hi, everyone, i'm kate snow. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. ♪♪ today, friday, december 16th, 2022. storming across america, a furious winter storm set to dump feet of snow in parts of the northeast. in the south, new images from the devastating tornado outbreak there. writer's block, elon musk sparks controversy by suspending several journalists from

twitter. concealed carry-on, the tsa reports a staggering increase in the number of guns seized at airport security, and many of them were loaded. it's an nbc news exclusive. and unhappy holidays, it's just the thought of celebrating the season leaves you a little drained our doctor weighs in with how to cope with social exhaustion. we begin this hour with the extreme weather, though, affecting pretty much every corner of this country. >> parts of the northeast are buried under heavy snow. people in some areas only beginning to dig out. in upstate new york, a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain is also creating dangerous road conditions. buffalo could see nearly two feet of snow by the end of the weekend. >> for some places in the northern plains this is their fourth straight day of blizzard warnings and the snow is still falling. in the southern u.s. people are sifting through the rubble from a tornado outbreak. many are left without homes as you can see right before the holidays. >> nbc news meteorologist bill karins is tracking what's next for this system. we begin in a snowy manchester,

new hampshire, brian burnell from our nbc station in boston is there for us. >> brian, what are the conditions like? how are the roads? >> reporter: kate, especially when we talk about the streets, it is snowing right now. it's been snowing on and off all day. pretty steady for the last hour. it's a light snow, it's not a heavy snow. as for travel, the streets here in manchester wet, not so much white. you get onto the back streets, it's a little more slippery. as for the highways, 293, 93, headed this way into new hampshire, it depends on where you are. if you just go a few miles south of here, south of manchester, it's been all rain all day. you go north of here the farther north you go, the heavier the snow is. if you're south of here, the highway is fine. north of here you've got to be a little more careful. >> we know that some parts of new england are seeing wind speeds above 40 miles an hour.

what's your understanding about the big concerns in that part of the country right now? >> well, here in manchester right now there are gusts of wind not that high. it's not very windy here, though my colleague john maroney, he was sent to the cape today where we were expecting much heavier winds. the problem, of course, when it comes to winds is dropping tree limbs. tree limbs come down on power lines, power lines get taken down and people lose power. not the situation we're having right now. at least we haven't heard about any widespread power outages around here in manchester or at this point anywhere else in new england. >> brian burnell, thanks for being with us, appreciate it. >> let's bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins now. how much longer do we have to deal with this particular storm system that's been so powerful for so long? >> it seems like six, seven days. it will be cleanup time as the snow will be ending. it's a heavy, wet snow in many areas. this isn't a fluffy, pretty snow.

this is good snowball making snow. there will be a lot of snow men on some lawns. a lot of kids had the day off with heavy, wet snow. winter storm warnings through tonight. those should expire tomorrow morning in many cases. still about 9 million people. the worst of the snow is definitely vermont, new hampshire, higher elevations. we still could get an additional 9 to 12 inches, especially the mountains in maine, northern new hampshire, mount washington. this is going to be a good snow dump. vermont ski, stratton it is going to be ideal weather conditions. how about the blizzard warnings that continue. they started monday night. and here we are friday afternoon, and they're still up for a huge section of the dakotas and a piece of nebraska. the winds are still howling. rapid city 46 miles per hour winds. we have gone three days in a row with winds over 30 miles per hour each and every hour in rapid city. every time you open the door, you're hit in the face with really cold air. the weekend forecast, leftover lake effect snow showers here, the buffalo football game saturday night against miami should be interesting with a

band of snow coming off lake erie. then on sunday, frigid air. this will be the story next week, a cold blast coming down. it's already cold, bismarck negative 6. it's only going to get colder as we go through saturday and the weekend starting in the plains. >> that looked like it extended a big area too, that arctic cold. across the south, people are starting to pick up the pieces from nearly three dozen confirmed tornados this week. >> that number could climb even higher. nbc's jay gray is in southeast louisiana. >> hey there, we're in gretna, louisiana, right now on the west side of the mississippi right across the river from new orleans, and the cleanup, the recovery continues after a string of deadly tornados across the state of louisiana. i want to give you a look at some of the debris and what's going on right now. you can see the torn away siding here, and this is the type of situation playing out across this state. three people died during what were at least 20 tornados across

