heidi's brothers frank and harold. true that your mom was known to wash out a potty mouth with a bar of soap. or was that -- is that a metaphor? >> i got it. >> true. >> reporter: did you? >> true. >> yup, yeah. they were very strict. definitely had a bar of soap from time to time. >> reporter: as she grew into her late teens heidi started to bristle under her parent's strict house rules. by 19, she the next to youngest became the first to leave the family nest. but the grass wasn't greener. right away, reality offered up a dead-beat roommate; and a succession of low- paying jobs that evaporated like the morning dew. and yet she could always count on her girlfriends to buoy her up. and it was one night with her bff's shooting pool, she caught the eye of a guy holding a cue stick. it was stephen cooke. >> they were shooting against one another. and he noticed heidi in the bar. >> reporter: kim is stephen cooke's sister. >> the first night they actually went home together. and three days later, they moved in together. >>

we got the line back to heidi joe castro, the in mayfield kentucky. heidi. so you are taking a through whether this is a search for survivors or search for victims. now that's right. and the governor of kentucky said yesterday that it would be a miracle to find any one else alive underneath the debris of that candle factory. not only are there meters of concrete and steel on top of those very people, but there's also corrosive chemicals that have filled. so it is a terrible situation there. the local authority, se hope is still alive, that perhaps someone still may be trapped and may be rescued. but some of the rescue effort is impeded by the lack of how we're here. the lack of water communication lines are difficult or difficult connection to use evidence of that as well. and so there are resources coming in to try to get those the infrastructure back up to aid in this rescue and recovery effort. the heads of the fema and homeland security are coming here from washington today as well to be on the ground in kentucky and overseas is massive search and rescue

and heidi joins his life now from the city of mayfield in kentucky. heidi any updates on the search for victims, i mean, is this still a search and rescue operation? peter, it is still termed a search and rescue operation, but we'll get an update on that soon. from authorities here. the word from over night though, has not been good. no further, survivors pulled from the rubble of that candle factory. in fact, it's been now going on 28 hours since the last living survivor was rescued there. more than a 100 people had been trapped at one point when the storm hit, some 40 made it out and still yet another 40 or so are still missing. and the complicating factor is as part of this search mission is that there is a lack of power in this entire surrounding region. there is a lack of water. and for those who are may be trapped in that factory or may be trapped in so many of these levels surrounding homes and, and sheltering, waiting for rescue to arrive. or if there are survivors, they're also in this very cold climate with no heat available either. so the odds, unfortunately, are not looking

. heidi, the president, speaking after touring towns devastated by the tornadoes. tell us more about the government assistance is promising. and how people are reacting yeah, fully. so major disaster declarations have been granted here in kentucky and the people here while they were excited to see that the president have to visit. but there are also some who are doubtful about just how quickly this desperately needed help will trickle down to them. we heard the president promising that the federal government would pay for any recovery need in the next few days, but in fact, i just spoke with a gentleman who lost his house. he was very happy to have survived with his family . however, he lost all of his belongings, he lost its home, and he said that he doesn't qualify for government assistance because he already has private insurance, which he is thankful for. but still, he says there are still a net needs here. but we are seeing the community itself step up and help neighbors to meet some of those needs. volunteers coming from all foreigners donating presence for c

. >> reporter: this mom of four, heidi spent more than 16 years working as a pharmacy technician at a rite aid near pittsburgh. in october, she abruptly quit the job she loved and thought she would require from. >> all of the parts of my job i truly enjoyed over the years has slowly just gone away with pandemic stress and just all the unpleasantness going on in health care and in retail today. >> reporter: pharmacy techs support the pharmacist, count pills, answer calls, work the register and more, but increasingly they're quitting in a survey of independent pharmacy owners, nearly 90% say they can't find technicians. why are pharmacy techs so fed up? >> i mean, i really think a lot of it comes to the fact that we are grossly underpaid across the board. >> median pay is about $16 an hour. but it is not just wages. >> it was routine in my store when i was leaving to be three to five hundred scripts past due at any given time >> reporter: this means people could be going without their needed medication for days >> absolutely. >> reporter: nbc news spoke to 22 retail pharmacy technicians

region begin the difficult work of recovering dozens of families are struggling with the same grief. heidi joe castro al jazeera mayfield. kentucky still heads on al jazeera, a un reports flames felice for the deaths of the people doing contest in columbia last year. desperate scenes in mexico was the government changes tactics to relocate sizes. michael ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, thank you for joining in. here's your weather report for asia, we're keeping tabs on storm ry as it tracks closer to the philippines. central

