yamiche alcindor explains >> reporter: it's a space celebrating birthdays that never were >> we love you we miss you terribly >> reporter: an art exhibit in brooklyn. 1-800-happy-birthday focused on people killed after encounters with the police for each of the 12 celebrants, as they are called here, there's a phone booth featuring details about their lives and voices of their loved ones there's oscar grant. eric garner. sandra bland >> hey, sis. i just want to tell you happy heavenly 35th birthday. >> reporter: at tony robinson's phone booth it's his grandmother singing. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> reporter: his aunt, lolo, says robinson, who was killed by police in wisconsin at 19, loved celebrating his big day. >> he liked to have fun. he would always be the one to keep us together and bring us together >> reporter: his family cherishes seeing his legacy live on here. >> it's powerful they have created an actual space where we're not reduced to these hashtags >> reporter: the exhibit's artistic director says that is the goal >> the idea is to shift the l

yamiche alcindor, nbc news, brooklyn. >> that's "nightly news" for this monday.yone. i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night. . >>> right now at 4:30, a warning from the fbi ahead of the holiday shopping season. scams targeting online shoppers. what agents say you should watch out for. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to nbc bay area news at 4:30. our team here in the newsroom has been tracking stories all day long and a lot is going on at this hour. new head of twitter elon musk, facing more legal trouble. why exemployees say his massive playoffs weren't by the book. getting

. >> once again in washington, moderate ore yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening. this week the january 6 chief finally released its full 845-page report and a trove of interviews and terrorists from key witnesses. lawmakers revealed that the committee is sending four cfl referrals for the justice department for with the trump to inciting an insur recollection, amongovers. minority leader kevin makar any and representativities and any biggs, jim in order -- jordan and scott perry were included for "failing to comply with subpoenas. " here's a criminal from maryland explaining the actions. >> we've gone where the facts and the law lead us and inescapably they lead us here. yamiche: the report also citizen one than, donald trump, is to blame for the capitol attack and 245 he should be barred from ever holding elected office again. in a statement trump lashed out at the committee and that accused lawmakers of carrying out a witch-hunt against him. joining me, scott macfarlaneer occasional important for cbs news, ryan reilly, justice reporter for n news and seung mini

senate join us me for inside, is yamiche alcindor. >> jen psaki, and ashley parker, marc short, formerf staff to vice president mike pence. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest-running scholls in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. donald trump launched his third bid for the white house just 19 days ago, believe it or not. already his campaign and the republican party are being tested, as he refuses to disavow the anti-semitic and racist part of the party that he's aligned himself with for years now. he's been endorsed by just a single senator, tommie tuberville. on the house gates, meat gates, marjorie taylor greene and gosar. not only are mike pence, mike pompeo, and nikki haley not supporting touch, but, but as this week a federal appeals court fast-tracked the mar-a-lago investigation, ending a special master review and freeing the justice department and special counsel to use them in their federal investigation. now trump is testing the limits of his ability to be a relev

once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. che: good evening and welcome to "washington week." for the first time in a generation, there is a new historic group leading the democratic party and thus. democrats voted to elect hakeem jeffries of new york as the house minority leader of the next congress. jeffries is the first black leader of a party in congress in history. katherine clark of massachusetts was elected minority whip and pete aguilar of california is now caucus chair. all three ran unopposed. here's congressman jeffries after his election. hakeem: house democrats fight for the people. that's our story, that's our legacy, that's our values, that's our commitment as we move forward. yamiche: this week, there are other big developments for democrats. today in a dramatic change, a democratic national committee panel voted to appraise -- replace iowa with south carolina as the first state to vote in the democratic presidential primary. there needs to be a final vote of approval by the dnc. it was a rocky week for current

once again from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. che: good evening and welcome to "washington week." this year was filled with remarkable changes and histoc sg midterm election results, the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade. historic gas prices and russian's invasion of ukraine and we know in 2023 there will be much to cover in a year of divided government. we have four newsroom reports from the nation's top outlets. with me here at the table, elisabeth bumiller. she is the assistant managing editor and the washington bureau chief at "the new york times." fin gomez is the political director for pbs news. terence samuel is at npr and vanessa williams, editor at the "whington post." let's start with the balance of power in washington in 2023. the mid terms left the democrats with a slim majority in the senate and in the house republicans have their own slim majority and the speaker's gavel. here's republican minority leader kevin mccarthy, who is expected to become speaker after the november elections. >> i'm proud to anno

