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today, tuesday, february 11th, 2025. on the money. president trump could announce a new round of tariffs as soon as today, as the head of the federal reserve gets candid about the sky-high interest rates that we're paying. what it means for your bottom line. >> finally free. russia agrees to release american prisoner mark fogle. he's been in custody since 2021. what we're learning about how the deal came together. >> wintry mess from southern california to the central plains, and even the northeast. storms are sweeping across the nation this week. when you could expect to see the worst of it. >> and saddle up. presale tickets for beyonce's cowboy carter tour have officially dropped. >> i was in there fighting for my life. >> who is getting first dibs and how you could still get your hands on some tickets. >> i hope you're talking to me. i, too, was fighting for my life. >> and you didn't get it yet. >> we'll get to that, but we're going to start this hour with the economy and the white house. >> there are a couple moving

parts we're keeping an eye on today. first, a new round of tariffs could be announced by president trump as soon as today. those would likely hit trading partners around the world. it comes after the president signed 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports yesterday. >> second federal reserve chairman jerome powell testified on capitol hill today, he told senators the fed is not in a hurry to lower interest rates. he added the economy is in a, quote, pretty good place. >> third, the trump administration leading into legal road blocks as it tries to put its agenda in place. today, a judge ordered government agencies including the cdc and fda to restore public health web pages that had been taken off line. it's one of several rulings that have blocked or paused executive actions over the last few days. >> here to help us go through it, aaron gilchrist and business and data correspondent brian cheung. aaron, let's start with you. nbc news is learning about frustration in the white house about all of these court

rulings, legal challenges. what are we hearing from the trump administration today? >> reporter: i think we have seen some of that frustration coming from the president and the vice president themselves. we heard the president talk about some of these things as he's been doing these sort of impromptu briefings, if you will, when reporters are allowed into the oval office over the last day or so. he's answered some questions and he's been using his truth social platform. he said overnight now certain activists and highly political judges want us to slow down and stop and losing momentum would be detrimental to finding the truth. this mission the president has set out on has been about finding abuse, fraud, and waste in government agencies. and so the administration has said that they expected that there would be court challenges and that is something they're prepared for and something they're going to continue to fight against. we got a statement today from the white house press secretary that said, quote, these unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against president trump. the white house will continue to

fight these battles in court and we expect to be vindicated. that is the official posture from the white house at this point. as you noted, the president is expected to sign more executive orders today. and so the indications are that it is full speed ahead. >> brian, let me turn to you. fed chair powell testified before congress about two hours today. he got a lot of questions about tariffs. what did he talk about? >> yeah, by the way, the fed chair appearing at the senate not for a confirmation hearing. he has his term through 2026, so this is not him trying to pitch to senators. he was talking about the state of the economy and what's weighing on everyone's mind, it is the tariffs. the way this kind of translates into what the federal reserve does is the fed is the reason for why we have interest rates where they are, because the fed's benchmark rates are how your credit card rates and mortgage rates are set. if those get passed on, higher inflation could force the fed to not lower interest rates or

raise them further which would make those borrowing costs higher. the fed chair was pressed about the impact of tariffs on their policy rate. here's what he had to say. >> it's not the fed's job to make or comment on tariff policy. that's for elected people. and it's not for us to comment. ours is to try to react to it in a thoughtful, sensible way and make monetary policy so we can achieve our mandate. >> so jay powell dodging on that question. a lot economist say there is a real risk the fed may have to raise rates if the tariffs lead to inflation. >> powell did make the point they're not rushing to drop interest rates. what does that mean for consumers in the short term? >> it underscores the idea that whatever rates you're seeing in the market right now if you're trying to buy a house, looking at rates that are substantially higher than 2020, those rates are not going to go down anytime soon if the fed is not in a hurry to further lower interest rates. they were doing so at the end of had last year which led to

