hi, everybody. i'm kate snow. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. ♪♪ it's thursday, january 12th, 2023, breaking news. investigating the president. the attorney general announces he's appointing a special counsel as the white house reveals more classified documents have been found in the garage of the president's home. how the white house is responding. calm before the storm, emergency crews fan out across california, racing to clean up what they can before another

round of extreme weather moves in. bug in the system, the faa blames a computer glitch which grounded flights. and more men being diagnosed with prostrate cancer. we begin with breaking news. merrick garland is appointing a special counsel to look into the documents found at a home and office of president biden. >> it comes on the heels of new revelations of classified documents found as biden's time as vice president. the new batch of documents was found in his locked garage in his home in wilmington, delaware. next to his corvette. >> my corvette is in a locked garage. >> so your material was in a locked garage? >> yes, as well as my corvette. >> those documents were reported

to the justice department on december 20th. all of it is raising the question -- a lot of questions over what's in those documents and why we are only learning about this now. joining us to break it down, justice and intelligence correspondence, ken dilanian, white house correspondent mike memoli. robert hur has been named special counsel in this case, how do we expect this investigation to move forward? >> robert hur is a career prosecutor and a republican admired by democrats. he worked his way up through the justice department ranks having graduated from harvard and stanford law school. a super accomplished guy who prosecuted everything from gang cases to mortgage fraud. and then he reached the upper echelon of the justice department as a republican appointee. he was actually what's known as the principal assess tenant

attorney general who touches almost everything in this building in the early part of the trump administration. and then nominated by donald trump to be u.s. attorney in maryland, spent four years doing that and then he went into private practice but now coming out of private practice to conduct this investigation. now he has to pick up where the u.s. attorney in chicago left off and the fbi in terms of interviewing some of the key people in the transfer of these documents and possibly even president biden to find out why these documents were put in the wrong place, who was responsible and whether there was any nefarious intent behind it. >> mike, to you, we the public are learning the time line, presumably the doj knows or knew a lot of this already. it's getting complicated. can you walk us through what we know about when these documents were found? >> yeah, i think the most significant part of what we heard from the attorney general in combination with a new statement from president biden's office is that there were three

distinct discoveries of classified documents in three different locations. the first we knew about last week, which was on november 2nd, alert lawyers for president biden finding some in the penn biden center what he used after he left the white house. the second they found documents in a garage, a room adjacent to his garage in his wilmington residence. and then last night they found one additional classified document at his residence in wilmington. it come as nbc news has exclusive new reporting as part of the review conducted by lausch, the white house said they're confident a review will find there was no nefarious entente here. >> so glen, let me bring you in, this is the second time we're learning about documents popping up inadvertently, the first time being with former president

trump. how atypical is it for documents from any administration to go missing in the first place? >> i don't think it's routine. i think there's reason to be concern. that's why there is an investigation going to be conducted by special counsel but i think when government officials, particularly when administrations are turning over and government officials sort of hasten to pack everything up it's not hard to see how some of these documents may be removed from the white house as opposed to being returned to the national archives. what's really important is not just the fact that these documents were taken and should not have been taken. but what happened after it was discovered they were taken. what we know or what the reporting shows us is thatde an returned them to the national archives and notified the department of justice. whereas, donald trump sort of fought tooth and nail with the national archives with department of justice officials, with a grand jury subpoena,

ultimately necessitating a search warrant to claw back the documents that donald trump has taken. it seems like when you dig below the surface facts show two very different circumstances. >> thank you all so much. millions of people in california are bracing for yet another round of severe weather it's set to hit tomorrow. that's the seventh round since christmas. there was a much needed break in the rain today. and crews are just beginning the cleanup process in montecito. an onslaught of storms has battered the golden state for nearly two weeks straight. at least 18 people have died in that time. today more than 100 national guard troops are searching for kyle doan. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is standing by with the latest forecast for there and the south. but let's go to marissa parra, she's in california, about two