host: heidi heitkamp served as one term a senator from north dakota. talking about her new one country project. we welcome your calls and comments. the senators are for rural residents, (202)-748-8000. all others use (202)-748-8001. if you do not want to call you can text at (202)-748-8003. senator, how much of a priority do you think rebuilding rural democrats, rebuilding support among rural americans is, for the national party and the campaign committees, how high a priority do you think that is? guest: it has been frustrating to me to kind of watch this from a distance from north dakota and think about the opportunities that have been missed by the democratic party to tell people what they are about and what they mean. i have had conversations about the medium whether it is facebook. where is rural america getting their ads? guess what? they are getting impressions from fox news and they are getting impressions from friends on facebook and they are getting their impressions from local radio. there is three places we could do a better job communicati

families are struggling with the same grief. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky, a 5 year long legal vassal involving u. s. gymnastics has come to an ends, a $380000000.00 settlement has been reached between the victims of the disgraced form adult to larry nasser and america's top gymnastics association. nasa was accused of sexually abusing more than $300.00 women and girls. he was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison. 3 years ago. it's among the largest settlements ever for his sexual abuse case. he ran back to ports his friends. columbian police were responsible for 11 deaths during protest last year. at 2 rallies against police brutality. oh, but one of the officers involved is still on the job. alessandra appeared to reports from boca tom, over 2 nights of unprecedented violent protest. 14 people died in columbus capital will. the time september 2020 demonstrations erupted across the city after

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joining me now is heidi prezbola., what can you tell us about the specifics of the plan and how does it stack up to other countries. >> that is the president's helicopter making it's way here. he is going to talk about a couple major planks he is outlining here. it is most at risk for medicare and medicaid. second is the testing. the president aiming to quadruple the supply of at home tests and requires private insurers, and also all international traveler who is have tested negative regardless of vaccination status within one day of departure. also the creation of things they hope will be critical. >> trying to talk over the helicopters is a tough job. i think because they were so glad, they could focus on the other agenda items, items, make a big push to pass big things. and now we're back with covid again. i wonder, how does the white house, the president, balance this covid which is the most important issue to president biden but not making it the only issue they're able to give full attention to? yeah, i wrote ab

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heidi, let's start with your brand new reporting. it has to do with a test to stay strategy for kids in school. how does that work? >> the white house is concerned about major disruptions at hospitals and schools amid omicron today. we learned they're about to outline a plan. most children learning virtually. we have new dayty and updated guidance showing the effectiveness of an approach called test to stay. basically it involves frequent rapid testing of students. at least two times a week and robust contact tracing. the game-changer here is that with frequent testing, even kids who may have been exposed which may be a lot with omicron, don't need to quarantine. the second part of the approach is a partnership with teacher's unions to get teachers boosted. omicron is prompting some school closures, and this is before it crashes ashore here. one of the new studies is based on 90 students in lake county, illinois. it estimated a test to stay program prevented more than 8,000 missed school days. the other one from los angeles county fo

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heidi said it. insulin prices going down.ublicans vote and this one in a lifetime infrastructure package that's going to help people across the country. can democrats start to run on that? it's amazing to see joe biden's poll numbers going down and in the face of a lot of good news. >> the truth is that democrats fate rests with how good voter are feeling next year. president biden and democrats pretty much exhausted major levers, actions, to make people feel better quickly. whether stimulus or federal vaccine mandate. i think biden's approval rating has to be back above 50 by november for democrats to have a chance to hold on to congress. on the current trajectory, superimpose results in virginia and new jersey, down ballot, on congress democrats lose four senate seats and 51 house seats. right now a question of mitigation. >> brian, i want to read more of what you wrote in your memo. voters couldn't name anything that democrats had done. except a few who said we passed the infrastructure bill. in general, they just aren't s

and heidi joins his life now from mayfield. now, heidi, there is some discrepancy in the death toll figures now particularly surrounding what happened at that candle factory that we were talking about yesterday on the news. our explain that for us. that's right. peter. the governor of kentucky says this has not been confirmed by the state, but the owner of the candle factory says that there were 8 bodies pulled out of that wreckage. and now there are 6 missing workers, which was a dramatic revision from what had once been feared. as 40 of those workers still unaccounted for. as an explanation of the owner said it was because of the communication challenges right after the disaster. there's no power, no phone service, and finally, more employees who had gotten out safely on their own have reached down, said that they are safe so that that could be very good news. but the governor still says that the death toll here in kentucky which remains the state with the largest loss of life. best case scenario, he said would be 50 dead wor

