i know all of us are eager to know exactly what happened, when it happened, who was notified and when and that's a part of the investigation. >> california's state of emergency continues to spread this morning as the oil covers more beaches and damage to wild life grows what caused the rupture? facebook face-off, the whistleblower testifying full congress the behemoth responding. but will congress act to put pull the reigns on the 2 billion

site tesla pays an exworker $137 million over racial discrimination. a woman soccer star racking the national women's soccer league we'll take you to alaska, hospitals are jammed with covid patients, as doctors are forced to make heart wrenching decisions. good morning, i'm philip penna. >> i'm glad you can join us. california declaring a state of emergency over the oil spill federal regulators revealing concerning new information in a moment surrounding the incident. our los angeles station tells us what they've learned. >> reporter: good morning to you from huntington beach. nbc news obtained a federal report that shows the first signs of trouble happened in the middle of the night and it may have been hours before anyone asked him. three days after hundreds of

gallons of crude oil filled into orange county waters, newly released federals begged the question, could much of it preliminary findings received a lone pressure alarm 2:30 saturday morning, indicating a potential problem. it wasn't until hours later until the oil rig operators shut down the pipeline. the company waited three more hours to notify the national response center a. 13-inch split possibly caused by a ship's anchor releasing as much as 144,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. the president vowing to rectify damage, at this point not sure how expensive. >> regardless of the cause, we will do everything right for all the impacted areas and individuals as quickly as we can. >> reporter: a day after declaring a state of emergency,

governor gavin newsom in huntington beach he vows out offshore drilling. >> there hasn't been a new offshore drilling in half a century, '50s and '60s there hasn't been a new one in over 50 years. there won't be. >> reporter: cleanup of the environmental catastrophe continues. workers combing the sand collecting globs of oil. the impact to wild life better than first feared. but unknown. >> we have eight lives that appeared to be oiled, including three western breeds and one brown pelican that succumbed to chronic injuries. >> reporter: much of the shoreline remains closed the bulk of the oil is expected to continue moving south reporting from huntington beach, back to you. >> all right heady, thank you for that report facebook is facing a historic crisis on capitole,ood

morning. what are some of the big take aways? >> reporter: good morning, frances haugen gave a rare glimpse. a former facebook manager turned whistleblower. she is accusing the network putting profit over safety her own research shows its products can contribute to self esteam issues in children. >> algorithms are very smart in the sense that they latch on to things people want to continue to engage with unfortunately in the case of teen girls and self harm, they develop feedback cycles, children are using instagram to s soothe and facebook says they cannot adequately identify dangerous content.

as a result those dangerous algorithms they admit are picking up the extreme sense of vision they can't protect us from the harms that they know exist in their own system zblmp senator richard blumenthal compared facebook to big tobacco. an industry he went toe-to-toe with in the early '90s. >> big tech now faces that big tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth. it is documented proof that facebook knows its products can be addictive and toxic to children it's not just that they made money. again, it's that they value their profit more than the pain they cause children and their families >> facebook says in an e-mail mark zuckerberg says we care

deeply about issues like safetyh he also called for congress to put, impose more regulation on the internet philip >> government and big tech passing the potato here. thank you. most of the nation is seeing relief after the covid summer surge. the virus is tightening its grip in places like alaska the state is facing a crippling crisis, rising infections and low vaccination rates. nbc's allison barber has more from anchorage good morning >> here in alaska, many hospitals have been operating on what has been described to us as a battlefield scenario the highest levels of meetings emergency rooms, icus, they are overwhelmed. some hospitals are having to ration oxygen. across the country, covid cases and hospitalizations are dropping but in alaska, a very different

stor geography was an advantage sparsely pop late villages and strict travel kept cases relatively low now it's surging alaska's biggest hospitals are overwhelmed and the state's unique gentleman okayography is working against it >> we travel on average 150 miles one way to access care our hospitals are hundreds of miles apart. to give them supplies, resources, everything from oxygen was a huge statistical barrier rompblts over the last two weeks, lavenlg has seen the highest rise in the company. deaths spiked 414% >> almost exclusively the patients are unvaccinated trot state's drives standard of care has been action vatd, including the alaska medical center. some patients have been forced to wait days for beds. at this hospital they can't let

