breaking overnight seven people are shot dead in two separate locations south of san francisco. the suspected gunman, an 67-year-old man in custody this on the heaels of a mass shooting at a lunar new year celebration. day one at the trial of alec murdaugh, the one-time prominent south carolina attorney accused of the murder of his wife and son. ghislaine maxwell now

serving time behind bars speaking her, speaking out and breaking her silence can congress help fix the country's concert ticket dilemma? a major hearing will take place today after the taylor swift tour debacle and the seemingly cute pup is dubbed a fire-breathing dragon we'll explain. "early today" starts right now >> good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. tragedy upon tragedy gripping california after another mass shooting in half moon bay. chun lee zhou allegedly opened fire killing seven people and critically injurying another some workers lived on the premises with their children who terrifyingly witnessed the car than

karnage. >> this is the moment when police took down zhou. police found him sitting in a car at a sheriff's sub station he was arrested two hours after the shootings the inside the car, a semi-automatic handgun. >> we grieve tonight for the deceased members of our community. this is a horrific event, one that we would never imagine would occur in san mateo county. gun violence in this country that is completely unacceptable levels has really hit home tonight. >> the sheriff says zhou has been cooperating with police the victims have not been identified the fbi is working with local authorities to continue this investigation. this was the 38th mass shooting this year, according to the gun violence archives. and to another tragedy, this time in iowa two students were fatally shot in des moines at a charter

school for disadvantaged children according to authorities, the shooting suspect, 18-year-old preston walls entered a common area of the start right here school with a .9 millimeter handgun. the founder of the school, will keeps tried to escort him away from the area, but he pulled away keeps was also shot in the incident and miss sapolice say is hospitalized in serious condition. >> unfortunately, this is another one of those events that seems to take place too often across too many communities in this country >> police say walls and the two victims were members of opposing gangs. the incident was the result of an ongoing dispute walls has been arrested, facing two counts of murder and other charges. two other suspects are also in custody. there is breaking news in monterey park, california. a 11th victim has died after a

shooting at a dance studio a large crowd gathered outside city hall for a vigil mourning the lives lost 20 minutes after that deadly shooting in monterey park on saturday, the suspected gunman showed up at another dance hall. nbc news has obtained this stunning new surveillance video that shows a man bravely taking on the gunman. brandon tsai is seen here wrestling that weapon away in a confrontation that lasted about a minute and prevented more violence from happening at that second studio. our lester holt sat down with that young man many are praising as a hero. >> did he say anything to you? >> no, that was the scary part when he came in, he said nothing. his face was very stoic. the expressions were mostly in his eyes, looking around, trying to find peeople, trying to scou the area for other people. >> so how did you decide what to do >> well, there was a moment i actually froze up, because i

was, i had the belief that i was going to die, like my life was ending here, at that very moment but something, something amazing happened, a miracle, actually. he started to try to prep his weapon so he could shoot everybody. but then it came, it dawned on me that this was the moment to disarm him i could do something here that could protect everybody and potentially save myself. >> and we are learning more about the 11 lives lost in the tragedy. all of the victims were in their 50s, 60s and 70s, including my nhan many her family loved to go to the dance studio and her warm smile was contagious and she was her biggest cheerleader of the. in south carolina, jury selection is under way in the double murder trial of alec murdaugh he's charged with killing his wife and son a year and a half ago. our catie beck reports >> reporter: the teeny town of walterboro, south carolina, an

epicenter of intrigue. the widely-watched murder trial of former attorney alec murdaugh now under way. murdaugh is charged with killing his wife maggie and son paul in june of 2021 his defense claims he's innocent the killer still at large. but prosecutors contend he sthaped under the pressure of a secret life unraveling his motive, they say, to garner sympathy and distract from a series of financial crimes where murdaugh stole millions of dollars from the family law firm and from clients >> it's a circumstantial evidence case. >> reporter: attorney eric bland represent the satterfield family satterfield was the murdaugh's former housekeeper a cause of death was never determined, and police are investigating. especially here in low country where murdaugh is a household name >> everybody says, well, we want jurors that don't though anything about this case >> reporter: that's impossible >> it's impossible

