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hi, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm ellison barber in for kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, thursday, february 16th, 2023. breaking news, clearing the air. president biden speaking out moments ago about the objects shout down in american air space. why he says americans have nothing to fear. grounds for concern. the epa administrator arrives in ohio to examine the potentially toxic spill from a train
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derailment up close. what homeowners say needs to be done right now. questionable question. outrage in arkansas after a state lawmaker asks a transgender healthcare professional a question some people find jaw dropping. and no access, a denver city council candidate forced to crawl on to the debate stage because there was no wheelchair ramp. how the venue is defending itself. we start this hour with breaking news, president biden delivering his first extensive remarks about the downed alleged chinese spy balloon as well as three other objects recently shot down over north america. these remarks come after mounting pressure from both parties really to further explain the nature of those downed items. and how the decision was made to shoot them down. >> when one of these high altitude surveillance balloons entered our air space over the continental united states earlier in the month, i gave the order to shoot it down. as soon as it would be safe to do so. because we knew its path, we were able to protect sensitive
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sites against collection. >> president referencing the first balloon that we saw. joining us now nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli and our global security reporter dan de luce as well. mike, what new information stood out to you? what did we learn about the downed objects? >> one of the big questions as we have been tracking these new unidentified objects from over the weekend is why all of a sudden have we shot down now four objects from the sky, where nothing of this sort happened before. the president did offer a bit of an explanation for that. he said as part of the review he ordered early in his administration to study surveillance tactics, they refined radar capacity that led to better detection of the many objects that are now in our skies. and as part of that, they detected there was a potential threat with three of these objects more recently, two potential civilian aviation. now, as part of what we heard from the president in terms of steps moving forward is that he ordered his administration, the national security team in particular, to better establish an inventory for what is in the
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skies, to establish some rules of the road for how to deal with these kinds of situations, and also to work around the world and to establish a framework for what these kinds of situations should look like in the future as well. >> before we ask you a direct question, i want to play more from the president and we'll talk after. >> we see competition, not conflict, with china. we manage that competition so it doesn't veer into conflict. this episode underscores the importance of maintaining open lines of communication between our diplomats, our military professionals. >> so based on reporting we heard from our colleagues at the pentagon, earlier this month, china ignored a call from the u.s. defense secretary. what is going on with that, how much is the tension over this balloon impacting our relationship with china? >> there is no question that this whole balloon episode has aggravated what we're already very tense relations with china, and you could hear president
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biden trying to walk a line there, trying not to stoke the tensions further, but also trying to stake out a firm line that the u.s. wasn't going to tolerate violations of its air space and he said he made no -- makes no apologies for the shootdown of that chinese balloon earlier this month. but there is a problem here that the channels of communication with china are limited and you hear that from officials, both inside the government and former officials, the pentagon does not have a military to military channel open with beijing right now and china rebuffed a request for a call from the secretary of defense after that shootdown earlier this month. >> around the time the president talked about saying he made no apology for taking that balloon down. he also said we're not looking for a cold war with china. a lot to process. mike memoli, dan de luce, thank
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you. the head of the epa is now on the ground in ohio to assess the fallout. administraor michael regan and local officials held a news conference in east palestine a short time ago. this comes after members of the community demanded answers at a fiery town hall meeting last night. and the town's mayor pleaded for help from the federal government. nbc news correspondent george solis joins us now from east palestine, ohio. a lot of back and forth between state and federal officials here and who is saying what over -- about safety in that area. the epa administrator held a news conference. what did he have to say? >> reporter: the bottom line here is they're saying that it is safe to be here. it is safe to breathe in the air to drink the water, they're conducting 24/7 monitoring still after this derailment. unfortunately not a lot of people are buying that right now given that some have gotten sick and they said their livestock and fish are dieing in their water ways. they're trying to do their best to say that things are looking up on -- on the up and up while
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they continue to monitor the conditions here. listen to what he had to say during the press conference. >> if those homes have been tested, and if those homes have been tested by the state, and given a clean bill of health, yes, as a father, i trust the signs, i trust the methodology this state is using and as a parent, i would. >> and bottom line saying the epa is here from day one doing surveillance, going into homes, so far been to about 500 homes doing air quality testing, water quality testing and if this work is not done and they want to hold the train operator responsible as this investigation unfolds. >> george solis for us in east palestine, ohio. thank you. investigators say the gunman who killed three students at michigan state university was carrying two legally bought handguns but were not properly registered. criminal history also involved the 2019 arrest and incident involving a carry and concealed
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weapon. five students injured in the attack remain hospitalized, four of them are in critical condition and one was updated to stable condition earlier today. university officials are urge ing students to process the tragedy when they see fit. kathy park is in east lansing with more. kathy, walk us through the services that are available to help those in the community who are still very much grieving, trying to process this trauma. >> reporter: well, ellison, there is a whole lot of pain that this campus community is dealing with right now. and they are offering counseling services throughout the week and beyond. we have seen a lot of therapy dogs coming through here, consoling those who are having a difficult time processing everything right now. but, the school is essentially closed. all the classes have been canceled for the rest of the week, resuming next week. so we have seen more officers and fbi agents rather than students.
