hi, everyone. i'm kate snow. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. ♪ ♪ today, monday, december 5th, 2022. attack on the grid. power problems in north carolina after gunfire at a power station. why the fbi is now involved in the investigation. relief at the pumps. gas prices tumble just in time for the holidays. the economic factors driving prices down and the impact all of this is having on the economy. survivor story. a cruise ship broadsided by a

rogue wave near antarctica. how some passengers on board are describing that terrifying ordeal. an nbc news exclusive. the secret service out with a new report claiming chinese hackers stole millions of covid relief funds. what is being done to get that money back. we begin with the latest out of north carolina where tens of thousands of residents could be without heat until thursday. >> this is all because of what authorities call a targeted attack on the power grid. two substations in moore county, north carolina -- that's between charlotte and raleigh -- were hit on saturday night. a state of emergency is now in effect in that county. nighttime curfews also being enforced until power is restored. the fbi and state officials are investigating now. leading us off this hour, nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. she is in room county, north carolina, for us. antonia, what is the latest here? what are we learning about this attack on the power grid? >> reporter: well, aaron, we are actually waiting right now here at the sheriff's office, and we

expect to hear not just from local authorities but actually from governor roy cooper of north carolina to give us a little bit more information, any updates they might have about what is happening with this case. what we know right now is that authorities do not have a confirmed suspect or lead, but they do know that whoever did this did it intentionally and that they're considering this a criminal act. you know, when they were looking at what transpired here, which as you described, gunfire taking down two substations and even breaking down a fence in the process, they believe they're looking for an individual or individuals who very much knew what the consequences were going to look like for this community here in north carolina. so while we're waiting to hear from these authorities and the governor later today, the community right now is just trying to pick up the pieces and get by this week as school is closed down today and may be throughout the week as administrators make a day-by-day decision. traffic lights aren't working. it is hard to find places to buy food and gas, and so this crime

has really destabilized this community here. they're trying to handle it on a local level while the case itself has raised a lot of national questions, aaron. >> yeah, and, antonia, temperatures were below freezing overnight. thursday is a long time to wait for the heat to come back on. how are local governments helping people? >> reporter: that's right, kate. there's a shelter here and they're urging anyone in this area who is without power and without resources to head to that shelter for warmth and for assistance. they're also still responding to emergency calls because it is a community with a lot of elderly people, the type of people who sometimes need, say, oxygen. so not having power at home can be a life-or-death issue, so the county is still offering people assistance on all of those fronts. they encourage people to continue to reach out right now, but you are right, waiting until thursday when at night it is getting down to 30, 32 degrees has been really challenging and some families are roughing it, hoping that the power comes back as soon as possible, kate. >> let's hope so. antonia hylton, thank you. gas is getting cheaper these

days in time for the christmas rush. >> the average cost stands at $3.40, almost what it was a year ago. nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung joins us now. brian, good news. what is driving the decline in prices at the pump? >> do you remember when gas was $5 not that long ago? there are a lot of factors leading to prices going down again. it is the china lockdowns because of the covid joet breaks happening there. that's the world's second largest economy so if they're demanding less oil that means prices go down. there's the recent news we got that opec plus, the world's cartel of oil producers, did not announce further cuts beyond what was announced in october to the supply of oil. both of those stories helping prices go down. for what it is worth, gas buddy, patrick de haan, projecting gas prices could go below $3 by christmas which would be welcome news because of those factors that i just listed. >> as you look at all of these issues, right, all of the global issues we are having to deal with right now, how is it going to affect not just gas prices

but home heating prices, that people would be -- normally you would expect things to be more expensive in the winter. what is the reality big picture, you know, geopolitically? >> it is important to note how you heat your home, if you heat with oil and you see prices going down on a barrel of oil it is welcome news. here is the argument for prices not to go below $3, and that is what is happening with the russian invasion, russian war in ukraine. there's an interesting where the european union has announced a ban on oil imported into the european nations but announced a price cap on export to other countries because the g7 shipping suppliers that run the russian oil, those would be things to push russia to say, you know what? we will off line our oil to the rest of the world. that could make prices go back up. there's a push/pull dynamic happening in the oil markets which could make home heating in this cold winter more expensive. >> thank you for breaking that down. that made a lot of sense.

