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>> today is thursday, may 18th. tiktok blocked. montana becomes the first state to ban it so how will the rule be enforced, and what could it mean for millions of users? breaking news, raging inferno. an out-of-control fire burning near a mall in charlotte. the search and rescue efforts under way and the danger it's posing to nearby neighborhoods. >> write and wrong. a professor threatens to fail his students after chatgpt falsely claimed it wrote their papers. why it's raising concerns. and candid conversation. demi lovato opens up about her mental health. >> even to this day no matter how happy i might feel and seem, i'm human. >> what she and others might want to know about her struggles.

we begin this hour in the nation's capital. >> negotiations are happening right now to raise the country's debt limit, house speaker kevin mccarthy says a compromise could be just days away. >> it would be important to try to have the agreement, especially in principle by sometime this weekend. look, we're not there. we haven't agreed to anything yet but i see the path we could come to an agreement. >> at this hour president biden is in japan meeting with top u.s. allies at the g7 summit. the u.s. debt negotiations are a key agenda item there. >> without a deal, the treasury department says the u.s. could default on its debts on june 1st. fewer than two weeks away. that would likely jolt economies around the world. >> nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli is traveling with the president in hiroshima, japan, today. mike, what message does president biden have for allies about the debt talks happening back at home? >> reporter: well, kate, that debt ceiling drama traveling to japan with president biden because, of course, a debt

default would not just trigger a potential recession in the united states, it would have ripple effects throughout the world so president biden was asked earlier today if he could guarantee to the u.s. allies that he's meeting with here if that the u.s. will avoid that default. the president didn't answer the question, jake sullivan, the national security adviser did and said part of the president's message will be that he is confident that the u.s. will avoid the default so short of a guarantee but that one reason he is cutting this trip short skipping second two stops, papua new guinea and australia to make sure they get to a deal. we've seen positive indications back home as those negotiators are meeting. the white house focusing the g7 summit agenda so important, that's why the president is still attending it focusing on areas like continued support for ukraine, not just by the united states but our g7 ally, also continuing to support developing nations through debt relief, infrastructure support, all with an eye towards curbing china's growing influence. >> mike, let's talk about negotiations back in washington. is the white house optimistic that a deal could be reached

before june 1st? >> reporter: well, one promising sign is that we are continuing to see that team of white house negotiators on capitol hill meeting with speaker mccarthy's aides and congressman garrett graves deputized to act in place of the speaker, so that's a promising sign, but we are also seeing a little bit of a carrot and stick approach because vice president kamala harris today briefing some key stakeholders also talking to reporters about this ongoing debt ceiling issue, she talked about the fact if republicans were serious about combating this nation's debt, that they wouldn't continue to support things like those trump tax cuts which ballooned the deficit, so as the white house is moving forward on this two-track system we have president biden continuing to get briefed by his aides here in japan, the goal, of course, is that when he finishes the summit here on sunday, he can get back to washington and maybe bring this close to a resolution. >> mike memoli in hiroshima, our thanks. we are following breaking news out of north carolina. crews are battling a massive

fire at a construction site in charlotte. take a look at these pictures. 15 people had to be rescued including someone who was stuck on a crane as smoke and flames billowed below. two other missing construction workers have now been found. their condition is not known. the city's fire chief says 90 firefighters were called to the scene. >> it was a very fast-moving fire, high heat conditions, well over 2,000 degrees. as a construction site is open, a lot of wood is exposed. the fire moved very rapidly. >> nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster is in charlotte. shaq, any indication yet of how that fire started? >> reporter: well, we heard from the chief that the exact cause is still under investigation. you see behind me the building is still smoldering somewhat. you see firefighters still there. the chief saying that they are going to be there on site for a

