hi, everyone. thanks so much for joining us. i'm zinhle essamuah. >> and i'm ellison barber, in for kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, thursday, august 31st, 2023. blown away. the remnants of hurricane idalia make their way up the coast bringing dangerous levels of water. now crews begin the process of returning power to communities

left drenched. a massive building fire in jhannesburg kills over 70. what investigators think caused the blaze and why it was so deadly. breaking news, executive action the biden administration announces new enforcement aimed at stopping any gun sales with any background checks. and have it your way, special orders may not upset them but the size of the burger king whopper is in question. asking the fast-food chain, where's the beef? >> where's the beef? we'll start this hour with the impacts from hurricane idalia, now a tropical storm, tracking that storm with you very closely as it hit yesterday. >> starting today we're starting to see the damage left behind, idalia brought significant flooding and destruction across four states.

overnight the storms caused serious flooding in the carolinas. the water there at charleston rose 3 feet above the normal high tide. spun up incredibly strong winds and even some or the fay dose, strong enough to flip a car over right as someone was driving nearby. >> the devastation is only now coming into focus in florida. take a look at this video from across the state. roads have been completely inundated by floodwaters, homes completely flattened. earlier today president biden visited fema headquarters in what on the, d.c., as that agency responds to the aftermath of the idalia. >> we'll track where idalia is right now, let's begin with our team in storm zone, julia ainsley is in north carolina. julia, you're seeing the last impacts of idalia there, now a storm, talk to us about what the

conditions are like, what are you seeing, how's the wind in. >> reporter: well, they're steadily improving but certainly big gusts of wind are moving through this area and still some bands of rain. for the most part, the water that was expected didn't get quite to the levels they expected. they said they could see storm surges, they expecting storm surges in this area along the north carolina coast to reach as high as 2 to 4 feet. because the heavy rain came after last night's high tide they were spared of that. the wind has been the primary impact, in wilmington, a car flipping over in north carolina. a tree falling on a car. also in wilmington, a roof partially collapsed on a veterinary office. the impacts of the wind. also the reason why 50,000 people throughout north carolina and south carolina are without power. schools remain cancelled here

today as far west as raleigh schools are cancelled. right now they're telling people to stay home if you can, we're already seeing a lot of the traffic pick back up around here even though most businesses are closed. hurricane florence, this spot where i'm standing would have been at least at a few feet of water. >> certainly these areas have been hit by hurricanes before, julia, you mentioned power being out, is power slowly being restored in. >> reporter: that's right. we expect that 50,000 number to start coming down that was of this morning. because there wasn't nearly as much devastation in carolina, crews are looking at hours or days without power not quite as long in some places where infrastructure. the wind is really picking up right now. yes, they'll be able to restore

the power more quickly in the carolinas. >> make sure you get to safety. >> thank you, julia. let's go now to maggie vespa in hard-hit perry, florida the wind was so powerful there yesterday it brought down full-size billboards. what is that community looking like today? >> reporter: yes, the community basically here in perry things have calmed down weather-wise. look at the wreckage that it left behind, guys, this is massive, this is kind of in pockets all over perry and the coast along this big bend area of florida and you're right the wind shear was the main problem, trees came down as well. power is kind of the main issue, i want to zoom in if we can on that generator running traffic lights right as a duke energy truck goes through our live

shot. get power restored at last check more than 100,000 floridians don't have power because of this storm. >> lot of people choose to stay even if officials are suggesting that they evacuate, even if there's a mandatory evacuation, have you spoken to anyone who decided to ride out the storm and if so what did they say about the experience of actually being in this one? >> reporter: sure. we have. lot of people we talked to, and it's understandable, some people do choose to stay, some of them would stay, they didn't make a choice, it's not feasible financially for them to go anywhere. they don't have family who live outside the storm zone. we talked to people today who some fell in that category.

