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breaking news. earth, wind and fire. parts of southern california rattled by an earthquake as crews battle three massive wildfires in that state, plus 10 million people are under flood watches today with francine, the hurricane now tropical storm on the move. we're tracking all of it. social support, meta, tiktok and snapchat how they plan to work together to prevent you from seeing harmful content online. one giant leap. history is made in space after the first-ever all-civilian spacewalk, who took the first steps and what it took to make it happen. and finding a friend, after a 9-year-old boy loses his favorite stuffed animal, a total stranger gets straight to work. >> i heard someone was missing somebody. >> the remarkable steps she took

to reunite this little boy with his toy gorilla, i promise it's worth the wait. it's today's good news, coming up later this hour. but we begin in california, with breaking news on two fronts, this morning a 4.7 malg any tuesday earthquake rocked the southern part of the state, the epicenter was near malibu, but it was felt miles away from there, no reports of injuries or damages, the quake comes as fire crews in california rush to contain three massive wildfires. they've burned more than 100,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes, forced thousands of people to evacuate the fires are leading to some heart-stopping rescues. take a look at this. a woman barefoot walking in the middle of the road with fire all around, she's trying to get away from the flames, she was helped by a local fire chief. leading us off this hour morgan chesky on the fire line in wrightwood, california, and nbc

news correspondent liz kruetz is tracking that earthquake. authorities in san bernardino just announced charges they believe started one of these fires. >> reporter: kate w multiple fires burning the firefight here being matched by another one. authorities announced in the line fire, not in the bridge fire where i'm standing but the line fire, one man, a 34-year-old is facing nine arson-related charges as a result of, accused of starting that very blaze. 30,000 acres have already burned. kate, one charge also includes bodily assault against a firefighter and for creating incendiary devices, this believe

this individual tied to three separate fires, they say they were all able to track him down by the use of license plate readers near where they believe the line fire started last week, so that's the investigative update on that front. meanwhile the firefight continues the line fire only about 18% contained. the fire in orange county, the airport fire, 8% contained. unfortunately, kate the bridge fire here, where we are, 0% containment. kate. >> i was wondering if the weather is getting any cooler in southern california, is that helping at all? >> reporter: yeah, for the first time in days we're seeing a significant dip in temperatures and that's no doubt going to help fire crews we've seen cutting a new fire line today as we pull out for a little bit you'll get a sense, you'll see blue sky today for the first time in days after being filled with smoke over the last 48 hours and back down here on the

ground, unfortunately the scenes are absolutely heartbreaking here, dozens of homes have burned, no reports of any fatalities in this bridge fire, the largest in the state, more than 50,000 acres have burned, with abundance of dry fuel even with cooler temps, kate, a shift in wind could open a whole new fire front there. >> morgan, those are homes behind you that are just gone. >> what's left, absolutely. >> morgan, thank you. liz, this earthquake was felt by a lot of people. >> reporter: yeah, kate, it was. millions of people. the epicenter so close to los angeles, a few miles north, north of malibu. it was 5.1 earthquake downgraded to 4.7. we felt here in l.a. i felt it in my home. it happened just before 7:30 this morning in southern

california. some celebrities were tweeting about it. kim car dashian tweeting, wow, that was a big one. we felt it in santa monica, down to anaheim near disneyland. no injuries, no significant damage, it comes after a very active summer for earthquakes, last month there was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, just a reminder we're in active earthquake area and to be prepared, kate, as well. thankfully no injuries. >> morgan chesky. liz kreutz, thank you. more breaking news, the aftermath of hurricane francine the storm has since been downgraded to a tropical depression now, but it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane in southern louisiana last night, communities along the coast were hit the hardest with heavy rain even 100 mile per hour winds, dozens of people

had to be rescued. this played out on live television. our affiliate in new orleans captured the moment. >> that guy right there breaking that window. feet of water right there. pickup truck that's submerged -- the person coming out of the window. good samaritan there. >> good samaritan helping the driver saving him from a submerged truck. both were able to get out safely we're told. at this hours hundreds of thousands are still without power from louisiana to alabama. meteorologist bill karins is tracking all of that for us. we'll start with jesse kirsch in new orleans, jesse, you look a lot different than yepd when the storm was moving through, but talk about the damage you're seeing and what people went through? >> reporter: kate, good news the sun's out. bad news it's humid and hot.

