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for many parents. that concern you? >> not really. i'm an immigrant myself. >> i want my tax dollars to go toward my kids, but the softer side of me feels bad for these kids. you know, it's not their problem. >> reporter: ron allen, nbc news. we've got a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports," let's get right to it. at this hour, everybody, breaking news. the long-awaited report from the fulton county special grand jury drops with a bombshell. they thought even more people should have been charged including current and former senators lindsey graham, kelly lefler, and david perdue. also breaking, a former philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a man seconds after pulling up next to his car has just been charged with murder. the video that led to his arrest. and overseas, a race to save
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an american trapped more than 3,000 feet deep in a cave in turkey. his emotional plea as rescuers work around the clock to get him out. and vice president kamala harris fielding a question about president biden's age. her response when asked would she be prepared to step in if necessary. our nbc news reporters are following the very latest developments. we want to begin with that breaking news on that special grand jury report out of georgia. nbc's garrett haake is following that for us. garrett, some very surprising names included here. give us the headlines. >> reporter: yeah. the special grand jury had recommended charges against nearly 40 individuals in what became the 19 individual racketeering and conspiracy case that was filed last month. among the names recommended for prosecution but not actually charged by the second grand jury are three united states senators, two former, one current, david perdue, kelly loeffler of georgia, lindsey graham of south carolina, and
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several kind of top-tier trump advisers including michael flynn, former national security adviser, and boris epstein, still a current attorney on trump's campaign staff. the responses from these folks have been pretty varied to what they think about the fact that they were or weren't charged. lindsey graham was asked about this in south carolina just a short time ago. here's what he said about his role in looking into the 2020 election results and what he thinks about this new development. >> yeah, i was totally surprised, yeah, because i thought i made it pretty clear that my phone call was to find out what i should be doing as a senator. i never suggested anybody set aside the election. i never said go find votes. i never said anything other than trying to find out how the mail-in balloting system worked. i was confused and still am quite frankly. i'm not so sure. >> reporter: i interviewed graham in november of 2020 when he was making calls to brad raffensperger and others talking about his interest in finding out what happened in georgia. ultimately he didn't hold any
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hearing and voted to certify the election. on the other end of the spectrum is michael flynn, someone who at the time had advocated for seizing voting machines and declaring marshal law. a statement from his attorney is much more dig in talking about the idea that this is a witch hunt and a continued attempt to interfere with the 2024 election. you know, flynn continues to be one who maintains that the election was stolen and remains dug in on that fact. >> we have much more coming up on this in our hour ahead. garrett haake, thank you. more breaking news, everybody. a former philadelphia officer who shot and killed a man as he sat in his car is now facing murder charges. nbc's ron allen is following the story for us and has the video that led to his arrest. ron? >> reporter: hi there, yes. the man's name is eddie arazari and the officer is mark dial. he turned himself in and faces murder charges, aggravated assault charges. this happened back on august 14th in north philadelphia. and the police gave varying
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accounts of what happened. today they released the body cam video of the incident from the two officers. take a look at one piece of video that shows the other officer's vantage point as they arrived at the scene. initially police had said that the suspect got out of the car, lunged at police. they had said that the -- there was another altercation of some sort, that the officers had approached from both sides. and then the -- spotted the knife and felt they were in danger. but the body camera video shows that in fact the officer got out of his car and opened fire within six or seven seconds and fired six shots into the man who turned out had a pocket knife and never had any encounter with police before this. as you might imagine, people in philadelphia, his family, livid about this. and they're especially upset about the fact that there were other versions of the story of what had happened, and now the police are correcting themselves and it is the body camera video
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as the d.a. there says, the video speaks for itself. it shows what happened, and again, this officer, former officer is charged with murder. unclear whether he's entered a plea. he's being held on $500,000 bond. >> thank you, appreciate it. want to get to turkey now and the race to save an american trapped deep inside a cave. that is where we find matt bradley who has that story for us. matt, take us through it. >> reporter: we're in southern turkey, just outside the mouth of the morca cave. there's a tent city that's been growing just behind me. we're seeing rescue workers and experts flown in from around the world. most of the teams that we're seeing here are hungarian, greek, and italian, trying to rescue this american explorer mark dickey, who's been trapped underground with a serious medical condition the last week. he's had gastrointestinal bleeding, not serious in a hospital or major city, almost routine.
