it is monday, january 23rd, 2023. breaking news -- intended target? new details emerging in the mass shooting here in california. what police are now saying about a potential motive in the attack that now left 11 people dead. and chaos on the streets. protests turn violent in atlanta with a police car being set on fire. why demonstrators are outraged and pointing the blame at police. cleared for takeoff.

the cdc is turning to airplanes to track covid but not as you would expect. how wastewater is giving scientists a window into hour variants are spread. welcome to "nbc news daily," everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> glad to have you with us. i'm vicky nguyen. >> reporter: i'm kate snow in monterey park, california, where we have just learned unfortunately an 11th person has succumbed to their injuries, died in the mass shooting that has rocked this community. a gunman opened fire on a crowded dance hall late saturday filled with people dancing to celebrate the lunar new year. >> i think that people are in shock. they are in disbelief that something like this would happen here. >> reporter: this community is home to one of the largest asian american populations in the whole country. today we're starting to learn more about the people who were killed here. among the victims, 63-year-old lillian lee, 65-year-old my nhan. in a statement, her family said,

"we're starting the lunar new year broken. we never imagined her life would end so suddenly." the suspect has been identified as a 72-year-old. his name, huu can tran. after a 12-hour-long manhunt, police tracked his white van to a parking lot about 30 miles from here where investigators say he shot himself to death. the star ballaround behind me was not the -- ballroom behind me was not the only target. after the shooting the suspect headed to another ballroom about two miles from here where he tried to walk in with a gun. the person at the front desk tackled and disarmed him. here's what that person told abc news earlier today -- >> i realized i needed to get the weapon away from him. i needed to take this weapon, disarm him, or else everybody would have died. >> reporter: nbc news correspondent steve patterson joins me now. he is also in monterey park, california. steve, loved ones really still trying to process all of this tragedy. what are we learning about the

victims, those we've just learned the names of? >> reporter: yeah. first of all, it is that unfortunate breaking news that you've just reported. we're getting this from l.a. county -- county usc, they have treated four of the patients, one as you mentioned just unfortunately died. they're also reporting that two are now recovering, and there's one additional victim in serious condition. obviously we're learning more about the victims, the tragedy that happened inside ballroom. we're learning about the age range. i think one of the most striking things when you hear it -- 50 to 70 years old. and now one additional victim on top of that. thankfully three we know have fully recovered, as well, from the ten that we heard were wounded in the first place. the coroner starting to report some of the names to the family members, confirming to those families that they have deceased including, as you mentioned, lillian lee and my nhan included among the victims. another horrific day of news that we're getting about one additional victim, the latest

breaking news. >> reporter: yeah. it just gets worse. steve, the et cetera wife of the alleged shooter -- ex-wife of the alleged shooter spoke to cnn and said her ex-husband met her here decades ago. she said he was quick to anger. are you hearing about the possibility that this might have been a personal attack? >> reporter: you know, i think when investigators are looking at the age and the fact that this was a person that was known to the community, this 72-year-old, meeting his ex-wife, as you mentioned, about 20 years ago at this ballroom was a part-time instructor, frequented -- we don't know how many times in the past few years, but we know that back in the day he was a regular at this ballroom and gave part-time instruction including to his wife and people here. we're hearing there wasn't a history of domestic violence, but that he did have a quick temper, especially with his ex-wife. they divorced of course in about 2005. we know investigators now serving search warrants at his

home in hemet, california. and all of that part of the investigation including the weapon that was recovered, a semiautomatic assault-style pistol with an extended magazine, illegal in california. used to trace to his location. so all of that, of course, part of the investigation. but the detail about the personal connection not only to here but also possibly to that ballroom in alhambra all part of something that investigators are really focused on. judy chu, representative in this area, spoke more about that. i want you to listen to what she said just about the details that we're learning. listen to this. >> this gentleman was a part-time dance instructor. he somehow had some kind of relationship with the people inside the star dance studio and probably with the lai lai studio, as well. >> reporter: so of course the connection to the community that is clear, but investigators are also quick to point out that despite his age, despite that connection, they are not ruling out the possibility that this is

a hate crime, all too early to tell at this point as they continue to hunt for a motive. kate? >> steve patterson, thank you for being here. the mayor earlier today of monterey park telling me they're going to have a candlelight vigil here tonight. that's in the plans. that's the latest from here. aaron and vicky, in 20 minutes we'll hear more from folks in this community about how they're trying to process this weekend's tragedy. >> so much shock, grief, and, frankly, anger at this point about this shooting. 11 people dead. thank you for your reporting. we'll come back to you later in this hour. president biden is once again facing questions, new questions about classified documents after another discovery at his private home in delaware. >> mr. president? >> did you have more searches on your home, sir? >> the president's personal attorneys say that six additional items were found by the justice department on friday, and that the doj had, quote, full access to the biden home. nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley

