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jake ward, nbc news, oakland, california >> amazing stories within the stories. that's "nightly news" for this tuesday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. thank you for all that you do. i know there isn't much you have to do for me you have the biggest heart i'm glad to have you in my life. >>> i'm raj mathai, next on nbc news, bay area tonight, we will break down all the dangerous hotspots and the possibility of lightning tomorrow. >>> another trouble hi rise, accusations of theft, we have the video. and day 11 and still no sight of kiely rodni, the missing 16- year-old, there's an update in the investigation, we are joined by her mother. >>> and tonight, the elections could impact the 2024 presidential race. >>> good evening, this is nbc bay area news tonight, i'm

here's jake ward. >> reporter: mark griswold may appear to be by himself, but this professor is not alonepatient. >> reporter: this is the virtual room griswold is in. and those three blue heads around him, they're avatars for world-class surgeons. >> i'm in durham, north carolina. >> i'm in western mass on vacation. >> and i'm in dub dublin, i ire at a meeting. >> reporter: they're gathering to map out a brain for a complex surgery. this used to take days of video calls. now using hollow lens technology from microsoft, it takes an hour they even let me join in. >> here's our surgical planning team what you see behind me is a brain. >> my unwashed untrained hand can go into this brain that's unbelievable. >> reporter: it's not just a whole new virtual world for surgery. >> to see the nerves and how they bundle together inside the spine -- >> here's what i'm sieeing through mine. >> reporter: at case western reserve school of medicine, researchers have found these virtual models help students learn much quick sneer one of the things about studying anatomy is seeing how it lays in space. i

swimmer who overcame seemingly impossible odds and recently took on the swim of his life here's jake ward >> reporter: stroke after stroke, rob heights is training for the most challenging swim of his life rob grew up in the water swimming on teams and with his family, but one night nearly 20 years ago he mistakenly dove from a boat into shallow water. >> diving in and immediately hitting my head. >> reporter: he was paralyzed from the chest down 95% of people with that sort of injury never walk again, but through luck, will and a lot of support here he is. >> one day i would be able to wiggle a toe. >> that must be enormous deal. >> oh, my god, the first time that i moved something for me it was enormous. >> reporter: but he wanted more and eventually he wasn't just walking, he was swimming and inspired by rob's strength and perseverance his friends came up with a crazy idea >> alcatraz. i've heard people swim from alcatraz. i said that's completely insane. there's no way i would do that. >> reporter: inmates looking to escap alcatraz faced rough, frigid waters and that's part of why the

tonight, our jake ward heads there to see for himself. >> reporter: on a burning nevada morning, i hiked with daniel jenner and his wife tara to a hill overlooking lake mead. >> two years ago, me and tara taught our kids how to dive in this exact spot here >> reporter: wait, in this we're a long way from the water right now. this was underwater? >> right >> reporter: 25 million people drink from this vast reservoir but it has fallen by 150 feet in the last 20 years. we've built huge projects like this on the assumption that the water would always be there but at the moment, turbines inside the hoover dam are only spinning at 30% capacity and if the water level drops much lower, they'll just be spinning in empty air. as lake mead falls, other parts of the lake we always assumed would stay underwater are emerging as well once upon a time, divers would dive down to this. today i'm standing, i don't know, maybe 150 feet above the lake. boats as old as the hoover dam are now back in the sun. and now, even bodies are being found. drowning victims, in some cases even murder victims. some expert

now it's being used to revolutionize health care here's jake ward >> reporter: mark griswold may appear to be by himself, but this case western reserve professor is not alone. >> this is the brain simulation of a patient. >> reporter: this is the virtual room griswold is in those three blue heads around him are avatars for world-class surgeons >> i'm in durham, north carolina right now. >> i'm in western mass on vacation. >> and i'm in dublin, ireland at a meeting >> reporter: they're thousands of miles apart, but together, they're working to revolutionize health care, as they gather around a 3-d rendering of a brain to map out a complex surgery. this kind of consultation used to take days of video calls. now, using hollow lens technology from microsoft, it takes perhaps an hour. >> tighten it up a little bit in the back >> reporter: they even had time to let me join in. >> here is our surgical planning team what you're seeing in front of us -- >> oh, hi. >> -- is a brain >> my unwashed, untrained hand can go into this brain that's unbelievable. wow. >> reporter: and it's not just a who

