hi, everyone. i'm kate snow. >> and i'm aaron krill grist. nbc "news daily" starts right now. ♪♪ today, monday, october 17th, 2022. facing a judge. the suspect in a series of murders that shocked two california cities is about to head to court. what the mother of one of the victims is now telling nbc news. >> bracing for a chill. temperatures are about to take a plunge for tens of millions of americans. we'll show you where they are bottoming out. an nbc news exclusive.

sending a mess am. the dramatic new ad campaign targeting young people about the dangers of fentanyl using unique messengers to make the point. and you're forgiven. if you're still paying student loans, relief may final lib arriving. what you need to know to apply for help from uncle sam. we begin with a killing spree that terrorized residents in northern california for months. >> police believe they have caught the man who is accused of south carolinaing and killing six people in stockton and oakland. nbc maura barrett is in stockton for us. bring us up to speed. how did police track down this suspect. >> reporter: well, erin, splice been working on this tirelessly for months, but they say it's thanks to hundreds of community tips that came in that helped them track him down. they identified the suspect early saturday morning. they said he had a pattern of preying where he would start following one in their car and

stalk his victim on foot. there was a point of commonality when the victim was alone and often walking after dark and police feel confident this is the sole suspect in the string of killings that they have been looking for over the past couple of months but the investigation is really ongoing, really emphasizing the thanks to the community and the community sending the love right back to them. look amount this sweet card that the stockton police tweeted out earlier. someone sent this earlier today. the card signed thank you from a stockton resident who can sleep again now. >> wow, i know you spoke to folks out in the neighborhood where the suspect was arrested. there must be a lot of relief now that there is a suspect in custody. >> reporter: a woman told me it's just a weight lifted on their shoulders. i spent some time in the neighborhood where the arrest happened, where some. attacks happened and spoke with some people. i want you to hear some of our conversations. >> i'm at ease, yes, i am. i wasn't going out but myself. i've got him right there.

that's my grandson. >> i was afraid, for my children, for everybody, you know, and so it really curtailed my activity. >> reporter: how are you feeling now? >> relief. relief. so glad that it's over. >> reporter: these women tell me they will altered their way of life. stopped going out after dark and stopped going out alone, and now people here are very much looking to get back to normal, but obviously several families still mourning the six victims that this alleged suspect killed in these series of attacks, guys. >> yeah. maura barrett, thanks for being there. 58 million americans are feeling the bitter chill today. they are under freeze alerts as temperatures are set to plunge in the coming days, so take a look at what it looked like earlier today in machine mish. look at that. some places already seeing the first snow of the year. >> no. >> it's not even halloween yet. >> no. >> it hurts. >> no.

>> let's bring in meteorologist bill karins. yeah, obviously in some places it's not so odd to get snow this time of year. let's have it come and go. >> they don't want a lot of it. you still have leaves on the trees, even in areas of northern michigan and now we're starting to get reports of heavy snow and downed trees and then you'll get power outages, too. mostly talking about the upper peninsula of michigan near marquette. did have the first snow flakes at chicago o'hare airport. we will get a coating of snow in the higher elevations of west virginia, outside of pittsburgh and northern michigan and it's the area with a chance of getting over a foot of snow. some areas with 8 inches of snow and giles, wisconsin, 16 inches, full on shovels, snowplows, snow day for the kids tomorrow and as far as the great lakes go this stormling, over the area for a while. we've got the yankees and

cleveland game in the bronx. showers going right around 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. we'll have to see how that interrupts the game or delays it for a little while and there's the 58 million people in numerous record lows tomorrow morning. it's not just cold, i mean, it's frigid. 9 in an dean tomorrow morning so this isn't hike your typical october cold. this is going to feel like the middle of november. >> wow. bill karins, thank you. a new wave of russian drone strikes is escalating the war in ukraine. the mayor says at least four people in kyiv have died but that's to the about verified by nbc news. this video shows people running for cover, their lives after hearing the sounds of kamikaze drones. rescuers are combing through the rubble left behind. ukraine's president says he holds iran responsible for these new deaths. nbc news correspondent cal perry

is following all of this for us from kyiv. cal, good to see you. what are ukranian officials saying about the extent of the damage from these drones? >> well, they are saying 28 drones were fired at once this morning and tried to overwhelm air defenses and five got through and that's the one that impacting, dozen of people take to the hospital and they pack a shockingly strong bunch. the damage from that apartment building, it had collapsed on itself and we had idea that russia would rove from the prime minister to drones. >> there's reports that russia may be running out of troops. there's video that shows moscow construction workers being

