the runoff in georgia is a day away this morning an nbc news exclusive. hear from a woman to speak out publicly alleging domestic violence against herschel walker since the campaign began. . > and from idaho, two roommates who were in the house when the roommates were killed the pair speaking out. people are struggling with a record amount of credit card debt our brian cheung helping you to avoid a holiday headacheover. week 13 including a blowout

in big d. fans fight back. they start a lawsuit over the ticketmaster disaster. "early today" begins right now glad you're with us. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. we begin this morning with the final sprint in georgia's runoff race for u.s. senate with just one day to go, snort raphael warnock and his challenger herschel walker made their final appeal to voters in a campaign blitz this weekend. the stakes are high. a warnock victory would give them 51 seats, brabing the evenly split chamber, but it's been a bitter race filled with troubling allegations. nbc's brie jackson joins us now from dc. bree, good morning there are new allegations by a woman who says he cannot be not. >> good morning. she spoke exclusively to nbc

news alleged the former football star physically attacked her in 2005 after she caught him with another woman. >> he just hovered over me and pinned me on the wall and began you know -- continued to say, you want to see a man, i'll show you a man, and he was pressing his forehead against mine. my head was against the wall he was speaking with such force that his saliva was all over my face and he had his hand on my throat and my chest, and then he leaned back to throw a punch and luckily i was able to avoid that, and the punch landed on the wall instead of me. >> walker and his campaign have not responded to her allegations. her story, not the first allegation of domestic abuse against the football star.

his ex-wife cindy grossman accused him of domestic abuse including threatening to shoot and kill her two months ago his son tweeted his father had frequently threatened to kill us and there are allegations that walker paid women to have abortions, allegations he's denied. he's previously acknowledged suffering from mental health issues he even wrote a book about having disowestive identity disorder where a person has various and distinctive personalities. >> brie jackson starting us after this morning thank you. the country's feared morality police willbe abolish and they'll reconsider the law that forces a woman to cover her hair it's not been officially confirmed yet. >> reporter: after months of widespread protests, possible cracks in iran's strict islamic

system the attorney general saying in a press conference the feared morality police who for get cades have enforced the severe dress code on the women of iran has now been disbanded and that the parliament is reviewing a law requiring women to wear hijabs or head coverings his claim has not been officially confirmed by iran's government activists are skeptical saying they've already been forced offer the streets by demonstrators. >> they come up with the idea saying, okay, we can think about getting rid of morality police. >> reporter: women in tehran say since the protests they feel new freedom, abe toll go with their hair uncovered largely without interference the u.s. sanctioned the police last month and the white house warning the eyes of the world are on iran. the human rights abuses inflicted by its government must not go without consequence

the morality force has been the target of public anger since the death of 22-year-old mahsa amini who died in their custody. her death, the spark for two months of protests 200 people have been killed in the demonstrations t demonstrators say the real figure is twice that social media is calling for three days of strikes this week and many demonstrators say they won't settle for anything less than the end of the regime. >> raph, thank you. now to idaho where we have new details in the murder mystery where four college roommates were killed last month. the two roommates who were in the house are breaking their silence. steve patterson has their story. >> reporter: three weeks later, more questions, few answers, no suspects as friends remember four lives lost. >> how truly special i felt to be your friend.

>> reporter: for the first time we hear from the two surviving roommates inside at the time of the stabbings in their own words. >> i'm going to be reading two different letters, one from dylan and one from bethany. >> reporter: their letters read by a fast tore. >> my life was greatly impacted to have known these four beautiful people. >> reporter: and bethany funk. >> they were truly all one of a kind they all lit up any room they walked into and were gifts to this world. >> reporter: officials say the surviving roommates have been ruled out as potential suspects, their four friends stabbed to death in the early morning the moscow police department still following leads in the investigation, digging through more than 100 pieces of evidence on top of thousands of calls, tips, and emissions, maintain they were tar investigated they say there is speculation

without factual backing, stoke fierce and spreading false information. t in this tight-knit town, tensions are boiling over. a father is speak to fox news. >> the detective looked me in his eyes i have no doubt he's working as hard as he can, but somebody isn't communicating. there's nothing being released >> reporter: in our interview he's scared the detail will go cold families are fearful they will never find justice the annual waukesha christmas parade is back one year after a deadly car attack left many killed and injured we spoke with one of the survivors of last year's

tragedy. >> what does it mean to you that you're back here dancing after one year >> it means i have lots of angels surrounding me. >> this year the police had more and altered the route. the drive received six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of early rel release. brooks who defended himself during the trial plans to appeal. all residents remain without power. the spokesperson for duke energy said it could take until thursday to restore electricity to the area. according to police a suspect or suspects drove up to two power substations on saturday night opening fire, disabling them, results in a blackout.

investigators have giant inquiry into attack. a state of emergency and 9:00 p.m. curfew was declared in the county and schools are closed today. the volume just got turned up fans are suing the organization which owned ticket mass fehr the company is accused of mislieding customers and several antitrust violations live nation did not respond with a comment. they said taylor would need to perform over 900 shows for everyone to get a ticket. let's turn to michelle grossman hope you had a great weekend >> we're tracking rain in some spots in the tennessee valley, the lower mississippi valley, portions of the south. we could see heavy rain leading to flash flooding. we're tracking showers early this morning we're seeing spots of yellow and orange we do expect heavy rain, locally

5 inches or more this is over the next several days the heaviest rain is in tennessee, portions of alabama, georgia, into mississippi. we'll be watching that very quickly. that could lead to chances of flash flooding, especially where you see darker blue. we have a slight risk for flooding in huntsville, birmingham, and atlanta. you're in the mix as well. due to a warm front that's bringing a heavy chance of rain leading to a chance of the flash flooding pulling moisture into the gulf tomorrow we're we're going to be dry before showers. warm in the south. temperatures in the 70s in texas. all right, guys. we'll talk more about the week

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