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i want to bring in jesse kirsch from ohio. one of the states hit hardest by the opioid crisis.dication for their recovery. what could a change in policy mean? >> reporter: bottom line, it could soon be harder for people to have access to those medications which some see as potentially life saving in the fight against opioid use disorder. in the midst of our team's reporting, the dea earlier this week put a pause on something that had been planned and expected for months. all that decision does is delay making a choice on how down the line we will save more lives in this country. when covid-19 invaded our lives more than three years ago, much of the world shut down. but at the same time, the telehealth universe opened up. >> i had an easier time getting a doctor, getting my needs met than i have ever had going into an actual building. >> reporter: for kari wayman, those needs included a prescription for bupinfran. >> i haven't had to set in a room with people newly in recovery. >> reporter: that flexibility came from the trump administration's 2020 covid public health emergency,

it means a lot of people were looking to buy it and with a deal like this, i believe the longest kirsch- longest portion of the deal, investors are looking forward to get into that on the longer end of the curve. there is some uncertainty and people just want to have some stability in rates going forward. jon: thank you so much. staying with the pharmaceutical sector, we were referencing the amgen deal. verizon -- horizon therapeutics taking a hit. jennifer re-is a senior analyst for bloomberg intelligence and joins us with some more details. you have done some analysis on this deal. did you get a sense there was a lot of overlap that might lead to this kind of action? >> i would say this one is a surprise. but when i have been waiting for, because the ftc has been foreshadowing it, is a new approach to a pharmaceutical or biotech deal where it is were novel and the ftc looks at it differently than they have in the past, not focusing on horizontal overlaps. now we see it with amgen horizon and what the ftc is looking at is not any kind of overlap, not even a vertical relationship but wh

nbc news correspondent jesse kirsch is live from davenport, iowa, with mr on this.se, how dire is the situation there? >> reporter: ana, good morning. thankfully the mayor tells me things are pretty much under control, going as planned. you can hear the pump going in the background. this is dry pavement on main street. on the other side of this makeshift wall, it's become an extension of the mississippi river. you can see remarkably trains are still able to get through this area. just beyond the train is the mississippi river. we expect the waters to keep rising until around midday after a weekend of wild weather across the country. >> with some neighborhoods already submerged, this morning the mississippi river is still spilling over its banks around davenport, iowa, the floodwaters expected to keep rising around midday, coming after severe storms spawned destructive tornadoes. a twister ripping through virginia beach overnight, damaging up to 100 homes and leaving how sands in the dark. thankfully officials say no one was hurt. in southeast florida, they're recove

joining us from churchill downs in kentucky is nbc news correspondent jesse kirsch.dirty officials and the sport of horse racing at large is responding? >> reporter: yeah, ana, the racetrack saying despite our determination to continually improve upon the highest industry standards there is more to be done. horse racing safety is something that gets talked about. it's obviously under renewed scrutiny because of what has happened in recent tas. the racetrack also making a point of saying there has been no discernible pattern detected in the injuries sustained. at this point the indication from the racetrack is that there is no specific connection between all of the horse deaths. we spoke with some people who say they were at the race, the kentucky derby over the weekend. here's part of what they shared with us. >> it was definitely bittersweet kind of knowing about the things that does happen behind the scenes. >> it was sad to know that the number kept increasing also. that was the hard part. it's like, oh, we're at four, oh, we're at six, now we're at seven. and the

jesse kirsch has late details for us >> reporter: tonight, this highway dust storm turning deadly in illinois. state police say dozens of vehicles crashed on a highway south of the state capital this morning. >> the cause of the crash is due to excessive winds blowing dirt from farm fields across the highway, leading to zero visibility. >> reporter: at least 6 people killed, with over 30 taken to the hospital, and two semis catching fire according to officials. >> at this time our numbers that we have are approximately 20 commercial motor vehicles and 40 to 60 passenger cars involved in the crash. >> reporter: that brutal weather, roughly a three-hour drive south of davenport, iowa, in a region where some streets are better suited for boats than cars. in buffalo, iowa, janine buckley says thanks to those sandbags inside her house is dry you still have power, heat if you were inside you'd have no idea >> if i had the curtains closed i'd never know. >> reporter: others around the city are not so lucky as the midwest waits to dry out, parts of the southeast are cleaning up from tornadoe

jesse kirsch has more. >> reporter: lashelle jordan was missing for more than five days.amily pleading for help then suddenly, the mother reappeared and tonight, her family is grateful to have her back >> i want to say i'm grateful. i'm grateful she had strength and willingness to fight >> the manager of this store telling nbc news this is jordan thursday night captured on surveillance camera. she appears to enter the store limping in torn clothes before heading to the counter and making a call. >> you are never going to believe this we just got call from jordan >> reporter: police have not confirmed th identity of the person in the video, but the sheriff first responder from around the same time and that store is on the same block where police say jordan was located alive, sharing a harrowing story. >> she said she got away and they tried to burn her alive >> had some trauma some injuries. she's in the hospital. she's getting medical treatment. and she's going to be okay as to be expected. >> reporter: police have not named suspect or why she vanished, but her disappeara