hours west of sacramento. what are you seeing where you are now and how are people preparing for more rain to come? >> reporter: chances are if you're walking around in california like i am, you're walking on muddy ground, hearing chain saws as people are trying to clean up. the concern, the saturated ground leading to landslides, mudslides, toppled trees like the one i'm walking next to. this tree did not fall on anyone or a house, but that is something we're seeing, we saw a week and a day ago, a toddler killed inside his home because a tree fell on top of it. we saw overnight reports of trees falling. we know this is the reason why there are still thousands of people without power. we know there are people who haven't had power for over a week. so the big concern here is the soil that has been saturated as people are trying to clean up, clean the mud out of everything but really trying to address the tree removals trying to get rid

of things like this, situations like this so they don't have them falling on roads, on cars and homes that could prove to be deadly like we've already seen. >> i want to go to bill. i know you're tracking a tornado in alabama, we need to hear about that. can i start you with what to expect on the west coast? >> you mentioned that today was the break, we only have rain in northern portions of the state and oregon, we get another piece of iposture tomorrow, bigger storm saturday and towards monday it looks like the final storm in our parade of storm and that will be nine storms in three weeks. so the rainfall totals in this area will be as high as 4 to 5 inches in the mountains after we add up all those events through monday. so additional flooding is likely. in alabama today, a tornado outbreak. 19 tornado reports most from york to selma, i mentioned selma because we know we had a tornado that went through the downtown

area. report of 10 to 15 injuries in alabama today, all of those nonlife threatening but this has happened in the last couple hours. the tornado through the selma area was on the ground for possibly 60 to 70 miles we don't know if it was continuously on the ground but it was ststrong, saw homes splintered and destroyed there. we'll get more information on the developments in central alabama as we go through the day. what's left of this line of storms will be pushing into areas of georgia, tornado watch until 7:00 this evening and also for areas there in southern portions of alabama. we're not done yet but already considerable damage. >> a lot of activity today, bill karins watching it all. thank you. the faa says it now knows what caused wednesday's system wide meltdown in the biggest ground stop since 9/11, they said a corrupted software file was to blame.

ripple effects are still being felt even though there are no unusual flight disruptions today. tom costello is keeping tabs on this for us from d.c. one day later here i know ripples don't just disappear. how are things looking today? >> really pretty good, i got to say. if you look at the current numbers right mow, we're at about 2,000 delays and 122 cancellations. that is far better than yesterday by the end of the day yesterday we had 11,000 delays. and it's in keeping right now today's numbers are in keeping with what we saw before the meltdown. so it does seem that the system is largely back to order, or close to it. there's another major headline that's broken in the last hour or so. the faa now says that that bad piece of software that corrupted file, was part of a program, a software program that is 30 years old. 30 years old. and that it wasn't supposed to be updated for another six years. imagine that.

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brand new economic numbers today show inflation is still high but there are signs that it's cooling off a little. the consumer price index is up 6.5% in december, compared to the year before. but month to month it actually dropped, the inflation rate, .1%. that's the first decrease month to month since may of 2020. president biden calling it all good news. >> so the data is clear. even though inflation is high and major economies around the world it's coming down in america month after month. giving families some real breathing room. >> cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman is here

to help break it down. the falling gas prices really helped to drive the drop we saw in inflation. >> yeah. it's a big part of what we saw, energy prices have fallen and that's driving actual inflation lower and lower expectations. americans take a cue from what's happening with inflation from what they see at the gas pump. that's been helping. used car prices fell, airline passenger tickets fell as well. there's been some improvement, generally in goods and there's the service side of the equation that is more probablisome. >> on the flip side, where are we feeling the biggest pinch. when i buy eggs that's got to be one of them. what are the numbers? >> eggs are an issue that has to do with the avian flu thing we've had going around and that's driven up egg prices. fruit and vegetable prices fell. meet prices were higher. i think we still have some of

the effects of the inflation -- the war in ukraine and inflation that's come from that. that's been an issue. in general, food prices have remain -- i don't want to say stubbornly high but they're offsetting some of the gains we're seeing on the full side. >> thank, steve. grocery prices are among the things remaining high but they're still up nearly 12% from a year ago in some cases. costs are being impacted by several factors including severe weather and labor shortages. emily ikeda takes a look at a few ways to avoid the squeeze. >> the average household spends more than $5,000 a year on groceries and inflation is driving that bill higher. one of the hardest hit products is here. this kitchen staple. last year the average cost for a dozen eggs was below $2. now people are shelling out two, even three times that. look at the price tag here,

