hi everybody. >> nbc news daily starts right now. today wednesday, february 15th, 2023. campus in mourning. michigan state remembers the victims of a deadly campus shooting. how some are now demanding the government act to stop the violence. >> courtroom chaos. a man rushes at the buffalo supermarket shooter just before he is sentenced to life in prison. why the gunman could face an even greater punishment.

flying into danger? the faa administrator is grilled in washington about system failures after three near crashes at airports. what he says is to blame. water worries. ohio homeowners call foul as dead fish fill the creek surrounding the site of last week's train derailment. what is being done to make sure the water is safe. we begin with the crisis of gun violence on a grieving college campus. >> today vigils are honoring the lives of three students killed on monday night at michigan state university. >> junior alexendria verner is remembered as an exemplary young person by her former principal. junior ariel anderson was an aspiring surgeon and her family says she was passionate about helping others. sophomore brian fraser was considered a great friend to his fraternity brothers. at this hour five other students are still in the hospital. the gunman's motive in this case is still unknown. the community is already working to keep it from happening again. >> we didn't lose just three

lives. we've lost three sons, daughters, daughters, cousins, significant others and how many people does it impact? we have lost too much. it is only getting worse. it won't get better unless things start changing. >> nbc news correspondent jesse kirsch is in east lansing, michigan today. i know you're just outside the student union where one of the shootings happened. how are the victims remembered on campus today? >> for context this is where authorities told us one of the three people killed lost their life. today students inside the facility and fled to save themselves are able to now go back in and get what they left behind. so they are going in with fbi escorts to retrieve belongings. we are told there have been backtops, laptops, cell phones left behind inside of the building exactly where students left them. we've talked with students about their experience going back in

there. one young man told us it brought him back to that night and the memory of hearing the gunshots and fleeing to stay alive. we continue to see people walking around campus with flowers. we know there is going to be a vigil later this evening. yet another memorial for the lives lost here. >> students are entering that building headed back on campus. there has to be a lot of trauma associated with it now and in weeks to months to come. what is being done right now to try and help students feel safe as classes prepare to resume? >> reporter: we expect classes to resume here next week. so for the time being students, we know some people are off of campus, some people came back to get belongings. and may be leaving campus again for the time being. there is a small group of people that have been walking through the area. it has been pretty quiet over the last 36 hours or so we've been on location.

i spoke with the police chief earlier. he said they are looking at changes in terms of safety measures down the road. didn't give me any specifics but made clear that what they do cannot get in the way of what is supposed to be their core mission here and that is to make this a place people can learn. that is something we'll look for down the road. there is also a recovery aspect right now as well. >> thank you. the faa says air travel in the united states has never been safer but after a number of recent close calls the agency is holding a new review of its existing protocols to avoid a tragedy in the air. >> we are experiencing the safest aviation in recent history but recent events remind us we cannot become complacent and must continually invest in our aviation system. >> nbc news space and aviation correspondent tom costello joins me now.

we just heard the acting faa administrator say they can't get complacent. what is being done to make sure air travel stays safe? >> i was in the hearing a short time ago across the street on capitol hill. the bottom line, the faa acting chief issued this call to order, a safety call to ordinationwide, which is really about reminding all of the players so that is the airlines, pilots, air traffic controllers, unions, regulators, to refocus on safety. thank goodness, thank god we've gone 14 plus years without a serious fatal incident in this country. an airline fatal accident. that is remarkable and speaks to how safe the system is. but the high profile close calls of late are enough for the faa chief to say let's get back together again, drill down again on the basics here so we don't have a fatal accident. >> the faa asked about the major meltdown back in january. the one, the glitch that caused

thousands of flights to be canceled. >> that was really the focus of the hearing before the faa's call to action. a month ago we had the faa computer system that went down and led to the first total ground stop in america since 911. thousands of flights completely grounded as they had to reboot their computer system. we now know that what happened was some contractors who are working on the computer system made a mistake and actually deleted critical files on both the primary and backup systems that brought down the critical computer system that took a while to get it back up and running. this was all a system being upgraded piece by piece. this will take another two years to get the entire system updated and upgraded despite the fact congress spent a lot of money over the last ten years to get the upgrade going. congress was today asking, why isn't it done yet?

the complexity here is really serious when you have a system in use by pilots nationwide and you're trying to change the system while they're using it. you can understand the complexity. >> tom costello, thank you so much. more than a week now after the deadly earthquakes in turkey and syria and survivors are still being found in the rubble. take a look at this video. crews pulled a 74-year-old woman to safety. she was trapped under the rubble for more than nine days. though it is becoming increasingly rare to find survivors at least nine people were saved on tuesday at the same time the quakes in turkey and syria have killed nearly 40,000 people. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in southern turkey again today. we're going to show people a tent city, a little north of where you are. places like this are really filling up with peel who are in need of shelter obviously and a lot of other basics as well. what sort of humanitarian aid are you seeing coming into the area and what are you hearing from survivors?