the state. five on the ground here in the new orleans area alone. thousands still without power as recovery begins, and a lot of families here not only cleaning up the mess, but wondering how and where they're going to spend their holiday. that's the latest from here in louisiana. i'm jay gray, back to you now. >> jay, thank you. twitter is facing growing criticism for suspending journalists who cover elon musk and the company. reporters from "the new york times," "the washington post" and cnn were locked out of their counts. several independent journalists were also suspended. lauren, do we have any idea why they were suspended? >> yeah, so musk gave really little information ahead of those suspensions according to these journalists. but later he said basically that this had to do with what he called doxxing on him and his family. he had previously suspended the

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eventually. >> all right, lauren finer, thank you so much, appreciate it. new numbers just out from the cdc showing the flu is still rapidly spreading across the country. at least 15 million cases have been reported this year. there have been 150,000 hospitalizations and 9,300 people have died including 30 children. today the u.s. also passed 100 million total cases of covid-19 since the pandemic started. more than 1 million people in this country have died. as flu and covid cases rise now, a new survey out today shows a growing number of parents oppose school vaccine requirements. let's bring in nbc news medical reporter erica edwards and our senior medical correspondent dr. john torres. dr. john first to you here, i want to show this map of flu activity around the country. 48 states are reporting high or very high levels of the flu. the cdc says it appears to be declining in some parts of the country right now. what's your view on this? have we reached a peak from

where you sit or are we expecting flu season to get worse? >> i think the important part is it appears to be in certain parts of the country declining to a certain extent. we've seen this happen with viruses time after time, they go up, they go down, they go up and down again. what's going to happen is we're going to be getting together for the holidays. without taking a precaution, we're going to get an upsurge in flu again, i believe. even though we are seeing flu taper off in some parts of the country, i don't think we're out of the woods yet. i don't think we can say we're done with this. it could certainly make a comeback hear. this season started early. typically just starts now and extends into february, march, even april time frame. we still have a ways to go, keeping our fingers cross it is going to continue to come down. >> take us through this new survey, this survey about school vaccinations. >> sure, so the survey out today from kaiser family foundation finds a growing number of people who are against vaccine requirements for kids entering kindergarten. the vast majority of parents who

were surveyed, 65% agree with those vaccine requirements. however, 35% said that that decision should be left up to the parents. the that's up from 23% who were surveyed back in 2019. now, of course we know that childhood vaccines in general took a dip in the early part of the pandemic. i spoke to dr. rochelle walensky who told me we still need to catch up. >> what i can tell you from last year is that we saw a 1% decrease in children coming into kindergarten with documentation of complete vaccination. that is vaccination against 16 severe childhood illnesses and that 1% sounds like a relatively small number, but what it amounts to is about 35,000 incoming kindergartners who are not complete on their vaccination series. >> meanwhile, the vast majority of kids 4 and younger have yet to receive a single covid

vaccine. aaron. >> all right, erica edwards with us today, dr. john torres as well, thank you both. workers are walking out of starbucks across the u.s. and job cuts are coming to goldman sachs. >> steve coe vaks joins us with today's cnbc money minute. >> let's start with starbucks. workers at 100 of the coffee chains 9,000 stores are staging a three-day strike. also, goldman sachs plans to cut 8% of its employees in january. that's around 4,000 jobs. it would be the biggest wall street workplace reduction so far. a recruiter tells us firms over hired and now they have to over fire as business dries up. and federal safety regulators are looking into reports of problems with self-driving cars including sudden hard braking and immobilized vehicles. kate, aaron, back to you. >> i'll wait a few years for the self-driving cars. >> wait it out and make sure they're okay. >> i don't want to be in the

