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from virginia. this hour, police say they found a note by the alleged shooter. what it might tell us. on this day after thanksgiving, 166 million americans are expected to shop in stores and online. inflation is still weighing heavily on the minds of most consumers. the moon, like we have never seen it before. this is amazing. nasa's orion space capsuled lan. let's start in virginia where we are learning more about the deadly shooting at a walmart that claimed the lives of six people, including a 16-year-old who the city just confirmed as fernando barron. a witness tells the associated press, the shooter, a former employee, seemed to have targets and fired at some after they were already dead. the witness goes on to say,

quote, the way he was acting, he was going hunting. joining us now, nbc nes correspondent cal perry. we are getting more information from police at this hour. what can you tell us about the note just released? >> reporter: this note was found on the shooter's iphone as police -- we understand it was the fbi backed by the atf searched the shooter's home within 24 hours of the deadly incident on tuesday night. this note does provide, i think, some insight as to why the shooter carried out this crime. a lot of it is nnonsense, paranoid talk about his phone being tapped. he talks about his co-workers talking and laughing behind his back. it seems as though that was his motivation. the quote you put up there about an eyewitness who said it felt like he was hunting, we have heard that from eyewitnesses here. we talked to an employee at the

store who talked about how he let her go but killed the people around her. this note is not going to provide comfort to the families. we saw the family of the 16-year-old boy yesterday wailing in the parking lot. it was an awful scene. this note is not going to provide any answers to those families. it will give police an idea of the reasons why the gunman felt like he needed to do this. i will add, chris, that police are confirming the gun was bought the morning of the shooting. it was a handgun. the gun and the ammunition bought legally here in the state of virginia. >> thank you so much, cal perry. in colorado springs, a thanksgiving dinner that was traditionally held at club q had to be moved to a church as survivors of the shooting there try to make sense of the senseless, the loss of five more lives. a makeshift memorial near the site gets bigger every day. we see the community come together and try to offer what strength and assistance they can to one another.

joining us from colorado springs, nbc's maura barrett. how did the victims and the families spend this thanksgiving? >> reporter: chris, the holidays can be a tough time of year for anyone. but especially for those in the queer community, especially in conservative pockets like here in colorado springs. when club q used to host a thanksgiving dinner here every year, it was for people who came together with their chosen family, people who accepted them for who they are and who they loved, for those whose blood families, biological families might not have welcomed them home. that was something that was nearly a ten-year tradition here at the club. the queer community here came together to make sure they could still gather and help each other grieve but also be grateful for the lives that they have. the local church hosted the dinner, coordinating donations from restaurants across town, endless volunteers. they were able to feed hundreds of people yesterday. in the meantime, when we are

watching all of this support come together, we are hearing more from survivors and learning how tightly knit everybody inside club q was that night. yesterday i met wyatt kent. he is the boyfriend of a bartender who lost his life in the shooting. he wanted to speak about daniel's legacy. he wanted to be a writer. he was a poet. he had endless light and wyatt couldn't stop smiling through his tears. i want you to hear some of our conversation. >> one of the first times i performed at club q, i turned to another drag queen and in talking about daniel i said, i'm going to marry that man. we had only really started seriously talking around september. things moved very quickly. they say when you know, you know.

i think we both really knew. >> reporter: wyatt and daniel talked about getting married in the new year. even amidst his pain, he talked about how grateful he is for the community here, how grateful he is for another victim, kelly loving, who took a bullet for him and died on top of him. he is grateful for rich, his best friend's dad, his best friend's boy friend losing his life in the shooting, but rich, the hero that we have heard so much about, protecting the community. that's the sense that we got talking to so many people here this week is the immediate knowledge that they are there to protect each other. they will stand up for each other and support each other as this tragedy moves forward, as they keep wanting to send a message of love over hate here in colorado springs. >> remarkable. maura barrett, thank you. as of today, according to the gun violence archive, there have been 610 mass shootings in

