of about 20 minutes. julie, can you remind our viewers how exactly we got to this point and what the next stemgs are after today's hearing. >> reporter: the hearings are still taking place. to overnight and judiciary committees have gavelled back in after a series of vote in the house.

let's take a step back quickly, this is part of their bigger investigation, their impeachment inquiry into hunter biden's father, president joe biden. they wanted to hear from hunter biden behind closed doors in december, hunter refused because they don't trust republicans not to misconstrue what's said behind closed doors, he's since offered to testify publicly today when he came to the capitol and democrats and republicans going back and forth in the room, if you want to hear from him, he's here, let's do it. as quickly as he came in he left the building and the hearings are still going forward, full vote to hold hunter in contempt of congress would have to take place after these committee votes, it's not clear yet when that happens. >> hunter biden's attorney spoke to reporters before they left capitol hill. >> reporter: addressed reports saying largely the same things we have been hearing that his

client shouldn't be held in contempt of congress, here he is, he's willing to testify in public. >> the republican's chairs today are commandering an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who's offered publicly answer all their proper questions, the question there is, what are they afraid of? >> reporter: listen, i anticipate hunter biden's surprise appearance will do nothing more than to push republicans further to hold him many contempt of congress. >> julie following it all on capitol hill. thank you. right now, millions of people are still dealing with brutal winter weather. >> conditions like these have cancelled hundreds of flights today, knocked out power to

hundreds of thousands of people across the country. now nearly 11 million others are under their own winter alerts. meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all for us. we're talking about a lot of snow in the sierras and the rockies. >> yes, this storm system is on the move. it has been in northwest and now heading through idaho, snow/rain mixture in northern california. as this storm goes through, it will kick up the winds. let's start with the winter alerts, about 11 million people, watches as we head into the plains in anticipation of this turning into a blizzard in the coming days. . tonight and tomorrow, watching the high elevations outside of salt lake city, the mountains of central sierra and the northern sierra in california, not the southern chains so much, tahoe, mammoth, possibly up to a foot

of snow. aspen, steamboat, lot of powder for the skiers. as far as the wind alerts go, through the southwest, southern california, the winds will howl at the higher elevations, high wind warnings for the peaks out of l.a. how high will the winds get, forecast winds in the valley. los angeles, 33. san diego, 40. notice how strong those winds get at 56 miles per hour. exit saturday and sunday. the door to the arctic air opens up and the coldest air of the winter will be moving down through the northwest and the middle of the country. get ready. >> oh, can't wait for that. thanks, bill. >> thank you. time now for today's money minute. job cuts are coming to amazon. >> and youtube wants to help you

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the biden administration the facing growing questions about transparency after we learned that defense secretary austin has prostate cancer, secretary austin was first diagnosed in early december but the white house was not told about that diagnosis until yesterday morning, the secretary has been hospitalized as you may know for more than a week after complications of a procedure to treat that cancer. kelly o'donnell joins us now. the house armed services committee is launching a formal inquiry into austin's hospitalization, as well as the communications breakdown. how is the white house responding to that. >> reporter: on the senate side,

armed services committee the top republican official is also asking questions and there's a legitimate role for congress to play in oversight of cabinet officials and they want to better understand the time line and to get greater accountability on why the secretary and those around him didn't disclose earlier, if in fact those around him were aware of the specific diagnosis, lot of questions here. white house has clearly been frustrated. at the same time, they're also showing support in terms of the medical issues of everyone wishing the secretary well with a goodprognosis, as you indicated he's still hospitalized. but there are also questions about his ability to give good advice and leadership from his post as secretary of defense while he's dealing with this. today, that kind of question was posed to the white house press secretary and she talked about the interaction currently going

on between the president and secretary austin. >> secretary austin was involved if a conversation a meeting with the president on national security matters just yesterday. the department of defense is certainly reviewing their process and looking at what could have been done better, it's a 30-day review process, but obviously secretary austin has been very much involved and engaged. >> so there will be more answers or at least outcomes of these reviews coming in the weeks ahead as well as that government oversight from capitol hill. at some point, when the secretary is well enough, questions will certainly be posed to him, either from the pentagon press corps or in front of lawmakers on capitol hill. kate. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you the south american nation of ecuador is in the frips of chaos right now op tuesday, armed men attacked a tv station during a live forecast, they took people hostage and flashed grenads on