>> reporter: a central thing we are seeing is food, water, shelter. when i was speaking with doctors at a tent city nearby as well, they were saying what they really need are toilets. this is something we don't talk about. it is an unsavory topic when talking about humanitarian aid but there is a real risk and this is something the world health organization has been mentioning of dysentery, diarrhea spreading through these populations. when you talk about these issues people don't necessarily, it doesn't necessarily come to mind when thinking about immediate needs but medicine to prevent infection and toilet access, hygenic facilities are some of the most pressing issues especially when talking about tent cities sprung up out of nowhere overnight. >> i also want to ask about syria. we are talking a lot about the crisis in turkey because we have more access but what is

happening in syria right now? >> reporter: not only more access but about 80% to 90% of the fatalities are here in turkey. the problem with syria is that there is just a total blackout of humanitarian aid. almost entirely. we've seen a couple shipments coming in through the border crossing and a couple days ago the regime reluctantly after a week of frenzied diplomacy finally agreed to open two more border crossings and now we saw in the past couple days a couple more dozen trucks filled with humanitarian aid went through the crossing. this is providing much needed aid to millions of people in this part of the country. the problem is, they never got the kind of rescue efforts and treatment people here in turkey did. heavy machinery that went looking for people still living under the rubble so as the u.n. chief said, the head of humanitarian aid, they rightfully feel jilted by the

humanitarian effort over in syria. guys? >> matt bradley in turkey today. thank you. there is a new tornado risk brewing in the south. 14 million people from texas to tennessee could see twisters tonight. >> the severe weather threat is expected to become even more serious tomorrow. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is joining us now. bill, time this out for us if you can. what should we expect over the next 24 hours? >> we have another four hours of calm and then thunderstorms will start exploding in northeast texas and then we'll worry about big hail and after that have new storms developing somewhere near little rock or memphis and that is where we'll worry about the tornado threat. the storm responsible for this mess is our storm number two. storm number one is heading up into canada. it is done, over with. still a pretty good snowstorm ongoing in areas of colorado and will spread into the plains tonight. the night time tornado threat we are most concerned with, again, the storms from dallas, mcallister, then a new batch along the warm front forming here from little rock to memphis. it is in this area not only we have a chance of a tornado but maybe even one or two strong

tornadoes. the strong, nocturnal tornadoes are by far the most deadly and scary and especially if they hit populated areas you can have disaster but if they don't, then thankfully hopefully they won't. that is kind of the scenario we'll deal with again not a tornado outbreak just isolated super cells that could produce a strong tornado. and then tomorrow the threat still goes from mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, all the way to the ohio valley. and tomorrow the area at greatest risk will be right along the mississippi/alabama border. tonight and tomorrow the dangerous times for tornadoes. >> all right. thank you. retail spending is getting a big boost. and tesla will open up some of the charging stations. >> we have our cnbc "money minute." >> let's start with retail numbers. americans rebounded from what we call a spending season in the new year with retail spending jumping 3% last month in january. that was the largest one-month spending increase since march of 2021 and comes despite inflation

and higher cost. driving the gains was a jump in auto sales as well as increased spending at restaurants. what recession, right? for the first time tesla will make some of its charging stations available to all u.s. electric vehicles by the end of next year. the plan announced by the white house today will make at least 7500 of those chargers available. this is part of the biden administration's ongoing plans to make electric vehicle use more accessible to fight climate change. chipotle is expanding its reach with a spin-off brand and has announced a new pickup or delivery restaurant and it will be based in california only so far and will feature options for protein, grain, and vegie bowls. >> all right. thank you so much. coming up the chaos in a courtroom in new york moments courtroom in new york moments fore a massbe when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis keeps flaring, put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable,

