people are always trying to be put in boxes. ray charles, ray charles decided, i'm going to do a coalbum and you can't stop me. it goes number one. that's what great artists do. >> that's what everybody respected. james brown said, mr. armstrong. >> all right. wonderful. >> the godfather called him mister. for good reason. that does it for us this morning. anna cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now, breaking news, an assassination in the shadow of the kremlin. ukraine claiming credit for a moscow bombing that killed russia's chief of biological weapons. what we know about the target and the attack. also ahead, tragedy in wisconsin. police set to update their investigation into a deadly school shooting as we learn the shooter was a 15-year-old girl.

plus, new charges against the accused gilgo beach serial killer now accused of murdering a seventh woman, the details just released in court. and a new lawsuit from president-elect trump, why he's accusing an iowa pollster of election interference. hello, it's 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pack. reporting from new york, a community in wisconsin is hurting this morning, police in madison set to hold a news conference in a few hours with an update on their investigation into a deadry school shooting. a teacher and teenage student were killed. several others injured at this attack at the abundant life christian school. the shooter was a 15-year-old girl, police say her parents are now fully cooperating with investigators.

let's go to nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster in madison, wisconsin. also joining us is, robert domico. shaq, bring us the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: let's start with the victims, we know two people were killed in this shooting, a teacher and a teenage student as you mentioned. several others were rushed to the hospital. last update two of those in the hospital are in critical condition still facing life-threatening injuries, community continues to call out for prayers after this shooting, now yesterday last night we heard from the police chief with an extensive briefing for media, he told us and identified the suspect as a 15-year-old female student, she said she died an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. he described the initial call, it was a young student at this

school who made the call to police. listen to a little bit more of him describing that detail. >> at 10:57 a.m., a second grade student called 911 to report a shooting had occurred at school. let that soak in for a minute. a second grade student. called 911. at 10:57 a.m. to report a shooting at school. >> reporter: the chief crediting a team of medics who said just happened to be training nearby, just a couple of miles away from this school and essentially dropped everything and came to assist in the response once police arrived just moments after. now there's a big focus on the investigation. we know that last night and kind of through the night you had investigators going through the

suspect's home, having to force their way in, apparently, they also say the father of the suspect is cooperating, they spent hours talking with him, interviewing him late yesterday and they're also looking into the suspect's social media presence online. the chief acknowledging there's an online document being circulated, we know it purports to show a manifesto tied to this suspect, they haven't been able to verify that at this point, but that's going to be the focus of the investigation but not as investigators and the community tries to understand exactly why the shooting happened. >> so heartbreaking. never is any easier to report on these stories. shaquille brewster, thank you. rob, we still don't know if the shooter here was targeting specific victims but we do know two people are dead, one a teacher, one a student, several others injured, how

investigators are working to piece together how and what happened. >> the social media and the cooperation of the family, allowing them to get in the house to do the search warrants or writings that may have been left there, it's so difficult to hear a second grader made the call, really that's the first time i heard it, i have four kids, imagine any of them that young having to make that phone call. they'll start looking now, was this preventable? i don't mean preventable, not stop it, did someone see this manifesto and not call someone? really maybe interviewing people that had information and asked why they didn't go forward so in the future when you do training and you talk to students, you can incorporate that in there. also, was something predictable in that on the social media, was something put out there that

maybe someone didn't see or respond to, or make that call, really you want to try and see what could have been done so in future, again, when you're training these folks, you can put it out there, this is what you need to do, it can save lives. >> scary how frequent these shoots have become. 205 school shootings. one thing that stands out here the shooter in this case is a female, that's quite rare, accounting for less than 5% of school shooters according to everytown. rob, what do you make of that detail, that this case involves a teenage girl? >> the last one in tennessee, now, i think that person was born female and then associated as either trans -- i don't know

the exact verbiage or pronouns they were using, but, again, teenage female, it was a religious school, again associated or assimilated to a different identity in gender, but it's -- it does mean it's going up. some other things out there that may help the police look at those, is this becoming more of a trend than we're seeing? >> investigators say the parents are cooperating. we still don't know how the shooter got the gun, but what does it tell you that 15-year-old had access? >> well, we saw in georgia where they charged the father who bought the gun for a teenager that had threatened the school which was i think the basis of the charges, so here we'll have to see, was the gun kept in an area that obviously the teenager could get, or did the teenager

