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today, tuesday, september 26th, 2023. president on the picket line. what the show of support means for the thousands of auto workers who have walked off the job and the politics of the visit pressure to resign, more democratic lawmakers are pushing one of their own to step down following those allegations of bribery, coming up what the new pressure means for the political future for senator menendez. market monopoly? amazon using its power to control prices. how the online retail giant is responding to the allegations. and constantly connected. a new report looking at what exactly teens are doing on their phones. the scrolling, what they're looking at and more shockingly when they're doing it. >> such an important report. >> they looked at 200 actual phones. what kids are really doing and

what parents can do to open up a conversation about that. today history was made in state of michigan, where president biden was picketing alongside the united auto workers union. experts say no sitting president has joined a strike before that. president biden has touted himself as the most pro-union president in the united states ever. he told them they're on their side. >> they built the middle class. let's keep going. you deserve what you've earned and you've earned a hell a lot of more. >> tomorrow former president trump is expected to speak to striking auto workers many michigan, amid the backdrop of the 2024 election where both trump and biden the current front-runners are angling to shore-up support in crucial swing state. maggie vespa is in michigan for us, maggie, tell us about the president's visit so far and what union members are saying about it.

>> reporter: members are saying essentially to see a president walk the walk, instead of talking about supporting union members and workers instead of talking about supporting the middle class, to see a president travel to an active strike and join the picket line and as you said, the first time a sitting president has ever done so, the enormity of this is not lost on people here. they basically they knew that the white house wanted to get involved, was talking about sending a team last week, friday when union members learned that the president was planning to travel here himself, a lot of them maybe weren't quite ready to bet on that until they saw him here and today he made good on that promise to travel to the detroit area and again join union workers on the picket line, this time at gm parts distribution facility in bellfield, michigan. what workers on the front lines are saying about his visit.

>> he said he would walk the picket line. he is. other presidents in the past have said if go on strike they'll put their shoes on and walk with us. they didn't. he's definitely walking the walk and talking the talk. >> reporter: we should note the white house kept details of president's visit under wrap. showing up that plant in michigan a lot of the workers there, you can see surprised to see him standing alongside them. we learn this is one and done visit. president wheels up to another stop out in california unrelated to this one, but the impression that he left behind, again in the wake of historic visit lost on no one picketing here on day 12 of this historic strike. >> day 12, they're there for a contract. bring us up to speed on contract negotiations. >> reporter: the union said ford

is close to deal, that's why on friday when they expanded the strike to parts distribution, they left ford out of that expansion. again, the union saying that ford is the closest of the big three, has made the most progress of the big three, but also noting that all three have a long way to go. the union's at the bargaining table, talks are ongoing with all three and as far as the white house's direct involvement you heard our white house team earlier in the day from what we have told, the white house isn't actively involved in these talks. this was more of a symbolic show of support by the president for the union. people here hoping it puts pressure on the big three, on gm, ford and stellantis. companies have put out statements saying this is between us and the union and they'll continue to negotiate between those two parties, guys,

in good faith. >> maggie, thank you so much. today, we have an update on another major strike, members of the writers guild of america are set to vote on the terms of a new contract with the hollywood studios, ending the nearly five-month strike that has shut down tv and film production across the country. better pay from streaming companies and as well as protections from artificial intelligence. we're expected to learn the final terms of the new contract following today's vote. new jersey democratic senator bob menendez is facing growing pressure today from within his party to resign on the heels of a federal indictment, today is the lawmakers's first day back in washington after menendez was indicted on those bribery charges on friday. over a dozen of democratic senators are calling for him to step down but right now he's refusing to do so.

reaction's been pouring in all day, they were out of town, they're back, what are the most significant names that we need to know about, i know senator cory booker from new jersey, he said something today. >> reporter: quite a few names. the dam is certainly breaking on senator menendez saying it's time for him to go. 18 democratic senators have called on him to resign in wake of these jarring allegations. the most notable, cory booker the other democratic senator from new jersey initially silent when this came out but put out a statement, quote, the details of the allegations against senator menendez are of such a nature that the faith and trust of new jersey he must work with in order to be effective have been shaken to the core. he calls on menendez to resign. other democrats notable asking menendez to step aside, like sherrod brown in ohio, having a

higher standard for someone to be a u.s. senator. they agree menendez deserves presums of innocence. >> we haven't heard from president biden. we haven't heard senate majority leader schumer. senator schumer, are they under any pressure now to speak up? >> yeah, they certainly will be specially after the flood of these democratic members in the senate as well as in the house almost the entire new jersey congressional delegation now calling on bob menendez to resign, it becomes a question of what kind of party the democrats want to be. they want to contrast with corruption and criminality of donald trump.