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we are getting a first look now at thousands of newly declassified files related to the 1963 assassination of president john f. kennedy. >> thousands more of those files, though, will remain secret, and that's despite a federal transparency law that called for them to be released five years ago. here's nbc chief washington correspondent, andrea mitchell. >> the documents give more details about how much the fbi and the cia knew about kennedy's assassin, lee harvey oswald in the weeks before he killed the president, but they still don't answer the critical question, whether anyone else was involved. the biden administration is releasing more than 13,000 records tied to president john f. kennedy's assassination. but withholding thousands more citing national security concerns. the documents reveal that lee harvey oswald, who said weeks earlier in mexico he wanted to kill kennedy, was being closely tracked by both the cia and fbi.

>> why weren't these documents released years earlier? >> in 1963 if americans had seen this stuff, they might have said, you know, why did the fbi and cia let our president be assassinated? >> reporter: one document shows how the cia intercepted a phone call oswald made to the soviet embassy in mexico city weeks before the assassination. on a wiretap arranged with the help of mexico's president. >> why wasn't any of that information quickly passed on to washington so the secret service could act to make sure that this man oswald wasn't a threat to the president of the united states. >> reporter: on that fateful day, the president and first lady, jacqueline kennedy arrived in texas on a campaign swing riding in a limo through downtown dallas, shots ringing from a third floor window. >> and president kennedy died at approximately 1:00 central standard time. >> reporter: the warren commission concluded oswald acted alone, but over the decades, kennedy's a assassinatn

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university in the french alps when his fellow students reported him missing. he left his host family's home on november 29th. we had reported on him being missing. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard is tracking the developments for us. vaughn, i guess great news that he's found. what do we know about the circumstances of his disappearance and how he was located in spain? >> right, this is good news and over the course of nearly three weeks now, it was the question largely propelled by his parents in upstate new york, but also the students there in france that first went to the school officials there and raise the the flag that they had not seen him there in 24 hours. the prosecutors in france say they were a part of this investigation. they were working with st. john's fisher university, which is a school in rochester, new york. he was a senior, and his visa was set to expire here in january. but over the course of the three weeks, folks had not heard from him. his phone had been tracked on cell phone going south and he was spotted on surveillance footage at a sporting goods

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mayoral race. the winner had a slim margin over taylor. the organization released a statement on tuesday saying the group supports a recount over what they claim is confusion surrounding ranked choice voting. doing so would cost thousands of dollars, and today the naacp said during a news conference they were given less than 24 hours to gather $21,000 for a recount. now the group is calling for alameda county to fund that recount. some naacp members say the confusion surrounding ranked choice voting is hurting people's trust in the voting process. workers at more than 100 starbucks stores around the nation are taking part in a three-day strike. this includes the store on 18th and caster in san francisco, which appeared to be closed today. warkers are striking at two other stores in santa cruz. you may remember these stores were among the many where employees walked out on starbucks' red cup day last month. contra costa firefighters and uc, berkeley cheerleaders

are putting bikes together for children in need. this is video from walnut creek at one of several station where is efforts got under way this morning. volunteers say help is needed more than ever and the two decades-old program is now coming back following a two-year hiatus from the pandemic. the weekend is almost here. just hours away. it will be cold and dry, though, with some freezing temperatures. here's meteorologist kari hall with your daily forecast. >> our temperatures will be just a touch warmer in some spots, especially the south bay headed for 59 degrees. and 55 in livermore and dublin. in the north bay, we'll see the temperatures headed for the upper 50s as well. now, we are going back to another very cold night below freezing temperatures in much of the north bay, zipping to 31 degrees in santa rosa and 31 in livermore. hayward will be just a few degrees above freezing at 36 degrees and 35 in mountain view. san jose may be about one degree