the u.s. this year. in just the three days since the walmart assault in virginia, there have been mass shootings in florida, pennsylvania, maryland, texas. grim statistics. now president biden says he will once again try to pass a bill banning assault weapons. >> the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. it's just sick. it has no social redeeming value, zero, none. not a single solitary rationale for it. >> can you do anything about gun laws? >> i'm going to try. i'm going to try to get rid of assault weapons. >> joining us now, joyce vance and jeff masson. thank you both for being here. joyce, can i ask you about this breaking news that we saw, that there was a note on the phone of the alleged shooter in walmart, and you heard cal describe

various things that it had to say? we know it confirms some of the things or would seem to confirm some of the things that we have heard from folks there, that he seemed to be targeting specific people. how might that be used to maybe try to answer, first of all, the question that so many families have, which is, why? or can it at all? how would a note like that be used in this investigation? >> the tragedy in these cases is that very often there is no closure for families. when you have a note like this, sometimes you can assess, did the shooter suffer from mental illness? was it a crime that was motivated by hate? was he targeting certain types of people? was it workplace interactions? we know now that the shooter was a former employee and could that somehow enter into this calculus? for the families, it's a long and difficult road ahead trying

to understand this and also as the cameras fade away in the week or two after the shooting, their lives will become more difficult and their need for support greater. >> the president, jeff, as you know, understands how quickly the public will can come and go, not in any other sense but that lives move on. we know this. there was some gun legislation passed after the tragedy in uvalde. but is there any chance you see of another piece of gun legislation getting through before the new congress gavels in what is just weeks from now? >> i think the white house would start by saying -- highlighting what they have done. but you heard what president biden said in his remarks to reporters. it is at the top of his mind. there is a sad, ironic sense of momentum for policy changes on guns after mass shootings. i have no doubt when he says he is going to try to get that through, he will try. that said, the reality is --

this goes to your question. they have a lot they need to get done during the lame duck, including budget things. the votes have not changed. the number of votes that are -- the democrats still control the house. they didn't have the momentum to pass an assault weapons bill. i don't think it will change. that's the political reality that he faces. he may have some momentum because of the attention that's being drawn to these horrible tragedies. >> we hear from opponents of gun restrictions that the answer is to enforce the laws on the books. in the club q shooting, the suspect was apparently able to evade red flag laws. i'm quoting here. an associated press analysis shows colorado has one of the lowest protection to bear arms.

they said red flag laws infringe upon the rights of law abiding citizens. can prosecutors pick and choose what laws they want to enforce? >> prosecutors always have discretion. there's a lot more crime that happens in this country than prosecutors have the resources and perhaps the desire to prosecute. when it comes to gun laws, it's important to note that we now have one of the most conservative supreme courts we have had in modern era. even this court, parts of which were involved in the decision in heller versus united states, which expanded our concept of well-armed militias, the groups that the second amendment talked about, and the right to have firearms. suddenly, after heller there was

a right to have a firearm in your home for self-protection. last term, the supreme court expanded that to public places. even this hyperconservative court with this expansive interpretation of the second amendment still says it's constitutional to place limits on the type of people who can possess firearms. it's illegal to have a gun if you have previously been con convicted of a felony. congress could expand the red flag laws and limitations on types of guns. it's illegal to own an automatic weapon. no reason president biden's proposed ban couldn't be passed if the political will existed. >> joyce, jeff, thank you for being with us on this holiday weekend. it's black friday. let the shopping season begin, even as we deal with the rising cost of everything. we have tips how you can save next.

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holiday shopping is in full swing. more than half the country expected to take advantage of black friday deals today and this weekend, even as we pay more for everything and, of course, credit card interest rates are on the rise. brian chung joins me now. we are looking for deals. i wonder if deals are relative given everything costs more this year. talk to us about what we are expecting. >> reporter: i'm here at the garden state plaza mall. the big story for this holiday shopping season is inflation.