camera. gu a, d is following this one for us. guad, this is pretty striking or shocking to say the least. >> reporter: we still don't know which gang these gunmen are associated with, but we know the violence escalated this week after the president declared a state of emergency to fight these drug gangs, some of them have been called cartels or whatever you want to call them, the president is now calling them terrorist organizations. after that emergency declaration the violence escalated and ecuador, they've taken policemen as prisoners and we've seen them riot inside of prisons and now they enter the television

station while they were streaming live images. we're hearing from some of people inside of that station and colleagues who work for that same station. >> reporter: so, now that the president has declared these gangs as terrorist organizations, he's give an lot more power to the military and the police also under this emergency declaration to fight against the drug cartels and also to enter the prisons and take control, because a lot of the leaders from these organizations are in prison and they've been operating from within the prisons in ecuador, so that's going to be one of the biggest challenges for authorities to take control of

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at home, the memorial service for the oakland police officer shot and killed has wrapped up. they came together to say a final farewell to the officer. he was killed in the line of duty while responding to a burglary. bob redell is outside the church with more. >> reporter: most if not all of the officers with opd along with staff are here in attendance. they are saying good-bye to the officer who was shot and killed during a burglary last month in oakland. there are hundreds of members of other law enforcement agencies throughout the bay area and as far away as fresno. this is what the service looked like this morning. speakers included the attorney general and the officer's cousin, uncle and brother-in-law. this is the scene earlier this morning. a rainbow framed the three large crosses outside the church here.

then it started to rain. opd led a procession of officers from downtown oakland to the church here. officers stood at attention for a good 45, possibly 60 minutes in the rain. it was very cold. this was a show of respect for their fellow officer. they waited for his body to arrive. the casket was draped in the flag of the united states of america. opd tells us it was his fellow community resource officers who carried his body inside with his family walking behind. the officer was 36 years old. he was married, had graduated from the polic academy in 2020. he was trying to build relationships between opd and oakland residents. they describe him as a dedicated officer and a familiar face in oakland's asian american community. >> i didn't have the privilege or the opportunity to personally know the officer.

i didn't have to in order to know that he loved this city. >> reporter: the officer was shot and killed while responding in plainclothes to a burglary last month. a 27-year-old man from tracy and a 28-year-old man from chico are charged in the murder. they waived their arraignments in court. they won't enter pleas into the next hearing. in 2014, sanders shot and killed an 18-year-old man. sanders ended up pleading no contest. police have arrested two other men and charged them with taking part in the burglary. while the oakland police officers were here saying good-bye to their fellow colleague, officers and deputies from other agencies were in oakland covering their patrols. bob redell, nbc bay area news.

>> thank you. a difficult day. our thoughts are with the family, friends and, of course, the oakland police department. we will talk about our weather. another cold and rainy day across the bay area. kari hall is here now with our forecast. >> we will see off and on light showers across the bay area for the afternoon, into the evening. there will be some breaks, but just be prepared for any time some wet weather moving by throughout today. once the cold front passes, we will clear out tonight. we are looking at temperatures today in the mid to upper 50s. it will be cooler tomorrow. we will start out with a frost advisory for the inland valleys. all of the areas in blue may be near or even below freezing for thursday morning. we are going to see a gradual warm-up, at least for the mornings. that comes along with some rain. i will have more on that. our next storm system coming in, full details coming up in 30 minutes. >> thank you so much.

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charged with attempted murder. it's video you likely saw earlier this week. he flew over the bench after the attack he reportedly told officers he wanted to, quote, kill the judge. the judge sustained minor injuries and returned to work the next day. dramatic newly released body camera video shows virginia police officers pulling a driver from a car engulfed in flames. the driver crashed into a tree, the engine catching fire after speeding past the officer, the officer used an extinguisher to douse the flames. the driver was the only passenger in the car and was taken to a local hospital. tennessee is the first state to address the impact of artificial intelligence in music industry, the governor introduced the security act, the elvis act, include protections