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bottom of the hour now, here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." three people are dead after a party bus collided with a tractor-trailer. that bus was carrying 22 passengers who were not wearing seat belts. the remaining passengers and the driver have been taken to the hospital. no word on what caused that crash. an iowa qanon supporter who was among the first to enter the capitol on january 6th has been sentenced. des moines native doug jensen will serve five years in prison and $2,000 in restitution. he was found guilty on several federal charges after he entered the building and chased a

capitol police officer. and harvard university has named its 30th president and it's an historic choice, dr. claudine gay is the current dean of harvard's faculty of arts and sciences and has been a professor there since 2006. she will become the second female and first black leader of that institution. she takes over the role in july. with the busy holiday travel week ahead, we have alarming new numbers out of tsa. that agency says it has confiscated a record number of guns this year at airport check points and most of them were loaded. our tom costello joins us now with this nbc news exclusive. what kind of numbers are we talking about? >> last year we had nearly 6,000, just a hair shy of 6,000 guns confiscated at tsa check points. we expect the tsa is going to announce shortly that they have exceeded that number in 2022. i've seen some of these images of the guns confiscated. they include, for example, a gun stuffed in a play station,

obviously trying to hide it. also a gun stuffed in a raw chicken. really astonishing. i asked the tsa chief today why is it we continue to have this problem year after year after year, more guns, more guns. >> and why? why does this keep happening? >> most passengers tell us when we discover their firearm in the carry-on bag they forgot it was there. i think that all by itself is a problem, but clearly you cannot bring a firearm into a check point. you cannot bring a firearm onto an aircraft. >> reporter: the point being here is that we are in this environment where we have a proliferation of guns across the country. we report on a daily gun violence and gun confiscations by police agencies, and now this is spreading and has spread to airports as well. they are confiscaing record amount of guns at check points. >> you wonder or i wonder about how it's legal, but i guess it is legal, right, to travel with a firearm as long as you declare it with the airline, is that right, tom, and what kind of fines do you face if you don't

declare it? >> if you don't declare it and you are caught trying to get through a tsa check point with a weapon, you can face a fine of up to $15,000. that's important. now, also important -- by the way, i need to tell you, that number that you have on the screen there is inaccurate now because just today tsa says it is raising the fine. so a maximum fine now, $15,000 and you face criminal prosecution by the locals. let me give you an idea of the top five airports that have seen these gun confiscations this year. they include -- and this is not in order we should tell you, houston intercontinental. dallas is on the list. there you go, atlanta, we also have nashville, which by the way, the highest per passenger ratio of guns in the country, nashville, and then you've also got atlanta and phoenix sky harbor on the bottom there. a $15,000 fine. they hope that will help deter people from trying to -- maybe they did forget and they have a gun in their carry-on. if you want to legally carry a

gun, you have to check it with the airline and a specific gun safe, if you will, a portable locked box, and that goes in the cargo hold. >> right, for everyone's safety i assume. tom, thank you so much. you can catch tom's full report tonight on this story, that's tonight on nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. wnba star brittney griner making her first public comment since being released from a russian prison. in an instagram post, griner thanked president biden and others for negotiating her release she went on to say the last ten months have been a battle at every turn. i dug deep to keep my faith, and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. griner was able to leave a military medical facility in texas earlier today. she says she will return to the nba this season. russia has launched another wave of attacks against ukraine including in kyiv. ukrainian authorities are calling it the most significant assault since the start of the war. ukraine's military said russia

fired 76 missiles at targets across the country knocking out power and heating systems in several towns as temperatures there dropped below freezing. at least three people are reported dead in the capital region where people have once again begun sheltering in metro stations underground. so take a look at this enormous mess. this is right in the heart of germany's capital city of berlin. it's the aftermath from a giant aquarium that burst. it unleashed fish and more than a quarter million gallons of water rushing in the streets here. nbc's foreign correspondent kelly cobiella is joining us. what do we know about what caused this mess? fire officials who are investigating this say they still don't know what caused it. but there have been suggestions perhaps it was the temperature differential, that that had something to do with it. the sea water inside that tank was about 78 degrees fahrenheit and the outside temperatures in berlin have been down around 20

