hi, everyone. so good to be with you. i'm zinhle essamuah. >> and i'm kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today thursday, january 18th, 2024. breaking news, cascading

failures, that's how the justice department is describing the police response to the uvalde school shooting. the biggest takeaway from the scathing 500-page plus report. quality control. federal investigators wrap up their first round of inspections into boeing's grounded max 9 fleet, what they're saying and why they say more inspections are coming. on the move, a new cross-country storm is taking shape, unleashing heavy snow, freezing rain, and what you need to know. it's not just humans dealing with this ruff weather, get it, a veterinarian will join us to tell us how to keep them safe. >> excited to get to that one. it's so confusing how you should take care of your pets. >> i know. i have a pet at home and we've been talking about it. it's cold in new york. we'll start with breaking news. >> the justice department released a scathing review of the uvalde, texas, school shooting. 600 pages of it lays out a

series of, quote, critical failures, which left students and teachers at robb elementary experiencing, quote, unimaginable horror. it took 77 minutes from when the first officer arrived until the gunman was shot and killed, you may recall. surveillance video showing officers waiting in the hallways instead of going into the room where the shooter was barricaded. >> 19 children and 2 teachers were killed, one of the deadliest in united states history. the mother of one of the victims breaking down while talking about the report earlier today. >> i hope that the failures end today, and that local official do what wasn't done that day. >> joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian as well as analyst cedric alexander. ken, there's a lot to go through in this report. can you give us some of the key

take system aways? >> reporter: good afternoon, kate. this report provided a lot more detail about the failures we knew about which was that 77-minute gap and provided really disturbing new information about failures just now coming to light. obviously the most profound misjudgment was the lack of willingness of the police to go in and confront and engage with the shooter right away. in not doing that they ignored decades of active shooter protocol and decided this active shooter in the classroom with the children was a barricaded subject. they had so much evidence to the contrary. 911 calls from children in the room, 45 gunshots while the police were in the school. one of their own officers who had a call from his wife, a teacher, wounded in a room. they knew and yet they failed to act. we knew that but this report adds more detail.

the failures, one of the teachers who was left to die on a walkway and failures to notify parents. take a listen to vanita gupta. i spoke with her today. >> for 77 minutes parents aren't getting accurate information about is the shooter alive, is he dead? is he continuing to shoot? and after you have parents who are getting inaccurate information about perhaps one more bus of survivors that will bring my child off the bus. it's utterly unconscionable. >> reporter: the report says some parents whose children died were told they survived and vice versa, just unconscionable misinformation to these grieving parents, kate and zinhle. >> the more information we get, it never gets easier. what lessons can police, law enforcement, learn from this?

>> let's be honest, we have been dealing with school shootings, over 24 years ago now. we have a series in this country over the years along with other mass shootings. police know exactly what to do. many of them had just received this training in these type of critical incidents. yes, this was an abject failure of leadership, abject fail europe of outrageousness and should not have happened. it is disgusting. >> we continue to keep those families in our prayers, cedric alexander and ken dilanian, thank you both. more on the health concern some members of the british royal family are facing. king charles is preparing to have a corrective surgery next

week. >> prince william seen visiting her where she is expected to stay through at least next week. >> nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins us now. kensington palace is not saying a lot about kate's health, but we know she's expected to be out of the public eye for months, and she had things planned, so this seems unique, this seems unusual. >> reporter: no matter how much the palace tries not to reveal any information about the details of kate middleton's health which, of course, are private, they can't get around it, right? the fact is they're still announing the time line, several weeks oumt of royal duties and even after she goes back to work it will be a couple months before she gets back to her real full schedule. no matter how much the palace is trying to say we're not going to be revealing any information, they are. we're seeing that from the king himself. king charles is supposed to get this other treatment for his prostate, and he is being public and one of the reasons he is, he says he wants to try to tell people, other men, to try to get

their health checked. it sounds like from the palace it's like an outpatient procedure, just kind of a checkup. clearly the palace wants to control the message. >> more to come for sure. matt bradley in london, thank you. winter weather still impacting much of the country as large parts of the u.s. getting walloped by snow and ice. buffalo, an area known for snowfall, is overwhelmed. more than 3 feet has fallen over the last five days. >> residents have been stung at home with roads and sidewalks completely slicked over. it will get worse before it gets better with temperatures in some parts dipping 20 to 30 degrees below normal. we'll get to the latest forecast from nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman in just a moment. to adrienne broaddus in chicago.

