hi, everyone. i'm kate snow. >> i'm tom llamas in for erin gillcrest. "nbc news daily" starts right now. ♪♪ ♪♪ it's wednesday, march 15, 2023. drenched and damaged. communities in storm-ravaged california begin drying out after another round of relentless rain. what cleanup looks like for thousands up and down the coast. drone drama. tensions mount after a russian jet collides with the u.n. -- excuse me, an unmanned u.s.

aircraft. why both countries say the other is to plame. ruling judge. a judge in texas gets ready to decide on a major abortions case what an unprecedented ruling could mean for women nationwide. two advanced lung cancer patients are alive today thanks to a groundbreaking surgery. what it could mean for other patients with the same diagnosis. welcome back. we begin this hour with the widespread impacts of two major storms slamming the east and west coast. >> get this, the storm dropped 30 inches of snow in some areas. >> wind ask rain are hitting the already soaked state of california and now rain creating mud slides forcing evacuation orders northeast of sacramento and south of los angeles. >> dana griffin is in los angeles. also with us meteorologist bill karins. dana, we'll start out there, how serious are these flooding threats and mud slides?

>> well, kate, the biggest impact, as you know is flash flooding and we've seen a few slides in the area. i want to show you behind me the los angeles river corridor. this area is usually bone dry, but as you can see there's so much water flowing through it. this helps to divert that extra runoff out to sea, but the big concern is as that rain fell, a lot of snow melt happened and we've already got the oversaturated ground. i want to show you some of the video of the impacts that we are seeing across the area including mud slides, downed trees and flooding for drivers in one area. this is in san clemente, california. this is orange county, close by where we are. they had a mudslide there and three apartment buildings had to be evacuated just because it is so close to the cliff and there are concerns about structural damage. we had a second one in baldwin hills and that trapped one driver in his car for 30 minutes

and some of the other impacts we're seeing here is flooding. we know the governor of california is currently touring monterey county where they had extensive flooding there and the bay area. they had wind damage and a lot of impacts with the airport after they got 77-mile-per-hour winds, kate. >> we appreciate that. >> i want to bring you in on the conversation. it feels like your weather graphics has been parked in the state of california for months now. >> it's been a blessing to get the water and reservoirs and we're lucky this hit last night in the middle of the night. it was three inches of rain in downtown and the airport. 25% of what they would normally get in a rainfall season. a huge event, and now that's moving out and it's hitting all through arizona right now and snow in the upper terrain in flagstaff and southern portions of utah and tonight we'll see the storm moving into the colorado rockies. that's where you will see the snow and tomorrow out into the

central plains and again, not a huge event and the ski areas will take it and they're getting a close of powder and minneapolis and sioux city, and a couple of inches, maybe three to six. everyone in california are, like, what's next? when's the next storm coming friday? saturday, kind of your last day of sunshine, maybe increasing clouds late in the day, no problems because on sunday is when the next paific is storm moves in. this does not look like a huge atmospheric river event and the other start of the active weather. >> you won't worry about california anymore. >> not yet. >> dana griffin, bill karins, thank you. to another story we're following, the pentagon will continue to launch surveillance flights despite threats from russia. it comes after a russian jet harassed and collided with an american drone. the u.s. was forced to bring its drone down. the state department calls the

incident unacceptable and dangerous. dan duluth joins us now. >> profound incompetence on the part of one of these russian pilots. >> dan joins us now. secretary of defense lloyd austin just spoke about this incident. what did he have to say? >> it was interesting, on the one hand he said the u.s. would fly and operate anywhere where international law allows and he also said it was important to keep the lines of communication open and he was saying that he spoke to his russian counterpart and he conveyed to the russians how the u.s. saw this incident, that this was unsafe and reckless behavior by the russian pilots, but he left that door open for communication and then general milley said it wasn't clear whether it was intentional or want and how the russian planes operated was extremely unprofessional. >> even though it's a mistake, there's a high level of concern because if you look back at

history, wars have sometimes started over quote, unquote, mistakes. >> that's right. this is no small matter when the russians and u.s. forces somehow collide even if it's not planned and deliberate, there's always that risk of a crisis blowing up into something worse and there are a lot of incidents we don't hear about because there's a bit more professional operational action by the pilots or the navy skipper's involved, but in this case you have a drone that happened to have crash landed into the black sea. the key here is to prevent this incident from blowing up into something even worse and that's why it was so important to keep talking. general milley said there was a pattern here and the russians were acting more aggressively in these areas. >> dan deluce for us. we appreciate your reporting,