optimism among people looking to get into the housing market, but i think we have seen this shift sideways. the reason why, inflation, inflation, inflation. it's much improved from the peak inflation in the summer of 2022, but it's still above that 2% target that economists say is healthy. that's the reason the fed is in this wait and see approach. maybe there could be rate cuts later on in the year, but we're not expecting anything anytime soon. >> brian cheung and aaron gilchrist, thank you both. >> we're tracking a string of winter storms across the country. >> tens of millions of people from the midwest to the mid-atlantic are dealing with another round of snow. some areas could get hit with 8 inches. >> and more rain is on the way in the west. that could bring more dangerous conditions to the burn scars in southern california. bill karins is tracking all of it for us. we start with nbc news reporter gary grunback in washington, d.c. i don't know if the snow is already falling. i can't tell from your shot, but i know they're getting ready. talk about how the city is getting ready for what could be a lot of snow for you.

>> reporter: hey, there. yeah, i can confirm it is in fact snowing in washington, d.c. it did start in the past hour. it's not really sticking on the ground yet. that is good news for the folks behind me. i'm here at one of the d.c. department of public works locations where they have been spending all day filling up some of the salt trucks, filling up the plow trucks with the hundreds and hundreds of pounds of salt that is going to go across the 1500 miles of d.c. streets. this is an unbelievably massive operation they have going. there's a snow emergency, it's called here, in washington, d.c. it really allows these guys to get out on the road and do the work they need to do. it is an operation that includes more than 200 snow plows and hundreds of folks across the city. we spoke to some of them earlier today. here's what they had to say about their message to the public. >> stay on top of it, right? stay on top of it. continue to put forth our public message. and that public message is real simple. stay home if you can.

stay off the roads. three, give my trucks space and time between there so we can do what we need to do. >> reporter: so d.c. schools, that's of course the big question. will there be school tomorrow? many kids are asking that question. all events were canceled at d.c. schools across the area this afternoon. no word yet on if school is going to be canceled tomorrow. guys. >> as a former d.c. school kid, there's nothing like a snow day. bill, let's bring you in. we're talking about multiple storms around the country. what are you watching? >> the mid-atlantic has their storm. tomorrow we deal with a storm from kansas city to chicago. tomorrow afternoon and evening we watch this big storm coming into the west. this is a slow moving storm, and the reason this one is going to get so much attention is we're very concerned with how much rain the burn scar areas are going to get. mudslides are a big possibility. so let's get into the map. moderate risk, stla already issued this for the day on thursday. this goes from anywhere, los angeles to ventura, this

includes the malibu area. this is all of our major fires we just got done with, and life-threatening flooding is being advertised. we're talking as much as 4 to 5 inches of rain max at the higher elevations. lower elevations, most likely right around 1 to 3 inches. even in los angeles itself, this will easily be the biggest rain storm of the winter season, up to 2 inches. the mountainous areas is where we're worried about. further to the north, we're also going to be watching heavier rainfall. isolated problems with flooding could be possible. san francisco, we have you from 1 to 3 inches. the mountains are going to get significant snow out of this too. our last snow pack report was a little below average. this will help things out. we're easily expecting 2, maybe 3 feet of snow all along the portions of the sierra mountain range, even around mt. shasta. this will be a thursday story. possibility, when those fires hit the hillsides, they take all the vegetation, and those roots are what holds that soil in place.

when we get this extreme rainfall rates that we're expecting, it can be scary. we can get huge mudslides in about two days from now. >> let's hope not. bill karins, gary, thank you both. >> let's get back to some consumer news with today's cnbc money minute. a popular canned tuna has a recall. >> and meta has begun a big round of layoffs. >> canned tuna sold nationwide at stores including costco and trader' joes has been recalled over possible food poisoning. they issued the recall because of a pull tab defect that could lead to botulism contamination. that's a form of food poisoning that could lead to death. no illnesses have been reported in connection to the recalled products. layoffs are under way at meta as it prepares for what mark zuckerberg called a, quote, intense year. according to an internal memo, meta began cutting workers in most countries on monday as part of a previously announced plan