heidi many thanks. g 7 foreign ministers of warned the massive consequences for russia if it invades ukraine statement was delivered on the final day of meetings between delegates of the worlds which is to receive the g 7 and the british city of liverpool rushes, military build up near ukraine's border has dominated the today talks. moscow has denied plans of a military offensive. we've sent a very clear united message to blood to putin from this g 7 meeting. and we want russia to stop. it's aggression with respect to ukraine. and we have very clear that there would be severe consequences if that incursion took place. this is about deterring russia from taking that action on the subject of iran. there is still time for iran to come an agree this deal. and it's the last chance, as i've said, but there is still a chance for them to do that. and i would dutch iran to come back to the table with a serious offer wife livable. i was just here as roaring challenz is there for us. we've had a final statement, r

that's heidi joe castle reporting from washington dc. your gun is deploying soldiers across the border into democratic republic of congo as it battles and on group and fellows airstrikes against the allied democratic forces on tuesday. as part of a joint operation with the congress army, they are in groups based and eastern congo, and it's set to have links to weisel. uganda blames it for 3 bomb attacks and its capital. come paula? earlier this month, your gannon troops entered the i see the nobility crossing in north keybo state, its a forest area which makes it difficult to get through its here that adf has its high doubts and its his basis now does it mark a web was reported extensively from democratic republic of congo has more from nairobi, the government of president, she looked just the caddy and phone guy. president miller, in the 70 and uganda planning this military operation for weeks, if not months before those suicide bombings and you can, the campus will come. paula. that took place about 2 weeks ago. insecurity. so who told

heidi: i think it depends where you live.look at africa, it's going to be a very different situation. there are some countries where some people haven't had the opportunity to get there first. you have to look at the setting. if you've done well with your vaccination, move on to boosters. in the u.s. by state or locality, we need to get local with the engagement. we do see the under vaccination, it needs local engagement, trying to find out who the trusted messengers are. we need to try and keep people focused on getting to the other side of this. guy: on that note, we will leave it. thank you very much indeed. thank you very much indeed. we are done here in europe. the european markets are closed. we did take a little tech lower. the ftse 100 closing by 1.5%. look at the dax. huge rally. luxury stocks a been very good today. we will carry on the conversation about this rally. we will do that on the cable show. you can also find us now on spotify and itunes. we have a podcast. we are very excited about that. alyx: we are very

heidi, the other angle on this, as you broke, is schools. so many parents out there are saying, i can't do home schooling again, i can't have my kid in this house, it's not good for their learning, it's not good for their mental health. kids want to be in schools. what is the biden administration's advice for agenda on that front? >> katy, the white house is concerned about major disruptions at hospitals and schools due to omicron. and today they outlined a plan to prevent what we saw last year, like you mentioned, which is most children learning virtually. we now as of this morning have new data and updated cdc guidance showing the effectiveness of an approach called test to stay, which involves frequent rapid testing of students at least two times per week and robust contact tracing. here is the cdc director from earlier today. >> and that testing needs to be at least twice during the seven-day period after exposure. if exposed children meet a certain criteria and continue to test negative, they can stay in school instead of quarantining a

heidi, john, thank you-all so much.ere because we need to turn to the other big news out of capitol hill. >>> the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection for the first time is asking to speak with current members of congress. they want to question pennsylvania republican congressman scott perry. the committee's chair said he played a key role in the events leading up to the riot including efforts to make former trump justice official jeffrey clark the acting attorney general toward the end of the trump administration. i want to go to garrett on the hill. we're not talking about roger stone. this is a sitting member of congress. what are the consequences if he doesn't compile? >> reporter: that's not entirely clear. you have perry head of the freedom caucus, the same position mark meadows whose name came up in the senate investigation during the period between the election and the inauguration. perry is someone who apparently connected jeffrey clark that doj official with the white house, the person wh

the healing even harder. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield kentucky in avenues the u. k. has reported its highest number of daily covered 19 infection since the start of the pan demik. more than 17000 cases were confirmed on wednesday. scientists say only crohn will be the dominant variant in europe by the middle of january. the us secretary of state has cut short the 2nd leg of his se asia tour after our journalist accompanying him on the trip. tested positive for over 19, and 20 blinking has been trying to firm up ties in the region to count to china's influence is criticized bay jane voice aggressive policies in the region. iran foreign minister says un cameras will be allowed to film very sensitive nuclear site. the issue had been a sticking point during negotiations in vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. ukraine's president is urging the european union to impose new sanctions on russia to help ease rising tensions between the 2 countries. for the muse, uminski was speaking in brussels at the ease eastern partnership summit. they're currently around a $100000.00 r

