bail denied for the suspected killer of unitedhealthcare's ceo. the fireworks outside the courthouse as luigi mangione fights extradition back to new york to face a murder charge. plus new details on his arrest at a pennsylvania mcdonald's.

the man accused of trying to assassinate donald trump set to face a judge in just hours. we're live with a preview and why house members say the attempt was preventible. the growing concern over drones over the garden state. another nfl star targeted by a crime ring. breaking overnight, a grocery mega merger bagged. why a federal judge blocked kroger's $25 billion bid to buy albertson's. and jamie foxx opens up about the mystery illness that left him near dead, and how he fought back through laughter. if's wednesday, december 11th. "early today" starts right now. . good morning. glad you're with me, i'm frances rivera. the suspect in the murder of a

healthcare ceo, 26-year-old luigi mangione, shouting at cameras as he arrived for his extradition hearing in pennsylvania yesterday. mangione was denied bail and is now fighting extradition to new york. new york governor kathy hochul will sign a request for a governor's warrant to ensure mangione is tried and held accountable. for more, let's turn to stephanie gosk. >> reporter: allege the murder, luigi mangione shouting at cameras outside court. >> -- the intelligence of the american people! >> reporter: the 26-year-old's defense attorney told the nnsylvania judge his client will fight extradition back to new york city. >> we haven't gotten any evidence. haven't seen anything really yet. >> reporter: mangione is charged with gunning down brian thompson in manhattan. the extradition hearing ing

place 24 hours after the arrest at an mcdonald's in altoona. this man saw him eating breakfast before police were called. >> i kept thinking about it all day yesterday. how can that be, you know? here we are this little town. >> reporter: one of the arresting officers only six months on the job. >> he was wearing a blue medical mask. as soon as we asked him to pull it down, me and my partner and i recognized him immediately. >> reporter: then they asked him if he had been in new york city recently. >> that really invokes a physical reaction from the suspect. he became physically nervous, shaking at that question. >> reporter: according to police, mangiony had a 3d printed weapon, similar to the one used in the shooting, fake i.d.s and three pages of hand written notes. >> you see anti-corporatist sentiment. a lot of issues with the healthcare industry. but, as to, like, particular specific motives, that will come

out as this investigation continues to unfold. >> reporter: saying in part, frankly, these parasites had it coming. to save you a lengthy investigation, i state plainly i wasn't working with anyone. there's no indication at this point that mangione was working with anyone, but they have not ruled it out. he also said i do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done. after reviewing hundreds of hours of video footage and even using dive teams in a pond in central park, it was this photo, the grinning suspect checking into a hostel in new york city that was critical to breaking the case. up until the arrest, police had not identified him. >> he had been working this hard

for five days and gotten hundreds of tips to our tip lines, but this was not a name that was called in to us. >> reporter: the mangione family releasing a short statement saying in part, we only know what we have read in the media. our family is shocked and devastated by luigi's arrest. >> thank you. now to florida where the suspect accused of trying to assassinate donald trump has a court hearing today. ryan routh who was arrested outside mr. trump's golf course has asked for his february trial date to be pushed back to next december. his defense team says they need more time to go over the discovery in this case, which includes data from 18 phones and three computers, they will make their case at today's status hearing. chris pollone joins me now. we're also learning more about the other assassination attempt, that deadly shooting in pennsylvania. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, frances. good morning to you. the house task force that was investigating these attempts finally released its final report. it's a 180-page report that

found that the shooting in butler, pennsylvania, which wounded donald trump and killed one of his supporters was preventible. they said there were various failures in planning, execution and leadership which exposed everyone at that event to grave danger. the panel also gave dozens of recommendations to the secret service, including adding more staffing, providing more robust training, scaling back the protection of foreign leaders to focus on top u.s. officials and recording all radio transmissions, which is something that did not happen in butler. the acting director of the secret service was questioned by the task force earlier this month. ronald rowe promised accountability for what he called an abject failure by the agency to secure that campaign rally. rowe says the agency is putting a much stronger emphasis on training and doing more regular reviews. in october, rowe said the agency was developing a plan to fundamentally transform the service, including modernizing their technology and building a training plant.

now president-elect trump has not yet named his nominee for the next secret service director, frances. >> okay, we'll wait for that, chris, thank you. today local officials in new jersey will be holding a meeting on the drone mystery after numerous drones have been buzzing over the garden state in at least eight counties since before thanksgiving. gadi schwartz has more. >> reporter: in the skies above the east, reports of mysterious drones. >> look. there's one there, one there. >> reporter: turning into thousands of posts going viral online, with people from coast-to-coast now spending a lot more time looking up and pointing their cameras into the night. >> there's more over there, look. >> reporter: some could be optical illusions, planes that seem closer than they are. >> you can hear that one. that is definitely a plane. >> reporter: but others have defied normal explanations. >> what the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: car-sized drones

able to elude local law enforcement when they send their own drones up to give chase. in new jersey, the army reporting the arsenal has had 11 unauthorized drone incursions in the last month. >> minute you get eyes on them, they go dark. this is something we're taking deadly seriously. >> reporter: the entire month before that, it was nightly drone incursions over langley air force base. >> let's just start with current events. >> reporter: a congressional hearing on capitol hill on the national security threat drones pose. >> what is going on in new jersey? >> we're investigating, but i don't have an answer of who's responsible for that, of one or more people that are responsible for those drone flights. >> reporter: but for those who see them on a nightly basis. >> it's not a plane. that is a drone in the airspace. >> reporter: the drones are a very real reminder. >> almost hear a little bit of a

