jeff rosen from nbc news spot checking.ou were sitting here thinking you had a working smoke alarm and you didn't. >> it's scary. >> reporter: dangerous threat. in fact 3 out of every 5 people killed in a house fire didn't have a working smoke alarm. and during the holidays you could be in greater risk. from fast moving christmas tree fires like this one, to fires caused by space heaters. so to find out the orlando fire department out enforce, and we are teaming up checking homes for safety risks. hi. jeff rosen from the "today" show. how are you? >> good. >> reporter: we are here with the fire department checking people's smoke alarms to make sure you are safe. can we come? >> sure. >> reporter: right away the problem. >> first thing we'll do is push the button to test the audio portion. so this detector doesn't work. >> reporter: so the one in your bedroom isn't working. what's that like to see? >> that's upsetting that's the first place we'll hear it if it's going to go off. >> reporter: but we are not just finding probl

here is nbc's jeff rosen. >> did you know that now we deliver here?vice for amazon prime members that has everyone talking. >> free in-home delivery for amazon key. it will authorize00 rise the delivery and unlock your doors. >> reporter: able to drop off your package inside your home. when you get the service, amazon gives you this special lock and this camera. when the delivery person comes, you can watch it live on your phone to make sure everything's okay. or you can watch a recording of it later. but almost immediately after the launch, a cyber security company hacked the system. exposing a flaw. the delivery person could have full access inside your home undetected. okay. we're going to show you this hack in action. we've taken over this house today with the permission of the homeowner. in fact, the homeowner, richelle, is at a nearby cafe right now watching everything on her amazon key app. watching the delivery in realtime as you normally would. helping us out today is ben from rino security labs. >> both the lock itself, the amazon key lock a

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nbc's jeff rosen has >> reporter: pipes bursting, hoses leaking, this home flooding with water, damaging almost everything in sight, and experts say this could happen to your house. according to the insurance company chubb, homeowners are 40% more likely to experience water damage during the winter than any other time of the year. to show you the kind of damage we are talking about here, we set up an experiment inside this house. come on inside. this is actually a flood house. a house that's been built to be flooded to replicate what it looks like if your pipes burst or if they leak. they have all the trappings of home. come into the kitchen we have jim here who is a risk and flood expert. why does this happen in the winter? >> because in the wintertime the water in the pipes gets cold, freeses and frozen water expands and burst. >> reporter: water goes every where? >> every where. out and see. in just seconds flooding through the water. we are just three minutes. look at the floor, already flooded ouchlt imagine if th flooded out. imagine if this was your scene. five minutes and water s

jeff rosen responded to nbc news' request for comment saying brock turner received a fair trial and was justly convicted. his conviction will be upheld. nothing can ever roll back emily dough's legacy of raising the world's awareness about sexual assault. the appeal is confounding to some legal experts, who claim his attorneys are exposing turner to the possibility of a much harsher sentence at a time of heightened sensitivity surrounding sexual misconduct. >> that is really dangerous for brock turner. no one is sympathetic to a sexual abuser or offender at this time. >> reporter: looking for another day in court could mean more outrage in the court of public opinion. >>> also this morning the justice department has issued an arrest warrant for the illegal immigrant found not guilty of murder this week in the shooting death of a san francisco woman. kate steinle's death set off a national conversation about illegal immigration and why the mexican immigrant wasn't deported earlier. the justice department is considering federal charges. >>> an update in the firing of matt lauer. top execu

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i thought this one was written too broadly by rosen stein. jeffessions i think he did a favor to the president. he had the right inclination, which is let's remove the possible criticism that i'm rigging this process. precisely what republicans are saying happened with the f.b.i. in that sense i think that jeff sessions has been wrongly ridiculed over this. i think he made the right move. >> bill: last question. the "washington post" writes this on december 6, 2017, talking about peter strzok that i mentioned earlier going back to lois learner, james comey, the unmasking. he says we need a second special counsel to investigate that part of government. what do you think about that based on your answer a few moments ago? >> good news for me. if you take out all the people being indicted, investigated and special counsel i will be doing 100% of the legal commentary from here on in because i'll be the only one left in the city. there is a problem with having this plethora of investigations. the house of representatives and the senate are fully capable