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and earlier today we heard from a university official with an update on how the victims' families are grappling with the tragedy. take a listen. >> the board has gone to the parents. heart wrenching discussions. we also went to meet with the families whose children are fighting for their lives right now today. and it was amazing how gracious they were. they're asking how we're doing. >> reporter: but incredibly one student who still remains hospitalized, their condition has been upgraded to stable. however, four people are still in critical condition at this hour. >> kathy, the question so many people have is why. is there any more clarity on a potential motive here? >> reporter: yeah, so, they are
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zeer zeroing in on a two-page note found on the suspect and they were elusive about to say what was in the note except to say he listed other locations he was planning on visiting, he was slighted by people and businesses. some clues there, but doesn't get us any closer to the possible motive. >> kathy park in east lansing, thank you so much. we want to turn to the weather now. unseasonable warmth in the northeast, and a snowstorm heading toward new england. >> yeah, a lot of different things going on. those are actually just two of the three major weather stories we're following this hour. the biggest threat now is in the south. people there could face damaging winds, severe thunderstorms, hail and potentially life threatening tornadoes. >> meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all for us. bill, let's start with the storms in the south. when will they be most severe? >> right now. just in the last hour we started to see numerous tornado warnings popping up, nothing confirmed
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yet, we have three separate tornado warnings, a new knd tornado watch that includes nashville, tupelo, jackson, meridian and hattiesburg. a closer look at the northern tornado warning near dixon, kentucky. interstate 40. this line of storms and that tornado storm is heading toward the general nashville area, about 30 to 45 minutes away. we'll keep an eye on that one closely. memphis, you're in the clear, all set. same for little rock. greenville, mississippi, all clear. we'll watch that line of storms heading for alabama and nashville and later tonight toward montgomery. the tornado threat, the area of greatest risk where we see the tornadoes popping up now. or tornado warnings. that's in areas of mississippi and this early this evening in areas of alabama and slice there, southern tennessee. we still had significant snow, 4 to 6 inches around des moines. lincoln, university of nebraska, 12 inches of snow.
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this is all a good snowstorm in southern wisconsin. the worst areas traveling in the country from chicago northward up to milwaukee during that rush hour. it is spring outside in the northeast. enjoy this. not going to last. >> all right, meteorologist bill karins, thank you. coming up, more breaking news, our own peter alexander just spoke with president biden just spoke with president biden following his speech on the ubrelvy helps u fight migraine attacks. u rise to the challenge. u won't clock out. so u bring ubrelvy. it can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within 2 hours... ...without worrying if it's too late or where you are. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks a protein believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. migraine pain relief starts with u. learn how abbvie could help you save. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. ask about ubrelvy, when our daughter and her kids moved in with us... our bargain detergent couldn't keep up. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to tide. one wash, stains are gone.
