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confirmation hearings for president-elect trump's cabinet picks. the warning from his choice for treasury secretary. he's the visionary director behind "twin peaks" and "blue velvet." remembering the legendary david lynch. and the tributes pouring in for the beloved hall of fame baseball announcer and actor bob uecker. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. good evening and welcome. it looks like it will be a while before the world can let out its breath as the first delicate steps in the path to a ceasefire and hostage release in gaza have already hit rocky ground. today less than 24 hours after an israel-hamas truce was struck israel's cabinet delayed a critical vote on the pact, accusing hamas of creating a crisis. for its part israel launching a new round of deadly strikes targeting hamas in gaza. hamas says it's committed to the ceasefire and to releasing 33 of its hostages in the deal's first phase, including two americans.
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during a six-week truce beginning sunday israel has agreed d to pull back its troops from gaza and release a number of palestinian prisoners held in its jails. tonight despite the renewed attacks the u.s. expressing confidence that the agreement will hold, while hostage families worry about the lengthy timeli of bringing their loved ones home. richard engel reports tonight from israel. >> reporter: this boy tries to dig himself out after israel began bombing gaza again. he was rescued alive, amid fears a ceasefire and hostage deal with hamas could collapse before it even begins. the director of gaza's field hospitals told nbc news more than 100 palestinians including women and children have been killed since the agreement was announced last night. the israeli military says it's striking hamas members and weapons facilities. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu today postponed a government meeting,
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expected to ratify the ceasefire, blaming hamas for adding new conditions. hamas denies it. the delays and continuing airstrikes are terrifying both gazans and the families of israeli hostages. >> it's a nightmare sometimes. >> reporter: in tel aviv tonight i spoke with eli david. his 24-year-old brother aviatar is not expected to be released in the first phase of the deal, which lasts six weeks. eli says the deal is too complex and could fall apart. >> i think it is a very bad deal, but we cannot go against it because -- because it saves lives. innocent people. which are being held underground inside terror tunnels, maybe tortured. and they will be coming back to the families. >> reporter: you know that your brother isn't supposed to be part of this first group. >> yeah. >> reporter: so hopefully when we do
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see those initial hostages coming out how are you expecting to feel? happy, sad, jealous? all of these things? >> i will be happy for sure. but also for sure i will be jealous and -- and i will be more and more afraid because if it will continue, i mean, 42 days are many days that hostages can be executed, for example. >> reporter: in gaza zainab tambura, who's responsible for 24 displaced children, worries the war will never end. "you see the conditions are horrible. they said ceasefire. it's nonsense. all night they were bombing here," she says. the agreement would allow in desperately needed humanitarian aid. living in a tent with little access s to food, water and medicine, she says she can't survive like this for much longer.
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>> so richard, let me ask you, where do things stand tonight given the circumstances? >> reporter: well, it is still a go. an israeli official tells us that the israeli cabinet is expected to meet tomorrow, that they will likely ratify this deal to begin on sunday, which is when we could see the first hostages coming out of gaza. lester? >> all right. richard engel in jerusalem tonight. thank you. in california there's a new concern in areas wiped out by the deadly wildfires. the threat of mudslides when rains finally do come. as tens of thousands still have not been allowed to return to their homes. morgan chesky now with the latest. >> reporter: tonight, a new danger emerging across a fire-stricken city. this palisades home split in half after officials say a water leak caused a scorched hillside to give way. no one was hurt. but the still smoldering scene piling on anxiety ahead of any future rain. >> if you were in a fire evacuation zone, is there a likely