5.39. if you want to get organic cough up more. inflation may be easing overall but sticker shock at supermarkets is sticking around. >> they go up. >> reporter: grocery store staples like flour, bread and milk surging by double digits in 2022. >> this little bag it's $12 worth of ham. okay. it probably was $5 a year ago. >> reporter: but it's eggs that are serving the biggest blow to budgets. the national average for a dozen more than doubling in costs from 2021. jumping even more in some states. >> $8, oh my lord. >> reporter: and that's if you can find them at all. looks like eggs are the new toilet paper one user wrote. joining the chorus of shoppers airing frustrations on social media. experts say food prices have been impacted by severe weather, labor shortages and russia's

ongoing war in ukraine. but soaring egg prices another reason is the deadliest avian flu on record. >> once one bird gets that flu, they all get taken out in short order. >> to what degree has the avian flu impacted supply? >> it's reduced supply by 5% year over year. >> reporter: high egg prices could hang on for months. bad news for shoppers and businesses alike. we first met bakery owner rene faris last spring. she's stunned the sky high costs have lasted this long. >> does it feel like you can't catch your breath? >> yes. we're a bakery our items a are butterer, milk, eggs, flower, those are the things highest in price right now. >> reporter: still shoppers can find bargains in a few corners of the supermarket, bacon,

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long this rain lasts come up in just a few minutes. >> kari, thanks very much. the storms are causing headaches for everyone. commuters on the peninsula are really feeling it. >> reporter: cal tran said it could be several days, possibly a week before highway 92 is re-opened. right now shut down at skyline boulevard. we're scanning all the way down a mile west down the hill towards half-moon bay. a problem, a major sinkhole opened up on the westbound and is at risk of damaging the eastbound. yesterday there wasn't a sinkhole, just a depression. things changed overnight when the pavement caved in. now, the closure has been and was a major inconvenience for

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bottom of the hour now, here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." >> opening arguments begin today in the trial of five members of the proud boys charged with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the january 6th capital attack. more republicans are calling on long island congressman george santos to resign. but santos said he will not step down. >> i will not resign. i will be continuing to hold my office elected by the people. santos who admitted to lying about parts of his resume is now

facing multiple ethics investigations. first lady jill biden is doing well after doctors removed two cancerous lesions yesterday she underwent surgery to remove a small lesion above her right eye which was discovered during a routine screening with academy one was found during a preoperative consultation. the doctor hailed it as a success and said all cancerous tissue was successfully removed. the preliminary hearing for the man accused of killing four university of idaho students is set for this summer. bryan kohberger made his second appearance in idaho today and waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing. he has not yet entered a plea. steve patterson is following the latest from moscow, idaho. why did he turn down the speedy preliminary hearing and what happens next? >> reporter: a few important things to note. this was not a speedy

preliminary hearing, it would have been in the next 14 days or so. instead it's in the next few months, six months to be exact. june 26th is when that date will be. it's important to recognize a few things. the preliminary hearing is a huge part of the judicial process. we're probably going to hear witnesses from both sides, probably going to have new evidence that's admitted or at least looked at and the judge has to make a decision about going to trial. so it's a big step. so what we, you know, have heard from attorneys for kohberger is they want more time for the discovery process to play out so they can gather that information and they're more knowledgeable about the case and the facts of the case. >> we're learning more about the suspect's past, some reporting about his time as a graduate student at washington state university miles away from where you are at at the university of idaho. how are people who knew kohberger now describing their interactions? >> washington state may be a ten minute drive from the university

of idaho. we know that he was studying to get his criminology doctorate at washington state but as part of that he was a teaching aide. so he had students he was grading paper for. one of them spoke to our team with "dateline" here's how they said he seemed in class. >> he was keeping close to himself, even standing in front of the class it was like he was in a box, he was very uncomfortable, i guess. it felt like he was per. wally uncomfortable. >> reporter: the team at "dateline" also talked to people who may have known kohberger during husband youth. all of that part of a two-hour special airing tomorrow night. the next judicial designate, june 26th, expected to last five days, will start at 9:00 a.m. but it's not for months until we get more out of this case. >> steve patterson, thank you so much. the two hour dateline

