the last images of brittney griner in russian hands in a red j jacket and haircut short as a prisoner exchange takes place. this morning she'll wake up on u.s. soil. police in idaho are speaking out and looking for answers involving a white hyundai seen in the vicinity where four students were murdered over four weeks ago. a major leak in a pipeline in kansas could put the brakes on falling gas prices.

can you guess what the most successful job in america is here's a hichblnt the average pay is over $200,000 a year details ahead. good morning i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. after ten months in russian custody, brittany greeney grine free her family releasing a statement overnight, extending their sincere gratitude to president biden. she spoke to the president on the phone shortly after she wa freed in a dramatic prisoner swap the moment captured here on state media. brie, good morning this took hard-fought diplomacy. >> reporter: this moment was nearly a year in the making. brittney griner was set to play

basketball in russia during the wnba off season. but she was arrested at the airport in february after accidentally bringing marijuana vape cartridges to the country it came at a perilous time for diplomacy, just a week before russia invaded ukraine the kremlin sentenced her to nine years in a penal colony while the u.s. worked to negotiate her release. president biden alongside her wife celebrated the moment after speaking to brittany from the oval office >> she's safe. she's on a plane she's on her way home. after month of being unjustly detained in russia, held under intolerable circumstances, brittany will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones, and she should have been there all along >> today is just a happy day for me and my family, so i'm going to smile right thounow. thank you. >> reporter: griner will undergo

a medical evaluation in san antonio and at long last be reunited with her family her release was part of a one for one prisoner swap with the "merchant of death." the biden administration was hoping to negotiate a deal to also include the release of paul whelan, an american security executive serving 16 years in a russian penal county on charges of spying. the u.s. strongly denies the allegation in a statement, they say the early warning allowed them to mentally prepare for a public disappointment paul's brother david whelan spoke to nbc's lester holt about what more could have been done. >> do you that i more could have been done? >> i think at this point, no. i think the u.s. government has really run through all of its options, and i think the challenge for our family is to wait and see what other options

the u.s. can drum up >> reporter: paul whelan's russian lawyer said negotiations continue and he could be freed in an exchange within months, but ift's unclear what he base that on. an official only said that diplomatic channels remain open. the cdc says flu hospitalizations have skyrocketed to 78,000 this season and health experts are encouraging mask use the triple-demic of health concerns putting a strain on hospitals. gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: at brigham and women's hospital in boston on weekdays, the er is usually at or near capacity are these beds in the hallway typical? >> unfortunately, they are these days when we designed this department we did not anticipate using these on a regular basis >> reporter: juan potter has been here sick with the flu for

two days >> is the toughest part is not breathing, loss of breath. >> reporter: they have seen flu cases jump by more than 1100%. flu hospitalization this is season are up to 78,000. >> we have not seen a reprieve and hospitalizations are continuing to go up. >> reporter: at mass general for children, rsv cases have leveled off. >> we've never had this amount of patients sick for this long a time >> reporter: this child has been sick with covid, rsv and the flu all within the past month. >> it's terrifying it's definitely not something you want anybody to go through, let alone your children. >> reporter: there's also a shortage of the pediatric medication, albuterol. so workers are compounding their o own. how long does that take?

>> it took four and half hours >> reporter: a necessary process as the triple-demic takes hold >> if we can't give them this drug, it's a life or death scenario >> reporter: and so far this season in the u.s., only a quarter of adults and 40% of children have received a flu shot back to you. >> gabe, thank you now to the search for answers in idaho, where four college students were brutally murdered police believe a car like this was at the scene that night, and they're hoping the public can help them provide more information. nbc's steve patterson is there >> reporter: in moscow, idaho, the mystery continues to grow in the search for the killer of four slain college students last month. investigators now asking for the public's help finding a particular person or people, releasing generic photos of a white hyundai elantra with an unknown license plate, saying it was in the vicinity of the home

that tragic morning. >> thanks to these tips and leads, we know that vehicle was there. the occupants or occupant, naturally, is someone we want to talk tomorrow they might have critical information that can help us solve the case >> reporter: investigators say it is to protect the integrity of the investigation that they have not released information on a suspect, potential motive or whether they've located the murder weapon, which they believe to be a knife. >> the tip line is now going to an fbi call center that's so they can handle all the volume of tips and categorize them and help us. >> reporter: what they have released is that all four students turned home after a night out at different locations across town and were found dead by another roommate and officers later that day >> this case is absolutely not going cold >> reporter: experts tell nbc news it could take weeks to analyze all the evidence, blood, fingerprints and more, especially in a house with lots of roommates and visitors.

in ha >> hair and fibers, they are looking through this house which wasn't small and was a party house, to collect all the hair i was thinking about that. it must be so voluminous with all these girls living there >> reporter: in town things aren't quite the same. >> it's colder for sure. people are on edge, people are talking about it a lot and slower a lot of people left and so it just got pretty slow and dead around here >> thanks to steve for that update oil prices surged briefly after a leak shut down a keystone pipeline going between the u.s. and canada. more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in kansas. it is one of the largest crude spills in the u.s. in nearly a decade it could take weeks to repair. until then a novflow of 600,000

barrels a day is halted. west texas intermediate rose to $71.90 a barrel. prices are still close to last year gasoline prices are falling. the average price of regular is down to $3.33 a gallon, that's cheaper than year ago. it's gone down nearly 50 cents since last month and remember, it was over five bucks in june. aaa expects prices to drop even more, just in time for the holiday t holidays, but will likely rise again come january a special master's term to review documents is officially other. the doj will once again have access to thousands of documents from the search. let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins for a look at our weather on this friday good morning >> great to be with you guys

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>> your majesty v, you have watched the docuseries >> reporter: event king couldn't escape that question. >> the level of hate that has been stirred up in the last three years, especially against my wife and my son i'm genuinely concerned for the safety of my family. >> stay, stay. >> i just really want to get to the other side of all of this. i don't know what to say anymore. >> reporter: social media reaction inevitably divided. we watched with two british

writer/broadcasters. >> there's parts of the royal family that run well and parts that don't >> reporter: netflix paid millions of dollars for this docuseries >> how would you describe it, archie >> beautiful >> it's so beautiful >> reporter: heavileaving some confused >> i think it's very hard to ask for privacy after this >> reporter: there was also the first interview with meghan's mom. >> i'm ready to have my voice heard, that's for sure a little bit of my experience, you know, as her mom >> reporter: harry blasting the establishment for what he sees as history repeating itself. royal palaces failing to protect the couple from the headlines with at times racial prejudice >> everything that she was being put through, they have been put through as well. so it was almost like a rite of passage. and some of the members of the family was like, well, my wife had to go through that, so why

should your girlfriend be treated any differently? why should you get special treatment? why should she be protected? and the difference here is the race element >> reporter: no bombshells yet, but harry did suggest that some royals are unconsciously biassed. >> my child, my son, my daughter, my children are mixed race and i'm proud of that >> reporter: there are three more episodes to come. and then harry's book in january. >> and our thanks to keir for that insight why the ftc say it is could be game over for microsoft's $70 billion video game acquisition and e e mb o mthnunuerneost ststressful l job out therere. and here's a hint. itit does s generate a a healthy streamam of incomeme restleless nights s fogginp your dayay? tonight,t, try new z zzzqul pupure zzzs restleless nights s fogginp your dayay?

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