hi, everyone, i'm kate snow. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. "nbc news daily" starts right now. >> today, friday, january 20th, 2023. negligence. prosecutors standing firm on their plan to charge alec baldwin in that deadly movie set shooting. how they're going to make their case to a jury in their own words. past the peak. rates trending down. why it's too soon to let your guard down against the

tridemocratic threat. google's parent company cutting thousands of jobs. why the company says it had no choice. and be kind. how simple acts for others could help you tame anxiety and depression. we begin today with insight from prosecutors in new mexico about their decision to charge alec baldwin with involuntary manslaughter. they say it was clear what happened on the set of "rust" was criminal. >> we felt confident that it was going to be a criminal case pretty close to the beginning once we started looking at everything. >> baldwin and the movie's weapons supervisor will bothing charged with involuntary manslaughter by the end of this month. baldwin was holding a prop gun when it fired, killing cinematographer halyna hutchins during rehearsal in 2021. prosecutors say the evidence shows a, quote, pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the set. >> let's bring in vaughn hillyard and attorney and legal analyst angela senedello, both on set with us.

vaughn, let me start with you. by all accounts everybody says the shooting was an accident. nobody intended for this to happen. how did the district attorney, the prosecutor, defend the charges? >> this is where negligence turns into the question of criminal negligence. listen to a little bit of the district attorney of survive here who is going to be the one prosecuting the case explain how we want to go from accident to ultimately criminal charges. take a listen. >> just because something's an accident doesn't mean it's not criminal. and that's what we have here in this case. because an accident that is not criminal is something that just happens because of an act of god, say. but this, this was something that was more than mere negligence. >> this goes to the very heart of the question. you know, outside of whether or not alec baldwin had pulled the trigger, you're dealing with somebody who held a firearm up in the direction of halyna hutchins and a bullet discharged and killed an individual. and so the question here goes to

also what went into this moment before the lead up to this moment. the armorer contends she told alec baldwin he needed to go through a gun safety training program for this maneuver, this cross draw maneuver. he never did that, she says. it goes also to the question was he the producer and what did he know about the armorer who was hired on to be in charge of putting the bullet into the firearm and the extent to which there were concerns around gun safety training among crew members. >> angela, we have -- the prosecutors have laid out to some degree what their case is going to be here, why they felt the need to charge baldwin and the armorer, as well, in this case. you'll have two defense teams at work here. what's the defense strategy likely being developed at this point? >> so for alec baldwin it's going to be narrowing the scope of his duties. for any negligence to be proven, you have to prove there was responsibility. and he's going to narrow it and say as an actor, as a producer, i was not responsible for safety at all. as a result he's going to

deflect blame onto hannah gutierrez-reed, the armorer, so they're going to be pitted against each other. the most fascinating is the a.d. it was revealed that he agreed to testify, so that's going to be what's most incriminating to both of them. >> he took a plea, and now he's going to be presumably in this trial. >> yes, testifying. >> all right. >> angela, vaughn, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. speaking out for the first time in a week, president biden says he is fully cooperating with the investigation of his handling of classified documents after he left the obama white house in 2017. but he is still not saying how those documents ended up at his private home in delaware or at a former office. nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli is in washington for us. what else did the president say about this investigation, and what are you hearing about there from the white house today? >> reporter: of course white house officials continue to insist that the packing and the transport of these documents from biden's office as vice

president six years ago to multiple locations was really just an honest mistake on the part of junior staffers. the president used the opportunity yesterday to reiterate that he believes any probes will find that he did nothing wrong. let's listen here. >> i think you're going to find there's nothing there. i have no regrets. i'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it's exactly what we're doing. there's no there there. >> reporter: now you can see the president was reading his answer very carefully from prepared notes. this has been a recurring feature both from the president himself in the few times he's spoken about this publicly, but also from the white house again today. the press secretary referring most reporters' questions to either the office of the special counsel or to the white house lawyers who themselves haven't been quite responsive. aaron? >> all right. mike, thank you. emergency room visits related to covid, the flu, and rsv are dropping across the country. >> the combined number of people going to an emergency room because of the three viruses has