bit of time at this point. you know, this is a fire that began at 9:00 a.m. it was a massive fire that required that massive response. you tick through some of the details there. 15 workers were rescued. a response of more than 90 firefighters. the chief saying the flames got so intense that some firefighters actually called for help so there were a couple of mayday calls as they were fighting that fire. this is the smoke billowing into the air. you saw it for miles away. i want you to listen to what we heard from one witness who was nearby. >> we saw a big plume of black smoke around 9:00, 9:15 this morning, so we started walking over from our office building, and as soon as we got though this location, we saw big, big, yellow flames shooting up from this apartment building. it was very hot in the smoke. the water in my eyes, it was insane. i've never experienced anything like this. >> reporter: we know at least

one of the workers there ended up being hospitalized, sent to the hospital. it was the crane operator who firefighters said took some time for that crane operator to get down. i mentioned the two workers initially were reported as missing. that was according to the construction foreman. well, we just got an update from the fire department. you mentioned it a little bit ago that they are accounted for, so one worker hospitalized, no one missing at this point but you see a massive fire at what was an apartment complex not occupied but it was a pretty big construction zone. >> i'm guessing you can still smell the smoke. shaquille brewster, our thanks. montana is now home to the strictest statewide -- excuse me, the strictest statewide crackdown yet on tiktok. here's what will change starting on january 1st of next year. it will become illegal for app stores to give users the option to download tiktok. the law also bars the company from operating in montana.

violations of these rules could carry a $10,000 a day penalty for entities who offer the tiktok app. montana's republican governor says the move will stop the chinese government from collecting personal data from his constituents, but tiktok is firing back saying the ban tramples on first amendment rights. let's bring in nbc news technology correspondent jake ward. jake, you follow tiktok all the time. break this down for us. what does this law mean for people watching tiktok videos in montana or creating content on tiktok. >> reporter: we're trying to figure that out at this hour, kate. it is not currently apparent that anyone's tiktok habits have changed at all on this particular day, of course, the law doesn't go into effect until january but speaking both to technology and legal experts, it is not at all clear how it is that they could shut it down except that app stores will in theory be forebidden from letting viewers download tiktok.

a trade group say that that is not technologically feasible, not clear yet whether that's true but we've been speaking to tiktok influencers who essentially say if i have to drive across state lines in order to access and post, then i will do so. again, not clear if maintaining residence in montana means that you'll somehow run afoul of the law. all this is very unchartered territory we're figuring out right now. >> unclear if you just have the app and you're just trying to use it if anyone is even going to catch you, right? how are they going to enforce this law? >> reporter: that's absolutely right. we're not sure if you geofence it in some way, put the onus on tiktok to sort it out. put it on the handset makers. not clear and not clear what legal standing this ban has on first amendment grounds. lawyers tell us it would be difficult to defend this particular ban as it affects montanans specifically and the federal regulations we've heard

about all on national security grounds, it's not clear and the governor didn't mention that in talking about the ban so a lot more questions than answers at this hour, kate. >> but montana is not the only state that's looking at it pretty hard. nearly every state at partially banned it on state owned devices or considering doing that. president biden did it on federally owned devices. what does it mean big picture for tiktok? >> reporter: it certainly is a complicated landscape for tiktok which has to deal with different laws for different states but that applies to other social media platforms and other big platforms trying to shape the push for regulation at the federal levels because they do not want to deal with a state-by-state regulatory regime so as complicated it is for tiktok and for federal regulators it sets up a bigger

battle for tech as a whole and has everyone worried at this hour. >> jake ward for us, thanks for following all of that. we have breaking news in the feud between disney and florida governor ron desantis. >> morgan brennan joins us now with today's cnbc "money minute." hi, morgan. >> hi there. disney announcing it is no longer moving forward to build a new florida campus amid the ongoing feud with the state's governor, ron desantis. the entertainment giant also announcing it will no longer be requiring 2,000 california-based employees to relocate to florida. the chairman of disney's parks division said, quote, changing business conditions are leading to this decision. walgreens meantime, has reached a settlement with the city of san francisco over the company's role in the opioid epidemic. they will pay nearly $230 million over 14 years after a judge found walgreens liable for contributing to the epidemic. the settlement funds will go toward addressing the opioid crisis in the city. chick-fil-a's first ever

