hi, everyone. i'm kate snow. >> i'm aaron gilchrist, and "nbc news daily" starts right now. to day, thursday, december 15th, 2022. deadly outbreaks, terrifying twisters ravage parts of the south, knocking down trees and knocking out power, and where that powerful storm system is headed next. surge protection, the white house is rolling out a plan aimed at preventing a covid outbreak, and how the administration is going to try to keep you safe this season.

tiktok block, and the major move of those in washington, and what it could mean for the popular social media platform. >> and declined, the not so good retail numbers released and what it means for the economy. we begin with the winter storm system displaying the force to nearly every corner the continental u.s. >> right now, 24 million people from montana to maine are under winter alerts now, and in the upper midwest, a blizzard warning is in effect, and tens of thousands without power. >> a dire situation in the southeast, and the concern right now is rain and severe thunderstorms. since tuesday, at least 19 tornados have been confirmed in the south from that same storm system, and the number is likely to continue to rise as the crews are looking at the destructions on the ground. national correspondent miguel almaguer is starting us off in minnesota, and guad venegas is with us in florida, and so,

miguel, minnesota is used to this, but that storm could be historic where you are. how much snow are we talking about? >> well, here in duluth, they are expecting 20 inches of snow and as of a few hours ago, and in about 35 hours, perhaps another 8" on top of that, and so it is going to be about 30" of snow when it is all said and done, and we are not expecting much more, but the concern is shifting to the roadways, and you can see the cars behind me buried, and that is what has made the roadways a mess up and down this region, and other parts of the midwest where there have been spinouts and rollovers and fatalities out there on the roadways and conditions are so slick and dangerous out there, and the concern right here is shifting to the cleanup, and the aftermath of the roadways and digging out, and that is going to take time, but the punch is not quite over yet, kate. >> and guad, this is the second time new orleans has been ripped

apart this year by tornadoes. what are the cleanup and recovery efforts looking like at this point where you are? >> aaron, the storm has passed here, and it is a sunny day, and the properties behind me, you can see, this is the wall of one of the homes destroyed, and this is the power of one of the tornadoes that came through louisiana. everything behind me are just homes that have been destroyed, and in fact, the one house that we haven be looking at back there, the two-story home, i was told by the search and rescue teams has been shifted an pancaked on itself. so to the eye, it is looking like it is okay, but it is not. the other home that is pushed in front of it is holding it. they have determined that it is not safe, and this is what a lot of the neighbors are finding and lot of them who are not here, and the others who escaped before the tornado or those who did survive in the structures, that ri coming back to find out that they may not be safe, and

meanwhile, we have workers trying to restore the power, and they have been here all day long, and this is the scene that we have seen in other parts of the state with the tornadoes and what we saw in the northwest and southwest of louisiana, and the storm passing as the neighbors here are trying to recover, aaron. >>ly so i will pick it up here, and bill cairns, where did this start? it seems like it has lasted for days. >> yes, it has taken about four days here to make foyt east coast. we have not had any tornados and cleared the i-95 corridor, and we will watch this line of strong storms going through places like vero beach. there is a chance to spin one up, but so far, so good. this is day four for the dakotas, and areas of wyoming and portions of nebraska, and it is windy, but it is not going to snow so much more, but it is blowing all over the place, and the winter storm has begun in

areas of pennsylvania and the catskills are starting to get the snow, and tonight, it is going to go into northern new england, and all rain in the i-95 corridor, and up to hartford and boston. as far as snow and ice go, but it is not fun driving in the rain, and all of this mess will be in northern new england tomorrow. as far as the ice accumulation, not worried about harrisburg to cumberland, but we will be watching the heavy snow for the next 24 to 36 hours in new england. >> okay. looking closely at the map, and for miguel almaguer, and guad venegas, thank you. and now, looking through this stock of vehicles, they are searching through the clues of the murders of those students in idaho, and one of the mothers of kaleigh sat down with dana

griffin who is tracking the story today, and so tell us what the mother of kaleigh is sharing with the interactions with the investigators there in idaho. >> she is saying that she is speaking out because of how frustrated she is about the investigation including that white hyundai elantra, and she said she did not read that key piece of information until she read it in the press like the rest of the world. she also said that coroner gave graphic detils of her daughter's murder over the phone. she has yet to speak about the coroner. we spoke to her about the day she learned about her daughter's murder, and that information came from other people, and not the investigators. >> my whole family was not there that day. my son was having a football game, and we were watching football game. the girls came running in, and what is going on, and what is going on, and within 20 minutes,

