hi everyone. i'm kate snowants and i'm tom llamas in for raaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today monday january 2, 2023 west coast washout california's cleaning up after a destructive and deadly flooding. our team is tracking the recovery and the new weather system moving in. new covid threat an urgent warning from the cdc about a new subvariant omicron. what you need to know to keep your family safe.

an accident involving a snow plow the latest we know about the actoring condition. and to be or not to be what if you're a football fan who doesn't want to drink in the stand? making space for cheers out the booze. we begin with the final major travel day of the holiday season. >> if you haven't left yet you could be in for one serious headache millions of americans filling arrangements and the highway today. according to aaa busiest time to drive from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. avoid traffic, the agency says wait until after 8:00. 113 million americans predicted to have travel during this holiday season close to pre-pandemic levels. 7 million travelers flying or supposed to be flying many still trying to recover from southwest's travel meltdown last week. the airline canceled oh die laid hundreds of flights but improvement from last week when it was thousands meanwhile, california is drying out after a powerful round of severe weather there. a dangerous new year's eve storm

flooded parts of the state. >> team team coverage. bill karins and miguel as well, antonia what are you seeing and hearing from travelers today >> reporter: tom, a pretty good day here actually at this airport in new york. people are relieved, frankly, the mess you justice d described every lived through days ago has for the most part resolved today across the u.s., not nothing but not the thousands upon thousands disrupting people's holiday time. their ability to connect with their loved ones and that's now led to this sort of breach in trust between flyers who depend on southwest and communities it covers and their ability to keep trusting that airline. take a listen to conversations i had today. >> i think they'll fix it.

very disappointed for those people, you know, people missed christmas. family gathering, all that i'm hopeful southwest gets it together i think it will be fine in the long run. >> in my opinion, you have to leave probably about a week early. just in case, god forbid, there's any snowstorms, bad weather. cancellations. >> reporter: that last bit of advise you heard, that traveler shared, something we're hearing from a lot of folk this holiday season taught them some life lessons and changing their behavior whether the airline they work with or when they show up at the airport. new strategies in back pockets for next time around speaking of that, changing behavior with the southwest fiasco last week, people lost bags folks traveling today, what are you learned? tips to make it as easy as possible >> reporter: a couple key tips from experts consider if flying anytime soon first is try it arrive to the

airport early. make sure you have a sense of whans what's going on. if possible don't check a bag. if you are photograph the bag what it looks like, what contents are inside before you go if you have an air tag, any gps tracker, throw it in there, because that is, has been the saving grace for a lot of folks whose lost bags, through southwest or another carrier over the last couple days. i add one other piece of advice. get familiar with their policies customer service policies. make sure you know how much will they reimburse you if something goes wrong people find that turned out to be important to match their words with their actions make sure you have that in your back pocket and you are read to go. >> antonia hylton, thanks. people in california trying to rover from torrential new year's eve flooding. check this video out of sacramento.cued by helicopter.

miguel almaguer joins us now what about the extent of recovery >> reporter: focused in pockets of california with brunt of the most serious flooding in sacramento county. rescue teams there say in 24 hours they've conducted 40 rescues. many motorists trapped in cars on flooded roads authorities confirm at least one death in the area after hours of heavy and nonstop rain officials were swamped with rescue calls on new year's eve even today made another rescue in high water. the good news is, rain has tapered off across much of the state, but more rain is in the forecast it was an atmospheric river causing all of this damage two more atmospheric rivers in the forecast this week alone. >> miguel, pictures are wild i want to ask you, talking about the droughts in a have hit california has this heavy rainfall helped in anyway? >> reporter: the rain typically always helps at least a little

bit. california needs all the precipit precipitation it can get a series of storms like these won't put a substantial dent in the drought. you get rainfall at these rates it causes more problems than good the damage is going to be in the millions, and there's a real fear with another big rainmaker on the way, authorities will wu b overwenned in matter of days. >> great to see you. bring in nbc news meteorologist bill karins now. bill, 22 million i think is the number you're saying at risk of severe weather today? can you time it out for us map it out >> yeah, kate. bringing in the new year with many different weather hazards heavy snow, flash flooding immediate concern. texarkana, tyler, shreveport notice thefirst tornado warnin of the day issued an hour to the southeast of the lufkin area not expecting probably a tornado

outbreak but isolated tornadoes are possible agency we go through the evening hours. and actually even through overnight into tomorrow. area of greatest concern where the tornado watch issued as expected this is the 22 million between kansas city and houston. isolated strong storms in yellow more concentrated in the orange color. continuing overnight into mississippi and alabama. meridian to biloxi to suouthern areas of alabama strong storms tomorrow isolated storms that can produce tornadoes. the rain forecast. up to four inches in areas that already picked up one to two inches right before new year's flash flooding a big concern from little rock towards paducah. on top of all this someone gets up to two feet of snow in nebraska and south dakota. heavy snowfall event and even an ice storm for friends in omaha to sioux city. a major winter storm in the middle of our country. >> just had one a week and a half, two weeks ago.