joins us now from d.c. so julia, what else do we know about this latest search and the items that were found there on friday? >> aaron, we know it was initiated by the white house, not the justice department. that's a point that this white house wants to underscore, to show a difference between the way president biden and former president trump handled classified documents. they're trying to show they're opening up the doors, allowing the fbi in, and look for more. they say they found six items as well as surrounding materials. but what that does, aaron, is it really puts the number and volume of classified materials handled by president biden as former vice president biden into question. does items mean a folder, a locker, does it mean one piece of paper? and what do surrounding materials mean? we are not sure. a lot of questions about the volume and if it does turn on the to be more than we initially thought, where the white house first came out when we heard of of this in early january, just said a small number of documents. the more they add to that small

number, the closer it could look like former president trump -- as we know he had more than 300 classified documents at mar-a-lago. >> all right. julia ainsley for us. thank you. atlanta is cleaning up after violent protests rocked the city over the weekend. the demonstrations were sparked by the police killing of an activist and then the development of a new training center. a police car set on fire, several buildings also damaged. six people have been arrested. nbc news is following this. guad, what else do we know about the people who were arrested and the damage that happened over the weekend? >> reporter: we know that five of the six are not residents of the state of georgia. the mayor said explosives were found with the individuals that were arrested, and these would have been used to set that police car on fire that we can see in these images. now that area in downtown atlanta was quickly cleaned up by authorities. three buildings were damaged, suffered damages to their

window. that's also been repaired. now there's a connection between this and of course what happened earlier on wednesday. we know that at the incident on wednesday authorities, this was a multiagency effort, authorities disbanded a camp. there was demonstrators at a site where police were planning to build a training facility. now at that incident on wednesday, they arrested seven individuals, all of which from -- from the outside the state of georgia. now also on wednesday, the georgia bureau of investigations says an individual that was in that campsite shot at a state trooper, and officers returned fire. that man later died at a hospital. now both the demonstrators at that campsite and those protesters over the weekend are against the building of this police training facility that is set to be built outside of downtown atlanta at the area where the campsite was at. meanwhile, the protesters over the weekend went to the downtown area where we saw those images

of the police car on fire. >> all right. thank you, guad. the first of two storm systems this week is leading areas from ohio all the way through maine covered in snow. >> the ten million people are under winter alerts, and power outages are impacting tens of thousands of customers in the new england area. snow is not the only threat, though. the storm system could bring a round of tornadoes to the south. we have nbc news meteorologist bill karins tracking both storm systems for us. bill, talk to us, where do folks need to be on high alert? >> snow started in new england, got it today. cooperstown, baseball hall of fame, foot of snow. albany, new york, eight inches. many higher elevations of new hampshire reporting eight to 12 inches. there is snow out there to be driven in throughout the evening. in the boston area, it's going to be slushy snow. careful on the bridges and overpasses. as the sun sets and the snow is still rotating through. this will be gone by the time you wake up tomorrow morning. what's next? we're going to be watching this next storm that's coming in from the gulf of mexico, all that moisture is going to be surging

northward. tuesday evening, light snow, couple inches, areas of north texas to oklahoma. there is the concern -- this cold front, the hot, humid air along the gulf coast. that's going to be during the day tuesday. that's going to be our severe weather risk and possibility of isolated tornadoes. so the areas to galveston and also here of southern louisiana including the new orleans area, allpensacola, the snow side, you'll be shoveling from amarillo, oklahoma city, through the ozarks. even areas around st. louis to chicago, indianapolis, and eventually up into areas of new england wednesday evening. fast-moving high-impact storm. >> we appreciate the heads-up, bill karins. thanks. elon musk is taking the stand today, and an ai program has some professors sounding the alarm. >> we have more in the cmbc "money minute." >> reporter: let's start with elon musk on the witness stand telling jurors that between a saudi arabian investment fund

and his stake in spacex he believes he did have the funding he needed in 2018 when he tweeted "i'm considering taking tesla private at $420 funding secured." musk, tesla, and its board at the time are being sued by investors who say they acted on that tweet and lost money when the deal didn't happen. also, a professor at the prestigious wharton business school giving chat gpt an exam in his operations management course. an artificial intelligence bot passed with a grade of b to b-minus. he says schools will need to look at their exam policies, curriculum design, and teaching methods. and disney's "avatar: the way of the water" has stopped $2 billion in global box office receipts. it's the third movie directed by james cameron to hit that milestone along with the original "avatar" and 1997's "titanic." back to you. >> he said it needed to hit that $2 billion if he was going to make another one. thank you. coming up, why it may be challenging to seat a jury in the double-murder trial oa the double-murder trial oa formf er when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis persists...