they were getting the phone calls as well. i called my daughter down in l.a., and i said, something bad has happened to kaleigh, and i looked something up on the news on the phone, and i saw the house, and i saw kaleigh's car, and maddie's car, and i said that something has happened. i need you the reach out to anybody you can for answers. >> reporter: so kristi said that she did not want to believe her daughter died in this manner, and so she went to the sheriff's office and the worst fears were confirmed, and her daughter by the way, was supposed to come home two days later. >> thank you, dana. and covid-19 cases are rising again as we get closer for the holidays. there have been nearly 460,000 new cases diagnosed in the last week alone, with nearly 3,000 people dying. according to the cdc, 5,000 more are hospitalized daily with

covid. the white house is bringing back at home testing to be part of the plan to fight the covid surge. mike memoli has the latest. they stopped it because of a lack of funding from congress, and now they are bringing them back, and how do they pay for it? >> they said they had to have tough choices because congress won't give them the funding they need. and that is to stop the funding, and now they will have them available where you can request four take home tests. and they will be shipped out next week. and you also had to move additional covid tests away from the vaccine that you need, and especially for the omicron specific variant. >> and what else is on the white house strategy on covid.

>> they are looking for pop-up vaccination clinics that can help with the demand and researching to get places like gowns and masks and masks to places where they may need them. this is what dr. jha had to say. >> we don't want this winter to look like last year. so we don't have to, and if every american goes out to do their part. every american goes out to get the vaccine, and treatment, we can have a very different winter ahead. >> reporter: so, kate, if we have a different spike in expectation, and it is far less than we had a year ago in the last three weeks, so it is a progress that is the major concern. >> that is a big context. mike memoli, thank you. elon musk is dumping million

of dollars in stock, and raises questions of how the ongoing issues at twitter are contributing. more than 22 million shares of tesla were sold, and for more than $44 billion. the scores at tesla are down, and that is interacting with tesla interactions that could have effects on business around the world. so, can you tell us more about these hish shoes and the finances of the business? >> well, aaron, it is the state of twitter right now. we have heard the reports over the last few weeks, that musk has taken out on twitter. you can go on twitter right now, and see that the quality of the access has gone down, and he needs to keep the light on, and so that is why he is selling the big chunks of shares and in the

case, over $3 billion, and he told tesla that he would stop selling, but he did not anticipate the problems at twitter, and he has to cash out to keep it afloat. citigroup is stepping back from business in asia, and avatar, the way of water is making a splash. and we invite christine in. >> ryan thielen said that sam bankman may have committed fraud with the hedge fund two days before the group filed bankruptcy. and that is coming in light because of the channels filed in his bankruptcy suit. a new banking ceo is

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to day, congress is hearing from the school shooting survivors is and lawmakes trying to find bipartisan solutions to gun violence. the hearing in the house is focused on the shooting in uvalde, texas, that killed 19 students and two adults, and this is one day after the nation marked ten years after the shooting in sandy hook elementary school.

and ali, the survivor of the sandy hook schools testified at she was a first grader back then, and she is a ninth grader now. >> yes, this is a very emotional hearing by the house judicial committee today, and featured testimony from nicole who was only 7 years old when the classmates were killed. and she talked about the anxiety and trauma that she feels thinking back to that day. she asked for more gun reform that would result in what was agreed upon over the summer. she urged the lawmakers to not become numb to the influx of shootings in the headlines recently. take a little bit of the

testimony from earlier today. >> i think that to this day the parallels of sandy hook and uvalde is a big eye-opener to america that we really have not done anything. myself, my friends still deal with the trauma from that day, and we are all fighting. new town is still fighting ten years later for change. it is sad that it has been ten years, and that i have to sit here in front of you. >> reporter: a lot of the debate in the hearing room echoing what we had at was undoubtedly a success, but it was not enough for people like mack owe know and those survivors of the mass shootings who are calling for more legislation and reform. >> ali up on capitol hill, thank you. also up on capitol hill,

lawmakers are close to approving a bill that would ban tiktok on all government devices. there are national security concerns related to the chinese-owned app. garrett haake is now going to join us from capitol hill. garrett, why such urgency to ban tiktok app on government devices and why now? >> well, kate, this issue first cropped up in 2020 and floating along in congress for a while, but there is increasingly hawkishness on china in general in both chamber, and also, the protests cracked down in china, and having officially the chinese spyware on government cell phones was untenable to both parties. this is how one of the senior officials described the situation. >> maybe america has realized