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when you're trapped more than 3,000 feet underground, it is a very serious situation. as you can see, a logistical nightmare. getting equipment down there is a real problem because of all of these rescue workers, they have to be expert climbers, they have to basically drop themselves down a very steep cliff into the cave, and if they try to come back up, they have to climb up using ropes. and according to the rescue workers that i've been speaking to, that's the easy part. this is a very difficult cave. i spoke with one of the people who was with mark down underground when he developed this illness while they were on this original expedition. here's what he had to say -- >> all of a sudden he felt some dizziness like almost unconscious. he puked blood, part of it was old blood, and part of it was fresh. so that's how it was, that's how it started. >> reporter: this is an important moment. everybody is waiting for the all clear from the doctors to say that mark dickey is able to be
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extracted from the cave. he hasn't had to have a blood transfusion in the last two days which is a very good sign. and they're waiting for the all clear from the rescue workers to say that they've cleared some of the tighter passages, sometimes using small explosives. we're told that this exhaustive journey which could take several days could begin as early as tomorrow morning. >> matt bradley for us. thank you so much. want to go to nbc's monica alba who's standing by at the white house for more on vice president kamala harris' response to that question about president biden's age. good to talk to you. what did the vice president have to say? >> reporter: yeah, this is while she was traveling abroad in indonesia attending the asean summit. she was asked pretty candidly about whether she was prepared to take on the role of commander in chief should that happen, should for some reason president biden decide at this point not to pursue re-election, though of course everybody around him and the president himself has said clearly that is what he is going
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to do. but should something happen, should they win potentially next november and then in a second term hypothetically if she needed to step into it, and she has said this for months, but this is, of course, the most relevant now as we are headed into that critical year. take a listen to what exchange that aired on another network. >> the "wall street journal" had a poll showing two-thirds of democrats say joe biden is too old to run again. are you prepared to be commander in chief? >> yes, i am, if necessary. but joe biden is going to be fine. let me tell you something, i work with joe biden every day. the work that -- under joe biden's leadership, our administration has accomplished, is transformative. i think the american people most of all want a leader who actually gets things done. >> reporter: and that concern about the president's age, he is soon going to be turning 81, is reflected in several polls. but the white house senior
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advisers are very quick to dismiss those. they say that this president has been underestimated time and time again, and that it's his decades of experience that voters will really look to when assessing whether he is up for the job for another four years. and to that end, we've seen the biden campaign and re-elect effort try to highlight that and try to say, again, that his experience in washington and all those years in public service are an asset and not a drawback. >> i also want to talk about some of our nbc news exclusive reporting. a request the white house chief of staff made to all cabinet secretaries. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: yeah, this is pretty standard in any administration, especially one gearing up for this re-election battle. i'm told by several sources that the white house chief of staff checked in with cabinet members essentially to get a sense of their plans and to say lets me know by around the end of the summer whether you are going to be leaving or whether you plan
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to stay for the full term. and all 15 cabinet leaders that are in that presidential line of succession ultimately decided for now that they are going to stick around. and again, we should stress that is the plan. things change. there are unforeseen circumstances. and we know that of everybody so far, just one cabinet leader has left nearly three years in. that was the former labor secretary, marty walsh, who took in the words of officials a dream job he couldn't pass up. but overall, this is a pretty cohesive cabinet and will have the tough job of trying to sell the president's message on the road. >> monica alba, thank you. appreciate it. more breaking news, folks. we have new nbc reporting revealing trouble for donald trump in iowa. his own allies worried he could be squandering his lead in the polls. that's in just 60 seconds. we'll be right back. businesses need 5g solutions today. that's why they choose t-mobile for business. mlb partners with t-mobile to not only enhance the fan experience, but to advance how the game is played.
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on the 2024 race for the republican nomination. new reporting from nbc news revealing that donald trump's campaign may be in trouble in iowa despite having a lead in the polls. the former president's top allies and even his own son worry he may be squandering that lead and providing an opening for his top rival, florida governor ron desantis. want to bring in dasha burns and stuart stevens who served as chief strategist for the campaign and a senior adviser for the project, as well. walk us through what you're learning and how worried folks are. >> yeah. so my colleague, katherine doyle, and i talked to a dozen sources ranging from local and state officials to longtime trump allies, and the picture that they painted was one of essentially a lagging organization on the ground which is a concern to them because trump has not spent a whole lot of time in the state. he's been relying on the people on the ground there instead to run that operation. but essentially what sources
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have been telling us is there isn't a large operation there. they're not at the doors, they're not tabling at these events. one source telling me when you go to these events you see nikki haley tables, you see desantis people there, you see vivek ramaswamy representatives but don't see trump representatives there. i talked to one source who had a phone call with donald trump jr. where don jr. himself expressed concern about the lack of expense on trump's iowa team, about the lack of operations, saying they were too slow to get started, saying that they're giving his top rival, florida governor ron desantis, too many opportunities there. and when you look at the desantis campaign you've got the opposite situation there. trump is leading in the polls. desantis is behind in the polls, but when you look at their operation, he has basically moved into iowa.