features the latest on the case including interviews with people who knew the suspect and interviews with the families of the victims. a u.s. navy veteran detained in russia for the last nine months is on his way back home. taylor dudley was released today after months of negotiations. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is joining us now. what we do we know about taylor dudley's detention in russia and his release earlier today? >> reporter: we don't know a lot because there was a ton of discretion around this case. just released today. apparently detained in april. i've been following a lot of russia and ukraine events closely. but the fact of the matter is taylor dudley was not detained in ukraine or russia proper. he was in a narrow strip of land between poland and lithuania,

governed by russia. he was apparently in a -- attending a concert in poland, he crossed the border for reasons not known, and then he was detained for reasons that are not entirely clear. but bill richardson, the former new mexico governor who had been dealing with this, he's kept this successfully very much under wraps and reportedly this was at the behest of dudley's family. he was not exchanged for anyone, unclear why he was detained in the first place. but this is a case shrouded in mystery. it's not like brittney griner, where there was a prisoner exchange. we're going to hear more of this i think as the weeks and months go on. but it was extraordinary actually that it was so secretive and kept under wraps for so long. >> matt bradley, thank you. the founder of now bankrupt

cryptocurrency exchange ftx is responding to claims he defrauded investors. >> sam bankman-fried released a statement this morning detailing his explanation of events that led to his once multi. billion dollar company's collapse. sbf is facing charges of fraud and money laundering he has pleaded not guilty. let's bring in stephanie rhule, let's break down how sbf has responded today and why. >> reporter: it's a surprise to hear from him, but this statement that he's put out, surely has been vetted inside and out by his lawyers. and he's trying to change the narrative because obviously what is his name right now, mud. this guy is out on $250 million bail. he's facing criminal charges, civil charges and a class action suit. but what he's trying to do here is move this narrative.

all that we've heard from him the last few weeks, sort of this i created a monster, i'm sorry, i screwed up. . he's shifting saying if he were given the opportunity to run the company, which he's not going to get, if they hadn't made the turn to force into bankruptcy he said he would have had them on the right path, could have secured funding. and he's blaming the ceo of another company, a competitor company for putting ftx in this situation. maybe the most notable thing he said, he's making it clear, he did not miss use any funds, did not steal anything and there certainly aren't billions of dollars hidden away. that's a statement according to sam and he's not in a situation where he's got an interviewer pushing back on him, challenging him. he's trying to get people to see him in a different light. >> where do things stand, right

now? the trial begins october? >> reporter: absolutely. which is why it's so surprising for him to put out a statement like this. listen, he is facing a host of really difficult challenges. and already, two of the biggest executives inside ftx, one of them, a lieutenant, his ex-girlfriend, are cooperating with the government he's facing a difficult road ahead. attorneys have said they believe at least $5 billion of liquid assets are out there so it can be returned but no good news. yesterday they decided to take ftx off the name of an arena in miami. >> stephanie rhule thanks for being with us. appreciate it. house republicans voted to strip funding to the irs this week. and while it's not expected to pass in the democrat controlled senate it's rehashed a debate on how much money the irs needs. political editor noah pranceky has more.

>> it stops auto pilot funding for an outof control government agency that is perhaps most in need of reform. >> to fund the irs, not entirely, but partially, argue house republicans. so let's look at their claims about what they say is a bloated irs, the odds that you'll get audited and the fairness of irs enforcement. first staffing. it's down 33% in the last 30 years and that's resulted in a 90% drop in audits. our government is taking americans' words for it when they say they paid their fair share. >> about 85% follow the law and pay their taxes. the last thing they need is more irs agents knocking on doors. >> but democrats say more agents knocking on doors is what we need to keep people honest, because 85% paying taxes means 15% are not. that means hundreds of billions

of missing tax dollars. so last year the president carved out money to beef up staffing over the next ten years by 400%. who's getting audited? probably not you if you make between 25000 and $200,000 a year. last year one in 526 of those returns were inspected by irs staff. it ticks up higher the more you make but even taxpayers who make more than a million dollars are questioned, last year one in 81 received face-to-face audits. in 2015 it was one in 30. >> if we allow 99% of millionaires not to have anybody look at their returns, is that really -- is that a really the kind of system that you want? >> meet sue long. >> i am co-director of track, a research center at syracuse university and i'm a professor of managerial statistics.