it's been a long week in chicago. the city has been frozen for days. >> reporter: it's about 26 degrees right now and this winter weather has had a tremendous impact not only here in chicago but across the country. nbc news has confirmed at least 44 weather related deaths, seven more suspected. the majority of the deaths from what i can see now is out in oregon. and that's where we've seen people who have lost their lives as a result of falling trees. there have been at least six deaths in cook county, the chicago area, linked to the cold weather. spoke with one tow truck driver who told me since friday his team has been working 24 hours

straight. they're having trouble keeping up with demand. they're wearing special gear to survive the cold. zinhle, kate? >> really intense conditions out there for sure. >> let's bring in meteorologist michelle grossman. i texted my sister, and i got some video and photos. this is today. that's their sidewalk. it's just a sheet of ice. that's portland, oregon. her husband took these for us. and they sent some photos with cars, just sheets and sheets of ice over them. they've been iced in for days out there. school keeps getting canceled. will it get any better? >> i feel for them. we have so many power outages, and we have temperatures in the 30s. it's so cold there. unfortunately, they have today, friday, until the early parts of saturday morning they could get more freezing rain. we could see a quarter inch to half an inch. we could see more power outages. saturday afternoon into sunday, temperatures in the 40s that could melt some of the ice. send our love to them.

that's a terrible situation. we're seeing rain falling on the coast of the pacific northwest into portions of northern california. we're looking at localized heavy rain. we're looking at feet of snow in the cascades in the highest mountains. in the middle of the country snow falling as well. it's chilly. another arctic blast there and then we'll see snow into the northeast as we see a system out of the southeast pushing into the northeast. we're looking at 79 million americans, so many of us, under winter weather alerts from the west down to the southeast. back to you. >> adrienne broaddus, michelle grossman, thank you both. time for the money minute. the parent company of facebook loses a member of the board. >> pippa stevens joins us. >> reporter: 3m has started to send out $250 million in payments to service members and veterans as part of a $6 billion settlement resolving lawsuits over faulty comeback ear plugs

that resulted in injuries such as hearing loss. more than 30,000 have agreed to the lawsuit but it's unclear what has been received. form yeah meta operating chief sheryl sandberg will leave the board of directors in may. joined facebook in 2008 as mark zuckerberg's top deputy after spending seven years at google . since leaving her role as coo sandberg has focused on her nonprofit leanin.org. gen-zers believe they are having a harder time building wealth than their parents did at the same age according to a new report at bank rate. most have a second job, more than any other generation. kate and zinhle, back to you. >> gen-z has faced their fair share, growing up through covid, of all things. >> my kids talk about that all the time, the results you just mentioned, pippa.

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more attacks. iranian backed a militant group. that was listed as a terrorist organization. washington carried out another round of strikes on more than a dozen strikes on yemen over a 12-power span. kelly o'donnell is following the latest for us. we're learning new information about u.s. counterattacks on houthi anti-ship missiles. where do things stand right now? >> reporter: the pace has been picking up. we learned from john kirby on air force one that a fifth one of these military operations has been carried out to try to degrade the capabilities of the houthis based in yemen, and they are iranian influenced and affiliated to try to stop them from their attacks on shipping and israeli properties, shipping and in other goods. what the u.s. is trying to do in coordination with partners like the united kingdom and others, they want to send a clear

message to iran but also to the specific military group based in yemen that is not acceptable. and so the president was asked about it. the attacks will continue to try to stop the houthi action. >> the biden administration is meeting with families of americans believed to still be held hostage by hamas. there are over 100 hostages right now and it comes as nbc news has new reporting about a potential hostage release deal. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: the president is in north carolina today. his national security adviser meeting with some of these family members. they've done so before, and obviously over the few months of this war with israel and hamas, there's been a lot of focus on how to get help and nip attempt to try to bring home those hostages, both israelis, some u.s. citizens and others. and this deal you referenced is an ongoing set of discussions to see if there could be additional pauses in fighting to allow for