prices 7.7% higher this year than this time last year. the question is whether or not the deals that retailers are offering are going to be fluff to bring people into the stores. i have been seeing signs 50% off, 60% off. but i have talked to people that said they don't feel like the deals are substantial enough, especially with their wallets more pinched this season. we got some preliminary data that said shopping for thanksgiving, while people eating, clocked in at $5.3 billion. that's a record. that could bode well for the beginning of the holiday spending weekend. we will see, cyber monday coming up, which could have a lot of sales as well. based off the activity here on the mall on this black friday afternoon, seems like a lot of people coming out to get into the holiday spirit. >> i will send you my list. feel free to pick and choose. >> reporter: i will. >> have a good time tonight. let's turn to the weather

and how it could impact travel plans. michelle grossman joins me. weather was mostly lovely yesterday. maybe not so great for the weekend? >> yeah, looks like things are changing. we have had a nice start to the holiday week. things are beginning to change. active weather today. especially on sunday for some of our major hubs. you can see lots of green showing up on the map. that's indicating where rain is falling. portions of the southern plains into the northeast and the mid-atlantic. northwest, a new system bringing some storms there as well. mountain snow, lower elevation rain. that's what we will watch over the next several days. heavy rain in the southern plains, even snow in new mexico and western texas. as far as the airports, we have possible delays from boston to new york, into d.c., down through charlotte and atlanta and certainly dallas and houston. we are seeing heaviest rain, the worst weather. seattle could see possible slowdowns as well.

everywhere else, we are looking good. saturday, if you are traveling, hopefully along the east coast, we are looking good. temperatures not that bad. from boston to d.c., down to orlando, miami, all good. dallas and houston still another slowdown. we will see heavy rain falling with the new system moving onshore. that's going to cause flooding. it's going to be gusty winds. that's not going to help the problem. as we look toward salt lake city could see snow. seattle looking better. san francisco, las vegas, los angeles, we are looking at no delays expected. this is what we are worried about. we are looking at sunday, a busy day to travel and you can see along the east coast, heavy rain throughout the day. from boston, new york city, philadelphia, d.c., likely seeing delays there. those are major hubs. could see possible delays in detroit, chicago, salt lake city. the good news is in the southern plains, we clear out. dallas and houston looking better there. this is what we are looking at in terms of the forecast. a cold front moving through that

will bring weather today. we will watch this over the next few days. >> i was a plan for sunday. home, book, hot chocolate. michelle grossman -- >> love it. perfect. >> thank you. here is an interesting stat. for every 100 people who flew thanksgiving day in 2021, there were 177 people flying out on the sunday after. the sunday after thanksgiving is typically the busiest flying day of the year. ron allen is at la guardia in queens. how is it looking? >> reporter: it's friday and it's so far seems to be shaping up to be a light travel day here in the new york area. we talked to a number of people trying to get ahead of the big rush that's going to happen on sunday. it could be one of the busiest travel days we have seen in quite some time. we ran into a number of people yesterday, thursday, thanksgiving day, who were traveling. the air fares were cheaper. again, they were trying to avoid the big rush that happened wednesday.

this is a really focused and intense travel season, the thanksgiving holiday. tsa, airlines have been gearing up for this, trying to avoid the chaos that happened during the spring and summer when people started traveling again in big numbers. so far, the tsa numbers, the screening numbers for the last few days are not up to where they were in 2019 pre-pandemic. but they are ahead of last year and the year before because so much travel was put off because of the covid pandemic. that doesn't seem to be the case now. we talked to a number of people who were so anxious to get out and see family and finally have a real thanksgiving again after putting it off for the past couple of years. the big variable is the weather. there is some travel -- some weather threats looming in other parts of the country, moving through the south and into the middle part of the country that could affect things saturday and sunday. sunday, of course, will be a real day to watch out for. if you can travel before then, if you are on the roads, drive

early in the morning or later at night, you will be better off. at this moment, very few can sl -- cancellations and delays. things moving here in the new york area. back to you. >> ron allen, thank you for that. you have likely heard the term by now. tripledemic. rsv, the flu and covid driving a wave of new infections around the country, pushing some hospitals over capacity and leading to shortages of critical medicines. we have just the right guest to help us out. dr. zeke emanuel at the university of pennsylvania. happy belated thanksgiving to you. it's good to see you. if covid gave us experience in dealing with viral infections, a study you co-authored is worrying. the conclusion is that when you looked at mortality rates, compared to 20 other high income countries, the u.s. gets an f.