bill karins, thanks so much. federal investigators trying to figure out why a teenager attacked police officers with a machete on new year's eve. shot by police blocks away from the celebrations in times square he's now charged with two counts each of attempted murder and assault. here's nbc news be correspondent kathy park. >> reporter: certainly was a terrifying moment here in times square when the big evidence celebs biggest celebrations here new year's eve fortunately all officers out of the hospital but officials zeroing in on a suspect already on law enforcement the radar >> officer stabbed -- >> reporter: just two hohours before the new year's eve countdown, chaos in sometimes square revelers capturing it as it unfolded law enforcement el its nbc the

suspect is trevor bickford who struck two officers in the head with this large knife before shot in the shoulder by one of them and taken into custody. bickford seen a short time later arriving at the hospital. >> one officer, eight-year veteran suffered a laceration to the head the second officer who graduated the police academy on friday was also struck in the head, resulting in a skull fracture, and large laceration. >> reporter: all three officers have been released from the hospital that rookie cop identified as paul kossilino. >> in good spirits aay understood his role saved new yorkers lives today. >> reporter: and bickford arrived in new york cicity by amtrak thursday. adding he had a backpack that included personal writings, terrorist propaganda, a pocket knife and $200 in cash from his hospital bed this weekend authorities say he made a pro-jihadi statement just weeks ago law enforcement

officials say federal agents in maine interviewed bickford after a relative warned he was expressing revolutionary support for ids slam sunday achgts went to bickford's family home in maine officials also say they got ahold of the suspect's diary in it he describes talking about being prepared to die in this attack even described where he wanted to be buried police believe he acted alone. no longer a threat back to you. doctors sounding the alarm about an expected surge in covid cases after two weeks of holiday gath gatherings now hospitals have a new subvariant of covid to worry about. it has an unusual name see it there be xbb1.5 making up 40% of all voe covid cases. joining us now, what do we know about this new omicron s

subvariant more contagious or dangerous >> talk about it being more contagious we want to know how well does it bypass protection from existing vaccines or a prior covid infection. in the case of this subvariant, ask xbb 15 better than getting past our vaccinations. you might get infected or reinfected right now not that it causes more severe disease. that's good news it means we potentially might not see an uptick in hospitalizations infections don't always correlate to hospitalizations or death. we're staying hopeful. >> maybe more contagious, easier to get but maybe not so bad in terms of the outcomes and affect on people's bodies >> right >> sorry i was going to say had that

booster, does that protect against the new one? >> end of the day it's still omicron and we believe the bivalent booster will still protect against the subvariants. a study came out in the "new england journal of medicine" it yielded a stronger antibody response against xbb's the parent xb xbb 11.5. it's important to stay up to date on your shots. >> thank you so much. coming up, new information learning aboutfuneral perhaps for pope emeritus benenedict. you'u're watchining "nbc ne you'u're watchining "nbc ne dadaily." ♪♪nothing g and me go hand inin hand♪♪

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we're following breaking news involving ukraine scores of russian trooped killed in one of the deadliest attacks to date happening in the donetsk region moscow says at least 63 russians died ukraine claynes the death toll is in the hundreds nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley joins me now. what else do we know about how this attack unfolded >> reporter: kate, we know this was himars a u.s. missile system

attacks what was a vocational college in the each region rurupg russians converted into a kind of barracks. mostly recently recruited soldiers it's important these are the recruits vladimir putin had been promising to send to the front line maybe in a new, fresh attack that could even make a play once again for here, the capital kyiv, but, you know, these soldiers are dieing in huge numbers already, and this is sparking outrage among even supporters of the war in russia, and in russian-occupied ukraine. kate >> matt, same time we understand russia launched drone attacks, i believe, on the capital city in kyiv what's the situation like in kyiv >> reporter: we keep seeing over and over again, happening since fall drone attacks, missile attacks mostly hitting electricity infrastructure happening on the order once a week back in the fall.