get the gun and the parents not even know, i think those will come out in the interviews with the parents. i always had a gun in my office being an fbi agent, frankly i didn't lock it up. my children knew not to touch it. when they had friends over, i'd lock it in the car or put it into a safe, because i knew their friends didn't understand the same thing that my kids did with my weapons and stuff, but if you have a teenager that you don't know is having problems and you leave a weapon out, or they know the combination or somehow they got a combination to a safe you'll have to look at whether it's negligence or something happened in that house. >> rob, thank you so much. a news conference with an update from investigators later today. in just a few hours. turning now to some breaking news out of russia, where the bloodshed from the ukraine war has now reached the front door of the kremlin. take a look at this video which appears to show the

assassination of lieutenant general karlov, happening just miles from the kremlin. ukraine's security service claimed responsibility for the killing. the explosive device was planted in a scooter next to the entrance of a moscow apartment building and the blast killing both him and his assistant. keir simmons has the details. keir. >> reporter: even the timing is dramatic, just yesterday ukraine charged the lieutenant general with war crimes, today they say they have killed him in moscow, russian media reporting a bomb was taped to the handle of a scooter. this morning, in moscow, a dramatic explosion killing a key russian general and his assistant. the blast so powerful it blew the bricks from the walls. and the remains of a scooter, it was loaded with explosives

ukraine said. an operation both audacious and precise, the bomb detonatinged a he moved between a building and a car and ukraine's most ambitious assassination deep within russia. the lieutenant general was chief of the russian army's chemical weapons division. he was sanctioned by the uk for the alleged use of chemical weapons in ukraine. he was an absolutely legitimate target, since he gave orders to use prohibited chemical weapons against the ukrainian military, such an indmroers you ends awaits all who kill ukrainians. the source asking for anonymity. russian state television leading with news of the killing, saying the bomb was remotely operated. it comes as the war started after russia invaded ukraine enters its third year, both

sides still taking massive losses. already, russian investigators are calling the bombing an act of terrorism, but they'll be under pressure to explain another high-profile assassination in the russian capital. kirilov was notorious for pushing disinformation against the west. the question is what the kremlin says and does? >> keir simmons, thank you for that reporting. joining us now is military analyst retired lieutenant colonel jack jacobs, are you surprised that ukraine was able to take out such a high-profile player and so close to the kremlin? >> no, not at all. they've done it before. they've been working to eliminate people at the top of the food chain. what's interesting is this, when you take a look at that video,

you can see the lieutenant general and an aide coming out of the building and then the bomb is detonated. it was clearly a command detonated bomb which means not only was the scooter with the plastic explosive placed right in front of the building it was detonated from someone who was across the street, could see the general coming out of the building and detonated it at will, tells you a great deal of infiltration of moscow, the designation of specific people to assassinate and so on, a campaign that will continue, ana. >> interesting that ukraine was so quick to take credit, right, what would you expect from russia in response? >> well, they're working really hard to identify people in ukraine to assassinate, they've been less successfully than ukrainians have been, they're working extremely hard on the battlefield and the russians

have been making some progress on the battlefield both with or without the koreans whom they've employed. the thing we can expect from russia certainly is a public relations, a great deal of public relations and we've already heard from them talking about how western leaders are responsible, suggesting that western leaders are responsible, but actual actions are going to be difficult to come by and people in ukraine, particularly the leadership are very closely guarded, ana. >> he was just charged on monday by ukraine for using banned chemical weapons during russia's invasion, he was a big player in russia's propaganda apparatus. he once claimed the u.s. was planning to use drones designed to use infected mosquitos and as the head of the biological weapons unit he was accused of using a riot controlled gas