why is that? do your conclusions help us understand how to deal with the tripledemic? >> nice to see you, chris. happy thanksgiving to you. it is really worrisome how badly the united states has performed. we looked specifically at the delta variant, which was last september, and the omicron variant last spring. our stats are roughly a quarter of a million, as much as 400,000 excess deaths of people, both because of covid but also because of avoiding the medical system. it does say we need to do a better job of protecting the vulnerable in our society, old people, people who live in crowded housing areas. i don't think -- vaccines are important, but vaccines are not going to be enough. they are necessary but not sufficient. we have gotten too much, it's in the booster, just get the booster. i don't think that's actually

the answer here. those are important. >> what is? we saw the last white house press briefing from dr. fauci. he said get your booster. i had the head of the cdc on my program, get your booster. we are lagging horribly in that. the numbers are dismal. if not that, what else can we do? >> chris, the shots that were there from the airports and from the shopping malls show you people are not wearing masks. masks are very effective, especially if you have an n95 or kn95 mask. during the holiday season, for the last three years, we have seen big upticks. we are seeing a rise already of covid cases, hospitalizations, test positivity rate. we are getting on the early side of this. that thanksgiving sunday travel

going to be a very, very bad situation with a lot of people without masks spreading covid. people might not die from this covid, because it does seem to be less severe, either because of infection or because of vaccines or just because the virus has changed. but that doesn't mean getting covid is going to be not without its consequences. it can lay you up, as you noted. there's rsv out there and flu as well. it could give you long covid, which would be dreadful, i think, for many people. so i suggest wear a mask. i wear a mask when traveling. i'm here in los angeles with my brother's family for thanksgiving. we wore a mask the whole time. i would also say to people, you have to protect yourself. when i teach, i have my students wear a mask. that's probably at the moment the best thing you can do. >> are you eating indoors at

restaurants at this point? >> actually, thanksgiving was held outdoors in los angeles yesterday. we have been outside. we had breakfast yesterday outdoors. >> feels like a throwback, but if the alternative is getting sick or having long covid, consider it. zeke emanuel, to you and your family, thank you so much. it's good of you to come on the program today. appreciate it. 11 days until the georgia senate runoff. can democrats gain another seat in a race that polls show is still within the margin of error? business unlimited. it's just right for my little business. unlimited premium data. unlimited hotspot data. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equal. so switch to verizon business unlimited today. hello! hello is friendly... hello is open... it's welcoming. everything we want to be

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maya king. maya, you have been covering this extensively. you have heard concerns, it's a tough challenge to motivate voters. what are both sides doing? >> both democrats and republicans have really had to sort of tweak their messaging as it relates to how they turn out, particularly their base voters. senator warnock and democrats have really aimed to put this race in terms of 51 is better than 50, particularly as it relates to the judiciary and being able to pass through like-minded judges on the federal level. republicans have made this a race about being a firewall against democratic control of the senate. even though control of that chamber is decided, a republican in the senate that keeps the chamber at 50/50 could still be essentially a block against the

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in ukraine, the unrelenting russian attacks continue. a barrage of missiles striking the recently liberated city of kherson, killing ten people and leaving at least 50 others injured. president zelenskyy has repeat lid compared these strikes to terror attacks. all of it coming as the temperatures drop and ukraine races to restore power knocked out by the air strikes. joining me now is ellison barber. you have been at a shelter. tell us what you saw and heard there. >> reporter: we got to the shelter and we saw kids playing outside in the snow, building a snowman. inside, their parents, they were waiting in a lobby without electricity to get a bowl of soup. the soup was warm but the rest of the building, it was cold. we spoke to people there about

their experiences throughout the war, the trauma a lot of them have encountered. we met one man who has been living in this shelter with his grandchildren for two months. his village had been captured by russian forces. he says, when they occupied the territory, they detained and imprisoned him. >> translator: my grandchildren saw me being taken away, a bag on my head, tied up and threw me. i'm sorry. i stayed there for three months. there were women. women were in prison there. and they were beaten. constantly beating us, every day, everyone was beaten.