actually dropped by more than 200,000 since december. now it's a sign that cases from those viruses may have peaked, but the experts say the threat is not over yet. >> let's dig into there with nbc news senior medical correspondent, nbc news senior medical correspondent, there i go, dr. john torres. let's give you your title. so first off, what's behind the drop? you can see it on the graph. >> you can see the drop. if you look at it, rsv and flu are the ones dropping a lot. covid is dropping, and it was dropping more, but it's starting to taper off a little. it's not dropping as much. that's that variant that's hitting the country here. we think that's going to spread. essentially what's happening is we saw this happen early on, and we saw it hit us very hard and very early, october, november, december timeframe for these three different viruses. and because it hit us early, the natural sequence of the virus as it starts to taper off. doesn't mean we're out of danger yet because the flu is type a, type b could start moving in. that's typically later in the flu season.

that could move in, the variant could climate change a little bit and could cause an issue. rsv we think we're through with that, but time will tell. >> don't get too excited basically. at the same time there's a cdc report that shows that children have been getting sicker than adults from these viruses. what do parents make of that? >> and they're getting sicker for a specific reason. because of co-infections. they're getting sometimes one or two viruses at the same time, and sometimes a virus with a bacterial infection on top of that. part of the reason behind this happening is because for the last couple of years they've been well protected, they didn't get the natural infections that they typically get. also their airways are smaller, so any infection is going to d onop of that, theirmmune systems aren't as strong. o viruay the flu moves in, they're more susceptible to getting covid, as well, or a bacterial infection. and that triple whammy is what's causing them to unfortunately end up in the hospital more than we'd like. >> i've been hearing that from a lot of friends anecdotally, stuff going through the whole family. the kids are getting sick with one and sick again. what do the next few months look like? we're not in spring yet.

what -- >> not in spring yet. we're certainly not out of the woods yet. things are looking better, and we hope they continue to look better. like i mentioned, the flu, type a is here, type b comes, hopefully it doesn't come as hard as type a did. that was an issue. on top of that, covid, we're a mutation away from it causing members. rsv, we're not terribly concerned. the if it's in your area, if community levels are high, mask up, do the things you normally do, and get vaccinated. >> dr. john torres, we appreciate it. thank you. significant news from the tech industry today. google's parent company, alphabet, announced it's laying off 12,000 workers, about 6% of the company's worldwide work force. it comes on the heels of major job cuts from others tech industry titans, amazon and microsoft announced that they're laying off a combined 28,000 workers. earlier this week they announced that. let's bring in stevekovak.

>> it's the same as everyone else, they grew too rapidly during the pandemic as we went through this digital transformation for work and learning and playing to where we are now, going back in the real world. on top of that we see interest rates rising, we see the macroeconomic environment hurtling toward potentially a recession. and that causes advertisers which is where google makes most of its money to pull back. they're cutting costs, but not cutting costs everywhere. firing 12,000 employees, but also talking about where they want to invest which is artificial intelligence. that's where they see the future of google going. >> you know, we talk about the tech sector cutting back, but there's an exception, right? apple. why have we not heard about apple making cuts? >> reporter: yeah, so of all the big mega companies out there, apple's the only one so far that has not laid off in a massive way like we've seen. part of that is because they just didn't hire as many people or grow as rapidly as their peers and rivals have, and that's the way apple's always

operated. they don't overspend, they don't invest in crazy looking science projects like the metaverse and things like that. they're very deliberate. they know their money maker's the iphone, that's how they hire, kate. thanks. existing home sales fall to the lowest level in more than a decade, and another crypto lender files for bankruptcy. >> frank holland now with the "money minute." >> reporter: happy friday to both of you. let's start with the continuing weakness in the housing market. sales of previously owned homes dropped 1.5% in december. the 11th straight monthly decline in sales. haven't been this low since late 2010. for the national association of realtors, they're predicting the market will pick up soon now that mortgage rates have come down after peaking last year. more fallout from ftx. genesis is filing for bankruptcy protection with over 100,000 creditors and liabilities, that could be as high as $11 billion. and rovio the company behind the angry birds mobile game says it's considering an $800 million