some release and in a broader sense discussions about what a next phase could look like. and at some point when the hostilities are at a lower level of ins tensity what would governance look like for gaza after these months of war. so developments but no breakthroughs yet. zinhle? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so much. airplane manufacturer boeing is facing growing scrutiny both federal and alaska airlines inspectors are reviewing the company as well as its subcontractors over quality control processes, all of it coming nearly two weeks after the midair emergency that core a door plug off one of the planes. nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: the faa says it has no time line for when it might allow the max 9 to fly again all pending its ongoing investigations. what's new is now the faa says the first 40 inspections of the grounded planes have been completed. the faa is reviewing that data of those inspections before it

then decides how to allow the next group to be inspected and when that might happen. so this is very much a work in progress, and there is no time line here. importantly, only after reviewing that data will the faa move forward with the decision on how it will investigate the rest of the grounded max 9s. you're going to recall it was the door plug on that alaska airlines flight, that door plug that covers up unused emergency exit that blew out in flight over portland almost two weeks ago right now. the ntsb lab in washington is now investigating how that door plug exploded out of the plane and whether it was properly attached. all 171 alaska and united and max 9s remain grounded and had to cancel about 150 a day. alaska flights, about 200 united flights a day canceled because they don't have this critical plane in their arsenal, if you will.

undercoring the loss of trust in boeing, alaska has decided to put its own inspectors in boeing plants to double-check boeing's work, to double-check boeing's work. here is the alaska ceo speaking to passengers in a twitter release. >> we will have our own quality oversight of alaska aircraft on the boeing production line adding more experienced professionals to the teams that validate work and quality on the production line for the 737. >> reporter: now you'll recall it's not just boeing. spirit aerosystems is also in the spotlight. spirit makes the fuselage for the boeing max 9 that ships it on to boeing. spirit has had quality control issues for years. the ntsb says that that door plug was actually made by a spirit operation in malaysia. spirit says it remains focused on quality control, but yesterday boeing's ceo visited a spirit plant in wichita and said

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>> reporter: i've been told that the last time they saw this type of activism was in 1989. this morning, groups led specifically by jewish community groups, are here to say that they are in solidarity with other pro-palestinian protestors here in the city and other americans across the country who support calls for a cease-fire. let's take a moment -- a look back at the moment when the banner was dropped from san francisco's iconic tower, addressed to three politics, nancy pelosi, alex padilla and nanafda butler. they are also calling out mayor breed, who said the seize fire resolution passed in san francisco does not reflect the city's values, angering activists who say leaders are not listening. >> it's particularly for us as jews to say it's not part of our

jewish values to slaughter innocent people in gaza. thousands of children have been killed. this is tearing our hearts up. >> reporter: if you look now at the tower, the banner is no longer being displayed. it was up there for less than an hour and was cleared up. now, we are told that that actual area where the balcony -- where the banner was dropped from the balcony is not open to the public, so special access does need to be granted to be able to be in that area and make that kind of a drop for the banner. that's also one of the reasons why san francisco police cars checked in with the activists to make sure that everything was continuing safe and peaceful. in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, ginger. here's some other stories. crab season starts today. pickle ball players are at odds with san francisco city officials.

and another warriors game postponed after the death of an assistant coach. he passed away yesterday morning at the age of 46. the nba postponed the warriors game against the utah jazz last night. now, the league is also postponing the warriors next game against the dallas mavericks tomorrow night. it was supposed to take place at chase. as the team continues to mourn. the nba is yet to set a date for those games to be played. a battle is brewing between the city of san francisco and pickle ball players. neighbors complain about the noise the players are making. officials are threatening to convert the courts back to tennis courts. they say they're planning to protest tomorrow if the city does replace those pickle ball courts. commercial crab season is underway. state and wildlife officials gave the green light for fishermen to harvest.

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canceled. many of the would-be passiers say they sold their homes, possessions, and even delayed medical treatment to afford the trip only to be left without a refund. the company has previously said all customers will get refunded by february 15th. a rhode island woman is now suing panera bread alleging the highly caffeinated charged lemonade caused her to have, quote, permanent cardiac injuries. it's the latest in a story we've covered here. this is at least the third lawsuit over charged lemonade since october. according to the new lawsuit, the 28-year-old had been an athlete with no underlying health conditions. the complain filed tuesday said she requires daily medication, has heart problems that reduce her ability to work, exercise and socialize. panera did not immediately comment on this lawsuit. the company previously released a statement standing by the safety of its products. and we're hearing for the first time from the man in this dash cam video seen falling out of a movie rv on a california freeway. you can see it to the left of this video, the rv sliding along