>> reporter: one possible piece of evidence, a snapchat video taken just before paul and maggie murdaugh were killed. several legal experts agree that the evidence against murtadaughs largely circumstantial, with no witnesses, no surveillance video and no murder weapon, it's going to come down to how each side presents their case and hwho th jury finds most credible the taylor swift ticket debacle will hit capitol hill today as the senate holds a hearing on lack of competition in the industry. fans were left in the cold after ticketmaster melted down but don't expect the company to say "i'm the problem, it's me. brie jackson is in d.c. with what to expect and it looks like tint ticketmaster will pin the blame on scalpers. >> reporter: senators took up the cause after the fiasco

surrounding that taylor swift tour back in november. today's senate judiciary hearing will dive into the immense amount of control that ticketmaster and live nation have over the music concert industry the president and cfo of live nation is in the hot seat. in prepared opening statements, he describes the issue as an arms race against ticket scalpers using bots. typically, bots are a program that can get through the ticket-buying process much faster than humans but forte more swift, the company was hit for three times the amount of bot traffic than ever before. and for the first time ever they went after the servers, which is what led to the pause in sales as for anti-trust concerns, he says that competition in the industry has actually increased. senators from both sides of the aisle suggest otherwise. >> we have a situation where ticketmaster has 70% of the market share when it comes to ticketing for large events >> i've got big concerns about

any corporation that has monopoly status or near monopoly status we'll see. >> reporter: and this isn't ticketmaster's first run-in with controversy. the band pearl jam famously went after the company in 1994, filing an anti-trust complaint with the justice department. and lawmakers voiced concerns back in 2010 when the doj cleared the way for ticketmaster to merge with live nation. the next chapter kicks off with today's hearing at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> history goes way back hopefully this time it will be different. brie, thank you. we have severe weather from texas to florida in that's something we'll watch for the afternoon hours and stretching into wednesday morning. here's the big picture look, satellite and radar showing plenty of rain and a line of

storms will march into the gulf coast area you can see where we're watching for the biggest impacts. we're talking tornados where you see the red is the greatest potential including galveston and new orleans and biloxi we will watch for it, something we deal with into the evening hours tonight and into tomorrow morning. flash flooge from the 30s in bismarck to the 40s in rapid city. a couple of lingering snowshowers for places like north dakota the severe threat will eventually come to aepd but the system continues marching to the east and will impact the northeast. ghislaine maxwell speaking

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the authority that allowed that to happen. >> reporter: maxwell also making headlines over this photo saying the now infamous picture is a fake >> it's a fake i don't believe, i don't believe it's real for a second in fact, i'm sure it's not there's never been an original and further, there's no photograph and i've never seen a photocopy of it. i don't believe it happened. and certainly as described it would have opinion impossible. >> reporter: she took issue with giuffre and calling her dishonest. >> her story has changed so many times about what happened, when it happened, thohow it happened with different versions. >> reporter: and in her response, giuffre's attorney saying in part that maxwell's attacks on his client not only illustrate her total lack of

remorse or taking responsibility but are flatly inconsistent with other things that she has said very sad giuffre has also previously defended the authenticity of the photo, telling the bbc in 2019 >> i think the world is getting sick of these ridiculous excuses. it's a real photo. >> reporter: giuffre and her attorneys reached a settlement with the prince last february after a years-long effort to take him to court. some testified that maxwell recruited them initially to give massages to the billionaire but then they were sexually abused >> i spent the last 17 years in my own prison. for she, and jeffrey, i was raped three times a tday sometimes. >> reporter: maxwell expressed regret for her association with epstein but not for her actions. >> i honestly wish i had never met him, you know, looking back

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