i'm yamiche alcindor. we have a lot to get to this hour. york, continues to climb, as search and rescue operations intensify. a state of emergency

i'm yamiche alcindor. back for another hour. here are the big stories we're watching. another tidal wave of plight cancellations for southwest customers today, thousands left stranded and baggage grave yards across the airports and exhausted customers fighting for answers. >> i've spent about nine and a half hours trying to get through to southwest, just on hold with them. probably about 17 calls. and every time, i get about two and a half hours in, it just drops. the line just drops. >>> in buffalo, snow is starting to melt as the death toll mounts. with mounting snow of this volume comes rapid flooding for search and rescue teams to deal with. the latest on their efforts and the blame game over the county's response to the historic blizzard in just a minute. >>> new developments on capitol hill. the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of deposition transcripts, and there are some familiar trump world names on the list. >>> speaking of donald trump, after almost four years of legal battles, the former president's tax returns will be made public tomorrow.

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joining us, yamiche alcindor. first to you here.e us through the arguments before the high court today. >> reporter: justices as you said heard oral arguments in what could be one of the most consequential cases to come before the high court involving free speech. lorie smith is saying she wants to create wedding websites for opposite sex couples but not same-sex couples. she is suing saying she wants to ensure she won't be sanctioned for being in violation of the discrimination laws which say you cannot discriminate against sexual orientation. she is saying because of her religious beliefs she is against same-sex marriage. you are hearing from a lawyer for colorado today who is talking about the fact in their minds it would be discrimination. there are civil rights group saying she is looking for a license to discriminate. how it is decided could have implications for other industries including for restaurant owners as well as hairstylers. others could say my business is a form of art and as a result i should be able to discriminat

nbc's yamiche alcindor is outside the supreme court. a fairly narrow ruling. and the court now has a 6-3 conservative majority. talk a little bit more about the two cases and what we're expecting. >> reporter: well, as you said, chris, the 2018 case really was a narrowly-decided case. in favor of the baker who said he did not want to make a wedding cake for same-sex couples. but in this case, you have laurie smith who is suing the state of colorado pre-emptively and wants to get an assurance that she will not be sanctioned by the state of colorado if she decides to make a wedding website for an opposite self couple while also denying that same website to a same-sex couple. she is saying that her religious views make it that she is opposed to same-sex marriage and she shouldn't be compelled under free speech argument, that she shouldn't be compelled to make that website. we have heard tense exchanges along with the two lawyers laying out the case ander what what the colorado attorney general had to say before the court. >> the company ca

i'm yamiche alcindor. back for another hour. and it's not been a good day for donald trump. after fighting it for years, his tax returns are out, and there's a lot to unpack. from the former president's federal tax payments, to the foreign bank accounts held, while he, that he held while in office, the lack of mandatory irs audits, our expert panel is here to comb through it all. >>> and the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of witness transcripts, like yesterday, they contain a lot of familiar trump world names, we've got the biggest take-aways. >>> and following major breaking news in idaho and the murder case there, a person has been arrested in connection to the killings of four college students. law enforcement officials tell nbc news the 28-year-old was apprehended in pennsylvania. we've got the details >>> and new year, new covid variants. medical experts are warning of a new infectious strain going through the north east right now. what you can do to protect yourself and others from the post-holiday surge. >>> we begin with the pages upon pages of dona

i want to bring the nbc news correspondence yamiche alcindor outside the supreme court.s is such an important case. it could be one of the biggest potentially antidiscrimination cases in the supreme court's recent history and talk us through the clues because it is not often that you hear like ashley madison and jada getting brought up in some of the oral arguments here. it was pretty interesting. >> certainly, these were fascinating oral arguments on what could be a consequential case dealing with free speech and guy rights in this country, and you heard from some of the liberal justices pointed questions, justice sotomayor as well as justice ketanji brown jackson, both of them bringing up the question of race. it did okay, on religious grounds, you decide that you don't like inter racial marriage or disabled people and ketanji brown jackson asked if you have a photographer who says i want to take pictures and recreate the christmases from the 1950s, and i say i only want to put white children and not black families and is that allowed with santa. and lawyers say there