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investigators are now looking at the latest in a string of high-profile but unrelated airplane accidents. this one happened yesterday in arizonona. video captures the moment a private jet owned by the front man of rock band motley crue ran into a parked plane at scottsdale airport. one person was killed, four others injured. nbc news senior aviation correspondent tom costello joins us now. tom, what more do we know about this one? you can see it happen there on the video. >> reporter: yeah, it's

terrifying. that was a learjet 35-a that as you mentioned is owned by vince neil from motley crue. it slammed into a gulfstream g-200. it came in for landing. apparently the nose gear or landing gear collapsed and so as a result, it went off the side of the runway slamming into the private plane. nobody was on the other private plane. but as you suggested, one person was killed onboard that original learjet that was making the landing. three people injured. we're told that vince neil from motley crue was not on board. but i'm glad you underscored the fact these are unrelated aviation incidents we have had over the course of the past two weeks. all of them serious, but no real tie, if you will, no thread connecting them all. we begin with, of course, that situation here in washington, when you had a regional jet hit by an army helicopter. 67 people dead. and then we had the medevac plane crash in northeast philadelphia. still no idea what might have

caused that. then, last friday night, we had a commuter plane in alaska with ten people onboard go down in a heavy ice and snow storm. and then lastly, the one you mentioned here, this private learjet coming in and slamming into a gulfstream when the nose gear collapsed. you can see these are all individual instances, it appears to be just a series of coincidences, but serious, all of them. >> and i would think the ntsb must be having to investigate all of these at once. >> reporter: yes, and the ntsb of course is going to prioritize any loss of life, so of course, they're going to be involved in all of them. and we do see private plane crashes almost weekly, maybe every other week. they're not all fatal, but again, these are private smaller planes. but to have a string of fatal aviation incidents is ququite concerning to the faa and the ntsb, as expected, the ntsb will be running all of these investigations. they're the lead agency. >> tom costello, thanks.

we're following breaking news. the white house has announced mark fogle, an american teacher arrested in russia in 2021, is returning home. the u.s. government has designated him as wrongfully detained last year. he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for drug smuggling after he was found with what he says is medical marijuana. the u.s. voy for hostages posted this photo of fogle back on a u.s. flight. andrea mitchell joins us from washington. what do we know about how the deal came to be? >> reporter: we do know that the hostage negotiator, special envoy steve witkoff who was so involved in pushing the hostage release agreement in the middle east, over the finish line, is on that plane, having brought back mark fogle or is bringing back mark fogle, flying from moscow. in a statement, the national security adviser, mike waltz, said this is a mark of good

faith, an act of good faith, or a gesture, as we approach the attempt to try to negotiate a cease-fire deal in ukraine. and so the timing is very auspicious because it's this week on thursday that top u.s. officials, the national security adviser, the secretary of state are all, the vice president, are all going to be in munich. i'm going to be attending the security forum. zelenskyy is going to be there and giving a speech. all of these officials are together, again, at the annual forum which is expected to be totally focused on how donald trump is going to handle these negotiations between vladimir putin and zelenskyy, that zelenskyy says he's willing to accept now, but moscow has not yet accepted. pivotal time. moscow is making a major gesture. mark fogle was the american school teacher from pittsburgh. we have been asking questions about him for years.

he was passed over when others were released. trevor reed had been in prison for 3 1/2 years and the state department did not declare him, quote, wrongfully detained until last october. so then began to press very hard for him not to be left behind again. time ran t. steve witkoff pulled it off. the fact is that mark fogle, he was a school teacher, our friend and colleague, the former ambassador mcfaul, children were taught by him, he taught all of the embassy children. he had brought prescribed medical marijuana in, which he acknowledged, but it was a larger amount th the cartrtridges at brittney griner had brought in, so the russians had given him a more severe peniment. and he did not get as much

pressure to get him out, frankly, as the celebrity better known prisoners such as brittney griner and trevor reed and his parents had advocated so strongly for him. so this is really a great moment. and could be a big signal for how russia is going to approach the ukraine negotiations. >> a great and consequential moment. andrea mitchell, thanks so much. >> later this hour, president trump issues an ultimatum to hamas. what he says will happen if the group refuses to release the remaining hostages. that's coming up on "nbc news daily." my mom used to tell me if you want to be a champion you got to be a champion at life. i got to watch her play at her highest from when i was born. from one generation to the next, to the next, we don't stop. i always wanted to know why i'm the way i am.

