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this is "today." superstar lost. ♪♪ >> toby keith who dominated the country charts for decades dies after a lengthy battle with cancer. the message just shared by his family overnight as the tributes to his life and career pour in. the king's health scare. the royal family rallying around charles this morning. after the palace reveals his cancer diagnosis. what we're learning about his treatment, the up packet on his royal duties and prince harry's return home to be by his father's side. we're live in london. border battle. senate republicans blocking the bill they negotiated to crack down on illegal crossings. the speaker of the house already saying it has zero chance of passing. >> the product itself is not -- not worth the house's consideration here. >> so what happens next with the first vote rapidly approaching? a live report from capitol hill

just ahead. state of emergency. even more rain falling across the west this morning. the historic storm continuing to hammer the region. l.a. getting a month's worth of rain in just hours, triggers widespread flooding, landslides and dramatic rescues. >> the mud came down and broke through the back window. >> we'll have the very latest. and al is tracking where it's all headed next. those stories, plus, safety first. the head of the faa heading to capitol hill today. the tough questions his agency and boeing are still facing one month after that mid-air emergency on alaska airlines. and are you ready for it? >> 49ers! [ cheers and applause ]. >> the kansas city chiefs! >> super bowl week kicks off

with the wildest opening night ever. star travis kelce hoping taylor swift's grammy magic rubs off on the chiefs. >> i thought i will have to hold up my end of the bargain and come home with some hardware, too. >> inside a fever pitch in vegas with just days to go, today, tuesday, february 6th, 2024. ♪♪ >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie and hoda kotb. from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. well, good morning. good to see you. welcome to "today." so glad you're joining us on a tuesday morning. such sad news about toby keith. we'll talk about that in a moment. we're covering several breaking stories this morning including the cancer diagnosis of king charles. that is making news around the world. especially, of course, in the uk. coming up, we'll have the latest on what it means for the royal

family and the monarchy. >> we start with that sad news overnight, the death of toby keith. the 62-year-old country star passing away 18 months after he revealed his battle with stomach cancer. nbc's anne thompson is here with more in studio. good morning. >> good morning, hoda. the stunning news announced on toby keith's website this morning, saying he passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family. this is a major loss for the country music world with thousands of songs and dozens of chart-topping hits. the bold and brash singer left an irreplaceable mark on music and culture. >> this morning the country music world mourning one of it's brightest stars. ♪ i ain't as good as i once was ♪ toby keith passing away at the age of 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. a statement posted on his instagram page saying the singer fought his fight with grace and courage. ♪ i should have been a cowboy ♪

>> keith from oklahoma first topped the charts in the 1990 with kits like "should have been a cowboy" and "how do you like me now ♪ later, he got the world's attention with his smash, "courtesy of the red, white and blue." ♪ brought to you courtesy of th red, white and blue ♪ >> reporter: keith telling "today" in 2019 about the impact of performing his patriotic songs on uso tours >> every one of them is important and made so many friends. >> reporter: and he continued with hit after hit, getting a hc new audience with a red solo cup in 2011. ♪ red solo cup, i fill you up ♪ ♪ let's have a party ♪ >> reporter: and performing at former president trump's inauguration

an unstoppable force in country he stopped by "today" -- >> made in america ♪ >> reporter: speaking act the legacy he wants in 2010. >> the longevity is all i have i really admire willie and those guys been around for four, five decades. >> reporter: in the summer of 2022, keith shocked many faps by revealing his stomach cancer diagnosis. writing, i spent the last six months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. so far, so good. speaking out about his battle as recently as this year. >> this is a roller coaster. and it takes a little while to get your brain wrapped around it you can't let it define your future. >> reporter: but he continued to perform, including at the "people's choice" awards where he was honored. ♪ don't let the old man in ♪ >> reporter: and accepted the country icon award to a standing ovation. now, just last month, toby keith celebrated the 10th anniversary

of his cancer foundation, which opens its doors to sick children and their families, providing them with a cost-free home during treatment he is survived by his wife of almost 40 years, trisha, as well as their three kids and grandchildren. and of all the many things he did, it is song writing that i think meant the most to him. >> he's in the song writer's hall of fame >> in fact, he is. >> three sold out shows in vegas in december. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. >> beautiful all right, ann, thank you so much we appreciate it. >> thanks, anne. we move now to the major news out of buckingham palace. king charles has been diagnosed with cancer. the palace not revealing what kind of cancer, but we have learned he has started to receive treatment. nbc's molly hunter joins us with the latest now molly, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. that's right he started treatment yesterday and the royal family today is rallying around king charles we know prince harry is flying to the uk to be with his father. the palace says king charles is

wholly positive about his treatment. >> reporter: the news shocking the country -- >> king charles has begun receiving treatment for cancer. >> reporter: and the world - >> king charles has been diagnosed with cancer. >> reporter: buckingham palace announcing king charles iii has been diagnosed with a form of cancer this morning on this side of the pond dominating every newspaper front page the announcement comes just a week after the 75-year-old monarch was released from a london hospital following a routine prostate procedure he appeared then in good spirits with his wife queen camilla by his side the palace not saying what kind of cancer it is, only revealing that during the king's recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement, a separate issue of concern was noted subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. adding that charles began outpatient treatment on monday and this morning, britain's prime minister weighing in >> thankfully, this has been caught early, and now everyone

will be wishing him that he gets well and gets the treatment he needs. >> reporter: the palace confirms the king shared his diagnosis personally with sons harry and william and a source close to harry and meghan tells nbc news harry is traveling to the uk to visit his father and as the king will be stepping back, at least for now, and with kate, the princess of wales, still recovering from her own health scare last month, this leaves the burden of royal engagements largely on the shoulders of prince william. well wishes for charles also coming from across the atlantic. >> concerned about him just heard his diagnosis dia ♪ happy birthday ♪ >> reporter: turning 75 last november, charles waited a record-setting seven decades to finally wear the crown the oldest monarch to take the throne in modern history he's been king for almost 17 months >> having to take a step back, recuperate, undergo cancer treatment, that will have an impact on the sort of job the king can do.