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we continue to follow breaking news this hour. president biden speaking a little while ago from the white house about the objects downed in u.s. air space, shot down. nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander was there for the president's comments today. i know you tried to ask a question of the president. you were interrupted. i thought i heard the president say i'll give you a call, and in fact he did. >> reporter: the president in fact said he couldn't hear me because others in the room were in his words being i think disrespectful, he said. i was welcome to ask my question later in his office. i didn't get invited to the oval office, but president biden did call my cell phone soon after that set of remarks concluded. i want to share with you part of what they said, they are the first real questions from journalists since the downing of these four objects. one, the chinese surveillance balloon, those three other aerial objects that remain unknown because their debris hasn't been found or collected
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just yet. i asked the president whether this was an overreaction, the shooting down of those most recent three objects. and whether he was responding to political pressure as some of the president's critics both republicans and democrats have insisted to this point. he said, the political pressure would have been such that it would have been easier not to shoot them down. he said he shot them down at the urging of the united states military. he said also the reason he hadn't held a news conference earlier is because he wanted more information to try to get all the information possible, specifically that as remains the current assessment according to the president, that these most recent three objects were benign or harmless in his words, that they were likely operated by private companies or research institutes. information he said he received from the intelligence community. in his words, that is why i did it. separately i followed up by asking the question, specifically about the united states relationship to china right now. one that is already heavily
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strained. this is the latest example of that. how it would impact the relationship, and when he would be speaking to china's president xi. i also asked him what the consequence should be for the chinese government, he said notably there are going to be hundreds of these things in his words including balloons, but he said there are going to be consequences, but they will happen individually. that it does not necessarily reflect in his words a fundamental change in policy that they will engage in. he said the consequences for it is so shoot it down, learn as much as we can, which i think we have learned. beyond that, to the relationship with the chinese president, who the president earlier noted he would be speaking to in the near future, he wouldn't tell me when that conversation would take place, but he said the last thing that president xi wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states that was made in terms of access. i think it enhances it to make it better.
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we need direct communication, those are the words of president biden and our exclusive interview that took place within the last 30 minutes or so before we wrapped up that call because the president received his physical earlier today. i asked about his health an how the physical went. and the simplest of terms he said it went well. we'll get more details about the specifics of the physical a short time from now. but to conclude and punctuate what we heard from him today, the president is make nothing apologies for the decision to shoot down any of the four aerial objects as his national security team is under way to come up with sharper rules to determine exactly how they will handle situations like this going forward. >> ellison here. i'm curious if you're able to have any sort of conversation with the president about reporting from our pentagon team that the u.s. secretary of defense tried to reach out and make a phone call to their chinese counterpart, but that line wasn't working at all. did he say anything about that
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in particular? >> reporter: he didn't. that was actually next on my list to ask because the white house and including the vice president insisted this relationship with china has not changed as a function of this, but it changed in some form given the fact that the defense secretary as it were in china has not returned calls from the u.s. defense secretary, lloyd austin, since these recent episodes. it is notable, though, he did say that he believes that president xi is committed to trying to make this a good relationship, he said the u.s. was committed to make it one about competition. and not conflict. and the simplest of terms as i said before, he said we need direct communication. when will that communication take place? we don't know. but as evidenced by his comments to me, he's hoping to speak to president xi in the near future. >> we have about a minute left with you. i do want to ask about the sharing of information. i think the president talked about his national security team creating new rules. sort of refining the parameters
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around shooting things down. he suggested that would be shared with congress, but that whatever the new rules are would still be classified. we may never know, right? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, obviously the biggest frustration that existed we heard to this point has been from the lawmakers, many received their most recent intelligence briefing in the last 24 hours or so. they say so much of the information they learned is information that should have been made public. the first frustration is that the white house wasn't more transparent about this. but the four recommendations, he said the u.s. will adopt and include the following. a better inventory of unmanned objects and make sure it is accessible and up to date, implement further to detect unmanned objects, the sort of adjust the radar it would seem so they can better see some of the things out there, many of which the u.s. and other intelligence officials suggest ready likely harmless or benign. and update the rules anding are la regulations for maintaining the unmanned objects. what more will they do? it is not clear how we will hear it from the national security
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team, but lawmakers and many americans want to learn more details about the situation going forward. >> peter alexander for us, chief white house correspondent in washington. thank you. coming up, how some of turkey's youngest earthquake survivors are coping as more bodies are pulled from the rubble. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor for crohn's that can deliver both clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. the majority of people on skyrizi achieved long lasting remission at 1 year. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. liver problems may occur in crohn's disease.