for musicians in the state. the update will allow people who misuse a.i. to be held liable for damages. house republicans are pushing forward to impeach the head of homeland security over the crisis at the border. house committee found its first impeachment hearing for secretary mayorkas earlier today, republicans want him out, saying he has encouraged illegal immigrations. democrats have acknowledged the crisis at the border and saying mayorkas hasn't violated any laws. julia, what happened at today's hearing in. >> reporter: well, it was a lot of back and forth, of course when you have republicans blaming secretary mayorkas for what they're seeing at the border, talking about record border numbers, fentanyl coming across the border. they brought in state attorney

generals that aren't on the border but have been impacted. the democrats continue to fact-check and really come down to the fact whatever policy differences republicans might have, they still not sub substantiate a call for impeachment. in fact, democrats called a witness a constitutional lawyer and professor who says there's never been an impeachment quite like this, the only cabinet level secretary to be impeached was under the grant administration a clear line that he had taken $20,000 in bribes to appoint someone to a position, we're in unchartered territory here and as congressman dan goldman said it's lipstick on a the same problem they still talking about

without solutions and now they're calling it an memorial day inquiry. >> why him, why mayorkas. >> some accusations who said that chairman green had gone back to his constituents and promised him he would start impeachment inquiries and impeach mayorkas he said this was completely politically motivated. more ammunition to talk about the failures at the border heading into an election year. >> julia, thank you. speaking of election years, let's turn to scenario playing out in several states across the country. black voters fighting for greater representation in voting maps. a battle alabama won if the courts last year, so what happens now. priscilla thompson traveled to montgomery to find out.

>> this is low-income area. you know, don't have the best looking houses. don't have the best looking roads. >> reporter: those are the kinds of issues that drove her and others to sue the state of alabama demanding another majority black voting district. >> there have been 13 hospitals that closed since 2010 and eight of those have been in the black -- >> eight that's more than half. >> yeah, people are drinking and bathing in their sewage water because the pipes are so messed up. >> reporter: there had only one majority black district until now. in october, a panel of federal judges chose a new map for the november election. after the state refused to draw a second majority black district despite an order from the supreme court, which found the original map illegally diluted black voting power. what does this new map mean to you? >> fair representation. justice is on the line, education is on the line. all of these things are on the

line when you don't have that fair representation. >> reporter: at stake across the country more than a dozen congressional seats that could change hands due to redistricting. but at legacy barbershop voters in alabama's new district question whether any of it will make a difference in their lives. >> if you ask me, they get in office and come in our neighborhoods and clean them up and make them be better and as soon as they get into the office it seems like all that disappears. >> do you agree? you feel like it's majority black distribute, black people have the power to vote whoever they want. it will stay the same? >> but what it will have to take is somebody to get in there and make a difference by their actions and not just by their words. >> y'all okay? good, good. >> reporter: across town at martha's place. what are you most known for? >> fried chicken and collard greens.

and cornbread. >> reporter: many are hopeful that the new district will lead to new action. >> better education and neighborhoods. give us more voting power. i pray to god that people take it and use it. >> reporter: power back in the hands of the people. as across the country the fight for what some call fair maps heats up. >> who else is supposed to look after the maps. we have a right to do that, because we're supposed to be protecting what's ours. and that's our community. >> reporter: priscilla thompson, nbc news. on friday, on nbc news now, we're airing a national day of racial healing town hall special. we can't talk about racial healing without looking at policing. we spoke with the head of the los angeles police department michael moore about just that. here's a bit of our conversation. how would you characterize the state of policing in this country and what's needed to rebuild relationships specifically with communities of color.

>> i think it's be said acknowledging our past and recognize that in policing in america has at times been used as an arm of government, to enforce stereotypes. racial injustices, prejudices that exist across society. and law enforcement, we see in my experience, i've seen aiming to build trust in our relationships and recognizing that it comes from an area of imperfection and even today we still work and struggle and strive each day to do our very best to build relationships that's built on recognizing the individual rights of each individual, the sanctity of life, engagement of policing in our communities has to be done respectful, that's con constitutional, and recognizes again our past and while acknowledging it also sets a path for optimism in the

future. >> in 2020, you were part of a protest after george floyd's death, and you kneeled. >> i thought it was important to demonstrate that we're all human, that we're engaged in a relationship from a person to another person, while i wear a uniform it's also a uniform that in past generations has been involved in some of the greatest injustices and so in the moment of that pain and anger and frustration it was important for me not to kneel in a sense to ask for any type of forgiveness that this be michael moore, a human that represents the department that is striving to do our very best, and kneeling with another individual on the other side of this bike rail who's doing the same thing. they're humanizing themselves. >> again, that's just part of our conversation with lapd chief of police and part of our upcoming nbc news now special national day of racial healing.