drafted. what can you tell us about the state of resources for both russia and ukraine as we head into the winter. >> well, this is what ukranian officials are pointing to as evidence as to why vladimir putin is now using the drones. they are cheaper and more crude. running out of missiles and manpower. there have been abductions in these areas, forced people to move back to russia, forcing some people to the front so we've seen this play out on the ground, a tactic russia is using and the shown amongst officials that there's a sign that is there there is a crack forming in russian society. calipery for us, call, thank you. >> now to an nbc news exclusive w.22 days before the mid-term elections georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker acknowledging he gave a $700 check to his ex-girlfriend but denies that money was used to pay for an abortion. he made that statement during

are his interview with kirsten welker. >> do you know what this $700 check is for? >> i have no idea that that could beor. >> is that your signature? >> it could be. it doesn't matter whether it's my signature offer. yes, that's my check. >> so yamiche, you've been following this story from the start. >> the bonged to him, it story connects him to this abortion allegation and his former girlfriend. throughout the interview he was september and continues to say this allegation is not true. that comes as the woman is stand i by what happened, including the accusation that walker

wanted to abort his 10-year-old son. based on my reporting voters are in that georgia, many say they are sticking with walker, many say he's unqualified but 1%, 2% of the vote can make all the difference in the race. >> the democratic senator raphael warn okay spoke --. he spoke to herschel walker. take a listen. >> her, on the other hand, claimed to be a police officer. he's not. each though he produced a badge on friday night. i guess he expects the people of georgia now to a lose nate and imagine that he's a united states senator. he's clearly not red.

>> went on to show that quacker was shown a -- reverend rarn yok said what i've learned about redemption is that you have to represident not to get there. we'll seem -- you can see more of the interview on "meet the press" streaming now or on nbc nightly news with lester holt. >> apple workers are unionizing and the social media plormt is being bought by none other than kanye west. kate rooney joins us now. >> let's start with apple. employees at an ale store voted on friday to join a union, the second store that voted to unionize and if certified the tech giant will be required to bargain with the union over working conditions. and the rapper formerly known as kanye west is offering

to buy social media platform parlor after being looked out of his social media. price details are not being charged and more employees are charging their employ s-for job training if they quit. retail industries among others are calling training repayment agreement precisions or t.r. a p. some members and regulators of congress are aiming to introduce a bill next year to rein in that practice. kate and aaron, back to you. >> you quit but you still owe them money. >> reporter: owe them money. trapped. >> name of says a lot. >> name of says a lot. a deadly fair at a my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ it was time for a nunormal with nucala.

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the death toll is rights after a large fire broke out at a notorious prison in iran. the u.s. state department announcing a short time ago that the u.s. citizens in that facility are safe. the flames caused widespread panic as nationwide protests stretch into their fifth week. here's nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella. >> the protesters in iran are not giving up. they are out again today in cities across iran demonstrating

against the regime, this after a chaotic and deadly weekend. at iran's notorious evan prison where two americans are being held, a massive out-of-control fire. flames lit up the night sky in tehran saturday. witnesses could hear gunfire and explosions. iran's judiciary says eight prisoners died, four of them from smoke inhalation and 61 were injured blaming, quote, thugs for starting the fire. it comes during a time of chaos as extraordinary protests continue across the country over the death of 22-year-old massa amini who died after being arrested by the morality police accused of violating the strict dress code. iranian authorities say the prison fire is unrelated but inside is an american dual national. a lawyer for his family says he has spoken to his family.

he is safe. nama sy and his father, a retired upself-official, were imprisoned seven years ago after a secretive trial, both accused of collaborating with the u.s. namasi was released earlier this month but his son is now back in solitary confinement. >> we're very, very worried about his safety and welfare. fact that he had to be moved from where he was and taken into this more intense form of custody demonstrates that obviously there was a serious danger to his health, safety and welfare. >> reporter: those protests across iran have been going on now for more than a much. thousands of young iranians have joined the demonstrations with women leading the charge, many taking off their head scarves and cutting their hair in a sign of protest. when asked about the unrest saturday, president biden said -- >> iran has toned the violence against its own citizens simply exercise their fundamental rights. >> reporter: iran's president fired back accusing president biden of inciting chaos, terror and destruction.

