federal government. many families that i spoke to says they feel like the state of texas is not open to civil rights action and to conversations about race in the classroom. they hope the federal government steps in. >> antonia, thank you so much. i'm jose diaz-balart. i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc nightly news saturday. you can reach me on twitter or instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up right now. ♪♪ ♪♪ good morning. i'm lindsey reiser in new york. it's a busy friday with a lot of news starting with the winter onslaught. the storm system is bearing down on the northeast with millions of americans facing snow, ice, heavy rain and strong wind gusts in some areas. that system dropped two feet of

snow in parts of minnesota. it's just part of a one-two punch of extreme weather affecting the country. in the south officials are assessing the damage of a barrage of tornados ripped across seven states. so far claiming three lives. a live report from this storm as we track its movements. an all-out assault. russia sending new missile strikes in ukraine. kyiv withstanding its biggest missile attack since the beginning of russia's invasion. >> it's making you scared, you know. >> never know how it's going to end, like, it's really unpredictable. >> we're live in the region where there are new concerns russia could be making another push to capture kyiv. new concerns about elon musk's latest twitter policies. several prominent journalists have been suspended from the platform. what he's saying about the

suspensions and why it's raising larger questions. we begin with a major winter storm battering the east. kathy park is in a snowy syracuse, new york, where the state's governor has activated emergency resources. bill karens has the forecast for us too. kathy, it's beautiful behind you, but there's safety concerns. what's it like there? >> reporter: the snow as you can see, isn't letting up. it's been like this throughout the morning. we've been slamming with heavy bands of snow throughout the morning. it's a heavy, wet snow. the roadways seem to be okay, just a slushy mess. no major problems on the roadways or for air travel in this region. we had a chance to talk to some of the residents here. they said they live in syracuse,

it's winter. they're used to storms like this. here's what one person told me. take a listen. >> it gets really messy. the snow is slick, but, you know what, we're used to it. the first one or two times, it's like oh, my god and everybody is panicking. >> you can hunker down at home with a fire and toddy. >> reporter: because of the conditions today, a lot of schools are closed and people are encouraged to work from home. the governor of new york told people to stay off the roadways as much as possible because the weather is expected to persist throughout today and into the evening. here in syracuse we have a couple inches of snow on the ground. when it's all said and done, we're looking at close to six inches of snow. the temperature is right above freezing. it's like the wet, heavy snow.

lindsay? >> kathy, thanks. bill, where is this snow moving to? >> we have 24 hours of this heavy snow in the northeast. the roads being treated are fine. all rain event, it's been soaking through southern new england. now as we watch the snow head north, it's picking up in vermont and new hampshire and maine. we have 10 million people under alerts, everywhere you see the red colors. the berkshires, and the catskills and the adirondacks under a winter storm warning. we'll pick up another couple inches during the day especially outside the capital district and outside of syracuse. we can still get another foot total. it's going to be a great ski weekend and that's gold.

they haven't had an early december dumping of snow like this in a long time. this weekend, we're quiet. it's going to be cold, but not a lot of snow. the exception near if great lakes and south of buffalo, but that's expected this time of year. next week is when things start to go downhill. we're going to have a frigid air mass coming. it's cold in bismarck and rapid city. saturday morning temperature negativebismarck. then this continues into next week. at the same time as all the cold air is coming through the eastern half of the country, a storm develops on the east coast. we have our european and american model. the european is blue and the american is red. it's still six, seven days away. we're going to have a major winter storm thursday, friday

next week. don't know who gets the heavy snow and who gets the rain. >> bill, thank you so much. we are following the mounting turmoil at twitter. the accounts of several well-known journalists who cover elon musk and twitter have been suspended. musk who called himself a free speech absolutist said the journalists violated twitter policy, especially private jet trackers. he accuses the accounts of posting his real time location called it assassination coordinates. many of the journalists say they were not tweeting that information. on wednesday musk suspended an account that used publicly available information to post the movements of his private jet. he promised he would not interfere with that account when he took over the platform. joining me now is kate nibbs and

joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney. katie, this snow balled overnight and elon tweeted, twitter with a bunch of flame emojis. he faced off with journalists in a twitter space audio discussion saying, you docks, you get suspended, end of story. what's happening? >> if i only knew what was happening exactly. as far as i can surmise, he's changing the twitter rules as fits his mood. it was only five weeks ago that he came on twitter and announced that the elon jet account would stay functional and now here we are and he's suspended prominent journalists simply for referencing the account in the course of their normal activities. it whiplash inducing. doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. it seems fear motivated.