brian cheung, thank you. >> yep. the supreme court is weighing a case involving lgbtq rights. it centers around a cristian web designer from colorado. she objected to working on same-sex weddings because it goes against his religious beliefs. she wants an exemption from the state's anti-discrimination law. joining us, yamiche alcindor. first to you here. take us through the arguments before the high court today. >> reporter: justices as you said heard oral arguments in what could be one of the most consequential cases to come before the high court involving free speech. lorie smith is saying she wants to create wedding websites for opposite sex couples but not same-sex couples. she is suing saying she wants to ensure she won't be sanctioned

for being in violation of the discrimination laws which say you cannot discriminate against sexual orientation. she is saying because of her religious beliefs she is against same-sex marriage. you are hearing from a lawyer for colorado today who is talking about the fact in their minds it would be discrimination. there are civil rights group saying she is looking for a license to discriminate. how it is decided could have implications for other industries including for restaurant owners as well as hairstylers. others could say my business is a form of art and as a result i should be able to discriminate. we saw a bunch of tense exchanges with conservative justices asking questions and the liberal justices thinking the other way. aaron. >> professor, let me bring you in here. this is similar to a case out of colorado a couple of years ago in 2018. the supreme court narrowly ruled in favor of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay

couple. how could that impact this one? is there a precedent to be looking at here? >> no. in that case the court resolved it on a narrow procedural technical issue and didn't get into this bigger constitutional question that yamiche just outlined. essentially we have on the one hand the first amendment. here the court only took up the free speech piece. didn't really bring up the religion piece before the court. on the other hand we have equal protection, this protection against discrimination on the basis of certain immutable characteristics. what this case is addressing is whether you have a constitutional right under the first amendment to discriminate notwithstanding constitutional protections against discrimination. it has huge implications beyond lgbtq rights. i think given this person didn't actually create any website, the court could have easily just not taken the case and said, listen, she has no injury, there's no standing. the fact that they took the case

and didn't get rid of it on that basis to me suggests they're willing to push the law in a new way, elevating first amendment rights over other constitutional rights. >> so many of us will be watching closely to see exactly what comes out of the court on this one. professor kim whaley. yamiche alcindor both in washington. thank you, ladies. we are in the home stretch of the georgia senate election. raphael warnock and republican challenger herschel walker have both been campaigning making their final pitches to voters today. it comes as 1.8 million georgians have cast their ballots during early voting. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard is in atlanta for us. vaughn, senator warnock is holding several events today. let's start with him. what is his closing message? >> reporter: this is a campaign that in the closing days has focused heavily on the metropolitan atlanta areas, not only fulton county but some of those counties that were once

conservative that flipped to democratic favor that helped him win his first election and joe biden here. they've been on the campus of georgia tech today. i want to let you hear a little bit of him from the campaign trail. >> we've got one more day to bring this thing home and i want you to create a real 911 emergency. i want you to vote like it is an emergency. >> yes. >> i want you to vote like democracy depends on it. vote like health care depends on it. vote like a woman's right to choose depends on it because it does. >> reporter: now, in last month's general election, kate, it was just 38,000 votes that raphael warnock eclipsed herschel walker by, so every expectation is that tomorrow's turnout is going to be crucial to determining who this winner

is. >> vaughn, herschel walker is making several stops on a bus tour north of atlanta. what is he saying in the final hours of his campaign? >> reporter: he's focused on the more rural parts of the state, the heavily conservative areas. in the general election, 200,000 voted for brian kemp but chose not to vote for him, the republican for the u.s. senate. that's why you've seen not only brian kemp holding campaign commercials advocating voters get back out here for herschel walkers but fellow republican u.s. senators the likes of tim scott and john kennedy here with him yesterday. i want to let you hear a bit of herschel walker on the trail. take a listen. >> we're going to win this election because we together can make anything happen. we can win a championship. >> that's right. >> and championships are a team. >> yes. >> individuals win trophies. i love to win championships. >> reporter: 1.5 million people