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be some heavy snow moving in, with a potential of about 2 to 3ft in those highest elevations. we'll be tracking that. we'll take a closer look at our 7-day forecast coming up in the next 30 minutes. thanks, kari. these storms this week are bringing fresh concerns in the north bay. people in sonoma county only just got back into their homes after flooding forced them to evacuate last week. nbc bay area's ginger conejero saab is in the north bay, where officials are on alert. when we spoke to sonoma county sheriff's office last week, they told us that flooding is something that they expect. it happens year in and year out, but landslides were a bit unexpected and terrifying, particularly in the case of the people who live in this home in unincorporated santa rosa around deer trail court. a mother and daughter were rescued by sonoma county fire district as a landslide hit their home and trapped them inside. they were rescued safely. the home red tagged during our coverage last week. other homes were either red tagged or under evacuation

orders, many under evacuation warnings. another home in forestville floated into the russian river. you can see the roof of that home bobbing in the water. sonoma county fire told us. fortunately, that was a vacation home and did not have people in it at that time. now here's a russian river overflowing into the low lying areas. this over forest hills riverbed resort rv park. last thursday, a jeep got tossed around by the water. the water so high a kayak was the only way of getting in and out. rains returned today with heavy downpours expected on thursday. the guerneville area is expected to get more than an inch and a half, with the river already swollen last night. folks are jumping in to help. the biggest need is to find out what are the next steps. you know, what do i do? i've just been displaced from my home. maybe i was living in a mobile home park. the mobile home park is under water. now what do i do? the salvation

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files related to the assassination of former president john f. kennedy. the agency has not provided information on the contents of the new files which have been sent to the national archives to be declassified. this is happening after president donald trump ordered the release of more documents related to the jfk assassination as well as those of robert f. kennedy and martin luther king jr. >> one of the country's largest army bases is having its name changed back. secretary of defense pete hegseth ordered ft. bragg which was renamed ft. liberty return to its original name. ft. bragg had its name changed in 2023 under the biden administration which renamed bases that had been named after confederate military leaders. its original namesake was braxton bragg, however, now the base is being named for a different bragg, roland bragg, a world war ii veteran who earned both the silver star and a purple heart. >> and more than 170 world war ii bombs were discovered

underneath a children's playground in northern england. construction workers discovered the first bomb when they started to work on the playground last month. according to officials, the area may have been used as a training ground during the war. while the bombs are known as practice bombs, they do still carry a charge. experts are currently working to safely remove and dispose of all those bombs. >> president trump hosted the king of jordan for a crucial eting at the white house today. the president dug in on his proposal for the u.s. to take control of gaza. and relocate some palestinians to jordan. it comes as the future of the cease-fire agreement in gaza is increasingly uncertain, with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu threatening to end it if hamas does not release more hostages on saturday. this afternoon, mr. trump reiterated his call for hamas to release all remaining hostages on that day. >> they either have them out by saturday at 12:0or all bets

are off. >> nbc news international correspondent meagan fitzgerald joins us now. she's been following all of this. what more did we hear in president trump's meeting with the king of jordan and where do things stand with that cease-fire right now? >> reporter: well, kate, that meeting just wrapped up about an hour ago. king abdullah took to x to say that in the meeting he reiterated jordan's position against the displacement of palestinians in gaza and the west bank, which is the unified arab position. he says that the way to achieve stability in the region is with a two-state solutionon. but before that meeting got under way, the two leaders took some questions from the oval office. king abdullah was asked about taking in palestinians. the king responded by saying, jordan could take in some 2,000 children from gaza. it was an idea trump was pleased to hear, as the president insists that a u.s. takeover of gaza would be the only way to insure piece in the middle east. now, the president feels confident that egypt and other countries will also take in palestinian refugees, but keep