one woman described the terror of those moments. >> comfortable chair. my cell phone in my hand and i had a flashlight and my kitties were running around and you just sit there and listening. you hope the roof doesn't come crashing in. >> every creek in her roof, like every time she heard any kind of noise that seemed to be coming from the truck church of her house she was afraid every single one was the structure beginning to come down. again, deborah and her neighbors, who walked over to share breakfast with her, he brought out pop-tarts this morning, he said i couldn't leave either. i have a store here, i have my

home here. to them this is where they are from. we heard some harrowing stories, thankfully not many injuries. >> maggie, thank you so much for sharing that story, too, you have a lot of people who stay, i'm used to it. i want to do it. we often forget that evacuating, getting to safety can be a privilege. maggie, we really appreciate it. the worst of idalia is finally coming to an end as the tropical storm moves offshore, meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all for us. where is the storm right now? >> i'm fairly confident that 100% that the threat is over with, some overwash and some waves out on highway 12 on the outer banks. we're almost finally done with the rainfall give it another hour or two, light rain left

here through eastern carolina. we made it through the high tide cycle on the outer banks early this morning, so that tide is going down and the water level is going down and the surge was about 1 to 2 feet on the outer banks. now the winds themselves, i mentioned, it's still choppy out there. still gusting up to 40 miles per hour for hateras. as far as the forecast path of storm, it will head eastward, if you've been paying attention to social media a lot of stuff on there could this storm come back and hit the east coast a second time? the hurricane center doesn't have that in their forecast. a hurricane center does bring it due east near bermuda, turns it

to the north, we'll still have this storm off the coast, all the way past labor day into tuesday, but it will be a weak version of itself and one thing we've been watching, you know, i put together a map to show how hard florida, it's had six landfalling hurricanes since 2016. that's incredible. four of them have been major hurricanes. each of the red lines. idalia,'ian last year, 2018, michael if panhandle. irma came up the east coast. florida's had enough. they went for a big drought actually before this where they didn't have many hurricanes. >> bill karins, thank you so much for that. it's time for today's money minute. a warning from the food and drug administration over baby formula. >> new feature is coming to a

popular social media app. morgan brennan joins us now. a new report from lending club shows that as of july 61% of adults are still paying for living paycheck to paycheck, this number is up from last year's 59%. but some relief is likely on the way after both june and july numbers showed the pace of increases is slowly. the fda issued warnings to three infant formulamakers. the agency is asking the companies to create processes to better catch bacterial contamination. and elon musk said audio and video calls are coming to the social media platform x, formerly known as twitter. an effective global adreads book, meaning no phone number will be needed the new feature will work on ios, android, mac and pc. no other dell tails were

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we're following breaking news from the white house the biden administration is proposing sweeping new regulations on guns. let's get right to it with ken dilanian. can you walk us through what these new regulations will do? >> yeah, proposed regulation based on new language in the bipartisan safer communities act which was passed in response to uvalde shooting a year ago and it changed the definition of what constitutes being a gun dealer in the united states, and so based on the that new language the atf is proposing a rule that would essentially close the gun show loophole, right now the atf regulates

about 80,000 brick and mortar gun dealers, licenses them and when you buy a gun there you have to get a federal background check, but another gub dealers who operate at gun shows and online marketplaces, who don't require background checks for those who purchase guns. this new rule would try to close that loophole by expanding the definition of who is a gun dealer and encompassing these people who sell guns at gun shows and online. more m people subjected to background checks when they go to purchase guns. it's likely to be challenged by second amendment activists. >> really big development with that issue of gun violence in this country. a new court battle is

brewing over the century-old wreckage of the titanic the issue is whether a salvage company can recover more artifacts from the underwater site in the atlantic. for 111 years, "titanic" has rested some 12,500 feet down on the ocean floor. its maiden voyage from england to new york captured on film. the terror of hitting an iceberg in the dead of night portrayed in blockbuster movies. >> in an hour or so, all of this will be at the bottom of the atlantic. >> reporter: among the artifacts already recovered, shoes, silverware, fine china. but now the u.s. government is moving to block the company with the salvage rights, "rms titanic" from recovering even more, including the wireless telegraph that transmit ttd sos to passing ships. they hope to return next year and may recover freestanding

objects inside the wreck including objects from inside the marconi room the radio room. under u.s. law, and international agreements, the wreckage is now a memorial and cannot be disturbed. the government insists the company is not free to disregard this validly enacted federal law, yet that is its stated intent. >> the company's reason to be is they do all of the exhibits that have the actual artifacts from the "titanic." >> reporter: david gallow is a strategic adviser to rms titanic. we talked to him in june before the government's challenge. >> the rules are there can be no more recovery of artifacts. >> reporter: in 1996, a titanic survivor edith told us about the day she recovered her father. >> i'll never forget it, see all the dead bodies floating in the sea. it was terrible.