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here's jake ward >> reporter: mark griswold may appear to be by himself.this case western university professor is not alone >> this is a brain simulation of a patient. >> reporter: this is the virtual room griswold is in. and those three blue heads around him, they are avatars for world-class surgeons >> i'm in north carolina right now. >> i'm in western mass on vacation >> and i'm in dublin, ireland at a meeting. >> they're thousands of miles apart. but together they're working to revolutionize health care. as they gather around a 3-d rendering of a brain to map out a complex surgery. this kind of consultation used to take days of video calls. now using technology from microsoft it takes perhaps an hour >> tight ten a little in the back >> reporter: they even had time to let me join in. >> here's our cervical planning team and what you're seeing in front of us is -- >> oh, hi. >> -- a brain. >> my unwashed untrained hand can go into this brain that's unbelievable. >> yeah. >> wow >> reporter: and it's not just a whole new virtual world for surgery. >> wha

company in california is offering a perk that left a few employees pleasantly surprised here's nbc's jake ward >> reporter: as he settled into a new job matt kelly and his wife were struggling to have a second child >> my wife and i our challenges were never specifically having her getting pregnant, it was with keeping the baby through the pregnancy. my wife and i endured through several miscarriages >> reporter: but the employer offers fertility benefits that reimburse employees have the cost of adoption, ivf and other procedures >> i think about somebody in a sales position in 1950s would keep this entirely private suffering from miscarriage and miscarriage of their partner when you think about people in your role 50 years ago what a difference that must have been >> it's true it's one of those things i think in general companies are becoming more empathetic to their employees. >> reporter: in a way they have to be. analysts predict that 20% more americans will quit their jobs this year, and tech workers are famously difficult to keep around >> it's very often a criticism of companies for ju

>> reporter: jake ward, lake mead, nevada. >>> and that does it for us.jansing reports" every weekday at 1:00 eastern here on msnbc. i'll be back at my normal time tomorrow on andrea reports at noon. follow us online at mitchell reports. katy tur's report is up next. ut ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ lily! welcome to our third bark-ery. oh, i can tell business is going through the “woof”. but seriously we need a reliable way to help keep everyone connected from wherever we go. well at at&t we'll help you find the right wireless plan for you. so, you can stay connected to all your drivers and stores on america's most reliable 5g network. that sounds just paw-fect. terrier-iffic i labra-dore you round of a-paws at&t 5g is fast, reliable and secure for your business. in order for small businesses to thrive, at&t 5g is fast, they need to be smart. efficient. agile. and that's never

nbc's jake ward has more. >> reporter: on a burning nevada morning, i hiked with daniel generaler andfe tara to a hill overlooking lake meade. >> two years ago me and tara taught our kids how to dive in this exact spot right here. >> reporter: we're a long way from the water right now. this was under water. >> right. >> reporter: 25 million people dink from this vast reservoir, but it has fallen by 150 feet in the last 20 years. >> we built huge projects like this on the assumption that the water would always be there. turbines inside the hoover dam are only spinning about 30% capacity. if the water level drops much lower, they'll be spinning in empty air. as lake meade falls, other parts of the lake are emerging as well. once upon a time, divers would dive down to this. today i'm standing maybe 150 feet above the lake. boats as old as the hoover dam are back in the sun. now even bodies are being found. drowning victims, murder victims. there could be dozens, maybe even 100 more to be found. >> i think giving closure to families who lost loved ones on the lake and solving old murders,

for the news, i am jake ward. >> very sweet.or shopping list usually. >>> accidental 911 calls happen, but it is not everyday the culprit is a . meet the 10 month-old capuchin at a zoo in california who apparently called 911 last weekend while playing with a phone she found and then hung up. dispatchers tried to call the number back, but no response so they went to investigate where the call came from. >> nobody could figure it out. it wasn't us, we didn't call. and then at the same time they all said, it must've been route. >> the local sheriff's office posted these pictures to facebook. the zoo's owners spoke with our local nbc affiliate. >> i love it because, you know, it is fun news. everyone needs a little bit of that. happy that he is able to put a little joy in everybody's lives. >> we are told that he has since been placed on limited phone privileges and i should do the same for my toddler so we don't repeat that. 40 seconds left on our race to the finish. congresswoman liz cheney has lost her seat. the trump endorsed ri

all that remains to be seen at the this hour. >> jake ward, thank you so much.vice president kamala harris was there. she spoke briefly today about how this is really pushing the boundaries this mission, take a listen. >> today is very much on that path. about showing the great work that happens here with these exceptional public servants, these exceptional skilled professionals. who had the ability to see what possible and what has never been done before. how exciting is that. >> she was supposed to be celebrating the launch, a successful launch. how serious is this hiccup or delay, whatever it is? >> i think as jake mentioned, it's really difficult to understand until the misss tell a little bit more about what's happening. i think what we should really understand though is that whenever you have a new vehicle, it's not just pieces of the vehicle. it's the whole dress rehearsal, whole process that has to be worked through. so finding out that something is not quite right with one of the instrumentations or is it the actual engine itself is really important, bu

our jake ward takes a look. >> reporter: this is a bakery in the bay area it's a treasure of this regionves like these all over sfraensan francisco ane environs literally everything that goes into making this bread is more expensive. we spoke to the owner of this place, tom frenier, this is how he described how unprecedented it is to own a business right now. >> the prices have gone up tremendously in everything we do it's not single digits it's double, sometimes triple digits again, i've been doing this for 34 years i've never seen anything like this. >> the thing is everything, literally everything that goes into this bread is more expensive. we're talking right now about flour that's up 52% in the last eight months eggs up 125% butter up 45%. it's extraordinary how expensive this is. even though you and i are feeling things like gas prices go down, that's not true of diesel, which is what truck drivers need in order to deliver food from a place like this. not only that, though, the big issue -- and this is why tom franier say this is the hardest time to own a business in american hist