in mind here, both egypt and jordan receive a significant amount of aid from the u.s. so a lot on the line for them. look, several things to unpack. first, jordan is already home to millions of palestinian refugees that they have taken in over the last several decades. hundreds of thousands of syrians who fled the civil war, and remember, the u.n. estimates that roughly half of the population in jordan are palestinians. and there's tension in jordan because of that, so there's certainly the possibility that jordan could see their own domestic conflict by allowing gazans into their country. i want to switch gears now to prime minister netanyahu's comments earlier today where he echoed president trump's sentiment, saying that if the hostages aren't released by saturday, the cease-fire will end. i want to read part of that statement you see on your screen. he instructed the idf last night to amass forces inside and around the gaza strip. if hamas does not return those hostages by saturday at noon,

the cease-fire will end. so this is certainly a fragile situation that is developing by the day. kate. >> meagan fitzgerald, thanks. the trump justice department has ordered federal prosecutors in new york city to drop the corruption charges against mayor eric adams. adams was indicted in september of last year and charged with five criminal counts including bribery and wire fraud. ththe indictment alleged that adams received illegal campaign contributions and more than $100,000 worth of plane tickets and luxury hotel stays. he allegedly got them from wealthy turkish nationals and at least one turkish government official in exchange for favors. adams pleaded not guilty to those charges and has maintained his innocence. nbc news just sxs intelligence correspondent ken delailian joins us now. the prosecutors need to officially file a motion to dismiss here. a judge will ultimately need to approve that. so when could that happen and what are the doj and mayor adams saying about this latest move? >> reporter: zinhle, it could happen really any minute now or

over the next couple days. one of the interesting questions will be does the sthern district of new york follow this order, does anyone resign in protest? the justice department said very clearly in a memo ordering the dismissal it wasn't about the facts and the law here. they were concerned about potential politicization in the way the case was filed. they accused the democrat appointed former u.s. attorney of using the case to burnish his image, and they said they were concerned thateric adams had lost his security clearance and therefore couldn't cooperate with immigration enforcement action in new york. adams for his part is proclaiming victory. take a listen to the mayor of new york. >> as i said from the outset, i never broke the law. and i never would. i would never put any personal benefit above my solemn responsibility as your mayor. so i thank the justice department for its honesty.

now, we can put this cruel episode behind us. >> reporter: it's not quite behind him, though, because the memo instructs the prosecutors to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning it could be refiled at any time. and the memo says a future u.s. attorney will re-examine the case. so a lot of observers have noted today that that appears to grant the trump administration extraordinary leverage over the mayor of new york, at a time when they want him to achieve certain policy goals, for instance on immigration enforcement. >> thanks so much. two florida women are recovering after a terrifying shark attack in the bahamas. >> the pair had been swimming in waters off a popular resort area when they were bitten and seriously hurt. nbc news correspondent sam brock has their story. >> reporter: on their first day basking in the sun in the bahamas, a dream vacation turned into a nightmare for two young florida women. >> we're just very grateful to still be here with all of our

limbs. >> typically, you don't get off that easy. >> reporter: the definition of easy in this case, surviving an attack from what they believe was a bull shark. just minutes after riley decker and summer lane plunged into the caribbean sea off a friend's yacht. >> i felt something nudge my leg. and i was like, summer, what was that? she's like, don't scare me like that. probably two minutes later, we were right by the ladder. i felt my leg get tugged down. i immediately knew i was bit by a shark. >> reporter: their group of friends and family immediately pulling them to safety. wrapping a tourniquet around riley's right leg, summer suffering a serious bite too. >> they yelled to me that the top of my foot was shredded. and i just hadn't realized until i looked down. >> reporter: the 24-year-old layman and 20-year-old decker just hours into their vacation friday and confronting their own mortality. >> i just put my head in my hands and started praying. that god wouldn't take my life