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he's been spending a ton of time there. he's visited 53 of the 99 counties, is planning to go to all of them. they've got representatives in all 99 counties. they've got a bunch of endorsements, they've got 12,000 commit to caucus cards and have a serious ground game there. when it comes to iowa especially, because of the nature of what a caucus is, it's people that you have to get to show up, to go to a room, to talk to their neighbors on january 15th, there could be a snowstorm, it's not justice filling in a mail-in ballot, you have to get people out. it matters that you have a ground game in a state like iowa, and so that's what you've got trump allies and his own son concerned because you need that operation in place. >> stuart, talk to me. what do you make of this? no ground game, we're hearing, no door knocking. 2016 at one point was called the summer of trump visiting iowa, i believe, ten times, as stated in this reporting. there time it's only six so far,
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two of which were in a town hall, one of which with fox news' sean hannity. should they be worried? >> look, if i was in iowa and working for any candidate, i would be worried. the difference between first and third in ways, is likely to be 5,000 votes. it's a very -- a game of small numbers invariably. i think in campaigns you have to separate message problems, candidate problems, and process problems. what this is is a process problem. you can fix this. you can fix it with more candidate time, you can fix it with hiring staff, by throwing some money at it, and focus. the problem these other candidates have is more difficult to solve. they have a candidate and message problem. and that is very difficult to solve. >> i know that we're getting a response on this reporting from the trump camp. what are they saying? >> yeah. so don jr. is responding calling this 100% fake news, saying in what is likely the last breath
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from the dying ron desanctimonious campaign, jason miller from the trump campaign saying that president trump is making the strongest play for iowa of all the candidates and is reflected in the polling where he consistently lead by nearly 30 points. it's true, he is leading in the polling. by the way, both desantis and donald trump will be in iowa tomorrow for the iowa game where you're going to sort of see this metaphorically play out as the two clash on the spot there. >> you can't help but wonder, stuart, that the trump team may be taking this gargantuan lead that he has and everybody saying it seems as if he's inevitably going to be the nominee, for granted. we are still a ways out, sure he's got a huge lead on ron desantis, i'm sure the desantis team is capitalizing on this reporting hoping, wondering if the work they're putting in could pay off in a state like iowa. but he's bucked every norm up until now. and why would he change that considering his popularity it
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seems that we've been seeing in the polls? >> yeah. you know, the whole concept of iowa was designed to make it where you can win with going door to door. not a money campaign. it -- an effort to stress person-to-person contact. i think that trump is -- if they get serious about this, if they focus on it, i mean, this race really doesn't begin until after thanksgiving. and then it kind of takes a hiatus over christmas, and the last two weeks -- there's nothing here wrong with the trump campaign that they can't solve if they want to. and they probably will. >> from your mouth to god's ears. this race beginning after thanksgiving. that's news to all of us. stuart stevens, thank you. dasha burns, thank you, as well. all right. today marks one year since the passing of the uk's longest serving monarch, queen elizabeth ii, and her son, king charles, and his wife went to a private church service in balmoral this morning to mark this moment.
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king charles is publicly honor his mother saying, "we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service, and all she meant to so many of us." the royal family put out a previously unreleased photograph of the queen taken at buckingham palace back in 1968. all right. still ahead, much more on that bombshell special grand jury report out of georgia. could anyone on that long, long list of individuals be cooperating? that's next. ext. (ella) fashion moves fast. setting trends is our business. we need to scale with customer demand... ...in real time. (jen) so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level. (marquis) with a custom private 5g network. (ella) with verizon business, we get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. (marquis) so our customers get what they want, when they want it. (jen) it's not just a network. it's enterprise intelligence. (vo) learn more. it's your vision,
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so we have some more on that breaking news in georgia. a judge just released the report from the special grand jury that initially investigated efforts by donald trump and his allies to overturn the election. the sweeping report is coming from the work of 26 fulton county residents who served as grand jurors, and is based on evidence from -- involving 75 witnesses. their findings ultimately led da fani willis to present evidence to another grand jury for criminal charges and more toward a trial they say will feature even more witnesses. >> in terms of the number of witnesses, they're in excess of 150 witnesses that the state intends to call. >> so 75 mentioned in this latest report that was just released this morning. 150 as we remember laid out by the state there in that hearing about kenneth chesebro.