>> reporter: now the palace says the king will continue to undertake state business and official paperwork is what they're calling it that means private meetings when he's feeling well enough queen camilla will continue with a full schedule of royal duties, but really we'll see so much more of prince william as he returns to public royal duties for the first time since his wife was in the hospital savannah, hoda >> molly, thank you very much. >> katie nickel is with us from buckingham palace and nbc news medical contributor dr. tara that ril low in studio 1a. what are they saying as far as catching the cancer early? >> reporter: i think it sounds like really good news because this is what they call an incidental finding they weren't looking for cancer, but obviously while they were doing this procedure on the enlarged prostate they found something. we don't know what that is i think even the fact that he started treatment already indicates they're on top of this they know what they're doing i mean, he's here in london with

some of the best clinics in the world. and sources close to the king are saying, while all this come as a huge shock and it genuinely has. he was at home recuperating, apparently quite impatiently because he wanted to get back to work suddenly the news is the benign prostate has been sorted but we found something else that turned everything upside down for the king. but he is feeling very positive, as is the queen and the rest of the royal family but obviously it's a very, very worrying time. of course, he is 75. and you know, he is an ageing monarch and also a king who is in a hurry he wants to get things done quickly. therefore this will put something, not of a stop, but it will delay things. and it certainly a setback. >> any normal family, you call your kids around, you call your family, you say, listen, this has happened here we have seen harry actually reportedly making plans to come right away to be at his father's side how is that being received obviously there's been some difficulty in that relationship. are people interpreting that as, wow, this must be really serious?

how is this going over >> reporter: there are people thinking, gosh, does this mean it's terribly serious? i'm not sure that's necessarily what it indicates. i think it is. but it is high time the duke of sussex come over here. he was over here for the coronation that was fleeting. he didn't get any time with his father then. he wasn't here for the 75th birthday i think families do come together in a crisis, even when there is a deep family rift as there has been at the heart of the house of windsor and you know what i suspect the meeting with charles will be warm, one of relief and one that charles will be thankful for any meeting with william will be far, far harder. >> katie, thanks doctor, so this cancer diagnosis came they said they found it while they were looking at something else what do you make of the findings here >> yeah. this can definitely happen incidental finding you can imagine any time you go in for any sort of surgical procedure you have pre-op testing, labs, chest x-ray, you

have imaging now we have cat scans and mris that are so good that many times we pick up incidental things then in certain procedures you're using scopes. so obviously we don't know what type of cancer then i would say one final thing, when you do a procedure, many times you send off that pathology, those tissues for analysis that might come back revealing a cancer from somewhere else, obviously not the prostate very difficult to know right now what exactly it is but again as they said, when you find things early, that's the best thing when it comes to cancer because we have treatments available we know the earlier you get to it, the more likely you are to be able to treat it well. >> the palace isn't saying a ton about it, but it does seem like he's going to get treatment, not surgery right away do you glean anything from that? >> doesn't really tell us much, savannah we have so many treatment options now, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiation, the type of cancer, the stage of cancer the person themselves what are they able to tolerate and what are your goals of treatment. again, hard for us to know

we don't want to speculate as he said, as they said at buckingham palace, not a time for speculation. >> doctor, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. also this morning, republican opposition is mounting against that bipartisan border security bill that also includes new aid for ukraine and for israel republican senators huddle behind closed doors last night and left that meeting signaling the deal's likely defeat nbc's capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has the details. ryan, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. and the border crisis is extending to cities across the country. but here in washington, a solution remains elusive and much like the last four decades, republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the growing immigration problem. the vibes in washington are not good republicans and democrats both raising serious concerns about the $118 billion national security package to the point where the bill's future is in serious doubt. >> this bill does not meet the criteria. that's why it's dead on areil.

>> reporter: for republicans like house whip tom emmer, the bill does not do enough to address the border crisis. >> you have given us a product that, quite frankly, is offensive to the american people and unacceptable. >> reporter: but the democrat who led the negotiations senator chris murphy says the concerns are not related to the policy but instead the politics of an election year. >> what they seem to want is just chaos they want to keep the border unsolved as a problem so that it benefits them in the upcoming election. >> reporter: trump slamming the bill again overnight. >> this is a democrat trap it would be so stupid, so foolish to sign a bill like this. >> reporter: if the bill stalls, it will mean there will be no path toward changing the situation at the border. frustrating for sheriff javier sal zer on the front lines in bear county, texas he's begging for something to get done