regular occurrence out in happening once every day, five days straight and begs the question, do the russians have enough of these drones that are sourced in iran or enough missiles to keep this up that's unclear >> matt bradley for us thanks. catholics from around the world are gathering in rome to pay final respects to pope emeritus benedict. benedict is lying in state inside st. peter's basilica at the vatican. funeral services s hemmed -- hed by pope francis. >> reporter: you can see people cleared out now. police moving people away. they've closed the doors for the evening at st. peter's basilica where the body of the late pope benedict xvi is. ship estimated 40,000 people gt in the doors by 2:00 p.m., 30,000 expected every day.

the doors will be open again tuesday morning and again wednesday before the funeral on thursday the funeral itself, mass will take place in st. peter's square of course, presided over by the current pope, pope francis the first time in 600 years that has happened these are two men with wildly different world views, wildly different visions of not only their roles but the role of church in the world. we will hear from francis as we have heard over the weekend, really a message of unity. call to the faithful to join together with one heart and one soul, the words he used in his physical mass of the new year and interesting talking to people waiting in line really standards out actually, not just the legacy about his serious intellect and that he was such a traditionalist. of course, headline of his legacy, retired in 2013. heard really personal stories. people who met him, people who felt very, very close with him one man made a trip from venice saying this is what sons do when their father dies.

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>> highway 84 through the canyon in fremont behind me is still shut down. i just spoke to a caltrans worker and he is hoping to have this road reopened by tonight if not tomorrow. it was shut down because of the enormous amount of rain. you can see there's the alameda creek. its levels are down right now, but they were up much higher on saturday during that storm. and during that storm, it actually caused a sinkhole along highway 84 through niles canyon, so that's why it's taking so long for that road to reopen. north of us in the hills of castro valley, redwood road is closed for several miles because of a large landslide. alameda county firefighters tweeted out this photo taking your mile marker 8.2. you can see a huge chunk of the road is missing, was taken out by rain over the weekend. and here's new video into our newsroom from the peninsula, where there's a road closure at old country road and harbor boulevard in belmont, again, due to flooding.

the rain is definitely filling up our local reservoirs. this is one near san martin in santa clara county, which almost overflowed at the height of the storm on saturday. valley water says the reservoir gained more than 15 feet that day and is at 103% capacity. the lexington reservoir rose 6 1/2 feet over the weekend. for some perspective, lexington was at about 35% capacity on december 1st. saturday night it was up to 44% according to valley water. sunday it was up to 55%. here along the alameda creek in fremont, bob redell, "nbc bay area news." >> the oakland zoo will be closed for at least the next two week because of the damage. you can see the ten-foot gap that formed during the worst of the storm. this is on the road leading up to the zoo's entrance and this is caused by a culvert that collapsed with rapid erosion. with more rain due this week, people are holding their breath. >> we have another atmospheric

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bottom of the hour now some stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." four people dead following a midair collision between two helicopters in australia this happened near a popular tourist beach south of briz bonn police say one helicopter was taking off while the other waing att was attempting to land australia's transportation agency is investigating the crash. at least three dead after a construction accident in north carolina the charlotte authorities said it cass a scaffolding collapse

the cause not known. and grammy musical group pointer sisters has died rose with hits like "i'm so excited" jump for my love" sisters bonnie and june died several years ago. anita pointer was 74 years old. the man suspected of killing four college students in idaho is societyet to face a judge to. those who interacted with bryan kohberger are speaking out when can we expect him back in idaho and what are investigators saying about this case >> reporter: kate, earliest could be tuesday night that is if he's waivedhe's w extradition. not saying anything about a motive the big question around here kate >> mentioned, also getting information about kohberger from people who have interacted with

him in the past. how are re describing him, dana? w >> reporter: we spoke with a brewery owner back in pennsylvania who said he was having questionable behavior scan an i.d. sending an alert to the staff to keep an eye on him. described as creepy and after a few drinks made comments to some women there including staff and customers that that bar owner just did not like. also we spoke with a washington state university student who says kohberger was the teaching assistant inside his classroom and even graded some of his papers how he described him. >> he only came to class two or three times. i didn't really get to meet him too well i didn't have any one-on-one interactions with him but i did, you know, see him in class he introduced himself. he did seem rather quiet to me. >> reporter: and, kate, we also

spoke with a neighbor who lived in that on-campus apartment building who says kohberger seemed normal, but made unusual noises late at night, which she described as cleaning or moving furniture. kate >> dana griffin for us thank you. academy award nominee jeremy renner in a nevada hospital after a snow plowing ing accidt over the weekend we're following this closely what do we know about this accident and how is renner doing right now? >> reporter: hey there, tom. well, his rep confirms the snow nowing accident saying the 51-year-old actor is in critical but stable condition his full statement says injuries suffered after experiencing a weather-related accident while plowing snow tmz is reporting extensive injuries, reporting that that snow plow actually ran over renner's leg and that there was extensive blood loss at the