. >>> we can back to the panelists here yamiche alcindor, ashley clark, marc short, former chief of staff white house press secretary jen psaki. marc, there's no active campaign for mike pence, right? >> that's right. >> but you are advising him and could be involved down the line? >> there's no way i know where that's going to go, chuck, but yes, i would be an honor to serve the vice president. >>> donald trump, what he's done with kanye west, nick fuentes, what he's done with the constitution, is this time different? >> i don't think it's a good platform for a president to say we should set the constitution aside. i feel like we have seen this aggress continue ever since january 6th. candidly, i think that's what he asked the vice president to do two years ago when rioters were attacking the capitol, and he asked the vice president to overturn the election results. unfortunately, i think this has been a consistent trend. i do think there's many convention from many conservatives about what happened with the twitter arrivalation, believing the media has had a double standard. when mike p

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ran jackson women's health which was at the center of this case, i want to play a bit from yamiche alcindor'ss going to be detrimental to the women of mississippi. it just like them to women ofce. color, especially the majority of what we are seeing here. i think it affects them more than any other race. >> what do you make of where we find ourselves as multiracial women still facing the end of our liberty of our own bodies? >> it is unspeakable really. we are a unique democracy in the world and failing to understand that women have a right to control our own bodies, otherwise we're not living in a democracy, hello? it is clear that the big states like california and new york, women maintain this rate, but it's outrageous and sometimes dangerous for women and other states that don't have this right to have to travel in order to get it. we should be ashamed in the world. >> yeah, just to go back to, this is a fight that will wind up being a multi racial fight. this is what misuse biography says about the way black women were treated in the feminist movement before the two of you can together.

i'm yamiche alcindor. and there is a lot happening right now. after a year's long legal battle, donald trump's tax returns are now public. the thousands of pages show that during the first and last years of his presidency, trump paid very little in federal income taxes, claiming huge losses to shave down his tax bill. we have experts ready to break down the six years of filings plus a member of the house ways and means committee into what went into the decision to make everything public and the precedence it sets going forward. >>> we've got more developments from the january 6th committee. another batch of deposition transcripts just dropped. among the interviews, rudy giuliani, jared kushner, and mick mulvaney, and what they said and how it all impacts the former president coming up >>> a major break through in the quadruple idaho murder cacy a 28-year-old man has been taken into custody in connection with the case according to multiple law enforcement officials. what we know and what we could find out at today's news conference ahead. >>> we

i'm yamiche alcindor. we have a lot to get to this hour. the death toll from the historic blizzard in buffalo, new york, continues to climb, as search and rescue operations intensify. a state of emergency remains in effect there, and although a driving ban has now been lifted, local officials are urging people to stay off the roads, unless they absolutely have to. >> i'm asking people to still be cautious, and if you don't need to drive, please don't. >> and the winter travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans still stranded in airports across the country. almost every airline in the nation has bounced back from the storm, except southwest airlines. at this hour, southwest has canceled almost 60% of its flights for today. now, giving a new update this afternoon, on when they plan to be running normally again. we're live from l.a.x. with the latest. >>> and the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of interview and deposition transcripts, among them some of the biggest names from trump world, including don jr., kimberl

joining me now from the supreme court, yamiche alcindor.noting that smith hasn't actually refused couples and hasn't been punished, but what is her basis then for bringing this case? >> reporter: that's right. good morning. what she is saying is that she wants to -- lorie smith, the owner of this 303 creative which is a website designing and creating company, she wants to preemptively sue the state of colorado, which is what she did, because she wants to be able to told she won't be sanctioned if she wants to create wedding websites that are opposite sex but not of same sex. listening to his oral arguments has been fascinating and they've gotten contentious. here's justice sotomayor questioning the lawyer for lorie smith. take a listen. >> how about people who don't believe in interracial marriage or about people who don't believe that disabled people should get married? what's -- where is the line? i choose to serve whom i want if i disagree with their personal characteristics like race or disability? i can choose not to sell to those peop