i'll get to concern around that in a moment. we went to a neighborhood earlier today and spoke to mayor in a neighborhood community just outside the city of new orleans, he said in that community alone there were around a hundred homes that had floodwaters in them in some fashion, ankle high up to waist high. outside it was coming up around the waist, she was worried about what was going to happen. they called for help and the rescuers told them they couldn't even get out to them, it gives you an idea of what people have been going through here. here's what the mayor had to say. >> normally after a storm, these

roads are impassable until we can get out and clean them, this is kind of unique, more of i guess rain event, it overwhelmed our pumping system and that's where you'll have the damage. >> reporter: another thing to keep an eye on is power outages. kate, because it's hot out when it's hot and you have no power you'll want to turn on that air-conditioning, you might use a generator, stressing concern over people using generators properly, emphasizing that they want people to keep them 20 feet away from indoors, covered areas for proper ventilation. >> thank you, jesse. bill karins, i think the storm is sort of weakening, is that right? >> reporter: the national

hurricane center is done tracking it, that's how weak it's gotten. the wind is doing no more damage. the rain is left. flood watches, eliminated a bunch of people in mississippi, but some under the potential for seeing flooding. no flash flood warnings at this time. what's left of this, over memphis later on tonight, we'll see those thunderstorms bringing in some heavy rain around montgomery to birmingham this afternoon. isolated tornadoes, we have seen one in the last 24 hours, i'm not expecting a big outbreak or anything like that. >> thanks to you both. time now for today's money minute. another restaurant chain is filing for bankruptcy and disney-plus is launching a limited time deal. we'll start with that

restaurant bankruptcy, this is burgerfi filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy a month after its around with investors it was unable to operate, joining red lobsters as restaurants turn to bankruptsies to save its business. general mills is selling its north american yogurt business. it will help focus on more profitable items. and disney is trying to capture new customers with a new disney-plus deal from today through september 27th, new and returning customers can get a basic plan with ads for $1.99 a month for three months, that tier is currently $8, however the deal will auto renew at full prices until you cancel and it's about to get more expensive going up to $1 starting next

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officials in springfield, ohio, say city hall there is closed today because of a bomb threat, the city has been rocked in recent days after that debunked rumor spread about haitian immigrants there eating pets. some community members say the rumor's putting their lives at risk. former president trump brought up that baseless claim unprompted in tuesday's debate. it's been spread by conservative voices online. ohio's republican governor also pushing back on that story. yamiche alcindo traveled to springfield, ohio, to dig in and get some answers. you're taking a closer look at sort of how this rumor developed in the first place and made its way from the fringes of the internet to top of the trump campaign. >> reporter: that's right, the pet rumors seemingly are connected and started with unrelate case in a different part of ohio, now in that case a u.s. citizen was arrested for a gruesome incident involving a

cat and the rumor spread and made it way to trump aides and to senator j.d. vance, i questioned him after the debate and i pressed him on what he would say to haitian immigrants. listen. >> the city manager said there's no verifiable evidence. lot of residents on the ground said there is. city manager isn't fully in touch with what's going on the ground there. >> reporter: city officials are continuing to say there's no everyday of this claim. number of people has told me they have seen anything about haitian immigrants abusing or eats pets here. >> when j.d. vance said there's a lot lot of people talking about it and they're not hearing that. >> reporter: lot of people are talking about it because it was said on the debate stage. some residents think these baseless claims are credible because they're seeing them on the internet.

>> this story is so polarizing not only nationally by for this community. >> reporter: i talked to a number of residents, a vast majority told me they're heartbroken having springfield being connected to this story. haitian immigrants are telling me they're scared because they came here legally because the city wanted them here i talked to resident who thinks this is credible even though they're baseless claims. >> they just believe that their words have no impact and it's not true. so immigrants of springfield, especially haitians, they're concerned for their lives. >> i think this town is already lost, i hope i'm wrong. >> what do you mean -- >> it's not going to get any better, it's going to continue to turn basically from an american community to a haitian community.