>> reporter: since 1985, roughly 250 people have visited "titanic." then in june, tragedy. five people died when their submersible imploded. >> it is a grave site. 1,500 people died there. >> reporter: researcher katie croft bell has dived to the site herself, even as time and the ocean's depths take their toll on the wreckage, she now thinks it should be treated with the reverence of a cemetery. >> are we actually learning anything new about it? and is that the reason to recover artifacts, or should we just leave it alone? we have a lot of things already. let's just call it a day and leave it with respect. >> reporter: we reached out to the company for comment, we got no response, no response from noaa the government agency moving to block this latest move to recover the artifacts. consider this, historians said this parallels to cemeteries at

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happy thursday. this is "the fast forward." i'm janelle wang. there's no longer a bay area spare the air alert. but an air quality advisory is in effect due to smoke from wildfires up north. the tri-valley is seeing the impact. here is bob redell. >> reporter: as you look over the tri-valley and see the haze, you can understand why the bay area air quality management district has issued that air quality advisory for today. this is smoke that is coming from the north, from wildfires that are burning in the northern part of northern california and oregon. this was the scene last night in downtown napa where the sky was hazy because of the smoke. as we have been mentioning, we are no longer under a spare the air alert like we were yesterday. the management district has issued this air quality advisory for the wildfire smoke for today. the district does not expect the levels of pollutants to go above the national 24-hour health

standard. in the north bay, they have issue third own advisories. this impacted outdoor dining yesterday. a servr saw ash falling from the sky. >> it's not a great experience if you are outside eating and having to deal with smoke and ashes falling on your plate. >> we look out for local fires and the hope it doesn't make its way down here. >> reporter: that was the manager of another restaurant up there in the north bay. he says that even though the air quality right now is not that great, it is nothing like what he and the rest of us experienced during the glass fire of 2020 during covid. bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> thanks for the update. here are other stories. police in oakland are searching for the gunman in a deadly double shooting. the mayor of san jose is asking

social media companies to crack down on sideshows. a protest is happening in have a lay hoe. a detective shot and killed a man in 2020 during the george floyd protests. a third party review led to him being fired. yesterday, that decision was overturned. san jose mayor's is turning to social media for help in the ongoing battle against illegal sideshows. he is asking companies, meta, snapchat and tiktok to institute harsher penalties for those who spread recordings on their social media platforms. the mayor held a late morning news conference. we will have a full update in our afternoon newscast. police in oakland are searching for the gunman in a deadly double shooting. it happened 5:00 p.m. yesterday in an industrial park on lyndon

street near the port of oakland. one victim found at the scene later died. a second victim self-transported to a hospital. there's no update on that second victim's condition. we are in a microclimate weather alert for the moment. much of the fire danger has passed. temps are on their way down. here is kari hall with our forecast. >> look at our high temperatures. it's cooler compared to yesterday. it's still very hazy as we are getting drifts of spoke coming in. the air quality advisory continues. as we look at the range in temperatures, in half moon bay, mid 60s. upper 80s in the interior east bay as well as the north bay. cooldown tomorrow as we get some ocean breezes as well as some low clouds and fog. we are going to see improved air quality going into our labor day weekend. saturday is looking perfect with highs in the mid to upper 70s for the south bay as well as the east bay. we will look at our seven day

forecast, that's coming up in 30 minutes. >> see you soon. reminding you of something we mentioned yesterday. 80 will shut down for labor day weekend starting tonight. you can see the area affected. all westbound lanes from 780 to highway 4, it starts at 9:00 tonight until early morning tuesday. san jose is celebrating cruising and low riders after years of them being banned. before 1986, san jose was considered one of the low rider capitals of the u.s. then they banned it and created no cruising zones. they abolished it. they will celebrate with a low rider day tomorrow near city hall. show starts at 1:00 p.m. that does it for "the fast forward". get the latest news my husband and i have never been more active. shingles doesn't care. i go to spin classes with my coworkers.