>> to us, it's not a red or blue issue. >> to us, the growing problem took a lead in negotiating a fix. he's warning his colleagues about the consequences of doing nothing. >> it's a national security crisis, and we should treat it that way. >> reporter: the house is calling the house dead on arrival, they are pushing forward with the effort to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas the rules committee sending the articles of impeachment to the floor for a full vote today. now, the vote to impeach mayorkas is no guarantee republicans can only afford to lose two votes after ken buck of colorado said that he plans to vote no. mayorkas has called the impeachment push a political stunt. savannah >> okay, ryan nobles on the hill thank you, ryan. 7:16 krig is here big storm out west >> the flood danger only intensifying in california this morning. as that record-breaking system continues to soak the region los angeles, getting a month's

worth of rain in a single day, causing damage, knocking out power, triggering dangerous mud slides and the rain is not letting up yet, folks we'll get to al's forecast in just a moment, but first nbc's liz kreutz joins us with the very latest. liz, good morning. >> reporter: hey, craig, good morning. yeah, it's still raining down on us here in l.a you can see the damage of this monster storm where we are in a neighborhood near beverly hills right up here, a home was pushed off its foundation from a powerful mud slide. that home came crashing down 50 to 60 feet on to the road. the contents of this home strewn around us we can see pieces of a chimney over here, this carport destroyed. neighbors say it was terrifying. they woke up overnight to a big ♪oom, and they say it is ♪ ♪ this is an nbc news "special report." here's craig melvin. and a good morning to you.

we're coming on the air with breaking news about former president donald trump. just moments ago a federal appeals court in washington, d.c. rejected mr. trump's legal claim that the former president is immune from criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. this all ahead of his criminal trials that are slated to start a little bit later this year, as early as march perhaps. let's go straight to our senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett. let's just start with what this ruling means and what it does not mean. i would assume that the president would likely appeal immediately to the supreme court. >> he may go to the supreme court, craig, but just to walk through what has happened here, the former president tried to file this motion to try to get the case completely wiped away from the books, right. if he is immune from prosecution he cannot be tried at all. again, it is not the case in washington, d.c. where he has been accused of trying to overturn the last election. now, he lost in the lower court on that issue. he appealed up to the

three-judge panel, two biden appointees, one bush appointee, has rejected that completely. now that he has lost at this level, he can try to go to the full panel of dc circuit judges there. there are about 11 or 13 active judges. or, if he wants, he can go to the supreme court. now, why might he want to go to the full dc circuit? because the whole point of this is to delay, delay, delay. >> got it. >> so if he does that, it slows this train down, craig. >> nbc's garrett haake has been covering the former president. garrett joins us how there from washington. garrett, have we heard anything so far from the former president or his team? >> reporter: we have not yet, craig, but i think we know what we will hear from the former president. i suspect he will announce an appeal either to the district court -- to the appeals court en banc as laura was suggesting or to the supreme court. he has been singularly posting on this case. posting on social media overnight what he believes continuing this concept of presidential immunity past the

presidency, suggesting any future president would be immediately be indicted after leaving office by the opposing party. he argues in public, to a lesser degree than in filings before the courts, that a sitting president would be unable to properly function if this ruling had gone against him. again, it was a post from last night. i suspect we will soon hear more from him today. craig, remember, donald trump has made all of these legal battles he is engaged with, but especially this case, central to his campaign. he argues this is all political speech that he was involved in and he is being targeted by the courts and by the biden justice department because he cannot be beaten by president biden electorally. now he has this court defeat on his plate. i suspect we will soon see this continue to be a centerpiece of his political arguments. it has worked for him with his base, winning the first early primaries in the republican presidential nominating contest. many republican voters i have talked to say they agree with donald trump in theory about these cases, but there's peril for him politically down the

line if these cases do move forward into the summer and early fall election season, craig >> laura, you have been following this case closer than most. you have been pouring over some of the documents. >> one thing that's important for the timing here, because, remember, that's what the former president's goal here, is to slow it down. the dc circuit, this federal appeals court, has said he has a certain prescribed period in which he can try to appeal to the supreme court as we were talking about, and he can try to go to the dc circuit but they've given him a very narrow window. he can't sort of sit on this as long as he wants. he has roughly a week, through about february 12th. >> okay. >> if he wants to go to the supreme court. if he goes to the supreme court, everything on here that's happening right now will stay on pause. he can do that while it works its way through the court system. if he doesn't go to the supreme court by february 12th, then it is back in action. what does that mean? then the trial date is back on because right now, remember, with this case working its way through the courts for months now and so the trial date as essentially been frozen in time. now that they've said he is not immune, theoretically he could be tried. but what they're saying is he

will have some time to go to the supreme court. again, roughly until about february 12th. >> are we at all surprised about the decision from the three-judge panel? >> i think it is significant, although not wholly surprising. what is most surprising is how long it took based on oral argument. they seemed very skeptical of his claims. they seemed very troubled by some of the scenarios his lawyers laid out about why he might be immune, essentially suggesting he could try to have his political rival assassinated and he still would be immune if he hadn't been impeached and convicted as the former president was not convicted by the senate. those were arguments this panel was troubled by. we will pour through and see their reasoning as we go through the pages here. there are a host of arguments he could make in front of the supreme court and the supreme court may rule differently. >> we are talking about one of the four cases involving the former president right now? >> yes, and this will not have any effect on those cases. this is narrowly having to do with the case in washington, d.c.

