i'm valerie castro, stay right there, more news is on the way. people injured during a mass shooting. the u.s. of representatives has a new speaker.

louisiana's mike johnson takes the chamber's top job. the long road to leadership and what comes next for the majority leader. mexico in recovery after hurricane otis exploded to a category 5 storm before making landfall. why the storm took forecasters and the people in its path by surprise. doctors are under stress and turning to artificial intelligence. we take you inside the hospital halls where they are he're usin machine learning. one black-owned record store is spinning success. meet the next generation of entrepreneurs and mentors pushing them forward. it's thursday, october 26. "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. we begin with breaking news in lewiston, maine. police tell us 15 to 20 people

are dead and 50 more are injured. some of the injuries happened in the rush to escape the danger. we don't have any details about the ages of the victims. >> police released this photo of a person of interest named robert card. photos from a bowling alley, one of the shooting scenes, were released. a law enforcement bulletin said card recently reported mental health issues >> officials released this photo of card, linked to the shooting spree. people are urged to shelter in place as the urgent search continues. there are state and local authorities on the scene. let's turn to capitol hill. it has been three weeks, but the house speaker drama is finally over. republicans were able to rally around their fourth nominee. louisiana's mike johnson, who will preside over the chamber.

our garrett haakes that the developments from d.c. >> reporter: after three chaotic and leaderless weeks, the house once again has a speaker. >> the speaker elect, mike johnson from the state of louisiana. >> reporter: alouisiana republican mike johnson elected on a party vote, with the support of every republican. every democrat opposed. a stunning rise for the trump ally and low ranking member of the house gop leadership team, now second in line to the presidency. johnson is a staunch conservative on issues like abortion and government spending and played a key role in efforts by then president trump to overturn joe biden's electoral victory. history history noted by democrats. >> joe biden won the 2020 election. no amount of election denialism will ever change that reality. >> are you worried that a speaker johnson would again

attempt to overturn the election? >> no. >> reporter: johnson's election caps a turbulent month for the house, beginning with the ouster of mccarthy and the withdrawal of three other nominees before the party settled on the relatively unknown johnson last night. >> if you don't think moving from kevin mccarthy to maga mike johnson shows the ascendants of this movement and where the power of the republican party truly lies then you're not paying attention. >> reporter: the eight republicans who led the effort to remove mccarthy declaring victory. >> only way to change washington is to change who's leading washington, and that is what we did today. >> reporter: johnson jolting the chamber back into action. with the house voting hours after his election on the first bill of any kind in nearly a month. a resolution supporting israel, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. >> and our thanks to garrett for that report. former president trump got

in trouble in a new york city court, storming out of the room after a long day in which he briefly took the stand to explain remarks he had made to reporters. mr. trump had said the person signature next to the judge was quote very partisan. the former president explained to the judge he'd meant witness michael cohen, but judge arthur engoron rejected that claim as not credible, fining mr. trump $10,000 for violating his gag order. according to witnesses, his sudden departure surprised both his lawyers and secret service agent, although mr. trump did return eventually. the middle east is on the brink of the death toll rising, as it keeps rising in gaza, and the idea of cease-fire is rejected out of hand by both israel and the united states. president biden called for israel to spare civilians while at the same time casting doubt on the skyrocketing palestinian death toll. here's richard engel. >> reporter: the middle east is on the edge of disaster. gaza is being flattened,

horrific images are stoking rage across the muslim world. tonight, president biden tried to pull the region back from the brink, saying israel has a right and responsibility to target hamas. but that it has an obligation to protect palestinian civilians. >> israel still has to do everything in its power, as difficult as it is to protect innocent civilian, and it's difficult. >> reporter: he condemned hamas for using civilians as human shields and says he has no confidence in claims by the hamas-run gaza health ministry that 6500 palestinian civilians had been killed in the last two and a half weeks. >> i have no notion that palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. i'm sure innocents have been killed. and it's the price of waging a war. >> reporter: israel israel's al were more blunt, saying it could lead to an explosion in the region. the president of egypt, the

first country to sign a peace accord with israel delivering the same message alongside french president macron. in gaza, our crew filmed building after building destroy bid israeli airstrikes. israel said it's targeting hamas tunnels that run under homes, schools and hospitals. iran blamed what's happening on the united states. they have released this photograph of the groups shadowy leaders in front of a photograph of iran's supreme leader. president biden had a message for him. >> my warning to the ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops, we will respond. and he should be prepared. >> reporter: this was a different speech than we've heard from president biden since the start of this conflict. he said he's alarmed by

extremist settlers in the west bank attacking palestinians and called for a return to the peace process based oonn a two-state solution. the suspect in the shooting of two nashville cops has died from a self-inflicted gunshot. that's according to state investigators. 38-year-old john drake jr., the estranged son of the nashville police chief who had appealed to him to give himself up. he shot and wounded two police officers. drake junior apparently shot himself after authorities were closing in on him tuesday evening. mexico is still assessing the damage after being caught off guard by hurricane otis. all communications were knocked out in aukcapulco after the category 5 storm slam nmed into the area.