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want to bring in contributor jackie alameny. also former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance, as well. joyce, before we get into that, we're also getting some more breaking news with regards to sidney powell and kenneth chesebro about severing their cases from the other 17 co-defendants. let me read a little bit of the top line of this latest motion that was just released. sidney powell requests that this court immediately enter an order severing her and mr. chesebro from the remaining defendants in the above captioned matter. there is no law that would support the government's notion to force all 19 defendants to trial by october 23rd, 2003. this is base -- 2023. this is based on the severance basicallied on likely their want for a speedy trial, both chesebro and sidney powell. what do you make of this? >> we're seeing the intersection of these requests for speedy trial and the move by some defendants to have their cases transferred into federal court. powell, i'm not entirely certain, i haven't read the
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pleading yet, how she can speak for chesebro. but it seems clear that she wants to remain in states court and not run -- state court and not run the risk of transfer to federal court and also wants to force the state to move ahead with this trial in late october. so this is an example of what the judge was talking about in the hearing earlier this week. he's now going to have to decide a series of motions like this from a lot of different defendants. in this case ms. powell got hers in at the early end of the spectrum. >> so we had initially the indictment that listed all of those co-defendants, and now we have this new list of 21 other folks that the grand jury had said there was probable cause to indict. but there is a real difference between that probable cause to indict and then, of course, da fani willis and team saying do we have enough evidence to move forward with an indictment, joyce. walk us through that. >> right.
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that's absolutely correct. this is a little bit different because you'll recall georgia's aberrational process where there's an investigative grand jury that investigates that doesn't indict. so as opposed to the typical case where prosecutors evaluate their evidence, decide not just where they believe they have probable cause but where they have sufficient evidence to convict at trial, and then they go to the grand jury and seek an indictment. that's what fani willis ended up doing with the grand jury that indicted. this special investigative grand jury is only asked to look at probable cause, a very low bar. and then the task for the da's office after they received this report was to sort it out and to decide who among these defendants should be indicted. so i wouldn't overread this information. it's certainly very interesting for us to see this sort of raw data. but it's a big leap from probable cause to proof beyond a reasonable doubt. >> so as you're taking a look at this list of 21 that were not
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subsequently indicted, what is your assumption, your thinking about possible cooperation if they will be, in fact, called for witness testimony, joyce, when and if this trial -- when i should say this trial goes forward? >> yes. this is the awfully interesting tea leaf reading game that we'll play with this list for some time, i suspect. lynnwood, he was one of the lawyers who was involved in advising about the entire scheme to perpetrate the big lie. he has quietly resigned. i believe he surrendered his license to practice law to avoid further proceedings by his state bar. he looks like a possible cooperate. on the other end of the spectrum, people like another lawyer, cleta mitchell, continue to advocate the voter fraud sort of mythology publicly. and she looks less like a cooperate, boris epstein who's named in this list, is widely believed to be the unindicted
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and unidentified co-conspirator number six in jack smith's federal indictment. so some of these folks may be cooperating. others may not be, and i think we'll be sorting it out for some time. >> jackie, if you will, remind folks the role that current senator lindsey graham played, former senators loeffler, perdue played, as well, and why their names would be on a list like this. >> yeah. it's sort of hard to keep all of these different players straits. we know that lindsey graham at the time made calls to brad raffensperger weeks before trump's infamous 2021 phone call where he pressed raffensperger to find enough votes to overturn his defeat in the state. raffensperger testified later on and also told the "post" in an interview that he felt that he was pressured, not just by trump but also by graham and other state officials in georgia who echoed trump's claims about
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voting irregularities in the state. he also made the specific claim that graham on one call had appeared to be asking him to find a way to legally set aside ballots. graham in a statement today rejected those characterizations after this information has been made public. but what this report does, which again is just charging recommendations that willis and her team obviously didn't fully follow through on or go as far as is show just how many people were involved and how wide and sweeping this pressure campaign to overturn the election results in georgia truly was. >> and joyce, quickly here, just think about the breadth of what fani willis has, the 75 witnesses that were mentioned in this brief report, the 150 that were mentioned by the state during that hearing for chesebro just a couple of days ago, as well, the nine that led to the indictment. what does that say to you?
