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impacting new york as residents brace for up to 4 feet of snow. >> in washington the first and only woman speaker of the house nancy pelosi officially passes the torch. we'll ask the congresswoman what this means for the future of democratic leadership. over night north korea fired a long-range ballistic missile that showed a potentially ability to strike the u.s. also this hour, another health care crisis unfolding. why doctors are sounding the alarm over a surge in respiratory illnesses in children. and disappointing news for taylor swift fans. ticket master cancelled the public sale of tickets for her latest tour as the giant company faces scrutiny from lawmakers and states attorneys general. a potentially historic snowstorm bears down on the great lake states with its

biggest blast pounding western new york. the region is predicted to get snowfall rates of more than 3 inches per hour, which could make for near zero visibility. buffalo, new york, already declaring a state of emergency with the storm threatening to bury it in more than 4 feet of snow, feet. the sky was punctured with thunder and lightning known as thundersnow. joining us now from buffalo, nbc marissa. i'd ask you what it's like this morning but we can see it's not pretty. >> reporter: we are right in the middle of it, jose. this is just an example how unpredictable lake effect snow is. we had a clear sky not even five minutes ago. look how fast and hard this is

coming down. we're right in the middle of buffalo and i would say pulling out my handy, dandy measuring stick. we got about 10 inches here. this is really just beginning. what you can't see because the snow is coming down so hard is behind me is lake erie. off over there there is a bunch of snow covered boats. it's near whiteout conditions, zero visibility at some points and really get the strong gusts, obviously, it goes without saying you do not want to be driving in this and that is why authorities have not only issued a state of emergency for new york but they've issued travel advisories and travel bans. it really depends on where you are in new york. the travel ban means you can only really be traveling unless you are considered emergency personnel or you have, you know, emergency business to get to. so let's talk about all the precautions they're putting in place. we talked about those precautions on the roads because they don't want you on the roads but then, we even had the buffalo bills game before we saw the first snow flake fall, they

moved the game from here to detroit. that's supposed to happen on sunday. they're supposed to have a practice today and they actually cancelled that because the snow is just coming down so hard right now. you can see it coming in waves totally unpredictable and we have all the cancelled flights. and that started around 7:00 p.m. yesterday. i don't think any flights had taken off since. they can't right now. all of that comes down trying to keep people safe because buffalo remembers what happen in 2014, some of you at home may remember, too, that was deadly. roughly a dozen people died directly related to snow storm related causes so authorities are saying they don't want a repeat of that and jose, through all of these emergency precautions that they're taking, they're saying they just don't want a repeat of that and listen, we're just getting started. i'm trudging through the snow right now. jose, there's a lot more to come in the next 24 hours. back to marissa, and folks, if

you're listening on radio, the only way i can describe it is north pole stuff with horizontal snow. she's got the goggles on. when did this start like this? >> reporter: it's been off and on. we've heard, you mentioned the thundersnow. we heard that all throughout the night. i heard it a couple times this morning and then it was so clear, not even ten minutes ago and this just started probably a couple minutes before our live shot. so this is lake effect snow for ya. you can't predict it. >> wow. marissa, thank you for being with us from a snowy morning in buffalo. and now to washington and the beginning of a new era for house democrats. after 20 years in leadership including eight as the first woman house speaker, nancy pelosi says she's passing the torch. >> for me, the hours come for a new generation to lead the democratic caucus that i so deeply respect, and i'm grateful that so many are ready and willing to shoulder this awesome

responsibility. >> one of them is massachusetts congresswoman kathryn clark that announced she's running to be house democratic whip and joaquin jeffreys is on track to succeed pelosi as house democrat leader. if elected late they are month, he would be the first black leader of either party in korch -- congress. with us to talk about this is ryan nobles and national political correspondent and dean of public service, ashley and victoria are msnbc contributors. ryan, tell us more about the lawmaker expected to lead the house democratic caucus next year. >> well, jose, this is exactly what nancy pelosi was talking about during her speech on the house floor last -- yesterday when she was talking about pasting the baton to this next generation. joaquin jeffreys, kathryn clark, pete aguilar, they represent that crop of democratic leader

