hi everyone. i'm zinhle essamuah. >> i'm kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now.

>> today is thursday, january 11, 2024. breaking news, closing arguments. former president donald trump is back in new york for his civil fraud trial. his remarks from inside the courtroom and what's at stake for him and his family. bomb cyclone. a storm intensifying very rapidly, threatening millions with heavy snow, high winds and dangerous cold. meteorologist bill karins is here to time it out. from the flight deck, 15 years after the miracle on the hudson, captain c.b. sullenberger sits down with "nbc news daily." >> i thought we'd all be bonded, those of us on the airplane. >> how he remembers the day he saved 155 lives and his reaction to the recent alaska airline incident. how artificial intelligence is making a real mark. >> i don't know if i like that.

no more passing notes around class. >> or thank you notes. i like a little bit of writing. >> people's writing is getting a little messy these days. >> my kids don't even know how to do cursive. >> we begin with breaking news from new york. >> today closing arguments in the civil fraud trial against former president donald trump and his family business. attorney general letitia james of new york accuses the former president, his children and the trump organization of lying about the value of their assets. the former president addressed the court at the end of the defense's closing arguments. the judge initially s trump would not speak inside court because he didn't agree to certain conditions. >> the same judge also received a bomb threat at his home this morning before court began. it's unclear if he was home at that time. nbc correspondent rehema analyst is outside the courtroom. rehema, what did the former president say in court and what have we heard from prosecutors so far? >> reporter: he said in court

much of what the judge in this case did not want him to say, and that was he was accusing the attorney general of using this prosecution against him as a publicity effort in a run for public office. he said he was being wrongly and unlawfully persecuted. it got to a point where the judge had to ask the defense attorney to control his client, and he abruptly ended mr. trump from speaking. we should note that the judge made a note when they came back from lunch a short while ago and the prosecution is beginning its closing argument, the judge said he noticed the courtroom was distinctly emptier, there were many fewer people in the courtroom at this point than there were for the morning session. what does the prosecution say? the prosecution is arguing that the defense of donald trump is part of the same argument they've heard, but have asked the question, and this is it. they said were they acting with intent when they manipulated their annual financial statements as part of a

conspiracy? did they know it? and the answer is yes. they're saying it was a pattern of fraud that the trump organization participated in, and for that reason the judge should find for the prosecution and award them -- and force donald trump and his company to pay some $370 million and ban him for life as well as his family from doing real estate business in new york. kate and. >> is there any indication given what happened in court where the judge is lean? >> ironically what stands out is not at all what trump's lawyers said. that's because that's what the closing is. it's a summation of the argument wes heard before. what stood out were comments that the judge made. they were fascinating. in a jury trial you don't have tea leaves to read because a jury doesn't talk to you. the first, is he again dismissed

bar top entirely. the star accounting professor from nyu who said there's no fraud. at this point the judge said i don't believe him. his credibility is gone. he said do you believe for disgorgement there has to be harm to a third party? that's a leading question. what that indicates to me is the judge doesn't care if there were no victims to this crime. the judge only cares if trump benefited at all. the defense has really argued the fact there are no victims matters so much. here we see the judge leaning i don't think so. >> ultimately it's up to the judge what happens, right? there's no jury. >> no jury, just an appeals court. >> angela, rehema, thank you both. president biden's son is being arraigned on tax charges today in the state of california. >> hunter biden faces nine charges including three fellies and six misdemeanors. if convicted he could spend up

to 17 years in prison. today's hearing comes after a plea deal between the special counsel overseeing the case and hunter biden fell apart over the summer. >> joining us, nbc's tom winter and david noriega outside the courthouse in los angeles. tom, talk to us about the charges that hunter biden is facing and what we can expect to happen today. >> hunter biden is tied to what prosecutors call a four-year scheme to effectively not pay his taxes, whether it be expensing certain things as business expenses which were used for his personal gain. talking luxury automobiles, luxury hotels, prostitutes, other things that were for his personal benefit instead of a business benefit or not paying the taxes that he needed to on certain income. hunter biden's team will point out he did pay backs his taxes, he has filed his tax returns. they're not sure why this case should have been brought in the first place.