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destruction as beyond belief. 88 people were killed across 6 states, and more than a 100 are still missing. heidi shall cast a report from mayfield in kentucky. this street in bowling green, kentucky once rang with the sounds of children playing young families lived here. but then on friday the tornado came and some neighbors shelter together. they decided to get in the 1st house together. and unfortunately, the house was just demolished for the ground. 11 people died here. 8 of them were children or i don't know what to say, man is retired when somebody's gone and you're shot. you know what happened to visual as recovery worked ourselves through the debris left in 16 all last week, superstore leaving the landscape of devastation. authorities fear the final depth hold will be staggering. 9 year old aniston rack, lee climbed into a bath tub with her younger sisters and her doll. this photo taken by their mother 15 minutes before the tornado hit. aniston was killed. her sister survived one recounting to nurses what she'd endured. she said, yes, i was flying around in the tornado and i prayed to jes

jackass for his live for us in washington. heidi talks through the latest coven numbers in the states when the lien at the highest daily new case is ever in the u. s. were now at 267 happening now in the north eastern part of the u. s. with places like new york city here in washington, d. c. and surrounding states. people queuing for hours in search of coven tests, and then one in for, in many communities coming back positive. now if there is some silver lining, it's the evidence that here to the omicron variant is resulting in milder infections. because while those cases of jump to some 70 percent since a week ago and number, the hospitalization has not kept pace. that's gone up by just 15 percent, but when you just look into each individual case, those are still each person occupying hospital beds and hospitals are swamped with many counties declaring local states of emergency and warning that soon these hospital beds will all be used up, bowling money, thanks for that, hardy, j. castro, the 1st live in washington. a jury in new york has found the british socialist socialite, delane

as the clean up continues. heidi jo, castro al jazeera mayfield kentucky. william gala is a professor of meteorology at iowa state university. he says the path of destruction left by the tornadoes could be the longest ever. recorded. tornadoes form on any day where you have strong wind shear, which means the winds are changing their speed and direction as you go up in the atmosphere. so on friday night we had a very strong values of wind shear in the atmosphere, which is pretty typical in winter. but the other ingredient we need is instability or a lot of energy that is supplied by having warm and humid conditions near the ground . that is often lacking in the winter, but as you heard in this event, there is spring like warmth and humidity present in this region to those 2 ingredients come together and allow for thunderstorms to begin to rotate. and the strong upward motion in the thunderstorm can concentrate the rotation to make it a spin very fast helping to form for nato's. we've gone 8 years in the united states since we've had an f 5 tornado, which sho

the speak to heidi j. castro's law for us in washington, dc. what he talks through the latest cove, it figures in the us on the line. it's still their workers breaking number of daily cases, which still goes up by the day now. it stands at $267000.00 cases. a day reported in the u. s, which is the highest since the start of the pandemic, more than 60 per cent now of those cases attributed to the omi kron berry, and, and the nations for most infectious disease expert, dr. anthony found, she predicting that it'll only get worse with the peak, likely to hit not hit until the end of january. now we're seeing a much of this surge occurring in the nation's north east places like new york city here in washington. d. c. states like new jersey where people are lining up for hours in search of coven testing, and in some communities more than one and 4 of those tests coming back positive. now there is some good news there is continued evidence in the us as well. that the omicron variant is resulting in milder infections because while cases have jumped mor

the state of kentucky was the worst hit heidi jo. castro reports from the town of mayfield. this is what the mayfield candle factory looked like before the storm. this is what it looks like. now. i saw on site a back back that was left behind and a pair of shoes. and it represents that the tragedy of this tornado has reaped on this area of kentucky. we learned of a telephone that was recovered. a cell phone that recorded 27. miss messages. we've lost father's mother's brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and others, teens from department of homeland security and the federal emergency management agency or fema are now on the scene. but the likelihood of finding more survivors diminishes by the hour. friday's tornado destroyed everything. it touched in mayfield. this used to be the historic town center. now it is leveled that was once a doctors office back there churches now nothing but rubble. this trailer was picked up in the sky and dropped here like a toy and people's personal belongings from their homes. their photographs of their family members, now litter the streets. dav