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student. jordan taylor has been missing for two weeks now. the 29-year-old was last seen in queens, new york, but personal items have been found across the neighboring borough of manhattan. taylor has worked on the campaigns for new york lieutenant governor anthony delgado and baltimore city council president nick mosby. we have more now, maya, what have police been able to piece together from the evidence? >> reporter: the short answer is not much. taylor was last seen, as you mentioned, two weeks ago getting a haircut in queens. the barber said he got up in the middle of the appointment. shortly after the time he was reported to have left he posted a picture on facebook. after that it gets murkier. his older brother tracked the location of his phone, and based on that it looked like jordan was at the port authority bus terminal for three hours. the next morning his family got a call saying his wallet had been found on wes strt in lower manhattan near the goldman sachs building. that's about three miles from where his phone was found. he said that based on the

phone's location his brother was at a lgbtq club called the cue at some point between friday night and saturday morning. >> none of calls to recent frnds haven't seen or heard from him. i'm trying to keep -- keeping high spirits, we're goingo find him. going to be safe and sound. and then we'll -- we'll figure out a way to get back a sense of normalcy. >> reporter: he says that he does not want to think about the possibility of foul play, but he can't rule it tout. >> you can hear the name in his voice. the q nightclub, that was in the news, right? what happened last year? >> reporter: so kate, that was the last place 33-year-old john umberger was seen before being drugged and murdered last may. he was seen leaving the club with two men. his body was later found with his phone and credit cards stolen. umberger's family says more than $25,000 were wiped from his bank account. his mother said at the time that detectives told her they were

looking at 1 had other victims -- 14 other victims with similar stories. it's important to note again that we don't know for sure that jordan taylor was at the q. all we know is that taylor's brother believes that was likely -- he was likely there at some point on the night he went missing. so still a lot of unanswered questions here. kate? >> we'll keep following that. maya, thank you. a missing persons case in texas is reaching a tragic conclusion today. kayla kelly was reported missing just over a week ago. investigators now say that a body found buried in a field this week is her. a man has been arrested on kidnapping charges in this case. nbc has more now, tracking the story. gary, what do we know about what happened here? >> reporter: this has gone from a missing persons case to a gruesome ongoing homicide investigation. this appears to be the case of retaliation to threat of blackmail. let's back up. the suspect here is 32-year-old axtar ferguson of grand prairie, texas, which is west of dallas. he was arrested last saturday before police found kelly's body.

according to kelly's friends, ferguson was her boyfriend of more than six months. but until recently, she did not know that he was married. in fact, she knew him by what was apparently a fake name, kevin brown. her friends say that she told him that she planned to confront ferguson about his deception. she even told them she planned to blackmail ferguson with the threat of telling his wife about their affair. a day after kelly was reported missing, her corrwas found on a deserted -- car was found on a deserted road, severe burned. so much so that detectives were unable to find any clues about where kelly could be. they finally found her body yesterday, but the cause of -- and manner of death have yet to be released. >> you mention that there was an arrest before kayla's body was found here. how were police able to connect a suspect so quickly? >> reporter: for an ongoing investigation, we have a lot of details here. ferguson emerged as a suspect after police interviewed kelly's friends and went through her phone records. they then found a 2004 elections

us that belonged to ferguson and his wife near the duplex where kelly lived. according to the arresting document, gloves, duct tape, and a blanket were found inside that car. investigators then interviewed ferguson where he admitted to knowing kelly and said he had last seen her on january 10th, the day before she was reported missing. he told investigators that his lexus was near her duplex because he was hiding it from his wife. and then when he allowed detectives to look through his phone, he found those texts from kelly threatening to tell his wife about their affair if he did not respond. now phone record also revealed he'd been in the area where kelly's burnt car was found. ferguson denied that but admitted that he'd been driving around in his car during that time. now police arrested ferguson on january 14th on charges of kidnapping and arson. but he's yet to be charged with murder. aaron? >> all right, gary. thank you. a federal judge has ordered boeing to face felony charges for two plane crashes in 2018