against ukrainian troops that caused extreme irritation and pain in the eyes and lungs. bigger picture here, what does his death mean for the russian war effort and kremlin's overall goals, do you did you think. >> they're making progress, the general kirilov not only use riot controlled agents but also nitrate chloroform, used in the first world war and is banned by the chemical weapons treaty, to which russia is a cig signatory. i think they'll focus on the battlefield, they have larger numbers of people, they have lots and lots of missiles, rockets and artillery, and it's going to be difficult for the

ukrainians to keep resupplying what they need in order to defend. they've been losing some ground. the russians understand this and will continue to press on the ground. but the disinformation campaign by the russians will continue to try and separate ukraine from its allies and so far that may be in fact successful in the coming months. >> does this put russia on its heels a little bit and does ukraine by claiming responsibility, try to send some kind of a powerful message. >> that's an interesting suggestion, it certainly makes people at top of the food chain in russia extremely weary of where they're going, what they're doing and so on. and it does give, it does give the russians a very big black eye, a series of events that have taken russia by surprise, everybody -- a lot of people

might suggest that what this does is put putin in trouble among the people at top of the government in russia because it's clear things aren't going well inside the kremlin, but we have to remember putin keeps all the people very close to him, keeps them extremely rich and keeps himself extremely safe, ana. >> we appreciate your insight and your expertise. thank you. up next, breaking news. we have a new charge against an alleged long island serial killer. also ahead the pollster the target of new lawsuit from donald trump and could it have a chilling effect. plus, a government shutdown for christmas? possible snag on capitol hill. and jingle bells. jingle bells or jingle bills. we're back in just 90 seconds. .

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prosecutor, christ i greenberg. can you sue someone over poll results? >> well, i guess the big question here is, donald trump is alleging that this poll was intentionally deceptive and my question is, where is the evidence that this was intentionally deceptive. you know, polls often have margins of error here, no one is rely on the polls to be statistically accurate, pollsters could know what was going to happen and predict the future with certainty we would be in a very different climate in terms of reporting elections. . no one is expecting them to be certain. where is the evidence that this pollster intentionally tried to deceive the public, that's going to be the question here and i think it will be very hard to show that she was intentionally deceptive. >> of course, the timing, this catching our attention because

it comes right after trump secured that $15 million over abc defamation lawsuit, he vowed this is just the start of his legal action against media outlets. >> i feel i have to do this, i shouldn't be the one to do it, it should have been the justice department or somebody else, but i have to do it. of course a lot of money to do it. but we have to straighten out the press. >> we have to straighten out the press. do media outlets have an recourse and what do you make of his mention of the doj there? >> well, again, you know, it's unclear what he's talking about, it's one thing not to like the coverage you're getting but that's not a crime it's quite another to say there's been defamation, defamation of public figure is difficult to show, again there has to be some intent there that you know the

statements you're making are false and then the question becomes where is the evidence of that, when doj acts, when doj brings either civil lawsuits or criminal enforcement actions there has to be facts and that has to be supported by evidence, so it's not enough to just say you don't like the coverage you're getting, you have to be able to show that there's kind of malintent here, once again that's going to be in short supply. but even if you can't prove your case in court doesn't mean you can't engage in lawsuits which obviously cost money, they take time and they have a chilling effect on media outlets. . the real question is, even if he doesn't succeed in court whether that's the purpose and whether he thinks by bringing you know the even the threats of these lawsuits it will have an effect on the coverage he receive and absolutely. there are other trump legal news, today the new york judge

who presided over trump's hush-money trial has denied trump's bid to vacate that conviction, president-elect's lawyers argued that the supreme court's decision in july on presidential immunity should retroactivity applied, judge merchan disagree, what do you see as trump's next move? >> yes, so he'll certainly appeal this ruling, but i think the ruling is on solid footing, most of the evidence that donald trump's lawyers are complaining about here and saying should have been kept out of this trial because it was improperly, you know, official acts evidence that was protected by the supreme court's immunity decision. most of that evidence they're objecting to now they didn't object to during the trial, they sat on their hands, grant td the