we have the one in new york, the one in florida, many cases around the country involving him. this is very limited to the one in dc about overturning the last election. >> i will let you continue sifting through the documents as we turn once again to garrett haake in washington. let me bring you back into the conversation and spend more time talking about a point you just made. we saw what the former president did in iowa, we saw what he did in new hampshire. he is leading by double digits in all major polls so far in south carolina. he is the front-runner. this does not seem to be having any sort of measurable effect on republican primary voters so far, does it? >> reporter: no, it hasn't so far, craig. it is not to say it remains the case in the future entirely here. i mean when you look across the first two primaries and the ones coming up including the caucus on nevada on thursday night, which will be the next state to award any delegates, republican primary voters have indicated that they essentially believe what donald trump has told them, the idea that he is being unfairly targeted, in this case for political speech, but across all of these cases because he is

the strongest challenger to joe biden. but when you look at polling data including our new nbc news poll that came out over the weekend you see the potential peril for donald trump in a general election down the line. the numbers in that poll, which show him leading joe biden narrowly right now nationally, turn against him if he is convicted of a crime. and so the timing here becomes very important. does this case actually go to trial before a republican convention? does it go to trial before voters start casting their ballots in a general election in the early fall? remember, election day is now election month in many cases. when and if these things are adjudicated and how they go could still be a determining factor. i have been covering donald trump for more than a year now, covering his campaign since its inception, and the one thing that has been clear to me across all of this is that the things that are driving voter beliefs about donald trump and about his relative strength against joe biden and the republican field have had far more to do with what has happened in courtrooms than what has happened in traditional campaign trail

stops. it is worth pointing out, craig, donald trump's attorneys will be back in court in washington, d.c. in front of the supreme court on thursday when they will be arguing whether he should be able to stay on the ballot in colorado. remember, he was -- a judge there, the colorado supreme court rather, had determined he is ineligible to be on the ballot in colorado under the 14th amendment for having been involved in insurrection. the challenges for donald trump and his both ability to remain a candidate and to remain a viable candidate, to remain somebody who is not locked down in a courtroom until election day, ro manifest across many different cases in many different jurisdictions. this week the one-two punch of this appeals court hearing today, that court hearing on thursday, the day of the next contest in this race, i think really display that quite clearly. >> garrett, again, we just got this word about 20 minutes ago. i haven't heard anything from mr. trump's campaign. anything from the white house so far and do we expect at some point today perhaps to hear anything from the white house?

>> reporter: that's a good question, craig. i mean the white house has in general tried to keep some distance between themselves and donald trump and all of these legal challenges. they don't want to feed into the perception that somehow the white house is connected to this or behind this the way that donald trump talks about it. but that said, the white house did make pretty clear, and joe biden i think has made clear that they didn't believe in this concept of presidential immunity. as laura pointed out, his lawyers were forced to answer questions in the extreme if this idea of presidential immunity was real. could a president order an assassination of a political rival? when trump's lawyers were public defender that far it made it easier for this white house to say, yeah, we definitely don't agree with their interpretation of that. from a governing standpoint i don't think it is particularly valuable for the biden white house to get involved in. from a political standpoint, they want to keep some distance here. i wouldn't expect the same from democratic allies of the current president who will want to

amplify any message about donald trump's legal challenges, the pot of him going on trial, the possibility of him being convicted. they understand the politics quite clearly, but who the messenger is here today and going forward i think will be important. >> garrett, stand by for me. let me bring in senior washington correspondent hallie jackson. hallie is on the phone for us. hallie, what say you in terms of what all of this could mean politically for the president moving forward for this race, or does it mean anything at all? >> well, listen, it depends on which electorate you are talking to, craig. it is a great question. if we look at it through the political lens, because as garrett and others pointed out, it is a legal issue obviously for former president trump. it is also a political one. if you are talking about the primary electorate, that is republican voters, most of home back former president trump, this is likely only to add to the sense -- and being on the road, talking with some of these folks you hear it again and again. they feel that former president trump is being persecuted by the

justice department, persecuted by president biden, persecuted by democrats who are essentially in some of the governmental levers here in washington. politically for the former president as it relates to the primary, which, by the way, we are still in. technically we are still in the primary. nikki haley is trailing behind former president trump but that's the process. he is not the nominee, at least not yet. that's the landscape there. the question is what happens in a general election and i think some of the new poll numbers out today are interesting, that six in ten voters say they're concerned about former president trump's legal issues here, the criminal trials, the civil trials he is facing, and now with the new decision it guarantees this is going to be in the spotlight for a while longer. so that dynamic is one that is going to be critical come november, depending on how much it moves voters. again, i'm talking about the general election, right, the stuff that happens in november once we get through conventions and everything else. that's i think some of the dynamic of the political landscapes from the primary and the general. you have to look at what it

means for the supreme court moving forward as well. obviously the former president's nominees who are now supreme court justices on the court too, craig. >> hallie, stand by. garrett, too. laura, i want to read an excerpt from the ruling. former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant, but any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as president no longer protects him against this prosecution. >> in other words, he's not special. >> right. >> in other words now that he's no longer president he doesn't get to enjoy all of those privileges. but i should just point out even if he has lost this battle, he may have won the war because the war was to try to make sure that this trial date did not happen before the next election, and it is not at all clear that it will for all of the reasons that hallie and garrett pointed out. this was supposed to go to trial next month. >> yeah. >> that is off the table right now. there's not a chance this can go to trial this coming march, and it is not clear it come go to trial in the coming months after that. this is obviously a unanimous

sort of renunciation of all of his claims, but, again, if the whole point was to get rid of that trial date, as of right now he has succeeded in that effort, craig. >> and to remind folks, again, in terms of timetable and next steps, he has a week to appeal this. >> he can take it up to the supreme court if he chooses to do that. it is not at all clear though that the supreme court will necessarily take this up. they could decide not to hear it in which case this all then comes back into play and then we are back down seeing this case go to trial, craig. >> all right. our senior legal correspondent laura jarrett. laura, thank you. garrett haake in dc, a big thanks to you as well. and hallie jackson. that will conclude this nbc news "special report." we will have much more ahead on our streaming network, nbc news now, ♪ hey, bud >> break was over 15 minutes ago, mitch