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in south carolina, potential jurors are being questioned in the trial of disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh. murdaugh is facing two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son in june of 2021. this case is captivating that community. locals are actually calling this the trial of the century. nbc news's catie beck joins us from outside the courthouse in

walterboro, south carolina. so talk to us about what's going on. where does the jury selection process stand at this point? >> reporter: well, we've seen several panels come in, and we know that we've been experiencing a lot of questions surrounding whether folks have connection to the murdaugh family, were you ever represented by a murdaugh, do you know anybody in the family, have you heard of this case. the answer the in a lot of cases is yes. it's pretty hard to live in this absolutely community and not have some connection. so then the next question, can you be fair and impartial? could you possibly decide a just case? that is what they are grappling with right now. dealing with finding that impartial jury. both sides so badly want. >> and this trial we know is happening in a town with a population of, what, 5,000 or so people there, the murdaugh family is prominent. everybody knows the name. what sort of an impact is this case having on the broader community? >> reporter: i mean, the murdaugh family has a legal dynasty in south carolina.

five decades, they have had someone in a seat of power when it comes to the prosecutor's -- top prosecutor's job in five counties. it is pretty difficult to imagine alex murdaugh, once this prominent attorney who tried cases in these courtrooms, is in that courtroom with his hands in handcuffs awaiting a major verdict that could take weeks to decide. >> all right. catie beck for us in south carolina today. we appreciate your reporting. thank you. chaos in a florida hospital over the weekend after a 76-year-old woman allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband. investigators say the couple planned this weeks ago. now hospital workers are deeply worried about how a gun even made it inside the building. here's more from our nbc station in orlando. >> reporter: ellen gilland slowly makes her way inside the courtroom sunday before the judge announces her charges. >> you have been charged with one count of premeditated first-degree murder and three

counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> reporter: gilland is being held in volusia county under no bond. daytona beach police say she shot and killed her husband, 77-year-old jerry, in his hospital room on the 11th floor of advent health saturday morning. officials say he was terminally ill and that he and ellen made a pact three weeks ago to go through with a murder/suicide if his health worsened. >> the staff came running in like -- at first the nurses got a code yellow alert. >> what to do with the lockdown. >> reporter: then came a code silver which meant shelter in place. >> more serious but not sure what to do. >> reporter: he and another nurse got into a supply closet and waited. after cleared from sheltering, the staff had to stay put on their floors for hours. >> i still had 20 patients to see in the hospital in various

floors to go around on that i hadn't gotten to do, and they -- it was shut down. >> reporter: tonight many wondering how a gun made it into a hospital. >> hospitals tend to be open, as you said, and they tend to have a lot of entransand exits. >> reporter: ben scaglion has been in health care security for years and says screening is a difficult process. >> you have a metal detector, you have to staff it. it's in the emergency department because that's the most volatile area. in health care generally you train them the same scenario, run, hide, and fight. >> it might have been nice to know if i got a shelter in place alarm like what that -- what i should have done. like i -- i've never personally -- i don't believe -- maybe it was part of a video, you know, training i did ten years ago. nothing that strikes memory of what i was actually supposed to do. still ahead, what convicted sex trafficker ghislaine masks well has to say about prince andrew in her first jailhouse interview.

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the nbc bay area newsroom. oakland's police chief is speaking out since he was put on administrative leave for not taking enough action against officers. >> i deserve to be reinstated as chief of police immediately by the city of oakland. it is a matter of justice, it is a matter of due process and it is a matter of fairness. it is also an issue of justice and fairness for the people and community of oakland to have me at the helm of the police department to protect public safety for the oakland police department. i want the public to know that i followed all of the policies, protocols, and procedures in the two incidents that are detailed in the recently released summary report. >> well armstrong held the news conference about an hour ago following the decision by the oakland mayor to put him on administrative leave. armstrong said the department took the appropriate action against an officer who hit a parked vehicle and didn't report it. that same officer also