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this is the fast forward on nbc news daily. thanks for joining us. police are looking for a san jose mom who they say kidnapped her own toddler. police say crystal mendez took 2-year-old tayana from a home in san jose yesterday. this is a photo of the pair leaving. sj family services placed the child with a guardian bus social workers determined men does was not fit to care for the child. her neck has a tattoo with the word named dante. mendez was last seen wearing a white hoodie and black skinny with ripped jeans. the stroller is black. they were last seen at the oakland b.a.r.t station and police tweeted mendez has connections to the tenderloin district in san francisco. if you see "today in the bay" the child or mendez the mom call 911. some oakland leaders are expressing disappointment that lee ron armstrong has been
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fired. those leaders had a new conference today and the mayor announced she was firing armstrong without cause. thao lost confidence the him after a report accused him of mishandling claims. armstrong fired back called his termination unjustified. community leaders are divided over the decision and some don't think there was evidence and others lauded the mayor's decision. a discipline committee was supposed to meet to determine the chief's fate but that was canceled after the mayor canceled armstrong hours before. our reporter is tracking the story and she will have an update in the afternoon news cast. the man accused in the half moon bay mass shooting is appearing in court. emotions ran high a week ago. pete looks at the case so far. >> reporter: appeared in court last week, and he was pretty emotional. the judge calling for a ten
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minute recession in last week's hearing. we'll see what takes place later today. the main focus was on how much access the public would get to this case. now zhao was charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and suspected of shooting and killing seven farm workers in half moon bay last month. there was one other person who did survive that shooting. now there were multiple defense motions ahead of today's hearing. the judge actually granting a motion to restrict remote access to court records that could impact coverage of this case and there will be consideration of a gag order for attorneys and verters. as far as cameras in the courtroom that is going to be determined on a day-to-day basis. today's hearing for the plea and arrangement will take place at 1:30 and we'll provide updates on air and online on nbcbayarea.com. in redwood city, pete surat tos. today's weather is mild.
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here's kari hall with your forecast. >> more clouds moving in today. it's going to be a mostly cloudy rest of the day but temperatures will still be back to what we had yesterday reaching into the upper 50s and low 60s, so kind of a mild afternoon. as we go into the next few days our temperatures warm up slightly. by friday we're hitting 64 degrees in san jose, mostly upper 50s for parts of the tri-valley and low 60s for north bay and then on saturday it continues to warm up. there will be a couple spots in the upper 60s and feeling very spring like. we will continue to have more cold mornings and eventually there may be rain in the forecast. we'll take a look at that and what's ahead coming up in the next 30 minutes. >> all right. thanks very much. here's other stories we think you need to know about. new flight options at san jose international airport. high tide in the north bay prompts road closures and parents pay attention to a school district is making a
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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." >> breaking news reesentative f senator john fetterman confirmed that he has checked himself into a hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression. according to a statement, fetterman has battled with depression throughout his life and it has become severe in recent weeks. this comes after the senator was hospitalized last week after feeling light headed. a shelter in place order in tucson, arizona, has been lifted after a deadly crash caused hazardous materials to leak out of a trailer. that crash happened tuesday night when a truck flipped over
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the median, spilling nitric acid on the road. the spill prompted evacuations and a shelter in place order while hazmat crews cleaned up the damage. a tennessee inmate was charged after officers say he tried to escape from court by jumping out of an open window. 33-year-old michael dean smith was in court with several other inmates. the sheriff's office said he got up from his seat several times to get tissues before jumping out of the second story window. you see it here, falling on to his back as he tried to get up a nearby sheriff's deputy arrested him. smith was taken to the hospital, treated for miper injuries, he was initially in court because of a warrant from another state. he's facing additional charges of attempting to escape. rescue missions in turkey and syria are now largely shifting to recovery efforts. still, ten days after the earthquakes, we're seeing crews find and save some people. that includes this 17-year-old girl who was pulled from the rubble after spending ten nights
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in 30 degree temperatures. the death toll is slowly climbing as it reaches nearly 40,000 people. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is on the ground in southern turkey. matt, the aftermath of this is having an especially difficult big impact on children who survived this. you spoke to some of this. what are they telling you, how are they beginning to process what happened to them? >> reporter: it is hard with children to really get them to tell you exactly what they're feeling and a lot of what the parents were telling us they're expressing themselves through drawing, kind of interesting, something we know about from children all over the world. they don't necessarily have the vocabulary to say what they feel, but they will sort of act it out in the drawings they make and one of these women that i was speaking to said that her son was drawing pictures of people with xs over their faces from -- connoting they were dead, showing ambulances,