specific to today's hearing which should begin in about an hour or so in los angeles in federal court, we anticipate the hearing to talk about an hour. we're expecting a not guilty plea based on what i just told you, and the feeling from the hunter biden legal team, and from there the clock starts as far as the trial is concerned. not clear we'll get a trial date todayment but we will at least get a better understanding of the timeline and when this could all occur. it's not typical that cases would be schedule within a year in los angeles in federal court there, but it is possible a trial could happen as soon as this fall which, of course, would be leading up to the election. >> david, let me go to you. president biden and the whole biden family have consistently said they're supporting hunter biden throughout all the legal challenges. today we actually heard some pretty forceful comments from first lady jill biden. what did she have to say? >> reporter: it's important to

remember the behavior alleged in this indictment -- by the way, we know hunter biden is inside the building behind me. this failure to pay taxes stems from a period of about four years in which hunter biden was in the depths of his addiction to alcohol sand cocaine. his family has supported him on his journey to sobriety. his mother, dr. jill biden spoke on msnbc this morning. here is a clip of what she had to say. >> i think what they're doing to hunter is cruel, and i'm really proud of how hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction, and i think -- i love my son, and it's hurt my grandchildren. >> i should say she was referring more to house republicans in terms of what she was describe as cruel behavior in terms of the hearing, the way

she says they're kind of going after hunter biden personally, not necessarily the doj and the criminal charges against him. of course, hunter biden and his legal team assert those two things, the criminal case and the political motives are tied together and this wouldn't be taking place were it not for the political pressure. >> david noriega and tom winter, thank you. an intense winter storm system, the third of the week, is strengthening across the country. it could become a so-called bomb cyclone. that's a storm that intensifies very rapidly. >> yesterday's system brought tornados to the carolinas. check out this security camera footage. the buildings on the street complooelt completely fine, right? less than 90 seconds later, look at the right side of your screen. windows smashed, debris

scattered across the roadway. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking all of this. bill, it's been non-stop. can we start with the rockies and the central plains? what are you watching? >> this big storm that moved through the west and moved through the plains is about to explode. we're going to see a big huge snow shield. eventually tomorrow, more severe weather. that could start later tonight and we will have a couple isolated tornadoes. hopefully they won't be strong and won't hit anyone. this storm system, if i show you the watches and warnings, this goes for this storm and the storm we'll talk about coming up from the west. this is 46 million people. winter storm warnings have been issued for this area. we think almost all of iowa, most of wisconsin, michigan, areas from chicago northward will see the highest amounts of snow with this. snow totals could be above a foot which is a lot. we'll have extreme snowdrifts. it's a lot colder with this storm than the last one. we already have 11 million

people under windchill alerts or advisories. the temperatures are bottoming out. bismarck is 1 degree to negative 19. >> a new storm will move on to the woeft coast this weekend. what are the concerns with this one? >> it's going to be colder. we will get a little low elevation snow. it doesn't look like much for the seattle area. here we are as we go throughout friday. you can see a little there in northern california, especially the oregon coastline is going to take the brunt of this. as we go throughout the day on saturday, that's when the heaviest rain at the lowest of elevations. blizzard-like conditions for the ski resorts, we'll have to watch out for the avalanche concern as we head through the weekend. thinking about the caucuses on iowa monday. snowy and cold, right? >> very cold. time for today's cnbc money minute.

cnbc's pippa steefrngs joins us now. >> shares of coin base and robinhood rose before falling after the securities exchange commission approved bitcoin etf in the u.s. they're betting it will boost demand in cryptocurrency platforms and the industry as a whole, hoping it will add credibility to the volatile asset class. more than 23 million users are now using netflix's ad-based plan. the streaming giant announced that 8 million users joined in the past two months. in november they announced 15 million users used the plan. the ad-based plan costs just under $7.00 in the u.s. and runs ten-60 second ads. snapchat announced additional parental oversight features today. parents have the option to block teens from using the ai chatbot called my ai. if the tool is turned off, teens can message the chatbot only to receive a note that it has been

disabled. the updates come ahead of ceo eve van spiegel's appearance on capitol hill with other executives about youth safety on social media. back to you. >> pippa stephens, thank you. coming up, the numbers are in, and inflation is up. in, and inflation is up. where americans are [coughing] copd hasn't been pretty. it's tough to breathe and tough to keep wondering if this is as good as it gets. but trelegy has shown me that there's still beauty and breath to be had. because with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open and prevents future flare-ups. and with one dose a day, trelegy improves lung function so i can breathe more freely all day and night. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis.