>> she said no group has seen audit rates drop more than millionaires. taxpayers making less than $25,000 a year are five times more likely than the median taxpayer to get questioned by the irs. why? resources. with fewer agents the irs is turned more towards automated correspondents via mail, they're generally simple but many americans don't have accounts, they call the irs for help but because of agency cuts they don't have anyone to answer phones which leads to the taxpayer getting hit with fines and assessments. >> it's not fair to send letters through the mail and not having anybody to answer anybody's questions about it. >> the republican bill would allow the hiring of new customer service agents just not auditors. it's not expected to get a hearing in the senate, so you

should still pay your taxes this year. a new study revealing men are getting prostrate cancer at an alarming rate. we have the warning signs

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jake ward has more. >> reporter: shocking video of a man spraying a homeless woman with water in san francisco. fuelling the debate over the crisis plaguing one of america's most iconic cities. it shows a local business owner using a garden hose to douse the unhoused woman sitting on the sidewalk. a local businessman capturing the scene and posting the video on social media according to nbc bay area. >> the lady doesn't go inside the business. she sleep on the street. >> reporter: another witness working construction nearby. >> i see a guy hosing this girl down i thought it was not right. i went over to say what's up? because i was going to take the hose and pray him. >> reporter: the owner collier gwin spoke via his intercom. >> the city and the social services is a part of the

situation. there have been repeated attempts to try to help this woman who is psychotic. >> reporter: police telling nbc bay area the investigation remains open and would not comment on charges. while some commenters sympathize with his frustration. >> they'll take her to a shelter and turn her out in two days. >> reporter: most expressed horror at a business owner soaking someone without shelter. >> treating her like garbage on street. >> you should be ashamed of yourself. >> reporter: the number of oun housed people have dropped slightly but still more than 7,000 people do not have a home on a given night up 42% from 2005. >> a crisis on the streets. >> reporter: the mayor trying to address the problem by almost doubling funding to the issue since 2019 and by opening more supportive housing. >> i know we built navigation center and places to provide support for people living on the

streets. but i want us as a city to move away from that model. i want us to move towards places like the garlan and focus on places that allow people to live in their own space and live their lives as i said with dignity. >> dignity at the center of the current controversy. >> i can understand both parties. i feel sorry for the tenant and the lady but the police came out he said there's nothing we can do. jake ward reporting there. any today's daily health looking at a report from the american cancer society. >> men over the age of 50 are getting prostrate cancer at an alarming rate. the group says since 2011, the number of men diagnosed with advanced state prostrate cancer has gone up 4 to 5% per year. we want to dig into this with dr. john torres.

prostrate cancer is the most common for men, why are diagnoses up? >> good afternoon. one of the things they're looking at is the psa test and what happened to that in the last decade or so. in 2012, the psa test was something you needed to talk to your doctor about not necessarily by the age you're in, you getting it automatically because that caused issues as well. so the pendulum swung to the point with prostrate cancer checks, it's a conversation for 55-year-olds to 69-year-olds with their doctor to see if they need to get it. it's not automatic. because of that, we've seen the rise in prostrate cancer, four to five per year aggressive and overall 3% per year that's every year increasing. most other cancers have come down, prostrate cancer being one that have not.

that means this year they expect 288,000 men to be diagnosed with it. you can see the numbers rising and where this is causing concern, aaron. >> forgive my ignorance here, i'm not a guy. there's a physical exam and there's the psa numbers, i think, do i have that right? what's the right time to get each of those? >> the main thing we do, we do the psa test. the exam is not done as much anymore, the digital exam isn't done as much anymore but the test. the right time to get it according to the american cancer society and the u.s. preventative services task force is usually 55 to 69. there's no automatic testing, though. but there are signs you can look for. if you have problems with frequent ur nation where the urine stream is slowing down, there's blood in your urine.

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