hum. >> reporter: that our airspace -- >> a very little thermal signature. >> reporter: is not as secure as we might hope. gadi schwartz, nbc news. police say cincinnati bengals' joe burrow was the latest athlete to be the victim of a break-in after his home was burglarized this week. >> reporter: cincinnati bengals star joe burrow led his team to a road win. the quarterback was facing a very different situation back home. >> someone is trying to break into the house right now. >> reporter: according to a hamilton county sheriff's office report, the break-in was discovered by a woman who was employed by burrow. >> someone broke into my house. it's like completely messed up. >> reporter: she appears to be the same olivia who has modeled for "sports illustrated." >> we have a window shattered in the bedroom. >> reporter: she called her mother who then called 911. >> she's wondering what she should do, if she should be

hiding? or if she should be going outside? >> reporter: the sheriff says an off-duty deputy was on detail at the home. burrow is the latest high-profile athlete blindsided by burglary. in october, patrick mahomes and travis kelce both allegedly target. >> it's frustrating, disappointing. >> reporter: bobby portis jr., also an alleged victim. >> while i was at my game yesterday i had a home invasion. >> reporter: the fbi connected many of the incidents to south american criminal gangs. another superstar has been targeted. jesse kirsch, nbc news. now to malibu where the devastating franklin fire has burned through more than 3,000 acres and is currently 0% contained. the los angeles sheriff's department says around 20,000 people are under evacuation

orders or evacuation warnings. residents described the fast-moving fire encroaching on their homes. >> the smoke was so, so thick and everything was orange, orange, orange. and the wind picked up. and the wind was flying embers everywhere. >> at least seven structures have been destroyed and eight others damaged. more than 1500 firefighters are assigned to that fire. let's turn to nbc meteorologist angie lassman. soow was the forecast looking? will the firefighters get any help from the weather? >> this morning not a whole lot of improvements. by later today we will see additional improvements when it comes to the weather that is going to help the firefighters tackle that. 9 million people under the red flag warnings. those are going to stay in place even through this evening as conditions improve. we'll still be dealing with low humidity levels and gusty winds.

this is from santa clarita to riverside. this is going to help for the conditions to battle the fire, but in the meantime, here's what we're expecting, 30 mile-per-hour-plus winds in places like simi valley and malibu. meanwhile, across the east, we've got flood alerts, winter alerts and wind alerts from the same system that's bringing plenty of rain across this region. this is gog to be a slow go across i-95 and other locations across this region. we'll see isolated flash flooding potential across new england and the chance for adtional lake-effect snow. this will be you're ending up a with showers and thunderstorms for jacksonville, orlando and

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of washington on the grounds it would reduce competition. now this puts on hold what would have been the biggest grocery store tie up in u.s. history. kroger and albertson's said it would allow them to better compete with the likes of walmart and amazon, but the federal trade commission said that it would block the deal if part of its wider anti-trust clamp down, saying the verdict was a major victory for consumers and would protect them from higher grocery prices. kroger and albertson's said they were disappointed with the ruling and will reconsider their options. the case moves to the ftc. and president-elect donald trump yesterday appointed andrew ferguson to take over as chief of the ftc. we'll wait no see what his view will be on such mega mergers having forward. back to you. >> karen, thank you.

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amazon delivery. >> reporter: amazon first touted this futuristic drone idea a decade ago. in 2024, it's now becoming a reality. amazon's now officially using drones to deliver packages here in phoenix. and says it plans to roll out to other major cities next year. these aircraft are meant for relatively small items. things that fit in a shoe box and weigh five pounds or less. the example we saw here was a jenga game. you pay about 10 bucks extra to choose drone delivery and confirm where you want it dropped on a map of your property. amazon uses sensors to make sure it's safe to drop the package from about 12 feet. david carbon joined after spending nearly two decades at boeing. they've made design changes over the years, and one change was noise. the new version is 40% quieter with a different sound. >> you can have kids in your house and they're laughing and

carrying on, and it brings a smile to your face. then you have a whining kid in the house, and you want to shut the door. the same thing about the noise. it had different feeling to it. the feeling of this drone is a lot quieter. i wouldn't say soothing. but it's like muted. >> reporter: he says navigating airspace has been the biggest hurdle. >> we're not the only ones who want to be in the air. and you've got your traditional folks that are in the air. and we're going to have to, you know, we're going to need to come up with rules to ensure we're not blocking airspace to any one participant. >> reporter: they are integrated with a one-day fulfillment center which helps them get out the door to the drones quickly. inside the warehouse, they pack these boxes with more of a buffer to absorb the shock of being droppefrom a drone. amazon's goal is 500 year withi

minutes or less. so far, they have done thousands of drone deliveries like the one behind me, but there is competition. others like google and walmart are successfully rolling out similar drone programs. kate rooney for cnbc business news in phoenix. coming up on "today", the future of air travel takes off tom costello has a sneak peek at the revolutionary tech behind battery-powered planes. thank you so much for being with me for "early today." i'm frances rivera. hope you're up early again thursday. ifou are, you know we' yre

the man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo fighting extradition to new york. and shouting at cameras as he arrived in court. his lawyer insist something luigi mangione will plead not guilty.