whose have been here for sometime and all three have a great deal of experience but are obviously much younger than jim clyburn and nancy pelosi and diverse. you'd have the first african american leader and a woman and pete aguilar would be a leader in the highest ranks of the democratic party. this isn't settled quite yet. while they appear to be the leaders right now in this leadership race, there will still be some negotiating behind the scenes between democrats and they'll have their official vote on november 30th. they're the favorites right now, though, and democrats would certainly like a scenario where by this is done as seamless as possible because democratic unity is going to be essential in the new congress. the margins will be so tight. we're talking about february a five to seven-seat majority and they won't have nancy pelosi guiding the ship because keeping

democrats together and counting votes was her expertise. >> indeed. ashley, what are the challenges these democratic leaders will be facing come next year? >> well, they're facing being in the minority, which especially in the house is always a challenging position and never a place a party wants to be. and then there's also the challenges of generational change. speaker pelosi was incredibly powerful, incredibly respected and incredibly feared and having cover the white house until recently, we'd hear about the white house and what was going on and the senate and what was senator manchin would do. that was deceptive. not because the house was important but because the white house and president biden and the white house legislative team knew with speaker pelosi in charge, she had her caucus together and she would be able to muscle through and hold them in line just about anything.

this new leadership team will have to prove themselves and find they are own ways of organizing their caucus. >> yeah, ashley, her speech yesterday, it's really remarkable. if you have a chance to watch that or listen to it, it's really one of the really eloquent extraordinary speeches. >> it absolutely was and she touched on sort of a number of the parts of her legacy. you know, she had that line about going from homemaker to house speaker. she talked a lot about democracy and upholding the constitution and then she talked about, you know, there's a season for everything and passing the torch and the subtext of that as i was watching was she's doing something among house democrats that democrats have a party are really grappling with right now even with the presidency. there are a lot of questions and

they've been put to rest a little bit after the strong shows in the midterms but about president biden. should he run again and even if he does, how does a president past the torch to a next generation of leaders? what does that generation of leaders look like? i think you can see the party looking to speaker pelosi and her team and caucus and trying to take some lessons in the macro to the broader party. >> yeah, and then speaking of lessons and to the broader party, let's talk about the victoria, the "wall street journal" said there is no denying pelosi is an effective house leader, the most respected in decades. were republicans paying attention? the republicans joined the house but if the gop wants to convince the electret to give a real mandate in 2024, the post continues, it needs to show it can govern. what lessons, victoria, can republicans take from how pelosi

governed? >> it's going to be looking at a playbook of having the party together and unified. ashley was just talking about house speaker pelosi was known for being able to ensure that her caucus would stay together. republicans are going to need to do the same thing and also whether they like it or not are going to have to figure out how to win over some moderate democrats, how to bring them over and not governed by trying to run to the extreme because as we've passed the 2022 midterm, we're looking toward the 2024 presidential election and republicans, especially republican leadership in the house does not want to be in the position of having a brand of complete chaos, of breakdown of nothing getting done so if they really want to make a push, they need that congress to be organized and there has to be a little deal making and bipartisanship. >> ryan, what more do we know about what republicans plan to

do once they take control of the house? >> well, jose, they had a press conference yesterday morning that might have got a little lost in the shuffle. and others made it very clear that they are going have power oversight in the republican majority. it may be the most important tool they'll have available to them given the fact democrats will control the senate and joe biden is in the white house and they also made it clear, their number one target is going to be joe biden. the president of the united states. they obviously talked a lot about his son but they claim and they haven't explicitly presented all this evidence that they say they have, they claim they have direct links between what they characterize as hunter biden's inappropriate business dealings in the white house itself and say this is an investigation into the president himself, not just an investigation into his son. now, there's got to be a lot

