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good day everyone. from the brokaw news center here in los angeles, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." breaking news on the christmas day explosion in downtown nash vial. expecting an update coming from investigators top of next hour police, atf and fbi investigators remain on the scene. the search for evidence expected to last well into next week. new video. the moment a suspicious rv went up in flames early yesterday morning [ explosion ] extraordinary. this is how it sounded to people

sleeping in apartments near that explosion site. [ explosion ] >> wow. shook down down residents out of their beds shattering glass windows, you see there. rattling fixtures sending people running out on to the street. >> oh, no! [ siren ] >> just chilling. three people take ton the hospital with injuries. 41 buildings damaged in the blast. the fbi put out a wanted poster looking to talk to anyone downtown around 1:00 nashville time early christmas morning. shaquille brewster joins us from downtown nashville. shaq what do you hear about the press briefing come's up shortly in about an hour?

>> reporter: expecting an update from law enforcement in about an hour. you said, 1:00 p.m. local time. 2:00 p.m. eastern time. the first substantive update from law enforcement since last night when the we heard the latest in their investigation. fbi and atf agents going through the scene we know. block by block. a massive seen. you see the video we're playing. you get a sense how large of an area this is. it goes blocks and blocks, a curfew in that area making sure folks are safe. affected 41 different businesses. one building collapses. to that point we heard this morning in the tennessee governor, requested sending a letter to president trump asking him to declare an emergency declaration giving you the idea of the size and scope of this. listen to what the mayor said and how widespread this blast really got. >> i want to stand with our

downtown residents and there are business owners for whom this was a terrible day. but we are, like nashville faced other challenges particularly this year, we can rebuild and get back to normal. >> reporter: let's go back to that timeline, and what we know about what exactly happened. police say it was about 1:30 when an rv ummed up to second avenue. parked there. late irabout 5:30 responding to possible shots fired and then heard and encountered a warning coming from the rv telling people it was going to blow and having a timeline starting with 15 minutes. detonate in 14 and going down and then crediting six officers who took the lead to evacuate the area in points going door-to-door making sure people got out of their apartments and build g buildings. at 6:30 the blast happened.

glass shattered, bricks falling out of buildings. a major impact. we expect more on the investigation and what they know about any possible sut speckses or motives. hoping to hear that in about an hour when we hear the latest from the fbi. >> shaq, a quick question. curious whether or not it was proven that shots were indeed fired at 5:30 a.m. when they got that call? do they have evidence that someone was firing? or was it perhaps a call to get people to come to the area? >> reporter: that is something we are still looking into. i spoke to a witness last night right in front of the rv, who -- said she woke up because she heard, what she called rapid shots being fired and said she believed there was an automatic weapon at some point and that made her look out the window. saw the rv. called police and that's when she started to hear that weird, the weird noise blaring out from the rv. a female's voice and music at some points being played.

something all in that timeline of, was that to, people there, get their attention? one thing we heard from the police chief yesterday, it was clear the intent behind this based and what we know about that timeline, the intent was to create damage. it was to do damage. not necessarily based on what we know the fact there was a warning. the fact this happened in pre-dawn hours and in a pretty isolated area of the city of downto downtown. at least for that time of day. definitely not necessarily to kill people but to do that massive damage. nats what they're looking at. to see what exactly what the motive and who was the person decided it was a necessary thing to come downtown and detonate a bomb in the middle of downtown at christmas? >> hoping to get a lot of information out of that news conference top of the hour. tuning in with your help as well. thank you, shaq, for that. go to the day's other breaking news. lawmakers waiting to see what the president does with the $900 billion coronavirus rebeef little add americans lives hang

in the balance. two unemployment programs expiring to as the president stalls the package used by 14 million people. just this last hour congressman ted lu stressing how critical that this bill gets signed today. >> at this point donald trump just doesn't care. playing golf at his private club. if he doesn't sign this bill today, $300 enhanced federal unemployment benefits will not go into effect for an additional week. that means one week will absolutely be gone if he doesn't sign this bill today in terms of unemployment benefits. and president-elect joe biden today putting out a statement saying this bill is critical. it needs to be signed into law now. again, president trump today tweeting, i simply want to get our great people $2,000 rather than the measly $600 now in the bill. also, stopped billions of dollars in pork. republican senator lindsey graham trying to get republicans onboard tweeting, after spending time with president trump, i'm