>> reporter: he told us after surviving all of that, his home, it was completely destroyed, burnt to the ground. every document identifying who he is, he says, all of it is gone. he has been in this shelter for internally displaced people for two months. now on top of that, he is trying to figure out where he and his grandchildren can go next. if they can stay with a relative somewhere further away, somewhere where it will be warm. now they are dealing with this constant concern of the rolling blackouts. >> ellison barber, thank you for your continuing, fantastic reporting. thank you so much for that. i want to bring in commander twitty. it's devastating. what is vladimir putin's game here now? >> what he is trying to do is overwhelm the air defense systems, whether it be drones,

missile attack, rocket attacks. so that's why you see him throw hundreds of missiles in there, because he knows that most of those will get shot down. the ukrainians are shooting those down. 25% are striking the target. his intent is to put the ukrainian people in misery so they will capitulate or come to the bargaining table. as you know, the ukrainians have shown great determination and resolve. he is going to be at this for a while until he breaks the ukrainian people or until he runs out of missiles and drones to be able to conduct this type of warfare. this is nothing more than terror. >> that's exactly what president zelenskyy says. what you just said reminds me of "the wall street journal" story that i read this morning about

how hospital staff in kherson, the staff was able to thwart russian soldiers from taking control by faking a covid outbreak, hiding equipment, even when they came in, they hid remotes for medical equipment and saying, don't take it, because you can't use it. how much have ukrainians used their determination to stay ahead of the russians and to still be in the game nine months later? >> it's going to take more. they are at subzero temperatures. the weather, it doesn't favor the ukrainians nor the russians at this point. it's going to take determination and will to be able to fight under these conditions. if the ukrainians can hold up and fight under these conditions, consolidate the gains that they gained over the past couple of months, continue to rearm, refit and recruit and

the west continues to supply them, they will come out in the winter months in good shape, with the russians still on their heels, to make additional gains. by the way, they have their eyes set on crimea. as they come out of the spring months here, be prepared for them to go for crimea at the end of this. >> in the winter months are what is considered humanitarian supplies as important as the military help that the united states and our allies is giving to the folks in ukraine. >> that's correct. i know that nato as well as the eu are stepping up to ensure that from a humanitarian perspective, you have all these people in cold weather, they cannot get hot water. so it will be critical the humanitarian side steps up along

with the military side to ensure that the people of ukraine are taken care of during these winter months. >> it's good to have you here. thank you so much. >> great to see you again. nasa's orion spacecraft is giving us a new and stunning close-up look at the moon's surface. nasa administrator bill nelson is here to discuss the spectacular views and what we can learn from them next. business unlimited. it's just right for my little business. unlimited premium data. unlimited hotspot data. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equal. so switch to verizon business unlimited today.

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flight before putting humans on board and everything seems to be working. when the little things come up as they always do this incredible team is able to change whatever needs to be changed to overcome the problem. so we are now going on a position 40,000 miles beyond the moon. further than any human rated spacecraft has ever been. then the orbit's going to be circularized. they're going to do one full orkt and then start the deorbit process and slingshot us back all the way to earth. splash down december 11 off of san diego. >> is there a kind of a -- pardon me for being simplistic but a checklist saying this is

what we need to learn before putting humans on board and going to the moon? what are the priorities from this mission to move on to the next one? >> of course the heat shield has to work. that's 5,000 degrees coming in. it's hot. it's fast. it's 32 mach which is about 25,000 miles per hour when it encounters the earth's atmosphere so clearly a major test of this flight is that that heat shield's got to work. but all the other things. the rocket had to work. it worked beautifully. now the adjustments to the trajectory going around the moon. the human rated spacecraft. all of that is going on and 2024, four humans, four nasa astronauts are going to climb on the top of that baby and strap

in and here we go. 8.8 million pounds of thrust and liftoff. >> i'm unqualified but volunteer. understanding it is not going to happen, are you at all concerned about the new congress and the reality of the congressional arena for many, many years. you know how it can work. do you feel confident about support of the space program going forward? >> i'm really not because we have support from rs and ds alike. we are reflective of the american people. what do they want? they want us to come together and the space program is a place that that happens.

it is not only bipartisan it is nonpartisan. but more than that. look at the international community. this is not america alone. we have international partners. a major portion of this spacecraft is the european service module. whether we go on to the moon and set up a lunar space station it will be participated in by many nations and again in the international arena where we also have difficulty obviously with russia and china, we have been able to have these nations come together. i might say not with china. with rodriguez since 1975. >> we are going to watch this as it moves forward. the mission and the return of man to the moon. thank you for being with us.

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