that the innermost privacy and secrets are at stake here. it is not the matter of a commercial operation coming up with information that they use to make a buck, but it is a question if china, which is very invasive in its own country is going to be able to do the same in ours. >> that is how dick durbin is looking at the case, but i am not sure if millions of the tiktok users will be seeing it the same way. >> this about american device, but is this going to lead to all americans losing access to tiktok. >> there are some who want to ban it outright, and i spoke to her about taking up to committing to doing so yet, but the app is popular within the biden white house, and big media companies like our own, so i don't think that we are close to seeing the favorite dancing videos or what have you taken off of the phone any time soon. >> thank you, garrett haake.

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from health leaders, 12 bay yaufr officers warning everyone, amid a surge of influenza, rsv and covid. that includes san francisco. this morning doctors and health officials held a news conference, highlighting the rise of hospitalizations, and infections. they're urging everyone, once again, to make sure they are up to date on covid vaccinations and flu shots ahead of the holidays. >> 31% of eligible san franciscans have received a booster. this is higher tennessee the national rate, but we still have room to improve and we want everyone to have the best protection available. >> san francisco health leaders are urging everyone who is feeling sick to skip the family gatherings. the cold and dry weather continues in the bay area, and a freeze warning will be in place for some areas. here's meteorologist kari hall with more. our temperatures today will still be cool, only reaching

into the mid to upper 50s. and we are going to see a filtered sunshine today, some high clouds moving by. and then going into tonight, another freeze warning from 1:00 to 9:00 on friday morning for these areas shaded in purple, temperatures will be colder and also frosty conditions near the coast as well as the inner bay, as our morning lows drop down to 30 degrees in parts of the north bay, as well as the tri-valley, and freezing in the south county, as well as the silicon valley area. we'll also see freezing temperatures. as we go into next week, we are expecting rain eventually to return in the forecast. we'll talk about those chances, what's ahead for the weekend coming up in about 30 minutes. >> thanks, kari. the latest drought monitor update this morning and knotts looking good. our cynthia pimaentel spoke with -- >> inches of rain, the major

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bottom of the hour now, and here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." >> two mississippi police officers were killed on the job yesterday after doing a welfare check at a motel. investigators say that a 43-year-old woman opened fire on the officers and she later died by suicide. a child who was with the woman was not hurt, and she is with child protective services. 64-year-old kevin hyde and 76-year-old joe dimatto were taking a sail both from new jersey to the florida keys were

sent off course, and amazingly they were spotted by a cargo ship 200 miles off of the coast of delaware and rescued. the two men and a poodle were evacuated and rescued. they are all doing fine. >> very lucky. the house has passed a bill to allow puerto rico to vote on their own political status, and that means that, i can vote on statehood, and sovereignty in an agreement with the united states. the historic legislation passed with a vote of 293-19919, and that vote will head to the senate for consideration. a new report from the "l.a. times" looks at harassment at a small california campus, and students' efforts to take action there. gary gromback is looking at this, and they zeroed in on cal-maritime. what did they find?

>> yes, there is extensive reporting on transphobia and racism and homophobia, and they are reporting instances where they have failed or disciplined students as they compared trans people to castrated dogs. and also, in other instances of reported rapes dragged on for months. it did not just happen here. a university official sent out a email that the school do more to combat hate and racism, and he was disciplined for using school email herself. >> and they said that in her absence, there is more work to be done in the academic year, and in the years to come. we are committed to more candid conversations to ensure a safe and welcoming cal maritime for

all. they have hired a full-time deck director of inclusion for everybody, and planned forums and campus-wide training for all. but some students don't believe it is enough. >> they are happy to take credit for all of our work. we had to force them to do the right thing. and then they also try to whitewash it with all of the wonderful wo that we have accomplished, and we have done this work despite them. they have been roadblocked. >> this is a months' long investigation, and these cadets, they fear formally reporting misconduct, because it may hamper advancement later on. a texas school is in the spotlight over allegations of racism, and bullying. >> the parents say that their

children were victims of racial slurs and other incidents at a school district in lubbock. antonio, this came months after students were saying they were subjects of school bullying. how were they treated? >> i sat down with a couple of students, and they described harrowing stories that stretched back to the last school year, and they say it has been going on for two ways, and that students call them the n-word, and students will call them monkey, and the pattern that kids were describing escalated in april, and at the time and that students were encouraged to send photos of the black

students to have the photo posted there, and the kids were extremely upset. the parents called for an investigation, and they have not heard any updates from the school, and no perpetrator or anyone was found responsible for this, and they are calling for the change. listen to conversation that i had with one of the kids on the instagram page. >> i feel like i was looked down on it. >> how often would you say the n-word? >> everyday thing. >> if you can hear there that he is describing hearing the n-word as an everyday thing and in some cases the kids have stopped eating lunch at school, and quieter, and quieter, because they are showing signs of depression. so they want to find who is responsible for, this and the pattern of the behavior over a few months. >> it is astonishing to hear.