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chance you'll be evacuated come rainy season for mudslides? >> there is a very likely chance. we're going to have to tell homeowners to remain alert. >> reporter: teams still facing 36 square miles of door-to-door inspections before more than 80,000 evacuated residents can safely return to their neighborhoods. >> they're shutting off the natural gas. they're cutting the electrical lines so there's nothing that you catouch and get electrocuted if it was re-energized by accident. >> reporter: los angeles water and power crews testing hydrants to find the source of that ongoing water leak. the department now the target of a civil lawsuit over a reservoir that was offline for maintenance. some palisades fire victims alleging a 117 million-gallon water storage complex was empty, leaving fire crews little to no water to fight the palisades fire. dan grigsby lost his home of 37 years. >> what do you hope to accomplish with this lawsuit? >> accountability, i would say, and make
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sure it absolutely never happens again. >> reporter: l.a.'s water system already under investigation after crews reported shortages on both the palisades and eaton fires. >> of every fire hydrant you've seen what have you found? >> right now we're finding most of them are down or low pressure. >> if you had a hydrant for this building -- >> if we had a hydrant for this building we might have been able to save the back half. >> reporter: last year martin adams retired from leading los angeles water and power. >> what would you tell those homeowners who saw that water go dry in a time of need? >> one thing that is important to understand up-front is there's no water system in the world that could provide the kind of water demand that was required in this fire. >> reporter: and tonight officials say there are now more than 5,000 firefighters that have converged to join this firefight. their key mission, putting out those hot spots and driving up those containment numbers. lester? >> all right, morgan, thank you. a heads-up tonight about a deep freeze. much of the country
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about to look like this as temperatures plunge going into the weekend. they'll feel it first from the northern rockies to the southern plains, then across the nation on sunday. more than 300 million americans will experience below average temperatures by monday. we'll turn now to the breaking news out of texas. elon musk's spacex losing contact with its massive multibillion-dollar starship on its unmanned seventh test launch. tom costello joins us now with more. tom, what have you learned? >> it happened at about 5:30 p.m. eastern time, lester, and starship was off the pad very quickly. everything looked like it was going just great. and a few minutes after lift-off, in fact the booster rocket came back down to the pad just as spacex planned and demonstrated they can do in that incredible move. however, at about the same time starship, the spaceship, apparently disappeared. spacex says that they lost telemetry. we have video from the turks and caicos islands of what may be
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starship breaking up over the islands. so now spacex says they will try to understand the root cause of what happened as it apparently disassembled in the words of spacex, broke apart over the islands there. this is a rocket they want to use someday to go to the moon and maybe even mars, lester. >> pretty dramatic pictures there. tom, thank you. tonight a stunning about-face over tiktok. for months there was rare agreement in washington that it should be banned if its chinese owner didn't sell it. but now the white house and others who opposed it are trying to keep it alive. here's savannah sellers. >> reporter: tonight, a major reversal concerning one of america's most popular apps. the white house saying they will not implement the ban on tiktok set to go into effect this sunday according to two administration official >> i really feel like this is happening because of us. >> the fight isn't over. it's just going to be extended. >> reporter: the battle over the future of the app has gone all the way to the supreme court. but now the administration says it won't enforce massive fines onon the companies who provide users access to tiktok. it's a stark shift
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from when the law was passed with massive bipartisan support. the president signing it into law. >> it feels like we're losing like a community. >> reporter: now sources say democratic lawmakers called the white house asking for intervention. and president-elect trump, who once opposed the app, has signaled he'll intervene. >> i'm going to save tiktok. >> reporter: but national security officials still warn that tiktok's chinese parent company bytedance could steal american user data or manipulate content shown in the app, which tiktok denies. then fbi director christopher wray had this warning speaking with lester last year. >> we have to sort of step back and say who is tiktok, and ultimately it all boils down to the hand which is a matter of chinese law of the chinese government. and the chinese communist party. >> reporter: it all comes just days before mr. trump's inauguration, according to three sources tiktok's ceo shou chew is expected to attend along with the world's three richest men -- tech titan elon musk, amazon's jeff bezos and meta's mark zuckerberg.