that happens between now and then before we find out if there is any merit to this but jose, the early message here is that this is going to be something that the biden white house is going to have to deal with and this will likely be the most production that we see out of the republican majority in the new congress because while mitch mcconnell earlier this week talked about trying to find ways to find issues they can work on between the 340-yard line and compromise, that's not the message from republicans. their focus is driving the biden white house as nuts as possible over the next two years. >> ryan nobles, ashley parker, victoria soto, thank you so very much for being us and with us now to continue our conversation is texas congresswoman veronica escobar. pleasure to see you. i thank you for your time. i just want to start our conversation on your thoughts what has nancy pelosi's

membership meant to you personally? >> good morning. wonderful to be on your program again. yesterday was an emotional day. speaker pelosi has been the most consequential leader in my lifetime. she is a brilliant woman, an incredible strategists, someone with very profound compassion. someone who leads us in a way that is about the children, you know, her mantra was it's for the children. she always had her eye on the impact that our work could make on the most vulnerable among us and the future generations. at the same time, she was a great ally to me and to my community and district. i feel so privileged to have had her in our corner. you know, she allowed me to provide the spanish democratic response to donald trump to his state of the union address

couple years ago. she has placed me on really key and vital committees and i will always be grateful to her for the way that she uplifted my community and my district but i think the most important aspect of speaker pelosi's leadership aside from just how incredibly impressive her accomplishments have been, i will never forget and i hope the history books write this down, during our darkest hour on january 6th, it was speaker pelosi who led our nation out of that darkness and led us back onto the the house floor so that we could do our constitutional duty certify the election and guarantee the peaceful transfer of power despite the personal threats to her safety, despite everything that was happening around her. she was cool, calm, collected,

and she was the patriot that our nation needed especially in that moment. she really is in my view an american hero that is unrivalled. >> i was just saying congresswoman, the video of you yesterday right after the leaders speech, there's a lot of emotion in that room. >> there really was a lot of emotion in that room. we were -- many of us were -- you know, you couldn't help but become overwhelmed by her very powerful speech, by the history that was being made in that moment, by the person that we were recognizing all together as we were wrapping our arms around her, as we were wrapping her arms around each other, recognizing that, you know, we've -- that the leader that we've come to not just respect but depend on is stepping aside

for new leadership and i am so grateful, though. i will tell you that she will remain in the congress. i absolutely feel the way she does that beyond any leadership role, beyond any title that's given in the congress, the most beautiful privilege that we are given as members of congress is to represent our communities and she said that on the floor yesterday as she talked about san francisco but we have been so fortunate. our country and our caucus. we have been so fortunate to have had speaker pelosi. i want to say, also, leader hoyer is a dear, dear friend of mine. i sat with him yesterday after speaker pelosi made her announcement and shared he too would be honoring new leadership and new opportunities and, you know, i would be remiss if i didn't say something about leader hoyer as well who is just a grand statesman and a dear,

dear beloved friend to me. >> and as quite frankly, been one of the people who throughout so many years been at the forefront of some immigration reform, support for the young people that are daca recipients. congressman, you represent the el paso area. this video was captured yesterday. more than 1,000 migrants decided to leave their camp in juarez and gave themself up to border officials in el paso. there are tens of thousands of others waiting to come over and apply for asylum. they could get the chance as a judge cleared the way for biden to lift 42. is the city of el paso and the people at the border areas prepared for the end of title 42? >> jose, we are as prepared as we can be. what i am concerned about is ensuring that we have the resources to be able to assist

basically and, you know,ly tell you, jose, my community and other border community haves been stepping into the breach for well over a decade. so we have as a community border communities, we've been called to support the federal government and here is the, i think, the big challenge that we face. border communities are among the most economically disadvantaged because there is a significant unfairness with being called into action without being provided the resources necessary to assist. now, thankfully, the biden administration has been unlike any administration before it, the biden administration has stepped up and said we will provide you funding and support, border communities in order to help us. but what i am concerned about and i want to flag this for the american public, i have already flagged this for my community,