supreme court's decision had not come out yet, but these issues of immunity were briefed at time. his lawyers knew about them. they objected to certain evidence, some evidence, but not all of it, so you can't -- it's kind of trial 101, you can't sit on your hands, if you have an objection you have to make it. and so there's a lot of talk about donald trump possibly being asleep at the trial by his lawyers were asleep at the wheel here, they should objected to a lot of evidence on immunity grounds, they didn't do it. judge said you didn't preserve these issues for appeal later. whether or not it's official or unofficial, ultimately the fact that it wasn't objected to is really going to mean that this doesn't go anywhere. >> thank you. good to see you. now to some other breaking

news. in the gilgo beach murders case, the suffolk county confirming that rex heuermann will charged with another murder. accused of six murders going back to 1990s. emilie ikeda, what are prosecutors saying tie him to this murder. >> the court proceeding is still under way. i'm just getting eyes on the bail application, it appears that used a key piece of evidence, hair found on the victim's remains around her wrist and a bar gage bag that her remains were found and it's tied according to prosecutors to rex heuermann's wife and daughter and they were only recently able to do this because of the advancing dna technology. as you mentioned, valerie first went missing back in 2000 they found her partial remains later

that year. another set of partial remains in 2011 they didn't identify either set of those remains until 2020 with again the genetic genealogy advancing technology. as we've seen with other victim they've used hair found on the victims to tie it to rex heuermann, but we've seen use of his chevy avalanche, cell phone records, dna discarded from the pizza box, the wife's hair, earlier this year, the number of victims rise tied to rex heuermann, we also learned that they discovered a planning document that he delete it, they were able to recover it that acted as a blueprint for the killings, hunt, kill and dispose of the victims. he has pleaded not guilty in those other cases. but his defense attorney hasn't

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welcome back. well, it's another critical day of glad handing and grilling on capitol hill for yet another polarizing trump cabinet pick, robert f. kennedy jr. tapped to lead health and human services is back in washington for day two of meets with gop senators. his view of questioning reliable a vaccines were front and center on capitol hill and during president-elect's mal r-a-lago press conference. >> i think he has a very open mind. he'll be very much less radical. >> do you mind repeating to what you said about the polio vaccine. >> do you support it? >> yes, i support it. >> joining us now nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard from florida covering the trump transition and ali vitali. when it comes to vaccines, we

heard trump said that he'll be less radical. >> donald trump has not explicitly said what kennedy has vowed to him his policies on vaccines if he were to get this position atop hhs, of course there's nearly three-decades body of work of robert f. kennedy not only scrutinizing vaccines in the extent to which he has argued they have caused ism and other diseases which research has shown not to be the case. there's questions based on his associations with other individuals over whether he would try for instant to take some certain vaccines off the market. he even has called into question the measles vaccine for instance at time not only domestically but also globally there has been an increase in measles outbreaks as well as others from vaccines

that have plummeted in the number of individuals who have been taking them. i think the question that senators are now facing is, what will robert f. kennedy jr. ultimately direct his agencies to do and if he'd attempt if there was another pandemic to block or slow down the authorization process of emergency vaccines? >> ali, did you get the senate republicans are more concerned about rfk jr.'s stance on vaccines or his history supporting abortion rights. >> this is one where you could pick your senator, pick your topic you're concerned about, or have more to ask robert f. kennedy jr. as he makes his way around capitol hill for the second day of meetings here, certainly senators should be asking those questions, i can remember back to when rfk jr. was still running for president and doing so as a democrat i asked him about his abortion stance and he told me then at the time that he supported some

kind of restrictions on when women could access abortion care despite clearly hearing my questions during the campaign, his campaign said portends that. the way that he's talked about vaccines, he's been a man of few words as most of these cabinet picks, they're preferring to having their conversations behind closed doors. polio, he said he supports that vaccine after pushback from people like mitch mcconnell who battled polio as a child. >> vaughn, during that presser yesterday, trump really played up his warming relation with big business executives. he sat down with the heads of tiktok, meta, google, apple, this week it's amazon's jeff bezos, what is driving this

apparent 180 with some of these. >> reporter: it's a different takt and different approach from these ceos. multiple ceo s. resigned from two of his economic advisory boards at the white house and ultimately donald trump dissolved those advisory boards and was frustrated with the ceo's lack of support in 2016. apple requested waivers from tariffs on chinese imported parts for apple products to which donald trump announced they would grant no such waiver to apple in a standoff with the major tech companies. listen to the president-elect yesterday in which he noted that the change of tact here from some of these ceo s. and the approach to him this time around. take a listen. >> one of the big differences between the first term and the first term everybody was fighting me, in this term everybody wants to be my friend. i don't know.