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the man behind a mass shooting inside a buffalo, new york supermarket will spend the rest of his life in prison that decision after chaos in the courtroom today. >> we loved our kids. we never go in any neighborhoods and take people out. >> court officers rushed payton gendron out of the courtroom for about ten minutes during the emotional victim impact statements today. last may gendron killed ten

black people and injured three others. heather lee from our nbc affiliate in buffalo joins us now. we just saw emotional moments in the courtroom today. i want to play a little bit of one man's victim impact statement and talk about it on the other side. >> you will never get to see your grandparents again. you'll never the outside world again. i don't wish the death penalty on you. i wish they keep you alive. so you have to suffer with the thought of what you did for the rest of your life. >> heather, it was a lengthy hearing. what else did we hear from some of the victims' families today? >> good afternoon. the gentleman we just heard from there, wayne jones, he talked even more so. it was heart wrenching to hear him talk about his mother. he looked right at the shooter and told him that he actually watched the video online of his

mother being killed. he told the shooter i saw you shoot her once, reload, and then shoot her again. that was one of the many powerful statements. we heard from another, one of the shooting survivors christopher braden who said he cannot get the images out of his head. the things he saw that day as he was being carried out of that store with bodies lying around him. he detailed his injuries and surgeries and the long road ahead. he said despite the pain he is going through and everything he has been through his injuries, his scars, they tell the story of what happened but don't define his future. >> heather lee in buffalo, new york. thank you. a woman is being evaluated to stand trial after attacking her attorney during a court hearing. it happened tuesday. the woman is accused of murder and dismemberment and was in court because of the case. her attorney asked the judge to

give them additional time to review her competency to stand trial but she then attacked her attorney in the courtroom and was later removed from the courtroom. another competency hearing will take place in the beginning of march. tlae homeowners caught in the aftermath of the toxic train derailment in ohio say they aren't sure they can trust their own government about their health and safety. it has been nearly two weeks since the massive derailment and chemical fire despite assurances it is safe to be home people are reporting a range of issues from headaches to burning in their eyes to seeing dead animals. here is nbc's ron allen. >> there is a big town hall meeting tonight in palestine. the first opportunity for residents to talk to, vent, and confront local officials since the train derailment some two weeks ago that rocked that small rural town in ohio. since then there have been residents saying they are having health issues because of what's

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bottom of the hour now here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc news daily. >> we are following breaking news out of hollywood. actress rackwell welsh has died. she rose to fame acting in films such as fantastic voyage and bedazzled and took home a golden globe for her performance in the three musketeers. welsh's family says she died after battling a brief illness and was 82 years old. one of the 12 boys rescued from a cave in thailand in 2018 has died in the united kingdom. the boy now 17 was found unconscious in his dorm at a

british football academy on sunday. he was the captain of the team trapped deep inside a thai cave several years ago prompting a complex rescue operation. his cause of death is unknown but not believed to be suspicious. after months of anticipation the winner of november's $2 billion powerball jackpot has come forward. edwin castro bought the winning ticket in california and took the lump sum payout of $997 million. he did not appear a the california lottery press conference but sent a statement saying he is ecstatic to have the money and clearly wants to be left alone. new developments this hour in the double murder trial of alex murdaugh. throughout the day the jury has watched video of his interviews with investigators two months after the deaths of his wife and son. this morning the judge issued a critical blow to the prosecution, ruling it cannot present testimony about a roadside incident alex murdaugh

was involved in after the shooting. msnbc anchor lindsay riser is following the trial for us. bring us up to speed. what have we heard so far in the courtroom today? >> reporter: the prosecution tried to pull on some threads for the jury here. one some inconsistencies for example how long he was at his mom's the night of the murders. the investigators also trying to nail down a timeline of the day when he left from work for the night. >> you believe i'm giving you an inconsistent answer. >> no. i'm just trying to wrap my mind around it. i'm asking you what time you went to the office sunday. way time you got home. the times aren't matching up. i'm just trying to get an understanding. >> reporter: then there was an exchange in the video shown to the jury that alex seemed very taken aback by the investigator asking him, did you kill maggie, did you kill paul? he said, no. he asked the investigator, do you think i did it? the investigator said he goes

wherever the facts lead. the defense in their cross examination of the investigator trying to establish according to the timeline the witnesses and prosecution have laid out alex couldn't have committed the murders and cleaned up in that amount of time. >> we mentioned that ruling from the judge earlier today. remind us what that is about and what kind of impact it might have on the prosecution moving forward. >> reporter: the judge ruled that the jury would not hear more evidence related to the roadside shooting that happened three months after the murders. some of this is episodic. alex said he was shot in the head as part of a suicide for hire plot. the judge though said it doesn't point to a motive in the murders but a propensity to commit violent acts which is a bridge too far. this could be seen as a blow to the prosecution. the prosecution wanted to show the mindset of alex as the financial walls were closing in. the prosecution by the way expected to rest tomorrow. >> all right. thank you so much for breaking that down. we're following growing