with republicans in control of the house of representatives, i am very significantly afraid that they will not support the resources needed. so to be continued, jose. we got to watch that closely. >> congresswoman veronica escobar, it's always a pleasure to speak with you. thanks for being with us. >> thanks so much. up next, north korea fires a missile that could be, could be capable of hitting all of the united states. that's next. united states. that's next. plus, he told him to commit or quit. how elon musk reacted to what his employees decided. you're watching "jose diaz balart" reports. e diaz balart" reports. network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts. (foreman) nice work. (vo) and retailers can get ahead of the fashion trend of the day with a new line tomorrow. with a verizon private 5g network,

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data they're analyzing, they believe this icbm has the range to strike anywhere in the united states. and that is setting off alarm bells here. after the launch, the u.s. held joint military drills with both japan and south korea. leaders at the apex summit in thailand held an emergency meeting about north korea with vice presidentkamala harris calling the launch a brazen violation of u.n. resolutions and called on north korea to stop quote unlawful and destiebl -- destabilizing acts. president biden raised north korea in the meeting with xi jinping earlier in the week because china with russia has blocked any moves to sanction north korea at the u.n. security counsel. this has been a record year as we know for north korea weapons testing. just yesterday, north korea's

foreign minister warned of fiercer military responses from the regime. if the u.s. did not stop expanding adding that washington is quote taking a gamble it might regret. so we have again tension escalating here and once again, raising this threat of a nuclear test by kim jong-un. the satellite images and intelligence reports suggest the preparations and channels open right now north korea doesn't seem to be interested in talking. >> janis mackey frayer. thank you very much. this is an important story we have to continue watching. let's look at some of the other headlines beyond our borders this morning in gaza, 21 people were killed. according to preliminary

investigations a fire spread. mean while, brittany grainer started serving her nine-year prison sentence at a russian colony. qatar says it will not allow the sale of alcohol at world cup stadiums two days before the tournament kicks off. qatar faced controversy for the oppression of lgbtq people and exploitation of migrant workers to build the world cup stadiums. up next, why twitter's offices are closed today. the latest fallout from elon musk's ultimatum to twitter employees. you're watching "jose diaz balart report sreports" on msnb. .

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31 past the hour. this morning the offices of twitter are closed according to an email shared by cnbc by a departing employee. the move follows a wave of resignations by twitter staffers of ceo elon musk issued an ultimatum employees had to agree

to a hard core work environment or leave. now, seven democratic senators are asking the ftc to look into musk and twitter to investigate any violations of the descent decree or laws. joining us now is ben collins. ben, where do things stand at twitter today? >> they don't have any employees left. they gave people this hard deadline yesterday to stay at at the company and commit to hard core work environments or leave and take three months severance and almost everybody that i've talked to took the three-month severance. it's a different place and it's a different website than it was before. people are taking videos of themselves with their last moments in the office. there were some frenzied stuff from elon to get people to stay at the company for his self-imposed deadline. it a skeleton crew at twitter

and we'll see how that plays out for the actual platform. >> so ben, how big of an organization of a group is twitter? >> hundreds of people now. used to be 7500 people a couple weeks ago. so we -- i'm not sure they know fully how many numbers they have at this point. there are entire departments that are gone, things that run an entire business are gone. it will be an interesting time for the company. they have to really pvot hard here. their means of income has taken an hit since the comment about paul pelosi. they're trying to get $8 from users. still unclear how to retain users on a website and make the money on a website once that happens. >> ben collins, thank you for

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number one, that this can be preventable but all the things we talk about with covid, washing hands, making sure you or your child are sick, stay away from mother people and masks work. when you have a respiratory illness, it can help create a barrier. number two, the last place you want to end up is an emergency or pediatric hospital. if you need it, that's the place to go. we can avoid it for the reasons you mentioned and third, a lot of this has to do with this sheer out cry from the staff. we have not just the hospital beds that are full but residents in children's hospital in washington d.c. that staged a protest because they have been working so hard and filling in for short staff of all types that they don't think they can give quality patient care. that's what you need to know. we can stay safe. we can have a great one. but we can do it by avoiding getting sick.