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bottom of the hour now. here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." former president donald trump is pleading not guilty to charges in the georgia election interference case. the former president was set to arraigned next week in fulton county but he waived that appearance in court documents filed today. the former president and 18 others are accused of scheming to overturn the 2020 election results in state. the update on the health of mitch mcconnell, raised a lot of eyebrows yesterday after this

incident where he appeared to freeze for the second time in two months during a news conference, the attending physician for the united states capitol said mitch mccob knell is medically cleared to continue with his schedule as plan. the light headedness that he suffered from is actually common when recovering from a concussion but could also be related to dehydration. the home owner who shot and killed the xwrufrt of south carolina student won't be charged. the police department said the homeowner committed a justifiable homicide, people can act in self-defense toward intruders and attackers without prosecution. breaking news in south africa, more than 70 people are dead and dozens of others are hurt after a fire tore through a building in johannesburg, crews have been going floor to floor

searching for any survivors as well as trying to recover the bodies of the victims. matt bradley is following the latest developments, matt, what do we know about those victims and the people who lived inside this building? >> reporter: the real tragedy of this, 74 people were killed, 12 children were among them, but they were almost all of them homeless and they were populating this building in sort of homeless squats and that's one of the reasons why it was such a major challenge for rescue workers to make their way in and save those who had been surviving, this was a tent city inside a derelict building. lot of them were undocumented migrants. we're seeing a confluence of different problems besetting all of south africa converging right here on to this tragedy and that's why this probably not the last we're going to hear from this. lot of political action in south africa in the coming weeks and months if not years.

guys? >> matt, any sense in terms of how this fire initially started? >> reporter: we don't know. there hasn't been any real statements divotly showing, the fact is, this was a derelict building populated almost entirely by homeless people squattersers speculation has been fairly rebel, lot of people were cooking and heating themselves with open flames. the exit ways were shut or obstructed by people sleeping in front of them. and a lot of essentially any sort of fire equipment or fire blocking equipment that would have been there when the building was originally built it's derelict so it's no there anymore. this fire probably started from some sort of open flame but spread quickly because of the horrible circumstances inside that building. now, let's turn and talk about cannabis the department of health and human services is

formally recommending the government ease restrictions on it. >> right now, marijuana remains illegal at the federal law even 40 states allow its use in some form. 11 months after president joe biden ordered the top health agency to conduct a review of the substance. aria, to be clear, this is not legalization instead this is a reclassification from the government, right, moving from a schedule 1 to schedule 3. but help us understand what that means. >> that's right, let's break down the difference, a slide to show you. schedule 1, drugs that don't have a medical use and a high potential for addiction or abuse. so things like heroin, lsd and marijuana is currently in that group right now. hhs wants it to move to schedule 3. drugs that have more of a medical use, less potential for abuse or addiction, some things

like tylenol with codeine. they can be purchased with a prescription legally. that's important. >> lot of people are looking at this, yeah, of course, marijuana being labeled as heroin, what has the response been. >> it's been positive because we're getting these federal classifications closer to where states are at, what this can do is open up more research for cannabis and legitimize businesses, open them to get tax credits or deductions that they weren't getting before. i have a statement in front of me from the cannabis industry association, the only way to fully resolve the myriad of issued stemming from the federal conflict with state law is to remove cannabis from the substance act. >> to that end, i think people

might hear this and go, okay s this increasing access to cannabis? of course we know there's still some contention in the federal space, so, who needs to ultimately move that ahead. >> right the drug enforcement agency will decide whether to change this classification, they're taking it under review right now. an opportunity for public comment. after that they'll make their verdict. ultimately it's up to the state whether the consumer can legally purchase cannabis and states already have their existing laws. this won't change anything for the consumer. >> thank you. students in houston, texas, returned to the classroom this week to major changes, no more librarians at dozens of public schools, those libraries turned into centers for work. after the state took over the district. what's going on exactly with the