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merely 37 million cars cross the bridge every year. now the retrofit of the golden gate bridge has been four phases. it dates back to 2002. the final stage is expected to begin next year. wrapping up in 2029. in san francisco, pete suratos, nbc bay area. here are other stories to know about. there was a rescue at fort funston. trains are back up and running but first in the wake of the attack in southern california, san francisco police are stepping up patrols during lunar new year's celebrations. officials say it is just a precaution. there have not been any threats to the city. yesterday the mayor took a moment of silence to remember the families and victims of the monterey park mass shooting. in san francisco, lunar new year events are still scheduled to continue, including the chinese new year parade on february 4th. ace trains are back up and running after service was shut down last week because of mudslides. the first ace train arrived in

fremont at 5:45 this morning. passengers say there were no issues going through niles canyon. last week storms sent two mudslides and one train had to stop for debris to be cleared an the next train another one was hit but passengers were taken back to the station. trains were not damaged but train service was canceled for the rest of the week while they secured the niles canyon area. and first responders are sharing new information about the cliffside rescue in san francisco. it happened yesterday at for the funston when two hikers fell. this is video posted by firefighters showing a team rappelling down to reach them. both hikers were shaken up but not seriously hurt. we have more sunshine and blue skies. but that chill is hanging around during nights and mornings. here is kari hall with more. >> it is another sunny day and breezy at times with gusts 20 to

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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." >> breaking news, a jury has found four members from the far right militia group the oathkeepers guilty of seditious conspiracy. prosecutors said that those four defendants, roberta manuda, joseph hackett, david marshall, and edward vallejo used a perverted version of american history to justify their actions and the attack on the capitol on january 6th. they each face up to 20 years in prison. actor jeremy renner

revealing more about his condition after a snowplow accident. he wrote that he broke more than 30 bones. the marvel star spent two weeks in the hospital after he was run over by a plow he was using to clear snow for a neighbor. he's now continuing his recovery at home. democratic representative ruben gallego will run for the arizona senate seat occupied by kyrsten sinema. sinema left the democratic party to become an independent back in december. she has yet to announce if she will run again. if elected, good day he would be the first latino senator to round for arizona. more details emerging about the deadly mass shooting in california. >> we want bring in our colleague kate snow once again. she has been reporting from monterey park since yesterday. kate, you've been talking to a lot of folks out there, and it is a devastating story. >> reporter: yeah, it really is. i'm standing right in front of the star ballroom. there's a sort of makeshift memorial there now. people bringing flowers. that's where the shooting happened saturday night. we've just learned this hour

that one of the injured people has now passed away. that brings the death toll here to 11 people gunned down as they tried to celebrate the eve of the lunar new year. investigators say the suspect from here headed to another dance hall a couple of miles from here. when he tried to enter with a gun, a manager tackled him and took that weapon away. after a massive police manhunts, they tracked him -- manhunt, they tracked him down, holed up inside a white van. he shot himself to death inside. as investigators search for a motive here, lunar new year celebrations across america had stepped up their security. nbc news's josh lederman joins me now from monterey park. this attack is causing alarm here and across the country in asian american communities. you and i both have been talking to people here. what are they telling you? >> reporter: the word that comes to mind, kate, is resilience. we are seeing members of this community continuing to return to work, to go about their lives saying that they are not going

to allow this incident, this tragedy, to deter them from continuing to do the things that make this community so important to them, to continue to celebrate the lunar new year as even some of the officials here, the mayor and other community leaders, have urged people to continue with their plans, pointing out the fact that the threat to this community from this individual is no longer active given that that individual is now dead. we're also hearing that there is a vigil that has been planned for tomorrow night at the park here in monterey park. we're starting to see some of those smaller vigils and tributes already being formed at areas around town. we're also expecting any minute now to get the latest update from officials about the investigation as they are working as feverishly as possible to piece together what took place here, what the motive was behind that. and i can tell you here at the star dance hall, we're at the back entrance here. this building is closed, and the

owners of star dance studio say it will be closed indefinitely. they say thatis to allow the community a chance to start to recover and to process, something that is so important not only for the community that was immediately impacted by this incident here at the dance studio but the broader community here in monterey park and in the region, kate. >> reporter: josh, and you mentioned the motive. there really isn't anything from investigators at this point, right, about what exactly happened and what the motive was. >> reporter: that's right. hopefully those are the exact details that we will get in the coming minutes when we get that update. in the meantime, with all of the questions and speculation around what potentially could have driven this individual to commit this heinous act we're starting to get some of the information that starts to fill in the details. we heard from officials in hemet, california, which is about two hours or so driving from here, it is where the