what has the been happening there, and i spoke to the superintendent keith brian, and he said that the school has taken the appropriate action, and the staff has been properly trained to address bullying, but when you are talking to the parents, they have a different story. this is the superintendent and what they shared with me. >> reporter: do you believe that there is racism here at lubbock cooper? >> i believe that there is so. do i believe that the society is racist? yes. do i believe that there is racism in the community? yes. do i believe it spills over to the schools? it can, but there is no place for cooper for any form of racism. >> reporter: he also told me that he interviewed hundreds of people about the instagram account, and they could not find the person responsible, but i spoke to the black kids

involved, and they say that their kids were not interviewed about what could have happened here. >> do the parents want to pull their children out? >> well, you have met brady there who is a freshman and the parents are so distraught that they are looking for a new town and a new place to live at the end of the school year. >> that is rough. >> thank you for the reporting, and i know that you can see more on that tonight. >> tune into the local nbc nation for "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. after beating the expectations, chuck schumer is brimming with confidence as he is looking to 2024. in an interview with nbc news, chuck schumer believes that the democrats will be holding up to the upper chamber despite a daunting electoral map. we have a report from capitol

hill, and sawhill, democrats holding on the hill, and they have a difficult map, and maybe you can explain that with eight democrats in contested races, and why is chuck schumer so confident? >> uphill is the understatement of the year. there are three seats that the democrats are defending in republican-leaning states, west virginia, montana and ohio that the republicans are likely to win at the presidential level where the democratic incumbents will have to run well ahead of the presidential ticket to hold on, and five more races in purple states like michigan, wisconsin, nevada and arizona that are always close at the presidential level, and if there is any indication for them to trend. and also in places that have been trending republican like texas that has been a stronghold out of reach or the democrats. so they have to run the table, and do it exceptionally well,

and still, chuck schumer believes they can do it. after the 2024 performance, h cited many factors of why he believes that the democrats can defy the historical odds, and still, he cited recent legislation that the democratic legislation has passed, and whether it is the benefits like new lower prescription drug cost, or the new acts that the democrats can campaign on, and the so-called maga influence on the republican party will persist, and continue to alienate the swing voters from the gop as it did in the 2022 election, and he insists that is going to be a theory, and schumer has made some audacious forecasts in the past, and sometimes they work out, and sometimes they don't. >> as we look toward the next election, joe biden and the democratic election committee

are going to be looking to have more diverse states. >> in the nominating procedure, they will knock ohio off of the perch and it is a change that voters don't necessarily agree with. >> nbc lx noah pransky has this report. and most of the states are primarily white, just to say it. >> yes. you can just say it. >> and homogeneous, and do they care that their states don't look like the others? >> no, they are not representative, and most of america does not seem to mind. and we found that 2 of 3 americans are actually satisfied with the current system they said, and 65% here, and that includes 2 of 3 black american,

and the very democratic that democrats want to prioritize by going to places like south carolina first. so they are satisfied, and no urgency to change here, and we want to dig into why. and so we wanted to find out what states should lead off the order, and even though george has the edge here, the biggest number is the people who don't know or don't have any opinions, or 54%, and that is the president here. >> you wonder if it is tradition, and iowa and new hampshire. >> right. >> are the states to likely go along with the president biden's plan? >> not the people in new hampshire. the secretary of state said they will move the primary to december of 2023 if that i have to. but the democrats are ready for fight, and i have spoken to congresswoman dingle who has been fighting it for 30 year, and she says it is all about fairness. >> one of the key things that

the president did in the letter that he sent is saying that it should be moved every four year, and this is the point that we have made from the beginning, no one state should have a lock on going first. >> the early primaries bring political and economic party, and she wants everyone to have a turn. >> thank you, noah. you can find the "out of the box political stories" on