outrage and now legal action in alabama involving the death of an inmate. this video may be disturbing. you can see guards carrying 33-year-old anthony mitchell just hours before he died. it is worth noting the clip does not show everything that happened. what do we know about how anthony mitchell died? >> reporter: it is disturbing. according to the lawsuit filed by a u.s. district court in alabama anthony don mitchell or tony as his friends called him is a 33-year-old man and froze to death while incarcerated at walker county jail in alabama. an employee actually leaked security footage of the events leading up to his death. the videos are described in the lawsuit and they reportedly show him dragged across the floor and being tased while naked on the floor by a group of officers and the lawsuit alleges he was put

in an isolation cell with a drain and no toilet and no bed. it shows officers laughing at an unresponsive mitchell and alleges he was then left in the jail freezer in a restraint chair and then died of hypothermia. it is important to note that an autopsy has not yet been released but of course the details have people protesting and asking, what exactly happened? >> we'll be waiting for the autopsy for sure. in the meantime have we heard anything from law enforcement about this death? >> reporter: the da is not commenting at this time and the walker county sheriff's office has not replied to multiple requests for comment. there is an in custody death investigation launched by the alabama law enforcement agency. in a prior statement officials explained the circumstances of this arrest, saying that it started as a welfare check in january and then mitchell allegedly brandished and fired a hand gun at deputies before retreating into the woods. he was then of course arrested on a charge of attempted murder. regardless, there is no real

justification for the horrific treatment we've seen so there are a lot of questions and hopefully soon some answers. >> before i let you go, you mentioned the employee who leaked the video. do we know much about that person? >> reporter: that's right. she was actually a jail supervisor. her last name is kelly and she has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff's department saying that she was fired in retaliation for releasing the video. of course that is also ongoing. a lot to follow in a case that has everybody really disturbed. >> a lot to follow indeed. thank you. the department of justice will not bring charges against congressman matt gaetz after a years' long sex trafficking investigation. attorneys for the florida republican say the department closed the case today. gaetz was under investigation for allegations he was part of a scheme that led to the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. nikki haley is now officially on the campaign trail. the former south carolina governor held a rally in charleston today one day after announcing her 2024 presidential

run. so far she is the only republican officially challenging former president donald trump for the nomination. that might not last long. former vice president mike pence is appearing both in minnesota and iowa today. nbc's vaughn hillyard has followed pence to the hawkeye state. vaughn, what are we expecting the former vice president to say in cedar rapids? will the message be similar to what we heard in minnesota? >> reporter: right. there are only two presidential candidates in this thing, nikki haley and donald trump. mike pence, he is here in iowa about to talk to voters bat very specific issue, about gender affirming care for minors. there is a local school district in cedar rapids that passed a policy last year that allowed 7th graders and up to use the

pronoun that matched the gender they identified with and if it is the student's wishes the school did not have to notify the parents. there is a lawsuit against that school district policy which led the likes of mike pence and other conservatives to speak out against the school district. there is also the legal battle over a subpoena. the department of justice issued a subpoena to mike pence to come and testify about donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. mike pence addressed his decision not to comply with that subpoena. >> i'm going to fight the biden doj subpoena to appear before the grand jury because it is unprecedented and un-constitutional. for me this is a moment where you have to decide where you stand. i stand on the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: donald trump and the 2020 election will still loom large over the 2024 race and the candidates to get in it, mike pence still outstanding on

whether he chooses to enter the race himself. >> let's bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent vitale as well. how did nikki haley kick off her presidential bid? >> reporter: it is clear nikki haley knows she has a rough road ahead specifically as donald trump's only challenger at this point but she knows that field is be the to get more crowded. haley is a return to old conservative politics. low taxes. conversations about policy. talk about immigration and foreign policy. all of that was packed in today. but she is still a former member of donald trump's cabinet which is to say she is engaged in the culture wars. maybe not to the extent mike pence is, where vaughn is, but still talking about it in these terms today. >> they have us spiraling toward socialism with the new trillion dollar spending bill every few months and a national debt over