>> reporter: that longtime resident said he's scared that this town is going to be culturally different. but there are towns that are culturally different. haitians are here legally and were invited by the city. they're scared to walk the streets that they'll be targeted and target of crimes. it was a history-making day in space, a major milestone for the future of private space travel. for the first time ever civilians took part in a spacewalk, a billionaire isaacman and gillis stepped out their spacecraft as part of the mission. >> spacex. back at home we have a lot of work to do. >> nbc news correspondent marissa parra, the images from

this spacewalk were stunning. what was the goal? zblsh it was incredible. in fact, i'm going to ask if we can pull those up, there you go, this is stunning and it's also historic and also very risky, happy to report that it all went okay. a couple of major mission milestones that were achieved, we saw a couple days ago that humans reached the highest altitude that we've seen in space since the apollo missions to the moon. three-times higher than the international space station. there's that space walk, this was historic, it was the first all-commercial, all-civilian spacewalk, non-government astronauts. it was also pretty incredible because when they opened that hatch, kate, every single astronaut, all four of them were exposed to the vacuum of space, there's one astronaut at a time. every single one of them was

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california and into the san fernando valley. it was followed by aftershocks with magnitudes ranging from 1.8 to 3.4, with more aftershocks possible in the hours and days ahead. i was right at the stoplight and they were like, slightly swaying an alarm went off on my phone that there was debris in the road, so i had no idea what was going on, but then i parked and everyone was kind of like it was all chaos. fortunately, no reports of injuries or significant damage. it's a big day in san francisco. the city's iconic transamerica pyramid begins a new chapter today. nbc bay area's ginger conejero saab explains. reporter. after years of restoration and renovation, the moment is here for san francisco's iconic transamerica pyramid to start a new chapter, reopening its doors and it's doing so with high hopes from san francisco city leaders, including mayor london breed and supervisor aaron peskin and former mayor willie brown, who hopes this will revitalize the

city. today's occasion also personally momentous for monica pereira, the daughter of the building's original architect. that it's going to help revitalize. you know, we've got a lot of ai, a lot of tech, a lot of people that i think would love to be downtown again. and we'll hope that this is the center and the start of something new. the reimagined transamerica pyramid has transformed its top levels to become working spaces, a lounge and a fitness facility exclusively for its tenants. that all used to be a public observation deck. now, what is still open to the public? the redwood park, which has been closed since the pandemic that is also set to reopen when the park was unveiled in 1972. the trees were about 16 to 18ft tall. now they are about 150ft tall. now in addition to fixing up some old stuff, there's also quite a bit in the pipeline that is hoped to revitalize not just this specific area, but also the

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obtained caban's resignation letter, which was sent to the members of the police department earlier today. caban took over the department in july 2023 after being tapped by mayor eric adams whose administration is the target of multiple investigations right now. tom winter has been tracking this story, this is all tied to the possibility of corruption in new york city. >> the question is, what was his role in that corruption? we've been told he's not target of this investigation, we've within told anticipate he'll cooperate in this. what our reporting bears out, federal authorities are trying to determine whether or not caban's twin brother james was accepting payments from night clubs and bars in this city in exchange for preferential

treatment. you talked about the police commissioner's brother, why is the police commissioner mentioned in this, because federal investigators took his phone a little bit more than a week ago and so folks have been focusing on this, if they're coming after the phone, the device, of the police commissioner, what is his nexus to this. i think it became, kate, too much -- >> this is one investigation of what several in the new york area around the administration of mayor adams. >> that's right. important to note no charges have been been filed. rock and roll legend jon bon jovi is being called a legend. he talked a woman off a bridge if nashville. the entire incident was captured on a surveillance camera. stephanie gosk has that story.

>> reporter: a chance encounter with jon bon jovi turning into a life-changing moment. the legendary rocker in the right place at the right time tuesday, when police say he and his team helped save a woman on a nashville bridge. the woman standing dangerously on the ledge over the cumberland river. bon jovi then seen on surveillance footage released by police, walking over and talking with her for about a minute, before helping her climb over the railing to safety. the two later embracing in an emotional hug. the grammy-winning singer who had been filming a music video on the bridge at the time may have been just the right person to talk to in that heart-wrenching moment. ♪ this one goes out to the man who needs a miracle ♪ >> reporter: nbc news confirming the musician has had extensive training in speaking to individuals in crisis through his jbj foundation, the organization helps those living in poverty throughout the u.s. ♪ my heart is like an open highway ♪