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just last night president t biden to aim at big tech and what he called the dangerous concentration of power among a select few. >> i'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex. the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. >> and savannah, back to tiktok, we're still waiting to hear from the supreme court as to whether it upholds the law in the f first place. >> that's right, lester. and in fact, the supreme court just announced they will have rulings tomorrow. that last-minute notice suggests there's a good chance we get that tiktok ruling since that sunday deadline is quickly approaching. lester? >> we know you'll stay on it. savannah, thank you. also tonight, more high-stakes confirmation hearings for president-elect trump's cabinet. garrett haake joins us. and garrett, his choice for treasury secretary was pressed about trump's economic plans. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, lester. treasury secretary nominee scott bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, defended the president-elect's views on tariffs and focused on the importance of extending the 2017 trump tax cuts that are set to expire at
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the end of this year, saying that if they're not renewed it will cause a, quote, economic calamity and a tax increase on the middle class. he also said he does not support raising the minimum wage. bessent is expected to be confirmed with bipartisan support. and in fact, republicans are increasingly optimistic they'll get all of the president-elect's nominees so far confirmed. the first votes likely to come on inauguration day itself. lester? >> okay. garrett haake, thank you. in 60 seconds, can an insurance plan meant to be a last resort option for people in california handle the burden of thousands of wildfire claims? our investigation is next. ere's toothpaste white, and there's crest 3dwhitestrips white. whitens like a 400 dollar professional treatment. pilot: prepare for non-stop smiles. crest. and my progressive rep was super helpful. tom hayes is passive progressive. the way kevin says he always has to help you. tom doesn't have progressive, so he takes it out on those who do.
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moments the edwards family saw their altadena home of 30 years go up in flames. >> this feels like a bomb just came and exploded on our town. >> everything's gone. >> reporter: across town in the pacific palisades the andonian family stunned by the complete devastation of their community too. >> i froze, literally. >> when you saw your home. >> sorry. and then the next house and the next house and the next house. >> reporter: two different neighborhoods, two different life stories. but similar in one way. both families are on california's fair plan, the state-created insurer of last resort that has more than doubled its number of residential policies in the past four years as private insurers have either drastically raised homeowners' rates or simply dropped them. the edwards family says they were dropped by their insurer last year and struggled to find a replacement. >> and they said no, sorry, we can't cover you for your home insurance. you're too close to the fire zone. >> reporter: current
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estimates for the los angeles fires show insured losses are already about $25 billion. for the just the fair plan it's as much as about 8 billion. the challenge, according to the california department of insurance, the plan only has $377 million available to pay claims and about $5.75 billion in reinsurance to help cover the plan's losses. it's a scenario the fair plan's own president warned about last year. >> we are one event away from a large assessment. there's no other way to say it. because we don't have the money on hand. and we have a lot of exposure out there. >> reporter: in september insurance commissioner ricardo lara issued this bulletin outlining a new agreement for what might happen should the fair plan ever run out of money. the memo allows the insurance companies to make up the plan to request permission to have fair plan policy holders share the costs, meaning their rates could soar. >> he's not doing his job. he's not protecting consumers. >> reporter: democratic congressman and former california
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insurance commissioner john garamendi critical of the deal lara made. >> the reality is the commissioner has not been transparent. and he's not forced the insurance companies to explain and to justify what they are doing. >> reporter: we talked to commissioner lara last week two days after the fire started. >> can the insurer of last resort sustain this? >> so currently right now we don't know how many policies are in the insurer of last resort that we call the fair plan. we're going to get a better picture once the fire is contained. >> reporter: the fair plan also saying it is too early to determine if an assessment will be sought. and insurance commissioner lara's ofoffice sayg he issued clear rules to safeguard fair plan's financial stability and that policy holders would only have to cover additional costs as a last resort. for families like the andonians and the edwards it's the last thing they thought they'd have to deal with. >> what's next? >> i don't know what's going to happen. i don't know.