and that i would live. it was very scary. >> reporter: riley was air lifted to a hospital in the bahamas for further treatment. and once she was stable, both women were flown back to florida for riley's surgery. the bahamas has one of the highest shark incident rates in the world, with 34 confirmed unprovoked attacks since record keeping began. in 2023, a 44-year-old boston woman was killed after she was bitten while paddleboarding. a 10-year-old boy from maryland hospitalized last january after he was attacked inside of a shark tank at a popular resort, and months later in ril, a 24-year-old man was attacked by two sharks in a matter of seconds after falling into the water at a rina. the latest victims are staying positive, helped by a shark themed gift basket from loved ones at the hospital, but they say one thing is certain. >> i will not be going in the water for a long time. >> i will never. i won't put my toes in ever again. >> reporter: sam brock, nbc

news. >> wow. all right, let's switch gears. the bey hive is buzzing with excitement this afternoon. >> we are. the first round of presale tickets are now on sale for beyonce's highly anticipated cowboy carter tour. before fans can saddle up to see the pop star, they'll first to have get their hands on an actual ticket. that's hard to do. joining us now, chloe melas. closely, thankfully, this is just the first round of presale tickets, not open to everyone. so walk us through what folks at home who maybe haven't bought the tickets yet or folks at the desk who tried and failed, can do. >> okay, so if you get your notebook out, i can walk you through. today, if you did not already sign up for the bey hive presale, i don't know how to say it either. i think it's a tomato-tomato thing. tomorrow, if you're a citi card holder, you can sign up. you have to have the card with you or know the digits on the card. then live nation is doing a presale on thursday.

but you would have had to have already signed up for that. for the rest of us that are just trying to do it the old school way when tickets go on sale to the general public, that's on friday. people are already complaining about long queues, long waits online. some people are saying when they get to the very front of the line and it's their turn, that the prices are astronomical or the seats aren't there that they wanted and that they hoped for. but there are 27 dates. 18 of them are here in the u.s. but then you can also see her and her amazing team of dancers overseas in places like london or paris or back home in her home city of houston. and i'm from texas, so i'm going to try to go see her in texas. >> awesome. >> yeah, this is a huge moment, given her big grammy wins. so people are excited, and she's already adding new dates too. >> i do want to play a little sound. you referenced it, people who were upset about the way the ticketmaster thing went down. >> next in line on ticketmaster and they kicked me out, bro.

they kicked me out. >> the queue ended, the site crashed. everything went down. i screamed, i cried. i was going ballistic. >> i was in there fighting for my life and still left with nothing. >> how is ticketmaster responding in. >> it's giving people tips, saying here are the things you need to do, go into the settings on your computer or device and clear the cookies, only have one tab open, don't use a vpn. and they're basically saying it's y'all, not us if you're having a problem getting to the front. as you can imagine, when you might hear people complaining is over the weekend when you hear about these resales and how for the general public, those that want to get tickets, how expensive they're going to be. >> we're all feeling haunted because we're crazy in love and just can't get enough. >> i like that. >> maybe she's going to add a few more dates. >> i hope she's listening. >> she's not coming to new york. >> jersey. close enough. >> but we have to get her at madison square garden. >> we'll see.

all right, chloe melas, our cowboy carter. thank you. up next, a new wave of flu cases cramming doctors' offices nationwide. what we need

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in today's daily health, a second wave of flu infections is surging nationwide. the cdc estimates there have been at least 24 million cases so far this season. >> with this dangerous strain spreading so quickly, doctors' visits for the virus have hit a 15-year high. here's maggie vespa. >> reporter: a late breaking wave of influenza is spiking coast to coast. with doctor visits for the flu nationwide hitting a 15-year high. >> it seems like everybody has the flu. it's because they do. >> reporter: e.r. doctors at chicago's cook county general say the combination of an

unusually nasty flu strain and falling vaccination rates is driving the spread. >> we have seen a lot of sick people in general, compared previous years, it seems like they're having more respiratory issues. >> reporter: according to the cdc, at least 44 states and washington, d.c. are reporting high or very high levels of influenza-like illnesses. in the dallas metro area, positive flu tests jumped 30% in one week. the virus spreading easily in closed environments like offices and classrooms. cases soaring among children. >> when kids truly are sick, they have that look in their eyes and there's no arguing that. >> reporter: in nebraska, sarah christiansen's 10-year-old daughter aubrey came down with the virus. >> ended up taking them to the pediatrician and we did the slew of tests and influenza b came back positive. >> reporter: the surge leading to shortages at pharmacies. >> we're having a hard time keeping in a lot of the over-the-counters.