> joining us now cnn political commentators hilary rosen and alice stewart and political analyst ron brownstein. poppy showed me cnn reporting from jeffna smith, the democratic lieutenant governor of minnesota who has been tapped to be the next senator is apparently in washington today. >> for an event that the other senator from minnesota clo ba cher is throwing for her. >> it would seem odd for anyone to discuss an unresignation process. does this discussion by joe manchin, article in politico that has other democratic senators raising the possibility as well what's going on and does this hurt the argument most democrats have been making? >> al franken, by all reports, has said he's going forward with this resignation, welcoming tina smith to come and be the senator and apologized for his behavior, something we've not seen president trump do, by the way. so i think the real problem that many democrats are facing is that, you know, it's come to light that several of these women were encouraged to speak out by, you know, political operative roger stone. i think that it eats away at you in terms of the turning this into such a nasty po

attorney general jeff sessions and in the last couple of weeks privately has just been bashing him, calling him weak, criticizing him at every turn and he's aimed his ire at rod rosen stestein w is important because he's acting as attorney general for the mueller matter. it's rosenstein who technically is overseeing mueller and trump has been bashing rosenstein in private, calling him a democrat, even those he's a republican appointed by president george w. bush. >> and somehow trump is saying he's clear of the wreckage of this. what if this doesn't go well? >> i think by a number of accounts it's probably not going to go well, at least in terms of what the president wants. and if it doesn't go well, i think we're going to see a very frustrated, putting it mildly, president. keep in mind this is a president who way earlier sort of floated the idea of firing robert mule are and then his aides got him under control, largely by giving him this really rosie assessment. they first said the probe would be over by thanksgiving and that didn't happen. they now said it will be over by the new year. i think his aides think if this probe does not wrap up and not only does it

substance of the rod rosen stein memo is that memo that was sort of the -- the predicate for him being fired is that he went rogue. >> he went around -- so he also went around jeff sessions, which he didn't -- he felt confident he was going to have to recuse and he knew more things that came out in the classified hearing about jeff sessions and his contact with russians. so he is consistent. donald trump said that ted cruz's dad killed jfk and he is a birther. >> he's ints -- intimated that. >> and this is somebody on the first face-to-face aints interaction with donald trump got the measure of his character and decided he needed to document every word because he thought he was a liar. >> that was the most remarkable from a character witness is the director of the fbi saying i found his -- my instincts around his character were that he was of such low character that i thought in the moment, this is a person who will lie about me. >> and this is one of the hallmarks of what happened today. comey, he's -- he is trained to convince juries, anybody appearing before the jury knows you have to tell the jury a story. and whether you like what comey did today or not, yo

rosen: eric just mentioned regulations in europe. europe has just embraced the right to be forgotten online. if we were in europe and someone was tweeting that jeff is doing a terrible job as a moderator, after the show was over, i could do google and yahoo! and demand the removal of this appalling, if perhaps true, tweet. google would have to decide if i was a public figure and if the tweet was in the public interest. google is liable up to 2% of its annual income, which last year was $60 billion. google has received -- it includes removing articles about the right to be forgotten itself. susan you have studied online , speech more deeply than anyone else on the panel. is the european right to be forgotten a good policy, and should it be embraced in america? or if the first amendment allowed it or not? ms. benesch: no, in a word. you have already beautifully described part of it. it does not work very well. first of all the right to be , forgotten is a total misnomer. it gave rise to the right to be forgotten is now better known all around the world -- even though that is not what he was dreaming, if you write about him, then that article is eas

rosen stein, the u.s. -- rosenstein, the u.s. attorney, clearly established for them that russia was trying to corner the market using or by acquiring merican uranium. and yet while you had a man like jeff sessions trying to go assure that y to nobody could say he acted inappropriately, i think it was done prematurely, but he recused himself. not wanting to be a burden to the president. but as much as attorney general jeff sessions was trying to be air and avoid even the appearance of questions about him handling the russia robert ation, you had mueller and the deputy attorney , appeared to be even more inappropriately than beyond sions was acting .he pale of honor as they, two people involved in the investigation of russia acquiring american uranium, even though it wasn't just hillary clinton that sounded off on it. it was also eric holder and some others. all that needed to be investigated but not by the people who covered up the prior saw to nvestigation and the ceiling many of the documents involving that investigation, in fact, mr. rosenstein's name was actually matters tion to seal involved in that investigation. . seemed pretty clear that if you're going to go to the trouble of s