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google is the latest company to announce huge layoffs. we're talking about 12,000 jobs. >> google is laying off 12,000 of its employees worldwide, which amounts to roughly 6% of its work force. the ceo of the parent company, alphabet, he announced the layoffs in a blog posted this morning. he wrote, quote, over the past two years we've seen periods of growth. to match that growth, we hired for a different economic reality that we face today. while the company is bound to go through economic cycles, he said he felt confident about the strength of the mission, the value of services. many tech companies like google, amazon, microsoft, they hired rapidly due to the economic boom amid the pandemic. now, many of those same tech firms are laying off thousands of workers over concerns that higher interest rates, the war in ukraine, and the aftereffects

of china's covid-19 lockdown could cause a global recession. pichai said workers in the u.s. said workers in the u.s. would be paid the full period, 60 days, workers offered severance packages, with remaining vacation time expected to be paid out. workers would be offered six months of health care, job placement services, and immigration services support if needed. the company plans to hold a town hall for its employees this monday. >> bob, thank you. we are tracking a developing story. oakland police chief is now on temporary administrative leave, following a new report from a san francisco law firm determining the chief mishandled two internal investigations. this all came to light through the same federal oversight process that originated more than two decades ago. in the wake of the police

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bottom of the hour now. here are stories making headlines -- >> one person was killed and two hurt at a restaurant in kentucky. a denny's sign fell onto a car with people inside it. the 72-year-old victim died at the hospital. the conditions of the other two people were not released. wind likely contributed to this incident. an arizona suburb has filed a lawsuit against the city of scottsdale after the city cut off the community from scottsdale's water supply. residents in the unincorporated community of rio verde foothills are seeking to force the city to resume water services. scottsdale says they cut off the

supply because of complications from extreme drought conditions and decliing water levels in the colorado river. two tampa police officers being honored as heroes after rescuing a baby from an everheating car -- overheating car. the officers were getting their car detailed whether they heard a car on the scanner about a stolen car with a baby inside. they spotted the car, scaled the fence, and got the girl out of the car which had been left in the sun. she was taken to the hospital and reunited with her parents. two illinois ems workers pleaded not guilty today to murder charges in the death of a black man who was a patient. peter cadigan and peggy finley were arrested for first-degree murder last month after they allegedly strapped earl moore jr. facedown on a stretcher after responding to a 911 call for his home. nbc news' shaquille brewster from chicago. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that hearing went on for about three hours this morning. it resulted in that not guilty

plea, as you just mentioned. prosecutors are charging these two paramedics with first-degree murder saying that their actions led to the death of earl moore jr. when they strapped him onto a stretcher facedown and strapped his back and lower body. his family launched a wrongful death lawsuit just yesterday. we heard from his heartbroken mother. one point that you heard from the family attorneys is that earl moore jr., they say, did not receive proper treatment. that the paramedics did not show proper regard and care when he was on the ground clearly in pain and in need of medical attention. i want you to listen to a bit of that body camera video that was released by police earlier this week. >> earl, sit up. sit up. you know what, i am not playing. >> come on, earl.