voted in last month's general election actual tuesday. so elections officials are expecting similar turnout here tomorrow. the question is does the rain have an impact and who does it impact more? we're expecting this to come down to the wire, kate. >> is it raining tomorrow too, vaughn? is that the forecast? >> reporter: it is raining all day tomorrow. >> okay. all right. weather always makes a difference. vaughn hillyard, thank you. two major advertisers returning to twitter and restaurant workers are pushing back on a new law. >> steve covac joins us with today's cnbc money minute. >> reporter: guys, it looks like twitter and apple resolved whatever issues they might have had. last week elon musk accused apple of hating free speech saying it mostly stopped advertising on at which timer. musk says apple fully resumed ad buys and is the largest advertiser on the platform. apple is offering big incentives to increase spending.

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ahead of tomorrow's vote, three of san francisco's supervisors voted against the proposal and they joined protesters this morning making their voices heard against a lethal force option they say san francisco police didn't give the public enough time to respond to the proal making its illegal under state law. robots aren't new, the ordnance in question has become a debated issue because of california law that took effect that required law enforcement to create inventory and defined its use of military-grade weapons today's supervisors expressed their concerns. >> i can't believe the city and county of san francisco that we're even having to consider this issue, it seems a complete no-brainer to me. completely reckless that we would give police robots to kill people here in san francisco. that's absolutely unacceptable. and we know, we know that deadly

force by the police departmentd against black and brown communities. >> san francisco police have said robots will only be as an option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent or outweigh any other force option available. elon musk is facing yet another lawsuit after laying off hundreds of the employees, the act requires the ceo to inform the state and the federal government 60 days ahead of time before a layoff of 100 employees or more twitter did not do that. this morning if southern california, lisa bloom appeared with three former twitter employees they're suing to force musk to keep the promises made to them. that lawsuit is one at least three we know of. we reached out to twitter to get

their side of the story reports the media relakeses department has been laid off. more rain in our future. keep that umbrella handy. >> the unsettled weather continues for bay area, we're still seeing the scattered showers moving through and a chance even into the overnight hours, for the peninsula we're looking at some of the rain moving through around 10:00 to 11:00 maybe in the north bay during the overnight hours until early tuesday and the rain will gradually wind down as we head into tuesday afternoon, now wednesday and thursday are looking dry but we're looking at the potential of more rain in the forecast after getting about another quarter to half inch of rain it's been so wet here lately and it's good to know that we have some more much-needed rain, that and the seven-day forecast is coming up in about 30 minutes. thanks, carrie. some other stories you need to know about, two racing cars are

suspected of causing a deadly big rig crash, people tried to get help in san francisco, first san jose police announcing the arrest of a youth cons lor. faces multiple charges the incidents happened inside a class room while working for the organization new hope for youth, detectives believe there could be additional victims given his position at the school, police arrested him nearly a week ago. san francisco has one less facility to help addicts, despite protests the city yesterday closed the tender loin center created last year to help reduce overdose deaths and increase connections to services. supervisors voted to close it in june, the city plans to provide the same services from other local providers and still no

word of arrests in a weekend crash that killed a big rig driver transporting u.s. mail it happened early saturday in oakland, investigators now believe two cars were racing one car struck the truck which rolled over and caught fire and the driver of that truck became trapped. investigators also believe another car picked up the speeding driver which caused the crash and then raced off. you can get the latest headlines at nbcbayarea.com. that does it for this edition of "fast forward." i'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. hope to see you then. hi, my name is tony cooper. and if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plan you choose, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible