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that boeing max 9 door plug blowout and word that some max planes had wrongly drilled holes in the fuselage. >> tom costello covers aif yalgs and joins us from reagan national >> reporter: good morning to you. boeing said it is checking and double checking every system to ensure it is at 100% before that plane rolls off the assembly line for its part, the faa said it cannot increase production until it has demonstrated it is having its quality control under control. but the faa is also under scrutiny for apparently failing to catch boeing's problems one month after the door plug blew out of an alaska airlines flight over portland, forcing the grounding of the boeing max 9 fleet and one day after boeing reported its contractor spirit aerosystems had miss drilled holes on window frames on at least 50 maxes, max whittaker is today expected to tell congress

he is doubling down on quality control audits and inspections at boeing and putting more inspectors in boeing facilities. whittaker on cnbc this morning. >> we're looking at the production system from nose to tail, wing tip to wing tip to understand where there might be faults and how do address those. >> reporter: faa says it is taking a data-driven approach. after the max 9 emergency and two max 8 crashes overseas five years ago, one poll shows public trust in boeing has dropped since the mid air emergency. from 32% in december, to 20% in mid january. many members of congress suggest boeing's goodwill on capitol hill is also running low >> boeing has a lot more work it needs to do to maintain confidence of a lot of folks we're not trying to politicize this particular issue here in congress it's an issue about safety >> reporter: the faa now reports nearly 94% of the grounded max

9s all flown by alaska and united airlines have been inspected and returned to service. but quality control through boeing's entire supply chain remains under ntsb and faa investigation and faa scrutiny >> will ensure those airplanes meet all safety standards before we can approve them for delivery. >> reporter: after a recent standdown on the max production line, boeing said it received 1,000 employee suggestions for improvement. the ceo insists that includes spirit aerosystems >> we own our supply chain we own spirit. we own the results of our work we understand that we really do >> reporter: spirit aerosystems is that big provider that made the fuselage, makes the fuselage for the 737. it's the one that identified that it had misdrilled holes around the window on new 737s. it says it's cooperating fully with the faa, with the ntsb but boeing and the faa are now in spirit facilities really inspecting, double checking

spirit's work as well. back to you. >> tom, you mentioned that nearly 94% of those grounded max 9 planes are now returned to service. what does that mean for the schedule and cancellations >> reporter: so, as you know, about two weeks ago if you were trying to fly across country on united or alaska you might have a problem because they didn't have their max 9s in service and that's a plane that flies longer distances across country. i couldn't get across the country very easily. well, now that really has changed. you should have no difficulty flying on united or alaska most of those planes are back in service. if you're uncomfortable with flying on a max 9 -- by the way, i think it's the most scrutinized plane in the entire fleet now, you can certainly check what kind of a plane you're on looking at your reservation and also looking at your ticket. usually that information is available to you >> okay. tom, thank you very much. coming up, we are going to help your heart health some expert advice on the risk factors and screenings to know also the right foods and exercises to give your heart a boost.

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result, but the online learning is still active and this does not impact campuses in concord and oakland. this is a live look at the pg&e online outage pap. you can see thousands of customers are still without power here in the bay area. if the website tells you that your power is going to be back on by 11:00 p.m. tonight, pg&e tells us it's quite possible it could come on sooner than that. let's get a look at that forecast with meteorologist kari hall. >> we're starting out with sunshine, a nice little break in the rain activity. we take a live look outside over san francisco. now, there will be a slight chance of rain, especially for the south bay today, but then we are going to see another wave of showers coming through between late morning, into the afternoon. this out ahead of a cold front that will drop those temperatures even more by the end of the week. we'll feel it in our morning hours, with temperatures in the upper 30s from thursday into the weekend, and our high temperatures will reach up to the low 60s, but still a slight

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camilla, the queen, will still have a full rota of royal duties in coming weeks, but we will start to see a lot more, savannah, of prince william when he returns to royal duties tomorrow savannah >> molly hunter, thank you. now to the state of emergency in california where that slow-moving storm has dumped record amounts of rain. the forces of nature on full display as massive mud slides smashing into homes and smothered cars and roads, falling trees blamed for at least three deaths so far in the northern part of the state and everywhere, first responders are plucking people and pets from flood waters that trapped them in their cars and homes mr. roker joining us now when will this start to taper off? >> we have to get to the next 24 hours before we get to any relief 29 million people under flood alerts we have wind alerts for 8 million. right now los angeles under that area, under a flash flood warning. so the heavy rain still continues.

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it was publicly announced she was suffering from depression, anxiety and an eating disorder in reality, she was also dealing with suicidal ideation, something she talked about during ore conversation in 2019e >> i was definitely at a point where like -- i didn't see myself existing much longer. >> reporter: now gracie is revealing more details about her painful past in her new memoir titled "out of shape, worthless loser. the book describes her dysfunctional relationship with her family, food, and the world of figure skating. during treatment in 2017, she wrote letters as part of her therapy. dear skating, you ripped apart my family and others destroyed my life. and brought me to lows i didn't know were possible she also opens up about her sexual trauma for the first time and says she was raped by a fellow skater when she was 21. though she doesn't name him, she says she eventually reported the

assault to u.s. figure skating and the u.s. safe sport, an organization that investigates abuse in sports. according to gracie, it remains open and there's been no resolution the u.s. senate for safe sport says it has determined to understand the reasons for the unacceptable delay u.s. figure skating did not return our request for comment, but said in a statement to "the wall street journal," we are proud of gracie for what she has overcome years later, the now 28-year-old is still focussed on her mental health back on the ice, coaching young skaters and working on healing her own complicated relationship with the sport dear skating, gracie writes in l letter from last july, i'm so thankful to be back in your arms thank you for being the biggest facet in the rough cut diamond that is me here is this beautiful diamond gracie, good morning it's so good to see you. >> it's so good to see you again. thank you for having me. >> you know a lot of this you've been very courageous and open all through these years about