come on, man. >> sit up. you're acting stupid. >> stop. stop. >> sit up. sit up now. i am not playing with you tonight. sit up. >> i should note, as you watched that video, that musical in the background was on a television inside that bedroom. attorneys for the two paramedics say that there was no wrongdoing, that they didn't commit murder and that this was essentially an overcharge. but we'll expect to see the two back in court next month. kate? >> to be really clear, that was the paramedic we were hearing saying "sit up," yes? >> reporter: that was the paramedic who arrived, who was called by the police officers who arrived to responding to a previous call. >> shaq brewster for us. thank you. the fbi is ramping up its efforts to find who's responsible for widespread attacks against reproductive health care facilities in the last year. now it's offering rewards up to $25,000 for information that lead to the people involved in

the attacks. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken delainian joins us from washington. ken, the fbi is offering quite a bit of money in this case, right? why are we seeing this big push at this point? >> reporter: this is a significant parks warns campaign and suggests they need help on these cases and they don't have much to go on now. as you mentioned, they're offering award for information about a series of attacks on at least ten reproductive health care facilities across the u.s. last year. they say those attacks may constitute acts of domestic terrorism. the attacks involved acts of vandalism and arson, typically from someone throwing a molotov cocktail into a building late at night. what's odd is that they targeted both clinics offering abortions and crisis pregnancy centers that discourage abortions. no injuries were reported in any of these incidents. it's not clear whether the attacks were all related or what the motive might be. some of the buildings were defaced with graffiti, as you saw, some of which said if

abortions aren't safe you aren't either, bans off our body. facilities were targeted in oregon, washington, california, north carolina, wisconsin, new york, tennessee, and colorado. the fbi looking for answers. >> all right. ken, thank you. continuing on this subject, this weekend marks 50 years since the original supreme court ruling on roe versus wade. it's also the 50th anniversary of the march for life, that's an annual rally in our nation's capitalhe of abortion rights gather to protest the procedure. the march has taken on new meaning after the supreme court ruling this year overturned constitutional protections for abortion. nbc's marisa parra and anne thompson join us now. you're in front of the supreme court. thousands marching today. what are they telling you? >> reporter: kate, so what i can say is that the tone is totally different today. they have obviously been celebrating the fact that this is their very first march in a

post-roe world. and there are plenty of signs to reflect just that. for them, they say the work is far from over. as long as abortions are still happening, they will still take to the streets to march and protest that. on one hand you have cautious celebration from people who are saying that the work is far from over. on the other hand, when you look on this direction, countersupporters of abortion rights, and on their side they want to see better access to abortion care. so what that means is we're probably going to be seeing the next battleground being pharmacies. when it comes to abortion pills, keep an eye that. i know there's a lot happening here. one thing i can say is regardless of dobbs and the overturning of roe versus wade, the energy certainly not slowing down for either critics or supporters of abortion rights. >> all right, thank you. anne, you recently visited a clinic in florida where you spoke to abortion providers. how are they saying things have changed ever since the decision last summer? >> reporter: well, when the

supreme court said there wasn't a constitutional protection, a federal constitutional protection for abortion, went back to states. so we went to florida which is one of those states where it's an absolute white-hot issue. we went to the planned parenthood clinic in jacksonville, and they are busier than ever. four years ago, kate, they provided abortion services one day a week. they are now doing it five days a week. the other thing they have noticed, that because of the outright bans and heartbeat bills in the states surrounding florida, they are seeing a huge influx of out-of-state patients who are coming to jacksonville to get the services there that they can't get in their own states because the decision hasn't done anything to stem the demand for abortion. and you will get to see a more in-depth look at all of this tonight on "nbc nightly news." >> looking forwardtor that. anne thompson, thank you. marissa parra, thank you so

much. today marks two years since president biden took the oath of office, and the president took the opportunity to tout what he sees as his major accomplish. . >> now two years in, it's clearer than ever that our plan's working. we're building from the bottom up and middle out, not just the top down. we do that, the wealthy do very, very well, and the poor have a shot, and the middle class can have a little breathing room. >> he put out a twitter video along the same lines. the president now has to deal with a republican-controlled house, and a new poll shows the issue of unity is front and center for voters' minds. >> reporter: noah pransky with the numbers here. what did you find in this new poll? >> one of the big campaign promises was to unite america. if you look at the incomes from our lx news and ugov poll, we're not there now. 16% say we're united. here's the funny thing -- this