>> reporter: making landfall as the most powerful storm to rake across mexico's pacific coast as a category 5 hurricane, otis tore through acapulco, battering the resort town popular with americans. a dangerous combination of whipping winds and relentless rain severed communications in the beach side city. [speaking in a global language] all communications have been lost, says mexico's president. the storm has atypical behavior. in just 24 hours, a tropical storm with 50 mile per hour winds explosively intensified into a cat 5, packing 165 mile per hour winds and 26,000 lightning strikes, with an increase in rapidly-intensifying storms often linked to climate change, the hurricane caught most by surprise. [speaking in a global language] louisa pena says all coy ai coud ask for was one more chance. i hid in my closet and prayed.

with hundreds of,000 in the dark, landslides have cut off supply roads, and now a 4.4 earthquake has struck the area. [speaking in a global language] amid a national plea for help, the storm is weakening, but not before leaving behind a trail of destruction and misery. miguel almaguer, nbc news. north of otis, the rockies are getting their first major snowfall, but that same system means rain for the plains. nbc meteorologist michelle grossman has her eye on that storm for us. >> this is a big storm. we're looking at feet of snow in portions of the inner mountain west into the northern plains and heavy, heavy rain. we've been watching it for days and will continue to watch it at least through the rest of the day. 9 million impacted by flood alerts. where you sigh the red, that means flooding is happening now or imminent. the flood watch is in the green. flash flood warning in the rid. that includes dallas. we're looking at rounds of heavy rain as expected. a lot of winter weather alerts.

the pink is the winter storm warning. it's going to reduce visibility and make travel difficult as we go throughout the today. we're looking the a rounds of rain along this front and the ground is saturated. so that's going to induce a threat for flooding, flash flooding, also the winter storm blast in the northern part of the country. that's going to continue today and also tomorrow. so that system's going to accelerate into the great lakes, the trailing storm is going to cause storms from texas to michigan. look at this map. we've been seeing a lorm in the states, the big story will be stor stormy weather in dallas and houston also. that's your forecast.

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>> reporter: they are backing up what so many assumed. at the height of the pandemic health care workers were nor likely to be diagnosed with anxiety and depression. the study looked at 820 medical workers around the country, analyzing conversations with therapists in the spring of 2020, all of it done using artificial intelligence. >> we think of ai. we think of sky net, something that is going to take our job and be an alien in the way that it thinks, and i don't think that this is a constructive approach. >> reporter: behind the study, an assistant professor of psychiatry at nyu. he says they used ai to dissect the language of therapy patients, a first step in discovering how ai can help in the field of mental health. >> i would say this is something that needs to be studied. >> reporter: in the future he doesn't envision replacing humans with row p robot therapi

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everything old is new again. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and that includes vinyl records, outbpacing cd sales. but of the nearly 10,000 record shops that exist in the u.s., only 3% are black owned. one group is working to change that. the forever a music store coalition is working to change that right here in brooklyn. ♪ ♪ what made you think to yourself, i want to open a record shop? >> well, i love music, and i'm an artist as well. >> reporter: he funded the store with his co-founders in 2021 at the age of 28. and he's a member of fams. sflp s >> streaming takes the human connection out of it sometimes. >> reporter: he credits the

mentorship from fams. >> we've got somebody to look after o our best interest. >> reporter: it was founded in 2021 after what he saw a lack of community for business owners of color. it's made up of at least 21 black-owned independent record stores across the country. it arranges for people to visit store online and off. how's it been for you as a black owner? >> oh, it's been dope. >> reporter: still ali describes an uphill battle making sure his store is not just reaching one demographic. >> we host game nights. i'm not striving to be like the old record store guys. they're going to get a conversation wfrom me. >> reporter: hoping to diversify the industry one record at a time. >> if i go around my friends and

ask who they know that owns a record shop, it's usually just me. >> reporter: do you think it's that black people haven't seen themselves in the space? >> yeah, in order to see it, somebody's got to do it, right? >> there's always something cool about vinyls, right? the cover art. it's bigger than the cd, it's cool. more popular with deejays. >> you step in and see them, it's like all the senses, the smell of it, the feel of it, totally takes you back to that different vibe. thanks for watchin

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