it could muddy up the waters. schumer has said only that menendez will step aside from his role. but he still has his other committee assignments. we've got breaking news this hour the federal trade commission and more than a dozen state attorneys general have filed an antitrust lawsuit against amazon. the latest in federal lawsuits against big tech companies. amazon is the second largest company in the united states in terms of revenue but also employs 1.5 million people. noah prensky joins us now. what is being allege bd i the government here. >> amazon is acting like as an illegal monopoly. they specify two specific -- they call them schemes that amazon was conducting over the

recent years, anti-discounting tactics punishes sellers who offer discounts. the other is anti-competitive tactics punishing sellers who don't ship through amazon fulfillment centers, that limits competition across all retail in america. >> these are strong allegations. what exactly is amazon saying in response to all of this? >> they came out firing today. a statement reading in part, a radical departure from ftc's mission. the lawsuit filed by the ftc is wrong on the facts and the law. we look forward to making that case in court. amazon said they promote competition and this lawsuit would do the opposite. >> amazon has been for a while. >> the ftc has been cracking the whip under the biden administration, we've seen lawsuits of this sort across a number of different industries, just last week we saw that the

ftc took action against amazon when it came to scheme of pushing people unwillingly into subscriptions of prime. they're really trying to promote more competition and better practices for consumers according to them. >> noah, briefly, put this in context for us, this is a big deal, right, amazon is a major supplier. >> second biggest retailer in the world behind only walmart. the biden administration not afraid to take on these big cases even if they consider the odds are stacked against them. >> all right, noah, thank you so much. time now for today's money minute. jpmorgan is settling a major lawsuit. >> and retailer walmart is getting into the cellular business. yes, jpmorgan reached a settle with the u.s. virgin in the jeffrey epstein sex

trafficking case, $75 million settle will go to local charities and victims assistance, the nation's largest bank was accused of facilitating and benefitting from sex trafficking of young women by its longtime customer epstein. it admitted no wrongdoing. ford is pumping the brakes on the construction of a multibillion-dollar battlery plant in michigan, as the company is in midst of national contract talks with united auto workers union. walmart is expanding its options for prepaid phone plans. an exclusive partner to mobilex, unlimited plans start at around 15 bucks a month or customers can use an a.i.-powered tool that anticipatings their data

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president biden's son hunter is suing rudy giuliani over the alleged laptop that set. the president's son is suing giuliani's businesses over violations of computer fraud and data access. ryan, this is hunter biden's third lawsuit that he's filed just this month, what more are we learning about this new one and have we heard from giuliani on this yet? >> hunter biden's laptop was a major focus during the 2020 campaign with a lot of conservatives saying that the general public or the media wasn't paying enough attention to the contents of that laptop.

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what's next with that indictment? >> it's the chicken and the egg question because this is so intertwine. the reason we know about what hubter biden was doing in his private life was the alleged hacking or the taking of or the possession of outside of his preferences his underlying digital material that informed a lot of these charges. there are millions of americans who possess weapons and are also unlawful users of drugs, it's very rarely brought up a federal charge because it would apply to so many americans. what they did in that case going with that he lied while obtaining that. >> ryan, briefly, what is giuliani saying about all this

in. >> rudy giuliani is saying, his lawyer's saying that hunter is finally acknowledging that this laptop belongs to him because of course that was something that he didn't acknowledge up until this point. rudy giuliani are taking the standard position here of denying wrongdoing. >> ryan, thank you so much. an investigation is under way at a high school in new hampshire after school officials there said some students made trading cards of pictures secretly taken of their female class mates. some freshmen and sophomores mainly boys had been taking inappropriate pictures of girls without their permission. the administrators put those pictures on pokemon cards and traded them as if it was a game. school officials aren't sure who are involved. some students say they're disappointed in their classmates. >> this is horrible. shouldn't be doing this. just disgusting.