thank you. >> the acting head of the federal aviation administration says plane travel is incredibly safe. he spoke today at a summit to address the recent scares involving planes in this country. government leaders including pete buttigieg and the chair of the national transportation safety board were among those who spoke. since last october there have been more than 600 so-called runway incursions and essentially a plane, a vehicle or a person being too close to the active runway. among them, one we learned about yesterday. lindsay riser joins us. lindsay, what do these leaders have to say about this sort of summit about what needs to be done? >> kate, a lot of people are asking for more training and funding. experts point to basically what happened since covid and all of this has rebounded faster than anyone anticipated and think about what happened during covid, a number of airlines slashed the number of workers and they decided to leave the

profession and now we have all of these people wanting to fly and we did hear from the ntsb chair in the summit about how urgent this is. >> these recent incidents must serve as a wake-up call for every single one of us before something more catastrophic occurs, before lives are lost. >> people talked about the need for more funding and consistent long-term funding than the piecemeal, and they're on track to hire 1500 new traffic controllers and we've had all of these serious turbulence cases. i know you spoke to flight attendants recently. ez thorpe were those topics addressed, too? they wanted to think about the things they were going through

on a day to day basis and they feel safe even when it comes to these incurrings and the cluster. they're most concerned about unruly passengers and the numbers are still high and a lot of that was in 2021. so these flight attendants, kate, are asking for specific things. a national no-fly list and if one is banned on one airline they're banned on all. they want to see mandatory required, on the job, self-defense training and right now it's voluntary and they have to do it on their own time, kate. >> thank you for that. we more on the downfall of svb. investigators are taking a close look at the silicon valley bank. >> it is under the microscope of the department of justice, the securities and exchange commission and the federal reserve. the bank abruptly shut down last friday marking the biggest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. >> nbc news justice and

intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is following this. walk us through the investigation and the sec is taking different tracks. >> it is out of the northern district of california and there's a team of fbi agents who specialize on white-collar crimes. bad business decisions are not necessarily crimes and they want to make sure no employee sold stock based on insider information. there were a lot of stock sales. it was worth $300 at one point and it is now zero. we know the ceo sold stock pursuant to a pre-arranged plan that was executed in january, but nonetheless, both the sec and fbi want to make sure there was no insider trading. >> give us more contract because we heard about the investigations being launched shortly after all of this happened and you wonder if that indicates how serious the situation is? >> i think there certainly does. there's a lot of pressure from congress who want to find answers. all of a sudden this catastrophe

happens in the sector and there appear to be reckless decisions that were made and all of the laws that were civil and criminal are complied with and the fbi and the sec? there have been questions about regulation and how all of this played into this. ken dilanian, thank you so much. deadpool makes a killing on a cell phone deal. >> bertha coombs joins us with today's cnbc money minute. >> let's start with the bank in europe. its shares today plunged 25% to an all-time low after its biggest financial backer, saudi national bank said that it cannot provide the swiss bank any further financial help because swiss regulators at this point can't buy more. it has a 9.9% stake and 10% won't be allowed. credit suisse said it found, quote, weaknesses in our internal control over financial

reporting for the last two years. it's the latest trouble in the financial sector and the latest trouble for this bank that has had issues for some time now. after silicon valley collapsed over the weekend. the same company who brought dprou you, intelligence software. gpt eye 4 comes up with abilities and is good at mental math. it can see and reason based on images users have up loaded. it sounds kind of scary to me. t-mobile is buying the owner of mint mobile. you may know him. that's the budget service provider backed by actor ryan reynolds. the $1.35 billion. i am jealous of our jim cramer

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off the job after alec baldwin's legal team said her participation was unconstitutional. danny zavalos joins us now. i used to be from new mexico, and i know she was from a different part of the state. >> this prosecutor was a state legislator in new mexico, and baldwin's legal team argued that this was unconstitutional, that she couldn't serve as a state legislator and as a special counsel in the baldwin investigation and like the prior situation where they withdrew one of the more serious charges, the prosecutor claims she did it voluntarily, but not really voluntarily because it looks like baldwin's team's motion would have prevailed if it had gotten to oral arguments. so the statement that i voluntarily stepped down is kind of true, kind of not true. >> maybe she stepped down