visitors inside right now except for few exceptionsinto this video system the same system that families use when they are talking to covid patients who they are unable visit she lost her best friend to covid-19 last year last week, her cousin died he wasn't vaccinated. >> i'm so upset people are dying. we've lost five family members. >> reporter: so she is urging others to rise up their sleeves, covid-19 is tightening its group on alaska. about 60% of alaskans are fully vaccinated the rates have been stagnant for dwight a while health officials say that's concerning and contributed to the position they're in right now. they want to see the numbers go higher health officials have called on the government, the mayors and the governor to implicate more than mitigation efforts like mask mandates. so far the governor, the mayor

of average anchorage, very have been against that. the next shortage could be cereal kellogg's plants had 1,400 workers go on strike, fighting over pay and benefits. the company insists its compensation is among the industry's very best let's turn now to the weather with nbc meteorologist janessa webb how are we looking out there today? >> you know, it's still dreary across the north coast have you rain on the way from oregon to california temperatures are also dropping in that section of the country i think the biggest weather story, though, is for the southeast. flash flood watches remain in place to the florida panhandle this is unfortunately going to last going into the weekend. you can see the change in the jet stream that's what's allowing all this moisture to now filter in.

even a little bit of snow that we're watching for the higher elevations into the planes, going into your mid-afternoon. flash flood watches will remain in place unis section of the co ohio valley, drying out to the northeast. clouds still in place. even though we're seeing rain in the pacific northwest, still a fire danger very large in that area we'll talk about that coming up. >> thanks. youtube has taken down two channels linked to r. kelly after he was found guilty of all counts in a sex trafficking trial. his songs and albums continue to be available on the youtube

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>> reporter: validation and relief now setting in for owen diaz after a federal jury order tesla pay him more than $137 million for racial abuse on the job. abuse that diaz says is rampant. >> i'm just the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: diaz was contracted as an elevator operator at the electric free mont plant in the bay area forren in months in 2015 and 2016. what kind of harassment did you experience over the course of the nine months that you worked there? >> n word scratched into the bathroom stall they were calling mae monkey and this other guy was getting on the elevator with me as he was telling me, you know, n, hurry up, push the button. we're late. >> reporter: diaz says he became a target for writeups after he dependant reporting the abuse. but it was after his

change >> i was taking him lunch. her call telling him, i can stand all you f'ing ns my son was upset it was a decision that i made to take him in that factory and inaudible inaudible. >> reporter: diaz and his son are no longer among the roughly 10,000 employees working at the factory. tesla has denied knowledge of racist conduct at the plant. but this week a jury awarded diaz $6.9 million for emotional distress and $130 million in punitive damages tesla did not respond to nbc news' request for comment n. a note sent to employees after the ruling, tesla's head of human

resources downplayed diaz' claims, citing among other things, employees who testified that racial slurs including the n-word were used in a quote friendly manner unusually by average-american colleagues and the company was responsive to diaz' complaints, firing two contractors and suspended another adding, quote, while we strongly believe that these facts don't justify the verdict reached by the jury in san francisco, we do recognize in 20s 15 and 2016, we were not perfect. we're still not perfect. but we have come a long way from five years ago when you see tesla's response, do you think they learned a lesson >> no it's another way of companies, if they don't get th their way. still to come the highlights as the red sox send the yanks packing in the wild cardng alex.

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who accused the now fired coach of sexual misconduct. >> reporter: the stories are gut wrenching. >> i want people to know that i was sexually a harassed, that i was psychologically manipulated and abused. >> reporter: the women of u.s. soccer speaking out against paul reilly saying the former coach victimized them. two of his foreman players breaking their silence, supported by their friend and former captain alex morgan what made you speak out now? >> when shefay told me her story, i knew we had to do something. i said we have to push this story. because it will save people. >> were you at all scared when you were told what had happened? >> in the moment, i was but i immediately asked, do you want to file a complaint? she said, yeah i said, let's do this. >> reilly denies the accusation

but has not responded to nbc news for comment the former commissioner lisa baird alerted in april and resigned last week now saying, in part, that she fought to enact initiatives that protected the women in our league. >> the commissioner has stepped down reilly has been fired. is that enough >> no, that's not enough there are open investigations. there are more investigations that need to be had. >> reporter: the league now says it has investigations opened into reilly's past and the league to undertake a significant systemic and cultural transformation >> how does what happens to you still agent. you and your life today? >> i carry it with me every day. it took away my career >> what do you say to all the little girls who are watching this unfold? >> i hope you're safe. we want young people and current players, future players to be safe in the game of soccer.

>> reporter: in the game of soccer and beyond. morgan radford, nbc news, new york. >> we saw the bravery with women's ghymnastics, socce

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