i'm sympathetic to him because he said his son was being chased in a car. that's terrifying. everyone only wishes the best for elon musk's children. he's connecting this scary incident with this flight tracker that uses publicly available information. it doesn't make rational sense and it's a very clear indication that twitter is currently operating under the whims of a very capricious leader. >> robin, at the end of the day it's a private company. forbes just announced musk is no longer the richest man in the world. is what we're seeing good for business? do you expect to see a pivot from musk if the financial and reputational damage hits a critical mass? >> what blows my mind is he might not care when you're worth

150, $160 billion and you can cash out tesla stock to retire debt. perversely he could force the banks that issued the debt, he could buy back the debt and control the company. there's a citizen cane element to it. i'm not sure he's as motivated by the financials of tesla. i'm still blown away he bought it. we thought it was a bluff in april when he telegraphed this and tried to get out of it. in the end he bought it and he showed up. now you break it, you buy it. he's so behind with advertisers and goodwill with people pulling out, i don't see what the economic rhyme or reason is. i'm blown away that twitter's old management only have to judge a stock price if it was superior to the price they saw on the market. there wasn't an independent committee that said we might be

having a man child run the culture of the place into the ground. it was just about the stock price. >> joyce, a number of people are blasting musk over the suspension of these journalists. yvette clarke tweeted the gall of elon musk to ban respectable journalists. you write this isn't about free speech in the constitutional sense because the first amendment means the government can't restrict us from saying certain things. joyce, what do you make of this from a freedom speech issue and freedom of the press? >> it's an interesting moment. it's a problem that the legal system has often encountered as the internet has developed and the laws don't seem to be able to keep up with that rapid growth. here we are a quintessential public square, a forum for free speech, for the exchange of

ideas. it's also a private business and held by just one man who is making these decisions. one of his boards, advisory boards, he declined to convene. although he initially suggested there would be some form of group think involved in these decisions. now it looks like it's just elon musk planting polls on twitter and being guided by those results, at least when he likes the outcome. so the issue is what do you do? does government try to regulate? are there ways that individuals can enforce legal rights if they exist in this space? it's a moment where we'll have to decide what our public discourse looks like moving forward and whether people who have a concentration of power also have the ability to limit free expression. >> katie, the free markets like

competition. there are reports that journalists who are going to mastadon can't post on twitter. why is that happening? >> again, only if i knew. it seems like just because musk declared it so. there's no explanation except they're a twitter competitor and maybe he doesn't want the competition. there is no explanation for mastadon being banned. >> joyce, final thoughts to you. >> twitter is a business. it's a business that's owned by elon musk. like any other business owner, he has the ability to make

decisions to control what that business does or doesn't do even if they appear to be irrational to other people. it may well we the method is that twitter migrate to other users like mastadon. ultimately it might be the market place. >> lindsay, may i lob in a quick question for kate? >> yeah, robin. >> why can't google invent a google bird? it doesn't seem like heavy lifting. there seems to be a clamoring demand for an alternative. >> i think you're going to have to ask google that one. >> kate, robin, thank you. joyce will be back with us. what we're learning about the january 6th committee's