restaurant is closing after more than 50 years. the location in an atlanta mall shutting down but the company did not say why. the fast food chain has over 2600 restaurants across the country. guys, when this store opened up in 1967, you could get a chicken sandwich for 59 cents. >> ooh. yeah. >> to give you the sense of the value of money. >> disney for a second, though. that's big news. >> it's very big news and it sort of goes back to disney put out quarterly earnings last week and on their conference call with analysts with wall street, ceo bob iger spoke about this dynamic with the state and has been making clear that this shift, this change in tax status could result in some changes to the business strategy that disney has laid out in recent years. >> hardball is being played. morgan, our thanks. coming up how an iphone

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he speaks four languages. he says he wants to be a pediatrician or an aerospace engineer. congratulations to him. amazing. we've talked about how artificial intelligence has changed our world, our jobs, even our schools. >> and many claim students can use such programs like chatgpt to cheat. that's one instructor accused his students of doing. >> some of them did not cheat. jake ward has been tracking this story for us. it's really interesting. jake. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, kate. not only do we know that students have been entrusting their schoolwork to chatgpt, but now a professor has entrusted chatgpt with trying to figure out whether they've been cheating and it turns out all of them may have been mistaken in doing so. the same week the ceo of openai warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence -- >> i think if it goes wrong it can go quite wrong, and we want to be vocal about that.

we want to work with the government to prevent that from happening. >> reporter: -- a controversy is brewing over chatgpt at a college in texas. a professor at texas a&m university commerce is on blast for accusing his students of using it on their final assignments. here's the thing, many of those students did not use chatgpt according to the university. the firestorm started when jared mumm sent his students this email which went viral on reddit. it read, quote, i have opened my own account for chatgpt, i copy and paste your responses into this account and chatgpt will tell me if the program generated this content. he goes on to say he tested each paper and that the bot claimed to have written every single final assignment. >> the number one lesson that professors need to learn is that chatgpt is not there yet but i will say it does sound like it is. it's the best thing about chatgpt is it's very confident. what is on the patina of credibility every time it spits something out. if it questions it, it will say,

sorry, i was wrong. >> reporter: ben collins covers it for nbc news and says he's not surprised chatgpt told this instructor it wrote essays even when it didn't. >> technology to stop this stuff will evolve. the technology that provides it is always a step behind but right now you can't really just go to chatgpt and ask if everything is on the up and up. it's not really there yet. >> reporter: a texas a&m spokesperson said several of the students who received a zero have been exonerated. one student came forward and admitted to using it and others have a grade of x incomplete as the professor works to determine if it was used or not. use of ai in coursework is a rapidly changing issue that confronts all learning institutions. >> reporter: now, you guys, the funny thing is chatgpt's maker openai has a plagiarism detector but it claims that that one is only 26% accurate. we reached out to the professor

in question and have not heard back. back to you. >> wow, it's all moving so fast. thank you, jake. a former employee of apple is in very serious trouble accused of stealing trade secrets to share with china. officials say his indictment is part of a larger crackdown to prevent sensitive information from being leaked outside the u.s. nbc news correspondent dana griffin joins us on this. what kinds of trade secrets are we talking about. >> reporter: so, kate, this stolen information was part of apple's autonomous driving system's project. information investigators believe could be used in wang's current company based in china. a former apple employee charged with stealing trade secrets for self-driving cars then fleeing to china and he still is at large. this youtube video appears to show the man testing a self-driving vehicle. he's named as the head of autonomous driving at the company. >> stealing software and

hardware source code from u.s. tech companies in order to market it to chinese competitors. >> reporter: according to the newly unsealed indictment, 35-year-old webao wang was hired by apple in 2016 and attended secrecy training for the project he was working on. then nearly two years after gaining access to apple's highly sensitive materials, he accepted a u.s.-based job with an unnamed chinese company, but didn't resign from apple until four months later, the indictment says. the chinese company did not respond to our request for comment. law enforcement executed a search warrant at wang's mountain view, california, home in june of 2018. >> among the tears discovered from the devices in wang's home was the source code for apple's entire autonomous systems project as it existed around the time that wang left apple. >> open the door, fbi, open up if you don't open up the door, we will. >> reporter: this bay area family remembers that day wang's