>> so doctor, the calls for the biden administration to declare a public health emergency, what would that public health emergency be if it ever was called and what difference would it make? >> yeah, so a public health emergency has a lot of authority with it. here is the tricky part, jose. we're actually in a public health emergency right now. of course, it's been for covid-19 for years but a lot of the things that people are asking for are able to be triggered by what we currently have. so i think the real question here is number one, do we need the symbolic nature, which i understand. i asked for this around monkeypox. we wanted people to be aware. some of this is messaging and say listen, take it seriously. an alternative, seriously, jose, go to cdc.gov say these are the viruses we're worried about to help raise awareness. number two, there are additional moneys and authorities to be triggered by a public health

emergency. i think when i'm talking to colleagues in hospitals around the country, what they need are physical help. they do not have enough people to take care of all the children. some children are waiting days to get in the emergency room. i had a patient's son that said they had to fly from virginia to maine for that child with rsv phenomena. we need a collective action to these children and families. they're on a rope's end. imagine if you don't have child care, imagine if you're giving up work, these are weeks out of your life you're losing money and can't take care of your kids. >> not everybody has the opportunity to fly their kid from one state to another or an organization that will fly your kid from one state to another. i'm just wondering, doctor, with rsv, covid and the flu together, what do you see for this winter. >> yeah, it could be a really brutal winter and probably not

from covid, thank goodness. people are still dying, don't mistake covid is serious but i'm worried about all three together and overwhelming the hospitals. rsv season, respiratory vie sustained season typically peaks in january. we're seeing so many cases now we don't know what the winter season could look like. it could look worse or get better and settle out in the christmas holiday time period. what i worry about is really overwhelming the health care system and then i really worry about the people that can't get through. if you're somebody like me with knowledge and connections, i can get through to doctors and emergency rooms. if you're somebody that does not read or speak english and doesn't understand the call lines and how to press the phone buttons, you are left behind and that's what i worry about for the winter season, people we leave behind that could have been prevented. >> you and i both. people left behind and that are not listened to. dr. patel, always great to hear from you. i thank you very much for being with us this morning. up next, an nbc news exclusive, the dangerous mission

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47 past the hour. four years after the murder of jamal khashoggi, the biden administration said the crowned prince mohammed bin salman should be immune from a civil lawsuit. mbs is a head of state, which makes him immune under international law but reiterated the condemnation of khashoggi's killing. they concluded mbs ordered khashoggi's murder. the lawsuit was brought from khashoggi's fiancee and the human rights group he found. they report the decoloration, is non-binding and the decision remains up to a judge. we have an nbc news ex clue -- exclusive. nbc news julia aniesly traveled with homeland security as they worked with colombia national police to track down cartel leaders. julia joins us right now. julia, good morning. what did you experience?

>> reporter: well, jose, i got to be embedded with this group of colombia national police and americans from homeland sec cooers ty-- sec tourry insecurity when they profit moving my grands from colombia to panama. they say the goal is to stop crimes before they get to the u.s. border. take a look. in colombia, a critical and dangerous mission. the u.s. trying to stop drugs, weapons and migrants from reaching the southern border. we are getting an exclusive look traveling with americans from homeland security investigations or hsi and the colombia police they're training. we're listening in on a tactical briefing between colombia national place, the colombia military and hsi from the department of homeland security before they go to high-value targets. for their safety, we're not revealing the identity of these officers. colombia police heading out to an alleged drug cartel leader.