your struggles internally. and that's been important to you. this book really lays it all out there in a way you never really have before. what does it feel like in this moment it's about to be unleashed to the world? >> i'm 98% really excited. 2% nervous because it really -- you know, this is everything but, yeah, just really, really excited. i can't believe the day is finally here i feel like it hasn't sunk in yet. >> yeah, it's here. >> the title itself will grab a lot of eyebrows. "out of shape, worthless loser," can you explain why you chose that title and what that is to you, what that voice is? >> well, i've always had a dark sense of humor, right, shock value. and when you read the book, right, it is broken into four parts. so part one, grace elizabeth, kind of my inner child, youth. gracie gold, the one on "the today show" interviews, the skating scar star and the third part is out of shape, worthless loser talks about this mental health crisis

and this person that came out when i was struggling. so that's what i named it. it is that voice that makes you feel like an out of shape worthless loser. >> that's the scolding voice, the inner critic. >> yes and part four is me reconciling those three parts and navigating my way through the rest of adulthood. >> who do we call that, the part four is -- >> me. we haven't named her yet >> okay. you're still writing your story. you know, when you went into treatment, you said back in -- i think this was 2017, it was to deal with some of the eating disorder issues and anxiety. you wanted to say back then you also were having suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation. why was it important to say then and why couldn't you say it? >> it was important for me to say that just because that was the truth. like that's why i checked into a rehab facility, was because i had wanted to check out early. and, you know, i think it wasn't palatable is the word that they

used for the world and specifically like the skating community. >> like skating officials who were advising you. >> skating has a lot of kids in it and just the culture of skating. you know, we don't talk about those things outloud but for me, you know, it wasn't gossip or hearsay. it was my story. i was the middle of arizona in the rehab the middle of a season i felt like an honest answer was appropriate. >> that's where you were you felt like you weren't sure you wanted to go on living. >> yeah. again, to be mid-season in the middle, it clearly wasn't going well so for me, i thought, we have to water down, you know, still trying to get that perfect princess vibe, even as i looked around like at the desert, i thought, why are we still doing this. >> why are we still acting the thing about figure skating is you put on a show you write a lot about how that can behind the scenes be very, very painful you really had to overcome a lot

of traumas you talk about your eating disorder and first time in this book you talk about being raped at the age of 21 by a fellow skater in the chapter. it broke my heart. it's called innocence lost what did it mean to you to tell this story for the first time? what are you hoping it will -- are you hoping it will heal you to speak about it? >> in a lot of healed prior to the mémoire, just i needed to for myself. but i had to put it in the mémoire was it was a huge turning point in my life in terms of we turned and went downhill pretty quickly after that and, you know, i set out to write not a fluffy sports mémoire. a real hard-hitting mémoire that was dark at times, funny at others and, you know, it felt inauthentic to leave that chapter of my life out. >> we heard from the center for safe sport, which received a report and has said there was an

unacceptable delay in dealing with this investigation. as far as you know, is this an investigation that's still open and what do you hope happens there? >> to my knowledge, it is still open and everything that i wanted to talk about in terms of details, you know, i put in the book the other stuff, you know, is just for me and also the open investigation. yeah, there was a bit of a delay. but at that time, you know, safe sport was really new and how it worked and what the waiting times were i just didn't know what that process was. i just felt like i had to report it and say something about this person and, you know, i think we're moving towards a better future, especially in light of, you know, cases like lorna sar again, it is an authentic mémoire and so that needed to be in the book because it was a turning point in my life. >> well, i always think about you. you have been so courageous. this is a very courageous book you lay bare so much of what you

went through your family, you talk about some of the issues with your family have your mom and dad read the book are they about to see it and are you nervous about how it will be received i know your twin sister read it twice. like a good sis. are you nervous about how they will react to some of this >> a little bit. i think that's probably a normal reaction i will be interested to see kind of in a typical gold family fashion. we don't -- we haven't talked about it yet, and i think we will wait to see how that's received but it was most important for carly, my twin sister, to like it and she was heavily involved in the editing process in many ways, it's not just my memoir, it's ours. >> it's a family story and family stories are messy and complicated. it is a love/hate relationship with skating it is a love letter to skating and it is and it's both. you say in the book, the truth about how a skater becomes a

world class athlete is not pretty what do you wish people understood >> well, the hardest part of writing this mémoire is still making people want to like skating. i in no way intended to -- i didn't want people to think figure skating is the worst sport ever i devoted my life to it. i came back to it. i still love skating it was how i coped with everything around it and some parts of the culture and some people in the sport that i think needs a change and, you know, be a little bit more progressive. >> you write sport is the opoid of the elite athlete, like the recovering alcoholic that tells a little wine at dinner won't hurt is that a question you are still asking or do you feel like you have that answer now? >> a little bit of both. i still feel it's -- you know, my return to skating after

treatment, i definitely approached it in a much more healthy way, but also in some ways less successful so in some ways i probably don't have the answer to that. but i still love skating and i just want to say that again and again because it's not the sport itself it's just that culture and there are some talks with people in it and how i poorly coped with the stress of the olympics and winning nationals and the day-to-day grind you know, skating is a really physically tough sport and because it is also an aesthetic sport, it can just be really tough. >> you posed some hard questions for elite athletes and athleticism everywhere to contend with but you are doing a little coaching and teaching. how do you like that >> i love coaching i love teaching skating. again, i devoted my life to it and, so, any wisdom i have about it i would love to share i especially love working with adult students