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america's final inflation report was released this morning. it shows americans are once again paying more for popular goods and services after prices briefly cooled off. consumer prices in december were actually up .3% compared with november. looking at the bigger picture, inflation rose 3.4% over last year. >> nbc news senior business correspondent christine romans joins us from the big board. christine, how do consumer prices in december compare to previous months or even last year as a whole. >> inflation picking up a little bit unexpectedly at the end of the year. in november we had seen an inflation rate of 3.1%. it ticked up to 3.4%. this was a surprise. this got people concerned that a strong economy at the end of the year might be showing inflation is still here. >> can you break down the data for us, the categories top of mind for consumers?

where are we seeing the biggest increases and decreases? >> food prices november and december up 3.0%. energy prices up .4%. we had seen energy prices decline in november. you've probably been noticing the gas prices all fall had been going down. now they picked up a little bit here. shelter, this is a big part of this story. shelter, this is rent, your housing costs. this up a half a percent. this accounts for a big chunk of the overall inflation number. the housing issue, something a lot of economists thought this year would start to fix it self at least at the end of last year did not. >> as you talk about shelter, i think housing, mortgage rates. how does this all relate to interest rates? could we see the fed lower them? >> this overall trend of inflation here, this is why a lot of people think the fed will be able to start lowering interest rates sometime this year. the fed had been raising interest rates to get inflation under control, to cool the economy and has been pretty

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have. workers spent the morning assessing all-terrain for safety before reopening. crews set off explosions to break up snowbanks along the ridge lines to prevent another avalanche. this is from yesterday's rescue which happened just a half hour after the lift opened for the first time for the season. the avalanche was the size of a football field and ten feet deep. it swallowed up four skiers, three of them survived. a 66-year-old man who split his time between marin county and trucky did not. you see skiers and snowboarders jumping into action. more than 100 ski patrol and police and fire made their way to the field. we talked with a skier who was on the lift overhead. >> they had patrol up there. they have a protocol they use. they had the patrol guys from here and they instantly got folks from alpine, got them in here.

>> reporter: they had been monitoring avalanche risk since sunday because of the recent snow. the resort determined it was safe to open that run at 9:00 in the morning. it happened within a half hour. the access road to the avalanche site was also wiped out. the work to rebuild that continues as well. investigaors will continue to answer the question how this happened while ski patrols work to reduce the danger. >> thanks for that. here are other stories. hayward approved a new ordinance to hopefully stop sideshows. consumer advocates call for a roll back on pg&e rates. a woman accused of killing her mother while streaming it on social media appeared in court today. police say they found the woman holding a knife on the balcony. they arrested for her stabbing her mother on facebook live.

friends say she struggles with mental health. they say her mother was a community activist. the judge continued today's arraignment to next month, february 2. a group is calling for a rollback on pg&e rates. this is video of them holding a news conference in san francisco. the utility company raised the rate 15% at the start of the new year. they are requesting a second rate hike in may to recoup costs of recent storm damage repairs. a group of consumer advocates say it's calling on state regulators to roll back the hikes. it's illegal to be a spectator at sideshows in hayward. the city council approved it in december. violators could be given a fine from $500 to $1,000. they could be sent to jail for six months. the ordinance will deter sideshow from happening. other cities have passed similar laws.

another cold morning in the bay area. it should get warmer. kari hall has more. >> we started with chilly temperatures. eventually, it's going to warm up. along the coastline and bay shore there may be flooding due to king tides. tomorrow, another cold start with frosty conditions for the interior valleys. it will be staying dry now. we will see for the weekend rain coming back, flooding possible with a focus on the north bay with heavier rain and wind coming in. our temperatures will reach into the mid to upper 50s. cooler for the tri-valley. 55 for morgan hill as well as what we will see in san mateo and into san francisco with mid 50s. we are tracking the next round of rain. i will have details coming up in $30 minute. >> speaking of king tides. marin county dealing with it. it happens because of the