my personality changed or something. the biggest difference is, people want to get along with me this time. >> reporter: we've seen this not just with republican members in congress we've seen this now with foreign leaders, several of them have traveled to mar-a-lago and now you're seeing this with business corporate leaders who are coming and made the calculation in an attempted appeasement, warm relationship with donald trump, he's willing to public disannounce and take on these major companies even american-based companies. >> ali, i know you're also tracking a potential shutdown coming, lawmakers have until friday at midnight to fund the government, no bill has been revealed. where do things stand. >> reporter: we're waiting for the bill text, it shows they're still haggling on some final key provisions here as they try to keep the lights on and go home for the holiday break, the

speaker is actually speaking right now, but he said that he expects bill text today, that's good thing, over here on the house side there's 72-hour rule, members want 72 hours between the time they get the bill text and the time they vote on it, right now the speaker said he's going to honor that 72-hour commitment which brings us from today on tuesday all the way until friday and you mentioned the midnight deadline, there's some leeway baked in here from a government funding perspective, if some reason it takes congress a few hours into saturday to ultimately pass this bill from the house to the senate and then to the president's desk that's generally okay, nothing crazy is going to happen but if it bleeds past the weekend, which we don't expect it will, that would be problematic, generally there's an agreement here that the government won't shut it down. >> thank you both. now today lawmakers are

hoping to get some answers in the drone mystery that's really confounded residents in states all across the northeast. the house intelligence committee will receive a briefing this afternoon for the fbi, cia and the director of national intelligence. tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: the vast majority of these sighting appear to. helicopter, legitimate drone operators but the nypd there are typically 2,000 drone flights every week just here in new york city and a lot of these reports over the last few weeks are really just business as usual. with the christmas travel rush just days away overnight the government released a rare joint statement from multiple agencies about those drone sightings saying we haven't identified anything anomalous -- and do not assess the activity to present a

national security or public safety risk. the push continues for answers. about a thousand of sightings. >> we want to make sure our skies are protected. >> reporter: new jersey governor phil murphy is pushing for legislation to give states more authority to deal with drones. >> it's extraordinary to me that a nation as great as ours, as powerful as ours, has the deficiencies that we have now seen in living color as it relates to drone incursions. >> reporter: the nypd said many of the tips they investigated are planes, helicopters, even planets, president-elect trump is suggesting without authorizing evidence that the government or military knows more about the drones than what they're saying. >> our military knows and our president knows, they want to keep people in suspense. >> reporter: he cancelled a weekend trip to his new jersey

club. >> maybe i won't spend the weekend in bed minister. >> reporter: they remain frustrated with the federal response. >> i won't let the federal government insult the american people that they're not seeing things. >> reporter: specializing in drone radar is now working with the new jersey state police. how can your technology help the new jersey state troopers? >> they'll be able to detect an object in the city and provide data analysis of what object i. >> reporter: there are a million registered drones nationwide. the faa points out they're legal in daylight and night. the faa requires they remain under 40 feet. they must stay at least five miles from airport and restricted areas and be in the line of sight of the drone operator and have a license.

for larger drones and any commercial activity. back to you. >> the plot thickens. tom, thanks. next, indictment watch in the case of luigi mangione what it could mean for his extradition. plus a russian stowaway, at it again. arrested at the canadian border after allegedly cutting off her ankle bracelet. more on this crazy case just ahead. case just ahead. moderate to severe plaque psoriasis or active psoriatic arthritis symptoms can sometimes hold you back. but now there's skyrizi, so you can be all in with clearer skin. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪yeah, i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me.♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ with skyrizi, you can show up with 90% clearer skin. and if you have psoriatic arthritis, skyrizi can help you move with less joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and fatigue. skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses.