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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily". an arrest has been made in the brutal murder of a massachusetts couple. police found 27-year-old christopher kealy in miami beach, florida, on friday. he is accused of beating 70 year olds carl and vickie madsen to death in their home last week. kealy will be returned to face homicide charges. jury deliberations began in the trump tax fraud. the organization could face up to $1.6 million in fines if

convicted on all counts. americans will have two more years to get a real id driver's license. the department of homeland security says u.s. air travelers will have to present a real id to board domestic flights starting in may of 2025 instead of 2023. dhs says this will give the state agencies more time to process all of those new id cards. we head to hawaii now. molten lava from the world's largest active volcano is inching closer to a high want on the big island. lava has been spewing out since eruptions started on november 27th. geologists say it is tough to predict which direction the the lava will flow. joining us from the big island, lacie, talk to us about how concerned officials are about the lava potentially crossing the highway and what is being done to stop it. >> reporter: aaron, aloha from hawaii island. i am standing at the gill kert

kahale park across the highway. you can see over my shoulder the majestic mauna loa. though the sun is up you can still see the large plume of smoke coming from the fissure. we were able to listen in to the daily briefing with the hawaii volcano observatory and they say the lava is moving slowly north. it has actually slowed a bit in the last several days because it hit a flat spot so to speak. so instead of advancing, it is kind of smoothing out like a pancake i guess you could explain it like that. officials are definitely concerned because if it does cross the highway, this would have a major impact on the island's economy. so they do have backup plans in place. they have put together several teams to be prepared in the case this does occur and it does cross the roadway. so officials are closely monitoring it. at last check at about 6:30 this morning, the flow was about 2.16 miles away from the highway. so they're definitely continuing

to monitor that closely as well. scientists say that they are going to be continuing to do checks by ground, by air. they've got some drones up as well, using satellite information to closely track this lava flow. >> all right, lace hee denise, we appreciate your reporting there for us from hawaii today. thank you. embattled nfl quarterback deshaun watson returned to the field on sunday in his debut with the cleveland browns. watson was suspended for 11 games and fined $5 million after more than two dozen well publicly accused him of sexual misconduct from when he was on a different team in houston. nbc's maya england is there with more. maya. >> reporter: hi, kate. watson took to the field on sunday playing his first season game in 700 days. the cleveland browns' quarterback made his team debut on the road in a very familiar stadium against his former team, the houston texans. it is the first time he was allowed to play this season following an 11-game suspension he served for violating the

nfl's personal conduct policy. more than two dozen women accused watson of sexual mktd during massage therapy and personal training sessions which he denies. watson has never been criminally charged and maintains his innocence. despite the claims against him, the browns gave him a record-setting $230 million guaranteed contract during the off-season while the nfl was investigating the allegations. in his first game back he was greeted with nearly several boos every time he came out of the huddle. while it was made clear he was not welcome, others treated him like nothing ever happened. >> when you are in this kind of limelight, you can't have actions like that. >> you do feel for the women and not necessarily like going to be -- i'm just here for some good football. >> reporter: the browns are on the road next sunday before watson makes his official debut in cleveland the following week. kate. >> maya, what is next for watson now then?

>> reporter: kate, 24 lawsuits were filed against lawsuit alleging sexual assault and sexual misconduct during massage appointments while he was with the texans. 23 of the lawsuits have been settled and the nfl says watson remains in mandatory counseling. kate. >> maya eagle reporting for us. thanks. tampa's police chief resigned after a video showed her trying to abuse her position during a traffic stop. nbc correspondent steven romo is tracking this and joins us now. what happened here? >> reporter: a lot of people talking about this one. the controversy started last month with mary o'connor and her husband were pulled over as they drove a golf cart near their home. the deputy told them at the time their golf cart did not have the proper license plate for the road. that's when chief o'connor who was made chief in february, flashed her badge and asked the deputy to let her go which he

