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happy thanksgiving. joyful holiday for so many but not for those with an empty chair at the dinner table. the pain is particularly acute for families in virginia and colorado where mass shootings took the lives of nearly a dozen people in the past week. investigators still trying to figure out why a gunman targeted people going about their regular lives working at walmart or dancing at a club. we'll go live to both sites to try to get some new answers this morning. plus, some strong criticism of liz cheney from democrats inside the january 6th committee. why more than a dozen staffers are furious at the congresswoman for cutting their hard work out of the committee's final report. and finally we are covering the holiday from every possible angle, from the busy roads to the cost of the food on your dinner table to the parade balloons along new york's sixth avenue. we have all of that coming up laureate in the show.

♪♪ and we begin this hour in chesapeake, virginia, where a walmart employee shot and killed six colleagues on tuesday before turning the gone on himself. a memorial has just risen there as we learn the names of the lives lost, lorenzo gamble, brian pendleton, kellie pyle, tyneka johnson, randy blevins and a 16-year-old. a mother of one of the survivors of the shooting gave this chilling recollection of what her son told her happened that night. >> his exact words were i got shot. i actually got shot.

i just got shot again. he saw people on the ground. he actually -- he said he had to jump over them just to save himself to get to the front of the store. >> it comes as new details are emerging about the suspect who was an overnight team leader at the walmart. one of his colleagues telling nbc news that he was, quote, a little off. he put tape on his phone, always used to tell us the government was watching. i want to bring in julie tsirken. we're learning more and more about the suspect there but we still don't have an official motive yet. >> reporter: no, jose. investigators have been working around the clock since this happened on tuesday night. they were able to secure is scene within an hour. they went into the walmart to make sure there was no one left

hiding. six people we learned died. they were all employees of this store. but 50 were shopping at the time that this happened. it was the last hour it was open on tuesday night. many people getting last-minute thanksgiving supplies. of course this happened two days before the holiday today. as you mentioned now, six families with empty chairs at their tables. investigators told us yesterday morning that this could take days for them to really be able to piece what happened, what led the gunman who was with walmart, the company for 12 years to do this. to take the lives of six employees. i want you to take a listen to what one of the survivors of the shooting who was in the breakroom when this began said. >> he trapped us. he knew when to come in. he knew that we had that meeting at 10:00 every night. just like clockwork.

he knew when to come in. >> reporter: 28-year-old jesse just started working here five days before the shooting. you can imagine her life like many of the survivors and those still injured in the hospitals will never be the same. and i also just want to note the memorial behind me, we've seen people in the community who weren't even in the store, people who were here coming to lay flowers for the people who lost their lives. it's a holiday that many have a lot to be thankful for. in this community, they're reeling. >> we just heard from the suspect's colleague there that he knew when and where to be that night like clockwork. she said it over and over again. what do you hear when you hear that? >> well, you see the motive really clear based on what julie is telling us and what the witness said. there's 50 people in the store. he doesn't go for them. most of the shootings in stores and grocery stores, and we've talked about them over the years, a lot of them are daytime

attacks. that's when people are shopping in the grocery store. this is a nighttime attack. why? just because what the witness said. he knew when that night meeting was and tells us the motive clearly. it was revenge. he wanted revenge on his fellow employees and probably on walmart as well for some sleight that he perceived and what underlies this whole case is suicide. if there was signs that it could be stopped prior, it would be the same signs you see in suicide and they underline many mass shootings. we have a suicide and we have revenge. he could have went out and killed people in the store. he wasn't interested in that. he wasn't interested in mass killing of those people. no, he wanted specific people. the employees he worked with and that's his revenge motive. >> yeah, and i'm wondering, jim, i mean, the fact that he didn't go after anyone else in that store. does it seem as though he was going to specifically target

individuals or just people that worked for walmart or that worked on, like, the same shift he did? that's still very early in the investigation. >> well, you've been a journalist too long because you hit right at the meat of the matter there. that right now we probably don't know. he went right to that meeting and he might have wanted to kill some of them individually and all of them as a group. just like the witness said, he could have turned right and he turned left. that's telling the way he's thinking. also, he's not dressed in body army. he's not dressed in all black. he arrives with a handgun. he knows he can do his mission with a handgun. he's looking to kill that group of people, those employees probably and then kill himself. if we go back, i think there will be signs -- one of the witnesses i read in the media,