suspected gunman lived in a mobile home. we're told by police there that he actually visited the police station there twice this month on. january 7th and then again on january 9th. making allegations against his own family members, of fraud, of trying to poison him. the police obviously asked for details and evidence of that. he apparently told them he would return to the police station with that information, did not return. so we don't know what role that plays, how that fits into the puzzle. certainly it is one of the things that investigators are looking at as they try to figure out why this happened. >> reporter: yeah it does feel like a puzzle, piece by piece trying to put this together. thank you. back to you in new york. >> so many layers to this. we're awaiting the live press conference. kate, thank you. convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for reciting

and grooming underage girls for jeffrey epstein. in a jailhouse interview with a uk station, maxwell again claimed that a photograph showing british prince andrew with his arm around virginia giuffre is a fake. >> i don't believe that. i don't believe it's real for a second, it's not. there's never been an original, and further, there's no photograph and i've only seen a photo copy of it. >> nbc news's stephanie gosk joins us now. she's been looking into this. you've been following the story for a long time. what else is ghislaine maxwell saying in this interview? >> reporter: it's interesting, it's important to remember that virginia giuffre accuses jeffrey epstein of sexually abusing her as a minor on multiple occasions, and the photo is in ghislaine maxwell's apartment. she's denying it is real, says she's never seen a hard copy of it. that's similar to what prince andrew said, denying

allegations. he did settle with virginia giuffre, that lawsuit. we never got to know much more about the photo. she also talks about things including the fact that she regrets ever having met jeffrey epstein. and she then was asked did she know, does she have any remorse for any of the things that she's done, and she says no. it's important because she's actually seeking an appeal. and she cannot say "i have remorse for what i have done" because then the appeal is not going to be successful. so there are big questions surrounding why she's doing this and why she's doing it right now. she also talks about meeting the queen and praises the queen. she also praises bill clinton in this interview. lots of different layers here. >> i feel completely divorced from the person that people reference and talk about. and all the various newspaper

articles and tv shows and broadcasts. >> reporter: there is some interesting context. we haven't heard a lot from ghislaine maxwell, and she was sort of a person of mystery as all of the jeffrey epstein allegations were unraveling. here she is in her own word. >> odd though it may be. stephanie gosk, thank you. we are following breaking news out of new york city. a former top fbi official, charles mcgonagle, is under arrest. he is accused of money laundering and allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a foreign agent while working at the bureau. let's bring in nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken delainian. good to see you. lay out these allegations against mcgonagle. >> reporter: charles mcgonagle was the head of counter intelligence for the fbi's new york office. a really important job, and part of that job was to protect the united states from improper foreign influence. but he's now charged with profiting from foreign influence.

he was arrested over the weekend on charges involving two separate cases, one having to do with his work after he left the bureau, and one accusing him of taking money from a former foreign intelligence officer while he was working for the fbi. and the latter case may be the most shocking. breast cancers say that while serve -- prosecutors say that while serving counter intelligence efforts in new york, he took $225,000 in cash from an individual with business interests in europe who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service. it says mcgonagle failed to disclose the information as require and would there was a conflict of interest with his duties. a prosecutor alleges after he left the fbi mcgonagle worked with a russian oligarch and two others to investigate a rival russian oligarch in return for payments from darapaska. prosecutors say he tried to conceal the involve. through shell companies, and they note that mcgonagle played a role in investigating darapaska while he was in the fbi and had access to classified

information about him. and this is being seen by my sources as a huge betrayal. mcgonagle's lawyer is saying he will plead not guilty, and he awaits the evidence against his client. >> very serious charges indeed. ken, i want to ask you separately about the justice department's investigation into the baby formula shortage. it made is so difficult for families over the last year. you have new details about the focus of that investigation. >> reporter: yeah, just that it is, in fact, about that plant where there was an issue. the investigation was disclosed by abbott labs, the company involved. they didn't say exactly what it was about, and our sources are telling us it is, in fact, directed at this question of baby formula. we know very little else about it. but it's serious matter. >> ken, thank you. the new congress is back this week, and for the first time ever women will be in charge of the powerful appropriations committees in the house and the senate. let's bring in capitol hill correspondent ali vitali now. first if you could, sort of a