jesse kirsch has the latest from louisville >> they're off in the kentucky derby. >> reporter: tonighteasons. seven horses died after spending time at the iconic churchill downs race track within days of the triple crown's first leg. >> a typical derby day revelry has been balanced and mixed with the more sobering realities of this sport. >> reporter: among the deaths two horses racing saturday just hours before the derby. both were euthanized following severe injuries according to churchill downs. in a statement the race track writing, despite our determination to continually improve upon the highest industry standards, there is more to be done churchill downs adding, while each incident reported has been unique, it is important to note there has been no discernible pattern detected in the injuries sustained >> see the ambulance yesterday. it was sad >> it raises red flags, and we react to that in trying to evaluate the data and see if there is any way to mitigate those in the future. >> reporter: the derby's pomp an circumstance still on display yesterday, with mage at 15-1 odds raci

jesse kirsch has late details. >> this is like 30, 40 cars. >> dude, that's more >> look at that carideways. >> reporter: after that catastrophic dust storm engulfed this stretch of illinois highway, tonight authorities warning drivers that traveling the same area will again be dangerous and possibly life-threatening ther service alert coming as the police asked the public for hel identifying two of the six people killed in monday's fiery crash. >> due to the severity of the crash and the fire we are required to activate our crime scene services and traffic construction unit. >> reporter: investigators have few details to go on, but authorities have named one victim, 88-year-old shirley harper police say they have tentatively identified three other victims killed in the pileup involving more than 70 vehicles along interstate 55, a major artery between chicago and st. louis. >> it was like driving into a whiteout. >> reporter: dave mcqueen says he survived the apocalyptic scenes, helping rescue a woman trapped between two semis. >> the wheels of one semi against one door and the wheel

, do you think we are in germany no, no, this is russia nizhny novgorod region kirsch.from under the lady with sounds. as if so welcome to our russian german village, while the frightened americans flee to europe, the germans themselves are no less frightened by their own country, and so much so that you are ready to even move to russia, i now maintain contact with several hundred germans who want to live in russia i share my experience with them, since it is not so easy to move to russia , it is very difficult here, the legislation. the first house built. kirsha burned down. here is our russian dream on fire. no, don’t think, the germans didn’t burn it at all, but simply summed up the russian electrical wiring. after i rebuilt the second one for permanent residence in the village in the place of the burnt one, and the family of the dental technician bert grunnitsa from saxony, i joined the crimea alone, i would not dare, i manipulated you. no, i didn't like the fact that i had to work abroad with my an employee's salary of 3,000 euros. i only had 1,600 left. all taxes

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we spoke to jesse kirsch about protecting the students in his classroom. >> the only thing i could think and put my foot against the wall so that i could pull the door. >> reporter: he was in one of msu's 1,300 classrooms and had no way to lock the shooter out. it's an issue nationwide. nbc news found six other college shootings since virginia tech where some classrooms had doors that did not lock including michigan state, the university of arizona, unc charlotte, santa monica college, the ohio state university, and ucla. each school confirming to nbc news students could not lock every classroom door from the inside during the shootings. >> if i could have locked the door right away, it probably would have brought comfort to the folks in the room and myself . >> reporter: i spoke to a grad student at ucla when shots rang out in 2016. he tweeted this system of the locking system he cobbled together since he couldn't lock the computer lab he was inside. >> i looked for anything i could use to secure the door. the nearest thing i could find was cable and cords. anything to slow anybody down

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but first nbc's jesse kirsch watching the floodwaters in davenport, iowa.ning. >> reporter: good morning to you. dry pavement on this side, but they have a pump set up on this wall covering up a portion of main street. on the other side, an extension of the mississippi river this morning. those levels are expected to keep rising after a wild weather weekend across the country. with some neighborhoods with some neighborhoods already submerged, this morning the mississippi river is still spilling over its banks around davenport, iowa. the floodwaters there expected to keep rising around mid-day, coming after a multistate mess on the east coast this weekend with severe storms spawning tornadoes. a twister ripping through virginia beach overnight damaging up to 100 homes and leaving thousands in the dark. but thankfully, officials say, no one was hurt. while southeast florida is recovering from this ef-2 tornado. the national weather service says the twister touched down near palm beach saturday with winds gusting up to 130 miles an hour homes destroyed. cars t

of us they used to meet out here every third friday of the month and um do the four point my mild kirsch records so i was writing the event up in the er mainline. the seven and eight newsletter and from that, because i was putting time's up and records for each age group built an incentive program. and it got pretty popular. ah! we then moved to the dsc s bay to breakers for this. we used to run the week before. but the police department put a halt to that because we didn't have permits. so ah, we after that we got legal. we formed a club got insurance got rich and we established years. it was easy, easy to control, the merchant said course as opposed to running across the city through red lights and things and here we are 43 years later, jeff, we don't just have racist. here. we have a number of cars. classic cars tell me all about that. so the service can fire department and our union local 7 98 organized a car club. years back, and basically what we do is we piggyback on events like jim started to help draw more support. more interest bring more firefighters and more public people out

robert kirsch. both nominees represent the best our state has to offer. have served with distinction in various roles. both deserve to be confirmed swiftly to the district court. consider the distinguished career of michael farbiarz, he has served as assistant u.s. attorney as cochief of the terrorism narcotics unit and general counsel of the new york-new jersey port authority. he is a shinning star in new jersey's legal community, a reputation that's not given but earned. and while serving in a leadership roles he's had and enforcing our laws as a federal prosecutor and providing legal counsel to those who serve on the port authority commission, his breadth and depth prepare him well to serve the garden state as a fair and effective federal judge. robert kirsch is a dedicated public servant who has been serving on the superior court of new jersey for over a decade. a native of south orange, he was sponsored for his position by then state senator tom kaine jr., a republican. was appointed by governor corzyn, a democrat. he has consistently earned bipartis