the flu numbers are so high it's hard to keep the supply up for people who are being tested positive. >> reporter: the cdc estimates there have been 24 million flu cases so far this year with 310,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths, including 57 children. experts fear by the season's end the overall death toll could hit 30,000. they say it's not too late to get a flu shot. they're effective within a week and crucial in protecting you and your loved ones. >> not only is it going to reduce your chance of getting sick but if you get sick, it's going to reduce the symptoms you have, and decrease the chance of you passing it on to a loved one. >> reporter: maga vespa, nbc news. >> let's keep the conversation going with dr. akshay syal. >> so let me start it off, if you have the flu, do you just ride it out at home? when do you know if you should go like some of the patients in the piece, to the emergency room? >> it's a great question, kate. i'll start off by saying i think

th is going to be the most important information we give to your viewers today. a lot of people don't know this, there's an at-home flu test. the camera can pick it up here. there's a combination covid, flu a, and flu b test. less than 10% of my patients know you can test for the flu over the counter. that's the first thing i would do. if it is positive, there are treatments we can give. watch for signs of breathing, dizziness, fevers that won't go away or come back. those are really the red flag symptoms you want to watch for, of course, chest pain and difficulty breathing as well. if you have any of those, seek medical care immediately. for most people, hopefully they can ride it out at home. >> if you ride it out at home, what can we be doing at home to stay healthy and get better faster? >> if that flu test i showed you, if it comes back positive, there's a drug we can prescribe called tamiflu. it reduces the amount of flu in your body.

it can help you feel better in a day or so. if you don't qualify for one of those, it's really just what we call supportive care. staying home if you're sick, wearing a mask if you're around others. rest, hydration, and keeping an eye on those red flag symptoms that we talked about. as long as none of those are okay, you should be fine. >> who would you tell to get the flu shot now in february? who is most at risk? >> really, kate, everyone. everyone who hasn't gotten a flu shot. it takes one to two weeks for immunity to build up. it's not too late. we're seeing very high levels in 44 states, 90% of the country. for those who really want to get it, those over 65, those with immune conditions like asthma. anyone with high risk conditions. conditions. >> great when winter season hits emergen-c supports your immune system with so much more than vitamin c. be ready to fight back with emergen-c and for on-the-go immune support try emergen-c crystals. no water needed. is your liner the right liner for bladder leaks?

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san jose parents are hoping to save campuses from closing. five schools could close at the franklin-mckinley school district in up to 50 teachers could lose their jobs. the district says they have 40% fewer students than4 years ago, and lower enrollment means fewer funds. parents plan to rally ahead of tonight's board meeting, hoping to get the board to postpone the vote or ditch the vote altogether. one of the schools is captain jason dahl elementary, named after the heroic united pilot who died on nine over 11. we spoke with some mothers who are worried about their kids, academics and social emotional learning having gone through the pandemic, but also what it will mean to go to a different school farther from home. they're running up to teachers and hugging them. they have that sense of community and

family there, and every day he's asking my oldest like, is my school closing and what what's my new school? the nearest school would take me about 40 minutes to just get there. and it's just it's hard. a statement from the franklin-mckinley school district reads in part, quote, this is a process that weighs heavily on our community, and we empathize with everyone who may be affected. in other news, the year of the snake will be on full display in san francisco. in just moments, the public has a chance to get a sneak peek at the floats for this weekend's lunar new year parade in chinatown. they are on display at pier 54 today and tomorrow. reservations are required to get a look. according to chinese new year canett, the snake represents calmness and introspection, traits seen as important for guiding one's life with wisdom

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