anne thompson, nbc news.rder mystery therrove to work. and authorities are hoping surveillance video can help them find the killer. nbc's gabe gutierrez is there. >> reporter: tonight, the family of 28-year-old aspiring model kelsey quail is heartbroken. >> it's really devastating, especially since we don't have the answers we need. >> reporter: this surveillance video shows the moments before police say quail crashed her car a week ago. paramedics initially thought this was just a serious car crash near this intersection. but then they discovered the bullet. now police are looking for the drivers of the white suv and gray sedan that passed quail's car just before she was shot. do you believe she was targeted? >> no, i do not. the information we have right now is that a random shooting occurred on the roadway. >> the bullet that went through her at the base of her brain, she ended up being brain dead. >> reporter: days later quail's family removed her from life-support. she had just moved to the atlanta area to pursue a modeling career. >

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> more to come. we'll tell you about the battle forcing a wwe superstar to take a break from the ring. >>> and the terrifying moment an escalator suddenly speeds out of control. >>> caught on camera, an escalator speeding out of control, throwing and crushing riders into a huge pileup on the floor of a subway station. this happened in rome. reports say it was a mechanical malfunction that left as many as 30 people injured, many of them russian soccer fans. heading to a match. >>> now to the wrestling superstar who stunned his fans with an 'medicatiemotional anno on live television. roman reins, one of the biggest stars in the wwe, going public with a private battle and stepping away from the ring. we get his story from joe fryer. >> about to find out. >> reporter: for the world wrestling entertainment star known as roman reins, this bottle is not part of any story line. >> i've been living with leukemia for 11 years and unfortunately, it's back. >> reporter: on usa's network "monday night raw," he re

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joining me now is nbc chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson. ays it out in black and white. >> it says the time's up, the world has to do something to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. in the report it talks about 2.7-degree fahrenheit threshold and the ipcc says we are going do reach that somewhere between 2030 and mid century so we have to take action now if we are to stem the worst impacts of climate change. what does that mean? it means reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030. that's huge. and the only way it says to get there to do that is to increase the amount of renewables that we use. take those renewables and ratchet them up to 65%, 75% of the power generation and get our coal use down to just about zero because, of course, coal emits when you burn coal for power that creates greenhouse gases which warm the earth so it's a big, big ask of the world's politicians. they say it's scientifically possible. the question is, is the political will there? >> certainly not from this white house. >> no. >> because they have gone exactly i

nbc's anne thompson has the latest. >> reporter: with burquoise waters and pristiches, turks and caicosbills itself as the ultimate grownup playground. tonight, it's the focus a murder mystery. one of its guests, kuhnla, went missing last monday. the next morning in these bushes near the edesort, her body was discovy a traveling companion. helma hermans was on the trip with kuhnla. >> whoever did this, i want to make sure that hi they pay for >> reporter: now a week later, police have yet to say how or why she died. >> authorities have g,old us basically nothhich is very, very frustrating for the family. very frustrating. >> reporter: this january, the state department issued a travel advisory to turks and icos because of crime, urging americans to avoid walking alone at night, and tnot physically resist a srobbery. the tu and caicos police are conducting a murder club med promises to cooperate with authorities. adding the safety, security, and well-being of all of our guests remains our highest priority. as police hunt for a killer, marring paradise. anne tmpson, nbc news, new york. >>

anne thompson reports the new law may help reduce the price you pay at the drug store. >> reporter: it is a practice that infuriated many pharmacists like steve hoffer, something called a gag clause that prohibited them from telling customers with some insurance plans about the lowest price for a prescription drug. >> it's extremely hard to see a patient spend more than what they really should be. >> reporter: so hard texas to nbc news. so just to be clear there are instances where you cannot tell the patient there's a cheaper alternative. >> yes, it's in the contract language saying we're not allowed to divulge that information, it's proprietary and we cannot share it. >> reporter: an nbc news investigation found it happens on a wide number of again rings on certain insurance plans. for a common antibiotic it can be $18 more to use insurance than pay out of pocket and other differences that promoted outrage in congress. >> last night "nbc nightly news" ran a piece on a drug investigation found that insurance plans are actually cheaper when the consumer pays out of pocket. the that mak

anne thompson, nbc news. >>> still to come, transforming misery into art. the mural to honor the victims of last year's mendoza wildfires. mark one year since the devastating wine country >>> past week, millennium yemor tributes commemorating the wildfires. >> joe rosato jr. shows us how one mendocino county community is remembering the devastation and recovery using art. >> i've been doing mosaics for about 40 years now. i'm a narrative artist. i tell the story. >> reporter: there are stories and broken things. >> i do like the breaking it up and putting it back together. >> reporter: mosaic art is to elizabeth rabies like finding stories in chaos. >> yeah, moses say, you're taking things and breaking them into pieces and putting them back together again. >> reporter: which is an appropriated me for the ukiah artist's current work, remembering the fire one year ago that devastated nearby redwood valley. >> we want to memorialize the whole event, the good parts, the bad parts. >> the story of flames, burned out cars, harrowing escapes told and bits of ceram

ann thompson joins us with that story. >> reporter: good morning. this accepting his resignation, pope francis wrote an unusual letter praising the cardinal. he also seems to buy weurl's long held defense that he made mistakes in dealing with predatory priests, as opposed to covering up their actions. this morning cardinal weurl expressed his gratitude to pope francis and begged forgiveness. though, a confidant and ally of pope francis, he could not survive the two scandals that have shake tennessee catholic church. a protester last month interrupting the cardinal's talk detailed in the pennsylvania grand jury report. the grand jury concluded he mishandled cases of abuse of priests as bishop of pittsburgh, accusations he denies, denies disputed by the pennsylvania attorney general. >> the public comments that he has made directly contradict the church's own documents that we found in the secret archives, and that's all spelled out in the grand jury report. >> the holy gospel according to matthew. >> then there were claims of sexual misconduct by his

nbc's ann thompson has that story. good morning. reporter: good morning, craig. in accepting cardinal wuerl's op resignation,francis wrote a most unusual letter. in that letter, the pope praises cardinal wuerl and seems to buy' wu long-held defense that as bishop of pittsburgh he made mistakes in dealing with predatory priests as opposed to coring up their actions. this morning cardinal wuerl expressed his gratitude to pope francis and begged forgiveness once again for any past errors in jupt, ipologize and ask for pardon. my resignation is one way to at express my gnd abiding love for you, the people of the church of washington. a confidante and ally ofueope francirl could not survive the two scandals that have shaken the catholic church. a protester last month interrupting the cardinal's talk about the sex abuse crisis detailed in the pennsylvania grand jury report. the grand jury concluded wuerl mishandled cases of abusive priests as bishop of pittsburgh. accusations wuerl vehemently denies. denials disputed by the pennsylvania att ney genera >> the public com

anne thompson has that story this morning. >> reporter: good morning.both have their sights set on the buffalo diocese. but the most searing charges come from within. two members of that diocese who lost faith in the church's ability to police itself. this time it is bishop richard malone under siege haunted by the problem the catholic church cannot put to rest. >> by default, i started hearing from survivors. >> reporter: this was his executive assistant fielding desperate calls intended for a church hotline. have you spoken to the n bi? >> i have. >> reporter: and what did they want to ask you? >> they wanted to know what i witnessed. >> reporter: one of her serious claims, he drastically reduced the number of predator priests on a list they had this spring. how many priests were on the original list? >> over 100. >> reporter: and how many were on the list that they published? >> 32. >> reporter: paul snyder is a deacon in the buffalo diocese. a life-long catholic now speaking out with o'connor. if you could meet with the bishop, what would you say to