one of the newspapers said he had made a statement before that -- about mass killing. he had made a statement before, if anybody messed with him, he would do a mass killing. this is, again, the missed opportunity to stop the guy. this is the leakage. and this is where he should be arrested, the laws should be tweaked a little bit. if a person threatens one of us individually, i'm going to kill jim, we get a warrant for that threat, it's usually a misdemeanor. but when somebody threatens a mass killing we all shrug our shoulders and say he probably wouldn't do that. he should be arrested and charged, convicted of a misdemeanor and then the overlying federal law should be enacted which says you can't buy any guns, you can't purchase any, you can't have any if you're convicted of a misdemeanor. that wraps up 77% of these mass

killers. and you could stop a lot of them without interfering with anybody's second amendment rights because you would be targeting the killers who leak before their murderers if you go back and look at all of these cases. we got to focus on that. we can do so much better. we can't stop them all. but we can stop so many more if we would just listen to what's going on and learn from the people that study it. >> if you see something, say something. i thank you very much for being with us this morning. also this morning we're learning more about the mass shooting at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs over the weekend. the suspected shooter just made initial court appearance, was ordered to be held without bond facing possible murder and hate crime charges, expected to be formally charged in a hearing in just a couple of weeks. i want to bring in steve patterson who is on the ground there for us in colorado springs. good morning, there's a lot of new information on the alleged suspect. what have you learned?

>> reporter: yeah, past, present and future we're learning a lot more about the suspected shooter. let's start with the present and future, that hearing. really an advisory hearing meant to provide context for the suspect, making sure that they're competent enough to understand the justice process, the rights and the charges against them. of course, you know, i think the most that we learned was visual. seeing the suspect's face for the first time battered, beaten and bruised. he was slumped over. of course, the club patrons taking action inside club q, doing everything they could to stop the suspected shooter. meanwhile, much more about the past as well. obviously before that hearing there was a filing from the defense attorneys that labeled the suspect, you know, nonbinary, using they/them pronouns. this does not gel with a lot of the reporting that we've been

hearing on the ground, including our own nbc news team talking to friends, talking to neighbors that describe the suspect as a person that is very hateful towards the lgbtq community. meanwhile, learning more about the suspect's family, father that was allegedly abusive. that's why there was a name change back in 2015. the mother that was incompetent, that's why the suspect created a bomb threat toward her. those charges thrown out which sealed documents that could have been used to trigger a red flag law which may have prevented the shooter from buying a weapon. meanwhile, this community still in mourning. been speaking to the family, speaking to the heroic actions, the person who tried to target and take down the shooter at the time here. we know there are planned vigils as well coming up in the next few days. right now this is a community that is in a whole lot of pain. jose? >> steve patterson in colorado springs, thank you so much. and right now president biden is greeting firefighters at a firehouse on nantucket.

let's go to the live pictures right now. he and the first family are spending the holiday there. cameras moving around. this is live. this is a great part of live tv. it's happening. you're seeing it right on msnbc. you see the president in the center of your screen. the president called into the broadcast of the macy's thanksgiving day parade as well earlier. he said he was thankful for first responders. he said he and the first lady have been coming to nantucket since they were first married and there you see the first lady as well along with the president. millions are expected to travel this holiday. but if you're hosting dinner, you probably notice how much higher things cost at the grocery store this year. what's driving that surge? take a look at that. also, triple-demic fears. covid, flu, rsv cases spiking throughout our country and now shortages of two key medications could cause a serious problem.

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right now some last-minute holiday travelers are rushing to make it to the thanksgiving dinner table. let's take a look at live pictures out of laguardia airport in new york right now. it looks like pretty empty, doesn't it? only a fraction of planes are delayed at this hour. most travelers are taking off without a hitch with nearly 55 million people expected to travel this week. the busiest days projected to be yesterday and this coming sunday. the majority of people expected to actually take to the roads, drive. and if you're hosting thanksgiving dinner, you probably noticed the higher total on your receipt this year thanks to inflation. the price of nearly all thanksgiving staples is on the rise. so just to get an average for ten people at the table, the

average price of thanksgiving turkey with all the sides adds up to $64. that's almost $11 more than last year. 20% increase. marissa parra joins me now from a grocery store where last-minute shoppers are grabbing what they need. >> reporter: we have a prime position here at the safeway in d.c. we're right in front of where the turkeys are. we spoke to a number of people about the increase in costs and actually one person i just spoke to said she's changing what dinner looks like this year because of how expensive turkey is. we're going to talk to her right after this. let's talk about why things are looking more expensive. there's a variety of factors. when it comes to turkey, it's partially because of the avian flu. when it comes to bread, that's due to the war in ukraine. food is more expensive to ship