convinced he is more determined than ever to increase stimulus payments to $2,000 per person and change section 230. big tech liability protection. house speaker nancy pelosi says she will hold a vote monday to approve the $200 stimulus checks requested by the president. house republicans blocked and attempt for an unanimous deal christmas eve. if not bill signed into law tuesday, a partial government shutdown and congress scheduled voting sessions next week to override the president's veto of a $740 million defense bill. president trump writing the defense bill is a gift to china, russia and big tech. josh letterman is in west palm beach, florida, following the president, vacationing his with family. not you, josh. you're not on vacation for sure. any signs trump will sign this bill before unemployment benefits expire today? >> reporter: the hope, alex from really democrats and

republicans, was that the president would perhaps back off of this spectacular threat he issued in that twitter video on tuesday. that maybe the president was just letting off some steam. clearly very yupset about republicans not sufficiently supporting his bid to overturn the election and maybe let it go and eventually sign this. the last several days since the president arrived here his mind son other things. playing golf most of the time and focused yesterday a little on that national explosion. then came this morning when it was too cold to be outside and to play golf, really. so the president instead spent the morning on twitter talking once again about these $2,000 payments he is now demanding from congress and raising other complaints about that legislation. making it clear he is probably not going to be signing that anytime soon. that's why democrats have essentially tried to call his bluff saying, all right. fine. you want $2,000 checks, that's closer to what democrat ws woul

have supported if they knew president trump would sport it trying to make republicans face political pain when a lot of their members for fiscally conservative don't want to do this. take a listen to what maxine waters had to say about it today. >> fought hard for $1,200, at least what we had in the c.a.r.e.s. act. the president and his negotiator mnuchin and the republicans refused it. then out of the blue, the president came out and said he wanted $2,000. i don't know what kind of game he's playing. i don't know what the republicans are going to do, but, you know, they're all frightened of him and he's intimidated him. they have no guts. see if he's going to make them come up with support for the $2,000. >> reporter: and alex, because of how complicated unemployment systems are around the country, as the way you the way this was

actually structured, if the president does sign it today, there will still be a delay for many americans to get their unemployment. if he waits until tomorrow or later, because it can't be paid back retroactively, americans will miss out on an entire week of are this unemployment insurance. >> no one needs that. josh letterman, thank you. to the latest facts in the coronavirus pandemic as the u.s. is approaching another 1 million new cases with more than 18.8 million cases nationwide. those in california, more than 118,000 people hospitalized with the virus according to the covid tracking project. more than 1 million americans have gotten their first dose of the vaccine, though, since the pfizer and moderna shots were approved. between the two companies 9 million doses distributed across the country. in los angeles county researchers reportedly testing for the new strain of the virus. scientists there using local samples to determine whether it is a more contagious strain that's arrived here in the u.s. as well.

joining me, msnbc medical contributor and msnbc news contributor doctor. welcome to you both. dr. patel to you, u.s. vaccinated over 9 million. more than 2.1 million americans a day through this next week. really only six days. is that goal attainable? is the rate we're vaccinating people acceptable? >> good to be with you, alex, and the short answer is, no. it's not attainable and candidly unfortunately not acceptable. i didn't expect to get to 20 million when we saw that the federal government was really just kind of facilitating the states getting vaccine access and then every state left to their own devices without much infrastructure or support even though they've had plans in the making several months. so, alex, short story is that we still have a lot of health care professionals and long-term care nursing home residents and

workers waiting for vaccine. it's not going to happen in six days and also has to do with the complex storage requirement that both of these authorized vaccines has around both a theme for the next several months as many americans will try to find out when is their place in line? it's not going to necessarily be even across the united states. >> i'm curious, dr. azar, your take on the goals set by "operation warp speed" positive try to get to to the 50 million doses by end of january. and, in fact, try to get to enough to every american available by july. granted maybe kinks if you will. i'm undermining it. that's being worked out right now in these first couple of weeks, but i know you got the vaccine. talk about your experience and what you think about the likelihood of 50 million by end of next month? >> well, yeah, alex. i think that goal is probably aspirational. you know, i think it's