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>> look, this is a big case, this is a thorough case, and it's a careful case. i think willis made these very deliberate decisions about where she had evidence that would clearly substantiate her burden of proof at trial, proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. sometimes as a prosecutor there are people who you look at and you think they were complicit, but our evidence is not strong enough and we need to let them go because the job of prosecutors is set forth very strictly by these burdens of proof, and the procedural and substantive due process protections that the criminal justice system provides for defendants. whether or not some of these folks should be convicted in the court of public opinion is an entirely different question. >> joyce, jacqueline, thank you to you both. all right. abortion right now on the line for millions of floridians. the high-stakes case now resting in the hands of the state's highest court. we are live in miami after a
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welcome back. right now florida's state supreme court is hearing oral arguments on a challenge to florida's ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. the outcome of this case is going to have big consequences. also deciding whether governor desantis' even stricter six-week abortion ban could take effect.
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nbc has more from the ground. guad, give us the latest that we are learning from the state supreme court here. >> reporter: as you mentioned, this is very important. there is going to determine abortion rights here in the state of florida. so we have this 15-week abortion ban that was put into place last year that was signed, approved by the state legislature. we have another abortion ban that was signed this year. this is where we stand. the 15-week abortion ban is a law in florida. after that came the legal challenge from abortion providers, advocates, and attorneys. that legal challenge says that the state's constitution has a privacy clause that was added in the '80s that protects abortion rights. and that's exactly what the florida supreme court is now looking into. we're going to hear some of these oral arguments later today with both sides making their points in front of the court. >> there is no other context in
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which this court can -- has held that the state can constitutionally force an individual to take on increased and serious medical risks and harm for the purported benefit of others. but that is precisely what hb 5 forces pregnant women to do. >> we think that the state has a compelling interest at all stages of pregnancy in preserving life. >> reporter: so legally what's being determined today is if this state's constitution's amendment, the privacy clause that was added in the '80s, protects the right to abortion in the state of florida, if that is the case then the court would side with the challengers essentially giving people in florida the right to abortion even though these laws have been passed by the state. but if the court uphold that 15-week abortion ban that we have in place, 30 days later we would have this six-week abortion law become a law or go into effect here in the state of
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florida. so it's either going to be a double win or a double side for whoever the judges side with. >> thank you, guad, appreciate it. we are now getting the clearest picture to date of how the number of abortions performed in each state has changed since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade more than a years ago. new data from the guttmacher institute showing that states where abortion care is legal are seeing a massive uptick in people seeking care. the biggest increases are in states that border other states with abortion bans like new mexico, which has seen -- get this -- a 220% increase in abortions in just the last year. and then states that have implemented new policies to preserve abortion rights are also seeing an increase with abortions in colorado up 89%. joining me to talk more about this, the ceo of planned parenthood of the rocky mountains, adrienne monsanares. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. give us kind of the big picture
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look about access to abortion care in your area. how your staffs are dealing with this, how women are having to deal with this, as well. you think about a 220% uptick in new mexico alone, 89% in colorado. those numbers are pretty astounding. >> they are. it just -- we keep using this word, "unprecedented," and these are the times we're in. this is a nationwide health care crisis. and it touches every aspects of reproductive and sexual health care with serious generational impacts. think about one single appointment at a planned parenthood can impact a family for generations to come. >> i actually traveled with a group of women just over a year or so ago. it was before the overturn of roe v. wade, from texas to new mexico. they were seeking out abortions
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there. it was about 20 or so women between six to 11 weeks pregnant. i spoke to one of them, i want to hear -- i want you to hear what they had to say. >> you want to get it done, but it's also like -- i have to go to albuquerque to get this done. >> reporter: how do you guys feel like one leg down, you're now here. >> it's almost over. it's just still bizarre that we've got to come all the way out here. >> that was the emotional impact then before the overturn of roe. what type are you seeing now with less access? >> yeah, i love that story because it demonstrates a single person's experience with them and their families, and now this guttmacher data, it really exemplifies how integral abortion care is in planning for our families and our futures. you can look at the map,
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patients are willing to face jail times, to experience fines, the threat of being reported, crossed state lines. the average patient coming into our region is driving over 600 miles. we have patients who are traveling on an airplane for the first time in their life for medication to come into a welcoming environment. this is all to access basic safe health care that should be available to everyone in their own communities. >> how has this changed the demand on your organization overall? is it sustainable? >> oh, it -- well, i'll tell you, at this moment i'm so very proud of all of our incredible supporters, our donors, our volunteers, and of course our health care workers who have been nonstop through covid, through the pandemic. we've had our doors open, and then with this dobbs decision, this level of increase, it -- to be honest, it's a huge burden, but it is something that we're very proud of. and we've been able to roll out