they are my favorite i love adult skaters that's been a real highlight in coaching so far. >> well, you have a lot to give, gracie thank you so much. it is so good to see you appreciate it. the mémoire is out today, now. we want to mention, by the way, a lot of heavy topics discussed here, so if you or somebody you know is struggling, the suicide and crisis lifeline is always available. you can always call if you text 988. gracie, it is great to see you thank you. >> thank you, guys. we'll go over to al. >> thank you for that important conversation right now what we're looking at a storm system moving off the eastern sea board, still stuck with that storm system down in california, causing big problems the eastern half of the country looking great. lots of sunshine temperatures starting to warm up we will see some records as we move into later today on into tomorrow for today, record highs from the plains look at all the sunshine from the great lakes, northeast, new england, mid-atlantic states, gulf coast and more flooding unfortunately through the

southwest and another area of good tuesday morning. we're still seeing clouds over the south bay and we will have a slight chance of showers today. a better chance of rain tomorrow as we get a cold front coming through. temperatures by the end of the week will be in the upper 30s. another chance of rain in the north bay friday. it's clear for the weekend but chilly with sunshine on the way and watching the door, check us out at sirius xm channel 108. guys >> not my time yet >> no, no, no. >> i got bumped? >> no, not bumped, saved >> so we have even more time for you. >> taylor swift new album news. >> oh. >> and you have got super bowl commercials, right plus, we brought in three experts to boost your heart health the test, the food, the moves we

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i approved this message because this is who we are. welcome back february is american heart month. this morning we brought in three experts to share some important advice to boost your heart we have a cardiologist, a nutritionist and a sports medicine doctor. let's get started with nbc news medical contributor and cardiologist dr. tara narulla. good morning >> good morning. >> always bears what are the risk factors of heart attack especially for women who don't recognize that's what's happening. >> absolutely. this is the leading cause of death for men and women. knowledge is power a lot of us know about the traditional risk factors but as you pointed out, there are some risk factors for women that many are not aware of there are some risk factors for women that many are not aware of and that includes things like

policy cystic ovarian syndrome, early meno pause preeclampsia or even miscarriage. lupus, psoriasis and inflammatory bowl disease. >> so if you have some of those risk factors, are there early screenings that you can do >> screening is so important i wish we could make it cool for people to get screened for heart disease. just like they do for their colin oscheopi and mammograms. sit down and go over your risk factors. they can kcalculate a risk score we have a calculator called prevent and we get a ten-year risk score for you or a lifetime risk score of cardiovascular disease events or even heart failure. the next test is one that i love i use a lot for my patients it's called a calcium score. this is a quick cat scan of the heart. looking for spots of calcified -- peek under the hood it costs about $100 typically, but it helps us identify heart disease in people we may not know or they may not know have

heart disease. so it's a great test >> and then real quickly once again, the symptoms of a heart attack. >> yeah. so chest pressure. pain tightness, squeezing, heaviness, jaw or shoulder pain, shortness of breath, unusual fatigue, nausea or indy jegs, these are some of the common signs. >> dr., thank you. great way to start hoda, over to you. let's talk about foods that can boost your heart health with nutritionist j.j. smith. good morning. >> hey, good morning >> first of all, this is your alley. so we're talking about omega 3s. those fatty acids are really important. what's the best place to get those. >> the best place, we're going to start with the fish. >> yeah. >> the fatty fish is the best place. >> okay. >> now the three fatty acids will have a profound impact on cardiovascular health. it will slow the buildup of plaque in the arteries you have to be careful how you prepare. olive oil, healthy oils. what you don't want to do is deep fry fish, right and get the trance-fatsy oil.

>> right you lose -- >> all the healthiness is gone. >> you wanted to take a fish oil, tablet or liquid fish oil. >> that's a great alternative. that's a great alternative and get omega 3. >> let's lower some of our cholesterol. you like nuts. >> i love nuts and seeds i absolutely do. studies show four or more servings of nuts and seeds will lower the risk of heart disease and stroke. >> oh, really? >> it will have your good cholesterol going up and your bad cholesterol going down which is what we want. >> what's a serving usually? >> a serving is generally a handful. >> a handful of nuts. >> any kind of nut. >> any kind of nuts and seeds. these are great options. but as long as it's an unsalted nut, you can't go wrong. okay >> okay. let's talk berries why are these important and how do they help >> berries not only are they beautiful, they're high in anti-oxidants. they will slow the build-up of cholesterol. what do you mean cholesterol it will make sure you don't have a lot of fatty deposits in your arteries that lead to a lot of heart disease. and so this is a great option.

berries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, they're all great. >> leafy greens. this is something we need, especially the darker greens how do these help? >> the darker the better i'm a fan of green smoothies you can get them in a salad. green leafy salads are high in dietary nitrate. they concert into nitrate oxides in the body, lowers the blood pressure and really just gives you better blood flow. >> i like the idea of not making a smoothie you have all these easy beans. >> we have peas, beans, chick peas these are great at also lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure we have lentils. >> i like how you put it in one big salad so you don't have to worry about it you put in everything and combined it. >> we made it easy put these in a salad get all the ingredients in a single day. >> one day, right here. >> dig in your fork and enjoy. it's that simple. >> j.j., i told you you would be