worthwhile to shoot for something like that. allocation distribution, access and execution, as dr. patel said, once left up to the states there's sort of, they're handed this task without a really strong and sufficient public health infrastructure which can to carry it out. regarding the vaccine itself. i experienced a little bit of a sore arm. no other side effects although i expect to have more after my second shot in two weeks. overall, exciting day to be at my home base, nyu in line with respiratory therapists, nurses, doctors, eager to get the vaccine, a superb efficacy profile. >> i can imagine. smiling underneath masks getting the injection. quick though, experienced first shot, little to no side effects. it's the second shot you can say, that's the one to prep for?

>> yeah. i think -- i mean, based on the data. after the second shot you really primed your immune system and will have more a more robust vaccine response. again, this is something i welcome. it means my immune system is working. >> great. dr. patel, this new strain of covid appears to spread much more quickly. dr. fauci has said it is likely already here in the u.s. what do we know about it and how concerned are you about it? >> yeah. a great question. this variant under investigation from the uk has mutations to the spike protein they believe making it easier to give and receive. it does not appear, alex, that it's correlated with severe disease which is incredibly important, because i think that that means that we should still take all the same precautions. it doesn't change the actions that americans need to take, but it could explain why you're seeing just an incredible high rate of spread in the uk and

possibly in other parts of the world, including the united states. dr. fauci is right. by the time it was picked up in the uk, it's probably already here in the united states. we just don't do as widespread of a genomeic performance we probably should. those watching, no change in the activities you need to take. worried about anything? i worry about everything. i worry about making sure that it does not actually translate to more severe disease and also worry about it would mean for future vaccine development. the current vaccines we believe give your immune system a chance of fighting this variant. that's good news. but it does mean we need to be vigilant over the next months as americans get vaccinated to monitor the genetics of this virus as it evolves over time and how we might need to change vaccines and tailor to those genetics. >> a question, based on that statement, dr. azar, officials said they believe the vaccine

will still work against this new strain. in fact, any others that occur. do you agree and does it happen with most viruses and the vaccinations against them? >> this one is a little different. i mean, we didn't see as many mutations as we do with influenza, for example. under goes quite a bit of are drift. we never expected the coronavirus to beehive that way and did expect to see a number of genetic mutations. not so much the number but really the combination that who raised the alarm that it could potentially render the vaccine less efficacious, but i've heard experts give numbers rather than being 95% effective, it would be 80% effective, let's say. maybe not as good, but could still theoretically prevent severe disease. the uk is studying this and i'm sure we are probably studying it as well. basically taking steerum from

people with the vaccine and seeing if it in fact neutralizes the veirulent encouraged that did. >> tara: does. >> thank you very much. i mean it. how history will view the trump presidency. a new poll gives a glumps aimps it's next. lumps aimpse and it's next. chapstick®. put your lips first®.

breaking news as congress locked in a showdown with president trump over a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill awaitings to be signed. it's america's livelihoods that hangs in the balance as a pair of unemployment programs expire today impacting about 14 million people. joining me now, pennsylvania congressman madeleine dean, democratic member of the judiciary committee. hope you had a good holiday. asking about this relief bill and how imperative that it is signed today and even if it does, what kind of lapse can

americans expect? >> merry christmas, happy kwanzaa, alex. thanks for having me on. it's imperative that president sign this. can you believe he's off golfing? care little about the pain and suffering of the american people. tears not at all that the enhanced benefit runs out. we have. s of people unemployed struggling through no fault of their own, because of a pandemic and a virus that is out of control. yet the president has been disengaged, uncaring. it's sad, but this president is going out the way he came in. soulless and substance-free. >> and many will agree with you, but there are those who heard the president wants the relief checks to be raised to $2,000 up from $600 in the bill. house republicans nixed that.