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showing the afad, the relief agency here, tents where they were living now. they're living in a tent community with afad written on all the tents. they're expressing themselves through drawings, but this is something that it takes a couple of years when with we were speaking with some of the experts on hand a couple of years for these thoughts, these feelings and emotions to come to fruition and express themselves fully so they're trying their best to take care of these children. but it is tough because they just simply don't have the vocabulary to express how they're feeling. >> matt, one thing you reported on in recent days is the difficulty of getting aid into syria, in particular. explain to us what is going on there, the united nations, they said more than 100 aid trucks have crossed from turkey into rubble held areas. what does that look like right now? >> that's right. 100 or more than 100 aid trucks that have just crossed through a
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crossing that was open for much of the last decade that was the one crossing they allowed aid and other products to cross over from turkey into syria during the duration of this war. now, since the earthquake we have seen more than 100 crossing over, but also one of the two other crossings that the regime of bashar al assad allowed open after a week of staunch diplomatic pressure urging him to open up relief to people in the rebel occupied parts of syria that so far had not seen nearly the kind of aid or assistance this people here in syria experienced or those in the government held parts of syria had seen. so, really, the suffering in syria, while so much more death here and the impact of the earthquake because the epicenter was here in turkey has been so much greater here in turkey, in neighboring syria, we don't understand the scope and impact of the earthquake. that part of that country is still kind of a black box. >> unspeakable tragedy all
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around. matt bradley, thank you so much. prosecutors are winding town their case in the double murder trial of disgraced south carolina lawyer alex murdaugh, calling the final witnesses to the stand now. he grew emotional this morning as a deputy from the crime scene unit described in detail the nature and severity of paul and maggie murdaugh's injuries. lindsey reiser is following the trial for us now and joins us. what have we been hearing from witnesses on the stand today. >> we have seen some of the most comprehensive testimony yet of what happened that night. how paul and maggie were shot, at close range, from which angles. the crime scene expert who re-created the crime scene said paul couldn't have died by suicide and they had no defensive wounds. this isn't the first time we're hearing graphic testimony or some details, but the prosecution is connecting a lot of dots and the jury seems to be really engaged. here is a moment in which the prosecutor demonstrated for the jury how maggie was shot in the
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head while on the ground after other nonfatal shots. >> she would have bent over and perhaps been on her hands and knees. >> show us the trajectory as it went through maggie and into her brain. >> yes. >> it burned or -- her stomach inside to outside, went through the end of her breast, into her jaw, and into her brain. >> we are hearing from a senior law enforcement official investigating that roadside shooting that happened three months after the murders, the judge not allowing that testimony, now saying the jury can hear it. murdaugh has changed his story saying it was a suicide for hire plot. and that roadside shooting testimony could help the prosecution showing jurors this was murdaugh's desperate mindset three months after the murders. >> what happens next here? >> the prosecution hopes to rest tomorrow and the defense can pick it up. but the defense team admitted
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they are scrambling after this new testimony is now allowed. they have to pivot and rethink their strategy since a lot of doubt of the integrity of their client has been put into question. >> lindsey reiser, thank you. in arkansas, a lawmaker is facing intense backlash today. he asked what some call an highly inappropriate question of a healthcare professional who is transgender. this all happened during a hearing en a bill that would prohibit gender affirming care for miners. maya eglin joins us with the story. >> reporter: there was definite tension in the hearing when the line of questioning you're about to hear came up. >> you said you're a trans woman. >> trans female, yes, sir. >> do you have a penis? >> arkansas's republican state senator matt mckie upsetting onlookers when he asked gwenn
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herzig about her genitalia. >> that was the most dehumanizing, most embarrassing situation, public humiliation i've ever been through. >> reporter: she was testifying at the hearing in support of gender affirming care as the state's bill sb-199 -- receive treatment as a minor to sue individual healthcare providers up to. >> a person who had lived experience who was a born arkansas constituent and a person who is a -- had been serving the population at the time, having all that thrown out, it was extremely horrible and dehumanizing. >> reporter: senator mckie continued to provoke with his line of questioning. herzig pushed back. >> that's horrible.
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>> you're the one that brought that into discussion. you're the one -- >> i never brought anything about genitalia. i'm not going to answer that question. that is highly inappropriate. i'm a healthcare professional. i'm a doctor, treat me as such. >> reporter: the important thing to keep in mind is the practice of medicine and research and evidence, we have dozens of american medical organizations that support this. >> reporter: senator mckie has not responded to do the request for comment. >> this kind of legislation is devastating. arkansas, and this is far wide ranging. this is one bill.