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joining us now from the kennedy space center is nbc news correspondent jake ward. er: good morning, mika. certainly, the weather at this point is extraordinarily beautiful. i'm here from california, and i still can't get over what it looks like to be in florida at the break of drawn. an extraordinarily beautiful, clear day. the trouble, of course, is getting this system, one of the most powerful, certainly the most powerful, one of the most technologically complex systems ever to leave earth's gravity, getting it ready for launch, that's another matter. to talk for a second about the purpose of this mission, because you can get bogged down in whether it'll go at this particular moment. i want to touch on how extraordinary it is to go. on the one hand, nasa and the whole space flight enterprise has changed immensely. once upon a time, the kennedy space center, this facility, was a government only, top secret facility. today, when you drive in, it's got launch pads and buildings operated and, in some cases, owned by private companies. nearly 1,000 private contractors

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nbc's jake ward joins me from kennedy space center in florida. mmer, katy. we were all sort of hoping to feel what everyone has told me the incredibly emotional experience of really feeling the thunder of this thing take off as it punches out of worth's gravity. we didn't get that, but we also didn't get any of the other mishaps that might have resulted had they gone forward with it. they had to scrub the launch because of a fueling issue. they could not get the temperatures cooled down. they say this is part of a normal certification process, it's why you do these test flights and it's especially a relief what we did not see anything else go wrong. as you know, this is a preparation for actually putting people on the moon. there are mannequins that sit aboard this particular spacecraft to see what effects on the human body it might have to go around the moon, reenter the atmosphere at 25,000 miles an hour, can they safely come back? those are all questions this flight was designed to answer. if something had gone wrong beforehand with the world w

jake ward shows us how it all works. >>> what you are looking at is three respective surgeons >> thiss a brain simulation -- >> planning and operation together from different parts of the globe. >> i'm in durham, north carolina right now. >> i'm in western mass, on vacation. >> i'm in dublin, ireland. >> they are thousands of miles apart but able to gather virtually around this 3-d rendering. this used to take days of video calls, now, using hollow lens technology from microsoft, it takes perhaps an hour. the even have time to let me join in.. >> what you are seeing in front of us is a brain. >> my unwashed, untrained hand can go into this rain. >> it's not only revolutionizing surgery but medical school as well. >> in the past, anatomy class involved dissecting dead bodies, a grim and costly method. >> you can see now, we've got a skeleton. >> to see the nerves and how they bundle together inside the spine, that's incredible. wow. >> here at case western reserve university, they replace cadavers with virtual bodies. researchers found 3-d models help medical students like these learn

. >> jake ward, thank you.nba is stepping into politics in a big way to try to get more people out to vote. if you look at the highly anticipated 2022 game schedule for the league, there's nothing set for election day. that's because there will be no games that day with the nba telling nbc news as we were first to report that the goal here is to encourage players and fans and staff at arenas to get out and vote instead of showing up at a game. we have seen players and teams jump on the opportunity to use their platform before. notably with players showing support for the black lives matter movement after the murder of george floyd. some teams wore special social justice jerseys. this is not necessarily unfamiliar territory for the nba. shaq brewster broke this story and is in brooklyn for us. take us inside this move from the nba. >> reporter: this is something that was in the works for several months even before the end of the last season. and really it's the nba trying to capitalize on what you saw last year,

. >> joining me now, jake ward and "the wall street journal" economics reporter amara aruke.eport? didn't think the numbers were going to be anywhere near this high. some say it's a little bit too hot. what struck you? >> just the sheer number of jobs added. economists were expecting half the number of jobs to be added back then, and it's remarkable how strong this labor market continues to be, especially considering the fact that in recent weeks we have been talking a lot about recession, whether the economy has flipped into a recession because we saw two consecutive quarters of economic contraction. what this jobs report showed is that the labor market remains on very strong footing and that lends a report to economists and others who have been arguing that the economy has not slipped into a recession, that there's a lot of momentum in the economy, and that in order for us to be in a recession, we would have to see a significant deterioration that we haven't seen. >> one of the real channels here is going to be inflation, because wages went up a bit as well. at some point y

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>> i want to bring in jacob ward who is in the bubble near the launch site at kennedy space center. also with me is leland melvin, author of "chasing space." jakece president said how exciting is that? super exciting. so what's -- what are you learning there on the ground and what could this delay mean for the launch on friday? >> well, jose, the crowds here were incredibly excited. there was an air of a super bowl-like atmosphere. even last night you could see people camping out all along the causeways on the way into here. now as we learned this has been scrubbed for today, you can see the clouds drift away. of course, it's all because the sort of unofficial mantra of space flight is better safe than sorry. in this particular case, because they couldn't get hydrogen to flow through the engines properly, they decided not to risk it. the question is whether they can fix that on the launchpad where this 30-story spaceship sits, or do they have to roll it back to the vehicle assembly building behind me, which takes the better part of a day, drain all the fuel out of it, and this could compromise the possibility of a friday launch. friday is alrea