join us for an in-depth conversation. it's friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern streaming on nbc news now. available on demand as well. part of new series on artificial intelligence products. with the grind of everyday life, hard to track your health and watch what you eat. just by taking a picture of your food. one a.i. is cooking up a new way to do just that and steve patterson joins us now from las vegas to tell us what he's learned. steve, what's going on? >> you can have an a.i. do it for you and give you a report. technology means changing the way we think, how we drink and even how we eat. it's all happening at the

consumer electronics show, meet this a.i. food scanner, it uses 3d scanning to determine the nutritional value of the meal you're about to eat. food looks delicious. it's not real. some sushi some asparagus. when you have meal like this shgs you can scan it, how many calories it is. just like that. when you're done, it will tell you how much you're eating and intaking. from there the information from the scans is given to you in a report. helping people in real-life scenarios like giving diabetics another tool to maintain glucose levels. or helping parents figure out the kinds of nutrients their children really need to grow. it's very granular. for restaurant owners, the data can show how many diners came in and what was left over. it will tell you how much food is being wasted per year. >> per year, per day.

>> per day? >> per minute. >> per minute. wow. >> reporter: a new way for business owners to still what's still on the plate and in the trash. previously, people had been eyeballing and estimating how much of what is being wasted and we give out the accumulating information. >> reporter: the hope is food scans can help beyond restaurants and reach more groups that need help tracking nutrition. >> it can be hospitals, universities, daycare. >> reporter: soon enough, a.i. will make tracking what you eat and what you don't a piece of cake. >> piece of cake. love that. what other cool things are you seeing over there. >> so, my favorite stuff here is the wearables. you can track your mobility. make your stronger and faster, make you run more or lift more, that's so cool because a lot of that helps the disabled community.

one device you wear it like a retainer you can use your tongue to access smart devices. one last thing i have to mention, there's a device where you have canisters of ice cream, soft serve in two minutes, it's incredible. it's like a keurig for ice cream. >> did you just say a keurig for ice cream? >> that's exactly how they're marketing it, too. >> bring that back to new york for us. >> steve patterson, thank you. join us tomorrow we'll look at the technology that could cure writers' cramp forever. write them in your handwriting. that scares me. coming up, puberty is starting earlier than ever. why it's happening and what

parents should know, we'll tell you. you're watching "nbc news daily." but first our daily snapshot giving new meaning to flipping the bird. this eagle is getting a full examination at a wildlife hospital in australia, the wedge tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in australia and one of the biggest eagles in the whole world, their wingspan can reach up to 9 feet. >> wow. >> and he's being treated for tail feather damage which made him unable to fly orhunt.

in today's modern parenting more kids are experiencing puberty at a younger age. >> federal data shows the age has been dropping worldwide by about three months every decade over the last 40 years and doctors warn that starting puberty younger than normal may have a lasting impact on a child's mental and physical development. joining us now is an associate professor at associate professor of pediatrics at columbia university medical center, good to have you with us. why is it happening.

>> so just to start with looking at the past century we just had so much more access to food, many people have been more affluent and our lifestyles have changed. so increased calories has allowed kids to get to a point where they can go into puberty on the earlier side and this's led to on obesity epidemic. association obesity and earlier puberty. there's been an increased use of -- disrupting chemicals that are used in cosmetics, plastics, soaps and shampoos, they can mimic estrogens associated with puberty. additionally certain type of dress can also lead to earlier puberty.

>> of course, going through puberty at any age can impact a child's physical and emotional health, talk to us about the effect of development and how parents can have these conversations in. >> absolutely. so it's important that parents start at a young age and discuss, you know, what might be happening to their kids' bodies as they get older. sometimes when kids go through puberty early e they especially compared to their peers they look different and they look older and parents and teachers expect them to act more maturely. so this may lead to them eventually developing anxiety or depression, so if you see anything like this in your children, it's important to reassure them that puberty is an important part of life, an important part of growing up, but if you feel your child is

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