time he was airlifted to a reno-area hospital where he's with family members recovering. >> the video of him moving serious equipment on his property just how bad was the weather where he's located we've been covering a lot of that extreme weather, but flooding in northern california. >> reporter: right so up in the sierra coming down at snow and storm after storm. so you can probably see from some of those videos just how high some of that snow was renner was really delighting in it, calling it his happy place and even posting those videos of himself driving one of those snow plows usually used on the ski slopes he was using that to plow. so this really was quite a big storm, and a lot of snow. >> all right hope he recovers and is doing okay thank you for that. president biden is on his way back to the white house after spending the holidays in st. croix with his family. his first official event of 2023

on wednesday in kentucky alongside republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. nbc news be white house correspondent moenknika joins m now now. rare to see them side-by-side at an event outside of the white house, maybe don't have monika right this second almost there hold on and -- have her now. monika, rare to see these two men in one place same time what's bringing them together? >> reporter: a big push, kate, by the white house to make 2023 a year that is all about bipartisanship this is, of course president biden, a veteran of capitol hill, no stranger to what gridlock and divided government looks like, but will point to, according to advisers what the white house was able to accomplish in the last year reaching across the aisle when it comes to manufacturing, c.h.i.p.s act, bipartisan

infrastructure law and exactly the reason for think trip to kentucky on wednesday. appearing with minority leader mitch mcconnell and republican governor of ohio mike dewine talking about this critical bridge, interstate cross canning between the two states that desperately needed upgrading, and because of that infrastructure lew it's now going to get $1.6 billion to refurbish it and why he is going to be traveling, not just the president, vice president and others, trying to highlight what they say are areas where democrats and republicans can work together, kate. >> yeah. also some more context here. right? democrats are about to lose control of the house republicans are going to have majority that starts tomorrow what are biden administration officials saying about the challenges of trying to work with a divided congress? >> reporter: big time. a president aware house republicans have already said they're going to be launching investigations into his administration, potentially into his family so that's the backdrop to all of this while there can be a public

posture trying to work together, find areas of common ground, that may become, of course, really complicated by those potential probes, but also we're told the white house is planning for a state of the union in the coming weeks that will focus on bipartisanship and that's going to be a central message that they want to push, because they think that's the only way to try to argue that look at all the things we were able to accomplish last year if republicans don't want to work with us, they're going to say, there won't be as much we can accomplish if they can, look at the things we can implement that's where the you'll see president biden. in terms what they've been able to enumerate on the prilists an get done is trickier trying to chart a path forward and talking about the past, and what they think can work on come this new year. >> all changing. thank you. a major headline out of d.c. house votes on a new speaker after the new congress is sworn in tomorrow.

republicans have a slim majority current house minority leader kevin mccarthy wants the speaker's gavel but it facing strong resistance from members of his own party joining us like, ally raffa. how's he trying to win them over >> reporter: tom, right now between 5 and 10 house gop members who could oppose mccarthy tomorrow in this make or break speaker's election. so today he's been really working the phones trying to solidify as much support as he can, because he knows this is going to come down to a tricky numbers game remember, with the gop's narrow majority in the house he can only afford to lose four house gop members' support and still reach that magic number of 218 to win the spikership. ri speakership. making concessions to far-right members of his party in exchange for support. these are concessions mccarthy

knows would make him even more vulnerable if he does win the speakership, put him's in a more vulnerable position. the biggest kconcession, vacate giving members able to force a vote and oust a stitting speaker and other concessions mccarthy agreed to in exchange for the house gop members' support not a position mccarthy thought he would be in when republicans won back the house back in november especially after vying for this position for almost a decade now, tom. >> walk us through the next steps. what happens if mccarthy actually doesn't have enough votes tomorrow >> reporter: so if mccarthy isn't able to lock this in on the first round of votes, that would trigger multiple other rounds, where anyone who reaches majority whether a republican or democrat, could have a shot at this something that hasn't happened here on capitol hill for 100 years. there really isn't a clear

backup, if mccarthy isn't able to do this as as a matter of fact he said he doesn't plan to drop out and said he would never be willing to drop out of this race but a possible sort of runner-up we could see would be house gop whip steve scalise the congressman from louisiana he after all has said he's a loyal mccarthy supporter that complicates things a little bit if he does become this front-runner tomorrow. if mccarthy isn't able to lock in that support. also complicating things is the fact that scalise is very closely aligned with mccarthy. so it's not even clear if scalise is the backup, if he's able to reach the number 218 to reach majority and lock this in. this is all raising stakes for the vote tomorrow. definitely going to be a wild ride when we see it all play out. >> ally rafa, thank you. and new rules to new, changes to rooms around retirement saving and wlan it