>> reporter: a mission bon jovi took to heart this week in nashville, and is living every moment. >> with the power of we the people, working together to find the ills that need -- the needs of each individual in their respective places where they live and work, yeah, i do think that we can make a difference. i really do believe that. >> reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news. if you or someone you know is struggling help is always available. the suicide and crisis lifeline number is on your screen there, it's 988. . three major social media companies say they're teaming up for the largest effort yet to limit the effort of self-harm and suicidal content on their platforms. they're partnering with mental health coalition to roll out a new program, the goal is for competing businesses there to collaborate and share

information about harmful content. maya wrote about the new plan. she's here with us on set now. we're talk about meta, tiktok, snapchat. they don't usually collaborate and talk to each other about their behind the scenes information. but this is what they're doing. >> correct, first of its kind collaboration with these three platforms. they're using thrive as a sounding board. for example, if tiktok identifies a harmful video that violates the suicide and self-harm guidelines, they'll take it down to the platform and share with thrive and then meta and snapchat can identify similar videos. >> have we heard from social

media watchdog groups, lot of parents active in this space. >> absolutely, we did just receive a comment from commonsense media, a media watchdog, kwet, in part we're glad to see these companies working together to remove these types of content associated with self-harm and suicide, without proper regulatory guardrails the jury is out whether it will have a significant impact. there's a lot of people in this situation, lot of people want to know what's going to happen. >> they seem to be saying, commonsense it's a step, but let's see if it's going to work. >> maya, thank you. the actions of social media companies get a lot of our attention, right, and perhaps none more than tiktok, in fact the federal government is hoping to ban that app altogether as you probably know and next week, is the next legal hearing, september 16th on that issue, but what a tiktok ban actually

look like. my co-anchor zinhle essamuah simply explains. >> reporter: the video-sharing app tiktok, best known for dancing videos and slapstick pranks and trends. with the potential for a nationwide ban in the united states. >> what this would do is demand that bytedance, the owner of tiktok either sell off tiktok to an american-run company or they would make it impossible for it to exist. >> reporter: put simply, the ban is set to take effect in january 19th, 2025, but legal action and a potential sale could delay that process. quick history lesson -- tiktok is owned by chinese technology company bytedance, as of april 2024, tiktok had more than 1 billion active users worldwide, 170 million of those users are in the u.s. a bipartisan bill to ban the app was first proposed in december 2022. their reason --

>> tiktok is a major foreign threat. >> the current version of the bill is not just tiktok, but tiktok is the only one we care about. it's a broaden opportunity for the administration to look at anything that's owned by or collaborates with a foreign adversary. >> reporter: in june, after investigating tiktok over privacy, the ftc referred their complaint to the justice department. in response, a tiktok spokesperson telling cnbc in part, we've been working with the ftc for more than a year. to address its concerns. in april 2024, president biden signed a law that includes a fast-approaching nine-month deadline for tiktok to be sold to a u.s.-approved owner or face a widely contested ban. >> every bit of my livelihood is tethered to tiktok. >> reporter: so what happens if a ban does take effect?

tiktok wouldn't disappear from phones but it would be removed from the app store and no new downloads or updates would be possible. >> any third party business that helps us use tiktok, it will be virtually impossible for them to provide tiktok to users. >> reporter: perhaps this could take years by tiktok taking this proposed law to court. >> it's so popular, we've never seen anything like it. >> reporter: the question is, will we continue to see tiktok on our phones? that's the tiktok ban simply explained. now we want to hear from you out there. connect with her on your favorite social media platform. some good news today about the power of kindness, one texas mom going above and beyond for a 9-year-old boy she had never even met.

>> reporter: he waited six months for this stuffed gorilla from his favorite video game. the wait was worth it. his mom said derek and his gorilla were inseparable, she even threw her son a gorilla-themed birthday party in their texas hometown. but when they went on vacation in california, his gorilla was accidentally left behind in the hotel room. >> he cried for days. i would tell him it's okay. he's also a child. a little monkey, a stuffed animal brings him joy and happiness. >> reporter: the hotel refused to mail the monkey back to texas and said that the lost stuffed animal would have to be picked up in person. she went on facebook and asked if any friends or family in california could help. >> i gave it one more try, let me see if somebody who happens to live in the valley is in