home was raided. >> so we ran to the people and i could see all the way up these stairs just fbi agents in full gear. >> reporter: he was home during the raid according to the indictment but managed to board a one-way flight attendant from san francisco to china later that same night. the doj did not comment on wang's current location but confirmed he is not in custody. >> you'll never be able to stop this kind of thing from happening 100%. even with big brother, you know, with all kind of key logging software even a photo can get around it if i took a picture of source code, that is not typing anything into my keyboard. there's always a workaround. >> reporter: wang's indictment is just one of five announced tuesday by the doj's newly formed disruptive technology task force. >> we stand vigilant in enforcing u.s. laws to stop the flow of sensitive technologies to our foreign adversaries. >> reporter: apple has not responded to nbc's request for comment. u.s. companies now on high alert as the government fights an emerging threat.

and, kate, the stolen information was part of apple's autonomous systems projects as we mentioned. now, unless china has some reason, some political gain to actually turn him over to the u.s., they likely won't and this is bigger than wang. there are two other former apple employees from china accused of stealing trade secrets, one pleaded guilty in august, another is also facing charges but a trial date for his case has yet to be set. now, if convicted, wang faces up to ten years in prison for each trade secret violation. kate. >> dana griffin for us, thank you. in washington, controversial congressman george santos has avoided expulsion at least for now. >> last night the house voted against a measure to remove santos from congress in light of his recent indictment on 13 federal counts. instead they sent the issue back to the house ethics committee. santos has denied any wrongdoing. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali joins

us now. okay, it is a little inside baseball perhaps but this was referred back to the ethics committee where it already had been? >> reporter: exactly. it's there in the ethics committee again but think of it with a higher degree of urgency this time because they're referring an expulsion recommendation to the committee so that gives them a chance to effectively havehe option to like slow-walk congressman santos to the door, nevertheless it's not changing his tune at all. he sounded similar to the way he sounded after those 13 counts of indictment just a few weeks ago in federal court, now though he's saying it on the house steps. listen. >> i can chew and walk gum at the -- i can chew gum and walk at the same time. i will have my day to defend myself. >> reporter: so you heard him there. he's not not done his job in congress but certainly scandal has followed and made problems

not just for santos but republicans at large here. >> let me change topics if we can because you're there in capitol following the breaking news of the health of senator dianne feinstein of the her recent absence from the senate was noticed. what do we know? >> reporter: her absence was noticed and it prompted people to even call for her to resign if she wasn't able to come back soon. we know then that feinstein has been back in the building for the last two or so weeks but new details about what happened to her during the time she was away because of her health. we had previously known that she had shingles during that period of time, but when she came back to the capitol we could see that one side of her face was drooping slightly. we now have confirmed that that was ramsey-hunt syndrome as well as encephalitis which is a swelling of the brain. some of that had not been disclosed until "the new york times" reported it today. new details even as we see her back at work. >> this all matters because

she's a senior member from california. >> reporter: senior member from california, but also because it's not always clear that she is fully able to respond to questions in the hallway from reporters. sometimes it does appear she is confused so there are questions about whether or not she's actually up to doing the job of being a senator as she finishes out her term here. >> ali, thank you. after months of speculation it appears florida governor ron desantis will enter the 2024 presidential race next week. nbc news has confirmed the republican will file federal elections paperwork making his candidacy official. desantis is seen by political analysts as a serious contender to form president donald trump and making stops in early voting states and raising money in new hampshire and in iowa. at this hour we're learning new details about the air national guardsman at the heart of the massive online intelligence leak. new court documents reveal jack teixeira was warned about his handling of classified materials multiple times.