did. the exchange was recorded on the deputy's body camera. >> we went to the club. >> is your camera on? >> it is. >> i'm the police chief in tampa. i hope you will let us go tonight. >> okay. you look familiar, so -- >> i'm sure i do. >> reporter: you see it all play out there on the body cam. in a statement o'connor said it was the first time the couple left their golf cart from the community where they own property, adding it was poor judgment to be driving on public roads without a proper tag. she also apologized to the deputy there at the time. she was placed on administrative leave last week pending investigation into the incident, but earlier today she went ahead and officially resigned, aaron. >> anything from the city of tampa, from the folks running the city there, steven? >> reporter: yeah, the mayor of tampa released a statement saying it is unacceptable for

any public employee and especially the city's top law enforcement leader to ask for special treatment because of their position. public trust in tampa's police department is paramount to our success as a city and a community. aaron. >> steven romo with us today. steven, thank you. let's turn to an nbc news exclusive. the secret service says hackers linked to the chinese government stole at least $20 million in u.s. covid relief benefits. it is the first pandemic fraud tied to former state-sponsored cyber criminals that the u.s. government has publicly acknowledged, but law enforcement sources say it could be, quote, the tip of the iceberg. nbc's senior investigative producer sarah fitzpatrick joins me from washington with a closer look at all of this. sarah, what do we know about the chinese group behind this? what more can you tell us about the extent of the fraud? >> reporter: apt41 is a hacking group based in china and has been well-known to american law enforcement officials over the past decade.

in recent years the group has increasingly focused on infiltrating american critical infrastructure and state governments on behalf of the chinese government. this is primarily for espionage purposes. the true extend of the fraught is unknown. today we reported on one case that the secret service was willing to confirm publicly, but nbc news is aware of multiple ongoing investigations across the federal government involving tp41 and other state-sponsored group. one official acknowledged for our story the total amount of unemployment fraud overall from international and domestic actors could be as high as half a billion dollars. >> it is big numbers. sarah, you know, we've been aware, there's been government -- the government has found evidence of chinese hacking for years now, but it sounds like a real escalation. they are actually stealing u.s. government funds. >> reporter: absolutely. taxpayer funds. i think it is important every single u.s. official we spoke to

for the story called the theft of taxpayer funds a serious escalation with major national security implications. that's important because those implications could develop outside of the cybersecurity realm. you know, potential diplomatic issues, et cetera. many high-ranking sources for the story would not speak on the record because of concerns of how sensitive and how serious a development this is, but perhaps most importantly officials and experts told us is the concern once a group like this, a very sophisticated state-sponsored group, is inside state i.t. systems they're essentially in there forever and that's a worrying development. >> i'll say. sarah fitzpatrick for us today. thank you for the reporting. the botched taylor swift ticket presale has left bad blood between the pop star's fans and ticketmaster. >> i want ticketmaster down. they don't care about their reputation. >> in fact, a group of swifties is now suing ticketmaster's parent company, live nation, alleging antitrust violations,

misrepresentation and fraud. nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos joins us and set to talk more about this. we are all laughing about this whole sna few around taylor swift tickets but it is a real lawsuit. what are they arguing? >> at first blush it is easy to see this as a case of, hey, these are some disappointed swifties who wanted to buy tickets and couldn't buy tickets so what the heck are they filing a lawsuit for. but when you look at the complaint, it is about a lot more than that. first, the plaintiffs in this case argue that they were promised in the form of a contract that if they purchased merchandise and did some other things, then the defendants would give them a code and they would be able to buy tickets to this event. so if that's true, that is more along the lines of a contract, not a situation where, hey, i want to go to the yankee's game but there just aren't tickets. that's not what they're alleging in this case. they're alleging they had some form of agreement, some meeting of the mind. beyond that they're using this

complaint as an opportunity to level antitrust-style allegations against ticketmaster, essentially saying ticketmaster has cornered the market for ticket sales. when monopolies happen like that prices do not respond to market forces. prices are whatever the monopolizer wants them to be. another thing alleged in the complaint i find fascinating is apparently ticketmaster has not only the primary market for ticket sales but according to the complaint they've inserted themselves in the secondary market. all of the manufacturers and other businesses that would love to control the secondary market and the primary market, ticketmaster apparently has found a way to do it. >> wow. you mentioned antitrust, right? it just so happens that the feds are investigating live nation, the parent company, for antitrust. that announcement came out last week. is there potentially a connection between the two cases? could one play into the other? >> if asked the doj would say we don't care about civil lawsuits, we are conducting our own investigation and that's probably true, but if i'm the