speaker pelosi setting up a vote for stand-alone bill monday. could americans neat $2,000, not $600 and will they get it? >> i thank the president, rare i do this, thank the president for pointing out the great need americans have. back in the summer matt cartwright and i introduced payments for the people. guess what the level was? $2,000. and it would be a recurring payment quarterly, connected to need. connected to the unemployment lefts. very strange the president allegedly author of the art of the deal was disengaged, paid no attention to the negotiations and once negotiations are complete and we have a bipartisan bill we have passed, that he now stands in the way, throwing up in the air the idea of $2,000. do people need that? absolutely. it is desperately needed relief. an economist told us long ago

people needed relief throughout this pandemic. remember, we passed the h.e.r.o.e.s. act in may. the president and republicans did not engage and the president didn't engage until after his own administration had come up with a deal. >> timing is quite extraordinary given the months it took to get to where we were this week only to have a last-minute thorn sfwleen the pl into the plans there. telling congress, stop the billions of dollars in pork. he says it's delivers too much to foreign country and not enough to americans. is the president right? the relief bill not doing fluff for americans? >> this was not the bill we wanted. we wanted more relief to the american people and wanted it sooner and recurring, but look what happened christmas eve. ed the president's only party, blocked the $2,000 bill. we'll be putting that on the

floor again monday and hold everybody to account. what the president is doing is, has nothing to do with the substance of the bill. he's just creating chaos. that's the way he operates. >> hmm. there is a new "usa today" university poll i want to look through. according to that 50% of americans predict history will judge donald trump as a failed president. what's your reaction to that, and his effort now to boost money now to americans? is it too little, too late? >> well, i think history will reflect sadly that this president has been an utter failure. when he was elected president, we all wanted him to be successful. and i was reflecting, alex, on his inaugural address as we prepare for you new president's inaugural. remembers dark, jarring words, this american carnage stops now. stops here. i think sadly he was projecting what his presidency would be. a very dark set of carnage that

sadly he will go out and he will forever own. corruption, indifference. think about it. he's executed people as he pardons others. he will go out, sadly a most failed president. and that is not what anybody wanted. >> and there have been government shutdowns on his watch. in fact, one is looming as the covid relief bill is tied to the largest spending package. how likely is a government shutdown next week? will congress avoid it. >> i pray and believe we will avoid it. sworn in two uniques ago we were in the midst of the longest shutdown in american history. that cost americans billions of dollars. we now are in the midst of a pandemic, where people are worried about their lives, their livelihoo livelihoods. the social justice reckoning we need to face. so i pray and believe we will avoid a government shutdown. to impose more harm on america

at a time when they are suffering such great harm would be extraordinarily unjust. and i want to say, again, i call upon the republicans, work with us. work with this administration as it goes out the door to send relief to the american people, and prevent any further harm. >> you mentioned federal executions as well as the president's pardons this week. those pardons included roger stone, paul manafort. in fact, multiple other people caught up in the mueller russia probe as well as allies from congress. what do these pardons say to you? >> they say that this president never understood his job. he never understood the leadership, the role of the president. a pardon has to do with mercy. a pardon has to do with someone paying his or her due to society. this is, these are sets of pardons that has nothing to do with mercy. they have to do with favoring

friends. can you imagine at a time when he allowed federal ex-kooecutioo go forward he pardenened the blackwater defendants? mr. cush sglkushner? it's extraordinary. shocking but not surprising. this is the very man, the huckster who was elected president. he is going out shamefully with these pardons. he's going out shamefully not caring about the suffering of american people. not caring about people who are hungry and in food lines, as he goes and golfs, or if it's a little too cold for him, he tweets, congresswoman madeleine dean, sobering assessment there. look forward to seeing you in 2021, though. thank you to. investigators still searching for answers in nashville today. breaking news tr there. the latest on it, next. st on i

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from downtown nashville. explosion in music city. expecting an update in the next half hour or so. nbc news is told they're tracking about 500 leads in the case. joining us again from nashville, jim kavanaugh, former special agent in charge and msnbc law enfornesment analyst. jim, extraordinary. first what do you expect to hear from investigators? what should they know by now and then get to the 500 leads. >> pretty normal in a case like this. we computerized leads, track them. fbi does, atf does. systems do that. a large explosion like this, you have tons of leads pouring in and you have to catalog them and computerize the leads. >> okay. >> that's pretty normal. hoping to hear maybe they've identified a person they think's involved. like we talked earlier.