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fly. it comes after a door plug blew off a 737 max-9 in the middle of an alaska airlines flight. both alaska and united said they found loose hardware on other max-9s. the f afrjsa says these findings may show that boeing didn't make sure their planes were safe to operate. local sheriff's office says the debris field is roughly 150 feet wide, 450 feet long and 10 feet deep. parts of the mountain will remain closed as crews work to clear a key road 100 million left by the state of the last of the hawaiian princesses for native hawaiian culture, a descendant of the royal family who ruled the hawaiian airlines. she suffered a stroke in 2017, a legal battle degan over her $250 million trust. the estate has finally been

settled. tens of millions of dollars will also go to former housekeepers, employees and her wife. tech giant meta is facing new allegations about efforts to protect children on its platforms. new mexico's attorney general is now adding to an existing lawsuit over sexually explicit content. the ag's office says two major companies are concerned about their ads being seen next to that elicit material. >> last year investigators in new mexico created decoy accounts posing as children under 14 finding evidence that meta platforms serve underage users sexually explicit material and lead them to unmoderated facebook groups that facilitate commercial sex and allow the distribution of child pornography. >> there's a vast unregulated network of pedophiles and people trading in child pornography, not in some dark corner of the internet but on facebook and

instagram, on social media applications that people use every single day. >> now a new court filing alleging meta runs ads next to problematic content, and advertisers are angry. the complaint says last october walmart asked meta why its ads were running next to elicit content and questioned the accuracy of meta's representations that its existing tools were sufficient to protect walmart's brand safety. walmart writing in an email to meta, you mention repeatedly that you have shared accountability here, but to us it feels like all the onus and work sits with walmart and those activating campaigns. >> it says to me that meta still is not taking seriously the legitimate concerns of advertisers on their platform about the type of harm that this elicit content is going to have. >> last november according to the court filing, the match group which owns tinder, hinge and other dating sites complained to meta that videos that surrounded an ad for one of

its dating apps were all of young girlses including a young girl provacatively dressed, straddling and caressing a harley-davidson-style motorcycle. meta acknowledged a small percentage of violating content may not get caught. the ceo of the match group emailed meta ceo zuckerberg and said meta is placing ads adjacent to offensive, obscene and potentially illegal content including sexualization of minors and gender-based violence. advertisers aren't the only ones raising concerns. >> people inside the company are raising red flags and making recommendations, and those recommendations seem to be watered down or ignored. >> by whom? >> well, i think we're going to find out who is responsible for making these decisions. i think ultimately the responsibility lies with the chief executive. >> according to the suit, facebook's own community integrity team recommended the

company adjust the way facebook suggests people you may know. the team saying it pointed pedophiles to children they could not have found on their own. the filing says facebook rejected that recommendation. meta disputes that. a spokesman saying the work of that team triggered its effort to avoid recommending teens to suspected abusers, work that within months led to restrictions placed on millions of accounts that were behaving suspiciously. meta also rejects allegations regarding advertisers and its controls, saying in part, we don't want this kind of content on our platforms, and brands don't want their ads to appear next to it. we continue to invest aggressively to stop it and report every quarter on the prevalence of such content which remains very low. later this month five tech company ceos are expected to testify on capitol hill at a hearing about online child sexual exploitation. meta and tiktok voluntarily

agreed to appear. the ceos of snap, discord and snap -- excuse me, snap, discord and x -- i think i got that wrong. several are appearing because they were subpoenaed. two of them are appearing -- meta and x are appearing voluntarily. >> kate, thank you for that report. just four days before the republican iowa caucuses, a well-known contender has dropped out of the race. former new jersey governor chris christie suspended his campaign after struggling in the polls. as the race narrows, so do the participants in the gop presidential debates. only ron desantis and nikki haley took the stage last night, spending most of the time going head-to-head. >> we don't need another mealy mouth politician who tells you what you want to hear just to try to get your vote. >> he has blown through $150 million. i don't even know how you do that, through his campaign. he has nothing to show for it. if you can't manage a campaign,