we arrive at this apartment complex. u.s. officials say synthetic drugs produced by these gang leaders were seize in miami. two suspects are placed in handcuffs. they've been going through their belongings as police look for more evidence of crimes committed in colombia linked to the united states. in all, colombia police confiscated 650 viles of ketamine. how long have these guys been operating? >> around two years. they are doing too many things like smuggling, trafficking weapons and almost o'brien is america's second highest diplomat here. >> i think colombians have seen the benefits of u.s. security cooperation. they've seen the number of murders go down, they've seen crime go down. >> reporter: the next day, we're on a u.s. black hawk headed to a base built by the u.s.

government. officials tell us a gang controls the trade and profits from it. >> these are leaders of a human smuggling network who have been taking people across panama. and they've been arrested today with the help of the americans at hsi. >> reporter: the alleged cartel suspects could face extradition to the u.s. >> it's one organization that's been disrupted and dismantled. will others pop up? maybe. but not this one. >> we don't show the faces of the police there. in fact, many of them are wearing masks when they go out to arrest these people. in part that's because these cartels are so powerful, they have to worry about retaliation. we were in armored vehicles wearing bulletproof vests. it's a dangerous mission and it's one that the police are

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55 past the hour. swift backlash this morning after ticketmaster announced it canceled today's scheduled ticket sales to the general public for taylor swift's new concert tour. they cited high demand and insufficient inventory. this follows a fiasco on tuesday with the site's first round of presale tickets. it reignited scrutiny over ticketmaster's merger with live nation. the subcommittee on antitrust will hold a hearing looking into this. >> talked to senator mike lee last night. we chair the committee. we're going to go ahead with a hearing on ticketmaster this year. >> joining us this morning,

emilie ikeda. great seeing you. is there any hope for people who still want desperately to see her in concert? >> isn't this the question on everyone's minds right now. taylor swift, she has not publicly commented on the ticket fiasco. there's no telling what she will do. she's expanded her tour and so many fans are hoping she will do the same again. the general sale has been canceled. it's supposed to be happening right now. it appears the only option is relying on the secondary market and buyer beware. asking prices exceed $10,000. ticketmaster is saying they saw bots. and so this whole thing, it has reignited the debate over ticketmaster and its so-called strangle hold over the concert industry. a lot of lawmakers pointing to the merger with live nation more than a decade ago and it's not the first time ticketmaster has faced heat in recent months.

we're seeing this massive return to live events since the pandemic is fading. concert tickets up 37%. and really a lot of lawmakers are taking aim at dynamic pricing which is essentially basis prices on consumer demand and that's what pushed up bruce springsteen tickets recently to exceed $5,000. what is ticketmaster saying in response? it says it's working on making improvements to its ticket buying experience. it points out that we've seen this unprecedented demand when it comes to taylor swift. 2 million tickets were purchased on tuesday. that is the most for a single day. so it's a record there, jose. >> emilie ikeda, thank you so much. meanwhile, a 95-year-old woman makes history at the latin grammy awards. she won best new artist last night making her the oldest person ever to win a grammy. it was a tie with her and 25-year-old singer from mexico.

she's been singing for nine decades but only for her family. her grandson finally produced an album of her songs and released it last year. if you get a chance to listen to it, please do. she told the crowd last night it's never too late to fulfill your dreams. >> she dedicated her award to

god, cuba, which she said she never forgets. she said, with faith and love, your dreams are always possible. she's been living in the united states. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm "jose diaz-balart reports." i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc "nightly news" saturday. you can reach me on twitter and instagram at jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. alex witt picks up with more news right now. very good friday morning to all i don't have u. i'm alex witt here in new york and we're following a very busy morning as right now in washington a changing of the guard for democrats is taking shape. just under 24 hours after house speaker nancy pelosi ushered in a new political era by announcing she won't run for leadership, democrats