the cameras along second and tips tip s to -- tips to come in. lar rewards offered. i'm sure a tag number who owns that r v and may have a name. once a name is given to investigators, that's the white collar side we don't see. on the street we see agents working the bomb, outer perimeter picking up forensic pieces and examining them, but we don't see the met propolitan detectives and be command post goes with leads throughout the city to ask the questions and get the information, get the tips, you know that will solve the case. >> do you get a sense they're playing things close to the vest at all? i mean, is there any reason to not make information available to the public at this point? >> yeah. that's the thing she-othey have

weigh. law enforcement wear as tight vest. a case like this, you need the public to help you. the public wants to help you, just like in a sniper case pap few things you keep in your vault only you and the bomber will know, but really you need to let out what you can so the public can help and say, i saw that. i know that. i think that's something i could help them with. >> yeah. >> i'm sure they have tons of tips by now. >> well, certainly. contributing to that 500 leads to your point. okay. jim, i know you'll stick around and go through the news conference set tofor top of the hour. see you in a bit. the florida covid-19 worker raided. what she's talking about, next. d what she's talking about, next.

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turning to florida, a covid whistle-blower suing the state after her home was raid and computer equipment confiscated by police earlier in the month. rebekah jones fired from her post in may after claiming she was asked to manipulate and withhold certain information on the pandemic. in a new lawsuit, jones alleges the raid on her home was an illegal act of retaliation in an attempt to silence her amid her efforts to highlight the flaws in the state's covid response. rebekah jones joins me now. co-founder of the covid monitor. rebekah, welcome.

what an experience. walk us through what happened with this raid and what do you think the state's role was in this? and how do you think it was an illegal act of retaliation? >> well, the raid was captured on video. so it's -- pretty clear to see what was going on and how upsetting it was, and the police coming in with guns draub and then i told them my kids were upstairs and then another officer pulled out his gun and pointed it up the stairs at my children, and it was -- as shocking turn of events. i did not expect it to happen. i went outside with my hands up thinking that i was going to be arrested for something. the governor was finally making his move against me in. and i was horrified. when they came inside. >> can i reiterate. you were dealing with data and talking about what you'd found. i'm actually dumbfounded as the

prospect of those officers coming in. play that again, barry, my director. they're pointing a gun up the stairs. you're a data analyst. come on! >> yeah. i'm a -- i'm a researcher who's been a thorn in the governor's side since may. when i refused to change the information to make people feel safer about the state reopening. >> okay. walk me through that, rebekah. what is it that you believe you were asked to do and did not do? i mean, what made you speak out in the first place on all of this? >> actually, speaking out wasn't my idea. i was kind of thrown into the public spotlight by the governor when he went on national tv and defamed me in front of the vice president of the united states. after that point i felt like, my privacy was gone anyways and that was the only thing i was protecting. so i had to speak out. and there were a lot of technical things changing i was asked to do.

some of which i did, because i was not a subject area in some of those things, but mostly little things here and there that together create add reality th create add reality completely departed in the facts and looked nothing like what we saw. we warned the governor's office if we prematurely opened we would most likely cause a number of unnecessary deaths. they didn't listen. >> you wrote about all this in an op-ed in the "miami herald." write, attacking wist bloing whs is as american and apple pie. to all the would-be whistle-blowers considering coming forward you might be scared by the raid on my home, never let the fear of retaliation temper your desire to be a good, honest person. have you heard, rebekah, in

others with similar experiences? >> yeah. i actually got a call from daniel ellsberg, which was a huge deal for me. >> huh? >> yeah. >> yeah! >> yeah. as far as whistle-blowers go, pretty high up there. but within the state even i thought for sure after the raid on my house that all of my sources would just go dark. and i've only not heard from one of them and, in fact, several more have come to me to give me information. so this attack did not work. it's never going to work. because the more you lash out at those people who are willing to speak up, the more other people realize that they need to have your back and need to stand up, too. because we're stronger when we all stick together. >> i have to say having daniel ellsberg call you, from "the pentagon papers" pretty extraordinary. let me just say the official there's in florida say that they followed proper protocol when