amnesty international says more than 200 people have been killed in those demonstrations since they began, including 23 children. the youngest think say is an 11-year-old boy. iran disputes those numbers. they say they are far lower. around 60 people killed. meantime, the lawyer for nimasi is calling on the biden administration and himself to help secure the release of the two americans still held in iran. >> kelly cobiella for us. today, the nation's first trial over a state law banning gender-affirming care for children begins in arkansas. the law there prohibits doctors from providing gender affirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18 years old. it also prevents doctors from referring patients to other doctors for similar care. we're following this story. joe, help us understand who is

bringing this case to court and what are they hoping to accomplish? >> reporter: sure, the lawsuit was butt by four transyouths and that i parents as well as two doctors who provide gender-affirming medical care. major medical associations have said it's necessary care. i spoke with a mom not part of the lawsuit but the mom moved away from arkansas because the law would bar her son from getting health care that he needs. >> i'm also hopeful that this trial will also bring to light the fact that a lot of what the laws were based off of nationally is based off of misconceptions, misunderstandings. >> reporter: the aclu said the lawsuit are about people from arkansas to hall lou medical

care that's free of discrimination on gender status. >> when you say there's misperceptions around that. can you help us understand that. surgery is not happening on people generally under 18 anyhow. >> sure, yes. as you probably know, a lot of language in these bills is like mutilation. it refers to surgery being performed on children, but in reality that act isn't happening anywhere in the u.s. and in very rare cases sometimes older minors will receive surgical care but in reality what they are most often getting is puberty blockers that's totally reversible or older teens often receive hormone replacement therapy. >> and what's the argument for advocates defending this law? >> sure, yes, the arkansas attorney general leslie rutledge said that the law is about protecting children. she said that nothing about the law prohibits someone after the age of 18 from making this

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first the secretary of state and the speaker of house are on the peninsula to highlight the role in advancing science and protecting our country. barbara radel is in menlo park with more on this visit. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken along with the speaker of house nancy pelosi, they're on the peninsula to highlight silicon valley role in advancing technology and protecting our country. they along with congresswoman anna just took a tour of the laboratory here in menlo park right behind me. this was a facility that we received $136 million from the inflation reduction act. they showed off the largest camera installed in a telescope in chile and designed to study extreme particles and in one setup they're trying to harness the power of the sun and create clean energy through fusion.

the secretary of state spoke about the state department's new bureau of cyberspace and digital policy which will help protect the infrastructure of our internet and in his words establish standards of responsible conduct in cyberspace. bob redell. >> in san francisco three weeks from now, voters will decide a popular stretch of roadway. two similar measured feek us on jfk park. proposition i-called for traffic to fully reopen and along with the great highway. proposition j would allow for continued recreational use of jfk drive. now people who support the jfk drive closures say the popular roadway is much safer for those who enjoy biking and jogging and walking. but opponents call it a question of access for people who need it. each proposition needs a simple

majority to pass, if both pass the one with the most votes wins. we have a voter guide to break down key races, just head to nbcbayarea.com/2022. here are other stories to know about at this hour. we have an update on two different trials surrounding the kristin smart murder. the jury is still deliberating. well in the last 30 minutes we've learned a verdict has been reached for rubin flores, the father accused of helping his son cover up the murder. but the verdict wouldn't be revealed until a verdict has also been reached for paul flores. today marks 33 years since the earthquake devastated parts of the bay area. the 6.9 quake was center near santa cruz but san francisco bore the brunt of the damage including the collapse of the nimitz freeway and the deadly fires in the marina district in san francisco.

63 people died. thousands more were hurt. later today a special monument will be unveiled to commemorate the quake in front of fire station 35 along the embarcadero. contra costa is monitoring air quality with a fire that burned about 160 acres in june. it started in the pittsburg march and the delta. firefighters managed to put out most of it but now it is smoldered in pete soil. air quality district leaders say air quality levels in nearby pittsburg are in the good zone and not unhealthy. a warm-up is coming back. here is meteorologist kari hall. >> good monday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall as we check out temperatures and where we are headed for this afternoon. it is a cooler than what we've seen for the mid of october.

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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc "news daily." a wildfire is burning out of control near the washington/oregon border. the fire ignite the near vancouver, washington last woke. so far it's burned over 1,500 acres. it's being fueled by warmer temperatures which are rare this time of the year for the rainy pacific north west. the justice department is seeking a six-month jail sentence and fine for steve ban none. the former white house trump aide defied a subpoena from the

january 6th committee. the doj wrote that bannon pursued a bad faith strategy of dev yaps and contempt. bannon is set to be sentenced on friday. >> and members of the k-pop group bts will serve mapped try military service in south korea. unsouth korean law all able-bodied men are expected to serve 18 to 21 months. it's all to defend against the threat of the country's neighbor north korea. the group's representative says the stars were honored to serve. we are learning new details about the deaths of two connecticut police officers killed in an ambush shooting. newly released body cam footage shows the moment before the gunman was shot and killed by police. the state inspector general's office released this video as part of its investigation into that wednesday night shootout. nbc news is covering that story for us. police say the gunman fired more than 80 rounds at police officers during this shootout. what does the body cam footage show. >> reporter: the footage is from