degrees, so really cold temperatures in berlin. i should note this freestanding cylinder cal aquarium was insided radisson blu hotel in berlin, and people who were staying there said they heard this loud bang at about 5:40 in the morning. it wasn't an explosion. it was the tank exploding and pushing all of this water down into the lobby and out the doors. water and 1,500 tropical fish as well. a couple of people were injured, a hotel employee and one other person injured by shards of glass, but that was it surprisingly, and in fact, the mayor of berlin said it was fortunate that this happened so early in the morning because it could have been much, much worse. aaron, the force of that water was so strong that it actually pushed furniture and flowerpots out of the hotel and onto the

streets. it's really a dangerous situation. >> wow, you mentioned that the hotel was open there too. do we know if they were able to stay open, any of the guests impacted there? >> yeah, so the hotel officials there say that the hotel really is a disaster area right now, and the lobby is just completely unusable and there are all sorts of issues, safety issues surrounding this strange accident, so there were about 350 people staying there from what we understand. they were evacuated and relocated to other hotels because there are also concerns there could be structural issues there. so not staying in the radisson blu in berlin anytime soon. >> kelly cobiella for us, thank you. we have another incredible rescue to tell you about in california. take a look at this, video shows a helicopter crew pulling two people to safety. you can see them down at the bottom of your screen there. their car veered off the road and plunged 300 feet into a

canyon outside los angeles. steve patterson joins us now from l.a. how were they able to find those people? >> rarely do we hear from officials who are rescuing people that they describe something as a miracle. officials are essentially describing this as a double miracle. for one, my gosh, look at this video. this couple traveling on tuesday. they're in angeles national forest, they slide off that ravine 300 feet into that canyon. officials say in that part of that forest on that highway, cars usually disintegrate. people die instantly. so that's miracle one. miracle two, how did they get rescued? this is one of the reasons why people love los angeles, right? despite how densely populated it is, despite how the cost of living is, i can drive 40 minutes to get to that location, and in that location you might not see another car in 30, 40 minutes. there is zero cell service.

that's a situation those people were facing in a night below freezing. you're fing hypothermia. it beams to a satellite, sends rescue workers latitude and longitude and that's how they were able to get there in about 30 minutes. miraculous. not only that, it allowed for two-way messaging with rescue workers so they knew exactly where that couple was, which was not visible by the road. two miracles in one story, incredible. we generally don't report stories like this. amazing to see, and thankful those people are safe, cuts and bruises, kate. >> cuts and bruises, that's it. steve patterson, thanks for some good news. a record defense spending bill that lifts the military covid vaccine mandate is now on president biden's desk. the senate passed that $858 billion measure last night. right now it's not clear when or if the president will actually

sign it. the white house previously said lifting the vaccine mandate is, quote, a mistake. nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube is joining us now. the vast majority of active duty troops we know are fully vaccinated now. the navy, the air force, marines, 9 the % for them, 97% for the army. if president biden signs this defense bill, how does the pentagon plan to end the vaccine mandate? >> so and remember, being fully vaccinated in the military means just the first two shots. it does not mean a booster. so while the boosters are recommended and encouraged, they are not mandatory. so as you said, aaron, about less than 2% overall of the active duty force is not vaccinated. the national guard and reserve, the numbers aren't quite as high, but they're still in the 90 percentages for most of them. so the question is what happens if as president biden is expected to sign this, if and when this mandate is repealed or reversed. there's two things we should watch for. number one, what will secretary of defense lloyd austin or his