how are you going to manage a country? >> nbc's ali vitali has the latest from the campaign trail in iowa. >> reporter: one day closer to the iowa caucus and one less candidate competing for the republican nomination. he was not going to be playing big here in ooi wah, but new hampshire was the real focus for former new jersey governor chris christie who dropped out of the race yesterday without endorsing any of his counterparts, instead focusing on the man he came to blunt from getting the nomination once again, that's the former president donald trump. for christie, he was critical of his rivals for not going after the former president in sufficient fashion. the two candidates on the debate stage last night, nikki haley and ron desantis, either of them taking the opportunity or opening and walking through the door that christie cracked open for him in his drop-out speech. instead they spent much of that debate focused on each other, each with competing goals. for ron desantis, iowa is all about making a strong second

place finish as close as he can get to donald trump. this is a state that he very much needed to win after frankly putting all his eggs in the iowa basket. for nikki haley, it's also a matter of finishing in second here. less so because of the role iowa will play in her strategy and more so because of the boost it can give her riding into new hampshire. the fact that christie is out of this race, does free up a few points, a few voters. it could be a few voters and points that make all the difference to nikki haley as she tries to come within striking distance of trump in hopes of winning the new hampshire primary. back to you. this monday will mark 15 years since we all witnessed the impossible happening. >> that's right. january 15th, 2009, a flock of geese hit s airways flight 1549. 159 people were on board. >> we all know what happened next. that plane safely landed on the water in new york's hudson river.

everyone on board survived. the miracle on the hudson they called it. >> that day the pilot of that flight became a household name. captain sullenberger was celebrated with awards and an appointment in the biden administration. tom hanks even portrayed him in a movie. >> captain sullenberger is here with us now. we're so delighted to have you. >> great to be here. i had an idea about what was about to happen. first off jeff and i had an idea about what was going to happen. >> you were saying this is similar to the skyline you saw. >> once we landed and stopped in the river, right before us, the low in the sky, a stark relief of the high-rises in front of us. >> did that scare you? >> no, it was beautiful. it was an incredible sight. we didn't take more than half a second to see it and get right down to business evacuating the airplane. >> it's incredible. so much has changed since that time. even the airline you were a part of. us airways is no longer around. >> part of american airlines.

>> talk to us about how the industry has changed? not just for airlines, for crews, too. >> it's changed for the better in many ways. commercial air travel now is much safer than it was in 2009. i think we realized after 2009 we had to do a lot better job of many things we were doing, even though we've made aviation ultra safe, we're not done yet. safety is not a destination. it's a continuous journey of improvement. i think that's what we've seen. we've seen a lot of improvements in air travel in every way. we still have much more work to do, but it's a lot safer than it's ever been. we've had the safest form of transportation than anyone in history. >> yeah, compared to all other forms of transportation by far. i do have to ask about this week's news. everybody has seen what happened with alaska airlines and that flight with the door plug flying off the plane. the ntsb obviously still investigating.

they know they have -- we know they're looking at loose bolts potentially on other similar planes. how do you view that in terms of the state of airline safety now? >> it's a reminder that in spite of how safety has become, we must keep proactively looking for risks and mitigating them before they can lead to harm. we have to be much more proactive. we're decades past the point where we can define safety solely as the absence of accidents or incidents. we have to be able to look at entire systems including exit doors and make sure that from the design process to the manufacturing process, to putting the part in the airplane and whatever maintenance has been done on it, that at every step of the way we look at what might go wrong. >> beyond aircraft safety itself, those workers in the airline industry are facing so much today. i remember growing up thinking of my late uncle david who worked in the airline industry -- there he is.

we were so proud of him because we saw how much went into it. more recently we've seen horrible videos of bad behavior on airplanes or in airports. what's your message to those thinking of entering the industry? >> we need people that have two things, the aptitude and the attitude. this requires people who have a real dedication to excellence, to safety, to taking good care of the people in our charge, passengers and flight attendants. we need pilots and flight attendants, mechanics, we need agents and ramp workers. this is a good profession that you can have and something that really can give a purpose to one's life. i always thought that flying an airplane had a beginning, middle, end, take off, climb, cruise, descent and landing. when you finish and you've carried 150, 200 people somewhere where they wanted to go, you've done something important. >> you feel that success every day, i'm sure. >> every day.