officer alek iurato. we hear him call for backup after the suspect is -- he shot several overs, and screaming can be heard in the background. the officer was also shot in the leg and the video shows him hobble over to a police vehicle where he was able to shield himself from the continuous gunfire. towards the end of the footage we see him shoot and kill the suspect with one single shot from the police car. >> at this point what are police saying led up to the fire fight. >> reporter: the suspect was kicked out of a bar and cited by police for disorderly conduct before this took place and police believe the 911 call was to lure suspects to his house where the suspect left an ar-15 rifle where this left two officers and the suspect dead. >> thank you. we're learning much more about the deadly shooting spree in california that we told you

about at the beginning of the hour. police have arrested a suspect who they believe shot and killed six people in stockton and oakland, california. now they are talking about how officers may have prevented more lives from being lost. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer is joining us live from stockton, california. what did the police chief just tell you? >> we sat down with the police chief at length and he gave us really chilling details. he says a team of officers was tracking this suspect for several days and they believe that the suspect was ready to kill in a matter of minutes. they say he was in a local area here in stockton just a few miles away from police headquarters at at park getting ready to kill what they thought may have been a homeless person in the area. that's when he intervened. what was recovered was a weapon. that will be a few piece of evidence if police can match that weapon to previous murders. stockton, california, has been a city on edge, a suspected serial

killer stalking the streets, but over the week police may have crack the case. >> he was on a mission to kill. he was out hunting. >> reporter: arresting a suspect, wes lie brownlee, who they say might have been just minutes away from another deadly shooting. >> we are sure we stopped another killing. police say they thought brought brownlee he had a mask around his neck and carrying this gun, a gun undergoing a series of tests. >> we are several tips that came in several every single day. >> reporter: officials sayre the killer shot seven people, killing six. many of the victims latino men across stockton and nearby oakland who were living on the streets and attacked late at negotiate. >> i was afraid for my children,

for everybody. earlier this month police releasing the grainy depict of the suspect who has a criminal history including drug and traffic violations. authorities say there's still no clear motive for the killing spree. the only known survive. >> didn't say anything, didn't come any closer, just started shooting us. >> reporter: families who lost loved ones say the killer showed no mercy. >> when i was told this person then just turned towards them and shot them multiple times? greta says her son killed and died alone. >> i'm grateful that they were able to save it from happening to another person. it's just been horrific.

>> reporter: and kate, we pressed the police chief asking him if he had any update on the motive. the police chief said he and his investigators for now are baffled and says he was just disgusted that a suspect was targeting innocent people on the street for absolutely no reason. >> yeah. >> so disturbing. miguel almaguer for us, thank you. the mid-term elections are 22 days away now. early voting began today in georgia where people are able to cast their ballots for governor an senator. the race between raphael warp yok and herschel walker could decide the balance of power in the senate. >> that can also be decided in ohio where the company are remains a strong issue. >> let's begins with nbc's blayne alexander from marietta

georgia. >> i've spoken with a number of voters and asked them that. it's notable that this is the pretty young day. they had a pretty good idea who have to vote for, important to get out and cast the ballots now. they really saw as just advancing their civic duty making sure to get it done and also an insurance policy in case there were issues. gail says she usually registers people to vote at the polls but she can't do that and she came out and voted early this time around. take a look. >> it's very important to me because i don't any longer as a senior get out and canvas and get people to the voting polls so it was important for me to get here that first day because just show the voting is so important for me and if there were would be any obstacles i'd still have time to correct them, whatever it might be.

>> reporter: so calls it sort an insurance policy and asked what the movement important issues were. she says it's important to know that -- she came right back to prices, the difference prices for items in grocery store and she thought about her answer a little bit more and she said the real focus is women's health, specifically talking about abortion issues which comes right on par as we heard with voters from around the state and what new polling from quinnipiac ses is the top issue. >> blayne, we keep talking about the senate race there between can have brian kemp.