is the best we've seen in the two years since we've been tracking this number. right after the reflection 2020, 90% of the country said we were divided. ticked up even highera of january 6th right when biden took office. it has been trending downward and three out of four, i guess in some ways, that's pretty good, guys. >> back in january of 2021 your polling showed a desire for pligsds to set aside -- politicians to said aside partisan politics, work together more. has that changed the last two years? >> there's still a huge appetite for compromise and bringing everyone together. we asked in this poll what should the new republican majority in the house do as their first priority. there's a big appetite here for them to work on things that would unite america. smaller percentage want them to look into the president. they want to see biden work on uniting us and not necessarily on the agenda he campaigned on. even though we don't see huge majorities here, still you can see a lot of americans, somewhere in the middle between those two parties.

>> and president biden won in 2022 in part because of support from republicans and from independents and democrats obviously. so in terms of his legislative accomplishments, has he been delivering on them and n folks' perspective? >> when we look at the promise to unite here, what was the impact president biden had on u.s. unit? and right now, he's not getting a lot of credit. still a huge chunk of the nation believes our country's more divided now even though indicators say maybe we are more united. the president not getting a lot of credit for it. in his speeches recently, he has made a point to point out that he's reached across the aisle, worked with some republicans on policies that are largely popular across the country, specifically like gun rights and manufacturing for computer chips to address the supply chain shortage. so the president's got a resume that he wants to sell, but right now not everybody's buying it. >> thank you so much. three active duty marines have been arrested for their paemgz in the january 6th capitol riot.

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week for the five-week study. participants did things like bake cookies for friends, smile at strangers, and volunteer. the results were dramatic. >> folks who participated in the acts of kindness group reported that they felt less depressed, less anxious. >> study participants also reported feeling more connected to others and more satisfied with their lives. participants felt such benefit that 75% continued doing acts of kindness even after the study ended. >> there seems to be something about having social connections that brings meaning and purpose into our lives. without it everything else kind of feels empty. >> ohio state senior abby arnst discovered healing through helping, too. she wasn't part of the kindness study but she took a class with dr. chevins last year. one of her assignments was to do kind things for others. so abby started going out of her way to hold the door. >> go ahead. have a great day. >> giving out compliments to

strangers. >> hey, your shoes are really cool. >> and writing positive afirmgzs on sticky notes around campus. >> as someone who is anxious myself, i was hesitant. as soon as i started giving the compliments and holding doors, i felt this reassurance. i have this power to brighten people's days and make a positive impact on others. >> something abby learned as did so many others. kindness can be a prescription for anyone and everyone. >> have a great day. >> it doesn't cost you a thing. hoda kotb, nbc news. let's bring in therapist dr. katherine smerling. it's obvious but what are the benefits found in real scientific research of kindness? >> kindness is the way to get out of yourself and to connect to someone else. and when you are out of yourself, you're less depressed. depression is like a black hole. and when you show kindness to

someone else, even by smiling at someone else, looking them in the eyes, you're giving them a lot of light, and your heart feels lighter. this year i told all of my clients, please, use kindness as a way to -- to look at the new year and a new year's resolution, to start to be kind. >> to boost yourself, too. >> well because it does. when you do things for other people it makes you feel better about yourself. >> it's not one of those things that we are conscious about, right? it's sort of happens or doesn't happen because we're not thinking about it. how do you encourage people? what do you say is the simple way to practice kindness? >> i think it is -- it is something that you have to think about because if you don't think about it and you go about your daily chores or whatever it is, you go to the bank, you see a teller, smile. smile. you go to a bank and there's a policeman there at the atm machine, smile. how are you? have you been here long?

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