great and you were congrats. >> thank you. of course diet goes hand in hand with exercise to give your heart a lift so, we're doing some bicep curls this morning with this guy, dr. jordan he specializes in sports medicine strength building. so we know that weight lifting, working with weights, it tones, it builds muscle and help with your heart. >> that's right. we think about muscles like bicep muscles or skeletal muscles. but cardiac muscle is your heart muscle exercising with some intensity helps your heart muscle, number one. number two, we all after about age 25 lose about 3% of your muscle mass per year. >> wow w. per decade so that's replaced by subcutaneous fat which is inflammatory by maintaining our muscle mass, it's anti-inflammatory, keeps our heart healthy. >> bicep curls are good. we have these chairs here to show us another exercise that's good for heart health. >> that's right. the other piece is sitting so in everybody's job,

especially these days, we're seeing a lot more sitting. and the glutes are the biggest, strongest muscle in the body you heard the phrase, sitting is the new smoking. sitting for more than a couple hours at a time is really injurious to your health we want to get people to think about doing some squats. i have in my office all my employees do ten squats every hour let's demo that. >> ten every hour in. >> right up and right back down. right up and right back down again, this seems easy body weight squats a great way to break up that sitting. prolonged sitting is a disease get up and get moving every hour. >> everyone can do this. >> anybody anywhere any time use your body weight. >> thank you, doctor. >> hey no, problem. >> go chiefs i know you're a big chiefs fan. >> you better belief it. going to the game. >> thank you a big thanks to dr. narulla and j.j. as well mr. daly >> sorry guys. chef and i are sitting over here ready to eat after that working out. guys, we have a delicious recipe a feast celebrating the year of

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food" this morning getting you ready for the lunar new year forget super bowl on sunday, how about lunar new year saturday, everybody. we have a feast you can cook up at home. james beard foundation finalist sharing two traditional dishes that are perfect just in time for the year of the dragon chef, good to see you. first of all, the dumpling you have a dumpling over there. >> yes. >> what is a dumpling represent for the lunar new year >> so it's a lucky food to eat dumplings and wantons because it represents golden currency in ancient china. >> cool. >> it's all about eating lucky foods during this time of year. >> you're preparing like a dipping sauce. this is the first thing you want to do. >> that's right. so i'm making a chili crisp. i call it a umami crisp. there's a few secret ingredients that make it extra great >> which means it is a little

more about the total flavor than the spice. >> exactly, exactly. that's the great thing about making it at home is you can control how much heat you put in there. >> what do you got >> i'm just chopping a shallot and then we can move on to -- i have some neutral oil in here. yeah, you can continue chopping. >> all right. >> the secret ingredient is the mushrooms. that's going to add a heap of flavor >> we have a tasting table over there. mushrooms down. >> so we will put the shallot in we've got some shaved almonds. >> oh, almonds i thought that was garlic back there. >> got some sesame seeds, some garlic. >> some red pepper flakes. >> red pepper flakes. >> and this is a korean red pepper flake we will just stir that up. that is going to just simmer for 15 to 20 minutes all those bits will get really crispy and it's infusing the oil with flavor and aromatics. >> is that the sauce i was looking at back there? how does it thicken up. >> it just thickens.

everything gets crispy and all the liquid cooks out >> there's the umami dipping sauce. what next? >> now we'll move on to the wanton filling which is broccoli we have onions that have been sauteing. >> you're the vegetarian. >> i'm the vegetarian. >> since 17? >> yeah. pretty close 19 19. >> what made you go vegetarian. >> i love vegetables >> really? >> i didn't like meat. that's the opposite answer >> there you go. >> so i have some onions here. i'm going to add some broccoli and some garlic. and that's just going to saute for 5 to 7 minutes we're trying to get the broccoli soft and tender. we will season that. some pepper and salt we will just let that go when that's done, we will chop that up. >> that's this right here? >> that's right here it comes part of the filling. >> and potatoes the other part. >> potato is the other part. >> now it's not traditional to have potato. but you want something that will bring all the other ingredients

together and add body. and this is a potato you want to mash that up. >> i'd love to. >> you could you could. you could use any vegetables in a dumpling. >> you guys like the dumpling? >> oh, yeah. >> you like that >> this is fantastic. >> you are not missing the meat, though, are you? >> i would have thought it was meat in there. mushrooms are meaty. >> they are. so you are going to mash that up and then you want to add the broccoli the miso paste that will add extra umami and flavor and the sweetness, too, and the green onons. >> got you it's the year of the dragon, that's when i really shine. >> you are bringing it out you are bringing it again. you are bringing it. the next thing we do is we're going to -- we've got something filling here you'll wrap one, too >> let's do it i love it. it's like origami. this is a real art. >> wanton wrappers here. first thing is just wet the edges. so in a triangle >> yep. >> and we're going to take about --

>> this is fun to do with the kids. >> yes >> make wantons this weekends. >> lunar new year is all about family and bringing everybody together heaping teaspoon. >> triangle and pinch it and little water there and bring it together. >> pro tip >> that's not as heart as you would think it would be. >> it's not hard at all, guys. not hard at all. carson is awesome. >> mine looks like a fortune cookie. >> we have boiling water here. >> i don't know what i did >> yep just boiling water. >> this is so easy we're going to drop these in watch the splash. >> how long are you cooking these suckers. >> as soon as they float to the top, roll around for ten seconds. >> what's the beauty cake >> this is a ginger and coconut cake traditional cake we eat at lunar new year it's a very lucky cake. >> we'll sauce the dumplings

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this ad? typical. politicians... "he's bad. i'm good." blah, blah. let's shake things up. with katie porter. porter refuses corporate pac money. and leads the fight to ban congressional stock trading. katie porter. taking on big banks to make housing more affordable. and drug company ceos to stop their price gouging. most politicians just fight each other. while katie porter fights for you. for senate - democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message. ♪ this morning on the "3rd hour of today," remembering toby keith. >> should have been a cowboy ♪ i should have l