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welcome back. this morning, we're on indictment watch in the case against luigi mangione, a grand jury in new york expected to hand down an indictment any day against the suspected shooter in the death of united healthcare ceo brian thompson. nbc news correspondent antonia hylton is keeping tabs on this.

antonia, when could we see an indictment. >> reporter: well, according to a source that spoke to nbc news indictment could be coming as soon as this week, it could be in a matter of hours or days right now, and, you know, some have had questions about why this indictment, what might this grand jury be looking at here, second-degree murder charges and another set of charges here in pennsylvania, what you should know this indictment means a grand jury issing looing at all kinds of evidence that we might have heard nothing about at this point, because he's facing second degree murder charges there's the possibility in theory that second degree murder charge could be elevated to first degree murder if we learn more about the planning the writings, the thinking that he may have been experiencing and expressing in the days leading up to the killing of the unitedhealthcare ceo. and you know, it will be

interesting to see here, because we don't know yet is how quickly all this could transpire. so, if this indictment comes down he could very quickly appear in a hearing and be transferred almost immediately to authorities in new york, ana. >> what are we learning about mangione's time in jail. >> reporter: well, we're learning some new details this morning, for example, we now know he's received 36 e-mails and 6 pieces of mail and 153 entrees to his cash account, an account that pre-trial detainees can take and spend on things from snacks to fresh toiletries for themselves. we've seen over the last several days as he's become in some corners of the country kind of folk hero people have raised over $100,000 for him on crowdfunding platform. not clear if his team will accept any of that cash. >> fascinating response.

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the clock is officially ticking for all you holiday shoppers still scrambling for the last minute details with just one week to go until christmas. despite many retailers offering their deepest discounts on black friday and cyber monday, some analysts suggest the best days to shop are actually three to four days prior to the big day. nbc news business and data correspondent brian cheung is joining us now with your holiday price check. okay, point us in the right direction, brian. >> i've been looking at it myself, because i haven't really gotten my shopping done yet, but there is still sales to be had. even if you missed black friday, 50%, 40% off toys and small appliances respectively at

target. walmart has a whole last minute gifts section through december 24th. and amazon, deals on a lot of name brand items through december. at the business team at nbc news, we're tracking the prices of certain items as early as this summer. we have been looking at prices to say actually how good are the discounts, specifically during the peak seasons of black friday weekend. and we did see that, yeah, you probably missed the boat on the best sales for ipod pros and this coffeemaker. but there are some products where you maybe didn't necessarily miss out on the best deal. take a look at the sneakers which actually didn't really get discounted substantially over black friday. the best prices were actually earlier in the summer. same thing with the magna-tile toys, popular with kids. there are summer deal days that amazon and other retailers are offering. this tv, look at this, it is basically discounted for most of the year, and except for the

three periods where they then raised the price. so interesting trends there. regardless, you can get a pretty decent price on a 65 inch tv if you're looking for something last minute to try to get under the tree. if you can fit a 65-inch tv under the tree. >> i'm sure there are many family members who are saying, it doesn't have to fit under the tree. i'll take it anywhere. my mom is watching, she's one of the last minute shoppers texting me this morning about guests. tips for those who are still working. >> for those that are still shopping, when it comes to last-minute deals, adobe analytics tells us apparel and tvs is where you will still see good deals. the three or four days before christmas will offer some discounts. sporting goods in particular, for some reason you see the peak discounts december 21st to the 24th, better than black friday. as you go out and shop for all these, tips when it comes to using your cards, use cashback apps, may try to get 5% on the

bigger ticket larger more expensive items and check the prices. look at multiple retailers and use price tracking toys. i lime i like camel, camel, camel to make sure you're getting the best deals, crocs or anything. >> wink, wink. what is on your wish list? >> i could use another pair of crocs, actually. new jibbitz. >> all right. look out for the stocking stuffers, brian, thank you. that's going do it for us today. thank you so much for joining us as always. i'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. you can catch us online on youtube and other platforms. and we'll see you then. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we have -- by the way, at noon, don't forget to check out this interview with andrea mitchell, debra tice, the mother of austin tice, who went missing in syria 12 years ago, will be talking with andrea again, that's at noon eastern. i'll see you tomorrow. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now.