city schools right now? >> reporter: over the summer the state took over its largest school district, that's houston isd a very diverse school district. since then, there have been sweeping changes, they get rid out of the elected school board members and now leaders are changing a lot about how the school works including the libraries, parents are calling it a hostile takeover. take a look. >> cherries and blueberries. >> reporter: a houston mom has spent the entire summer dreading the return to school. >> i feel like i've spent my entire summer fighting. so coming here it kind of -- i can breathe. >> reporter: ever since her daughter's elementary began one more than 28 schools in houston independent school district replacing their library with a center for work and discipline. what's happening to the houston schools? >> it feels like they're being

taken apart. dismantled. destroyed. >> reporter: this summer the state of texas took over hisd a district of almost 200,000 students, they replaced the board members and swapped a superintendent for a charter school owner. some like the houston mayor said it's a hostile takeover. everyone agrees houston schools needed to change. some were failing. many students fell behind in reading and math. district leaders tried to improve and a state even gave them a b-rating in 2022, they took over anyway and laid off employees and replaced libraries in underperforming schools to give some teachers higher salary. >> reporter: i can't afford a laptop for my kids. so books is where we get to

travel. you know, to dream. jessica's daughter sew fee is starting fifth grade at one of the new education system's school. >> i barely know how to read. i just started reading because my english teacher helped me a lot. >> reporter: she said the library was a place where she could practice. the superintendent understands families are anxious about change but he argues books will still be available on shelves and these centers where students will work or go when they're disruptive will help kids like sew fee to catch up in a district where there are so many kids why disrupt the library of all places? >> so, reading is key. we may not have librarians but even in this room, the books are on the shelves. >> do you believe librarians are important in. >> every single position has value. we can't be all things to all people and we can't have

everything we want. >> reporter: does that mean you're robbing peter to pay paul. >> i wouldn't phrase it that way. what i would say we're putting in a bold, different model that works. >> reporter: jessica campos considered busing sew fee to another school. >> i'm not going to do that, because i'm not going to leave those kids there. >> reporter: he said parents aren't going to let their school change without a fight. so an tonia, now, many students are in school without librarians. what are parents telling you about these changes? >> reporter: well, they're starting to organize, many of them have described the beginning of this school year chaotic, they're reaching out to superintendent's office, different principals throughout the school district trying to get answers about what their kids experiences in what's left of the libraries might be like

and what we're seeing happen groups of parents from different schools come together and start doing block walking, usually we see this happen with political groups going by to drop off mailers. in fight to get their libraries back. we're continuing to track tropical storm idalia, the storm is now moving off the east coast after slamming into florida as a category 3 hurricane, and the recovery across four states is only just beginning. take a look at some of what we saw and heard as that storm moved in. >> i don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore, just look around. historic floods. i mean, historic floods. have caused significant damage like we've never seen before. >> oh, my gosh. holy [ bleep ]. that car is flying.

>> people swimming out of their windows. >> until these guys showed up. i was going to actually stay and swim in my house. i'm grateful. so grateful. >> the water's probably to the ceiling of our house. >> my heart just dropped out of my chest and they called and said the house was on fire. >> he jumped over top of us. you could hear it cracking. >> i heard the cracking of the trees and i just jumped on top of them. >> what was going through your head? >> i thought it was going to crush us. >> our structures are in trouble, our roads are in trouble. but our community here is strong. >> of course, our coverage of tropical storm idalia continues on nbcnews.com. get the latest updates on all

the recovery updates. coming up the new court fight

welcome back. today some customers have beef with burger king, facing a class-action lawsuit from customers who accuse the company

of false advertise zmrg a miami judge has rejected the company's request to dismiss this lawsuit which alleges burger king inflated the size of its signature whopper sandwich in their advertisements. seth, talk to us about burger king. they say it makes the whopper 35% larger than customers are actually getting. >> interestingly this is a $5 million class action lawsuit, really taking the beef with the size of the sandwich as it relates to how much it overflows the bun and honestly when one looks at this it raises the question, where's the beef? the answer is that believe it or not there's currently a national litigation trend in these kind