as the clean up continues. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky. terrible scenes there. will you as president joe biden plans to travel to kentucky on wednesday? let's get more from our white house correspondent, kimberly how kids. so kimberly one more. can you tell us about the president's trip? the years president will be visiting kentucky given that is where we are seeing most of the impact from these tornadoes. what he'll be doing is getting a detailed update on the extent of the devastation he wants to be able to look at it 1st hand. so he can advise his agencies or how best to help people answer inform them about what is available in terms of resources. sometimes you can't exactly ask for it if you don't know what exists. so the present spoke specifically about that . he wants to make sure people know what help is out there so they can get it as soon as possible. but this is had a big impact on joe biden. he has gravely concerned about the future, how families will pick up, particularly how children can go back to school. and given the fact that there have been doz

heidi, thank you so much for that. sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you there. dan, to you.ols decide whether to go to remote learning or to keep students in the classroom? i know it is not an easy decision for educators to make. >> no. it's not. and we start up from the fact that we want the children in school. we want them to be in person. you just heard the metrics on the loss of learning that's taking place. that expanding by the day. so we need to have the children in school. at the same time, we need to make sure that when the children are in school, that they are safe. that the staff is safe. and that's the problem right now that we're having. when you consider the fact that barely 13%, 14% of elementary age students have been vaccinated, and only slightly over 53% of secondary students have been vaccinated, that's a large number of students that have still not been vaccinated, and are at risk. so the problem that superintendents are facing are children coming and then getting infected in the school from other children that got into school, and then spreading througho

the healing even harder. heidi jo, castro al jazeera mayfield, kentucky and investigation is on the way at an amazon warehouse house. in illinois was 6 people were killed when a tornado hit. john henry explains a federal investigation is looking into what exactly happened in the minutes before a tornado tor, through the front of this amazon warehouse center. what we know is that between 8 o, 6 and 8, 16 pm on friday night, managers at this plant were alerted that a tornado might come through at 827. that's just what happened. a twister touched down in that parking lot in tor, through the front of the building, killing 6 people, and injuring one. the occupational safety and health administration is looking into whether anything amazon did contributed to those deaths. over here you can see the and damage side of the building. that's where 45 workers huddled down in a pre designated tornado shelter. osha will be looking into why those who died were not among them. some drivers also complained that they were asked to shelter in their trucks is one said that just turns this van into my caske

of course, the worst hit state heidi recovery efforts underway right across the region. i mean, we spoke to yesterday in may field, which was significantly damage just how wide spread is the damage from these are these tornadoes across the state. an adrian that is what makes us recover efforts. so mass has because the storm is cause more than 30 tornadoes. the biggest one perhaps more than one kilometer in width and traveling on the ground for more than 300 kilometers and lives. this is what it left behind. this is dawson springs kentucky. another hard hit community, once a picturesque valley town with home surrounding it. now you can see it's just a gash in the earth. and it is difficult to imagine how the people who once lived here survived this event. we have overturn vehicles. the people fled from this home so quickly. you can see incredibly, the storm left the clothes. so hang on the, on their hangers in inside the closet, but the rest of the home is utterly destroyed. this home has already been searched over by the rescue worker. you can see that by the green sign

storms tore through the state and 5 other states. lane waste, 2 entire towns from mayfield, kentucky. heidi show castro reports. this house is among this. you still standing in mayfield, kentucky, though it's missing a roof doors and windows. the cato family lived here for you loving years. now they're seeing what they can say. oh, this is where the front door was. and then of course the upstairs. we won't go upstairs if that's okay. and, and then our dining room. not every home in this region has a basement, but this one, fortunately did, and the cato family had the foresight to offer shelter to some friends who live nearby. they came over just in time and a rush down the stairs likely saved everyone's lives. as soon as we got the basement, you just heard this huge bow, and that was just the, the whole house going up. so you were still in transition. we were still in transition, as in mother, what was your, what were you thinking at them at that point in time i was mentally counting heads . you know, i was like, are we all down here? all 12 people inside the house were unharmed. it's one o