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people save for retirement >> yeah. when president biden signed it into law a lot of changes happening for savers and people already retired. walk through just a few provisions that happened what they call the secure act 2.0 automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans employees can opt out if they want. lower, actually lower eligibility requirements for part timers working less than 40 hours to participate in a 401(k) plan and this is interesting employers not able to match student loan payments. a lot of young workers who aren't able to participate in a 401(k) because they're having to use the money they're making to pay off student loans. now if there's an employer match on contributions for a 401(k), can be treated same for retamt o repayment of a school loan 3%, 4% from a company using it to pay off your loan. >> not guaranteed? depends on your company? >> offering a match use it in

that way don't offer a match unfortunately -- >> offer a lot of relief great. talk to us about this emergency savings program? it sounds like an oxymoron tap into savings how are these companies helping many employees that way? >> situations saving money on a 401(k) great, end up with an emergency expense need to withdraw from the account. hefty penalties doing that under new provisions withdraw up to $1,000 from your retirement account per year with a smaller penalty if you don't replenish it in the year after that. say, for example, you have a medical expense you need to meet all of a sudden. don't have liquidity at the moment you can withdraw from the 401(k) up to that limit without much of a penalty. a lot of people in that situation before see as it developing. >> brian cheung. thank you so much. if you're a football fan, you know watching the game and drinking alcohol often go hand in hand, but what about fans who might not want a drink >> nfl has a space for them.

stadium sections for people who want to have a blast while staying sober. here's nbc sam brock >> reporter: the green bay packers lambeau field wouldn't be lambeau -- ♪ i love my green bay packers ♪ >> reporter: without the tailgating, th thee brauts and t beer section yellow first of its kind sobriety station offering support and community for fans who don't drink. >> section yellow is not anything about abolishing or saying no to drinking. just give a safe area for people that are sober. >> reporter: expanded beyond your expectations? >> immensely. >> reporter: seconds yellow co-founded by recovering alcoholic john clogeman a lifetime packer's man with a shrine month match seize a similar concept at

consers helping to export the? ed to green bay. for newcomers section yellow offers information for meshes of the sober community. offers friendship. a snapshot into the how it's going. >> whew! >> reporter: witness the joy of ruth and lexi. huge packers' fans, the two met a couple hours before kickoff. after ruth, stopped sddrinking to 19, love to go to et game tomorrow night i'm sober looking for a sober game buddy prefer ble a gal lexi responded i'd totally go with you. >> section yellow provides that community to come together and conquer stuff and, like, meet strangers and go to packer games! >> i get asked all the time ho do you have fun if you can't drink? well, she knows exactly how to have fun when we don't drink and having a complete blast since we got here. >> reporter: the blast courtesy of section yellow co-founder thomas, also a certified counselor. >> we are in a stadium that holds up to 82,000 people.

and probably 80,000 of them are consumer some beverage with alcohol. we want them to know they are aloned. >> reporter: in the eyes of many professional football and alcohol go hand in hand. for decades, beer commercials focused on football fans. >> hut, hut! >> reporter: increasingly nfl teams recognize not all spectator imbibe 14 teams either established alcohol-free seating sections and in the case of the packer, designated station for those 0 who don't drink. >> proud to have surfaced, started this initiative off and hoping others carry it on. >> reporter: sportive of all fans. >> an extremely positive example. >> reporter: john and seconds yellow followers hope section yellow will soonen rep bra kated

on a large scale up to and including the super bowl. >> do you want to see it around the country? >> absolutely. section yellow one of the best things that happened for this environment. >> reporter: taking the ball and running with it, for sober fans everywhere also notable where this is happening, guys. with community so rounding green bay ranking first, second and third in the area, in the state and also the country for binge drinking as for the nfl, habit sharing best practices and envision a circumstance this takes off not just at lambeau but in stadiums across the country, perhaps at the super bowl maintaining so ing sobriety and who want to help in the process. >> sam brock families that want a family-friendly environment. >> outside of that zone. totally agree. a great idea people need support. great to go to the games and find a support group there. much more news ahead.

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