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carjackings and the policies the businessowners say were well intentioned on paper, but which didn't work in the real world. >> it's not easy to admit we supported failed policy. someone with the maturity and courage to admit we are wrong is the leadership we need right now. someone to say, yes, we need to change and address institutional racism while letting crime go rampant is not the way. letting violent criminals out as soon as they are apprehended and booked does not lead to public safety. >> in addition to calling for a change in leadership, the businessowners and the oakland chinatown chamber foundation are calling for more police patrols and more funding from all levels of government. they are frustrated with oak oakland's mishandling of a grand application that could have meant millions of dollars. to give you an example how much money they lost out on, san francisco got more than $17 million. san jose $8.5 million.

the strike was just two hours long from 10:00 to noon. the speakers stood in front of a legacy business, one that will close for good at the end of the month after nearly 40 years in business because of the difficulty of doing business in oakland. >> that's too bad. thank you. president joe biden is heading for the bay area. earlier today, he became the first american president to walk a picket line. he joined striking auto workers in michigan, home of two of ford's factories. >> you have heard me say many times, wall street didn't build the country. the middle class build the country. that's fact. >> some progress has been made during negotiations. pay raises continue to be a sticking point. before the strike, president biden had called on the big three automakers to come to the table and give at least some of the pay raise the union is asking for.

later today, the president will be in atherton. tickets are as high as $100,000 to attend the fund-raiser there. we can expect air force i this afternoon just before 4:00. then he will be at the fund-raiser at 6:30. then he will head to san francisco for the night. wednesday, the president will hold a meeting on science and technology and two more campaign receptions. we will follow his visit throughout today and tomorrow. the wild weather is here to stay. here is kari hall with our forecast. >> our temperatures today look really nice and mild with upper 70s and low 80s. we will see warmer temperatures up to 80 in east san jose. 81 for concord. mostly 70s for martinez and hayward reaching 75. low 70s for half moon bay.

palo alto, 77 degrees. for san francisco, it's going to be breezy and partly cloudy. gradually becoming more sunny. downtown reaching 71 degrees. for the north bay, mill valley will see highs in the low 70s. upper 70s for santa rosa. slightly warmer temperatures in our forecast. we will look at that coming up in about 30 minutes. >> thank you. it's official. a new candidate for san francisco mayor. daniel lury plans to run on a platform of change. not just from the current administration but also what he calls a broken system in the city. he credits his experience in public service to support him in doing so. he did get protests today during his announcement, citing his lack of experience in city politics. if you want all the day's

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1-year-old at new york city day care. the suspected drug dealer was charged along with the owner and building tenant. police were called where they found four children exposed to opoiod. some residents of the hawaiian town of lahaina who lost their homes in this summer's wildfire made their first return to ruins, the august wildfire killed at least 97 people, destroyed more than 2,000 buildings until now the burned area has been off-limits to all but authorized workers. only parts of la hain have been opened. other areas are expected to be closed off for weeks. in california governor gavin newsome signed a law that schools have at least one gender neutral bathrooms. establishes a task force to help advance support initiatives for

lgbtq-plus students. no secret if you're a parent, you may have noticed your kid likes to use their phone a lot. >> we know that. we like to use our phones a lot, too. we got exclusive access to a ground-breaking report that's giving us a better understanding of the apps the kids and what time they're using and how long. what's most surprising for parents is despite kids wanting to unplug they're getting pulled back in. it's a defining feature of a generation. kids constantly scrolling, messaging, playing games, watching videos, now a new record is shining a light on just how much phones are trying to grab our kids' attention. commonsense media tracked the android phones of about 200 kids to see what they're actually doing. 97% of them used their phones during school hours. almost 60% used them between midnight and 5:00 a.m. on school nights and here's the most striking headline, more than

half the kids got 237 notifications or more every day. with some receiving more than 4,500, researchers say snapchat and discord sent the most notifications. >> the business model of social media platforms is to keep you on the platform so they can sell you ads. it's an arm's race for you attention. >> reporter: not all notifications are created equal. it's easier to ignore more impersonal lix by a direct link to their friends they're drawn to their friends. >> you get a pop-up from snapchat. pick up the phone and look. >> yeah. >> reporter: a 14-year-old wasn't part of the study but like the kids in study her top social media app is tiktok. what is it about tiktok that you love? >> indulgence when you're scrolling through the videos and interested and pulled into it.

>> she spends a lot of time on the app, which was news to her mother. >> i'm shocked. i feel like i'm waking up to this news. >> i know a lot of moms if their kids sat down and told them exactly what they were doing would have that feeling. >> reporter: nbc news reached out to social media companies highlighted in report. tiktok said it sets a 60-minute daily time limit account on teens' accounts but teens can enter a passcode to continue watching. snapchat and discord said their opt-in their notifications. both platforms say the number of notifications can be adjusted. meta says it has tools specifically designed to help teens limit their time and minimize notifications. teens are automatically sent a take a break message. after a certain amount of time. common ense did find many kids are trying to set limits. armeda has a time limit on her favorite apps, but that doesn't always work.