preemptively is what you're saying, yeah. could the resignation now impact the case or how might it impact the case? >> look, this is say case where the defense is already winning by a thousand cuts before we even get to trial. first they've got the prosecution to throw out the most serious charge which carried a five-year mandatory minimum. that's gone. the maximum penalty now is 18 months. now you have them disabling the case even more. does it continue without her? sure, the point is baldwin's legal team is winning before the jury's even been empanelled. there's a good chance the way this case is going it never even makes it to trial. >> okay. danny zavalos thanks so much. the family of a mississippi man found dead they're calling the department of justice to step in after the death of rashean carter after there was no reason to suspect foul play. the sheriff in the case says he

has not ruled anything out. nbc news reporter gary joins us now. we want to warn viewers some of the details in the story are disturbing. can you share why he's changed. >> he defended his early determination that no evidence at the time pointed to homicide, about you he now says he's waiting on search warrants to rule definitively. he was reported missing in october. his remains were found a month later. carter's family says at the time of his death he was 100 miles from homeworking a short-term contracting gig. his mom said he was saving money to re-open his restaurant which was closed during the pandemic. at the job site, his family said he got into an argument with one coworker and he told his family he feared for his life. his mom said she told him to go to the police station and that's when she lost contact with him. the sheriff said he interviewed those involved in carter's last job and ruled those individuals

out after looking through cell phone records and gps records. ben crump shared incredibly gruesome details and they said his head was severed from his body and three of their family members told them wild animals may have torn his body apart. listen to this from ben crump, he alleges someone tried to use his credit card after he died. >> think about it, the person using his credit card is likely to have encountered him while he was alive and it shouldn't have to be this difficult for this broken-hearted mother to get answers. >> the family is calling for the department of justice to step in here. the sheriff says he welcomes their involvement and wants justice as much as his family does. >> gary, we thank you. still ahead, the case that could dramatically impact access

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they could be without power until friday. >> thanks. here is an example of what the winds did yesterday. it toppled a tree damaging two living untds. it crashed through the wall of the upstairs unit. it's a miracle a young man wasn't hurt. >> one of my sons was sleeping on the bottom bunk. thank god it was the bottom. he jumped up because he heard the crackling and the hit. my husband grabbed him out. he was shook and a little scared. he is okay. that's all that matters. >> that tree struck the carport and totals an suv. the storm taking down trees across the bay area, including the pa minute sue la. we are following the snow in the sierra causing ceilings to cave in. first, scenes from the financial district in san francisco. you might have seen this. gusty winds causing a window to fly from the 43rd floor of the former bank of america building. the incident halted traffic on

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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc news daily. >> we start with the former georgia sheriff who ran a jail will soon become an inmate himself. victor hill will spend 18 months in prison after a jury found him guilty of abusing inmates. he justified his actions saying he did it to maintain order in the jail. they will be appealing the sentencing. >> a woman in rhode island will spend 70 months in prison after lying about her military service and stealing hundreds of dollars. >> sarah cavanaugh lied about

being a purple heart and a combat veteran dying of cancer. she used that lie to swindle thousands from veterans organizations and charities as well as friends and coworkers. she will now need to repay more than $250,000. a coalition representing the main lobster industry is suing an aquarium in california for defamation. it comes after monterey bay aquarium put lobster on the menu due to the threat it poses to whales. the aquarium's recommendation is based on just bad science. >> at this hour we are learning new details from inside that texas court hearing in texas rather, that could alter abortions in america. >> the case was brought by an anti-abortion group and claims the process that the fda used to evaluate the drug two decades ago was unlawful. the fda was unlawful defending its approval of the drug.

laura jaret and nbc news correspondent morgan chesky joins us live from texas. morgan, we'll start with you because you're outside the courtroom. bring us up to speed because there were some major developments. >> the arguments wrapped up just about an hour ago and as it stands right now judge matthew kacsmaryk has said he will not be making a decision today and likely not tomorrow because he ended the arguments by asking both sides to continue to submit case law going forward in the days and weeks ahead and that means that this drug mifepristone will remain in use at least for the time being. this began earlier today starting with the plaintiff's argument and they spoke for 90 minutes and this is groups across the country led by the alliance for hippocratic medicine that established a presence here in amarillo in august 2022. they argued two main points here. number one, that the fda overlooked some safety protocol when they approved mifepristone

back two decades ago. number two, that they were a bit lax or that they relaxed regulation and protocol starting in about 2016 and allowed the prescription of mifepristone during the pandemic and that was followed by an argument on behalf of the government, mainly the fda saying that this mifepristone drug when taken as part of a two-drug combo for abortion is highly safe and has been so for decades, and it is more than 90% effective. they were arguing if this is taken off the shelf and that second drug is the only one taken, then it's only 70% effective here, tom, and could pose a serious threat to users. tom? >> all right. morgan, we thank you for that. >> let's bring in laura for that. laura jaret. talk about the significance of this case because this will not just affect texas depending on what the judge does it could affect the whole country. >> i think the biden