all across the country. so you mentioned the fixings on the thanksgiving plate. let's break that down one more time for those who maybe didn't get a chance to see it. turkey, $5 more this year. things on the plate, we're talking stuffing, pumpkin pie. $10 more this year compare today last year and all of the ingredients are more expensive that go into things like pie, eggs, flour, butter. average cost of a meal for 10, up 20%. you can see just like how travel is more expensive, it's not stopping people from doing it. yes, it is more expensive to shop for the ingredients, shop for things like turkey and meat, but people are still out here. maybe they're making adjustments or changing what dinner looks like this year compared to last. i'm not here to judge. i have an empty fridge at home. i might be taking advantage of some last-minute shopping myself. >> yeah, and marissa, rice and

beans, the price of salsa. a lot of the other got a lot of this morning. >> i you know how it goes later. >> thanks, thanks. nice seeing you. thanks. coming up, angered and disillusioned. new reporting that suggests there's major drama brewing on capitol hill as the january 6th committee wraps up its final report. and the aftermath after more russian air strikes. how ukrainians are surviving the cold dark and dangerous conditions. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports. you're watching jose dit reports.

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correspondent ali vitali, tim miller is writer at large for the bulwark, david rode and dean of the clinton school of public service at the university of arkansas. david and victoria are both msnbc contributors. nbc news reported about the report and was going to be mostly restructured towards being about donald trump. what new are we learning? >> look, we know that most of the committee's hearings over the course of the summer and into the fall were focused largely on donald trump. the committee spending a lot of time trying to prove what trump was being told in realtime, what could have informed what he knew and how that informed the decisions he was making around january 6th and the efforts inside his orbit to overturn the election results. but what we're learning now both from "the washington post" and from our own nbc news reporting is that as this final report is

coming together, inevitably, some things are going to be in, some things are going to be the focus, other things are going to be left out. our reporting had been that much of the focus of this report would be trump-related which tracks, again, with what they spent time on in the hearings. there are a lot of other pieces to this investigation and i'll bring up for you on the screen the fact that there are multiple teams inside the january 6th committee who have had different focuses. for example, you look there, the gold team was focused on trump's role. there's also the blue team focusing on police and intelligence failures, the green team focusing on financing, and then the purple team focusing on militias and extremism. all of these are threads that we heard teased out over the course of the committee hearing. chairman raskin talks about the focus on militias because that's one of the things he dived deeply into during his time leading the hearing focused on that particularly piece of it. the fact that "the washington post" is starting to report on tensions around cheney, the fact

that she wants to keep the focus on trump, there is a sort of juxtaposition here because as the focus is on trump, the committee itself and multiple members that i've been talking to over the course of the last year, have really tried to make the point that this is a threat that started with trump. but that it's a threat that far extends him. it makes sense while they want to keep the focus on trump, they want to show what went wrong on january 6th from a security perspective, but also what that threat is continuously. clearly tension within the committee trying to spell out publicly as they get into their final weeks in existence. we know republicans control the house chamber and this committee is done. >> david, one of the staffers said the committee has become a cheney 2024 campaign. is it that liz cheney has that much power and sway in that committee? >> look, i think there's a division among members and there's no question that the primary challenge and problem here was donald trump and him

urging his supporters to storm the capitol. but i want to see as a journalist, i want as much information made public as possible. i want to know what was found out about the financing for this event, i want to know the law enforcement and intelligence failures and i want to know about militias and extremism. and i think they should include as much information as possible so we can learn from this. lastly, the goal of the committee was to, you know, get laws enacted that would prevent this from happening. the electoral count act, this ancient law, very badly written, very confusing law, that created the situation where mike pence could theoretically choose the next president has to be reformed. there's multiple proposals for this to happen. but this lame duck session of congress needs to update the electorate count act. we need concrete action as a result to, yes, hold donald trump accountable, but change the laws so no one, no one can ever do this again. >> tim, i want to -- good to see