>> i know the password to it. so i get by the limit. >> do you reach the limit and you find yourself putting in the password? >> all the time. >> why is that? >> i don't know. i think most of the time i'm just not done watching a video and i'm really invested. or, yeah, i just want more time on my phone. >> reporter: she admits her understanding of social media is limited, making conversations about what apps armeda uses is challenging. >> it is difficult because the new generation knows a lot more about these cell phones than any generation does. >> reporter: many parents are with her on that, so commonsense is offering talking points to help parents start the conversation, like which apps take upmost of their time. what draws them in and begin with admitting how you use your phone. >> it is really up to you as a parent to be having an ongoing and nonjudgmental discussion with your kids but also talking

about the positive things you get from interaction on the screens because that is the life kids are living. >> wow, this's so eye-opening and scary to note how much time these kids are actually spending on their phones. what else can parents do? >> i think having that conversation with your kids is really, really important. by the way, we have actually have 21 questions that you can ask that commonsense came up with, it's at today.com. that's what i can say to my kid. commonsense said try to have times during the day where you're not on your devices. like dinner time. >> affecting their school and i bet leading by an example helps, too. >> start what what we're doing. let's turn now to politics, with four days left before a potential government shutdown, veterans could see an impact on

their care if federal workers are forced off the job, v.a. hospitals and clinics are already buckling from severe staffing shortages. ali vitali visited a veterans care facility in california to take a look at this issue. >> reporter: we know that government shutdowns can cause new problems when they happen, but they can also exacerbate existing ones. watch. >> we starting advocating for this v.a. clinic. >> reporter: more than two decades to get a new clinic in his hometown of stockton, california. >> started joking about hopefully we'll open up before we're pushing up daisies. >> reporter: not just about getting a new facility. >> we need this clinic to open with doctors. >> reporter: this rural community about an hour from san francisco, falls prey to a national trend, veterans struggling to access healthcare

because there are not enough providers to see them. >> if you're in stockton you have to wait, 80, 90, even 100 days. one veteran said he wasn't able to get a refill on his diabetes medication. he ended up losing his leg. >> reporter: here the number of working primary care physicians have been cut in half. as of 2022, more than 2,000 facilities faced shortages. the results backlog, wait times and rarely returned inquiries are why dozens of veterans like adame as well as caregivers packed into this town hall on a friday afternoon here. >> my husband, he's a vietnam vet. he's 100% disabled. >> reporter: before the coronavirus pandemic, her husband's care was consistent. >> so you've seen that this system can work. >> it worked very well, and then when covid happened, everything just changed.

any call or concern was never answered. >> so you're basically playing a game of telephone with your husband's health care. >> yes. >> reporter: the local v.a. is working to alleviate staffing shortages with increased physician pay while expanding access to telehealth. >> we're here to help you today, monday, tuesday, whenever. >> they're overloaded and there's a lot of red tape. >> reporter: and he's petitioning the administration in washington for help, but inaction from congress could make this worse. >> what does this v.a. town hall have to do. >> this is a little bit of a canary in the coal mine. not only would it not fix it, it's going to make it worse. >> reporter: in meantime -- >> it's heartbreaking because we know what we've done in the military. the government promised one thing, but it's not fulfilling it. >> ali, how would a government shutdown exacerbate the problems we're seeing? >> reporter: once you add fur losed workers on that, it adds stress to an already-stressed system.

what shutdowns cost, it prevents work from being done, key policy provisions like the one that the congressman is trying to put into one of the appropriations. you got to understand the problem fully before you can start to fix it. >> good point. ali vitali, thanks so much. new hope for a debilitating medical condition that affects millions of people around the world, we're talking about epilepsy, a condition that can cause a seizure at any moment, now doctors are testing a promising new experimental treatment that patients say has silenced their seizures and given them their lives back. >> reporter: a 60-year-old woman from portland, oregon, has spent the last decade terrified a seizure could come at any time. >> you're having seizures so often, it's just hard to know how's my life going to go. >> reporter: in 2014, she was diagnosed with epilepsy, despite

taking four different medications was still having 14 seizures a month. globally 15 million people struggle with seizures. medications just don't work. >> it can be devastating. i had patience who had to quit their job because day lost their driver's license. i have patients with young children who can't feel comfortable taking care of their own young children alone. >> but now doctors are testing a first of its kind therapy using stem cells. >> this therapy offers us the potential to essentially restore that balance of excitation and inhibition in that part of the brain to be able to calm or ideally stop the seizures, and currently we don't have a therapy that allows us to do that. >> here's how it works, seizures can help when certain parts of the brain get too excited. and start firing uncontrolbly. the cells work to calm the brain down by producing a neurotransmitter that restores