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shelter in the city's metro stations. allison barber is live from a shelter in kyiv with more. allison, talk to us about the situation and where you are. >> reporter: a lot of people are having to seek warmth and shelter outside because of the missile strikes. this woman said because she doesn't have any power or heat in her home she came here to seek some heat and also to make this net. the colors now are very different. that's because it's so cold here. it is snowy and almost always snowing here. this is is something ukrainian forces need. she said given the situation she's in at home she thought she would come here and do this, volunteer and help. a lot of people in kyiv woke up this morning to the sound of air raid sirens and explosions. kyiv's military administration says the strikes on kyiv this

morning were one of the most significant, one of the biggest missile attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. russia launching a new wave of missile strikes across ukraine, clouding the sky over kyiv and forcing ukrainians underground. >> it's making you scared. >> you get used to it. >> reporter: the strikes come as ukrainian officials warn of a renewed push for the capital. the commander of the armed forces saying russia is preparing 200,000 fresh troops. i have no doubt they'll have another go at kyiv. russia offering a new warning of their own. this one directed to the united states. russia's foreign minister says if the u.s. provides ukraine with the patriot missile system, it will be a provocative move. secretary lloyd austin is poised

to approve ukraine's request as soon as this week. the most intense fighting is still in the east. yesterday a ukrainian heavy artillery blockade launched attacks on russia positions, as volunteers like american brad henrikson tries to rescue civilians. this is normally a school, but now it's a refuge, a life line for a lot of people because it and places like it -- there are thousands of points like this in ukraine. they have power. they have heat and they can access the internet with their phones. >> allison barber, thank you. brittney griner is speaking out for the first time after being released from a russian prison. in her first instagram post

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the january 6th committee. the house committee will hold a public business meeting monday. nbc news has learned there's an agenda to adopt the report, presentation of findings. however, the report itself is scheduled to be released wednesday. joining me now is garrett haig, nicholas wu and joyce vance is back with us. garrett, what do we know about the report as it stands right now and what do we expect to learn monday? >> reporter: committee members and staff are rushing to finalize everything that will be in this report as quickly as they can and getting section toss the printer as they finish them. the way to think about this is most of the news will come monday. monday we'll hear the overarching findings and we'll

get the referrals the committee is planning to make to the department of justice and to the ethics committee or state bar associations for some of the attorneys involved in the investigation. it's going to be wednesday and beyond that the balance of the report, transcripts, kind of all the rest of the work product gets made public. the committee wants to get this out as quickly as they can and make it available to people in case the new congress decides to come in -- the committee won't exist in the new congress, but the new congress might pull the website down. there's a lot of work being done between now and monday to finalize the report and prepare their findings for monday. >> joyce, earlier this week congressman adam kinzinger said this about trump's role in january 6th. >> i think he is absolutely --

if he's not guilty of a crime, what we basically said is presidents are above the law and can do everything short of a coup as long as it doesn't succeed. >> joyce, what's your take on those comments and how fraught is any referral to the doj or any referral period? >> doj wants to operate in a space where it's making its decisions solely on the facts and the law with no tinge of politics. that means doj doesn't always welcome this effort to influence its work from congress. here the committee has more than earned the right to issue its final report and opinions and in many ways they led the doj investigation, first bringing the narrative to the public and helping us make sense of what happened january 6th. a big part was their laser beam focus of the former president

and his level of culpability. it's important to remember that convicting someone in the court of public opinion is very different than what goes on in a courtroom. as americans we're all entitled to and we should make judgments about whether people are politically fit to serve our country. in a courtroom we're talking about taking away someone's life and liberty, due process and other rights come into play and there's strong limitations on doj that can lead the government not to indict or get an acquittal in a case where most people looking at it believe a crime has been committed. i'm willing to leave those decisions in the hands of experts. looks like doj is up and running full force on this. i expect we'll learn not too far in the future whether they agree with the committee. >> nicholas, your reporting

finds the criminal referrals won't just include trump allies, but outside entities near trump use orbit. what can you tell us? >> reporter: what the committee has hinted at is these referrals will extend beyond criminal issues. they're looking at passing on information to the professional associations like the bar associations, the inspectors general. at the end of the day what really matters is the evidence the committee releases along with these referrals, the final charging decisions will rest on these entities that they refer individuals or organizations to. you know, like the save america pact which they might refer to the federal election commission for potential campaign finance violations. the fec can do whatever it

wants. if the committee puts out information the fec can act on, that can change the game. >> joyce, yesterday congressman david cicilline introduced a bill that reads no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elector of president or vice president or hold any office that has engaged in a civil insurrection. it's unclear whether this will go forward, but do you see any legal merit to this? >> this is a constitutional provision that's clear on its face, but there's no mechanism for enforcing it. it's not clear whether you have to wait until someone is criminally convicted or whether committing the act is enough. the most recent precedent is in