plaintiff's attorneys i would use a doj investigation as an advantage, as not only a public relations advantage but even a discovery advantage because if they bring criminal charges, for example, you will have them proving bad things about the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. oh, i'll just cherry pick some of this and use it in my just a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard suit. >> what could happen here? could it impact just the plaintiffs? could it impact all of us who wanted taylor swift cases? >> to the extent it is a breach case, it probably wouldn't affect the rest of the world. but to the extent there's an antitrust allegation, it could affect other things. this is a company that arguably is the only player in the market, so this could have a very large effect in addition to the doj investigation. it could be a very big deal and

it isn't -- you know, as much as it is fun to say, hey, those people didn't get their tickets, too bad, so sad, it is clear this complaint appears to be about more than that. >> something to watch. we appreciate it, danny. thank you. after the break, the new documentary rocking the royal

netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming

documentary series titled "harry and meghan." >> the show is expected to shine a light on the behind-closed-door tensions that led to harry and meghan stepping down as members of the royal family. keir simmons joins us live from london, he is back over there. how is the palace prepared to deal with what might be revealed in this trailer today? >> reporter: a question we don't fully know, we have been trying to ask both palaces, what should we expect from you on thursday, how do you expect to rebut the claims that might be in this docuseries and it is not clear. you have to assume they are working hard to try to do that, but i think one of the messages they're trying to put out is they and the royal family here on this side of the pond are just business as usual. you might call that a defensive

crouch, frankly. i do think depending on what we see on thursday. keep in mind, nobody knows what we're going to see apart from these two one-minute-long trailers, depending on what we see i think you will marry kind her kind of a rebuttal. >> obviously there's a chance the documentary could add to the tensions that exist in the royal family and in this sort of universe after the allegations of racism in the royal family from earlier this year. how have the senior royals been dealing with the scrutiny around those particular issues? >> reporter: yeah, i mean i think there's more than a chance, aaron, i think there absolutely is. listen, let me give you one example. now twice, this morning and last week, the netflix trailer dropped just minutes before i was on air on the "today" show. i think that's deliberate, that netflix are doing that, dropping it very early, kind of around

7:00 a.m. u.s. east coast time because they want to get maximum publicity for it. the question is a good one because underlying this are deep issues, issues of whether there is racism within the palaces. i think the whole story from last week at buckingham palace kind of brought that out. that does need to be addressed by the palace. i'm not sure they know how to beyond just saying we are working against racism. that's the kind of message, if you lie. >> keir, you were just here in boston. william and kate were over here doing their tour of the u.s. how much did all of that controversy we were just talking about distract from their efforts? >> reporter: i think it did clearly overshadow their efforts. that being said, let's not forget there was a lot of publicity about prince william's earth shot prize, his environmental prize. there was a lot of publicity about what kate was wearing, about the charities and causes she went and looked at. there will be a large number of americans who will have just enjoyed seeing them, and they've

got their messages out there. it is not all bad but it didn't didn't go the way they would like. >> i was a fan of the green dress. >> reporter: it looked great on the carpet, and i'm not a fashion expert as you know. >> keir simmons, thank you. let's take a look at what is trending. tributes are pouring in for bob mcgrath, a beloved original cast member of "sesame street." he died on sunday. he made his debut as bob johnson in the show's pilot in 1969. he became a show regular for more than four decades. "sesame workshop" said he brought joy to generations of children around the world. bob mcgrath was 90 years old. >> i grew up with that guy. paul pelosi, the husband of nancy pelosi, made his first public appearance since he was attacked in october. pelosi appeared at last night's 45th annual kennedy center honors. president biden was also there. the event honored gladys knight,

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