civics lesson here. talk about these committees and why they're so important and then what these members of congress are saying about their new roles. >> reporter: these are the committee that's control how money is allocated. the big spending fights we've been talking about on the hill, these four women are going to be representing their parties and their committees from their positions as the leading members and ranking members on these appropriations committee in the house and in the senate. you see them there on the screen. patty murray, susan collins on the senate side, and congresswoman kay granger and rosa delauro on the house side. this is how they view their roles at this really critical moment here in congress. take a listen. >> i remember when i first came to the senate, i was 99th in seniority out of the 100 members. now in the new congress, i'll be eighth in seniority. >> every single issue that comes before the national security of

the country -- >> we had to prove ourselves in every room that we were just as capable, which is why maybe we're better legislators. >> it's really a difficult time. we can make it through, but i absolutely am convinced we have to stand together. >> reporter: and you know, aaron, it's so striking, you hear congresswoman delauro talk about the fact that there was once the committee on the beauty salon, the hair salon that these women were mostly in charge of when there were not very many female lawmakers in this building. thankfully, and you know that i've dug into this, the idea that there are more women rising in the ranks of congress is critically important, and you see why and how their seniority is important when you see them on this committee. >> times are changing, and that is a good thing. thank you. coming up, the new way the cdc is hoping to track the spread of covid variants.

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tennessee is cutting off federal funding meant to help prevent, test, and treat hiv in the state. that is according to the state's department of health. in an email reviewed by nbc news, the department of health in tennessee said it would instead rely on its own state funds, and that's set to begin in june. we have nbc news medical reporter erika edwards who has been following this story for us. first let's start with why would tennessee do this, why would they refuse federal money, and what is the actual impact for people living there with hiv?

>> reporter: yeah, hey, this would have an enormous impact. shelby county, tennessee, which is where memphis is located, has one of the highest rates of hiv and aids in the entire country without funding for testing and treatment, the state faces the possibility of a major outbreak. now to answer your question of why the state might do this, that's a little murkier. i mean, this is federal grant money. it's free to the state. state health officials have said they want to rely on their own funds. some suspect this is politically motivated. planned parenthood that serves tennessee is one of the groups that would be affected. vicky? >> what has been the response if any from the federal government in terms of tennessee's decision now to turn down essentially free money, which you just -- you can't hear of this happening -- you don't hear of this happening. >> reporter: first of all, the cdc tells me that the state of tennessee has not formally told them that they are going to reject this grant money. if that were to happen, the cdc said to me in a statement that

it would certainly be concerned if the services people in tennessee need to stay healthy were interrupted or if public health capacity to respond to hiv outbreaks and bring an end to this epidemic were hindered. at this point those funds could run out by the end of may. >> all right. nbc news medical reporter erika edwards. thank you. the u.s. is now turning to airplanes to track potential covid variants, specifically we're talking about waste on airplanes. the cdc says it's talking to airlines about the possibility of testing wastewater from flights for coronavirus. nbc news health reporter aria bendix head been looking into this. how does the cdc use waste water to track and monitor covid? >> cdc has been looking for covid in wastewater for homes and buildings since about september, 2020. that isn't happening everywhere, about 1,250 sites nationwide. they're looking to expand that.

the new idea of testing for wastewater in airplanes and airports is really interesting, it could provide us with a whole unique set of data about where new variants are coming into the u.s. and then where they came from originally, based off of where planes land and take off. >> so you know, what's the long game? how useful do scientists believe testing wastewater is going to be when it comes to preventing another pandemic? >> so there was actually a report last week from the national academies that looked at that very question. they found it was a critical tool for spotting new viruses and bacteria. and so it's going to be really important moving forward that we expand those efforts. that was part of the report. we know that about 80% of homes are actually connected to a sewage system, so it's one of our largest data bases about the health information of hundreds of millions of people. and it will give us a sense of how widely it's spreading. >> if we can head it off we think prevent it from being as bad as it has been. testing the water is not going to identify every possible

pathogen that could be a threat, right? what wouldn't it identify? >> to your basis point, if what you're looking for, you won't know what to find. so that's -- might be the case if we see a completely novel virus that's never been introduced to the human population before. it may be hard to detect, wouldn't be on scientists' radar. that would be the most difficult challenge. we might not detect it earl before it spread more widely. >> good food for thought there. we appreciate your reporting on this. thank you. >> thank you. there is more news ahead. you're watching "nbc news daily." i'm managing my high blood pressure, but i'm still a target for chronic kidney disease. and my type 2 diabetes means i'm also a target. we are targets too. millions have chronic kidney disease

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