you, by the way, tim. i want to read part of what cheney's spokesman told "the post" about why some information was left out. quote, some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement outside the scope of the select committee's work. she won't sign onto any narratives that suggest republicans are racist. what do you make of all of this? >> happy thanksgiving. i think it's childish to be going to "the washington post," to be leaking about this, you're unhappy that your material isn't going to be in the report. there's a lot of ways to make sure -- these people work for members who can hold future hearings or point out additional material. so to me, i think that's -- the

folks who went to "the washington post" about this should be embarrassed. it's obvious that this report should focus on donald trump. it's not a college report that should include everything under the sun. it should be focused on the person that was responsible for this. just look at pennsylvania, for example, doug mastriano and dr. oz just lost, nobody is storming the capitol in harrisburg this week over thanksgiving because they aren't stoking their supporters to do so. donald trump was the central actor here. it was extremely important that liz cheney be a part of this committee. she's ruined her career over this. it's not a 2024 effort. i think this is much to do about nothing and liz cheney that has done a wonderful job on the committee. >> how do you see this playing out politically going forward? >> well, as ali pointed out at the top, we're coming up in a republican-dominated house, right? the slim majority, but at the

end of the day the republicans are going to have the majority. so everything in public related to january 6th commission is really going to fall to the wayside or if it persists, it's going to be republicans attacking the actual committee. we've already seen news reports of republicans being frustrated at the amount of money being put forward for the investigations. so, you know, i'm also puzzled about why the report did not include appendices and all of the information. there was only so much time and because we don't have democrats in the house, the rest will come to light. at least make it -- offered to the public. i think the transparency piece of this is key. >> and i mean, david, why not put it all out there, right? >> again, i agree with victoria

about transparency. that would help. again, i want to credit liz cheney. i also agree that she made this bipartisan. it was a very -- the way they presented their evidence is very clear and compelling. and it got around a lot of the confusion and trump is very good at creating about facts and events that happened. i think it overall was a successful committee and i think there's a way to include this information on the website and get as much information to the public as possible. >> and the post also reports that once jim jordan takes over as head of the judiciary committee, he's planning a, quote, deep dive into the investigation in an effort to portray it as a political hit job. how do you think things are going to go forward post january? >> again, thank goodness liz cheney is pushing back on this. part of the reason it's been streamlined because of the work

she's done. she's done a great job leading this committee. if it was just democrats, jim jordan would have a lot more to work with in the next congress. i don't think it's very smart of the republicans to focus on this. i was on a conference call with mick mulvaney who suggested he was going to look into this. i don't think the american people are looking for politicized counter investigations or looking into the supposed politicalization of the fbi or hunter biden or any of this other nonsense. i think they would be much better off politically if they focus on legitimate issues, trying to help the american people dealing with inflation and other issues. i don't expect that's where it's going to go and i think jim jordan signaling just shows the absurd and ridiculous investigations with the incoming republican congress is what we can expect. >> thank you all so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate your time. good to see you all. and moments ago, we showed

you president biden visiting firefighters on nantucket. he just spoke to reports about a whole slate of issues about the goals on assault weapons ban and ukraine and even his next physical. when that's going to take place. >> the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. it's just sick. it has no, no social redeeming values. zero. none. not a single rational for it. >> reporter: what will you try to do? >> i'm going to try to get rid of assault weapons? during the lame duck? >> goit to make that assessment as i get in and start counting the votes. [ inaudible question ] >> i just had another drawdown of over $300 million and there's no -- this is no time to walk

away from ukraine. not at all. now we had a lot of talk in this last election about whether the other team is going to continue to support ukraine. i still believe -- that we can continue -- [ inaudible question ] >> i can't because it's in the middle of negotiations. >> have you been in touch? >> my team has been in touch with all parties and i have -- i have not directly engaged yet because the negotiations are still talking. >> thanks. we've got to go. >> when will you get your annual physical, mr. president? >> do you think i need it? >> you just had a birthday. >> part of my physical is already done and i'll be getting it before the end of the year. >> thank you. >> oil price cap talk?