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i'm sorry. >> it's okay. i'm so sorry. >> but i'm very hopeful that we'll rebuild. i'm so hopeful that we're going to get through this. with god's help we're going to get through this. >> yeah. >> reporter: liz kreutz, nbc news, los angeles. and we will take a break right here. coming up, from "twin peaks" to "mulholland drive," we'll remember the dark genius of david lynch, next. mom's oss might keep us stuck on the couch. no way. ♪♪ if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis, and are at high risk for fracture, you can do more than just slow bone loss. you can build new bone in 12 months with evenity®. evenity® is proven to significantly reduce spine fracture risk. she said the evenity® she's taking builds new bone. builds new bone! evenity® can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from a heart problem. tell your doctor if you have had a heart attack or stroke. do not take evenity® if you have low blood calcium or are allergic to it, as serious events
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funniest voices. >> bond into the windup in his first offering. just a bit outside. >> hall of famer bob uecker, the man known as mr. baseball, and the long-time announcer for the milwaukee brewers, has died. uecker played six seasons in the majors, mostly as a backup catcher, then went on to a successful career as a broadcaster and a comedic actor with roles in 1989's "major league" and the sitcom "mr. belvedere." uecker was 90. and also tonight, we're remembering a cinematic legend. david lynch, one of the greatest visionary directors, has died. stephanie gosk now on lynch's genius and its enormous influence. ♪ >> reporter: when david lynch's "twin peaks" hit network tv in 1990, it took a while for people to realize what they were watching. >> this is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee. >> reporter: a complete shattering of television norms.
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♪ a dark twisted episodic that would be far more at home on hbo or netflix decades later. >> great. paydirt. >> reporter: but that is how david lynch's career unfolded, making innovative films that reshaped hollywood while challenging audiences to pay attention and be ready for surprises. today his family announced the 78-year-old has died. a long-time smoker, lynch revealed over the summer that he had been struggling with emphysema. throughout his career lynch's work received critical acclaim. >> that's a big one. >> reporter: except the 1984 version of "dune," an expensive bomb. but there were plenty of oscar nominations. >> i am not an animal! >> reporter: "the elephant man." >> what's your name, neighbor? >> reporter: "blue velvet." >> just like in the movies. >> reporter: and "mulholland drive," even with its withering critique of hollywood. just never a statue. until 2019 when he was given an honorary award. >> everyone have a great night.
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finally, it's the little engine that could. an invention that can save homes from wildfires. gadi schwartz with the good news about a man on a firefighting mission. >> reporter: at a home you >> reporter: at a home in pasadena there's a one-man engine-building fire brigade. >> there's your firefighter. >> reporter: getting parts in by the hour for a contraption that is so in demand if you stop by you better be prepared to help. >> another shipment just rolled up. >> reporter: david whitman is a high school science teacher on a mission. >> i want to save homes. i'm sick of seeing neighborhoods burn to the ground. >> reporter: sourcing parts from all over, he's now assembling a system that taps into back yard pools. >> so this is the fire engine. this is the firefighter. and the pool is the hydrant. >> yeah. the pool's -- that's perfect. everyone's like oh, it's just a pool. not anymore, it's not. it's a neighborhood defense system. all those pools. how many times have we
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seen neighborhoods wiped out, obliterated, and there's pool after pool after pool after pool. >> reporter: he says he's trying to build systems so people don't have to stay behind to protect their homes. >> that sprays in 360 and the best thing about it is no one is in danger. >> no one's in jeopardy. >> reporter: eugene golding says david's little engine that could saved his home in the palisades. his son posting their tests before the fire and the aftermath. >> if this wasn't soaking for five hours, that the fire would have lit up and burnt everything. >> reporter: as for patents or whether others might copy his product? >> if i can educate people on how to make these things themselves, great. >> reporter: for now the teacher happy to show the world what a simple solution can do. >> i call it evacuating in style. at least you tried. >> reporter: gadi schwartz, nbc news, pasadena. >> using his head. that's "nightly news" for this thursday. thank you for watching. i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself a