of cases, not only burger facing a lawsuit here for several millions of dollars, but wendy's mcdonald's are facing the same type of federal court litigation in new york, the reason why the motion to dismiss this case in miami failed is because the judge determined that these are jury issues, whether a reasonable consumer would have been misled by the ad on the board in the store, whether or not the variants in size of filling was material or not. to me it's an odd case, because there's going to be a little bit of puffery in advertisement. i don't buy a car after watching a commercial thinking i'm going to go ahead and riding down the alps. it's a curious case and it's interesting but it rally shows that there's a litigation trend happening in the fast food industry and it's happening as we speak. >> i mean, seth, that's an interesting point, you pointed

out that wendy's facing a similar thing, mcdonald's, it could actually set a trend, a precedent, of course, in this influencer economy, we talk a lot about advertising, false advertising, is it true for any company that you have to sort of match exactly what's pictured, a little difficult, could this set a precedent for other fast-food chains in. >> that's a great question, because a reasonable consumer should know what they're going to get isn't going to be a precise image on the board. is it a material difference? honestly, i don't understand really what the confusion is, not like someone walks into burger king and let me see, am i going to have a whopper or a filet mignon. the verdict will probably not be a big whopper for the winners in

this case, so the lawyers ultimately win. >> all right, seth, thank you. we appreciate it. back-to-school season kicks off. one man is going viral for posting a video that every parent can probably relate to. >> she's outlining a few hilarious back-to-school rules for her son. >> what's not going to change is change up our stomach energy. you've been living on a diet of hot chips, and every popsicles and without one stomachache. you're not going to come to me saying your stomach hurt like you've got the intestinal track of a geriatrics krohn's patient. this ain't that. you've been getting up at 6:77 every morning asking me about some breakfast. this ain't that. >> my goodness. that video has been viewed

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forward on nbc news daily." august is black businessowners month. we want to take the last day of the month to highlight one entrepreneur who never gave up on his own dreams and now owns a gilroy tap house. he noticed there wasn't a craft place where families could go to gather. he came up with the idea for a tap house. he set a grand opening for march 2020. then covid derailed his plans. he didn't give up. he spent three years resigning and filing permits. this past may, he and his wife opened bitter tap house and biergarten. the community was just as excited as he was. >> once i had that date, it was all of our network, all of our friends, everybody in the city was sharing our posts about the grand opening. when the grand opening happened, it was -- the line was out the door. sold out of almost 15 kegs. >> that's great. the road to get here wasn't

easy. they were persistent to make their business a reality. now that he has the experience, he has some advice i wants to share with new businessowners. >> number one, do it. go after it. number two is really do your homework. opening a business, especially in california, is not for the weak, that's for sure. >> he says it's a place for people to bring their kids, dogs, drink a beer and just relax. we are wishing him and his wife many, many pours. we are hoping today is the last day in the bay with hazy skies. then it will clear up for the labor day weekend. here is kari hall with our seven day forecast. >> it's going to be smoky day, especially in the inland valleys where we will have an air quality advisory, moderate air quality. people who are sensitive to the wildfire smoke should limit time outside. it's pretty warm, just not as hot. as we go through the weekend,

it's looking nice and comfortable. a big cooldown coming our way. clouds each day with afternoon sunshine inland. labor day, expect it to warm up with highs in the mid 80s. upper 80s for next tuesday. for san francisco, we are going from a smoky 73 degrees today to upper 60s with drizzle and for the weekend it's going to be partly to mostly cloudy and upper 60s. >>

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dodgers, pitcherbe able to help. clayton kershaw is here with his wife, ellen. and they're raising a lot of money tonight for charity. and it all has to do with ping-pong. access daily starts now. welcome to access daily from universal studios hollywood. i'm mario lopez with my guest host, jeannie mai. kit is off today. next month celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. jeannie: yay! mario: and i can't talk about hip-hop without mentioning queen latifah. jeannie: the queen. mario: she was one of hip-hop's golden era emcees and an early voice for women in the genre. we just caught up with her and talk about her hit, "u.n.i.t.y," which