>> you had a chance in 2009 to meet the passengers. >> many of them, not all. i still haven't met all of them. >> i was wondering do you keep in touch. >> we do. my family and i -- there's something we're closer to just because of happenstance. we shared this common experience. i said within a few days of the landing that i thought we would all be bonded, those of us on the airplane because of what we had experienced together. >> of course, based on what you did, much has been done to commemorate it. there's going to be a new museum in north carolina and you're giving remarks at the paley center. >> yes. >> what are your remarks going to be, and what do you want people to take away from that museum? >> i want people to understand that what happened that day was that facing this unanticipated emergency of a lifetime, strangers rose to the occasion, worked together. they took what they did know,

applied a new way to solve a problem they had never seen before, they made sure that every single life was saved. that's a potential that each of us has, in spite of how divided our country is, our globe is, in spite of the existential crises we're facing, when we work together there's little we cannot accomplish. >> the plane, the plane you flew is actually going to be on display at that new museum, right, in north carolina? >> yes. i've seen it. it's there. >> captain sully sullenberger, thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. a quick construction, at the upcoming hearing i mentioned, ceos of meta and tiktok are appearing voluntarily. x, discord and snap were subpoenaed to appear. coming up, lending a hand, picking up a pen and paper may soon be

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how? our steve patterson tells us, ai of course. >> reporter: artificial intelligence is taking center stage at the consumer electronics show. from robots to new health tools, the largest tech road show in the world is giving us a glimpse into the future. but one of the newest innovations of artificial intelligence is going old school. meet handwrytten, a robot that literally puts pen to paper. >> so handwrytten is trying to bring back the lost art of handwritten correspondence through robots and ai. >> reporter: a 2021 poll found over half of americans haven't sent a handwritten letter in the last five years, but now a robot making snail mail is just as easy to write and send as email. it's not just for thank you cards. businesses can use it, too. >> they're trying to figure out ways to go back and forth with existing clients. >> reporter: these robots hold real pens to write out notes in

the handwriting style of your choice including the envelope. you can choose what font you like, even your own handwriting that can be developed in just one week. >> we would have you fill out basically a kind gartner's workbook and have you write a four times and b as well as ligature companies, two os together, two ls together, how do you dot your is. all that goes into creating handwriting. >> reporter: this ai robot seems to make everything perfect. >> so we jitter the lines, change the line spacing. all that is programming. >> so the ai literally builds in imperfections. >> yes. >> handwrytten says that data is encrypted meaning if you do choose your handwriting, it's protected from hackers. the company says their goal is to make writing and sending notes accessible. and intriguing for all generations. >> people are getting from one to three handwritten pieces of mail a month compared to

hundreds of emails a day. i think people of all generations appreciate that. >> reporter: at the biggest tech show in the world, n innovation that could bring back old traditions. >> is there irony there that people are here desperately mining for the next big thing? >> and the next big thing might be a handwritten note? >> yes. >> of course what's old is new again. >> steve patterson, nbc news, las vegas. >> i think it might be helpful with mass situations like weddings. >> but we've lost the art of handwritten notes, actual notes to each other, right? to each other, right? >> not here at hey, you should try new robitussin honey medi-soothers for long-lasting cough and sore throat relief. try new robitussin lozenges with real medicine and find your voice. you know? we really need to work on your people skills. hi, my name is damion clark. and if you have

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welcome back. nbc bay area responds to a family's european flight flop. they asked chris chmura to land an overdue reimbursement. >> a couple months ago i ran into amy at a charity event on the peninsula. she told me about her family's trip to prague that did not go as planned. she says her easy jet flight

from london took off and ended up going right back to london because they had a technical issue on the plane. the family spent an extra night if london, then flew to prague the next day. in europe, passengers can get paid back their expenses plus cash compensation when a flight problem is within an airline's control. amy filed forms online, then followed up with three different people by phone. she got nothing in her bank account. i sent a note to easy jet. it responded. a rep said she entered the wrong flight date on her online forms. amy says the three easy jet reps never mentioned any errors. they toelz her she would get her money. they paid her $908 for the flight disruption. here is what the carrier said. we are sorry for the inconvenience. this delay may have caused.

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