administration is paying close attention to this because if the plaintiffs get what they want here which is a universal, nationwide injunction taking off an fda-approved drug and taking it off the market against the fda's will. over the fda's objection which has said this is safe and effective as you heard morgan's reporting here. i wonder based on the reporting and moots happening in the courtroom is whether the judge would lick to give their plaintiff some, if not all, and the fda later in the pandemic said you don't have to come in in person to get a prescription for this and get it via telehealth and i wonder if the judge will invalidate that piece instead of invalidating the entire thing which means it changes how you get the drug and it doesn't take the drug fully off the market. no indication if the drug would do that. perhaps. >> thank you so much and morgan chesky. we're following another big story. thousands of education workers are set to announce a three-day strike.

a los angeles school district and union leaders failed to reach an agreement over staffing and wages. nbc news correspondent nayela charles joins us from los angeles. thousands from teachers to bus drivers and cafeteria workers are expected to strike and why are they planning to walk off the job and what will it look like for these schools? >> well, those workers are asking for better pay, more staffing and also better benefits and those workers, actually most of them are other people like cafeteria workers, bus drivers and things of that nature and if this strike does happen, tom, the district says that learning would come to a complete stop and that would impact about half a million students here in los angeles. so you get an idea, those workers are asking for a 30% pay increase. right now the union says they make about $25,000 a year and here in los angeles rent is more than $2,000 a month on average.

this is what the superintendent is saying to all of this. >> i know that we focus our attention on the needs of the workforce. i need to focus my attention primarily on the needs of our kids. when is their voice acknowledged? when are their needs considered? ideally we can do both at the same time, not an either/or and that's exactly what i'm asking for. >> the district says it has offered those workers about half the salary increase they're looking for, tom, but still negotiations are at a standstill. in a couple of hours the union is going to talk about that strike that they are threatening here, and they say that there we will learn more details and it's expected to last about three days and happen within the next couple of weeks. tom? >> niala charles from l.a., niala, we appreciate it. michael cohen is testifying

before a grand jury for the second time this week. he's the one-time personal attorney for former president trump. they're investigating hush money payments to stormy daniels in the midst of the 2016 presidential camp cam. before cohen's appearance the prosecutors met with stormy daniels herself. she appeared via zoom from florida this morning. nbc news correspondent, vaughn hilliard joins us from west palm beach, florida. vaughn, a second day of testimony for michael cohen and now we hear stormy daniels has spoken with prosecutors. what could all that mean? >> yeah. this is notable to hear just at this hour that stormy daniel, the adult film star who alleges that she'd had a sexual affair with donald trump and who received $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election from michael cohen. the former trump lawyer and trump fixer who says he received

that dlaen 0,000 directly from donald trump in an effort to silence what donald trump says it's a defamatory story. for her to meet with prosecutors it would suggest that he is about to go and appear before this grand jury and michael cohen, the anticipation was going to be because he was the key witness in all of this and the final individual to go before the grand jury before the manhattan district attorney were to decide whether or not to seek an indictment of donald trump, but now here with the news this afternoon, that stormy daniels is newly meeting with prosecutors and it would suggest that this case here still has a ways to go, at least before the grand jury before we know whether or not the manhattan district attorney can seek charges against donald trump. >> vaughn hill yard watching it all for us. >> it has not announced a 2024 bid for the white house, but he's getting his first endorsement for president from republican congressman chip roy. not everyone in capitol hill are

liking what they're hearing from desantis lately notably his comments on the war in ukraine. joining us live is capitol hill correspondent ryan noble. as desantis goes through the motion sometimes there are hiccups and there seems to be a big one which it comes to putin's war, ukraine and what they think about some of his comments. >> tom, it really does depend on which audience you're talkinging about here and what ron desantis said was that he views the conflict with ukraine and russia as a regional conflict and it's not in the united states' national interest, and he said that they wouldn't allow for a blank check if he were -- if he said if he were to run for president and he wouldn't endorse a blank check for the u.s. government and that has made republicans here in the public states senate upset and many not agreeing on that stance at all and let me hear what they were saying yesterday. >> i know how -- i believe that