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back in 2021, arkansas became first state to ban gender affirming care for miners. a federal judge blocked that law. that legislation largely mirrors the bill introduced this year. >> maya, thank you for that. a denver city councilman who uses a wheelchair says he felt humiliated moments before an important debate because of a lack of accessibility. he says he was surprised when he showed up to the venue and there was no way for him to get on to the stage. gary grumback joins us now. >> they are under fire tonight after a denver city councilman running for re-election couldn't get his wheelchair on the stage at a venue of a debate monday night. the venue who sponsored the debate didn't have a -- councilman called it a choice
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because of his campaign's viability of his own dignity. he crawled out of his wheelchair and on to the stage to prepare for the debate. event organizers had trouble lifting his electric wheelchair on to the debate platform itself, so all the candidates including heinz ended up participating in the debate on the floor in front of the stage. here's what he told our nbc affiliate. kusa. >> insulting they would say they would lift me up. it is super easy to do an internet search and find i use a wheelchair to get around. i was just in shock. i didn't really know how to handle the situation. >> this has advocates in denver and across the country calling for more attention to be paid to the americans with disabilities act. a law in place for more than 30 years. aaron? >> gary, thank you. breaking news, major league baseball legend tim mccarver has died at 81.
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his death was announced by the national baseball hall of fame. he spent decades in professional baseball as a catcher and award winning broadcaster. in a statement, the commissioner called mccarver one of the most influential voices our game has known. our thoughts are with his family. coming up, why some patients with attention disorders say they're stockpiling their medications. medications.
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a panel voted unanimously on wednesday to recommend making an opioid overdose drug available over the counter. a nasal spray version of the drug naloxone known as narcan could soon be available to anyone without having to talk to a pharmacist. it can reverse the effects of an overdose from opioids including prescription painkillers. a nationwide shortage of medication used to treat adhd has left many patients scrambling. >> adderall has been hard to find for almost six months now and alternatives are in short supply too. adderall prescriptions for adults rose 15 % during 2020, that's double the increase seen in the previous year. nbc news correspondent tom costello is following that story for us and joins us now. why is the demand for adderall so high right now? >> demand has been surging for 12 years, doubled over the past 12 years, as you saw it surged during the pandemic when a lot of doctors were treating their patients remotely and
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prescribing meds remotely. as you would expect, a lot of people were under tremendous stress during the pandemic, they were locked down and so we saw a lot more use of adderall and other similar meds. but then we had production problems with the major manufacturers, those we're told most of those manufacturing problems are resolved. but we are still seeing significant problems with just needing supply. 97% of pharmacists say they simply are seeing a huge shortage. >> tom, what are doctors and patients doing to ensure they have enough supply on hand? >> by the way, this is a big problem for people, they have been taking it for a number of years, just to find stability in their lives and suddenly now they can't find the meds. they have been going to generic alternatives but some of those are running short because of the fact that the supply is short on adderall, so, people have been looking for backups. listen to what one doctor told
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us from san francisco. >> i've been practicing medicine for 25 years. there has never been a shortage like this. and scarily enough, i don't know when it is going to end. it shows no sign of letting up. >> that's a real concern for both adults and teenagers who are on adderall or something similar. and right now there is not a good idea of when it is going to get any better, guys. >> tom costello from d.c. you can see more of tom's reporting tonight on "nbc nightly news." more breaking news this hour, the family of actor bruce willis is make a painful revelation about his health. >> willis' wife revealed in an instagram post the actor has been diagnosed with something called fronto temporal dementia. it comes a year after the family revealed he suffered from a different cognitive disease known as aphasia. >> let's bring in a pharmacist and founder of a wellness brand
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focused on brain health. kavita, in a statement, the family said challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease bruce faces. help us understand what frontotemporal dementia is and how it affects the brain. >> so, it is a very rare type of dementia that affects the front part of the brain and the temporal part of the brain, the sides of the brain. aphasia is one of the symptoms you can have because the front of our brain controls our memory, speech, our executive function. so this is what bruce willis was presenting with. >> sounds like you're saying the first diagnosis of aphasia, was that inaccurate or just the symptoms manifest differently and that made it seem confusing? did he ever have aphasia? >> i think it was an early symptom for him, which happens a lot with dementia because the symptoms can be slow to arrive until a definitive diagnosis is made of dementia with an mri or