what are both campaigns -- the first time we see them going face to face and another debate in two weeks. certainly notable that it comes on the first day that people can head to the polls. all along when i listened to them on the campaign trail and talking about their different strategy going forward, early voting is an important part that have strategy. governor brian kemp admits that democrats have been outworking republicans in their ground game and it's important that people come out not just on election day and leading up to it so hearing from the candidates and hearing their issues and their platforms is going to be something that both campaigns want as they lead into the voting season. >> blayne alexander watching it for us in georgia. thank you. let's bring jesse kirsch from youngstown, ohio where another important debate will be happening tonight. there were some tense moments that you talked begun in the

first looking for going into tease's debate. they will try to perhaps take a hard lipostance on china and make the argument that each other's opponent is not the right candidate when it comes to that issue. we'll see that. colonel the economy will come up again and clarity to be had as far as j.d. vance's position and we'll see if the moderators ask about that and we'll ask for an opportunity to get clarity from that on the vance campaign. we'll see from tim ryan trying to peel off republican voters, trying to talk to people who might have trumpism fatigue and trying to differentiate himself from j.d. advance but at the same time seeing he can appeal

across the. telling try to redirect the focus match up with his voting record. >> i want you to help us ups what the clarity is that we need to get on that folks who didn't see the debate or aren't familiar. >> reporter: yeah, obviously the abortion issue is something that is talked about in races all over the cup trip. it's unclear how much these candidates think it will actually matter in this race specifically because it's not necessarily the fish. >> the website said end abortion, and at the debate last week he said he's open to some stan dart are, a however, vance did not clarify what the exceptions he would be okay with

are. a strategy said he was not prepare to answer that question on behalf of mr. vance. aaron? >> jesse, thank you. high schoolers are taking note from some up likely substitute teachers. the potentially life-saving the potentially life-saving lessons they are learning from cotton candy.

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>> now who gets it, i won't know. >> i gave a piece of my personal story, you know, drug dolors and suppliers are not scientists. they are not pharmacists. they are not doctors. they cannot do a chemical makeup of any drug and you use this drug. >> the messagel for 18 years, missing her son's life, it's -- it's heartbreaking honestly. >> i don't think that this is taught enough around this school. >> having kyle as the teacher, he was like opened up a lot about his -- his own struggles and his past and i know that that was like really hard for him to do. i was turning play and thankfully sun was there to help me of the health teacher was

just kind of reading from a textbooks. >> the psa running where kids will see it. >> it's going to be everywhere that the kids are consume media, anywhere that kids are where they are receiving issues on this critical. >> number snapchat partnered with the ad partner on this campaign and they are offering a new series of augmented lenses, filters and snap has come under criticism and a new lawsuit was filed recently alleging the platform allows those who sell fentanyl pills to be on their platform but they denied that. the ceo of pfizer accepting up about his battle with covid. he credits his company's

treatments for helping him recover. cnbc anchor and "new york times" financial columnist andrew ross sorkin sat down with him and joins us now. andrew. >> reporter: we sat down with albert to talk about what has raised lots of eyebrows, contracting covid twice within two months and to be the ceo of pfizer, the largest vaccine-maker in the world raised guess about mandates, the effectiveness of the drug, free speech and all of the things that we've been living about for the past year and i asked him about that an his own experience of what actually happened for the first time. >> i was actually in the u krks and i spent five days in heat tells. i did paxlovid again and i became negative in two and a half days. i had to stay in the room for five because that was the rule. >> how are you feeling now?

>> i'm feeling very good. >> i'm surprised, but probably would i have to take a guess it was a new -- the new strain and the run i got back in organize was an old strain. >> there may be a lesson in this is that he did not -- and, in fact, if it was a new strain it may be an instruction lesson for all of us which is to probably go out and get the booster. >> speaking of, and not -- as many people are -- not as many people are getting this booster compared to other boosters. how effective is this, at least the one against the original omicron strain. >> reporter: the newest booster should be effective against what's called baah.4 and baah.5 and now there's a new variant, probably what he got in the uk and that may very well be coming

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controlled substance, he was released to parole in 2003 and dismiss in 2006. temps chilly this morning but a warmup on the way. we're tracking the changing conditions. good monday morning, i'm meteorologist carrie hall, as we check out temperatures. a little bit cooler than what we see in the middle of october. 68 in san francisco. for the north bay we're in the mid-70s but look at the forecast for tomorrow, it starts to warm up for a lot of our spots in the inland valleys reaching into the low to mid 80s we continue to heat up even more so going into the middle of the week hitting 93 degrees in fairfield, with some upper 80s and low 90s. santa rosa, a high of 88 degrees on wednesday. after that it does cool off and we'll see some rain very close to the bay area especially on

saturday, looks like most of the rain dries up, but we'll still be watching out for that slight chance of rain in the forecast next week while our temperatures will be warming up and then cooling.