the aid to ukraine is not charity. i think it's an act of self-preservation. >> i am very disturbed that he feels that way. >> i think that's a misunderstanding of the situation. and it's not territorial conflict. >> let me explain what i mean by audience, yes, republicans in the senate don't necessarily agree with this, but when you talk to republican base voters particularly the maga wing of the party that support donald trump you get a much different perspective, there is a lot of concern among the faction of the republican party that the united states of ukraine is a bit too much and you see that with the house republicans, as well and it seems though, tom, even though he hasn't officially announced he seems to be playing with the base who the republican nominee is. >> you also see it reflected immediate some polls. ryan noble, we appreciate your

reporting, thank you. we are following breaking news. the nba announcing that grizzlies star ja morant has been suspended after video appeared to show him holding a gun in a club earlier this month. he takes full responsibility for his actions and he'll be eligible to return to the court march 20th. still ahead, how a groundbreaking surgery is singav

lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the united states, but a groundbreaking new procedure at northwestern medicine in chicago is giving new hope to two patients. we talked to the two who are alive today all thank to this revolutionary treatment. ♪♪ >> a week ago al corey and tanazameli met for the first time, strangers now linked by an unthinkable bond. >> thankfully, we are cancer-free. >> we did. >> double lung transplants pioneered by doctors at northwestern medicine. >> you're the only two people in america who have had this double lung transplant successfully. >> al is a pretty tough guy, a cement worker for the city of

chicago. used to go to the gym three hours a day, but in 2020 he got the lung cancer diagnosis. >> i said no problem. i'm going to beat it. don't worry about it. >> helped by his nephew joseph he tried all kinds of treatment that didn't work. al's sister saw a story online about a northwestern doctor performing double lung transplants not for cancer, but for covid. >> she said once you go there and see what they can do for you. >> eventually al ended up in the icu at northwestern, doctors saying he had days to live and he begged the oncologist. >> i said can i talk to a surgeon. by chance, that oncologist ran into ankit barat. >> i was optimistic and we were in a position to help. >> al got his new lungs in

september 2021. >> you woke up in that room. your whole family's around. what were your feelings in that moment? >> i felt good. i cried so much. i cried after that. i never cried before. i said, why did this thing happen to me? what's so special about me? >> double lung transplants aren't new, but the way dr. are aboutat and his team are doing them is revolutionary. traditional lungs are removed and replaced one at a time and that's a problem for patients. >> the other lung still has cancer so you can cross-contaminate. >> to avoid that, dr. barat puts patients on full heart lung bypass, keeping them alive while carefully removing both lungs at once and washes the airways before removing cancer stills before two new lungs are transplanted in. to qualify, patients must have tried all other treatments and have lung cancer entirely

confined to their lungs and meet other transplant health requirements. >> you are looking at an x-ray of two lungs transplanted in a first of its kind procedure at northwestern. >> tanas's husband saw it. >> one of our friends sent my husband a video clip of the news that albert was in. >> like al, tanaz also had stage 4 lung cancer that wasn't responding to treatment. >> did the doctors tell you if there was a chance of survival? >> no. they said that they -- there is no chance. >> running out of options and time, she and her husband contacted dr. barat. >> he told us that after reviewing your file, i think we can make you cancer-free. >> in july 2022, she got her new lungs. both she and al have no signs of

cancer. >> if it wasn't because of albert i was not here today. this man saved my life. >> patient one and patient two speaking out hoping to reach other lung cancer patients. >> i hope that we can both be encouragement for other people to look into other options that they have. >> i need to save somebody's life i'll do it. no problem. >> you'll do anything to spread the word. >> yeah. if i'm going to help other people, i'm going to do it. >> they're both doing so well. tanas is able to visit her grandchildren at a distance and he was on the elliptical. >> that's incredible. glad they're doing well. >> nearly all of us use gps to get from point a to point b and it could lead to cognitive decline. a new sport is combining old school navigation skills with exercise. dr. john torres joins us.

i love this idea. i love this idea for a sport. you got a chance to see this up close and tell us about it and how it can potentially stop the brain from aging. >> tom, this this was a lot of fun to do and it was very informative because i learned what it was and what it helps us do and orienteering is using a map and compass to navigate through a course in a type of competition and sometimes it's friendly fun and they go out and do this, and it actually helps with the navigational skills and it helps exercise the part of the mind called the hippocampus that's important to keep the cog mission going and the people who do this type of thing end up have having more spatial navigation skills and having better memory. it was important. when i was out there i met kathy and she's an amazing woman who was out with me doing this course and she hiked me into the ground on this course, and here's what she had to say about an important part. >> are you doing this for fun or

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