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right testing. we don't always know. so aphasia was not an inaccurate diagnosis, just the preliminary diagnosis to the final one. >> now that there appears to be a more final diagnosis, what treatment options are available? >> sadly as with all other types of dementia, there is no definitive treatment, only prevention we can do with lifestyle. very sad for bruce willis. >> youmentioned prevention. there are things that people can do that help us and sort of enhance our brain health, right, in terms of trying to stave off dementia and alzheimer's and such? >> correct. it could be a head injury, we want to make sure we're practicing safe in sports. eating clean organic foods, avoiding chemicals, improving sleep, reducing inflammation in
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the body, a lot of it comes from diet and lifestyle that we can do that can possibly reduce our risk of dementia. >> thank you so much for that. there is more news ahead. >> stay with us. you're watching "nbc news daily." some things are good to know. like, where to find the cheapest gas in town. and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. something else that's good to know? if you have medicare and medicaid, you may be able to get more healthcare benefits through a humana medicare advantage dual eligible special needs plan. call now and speak to a licensed humana sales agent to see if you qualify. depending on the plan you choose, you could have your doctor, hospital, and prescription drug coverage in one convenient plan. from humana, a company with over sixty years of experience in the healthcare industry. you'll have lots of doctors and specialists to choose from. and, if you have medicare and medicaid, a humana plan may give you other important benefits. depending
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this is the fast forward on nbc news daily. good afternoon. i'm here live in the nbc bay area newsroom. our top story tesla is recalling more than 360,000 cars. the national highway traffic safety administration posted the notice today just a few hours ago. the recall includes models 3, x, s, y, specifically those that have the full self-drive beta feature. the government says the fsd might cause crashes according to the recall notice the system has trouble changing speed limits and might drive straight through an intersection from a turn lane. tesla says the recalled cars do not need to go to the shop for a fix. they will get an over the air software update. ceo elon musk objected to the use of term recall online today. after the recall news, tesla shares fell about 1% on the stock market, but they quickly recovered. in the next ten minutes or so oakland mayor sheng thao is holding a news conference about homelessness. what we expect reporters to ask
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her about firing leronne armstrong. mayor sheng thao will join us tonight for a live interview during our 7:00 news cast. our weather team says look for a warmer weekend, but keep a blanket on hand for the mornings. meteorologist kari hall has your -- >> as we get closer to the weekend our temperatures will start to warm up, at least for the afternoons. the mornings will still be very chilly and starting out in the mid-30s, but then take a look at saturday and sunday. upper 60s with a lot of sunshine that's going to be pleasant, and it also continues into the holiday. presidents' day will reach into the mid-60s and also see dry weather continuing into tuesday. but we are expecting a change in the weather pattern on wednesday with scattered showers and much colder temperatures and that may continue through the tend of next week. in the near term we see more mild weather and a mostly cloudy day today but we are back to the sunshine in time for the weekend
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welcome back. we're going to turn to our climate in crisis series. no aaa has released its 2022 billion dollar diswraster report and it was another extreme year for the u.s. approximately 18, $1 billion disasters this past year from the western drought to severe weather in the south, winter storms in the northeast and hurricane ian and fiona last september. when these disasters strike and people are left without power communities use diesel generators to restore power and adds to climate issues. there's a company trying to help out and make the recovery a little more sustainable and made a nano grid. it's the world's first 100% renewbly powered mobile system that only uses sun and water >> so the primary use is after an extreme weather event like
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here in california, earthquakes or wildfires or floods, when the power is out, we can provide immediate power, one person can set this up in about 15 minutes, and immediately begin generating 100% renewable power. an ability to have instantly available reliable emergency power plus the essential services you need after an emergency like clean water and communications, medical health. that's what the world needs. >> flanagan says each grid can serve a pop-up medical clinic, communications hub and more. to learn more about this and watch all of our climate in crisis series visit our website nbcbayarea.com. and that's going to do it for this edition of the fast forward. see you at 4:30 with more news. have a great afternoon. ♪ it's the most wonderful time of the year. ♪ get fast relief of your worst allergy symptoms, including nasal congestion, with powerful claritin d, so you can breathe better. feel the clarity—and make today the most wonderful time of the year.
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today on "access daily," he was the star of "this is us," now milo fills us in on his new show. >> and the great -- is dropping love from his best selling book. >> we could all use a little love. "access daily" starts right now. >> welcome to "access daily" from universal studios, hollywood. i'm mario lopez with kit hoover. if you're looking for something to watch this weekend, got you covered. the new show called "the company you keep," and it's an entirely different role for him. he played a conman. check it out. >> hey. transfer of ownership, and we
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