hi everybody. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today tuesday, october 18th, 2022. the president's promise. president biden says he will make the right to an abortion the law of the land but there is a big if. what he says needs to happen now. and octo-brrr. tens of millions are shivering. when temperatures will finally

take a turn. and facing a judge, the suspected california serial killer about to appear in court. new details emerging in the search for a motive. and an important health warning for men, why breast cancer may be more common than you think. we begin with a major promise over abortion rights, one that would impact millions of americans nationwide. he is vowing to enshrine the protections from roe v. wade into federal law. >> but he says it will only happen if democrats keep control of the house and senate in the midterms. let's go to our washington correspondent. the president just delivered these remarks. what did he say? >> reporter: well, president biden was laser focused on saying that he would make it a top priority, protecting women's rights to have abortions across the country. he said if democrats are able to hold on to power and the house and senate, that the first bill he will send to congress next

term will be a bill to codify roe v. wade. and he also had a lot to say. take a listen. >> i'm asking the american people to remember how you felt. how you felt that day the extreme dobbs decision came down. i want you to remember that the final say does not rest in the court now. it does not rest with good extremist republicans in congress. and finally say, finally say about your right to choose that it rests with you. >> reporter: president biden also went after republicans in this speech, he said that they are doubling down on extreme positions and end if republicans get power, that they will pass a national ban on abortions and he said that in this case it doesn't matter where you live in america, the positions of -- opponents of abortion rights will be the law of the land. and if it goes through, if democrats are able to hold on to power respect that he hopes to sign a bill that would be

codifying abortion rights in to the constitution by january which would be the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade. >> i want to look at some of the reality. the most important issues are economy, inflation, the state of democracy. and only 5% said that abortion is a top issue for them, this is according to a new york sometimes poll published yesterday. given that reality, do we have an understanding as to why the president is putting abortion back in the spotlight a top issue for him going into next year? >> that is a key question. really this is a about the fact that president biden and democrats think that this is still a winning issue with just weeks to go until the midterm elections. and democrats are really leaning on the idea that there are women in this country who are angry and they can be motivated to go to the polls in big numbers. and democrats tell me that

abortions and right to abortions is connected to the economy, connected to inflation because family planning is how a lot of people are able to balance their budgets in terms of sort of what people can do. so the reality is that there are women saying that i need to have access to abortion so i can make sure that i have enough money in my pocket to deal with this economy. so president biden absolutely leaning into this while of course the polls are showing that voters are really focused on book ket book issues. >> all right. thank you. and now right now the west and east coast have facing record-breaking temperatures on both ends of the thermometer. that civic northwest is experiencing sun seasonably warm weather. >> but take a look at this wintry blast in the northern midwest. bill kains has forecast, but

let's begin with maggie vespa where you can see the snow is blowing. so about 4,000 people, customers without power. what are the conditions like? >> reporter: i guess can i say they are miserable, can i say this is painful in hovering right around freezing which is just cold enough for this snow to keep stacking up. here we have about 8 to 10 inches by our measurements and the snow is still packable, it is still wet. and heavy as you said, thousands without power and millions of americans nationwide as you pointed out having to crank the heat earlier than expected when bills are expected to hit a ten year high. so this is early and jarring for a lot of people. >> you can absolutely say it is painful. a lot of times i feel like they really just want to get you back inside but it is something to see that this is already happening. what are locals saying about the

fact that this is starting so early? they are used to snowfall, but not right now. >> reporter: totally. this is the upper peninsula, like is this a hardened seasoned bunch. but even for people here seeing this much snow, this early, that is really surprising. take a listen. >> i've lived here my whole life and i mean, this is the most snow i've ever seen. it is my birthday tomorrow and i've never had snow on my birthday. >> we've had snow in august. and we've had snow in may. over 20 inches. but that is pretty rare. so it is a little unusual, but not that t surprising. >> as we've been saying, it feels like winter has come early to parts of the midwest, 2000 the first day of winter is not until december 21.000 the first day of winter is not until december 21. the first day of winter is not until december 21. the first day of winter is not until december 21. the first day of winter is not until december 21.the first day of winter is not until december 21.the

first day of winter is not until december 21. >> windchill there 21 degrees. so maggie, thank you. and let's bring in bill karins. so tell us which areas are seeing the coldest temperatures and when is this going to stop? >> poor maggie i'm trying to think of a reason to send her to florida. she deserves it. too early for many of us to even picture it. but we have cold rain over much of the great lakes. snowing in the upper peninsula and northern michigan. all that cold air is heading to the south and tonight will be very chilly night. record cold in many areas. 76 million people have a chance at least of getting a freeze or a frost. and windchills are just brutal. you heard the wind blowing, windchill where maggie is in the 20s and is that the middle of the day. so later tonight the record lows will go down to mobile, 34 degrees. you will have frost in mobile, alabama in the middle of october. should break the record in atlanta, paducah, kansas city you will bring your record low. and as far as tomorrow goes, that is cold and then the last

cold morning as we go into thursday, atlanta, augusta, tallahassee, you get it, this is the last of it. and then we flip the script and then the east warms up and then the west gets cold next week. >> a lot going on as always in the weather department. bill, thank you so much. today the man who police say terrorized a california city is set to face a judge. wesley brownlee is accused of killing six over the past year and a half. and steve patterson is tracking that for us. what charge comes we know that brownlee is facing? >> reporter: a couple things we're tracking for this afternoon. including, yes, first one being what exactly will the charges be. we won't know until that rainment hearing. we expect to hear a range of homicide and weapons charges including the fact that he is alleged to have a concealed weapon. all of that will play into the case. some of those charges could be enhancements, we're looking at

possibly capital charges as well which would of course bring in the possibility of the death penalty as well. so all of that of course very, you know, pertinent to the information that we'll get later on this afternoon. but also it is how is he going to actually plead. will he plead guilty, innocent, has he retained an attorney. during his statement statement to the judge, will he say anything more. all of that of course part of it as well. and lastly, there is a lot of talk in the legal community about the fact that due to his prior charges, which he does have a rap sheet but pretty light, we're talking about traffic violations and minor drug charges, could it lead to a competency hearing because of his prior history leading to the serial killings. it is a big leap. so that play play into it as well. >> so i understand that police there are releasing new details on brownlee's arrest. any closer to figuring out a motive here? >> reporter: unfortunately, no. and that is the frustrating thing. you can try to find patterns in his killings.

there were a lot of latino men that were shot and killed, a lot of homeless people in the crop of killings. but there were also -- there was also a white person shot, there was black woman shot as well and survived. so there is not a consistent pattern beyond it being at night, beyond them being target that's could prey on, and beyond the guy wanting do possibly as much damage as possible. we certainly probably won't know at this hearing which is usually just semantics about what happens next. so wehave to wait for the trial. and in some cases we never know the full motive. hopefully not the case, but that is what we're looking at. >> steve patterson, thanks. and breaking now, the family of george floyd plans to sue the rapper formerly known as one kanye west for $250 million. the mother of floyd's daughter

is filing suit on behalf of the minor.