california, i never in a million years thought that somebody i knew five minutes away would bring me the monkey. >> reporter: she was visiting her boyfriend in nevada when she saw the post. it, i just knew he lost his monkey. i have two daughters, if my daughters were in that situation i'd love somebody to do the same thing. >> reporter: josie, a stranger, decided to go an hour out of her way to get derek's gorilla and her kindness didn't stop there, she documented the monkey's 1500-mile journey back to texas, on planes, trains and in cars, watching the minions movie and drinking dr. pepper, which she later learned were some of derek's favorite things. >> she was like you know, that's his favorite drink. that's his favorite show. oh, my god, i didn't know that. >> i would cry sometimes with the messages that josie would send me. like, oh, my goodness. so cute. who has the time to send the pictures with this traveling

monkey i can show to my son. >> reporter: finally, they arrived back in texas for a very special reunion. >> i heard somebody was missing somebody. here you go. hug. >> reporter: and the 9-year-old smile worth a thousand words. >> it made me happy. i did something good. it was just a good moment to see a little boy just smile again. really seemed happy. she didn't have to do anything for us and for josie to go out of her way to go get it, like, that's something that not many people do. >> reporter: her act of kindness creating an unbreakable bond. the two single moms are still in touch and meet up for playdates hoping to teach their kids about the impact of kindness. >> one day derek gets older and if he has children, he can share what happened to him when he was 9. >> that gratitude goes a long way. >> thank you. for giving me my monkey back.

>> every single time. >> i love that. the crazy part is, they had never met even though they live minutes away from each other in texas. they're both single moms and they even share the same last name but they're not related. derek plays baseball and soccer and josie is hoping to go to some of his games and show her support. kindness, is out there. now we want to hear from you, do you have a good news story. connect with me on your favorite social media platform. up ahead, we'll speak with veteran nbc news producer, how his two-decade investigation helped save two innocent men

back in december of 2002, veteran nbc news producer got a tip from a homicide detective that two men were serving 25 years to life for a 1990 murder that they did not commit, that tip turns into a years-long investigation, it's now a subject of a new week called "the sing sing files." one journalist, six innocent men and a 20-year fight for justice.

dan, it's so good to see you. this book for people who don't know the basic story, can you describe what happened? >> it basically in my 20-year journey investigating the cases of these six men who were all telling the truth, almost like a surreal game of human dominos, one innocent man led to another. what the book is about, how easy it is for someone to be wrongfully incarcerated and how hard it is to get out. >> you became very close to one of the men you profiled in the book, one of the men whose story is so compelling, it's a podcast, letters from sing sing, it's an amazing podcast, i'm telling you to listen, one man spent 23 years in prison, he gets granted clemency and released in 2021, i know it's hard to encapsulate your

relationship. >> three years ago this week he was granted clemency. i met him when his kids were 8 and 5. his kids are now 30 and 27. i visited him 250 times. i knew he that he was innocent. >> was it a feeling, how? >> it was absolutely the facts. i'm not his advocate, i'med a row kate for the truth. i said to him, if lie to me one time i'm not coming back. he challenged me to find him guilty. i had done this long investigation in 2012 on "dateline." it was nominated for three emmys. the world of journalism saw it as an act of journalism. >> this is the stuff that i think people may not understand about our business, some of us work -- you work really hard to

make sure you got the facts straight on something. your reporting exposed laws in the criminal justice system, what has changed, has anything changed because of what you've done? >> well, no. i don't know the answer to that. what i've come to learn, ambassadors of what the justice system is what really is. it's a criminal legal system, it can adversal system where people are more interested in winning than they are truth or justice all too often. not all the time but way too often. >> still things need to change. >> a lot needs to change. this is a hidden epidemic. in 30 years, there's been over 3,000 people exonerated in 30 years, both estimates say right now as we're talking anywhere between 1 to 200,000 innocent

people are in prison. we're just scratching the surface about how to get accountability and solve these problems. >> dan, we've done investigative projects in the past together. the level of detail, again, i want to mention the name of the book it's called zblsh "the sing sing files." >> people can pick that up now. dan, thank you. >> thank you, my friend. there's much more news ahead. you're watching "nbc news daily". your memory is an amazing thing, but sometimes it can start to slow down. but did you know prevagen can help keep your memory sharp? the secret is the powerful ingredient, apoaequorin, originally discovered in jellyfish and found only in prevagen. in a clinical study, prevagen was shown to improve memory in subgroups of individuals who were cognitively normal

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