trump to make a comeback, could the gop bounce back without him dasha burns, nbc news, delaware county, ohio. >> and you can see more reporting in our "county to county" series all this week across our nbc news platforms. >>> up next, the new face of air travel >>> there are new concerns about the health of queen elizabeth. buckingham palace announcing she will no longer travel to the u.n. climate change conference next week in scotland after doctors advised her to rest the 95-year-old resumed official engagements today via video for the first time since a brief hospitalization last week >>> now to a major change about to take place in air travel. one of the big airlines rolling out new facial recognition technology to speed you through airport check-ins, tsa screening, and onto your plane tom costello has more from atlanta >> reporter: just in time for the holiday travel rush, delta airlines and the tsa taking facial recognition to the next level state-of-the-art technology rolling out here in atlanta, also detroit. for those who opt in, no more scanning your paper ticket or mobile bo

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dasha, what have you learned about the search? >> geoff, up until today, there had been seemingly no trace of brian laundrie but it seems that has now changed. we are still watching the story as it is developing very quickly. let me reset, again, what it is that we know now. we know that last night, the fbi and north port police learned chris and roberta laundrie, brian laundrie's parents, were planning to go to the carlton reserve to search for brian again. the reserve had been closed for about a month. it reopened yesterday but is closed again today as you have law enforcement and the medical examiner on the scene there now. we know per the laundrie family attorney that there have been some items found in that reserve that they have confirmed do indeed belong to brian laundrie. we also know from a senior law enforcement official that partial human remains have also been found in that reserve. they have been found near a backpack that the senior law enforcement official says is consistent with items that may belong to brian laund

but dasha burns has more. >> reporter: earlier, the fbi confirming that a backpack and notebook that do belong to brian laundrie were found in the nature reserve area of florida, where his family says he went hiking before he disappeared. we know that chris and roberta laundrie met with law enforcement in that area to search for any trace of their son. they found those items. the fbi also confirming they found partial human remains in that region, but they have not been identified. a medical examiner has been dispatched to the area. the fbi says they and their partners will be on the scene for likely several days. we know that it was difficult for investigators to search that area over the last several weeks because of water levels there. the fbi says the water levels have receded, allowing them to search more of the area that was difficult to access. >>> a trial date has been set in the 1996 murder of kristen smart, a freshman at cal poly who disappeared after leaving a college party with a fellow student, paul flores. a recent podcast led to the arrest of flores and his father. pro

i want to bring in nbc news' dasha burns who has been following this. >> i've been following this story from the beginning and from the beginning there have been many more questions than answers. and i'll tell you seemingly with every development the mystery has actually grown. but today, just moments ago, we got perhaps the first concrete answers in this case, the teton county coroner not missing a beat at the beginning of the press conference, getting right to the point, take a listen to what we heard. >> the teton county coroner office is filing the following verdict in the death of gabrielle petito. we hereby find the cause and manner of death to be the cause of death by strangulation and manner is homicide. >> and there you have it, hallie. the big question that we have all been wondering, what was the cause of death, ruling it a homicide, saying it was death by strangulation. and the other big question here has been the timeline. this has been a puzzle we have been putting together piece by piece through information from law enforcement, through social media, through some police b

nbc's dasha burns is with us and also clint watts.ple who haven't been following this story closely if the last week or so, catch us up. and what are we learning now? >> garret, it is now week five in the search for brian laundrie, and up until today there had really been seemingly no trace. the fbi had been fielding calls from all over the country with possible sightings of brian lun-degree, but none of those had been confirmed. well, today is the first concrete development in this search. here is what we know so far. just moments ago the fbi put out a statement with an update from their end of the investigation. they said that items of interest were located at the carlton reserve this morning in connection with the search for brian laundrie. an fbi evidence response team is processing the scene. the reserve is close to the public and no further details are available at this time. we know the carlton reserve is where brian laundrie's parents say he went for a hike before he disappeared. that has been the area that's been really the f