$30 trillion. this is not the america that called to my parents. and make no mistake this is not the america i will leave to my children. >> reporter: so again, haley talking about spending, the debate we often have in my other job on capitol hill. all of that making its way out to the campaign trail. but the politics piece of this is going to be the really important part. today she didn't say the word donald trump but someone who announced for her did. a lawmaker here who endorsed her saying trump, they thanked him for their service but he is the past of the party and haley now trying to paint herself as the future. even if she is not invoking trump at least not yet. >> both on the campaign trail today, thank you. hundreds of people gathered outside the florida state capitol today and pushed back against governor ron desantis's stop woke act and the rejection of the college board's ap african american studies course. the florida department of education blocked the course

last month, saying it violated state law and is not historically accurate. we'll go to tallahassee. i know you talked to some of the folks who gathered at the state house today. what was the message? >> reporter: that's right, aaron. a range of folks showed up. elected officials, politicians, clergymen, old folks came out to lift their voices and they said time and again this wasn't just about erasing course credits or a curriculum but erasing an important part of american history and black history. i had a chance to speak with one young teacher who said that this is bigger than anything that happens in the classroom. this is about life as lived by black people in this country and americans in general. >> black history is american history. history is not supposed to be comfortable. history is a beautiful, ugly story. and if you can't engage with the ugly parts you are bound to repeat those ugly parts. >> reporter: that is the big

fear that if something isn't done now, we're bound to repeat so many of the ugly parts of american history as he mentioned. >> what has been the response from the governor's office or any parts of state government to this cry? >> reporter: it's ban little layered. on one hand the governor said these things, and this is offensive to some folks, the curriculum didn't have any educational value. it wasn't valuable enough to be included. also in his fight with the college board he also said not only is african american history as an ap course off the table how about if we take other ap courses off the table all together and perhaps get rid of the college board administering the s.a.t. and get another provider. it is getting nastier on several levels. >> we're glad to have you there. obviously an important story to follow to conclusion. thank you. patients waking up in the middle of surgery and cockroaches in the operating

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a major healthcare company is facing allegations of unsanitary conditions at one of its hospitals in florida. >> an nbc news investigation found more than a dozen doctors convened a meeting at their hca hospital over patient safety. among their complaints unsanitary surgical instruments

and even roaches in the operating room. nbc news senior investigative and legal correspondent cynthia mcfadden is covering this story for us. doctors are saying that patient care has suffered because of cost cutting. >> what they are essentially saying is hca the nation's largest for profit hospital corporation is slashing services including firing the anesthesiology staff, under staffing nurses, and this is having a profound effect. tonight on "nightly news" we'll go into great detail about how one patient woke up during a doctor's brain surgery. not good or something you want to have happen. spine surgeries going amis. someone dying because no nurse checked on them for 12 hours. the person had came in with a headache and leaves dead. it is a very stunning situation. >> wow. we'll be looking for that reporting. we appreciate it. of course you can see more of cynthia's reporting tonight as she said on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt.

in today's "modern parenting" scrolling through your smartphone can be addicting and not just for children. >> according to a new pew research center survey, 68% of baby boomers say they own a smartphone and about 59% are on social media. some boomers say they are actually having a hard time limiting screen time. joining us now is addiction and mental health expert, dr. jaffy, we appreciate you being here. we are talking baby boomers 59 to 77-year-old age range. why are some finding it hard to put down the smartphone? >> these devices are specifically programmed and meant to draw attention. a lot of us don't appreciate that because we use them for texts and e-mail, our calendars, etcetera. we don't pay attention to the features that call out for you to pay more and more attention to them. >> i have had problem with this for many years so in a weird way i'm like welcome to the club. do tell us. i think a lot of people know.

what are the dangers of too much screen time? is there anything in particular about it impacting this generation that is raising red flags? >> there are a ton of things people don't really pay attention to. the whole myth you can pay attention to multiple things at once is false. when you are looking at your phone you are not registering what is happening around you. that is memory issues, attention issues, things like that. it also really interrupts, we've all seen the dinner tables with four people all staring at their phones. it interrupts interpersonal relationships. when we feel disconnected and isolated from other people we feel more depressed and more anxious, etcetera. on top of that if you do it late at night you have sleep issues that disregulate your hormones. it is a whole mess. >> we are talking about people interacting with each other. these are adults who for all intents and purposes can set their own rules. what should kids be doing if they are sort of sick of their parent being distracted by their

phones? if anything? >> sure. you have to love how the table got flipped very quickly. one thing we have to pay attention to in general is talk about it. stop putting things to the side and just hoping they'll get better on their own. we need to bring this thing up. remind your parent. when somebody is paying attention to their phone they do not register what is happening around them. you may have to call them out and make an agreement to say, hey. whenever i know this is happening i'll call you out and we'll move on to something else. >> you touched on this a little bit but how do you suggest family members bring this topic up without being confrontational? >> when it comes to compulsive habits remember replacing behavior is a lot easier than ending a bad behavior. find something else to do in the intrum. whether games, puzzles, watching something together, getting involved as a group will distract them from looking at their phone. >> thank you so much for that.

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