the center divider of the freeway that sent patrick flying out of the window and sliding 170 feet down the road. patrick told our l.a. station they were just ten minutes from home when he stood up to use the restroom, and at that moment my wife dozed off. after the incident, i thanked god because i should not be alive. >> it's incredible video. >> truly. writer e. jean carroll was back on the witness stand as part of her defamation case against former president donald trump. >> this is the second case brought by carroll after a jury last year found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. mr. trump was not in court unlike the dramatic day in court when the former president sparred with the judge in a heated exchange. nbc news correspondent rehema ellis has been following the story for us. rehema, what did we hear today? >> e. jean carroll is trying to talk about what damage this has done to her, that she lost money, that her reputation was damaged, that her sense of freedom and safety was

disrupted, and at one point on cross-examination by donald trump's attorney she was asked, your reputation, however, is much better now as a result of the remarks by the president. she said, absolutely, no, my status is lower. donald trump's attorneys were basically attempt to go discredit her in the eyes of the jury, even at one point saying haven't you at some point posted sexually explicit statements, et cetera, online? and she said, that didn't do anything for me. and the judge objected to that as well. this case is not about e. jean carroll's character. it's about the damages that donald trump is being asked to pay as a result of disparaging her character. >> yesterday, rehema, the judge threatened to throw the former president out of the courtroom. he's not there today, but how was the atmosphere in court today? >> it was contentious a bit. at one point the judge even said

to alina habba, this is evidence 101 the way you're trying to present this. he was not polite to her. he hasn't been at all in the last couple days at all in the way she presents her case for donald trump. basically telling her that she is not up to par, if you will, of a standard of attorneys he's accustomed to dealing with in court such is the comment of this is evidence 101, you don't have to present it like this. >> and donald trump expected, you said, monday? >> he has said that he would, and the judge has begin him an opportunity to come back on monday. he says if he does testify, he will talk about he doesn't know who this woman is. >> rehema ellis, thank you. it's launch day, take two. 2024's first mission to space is set to take off today after yesterday's last-minute scrub. the all-european crew is headed to the international space station.

astronauts from italy and sweden are onboard the spacex falcon 9 for the history making mission. we are joined from the kennedy space center in florida ahead of the launch. kind of a cool assignment. can't lie about that. the third private astronaut launch for axiom space. tell us what you know? >> reporter: everyone is waiting to see if the second time is the charm. they delayed it by a day so engineers could take a closer look at energy modulators, fancy talk for the parachute straps. and statistically they say one in every three launches does get scrubbed usually due to weather. 80% weather favorability right now. they're keeping a close eye on cloud cover right now. if this launch does, in fact, happen, a lot of firsts will happen. a lot of experiments, and that's something that happens with every launch. this is science driven. we'll see all times of things including looking at the effects

of micro gravity on tumors, how we can detect cancer, the diseases in space and big picture, kate and zinhle, axiom is looking to build a space station and looking to see the effects of how humans can really spend a prolonged period of time in space here. >> this is also the first time turkey is sending an astronaut to space. what did they have to say about the opportunity? >> reporter: you can imagine just how honored and excited the astronaut is. there are a lot of firsts, as i mentioned, with the lawn that much is supposed to happen this evening. it's not just the first crewed mission of the year. this is turkey's first time sending an astronaut. he never even dreamed of going to space because there were so few opportunities for people living in turkey. i want to given you a chance to listen for yourself what he had to say earlier. >> i'm really proud and honored here representing not only myself but my beautiful country in the name of future

generations. as a person who has served in aviation, both the military and civilian in turkey this is crowning my own experience. >> reporter: so they are set to lift off in just over an hour. kate and zinhle, we'll be live on news now with that one hour and 12 minutes we're looking for potential liftoff here. all systems go for right now. >> thank you. when younk of dangerous jobs, librarian probably doesn't come to mind. but in portland, oregon, library workers are forced to focus on safety. an audit of local libraries found growing concerns about staffing and security and in some instances employees are the first to respond to emergencies. nbc news correspondent valerie castro joins me now. hi, valerie. the librarians are essentially playing double duty while on the job helping readers