balance in the brain. >> there is a lot of excitedory activity that's causing seizures. >> reporter: i got a chance to see the procedure firsthand when i went into the operating room at the university of california, san diego, and watched the third patient ever to have this done. showing promising results. a 90% reduction in seizures in the first two patients treated so far. >> people think of seizures like, oh, you know, it's one to two minutes of a seizure two to three times a month, it's like, what, six, seven eight minutes out of your life in a month, but the people spend 99% of their time trying to avoid those six, seven, eight minutes and that really impacts their quality of life. >> reporter: the company plans to study whether the therapy can treat other brain conditions like alzheimer's. >> i think these patients are incredibly brave to be a part of a trial where we don't know for sure what the end result is. >> reporter: since annette underwent the procedure last october, she's had just one seizure since and says she finally has her life back. >> we're going to be capable of

doing the things in life that we haven't really been confident to do over the last, you know, since 2014. >> reporter: dr. akshay syal, nbc news. fascinating stuff. coming up, some expert advice any parent is going to want to hear, some sleep-training tricks that will help you and your that will help you and your little one g

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in today's daily health we're focusing on how to get your baby to sleep through the night with sleep training. helpful tips for exhausted parents. >> the goal of sleep traing is for your baby to be sleeping for several hours throughout the night on their own and a when they wake up they'll learn to self-soothe and fall back to asleep. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. when, first off, should parents start sleep-traininging their kids. >> to teach your child to sleep independently at night, a couple of points the first is, when you bring your baby home from the hospital you can actually start working towards independent sleep just by having a consistent bedtime every night, easiest enough for one parent.

four to six months is usually the sleep spot for sleep training. >> here's a question, as a parent who's been through this and actually at a network i worked at they record my performance of trying to sleep-train my second child in my house. kit be really hard because you're leaving a baby that's sometimes screaming and crying, there's a little bit of even, some people in the universe don't think that this is a great idea, how do you deal with that part of it? >> oh, it can be absolutely be brutal and i can tell you with my older child who's -- had black belt in crying and tantrums. a couple of things, first of all, knowing that it's actually not dangerous for babies to cry, think about it -- babies cry all the time. and we don't worry about it being dangerous for them. it's a normal activity for an infant to do. the second is, is that

sleep-training we know from research that the crying although that kit be very painful is quite limited, most parents will not be crying at bedtime within a week and a majority of that crying is going to happen in the first night or two. >> with that said, walk us through some of the popular sleep-training methods. >> sure, generally, there are different ways to reduce your baby's need to have you present when he or she is falling asleep. everyone knows about cry it out. put the baby down and go. the fe are, ber method. go in. pick up and pick down, when your baby is crying you pick up the baby, soothe them until they're calm and put them down as much

as necessary. the chair method, camping out, is where you actually stay in your baby's room but not necessarily touching and interacting with them until they fall asleep and then you leave the room, but for infants we have parents sleep on the mattress in the room for about a week. finally bedtime fading, if your baby isn't asleep in 15 minutes get them up and playing with them a little bit and try to put them down again. >> to be clear it worked for us. you're right, a of a certain amount of time the baby got on a really good sleep schedule. are there apps now for sleep training? >> i think there are some apps. generally, i don't think they're particularly sophisticated but the fact is tired parents sometimes do need help making a plan, whether they get a plan from talking to their pediatrician, talking to friends, reading a book, or from an application, this isn't

really rocket science here, sleep-training is not complicated. it's just difficult to do for a couple of nights. >> to that end, someone at home with an infant or with a toddler, oh, my gosh, i didn't do this with my child, is it too late? >> i it's never too late to sleep train. essentially, i think that parents always have an opportunity to improve their child's sleep if they're not happy with it. a recent study showing that about 35% of parents were worried about their kid's sleep but 96% of parents of kids under 5 actually wanted to change somethingbout their a hi, my name is tony cooper. and if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plan you choose, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. all these

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intelligence. this grocery store opened closed doors to let us see how ai is watching its 36 security cameras around the clock. the unblinking computer looks for telltale signs someone is stealing. the owner told us it's working. only costs a couple hundred dollars a month. >> i mean, this is a fraction of what a security guard would cost. >> the owner let me test out the ai. i played the thief. coming up tonight at 11:00, we will show you what happened when the computer tried to catch me in the act. >> a visible camera here. >> we are taking you to the east coast to visit a lab like no other. engineers in florida gave us a look at how they are working to cut shoplifting losses. we will tie it all back to your grocery bill. join us again tonight at 11:00. see you then. >> wow. that is fascinating. thank you so much, chris.

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