entering a home. guns drawn, and pointing up the stairs. can you tell me how your children reacted to this? >> well, my baby girl, she's only 2. so she had no idea what was going on. my husband was holding her top of the stairs and carried her down. my 11-year-old has a right to privacy and a right to cope with this in a way that's -- respectful of his space, but -- he's -- not dealing with it -- he's probably dealing with it as well as any other child who's 11, but gun violence can be a defining moment and i'm worried about psychologically what that might mean for him long term. >> yeah, yeah. as mom, i can imagine as well. tell me how florida governor ron desantis reacted to all of this? >> oh, he did his usual at first deny then admit he knew a little

bit, and lashed out at me. i think he even at a mental health forum implied that i was mentally ill. said she's got issues. i probably have fewer issues if i didn't have armed police storming my house for being a whistle-blower, but, yeah. he has this kind of visceral hatred for me i honestly did not understand where it comes from. but, you know, he's a man who's been revealed over time to have lied and misled and to have gotten a lot of people killed, a lot of people. according to the cdc, the day before christmas, 27,040. the state only admits to 21,295. >> thus notations behind you clarifying what the state admits to and what you believe the reality is.

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breaking news, millions of americans are heading towards a financial cliff as unploiemploy benefits are set to expire today. and joe biden has a new message for the president, urging him to sign the $900 billion relief bill on his desk saying this abdication of responsibility has devastating consequences. and what exactly is president-elect biden saying about this relief bill? >> that's right, we heard a statement -- or we saw a statement coming out are from president-elect biden urging donald trump to sign this covid relief bill laying out some of those consequences, be unploichlts insurance would run out, millions of people soon to be evicted from their homes in

this pandemic. more damage to small businesses like we've seen throughout this entire pandemic. i want to read a little bit more of what biden's statement said. he writes this bill is critical, it needs to be signed into law thousand. but it is also a first step and a down payment on more action that will need to take early in the new year to revive the economy and contain the pandemic. including meeting the dire need for funding to distribute and administer the vaccine and increase our testing capacity. so you hear there biden using this covid relief bill as a launching off point, saying that come the new year, he is being inaugurated in just 25 days, this covid relief bill is the floor, it is not the ceiling. there is so much more work to do. and we heard bipartisan earlide his three priorities will be covid, covid and covid. on so this is something that the biden/harris team really wants to hit the ground running on

right after inauguration. okay. and thank you for this. and joining me, director of strategy. and it is good to see you. 25 days until joe biden takes office. take us behinds scenes. because athese are unique times. what should we expect the inauguration even to look like? >> the same team that really conceptualized themer during th timing of the pandemic, that is the same team that is putting together an inauguration that makes every singk american feel like they can be a part of the inauguration. so there is certainly no question it will be different. we'll keep with the same traditions with past inaugurations, we'll to the swearing in on the mall, but we

won't have a large footprint. we'll be doing a parade, but components of that will be virtual. so we're rethinking through what it looks like, reimagining it. and the most important thing to keep in mind, no matter where you are, you will be able to be a part of this. >> i can already imagine donald trump saying hey, i had nor people at my inauguration than joe biden does. and president trump has still not acknowledged biden's win. do you think that he will attend the inauguration, at biden administration preparing for the possibility of trump not leaving the white house even if just for security reasons? >> you know, at this point we are solely focused on what happens on day one of the biden administration which of course is january 20. president-elect biden has made it clear that he last a plan to put americans back to work with his build back better agenda.

and he is not just focusing on putting people back to work in the same old jobs. he wants to reimagine a new economy and he wants to implement those jobs so we can provide real structural change that is needed in this country while also getting people back to work. it is also important to deep in mind that president trump has had no plan whatsoever when it comes to dealing with the pandemic. have not biden, rather president-elect biden, has made it clear that he does have a plan. there will be a distribution process to get vx natiaccinatio there. and so he will put together the build back better agenda. his focus is not necessarily on when president trump decides to die part the white house. >> and if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. so clearly he is covid, covid, covid day one. >> absolutely, dealing with

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good day, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here is what is happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the breaking news at this hour, we're awaiting a press briefing from investigators at the site of the christmas day excompletion e excompletion explosion in nashville. a spokesperson says they are tracking about 500 leads in the case. let's take a listen in. >> mickey french the special agent in charge of -- sorry, bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms will also speak. also joining us is the highway patrol. following the investigators update, we'