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. >>> we will head back to dasha for the latest. >> you two will love this.t time you try. the 3-year-old wasn't giving up. james was determined to get his space shuttle kite to take flight. when he did, oh, boy, was it joyous. watch. >> you got it. >> james' family says he loves the book "go fly a kite charlie brown." he has a rare form of muscular dystrophy. his parents say he is willing to try any activity other children enjoy. including his twin sisters. i think james is way ahead of me. i don't think i ever gotten a kite to fly. >> come on, man. you have to work on that. >> i know. >> it is cool to see james get that. >> the joy you could feel it. so great. dasha, thank you for that. >>> still ahead, why prince william is taking on william shatner just days after his trip to space. >> we're back after this. but we also bundle outdoor vehicles with home and auto to help people save more! [ laughs ] ♪♪ [ humming ] [ door creaks ] oh. [ soft music playing ] what are you all doing in my daydream? it's better than that presentation. a lot better. you know, wh

dasha burns, nbc news, delaware county, ohio. >> if you look -- say hi to everybody.r the past 10, 12 years, go back to 2008. see the people who voted for barack obama zp -- the areas they voted for obama, and then shifted to trump. it is dramatic in rural areas but especially in those old factory towns that have been shuttered and sent out of this country. it is so pronounced that we're going to see a battle between former democrats who are now republicans in those type of towns and former republicans who are now democrats in the fastest growing parts of america in the suburbs. >> joe, you said something a few minutes ago that is so true, and it's universal. covid disrupted the entire structure of this country. the political structure, the economic structure, and the cultural structure. and you hear that refrain in the voices of some of the people we just heard in that piece, about who was going to vote for whom in 2022. politics is a mess now. people are talking about things that they wouldn't have talked about in reference to politics years ago. i mean, the culture

. >> so we'll break away from the press conference and bring in dasha burns. to speed with what we learned from the coroner about the cause of death. >> look, i've been reporting on this story from the beginning. and from the beginning, there have been many more questions than answers. and what we just heard a few moments ago were some concrete answers that everyone has been waiting for. gabby's body was found on september 19th and we are just now learning from the teton county coroner's office that the cause of death was strangulation. he said it took a long time to get those final results, so it was ruled a homicide pretty quickly after the body was found, but this cause of death took some time because they were consulting with experts that were doing toxicology reports. the story has had so much national attention that it seems that they wanted to be as thorough as possible. the other piece that we learned here is a bit more clarity on the time line. she passed away about three to four weeks ago he said. and the time line has been a big puzzle. we've been l

dasha burns is if delaware county, ohio.hree red counties that we're show casing for the midterm cycle. in many ways i believe you spent a lot of time in kent county, grand rapids, delaware. slightly more republican than kent county is but i am guessing it looks quite familiar, doesn't it? >> yeah, chuck. he am hearing echoes of similar sentiments here. when you say it is the lightest red, very recently, this has been a long time gop stronghold. we're talking well over a century here. when you look at the recent history, since 2000 republicans have been winning this county by double digits. in 2020 the margin for trump here narrowed by more than nine points. there are a couple factors at play here. one the population is just exploding. this is the fastest dproeg county in ohio. a lot of that growth is coming from columbus just south of here more urban, more liberal area. when we're talking about this project and these key slices of the electorate, you've said this before. this is not a project that is looking at swing counti

dasha burns has the details. >> reporter: tonight, comedian dave chappelle once again at the center of >> reporter: the polarizing stand-up drawing swift backlash. >> gender is fact. it's a fact. every human being in this room, every human being on earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. >> reporter: critics characterizing the remarks as transphobic and slamming netflix for airing them. >> terf is an acronym, transexclusionary radical feminist. this is a group of women that hate trans -- they don't hate transgender women but they look at trans women the way we look at black face. i'm team terf. i agree. i agree, man. gender is a fact. >> reporter: the special prompting some to boycott the service or cut ties. today, a group of transgender employees at netflix announcing plans to stage a walkout next week. netflix recently suspending three employees who criticized the streaming giant but now lifting that suspension. one of the employees, trans software developer tara field, had openly questioned netflix's decision to air the special, tweeting, promoting terf ideolo