personnel leads, what will they say to the services about this? what we expect according to a number of officials, most likely it will be somewhat similar to when the mandate was implemented last summer. that was the services have the ability to put out their own individual guidance on it. the next thing, though, and i think this is something we will be watching in the coming days and weeks ahead once this happens is what about service members who were separated from the military because they refused the vaccine? will they be allowed to get back into the military? now, there are cases where some of them will be able to do that. now, the defense and military officials who we've spoken to about this say most likely if they got out under certain circumstances and they don't have something that inhibits them from getting back into the military, it will be a case by case basis reviewed by the senior members of the services, most likely in this case a civilian like a secretary of the army or secretary of the navy. as long as they still meet the fitness standards, the age requirements and they can still serve, it is possible that some people who were separated from

the military because of this could eventually get back in,ing aaron. >> it will be interesting to watch and see exactly how it unfolds. courtney kube for us at the pentagon, thank you rngts just . just ahead, how to recharge your battery this holiday season. we're going to show you how to

we are deep into holiday

party season for a lot of folks. for some of us, this time of year can feel hectic, especially when it comes to balancing our social lives and other obligations. >> like work, for example. we're going to focus on ways to recharge your social battery and maximize your holiday cheer. joining us now family and clinical psychologist, dr. jennifer hartstein. >> nice to be here. >> i said recharge your social battery. i think maybe we need to start there. it's kind of a new concept. what's my social battery, and how do i know when it's running low? >> we haven't had a social battery for a couple of years, right? it's kind of getting back into the world in a way that we have forgotten a little bit about. so our social battery is really how do we go to these parties, go to work and show up as our best self, and we have to really start to think about where we want to put all of our energy because our battery only had a limited life. how are we using it to the best way we can? >> and so if you're feeling sort of worn out or over stimulated

by all the festivities, whether you're really engaged with them, how do you get that recharge? how do you recharge your battery if you need to? >> i know kate's picking on you over there, aaron. >> i saw that. >> i think the first thing, you know, do you have to go to every event, right? choose what you need to go to, where do you need to show up, where can you not show up and kind of pick those things kind of smartly. and maybe if you have to go to everything, set a time limit. you're going to show up and stay for an hour and leave and like stick to that. and i think no is a full sentence. so if you really just don't think you can do it, then say no, and other people will deal with the disappointment of, that but you need to protect yourself. and take that down time when you get it. it's really important to kind of plug in like we do with our phones, we do with our computers. we do that for ourselves. >> i've had to learn that during the pandemic. no is a full sentence sometimes. >> i love that line. i've never heard that said that way. no is a full -- good. you talk about -- >> it's a good one to hold onto. >> i'm holding onto it.

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don't want to be at, you're going to be resentful and mad at that person. better that you call and say i'm sorry, i'm not going to make it. don't over explain, apologize, move on. >> what do you suggest for introverts? i know folks around here find it surprising that i am an introvert, and i think about being in a room full of people and just sweating in a corner. >> that's why i was making the joke earlier, i mean, i'm sorry, but you said that you don't like being in the middle of a party all the time. >> it can be rough sometimes. how do you manage, you know, trying to participate, trying to be a part of the festivities but not feel overwhelmed at the same time? >> so first thing you got to do in that moment, aaron, is check in with yourself. what are you really capable of? does that mean being in a corner with a couple of people instead of being the life of the party, that's okay too. i'm going back to my recommendation of taking that time out, if you need to take a break, go outside, get some air, come back. do whatever you need to do in that sense. pick an amount of time that you feel is good for you. stick with it, and then leave when you're ready.

you know, you don't owe more time to other people. you have to take care of yourself first. >> yeah, i've done that. sometimes it's time to go and you just leave. >> i've kind of learned that from my kids too, i have to say, dr. hartstein that there have been times where my teenagers, young adults, they're really in on this. mom, i got to go home and take a little nap, and maybe i'll come back later. >> it's okay to be done, and it's okay to stand up for what you need, right? it's okay to say i've done what i can do, and i need to step out now. that's okay. >> good to think about as we head into all the family gatherings too. dr. jennifer hartstein, thanks for being with us. there is much more news ahead. >> you're watching "nbc news daily." >> you can also stream us for free 24/7, that's at nbc news now. you can watch that wherever you stream live. the news continues right after this.

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