some break news, the jury in the trial of the police officer who shot tatiana jefferson has reached a verdict. >> the police officer has been convicted of manslaughter. he shot her in her home in fort worth. join us is legal analyst danny cevallos, and you have been watching the trial closely, and what do you think about the verdict? >> well, it is not surprising, because it is more difficult to convict police officer, because they are to use deadly force, and they are to po-- patrol, and so this could have been anyone's gain, but now that they have the lesser included option of manslaughter, then that upped the odds that this defendant would be convicted of something, and so instead of murder which

requires intent to kill, in texas, he is now convicted of manslaughter which is now going to require recklessness, and so, that there was a risk and that the defendant consciously, and unjustifiably required that risk and the difference of the penalties is significant, and the murder is 5 to 99 year or life whereas manslaughter in texas is minimum of two years, and i believe that up to 20 years, and so i believe it is very significant in sentencing. >> danny, can you take us back a couple of steps, and remind us of the why the guilty? >> yes, the victim, and the facts of the -- >> the facts tof case. >> yes, the victim at home with a child, and they had opened the doors and i believe it is because of the smell of burnt hamburger, and the officer testified and you are seeing this in high profile cases and the police self-profile case,

and you are seeing it more and more in high profile self-defense cases, the officer took the stand and he said that he did think that a gun was pointed at him, but the problem is that the prosecution's evidence tended show the opposite that in fact, that he did not have reason to think or that he didn't think that the gun was point at him. so it really became a credibility determination, and it looks like the jury did not have the intent to kill, but he acted so recklessly that it justified a manslaughter convick -- conviction. >> do you anticipate an appeal? >> well, that is absolutely he is going to appeal. and everyone appeals their conviction at the jury trial, and whether or not it is successful, and the straight up odds of any appeal being successful, they are against the criminal defendant who is convicted of a jury, but you never know, because there might

be something in the jury instructions that the jury believes is hinky or something that the jury trial may demand he needs a new trial completely. >> thank you, danny cevallos. and now, retail sales have fallen more than expected despite black friday and cyber deals dropping 6% in november. we have brian chueng joining us and what might this mean for the larger economy? >> yes, the retail sales falling in november which is ramped up spending because of the holiday season, but looking at furniture, and building materials and things for the garden and cars and at gas stations, we saw all of the spending decline in month of november. by the way, this is lining up with where we might see the discounting if people are not

buying and demanding things, and the retailers want to get it out of the door, what do they do? they discount those things, so perhaps some signs that the inflation signs could be easing because of the discounts, and we have seen gasoline prices going down at the pump as we are getting closer to $3 a gallon near christmas. >> talking about consumer spending in the leadup to the shopping center, and what we call the big shopping season, and areas that are increased, brian? >> yes, it is in the things that are really the things that we spend the most on, and for example grocery up 8.8%, and health and personal care, and the restaurants and bars got more expensive in november adds well, and so those are the things that you won't see the discounting when you go out to eat, the menu prices not going down, and those are lining up in inflationary data and likely to

remain persistently high in 2023 as well. >> and yet, people are still going out to dinner, you are saying? >> yes, you want to eat what you eat, and so you pay more. >> thank you, brian cheung. >> much more news aad. >> much more news aad. >>he y my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪♪ itit was time e for a nunonol with nucucala. nucala is s a once-mononthy add-d-on treatment foror severere eosinophihilic asa thatat can meann less oraral steroidsds. nonot for sudddden breaththing problelems. allergrgic reactioions can occ. get t help rightht away fofor swellingng of

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contracted janitors are demanding their jobs back, three weeks before christmas they learned that twitter would not renew their contract leaving 48 janitors without a job. to understand of how they're going make ends meet and not even give someone an appropriate notification or severance or anything to help people prepare for taking care of themselves is absolutely horrible. and it is not what we do here in san francisco. >> after the rally in front of city hall the workers walked over to the twitter headquarters where they dropped off a lump of coal. cold morning and sun on tap for the rest of the week, weekend, but we're watching for rain. >> cold mornings and mild offense is what we're expecting heading into the weekend but the

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today on "access daily," look who's here, my guy terry crews for a little competition. "access daily" starts now. ♪♪ welcome to "access daily" from universal studios, hollywood. i'm mario lopez. my guest host, courtney lopez. hoover's off today. "the voice" crowned a new champion, 42-year-old bryce leatherwood, great name, beat out competition to become the season 22 record. a record ninth victory for coach blake they will ton, who announced he's stepping away from the show after next season. >> almost wish, not knowing what's going to happen next season, i know how this season ended and almost wish i could