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good! happy new year, everybody. we are kicking things off with a cover of chappell roan, a song i loved by her. she has lovingly referred to it as i get the ultimate silly pop song, that i don't think it's silly. i just think it is friggin' awesome. here is me and my band, y'all, with "red wine supernova." ♪ ♪ ♪♪ she was a playboy ♪ ♪ brigitte bardot ♪ ♪ she showed me things i didn't know ♪ ♪ she did it right there out on the deck ♪ ♪ put her canine teeth in the side of my neck ♪ ♪ i'm in the hallway waitin' for ya ♪ ♪ mini skirt and my go-go boots ♪ ♪ i just want you to make a move ♪ ♪ so slow down, sit down, it's new ♪ ♪ i just wanna get to kw ya ♪ ♪ guess i didn't quite think it through ♪ ♪ fell in love with the thought
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♪ falling into me ♪♪ ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> kelly: all right, y'all! give it up for my band, y'all! [applause] all right, moving on to our first guests, he has got -- whoo, yeah! i'm very excited about him, as well. he has starred in films like "murder on the orient express" and on broadway and shows like "in the book of mormon." you might know him and his disney forms as lefou and beauty and the beast and olaf and "frozen." he released a new memoir called "in gad we trust," and it's out now. please welcome josh gad. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kelly: so much energy! >> josh: i don't evenn want to do an interview. i just want to keep walking out again. >> kelly: i know! i'm going to be honest with you, i don't think it's ever been like that when i walked out before on this show! [cheers and applause] it made me feel good! >> josh: all i've done today is drink and go to the bathroom, this is incredible. >> kelly: those are making big moves. >> jh: quite literally. >> kelly: the older we get, the more excited we are about it. so, not to ruin this positive feel right now, but -- >> josh: let's talk about our bowel movements.
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>> kelly: we both have places in l.a. and you were there when all the fires were goingng. how is your family? >> josh: my family is okay. we have not had to vacate. air quality is not ideal. >> kelly: no. >> josh: it's not. i grew up in south florida. i'm use to natural disasters. i lived through hurricane andrew, which was devastating. it devastated the homestead, took us years to recover. i personally never seen the level of distraction like what is happening in socal right now, ever. >> kelly: it's like an actual movie. >> josh: that is video that i shot from my phone from my house. everything being on fire, it is surreal. and, quickly, god bless the firefighters. these people are real life superheroes. [applause] they been unbelievable. and not just for the socal community. we are talking about across the united states, people are coming and helping us out. across the world. mexico, canada.
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we have such gratitude and thanks. it is really sad. we will rebuild, we will get through this, but yeah, we definitely need love and support right now. >> kelly: amidst all this, i did hear that you found joy in videos of your daughter. we have them. >> josh: this is incredible. my wife and i have been nonstop communicating about, are the kids going to school, do they have masks? what do we do about air quality? and then one day i got into new yorknd i get a text from my wife that just says, "you are sick." and i said, wait, what? she sent me three videos that i forgot i filmed when our daughter was two. my wife got mad at me about something and basically said, "josh, i'm going to kill you." i forced my then 2-year-old daughter to do a series of videos that she sent to my wife with me telling her what to say, and this is the result. i died when i saw this.
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i wanted to share this with you guys. here's the first one. >> kelly: i haven't seen this yet. >> you got another thing coming to you, lady. >> josh: let's roll the next clip. >> watch your back or i'll cut you, girl! [laughter] >> josh: that's "watch your back, or i'll cut you, girl." feeling totally appropriate, yeah. >> josh: and the last one. >> don't hurt daddy. [laughter] >> kelly: there is so much future therapy involved. this is amazing. >> jo: i know. but my favorite part about those videos is she is still playing with her dolls and i'm just annoying or in the background. i'm like, "don't hurt daddy. what's complicated about this? just say it! say to the camera. say it to mama. she needs to hear the threat." that made meaugh so hard. >> kelly: she's going to laugh so hard when she's older. >> josh: or she'll sue me for trauma. >> kelly: they're going to be
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