check out new books but can find themselves in dangerous situations with little support. the aisles of the northwest library in portland, oregon, are quiet. in the lobby, a man fixes a cup of ramen soup, sheltering from the harsh winter temperatures outside. but not every day is this peaceful. an audit revealing library workers don't feel safe dealing with violence involving weapons, public nudity, sexual harassment, drug use and overdoses. >> i wasn't surprised. it is something that the library has been facing for several years now, especially after the pandemic. >> reporter: a library assistant and union steward says in the last two years some of his colleagues have been attacked and left traumatized. >> someone is stalking a female co-worker and waited for her outside. >> reporter: only one in four workers who interact with the public reported feeling safe at

work. one location reporting more than 1,000 incidents in 2022 alone. according to the audit there was a situation where someone managed to go unnoticed by security at closing time, and that person actually spent the night inside the library with several large knives. librarians in oakland, california, revealing similar concerns after a 2022 audit there. workers feeling, quote, more unsafe than ever. back in portland the union representing employees led by president jackie tate is calling for action. >> when you have a continuation of people not feeling that they're being communicated with, feeling they're being included in decision making, i think that's what really leads to that lack of trust and that lack of feeling safe. >> reporter: tate says they want a system that reports incidents across branches and a way for workers to take time off after dealing with a traumatic situation. >> when those things happen, they want to be supported.

>> reporter: the audit recommending addressing staffing numbers, equity concerns. nbc news was told in a statement they plan to implement the recommendations while working to effectively address challenging conditions. >> i could see a lot of mental health issues, a lot of homeless issues, people expecting to stay at the library longer than hours of operation. i can see drug use. >> reporter: the overdose deaths are expected to reach an all-time high for 2023 while the governor issued a homelessness emergency. librarians hoping the county can turn a page on safety while preventing new issues from stacking up in the future. >> the library is the living room of our communities. one of the last places people can go that are free and that are welcoming to them. >> rather than adding more security guards, that might make it feel like a less welcoming place, the union president said there's af agreement to provide more in-depth security training

for library workers that they can opt into if they wish. >> valerie castro for us. thank you so much. if you're on social media, then you probably know your feed is controlled by an algorithm. who controls that and how do we keep dangerous and unwanted content away? here is technology correspondent jacob ward. >> reporter: from puppies to new dances to memes, americans average more than two hours a day scrolling concontent, based specific interests and past online activity. but a growing chorus warns it can lead to us disturbing places and making bad choices. >> these algorithms are the digital equivalent of ar-15s. >> reporter: some are demanding regulations. >> they ought to be banned. it's an abuse of the public forum. >> reporter: this tiktok user highlight that go criticism.

>> i don't care about this kind of content. if you care so little, why were you poking around in the comment section then? >> reporter: how effective are these? think about it this way. a grocery store like this one only knows what you are interested in once you've bought something. but a social media company knows every time you pause, even for a moment, to look at anything, and constantly reorganizes the store to be more attractive to you. and that's why algorithms earn billions each year but can lead us astray. in just three clicks i can go from date night ideas to mind-control seduction. china has censored it for years and the eu passed laws guaranteeing the right to opt out. no new laws have emerged here. why is the u.s. so far behind? >> it just becomes a definition issue, what people say, oh, we disagree on the specifics of

regulation, we don't want it to be overbroad. but in reality people are afraid of crossing business groups, technology, lobbyists. >> reporter: that leaves us to figure it out ourselves. can you limit your exposure by turning off the algorithm in facebook and instagram. on youtube, turn off auto play and sign out which limits its ability to track you. and tiktok, you can reset the algorithm if you don't like what it feeds you. >> it's important to recognize, yes, we have some agency, but also the systems are constantly making decisions. >> reporter: until some national standards emerge it is you against the

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>> the first sigh of relief came when i pulled her out of the water and i heard those audible noises. at that point i wasn't sure if she was still breathing or not. she's making noises. >> reporter: trooper archer calling for her colleague to help. >> here, baby girl. get out of your clothes. >> reporter: the trooper making sure the 8-year-old was okay and taking her to an ambulance on site. >> we cover a widespread area, and for whatever the reason, the both of us were three minutes away from this pond where this little girl needed help. >> reporter: the child, taken to a hospital in burlington with injuries that at first were thought to be life threatening, but, amazingly, she made a full recovery and is now back home. >> how is the other one? >> she's cold. >> reporter: the vermont state police department recommending the two troopers and the 830-year-old property owner for the agency's lifesaving award. >> we come across calls that stick with us for a while if not

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