nbc news justice and national security correspondent ken dilanian joins us now from washington. ken, do we know how many times he was warned? >> reporter: cynthia, in the new court filing the justice department includes three memos, so that on three different occasions, his superiors wrote up the fact that he was behaving suspiciously with classified documents. in one case someone saw him taking notes and then putting a note in his pocket. in another case, he was said to have conducted a deep dive into a classified system where he wasn't authorized to go, then he was found to have done that again. so what this shows is that the air force was on notice that teixeira was behaving suspiciously with classified information but for reasons unknown his access was not taken away. he continued in his job, and all during this time he's allegedly posting documents to that discord server. tomorrow a judge will decide whether to keep him in jail pending trial. >> ken dilanian, our thanks.

what pop star demi lovato wants anyone who might be struggling with their mental health to know.

in today's mental health check singer and actress demi lovato is opening up about her darkest moments and how they led her to where she is now.

>> savannah sellers recently sat down with the entertainer and shared a candid conversation about mental health. >> i found that i've dealt with addiction and i have a check list and knocked them all off. >> reporter: she doesn't shy away from sharing her darkest moment. >> there have been times where i've dealt with depression where i have had suicidal ideations and it's something that i've struggled with since i was very young and it's something that i can still struggle with if i don't stay on top of it. >> reporter: lovato made headlines in july 2018 when a drug overdose nearly took her life. she shared the previously unknown details in a youtube documentary revealing just how close to death she came. >> i had three strokes. i had a heart attack. >> was that a hard decision to make to be that open?

>> it wasn't a hard decision for me because i've always been open. the very first time i went to treatment was when i was 18 and i went for my eating disorder and i went for self-harm and emotional issues, and i -- when i came out of that experience i was faced with a decision of either keep your mouth shut and not say anything or share your experience and in hopes that it affects another person in a positive way and decided to go with that route because i wanted to help others. i wish that i had had somebody when i was 13 years old. i wanted somebody in the public eye to say that, hey, this is what i've gone through and you don't have to choose that route. >> what do you want the 13-year-old who is watching you now to know about if they're not okay? >> talking to people and asking for help is more than okay and is absolutely what you should do. >> reporter: for her limping her social media intake was key. >> it got to a point where i realized i can't read anything,

because if i read positive comments it feeds my ego and if i read negative comments it damages my ego and ultimately i don't want to navigate out of ego at all. >> what would it be like if when you first started struggling you had the internet the way we do at our fingertips now and how damaging do you think it is? >> i think it's so damaging. i think we live in a world of editing and face tune and all these things that can change the way we look and it's hard to grow up in a world where that's right in front of your face and at your fingertips at all times. i grew up in a period of time where young hollywood was very, very, very thin and that was the look. i think that had a really negative impact on my mental health which i think fed into my eating disorder. >> reporter: today she is focused on strengthening her mental health and pointing others to the path by being transparent and putting in the work. >> i don't want to paint the facade that everything is totally perfect and fine. but i am in a really good place

and it has been kind of challenging to write a happy rock album but i'm doing it but i have bad days. i had a bad day on sunday. i realized that even to this day no matter how happy i might feel and seem, i'm human and it's okay to still struggle even when you're in a great place. >> is this as important a part of your life as the other things that we know you for, being an advocate in this way? >> it's arguably even more important because music, music, yes, it can last forever, but careers don't. life and legacy is what's important, but the things that i'm most proud of are the fans that share their stories with me and say, you've saved my life, and that to me is more important than any award i could win. >> demi actually works with several organizations directly related to the struggles that she has had, like the national alliance for eating disorders. she likes to personally meet

people, going through what she's been through and in her day-to-day life she says it's all about putting in the work and taking specific steps to get the help you need. that includes, of course, opening up if you're struggling to friends or parents and she also said something that really stuck with me that i just love that we need to recognize the fluidity of our emotion, that bad feelings pass and that the only thing in life that is permanent is impermanence, kate and cynthia. back to you. >> oh, savannah, we've covered a lot of mental health issues, and one thing that is true, silence kill, stigma kills and bravo for her. >> her platform to say all. that. that. ere is more newsth ♪♪♪

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