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ellison barber is in kharkiv, ukraine, this morning. great seeing you. what are you seeing there today? >> reporter: yeah, jose, it's been a difficult 24 hours for ukrainians all across the country in kharkiv. a lot of people woke up without electricity, with very limited cell service. we were able to visit a warming center this afternoon. it's in the process of becoming one, at least, we saw volunteers working to transform the basement of a church into a warming center in anticipation of additional blackouts. but the barrage of missiles that came yesterday and the blackouts and all of the dominos that fell after that, it's impacting that now. they will they will get this warming center set up. because of the missile attack yesterday, they're having difficulty getting resources. listen. >> because of yesterday's shelling of ukrainian infrastructure, kharkiv went --

there's a blackout. it's not -- there's no electricity. we don't have cell phone coverage. we don't have internet. we have a truck that comes into kharkiv. we can't get in touch with people in the warehouse. we have to bring generator for the place of heating where we went and couldn't bring the generator. we just have to get used to it. it's a mess. >> reporter: you know, when you spend time out talking to people, you quickly realize that a key line of defense for ukrainians this winter will be their neighbors, their friends, people who they don't know but maybe have seen passing before in the street. before the war, she was a biologist. she worked at a university well-established, esteemed in her field in russia. she came home to kharkiv where

she grew up with pretty much just a backpack and nothing else. she has been here ever since focused on helping people, setting up places like the one you saw in our video so that others have a chance at making it through this winter. when we're talking about warming centers, by the way, these aren't luxurious. you can tell from looking at our video. one thing they pointed out to us today that once they have everything set up, they say ultimately because of the limits they'll have with generators and just the space that is there, that it won't necessarily be warm. it won't be toasty inside these places. they say it will simply be bearable room temperature, something for people to survive. not necessarily thrive or feel incredible comfortable in. it's a desperate thing that is necessary. jose? >> ellison barber in kharkiv, thank you. take good care of your yourself and that extraordinary crew of men and women that are working with nbc news to get the news in these very difficult times.

thank you, ellison. joining me now, retired u.s. army general and msnbc military analyst general barry mccaffrey. kremlin spokesman was asked if russia is worried about the attacks on energy infrastructure can have on the ukrainian people. he claims russia is only targeting places of military relevance. what's the real situation there? >> it's a horrific situation. the temperature in february in ukraine in parts of the country will get down below zero. the russians now have an absence of a military strategy. they've turned to cheap drones, many of them from iran, and they're dwindling supply of smart munitions and are going after the electric and the water grids in ukraine. targeted solely on -- it's highly unlikely to have any impact on the military strategy

where they've been beaten tactically and operationally in the north, east, and south in kherson. so, it's a strategy that will incur hatred in the part of the ukrainian people. place them at risk trying to survive this winter. it's a losing strategy. we now have to come up with a new approach, and i say we. i mean nato, the european union countries, the united states in particular. russia is inadequately at risk. putin does not care that the conscripts are being slaughtered in ukraine. we're going to have to give them -- the ukrainians a more offensive capability with weapons with a 300-mile range. armed drone and is probably m-1 tanks on the ground.

the russians must be beaten this winter. we can't allow the ukrainians to sustain damage without pushing back. >> how strongly do you push back, general? i'm talking about nato and of course all the allies. how strongly do you push back this winter when, as you so correctly state, you know, putin is looking at a very inadequate reality for his side. >> yeah, it's going nowhere. and the initiative is now passed over completely to the ukrainians. the russians have put 300,000 conscripts into the fight. they're running out of the smart munitions. they're going into third-generation tanks. they have no viable alternative except staying on the defense. putin is worried about his own political and indeed perhaps physical survival out of all of

this. again, i think the biden team has been properly cautious about not expanding the war. certainly there's a legitimate concern about putin making an irrational decision like using a nuclear weapon. but at the end of the day, we simply have to take the fight to the russians. and i don't think we've adequately armed them to do just that. the armed drones in particular which would allow them to attack some of these russian attack missile sites, launching pads, down into crimea, are more effective air defense, possibly to include f-16 fighters. many of these missiles that the russians are firing or out of belarus or out of the black sea or russia itself. the ukrainians need a better offensive capability. >> general barry mccaffrey, it's always a pleasure to see you. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> good to be with you, jose.

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what we're seeing in the u.s. a lot of the reasons why we have these rates of unvaccinations -- unvaccinated children, rather, in these communities is due to the politicalization of the covid pandemic, due to politicalization of the vaccine and all of the misinformation and disinformation out there. so we need to address that. we also need to make sure we have clear and accurate public health messaging to the communities that are being most affected, engage with trusted messengers in those communities to explain to parents the importance of vaccinating their children so we can avoid children getting sick and dying. >> doctor, thank you so much for being with us. so appreciate your time. >> thank you, jose. that wrapping up the hour for me. before we go, another dramatic finish at the world cup today. the game between uruguay and south korea ending in a draw 0-0. south korea could not seal it

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