the civil war era. it's difficult to imagine an effort to exclude trump moving forward without protracted litigation, injecting more uncertainty into the election process. >> thank you to you all. the sentencing of one of the faces of the january 6th attack. doug jenson has been convicted and sentenced to five years. he's seen here chasing eugene goodman and wearing a qanon shirt. joining me now is correspondent ken did he lane january. walk us through what happened. >> reporter: the judge threw the book at jenson. this 60-month sentence was just

short of what prosecutors asked for. he was one of the first rioters to enter the capital and he led a menacing chase inside of officer eugene goodman who heroically diverted the rioters away from senators. the jury found that jenson assaulted goodman and prosecutors noted he scaled a 20-foot wall he was so intent on being one of the first rioters to break into the building. judge timothy kelly said it was a miracle his conduct didn't lead to greater injuries or death. the jury found him guilty on seven counts including civil disorder and assaulting police officers. capital police officers said jenson's actions endangered the entire united states senate. the attorney described the client as a man who fell deeply down the rabbit hole of qanon and he honestly believed the 2020 election was stolen and he

needed to help donald trump right that wrong. he's already served 20 months in detention. >> that police officer credited with saving the lives of members of congress from diverting the rioters. ken, thanks. still to come, congress managed to avoid a government shutdown, but they're sending a bill to president biden that repeals the covid vaccine for service members. will the president sign it? then, hospitals are filling up with covid and the flu. how experts say families can staff over the holidays. >> we'll see different communities try different things. that's appropriate.

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>> well, if you aren't vaccinated and aren't up to date on vaccines, including flu and some important ones children aren't getting like chicken pox and other important vaccines, be prepared to have one of your people get sick. that's what we saw at thanksgiving. if you can't get up to date on vaccines, take precautions like testing before you arrive. also, try to make sure if you're symptomatic of any kind, runny nose, even if you're covid negative, there's other viruses and just sit this one out. if you can't do that, expect somebody is going to get sick and plan for that. >> since the flu started surging early, is there any evidence the flu is going to peak any time soon? >> that's what we hope. we are surging about a month, six weeks earlier than expected. like all seasons, there's a

seasonality. we see it's also regional. cases are increasing for the flu everywhere but they increased earlier in the south and atlantic first and then they'll move through other parts of the country. those patterns can take several months to play out. travel can affect that too. in the meantime it can get ugly. keep in mind, young healthy people can get serious consequences of the flu. >> doctor, i want to talk to you about china. they've seen a wave of covid cases and deaths. china has not been forthcoming with data. should we be concerned about the effect here from cases there? >> it's less about us being concerned about cases there and what we learned in covid is that this is really not a geographic limitation. we need to -- it's not just the data we can see or not see from china, but looking to the world health organization and the surveillance we have in place. we know now that even the cases

we thought were first cases in the u.s., they were not the first cases of covid back in early 2020, late 2019. what we need is -- we have a better handle on a more global surveillance. that means looking at europe. we're seeing disturbing trends in europe as well. what we know in the united states is what variants we have and our true case rates. i don't expect we'll see travel bans. those are not working. instead, you'll see the push the white house is making to get americans as up to date and ready as possible. the message is not resonating. we only have about a 12% rate on these booster. flu vaccine rates are low and nobody wants to wear a mask. they need to if we want a reasonable holiday season. >> doctor, in general, there's a push back to vaccinations.