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kids are heading back to school, and many are returning to a whole new environment -- four-day school weeks. there are a couple of reasons schools are doing this including that it can save money and attract more qualified teachers. nbc's priscilla thompson is joining us from one of the largest school districts in the country, houston. i got to say, priscilla, this one would be tough on me if my kid was only going to school four days a week. not quite sure what to do on the fifth. nonetheless, talk us through it. >> reporter: yeah, that is one of the concerns that a lot of parents have, and a lot of these schools are working to provide some sort of structured activity during that time. but now there's new research that shows that this may not be a good fit for all schools. >> dear student, this is a little welcome note -- >> reporter: in ohio's north college hill city school district, a new academic year is under way, and so is a brand-new schedule. this year, students will report to school just four days a week,
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with mondays set aside for teachers to plan and students to review and recharge. the new schedule a result of what superintendent eugene blalick calls a decline in staff morale and a growing number of teachers calling out sick. >> we were dealing with a high absenteeism. our teachers were burned out. and myself and my administrative team, we often found ourselves coming over to the buildings to help support the teachers because we couldn't find subs. >> reporter: looking for ways to help teachers feel less overwhelmed researched the benefits of four-day weeks. within months the district became the first to adopt a four-day schedule. teachers are excited. >> teacher burnout is very real. we deal with students with so much trauma. we don't have an 8 to 5 job. we start here at 7:30, we leave at 3:30, but most of us are bringing stuff home.
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mondays will hopefully enable us not to do that. >> reporter: nationwide there are now more than 1,600 four-day schools in 24 states. administrators in dekalb, texas, say four-day weeks have enabled them to attract and retain more qualified teachers. and education studies show there are other potential benefits including saving districts money, providing students with mental health breaks, and reducing school fights. some education experts worry about the down sides of shortened weeks. emily morton is lead author of a 2022 brown university study that found lower academic achievement in four-day schools, particularly those in nonrural settings. >> their students are growing less on average than schools that are similar that don't adopt four-day school weeks. >> reporter: the study's findings are one reason the mesquite school district, a large district near dallas, opted not to go with the four-day week. what was your biggest concern with the four-day week?
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from semiconductors to tiktok, it's now ensnaring the most valuable company. a flurry of reports that china's cracking down on the use of apple iphones at central government agencies. with that ban now reportedly expanding to state firms and agencies, as well. it's not just apple, perhaps other foreign device makers, too. but apple's the one in focus with this. it coincided with chinese competitor hwawei unveiling the smartphone this week with the first batch selling out within hours. all of that causing concern among investors. could beijing be shifting its longstanding friendly stance toward apple in an effort to favor home-grown chinese smartphone makers? that's the question. china's a key consumer market for apple to sell its products. it's also the vast majority of apple's supply chain is located there, as well. all of this spooking investors. apple stocks shedding nearly $190 billion in market value over the past two days. let me put this another way -- roughly the equivalent of netflix in terms of market cap.
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apple shares are higher today, down markedly on the week. it will continue to be a focus because next week we get this highly anticipated event on tuesday when ceo tim cook and the rest of his team are expected to unveil the new iphone 15 lineup and the new apple watches out in california. the key question ahead of that event -- will apple raise prices and if so, will consumers be willing to pay those higher price tags for the newest products? >> we're watching what's going on overseas with the g20. we know xi jinping is not showing up there. obviously the president, president biden, trying to capitalize on that in india with prime minister modhi. all that in mind, with the tensions building between the u.s. and china, how worried are they that this could go beyond government, state employees and not being able to use apple iphones? >> reporter: i think that's kind of the key question. i think that's exactly why you saw the stock sell off as much as you did. apple more than many -- there's a number of companies, but tesla's another example, there's
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a couple other big tech names that have a big presence in china that are american companies, but perhaps none more than apple in terms of both the supply chain and also what that consumer market means. so any kind of tension there i think is going to hit the stock particularly hard which is what you saw this week. >> morgan brennan. thank you so much. appreciate it. that does it for us, everybody. coverage continues right now with my friend, "katy tur reports." good to be with you. i'm katy tur. they dodged indictment. senator lindsey graham, former senators kelly loeffler and david perdue along with 18 others have been taking a breath today as news that the first grand jury in the georgia election interference case recommended charging them. so why did d.a. fani willis decline to indictment them? what made trump loyalists like michael flynn and boris e
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