heidi, so we've seen these allegations surface that work as a factory. were threatened with being fired. what people there been saying that's right there and there were a 110 people at work at the candle factory on friday night. you know, it's the height of the holiday gift season. so they were rushing to meet the orders, and we were told that many knew of the possibility, the strong possibility of disastrous storms coming their way. and when they asked to be loud out of work early for safety sake, they were told no, this is coming directly from our guest who was one of the workers. elijah johnson, thanks so much for joining us. you were at work when the storm had tell me how this folder for you came in. i am in the storm. so and so place around $930.00. we took show around 9 o'clock and we was there before. everything happened at 7 o'clock when those hours 1st came on while we was in the facility, we had to leave, it was so no, it was me, fortune. other people. if you leave and they said no, we approached management and you asked to leave, what did they

the state governor says he will investigate the allegations of zeros heidi joe castro reports for mayfield. with christmas approaching worker as of the mayfield consumer products handle factory were rushing to fill holiday orders. despite fridays, ominous skies. 20 year old elijah johnson says he felt nervous when he clocked in for his shift. and worse, after a tornado alarm sounded an early warning. the 1st alarm came all around saving and going on eighty's. and we could have been gone. we could have been gone. everybody could. i guarantee you a good have been less people that died at the facility, then what it was. if people would let them go, he says he and 14 other workers asked a manager if they could leave. we went to and we was like, we need to leave me and we got kids and stuff at the house. we got, we got to take your family and say, well, you can leave what you going to be terminated and was like, what, even with the weather like this and heels i, yes, we even with the weather like this is going to be terminated when the 2nd tornado alarm sounded about an hour later, the $110.00

region begin, the difficult work of recovering dozens of families are struggling with the same grief. heidi joe castro, al jazeera mayfield kentucky. he was president joe biden plans the travel to kentucky on wednesday is also pledged to deliver aid to tornado hit states as fast as possible. i want you to know that this ministrations made it clear to every government, whatever they need when they need, when they need make known to me. and we'll get it to them rapidly, rapidly. to renew in route to go beyond what is available for you. as defense, department officials are expected to conclude that no american military personnel will face punishment for a drone strike, which killed 10 afghans civilians. a review into the incident in august found that there were breakdowns in communication, but no misconduct or negligence. 7 children were among those killed in what was planned as a strike on an eyesore operative. it's got more now from my cana, who is live in washington dc. this was a very upsetting and of course came after that huge explosion at the airport in cobble. but so the u. s. a defens

thanks so much heidi joe castro. let's go over down to john henderson and edwards vill, illinois. how is the investigation coming together there? well, just in the very early stages, the occupational safety and health administration of federal organization that looks after workers safety has begun a probe that will last as long as 6 months. and that is because they do this anytime workers are killed in a large employment center. but here, this is an unusual situation and in which 6 people were killed in that amazon warehouse behind me, one was injured, 45 were rescued when the walls came down on the far end of this building here near me, the walls crushed in on the side and so did the ceiling and there were 6 people inside that portion of the building, really a small number of the hundreds who worked here. and the girlfriend of one of those workers has told reporters that at her boyfriend had written her that they were told they could not leave the building. so there has been another workers hired a de tourney. rather, the family of that worker who was slain has hired an attorney

first, nbc's heidi przybyla is outside the jail. heidi, what can you tell us about the investigations and whether prosecutors can move the needle on accountccountable -- accountability in school shootings? >> reporter: this is still a developing story, joe. this is very unusual for parents to be charged in these cases. we've had this epidemic of school shootings for 20 years in this country and haven't seen anything like this yet. prosecutors say the parents ignored warnings that their son might turn violent and that they could have done something about it. now, the parents have both pleaded not guilty. but to your question about moving the needle, look, it's been ten years since newtown, it's been 20 years since columbine. since then, we've developed a small but determined group of lawmakers in washington who try to act on background checks in the aftermath of these tragedies. listen to senator murphy earlier today on cnn. >> i've been in negotiations all year with senator toomey, with senator cornyn, with lindsey graham, trying to

heidi booth went to meet them.d their way into a massive hollywood blockbuster. being on set and being around these people, that's something i hadn't really experienced on that scale ever before. so, for me, as a dancer, to get that chance to be a part of something that i love watching so much... like, if someone told me that, "you're going to "be in a marvel movie doing a bollywood dance scene, i would "never have believed it. it's unreal. the friends responded to an advert looking for professional south asian dancers. they had no idea it was for a marvel film until they got to the auditions. once we found out it was marvel, it was just the thrill of knowing "we're going to be in a marvel movie." all four of us that auditioned, got the role, it wasjust insane. an insane feeling, the excitement on the way back, we were all in the carjourney on the way back knowing that this is actually reality now. they are among 51 south asian bollywood dancers who feature in the new eternals movie, alongside lead actor kumail nan