parents feel they should be the ones to decide on whether getting their children vaccinated against measles, mumps. what's the fall out? >> i work with pediatricians and we were talking about how on earth are we talking about in this country people turning down vaccines because of myths and misinformation. our voices aren't getting through. we have to get people to understand this is not about politics. we're seeing children coming in with measles and diseases that

shouldn't present because we have preventable vaccines. i'm worried about the long-term consequences, not just childhood. these have life-long consequences. we haven't studied those. >> doctor, we have to leave it there. thank you. >> thank you. down to the wire, about 24 hours before deadline the senate passed a one-week spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, giving congress another week to hash out a longer term deal. the future of another major defense package is also uncertain. the annual defense spending bill passed the senate 83-11 yesterday. it includes lifting the covid vaccine mandate for service members. big priority for republicans. we're joined now from mike memoli. walk us through the spending

bills and what lawmakers need to work out for the longer term spending package. >> reporter: they have one week to figure this out. the deadline has been extended from tonight to next friday, december 23rd. lawmakers are finalizing a massive government funding bill they expect to pass by next week and go home for the holidays. the negotiators have held their cards close to the vest. we expect a $1.5 trillion boost. republicans received a victory by getting defense funding at a higher level. democrats said they wanted parody, but these are president biden's numbers. the major question is what other provisions are attached. i'm told by four sources in the house and senate that the election reform act, the electoral count reform legislation is going to be

attached to this omnibus bill. that's going to be a huge victory to make it harder for future presidential candidates to use loopholes. that will have a lasting impact if it passes. it appears to have the votes. ukraine funding, supplementals likely to be added. there's a lot of -- there's a fear that if republicans take control of the house that can be up in the air. finally, i'm told by a senior democratic aid that chuck schumer is making a last-ditch effort to include the safe banking act. that may be a tougher sell, but the rest of the package appears to be moving. >> mike, has the white house said anything about the vaccine

mandate? will the president sign it? >> reporter: we heard from the white house that the president agrees that lifting the vaccine mandate is not in the best interest of the military. this bill includes so many pieces that the white house does support, including a pay raise for the military, steps to expand housing vouchers, also draw down authority, money for supporting taiwan and ukraine as well. as john kirby put it this morning, the president will judge this as a whole, just like he has in the past. that's a signal that the president will likely sign this legislation. i would look for what they call a signing statement. the president will include specific language in announcing his support for this bill overall that makes clear his opposition to that specific provision. >> mike, you reported that president biden has noted he

plans to run again in 2024. you also have some new insight into what he may be thinking. >> reporter: when the president has been asked about whether he's going to run again, his answer is specific -- my intention is to run again, but then he adds i'm a great respecter of fate. the answer to that part as i've been talking to white house officials, they point to the anniversary that the biden family will be marking sunday, the 50th anniversary of that car accident just after he was elected to the senate for the first time that killed his wife and infant daughter. it's an emotional day today. president biden is going to the guard base named for his late son beau biden. president biden has seen the highest of highs, but the lowest of lows. he has seen in the past that circumstances might impact the

announcement and it's important insight into the president's thinking. >> could those circumstances be political? >> reporter: it's important to note as some people speculated, maybe the president will look at the polls and know he's maybe not guaranteed to win a second term. his poll numbers are still low. as one official put it to me, the president has experienced real loss and the idea of losing a campaign will not keep him out of the race. >> thank you both. up next, we'll take a look at the markets today. how investors are reacting to how investors are reacting to growing fears of a recession.arn

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way they are? >> okay, so first of all, they're all over the place today. they're in the red, they were for a while were in the green, now i'm looking, negative again. you mentioned the dow, but the s&p is off 1.5%. you have the nasdaq off 1.25% because what you're seeing is wall street is calling a quadruple witching. stock, index futures and options. on top of that, the s&p rebalancing at the market close. there's a lot of volume today in the markets. it looks like we're going to end this week on a low note. big sell-off yesterday, big sell-off last week. and guess who gets the blame. boy, these guys love to point the finger at the fed and its hawkish take on inflation, its insistence that rates will continue rising until inflation is in chains and worries over the recession as you mentioned top of mind. now you have china grappling with covid infections. what does that mean for the

reopening businesses desperately hope will happen and all that is part of what is leading to what we have seen with goldman sachs saying 8% of its workforce just adjusting to this weaker outlook. >> contessa brewer, a wild day all over. i'm sure we'll be seeing you throughout the day as well. people can check cnbc for updates. that does it for me on this busy friday. i'm going to see you back here tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern. for now, andrea mitchell reports starts next. (scrooge) bah humbug! my signal is totally ghosting me! (cecily) 'tis the season to switch to verizon.

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