mclaughlin, and bill mclaughlin.is chest. and they also find six expended shell casings. they knew it was a 9 millimeter. >> bill was a gun collector. so, initially, when the police came they said, hey, are there guns in the house. kevin said, yes, there are guns in the house. have you shot any of them recently? he said, no. he pointed them to a locked gun box. >> they were able to eliminate all of his firearms as being potential sources for the expended shell casings that they recovered in the kitchen. >> there were no fingerprints left behind. there were no footprints. there was no weapon found. and there was no dna. who did this? >> kevin didn't do it. they also did gsr testing, gunshot residue testing on his hands. they determined he did not fire a firearm. kevin is eliminated. kim is in japan, and jennie's in san diego and they all love their dad to death. >> the murder happened in that kitchen right over there. >> that kitchen right there was the murder. neighbors from all around could hear the shots. guns are

a man tonight mclaughlin fought in b to buy a logical woman. what a shock this is nonsense. this is a lot of mclaughlin, that female through one or 1st m m a fight against someone born a women. i think people can identify with whatever they like, but i don't think this has a place in combat sports. you all think this is okay and empowering to trans genders. interestingly enough, not only am i may bundis were outraged with such fight taking place, but also feminists. a couple of prominent feminist accounts tweeted out that this looks like basically a woman's abuse from a biological male. let's listen to that as well. male violence against women as a public sport. no, thank you. whether you tuck it up or chop it off, take estrogen pills and or die. your hair pink. the mail will always be a male and cannot change into a female. this is so hideous. how can anyone bear to watch or even think that this is normal or acceptable? a lot of herself said that she didn't buy any of this criticism, stating, 1st of all, that she was batted for 2 rounds being

mclaughlin tells him. the pendulum is going to swing back, mr. president, just be patient, hang back and wait and see what happens. and there will be buyer's remorse about biden. to a reader of "peril" the idea seems fantastic a, at odds to the 400 pages that preceded the ant ne anecdote. eight months into the biden administration and no, he does not pose a perilous threat to the nation but a political peril. i am saying that one brought the nation to peril, and the other now finds himself in a perilous place politically speaking. combination of crises has caused the president's approval rating to tank and relief that he hoped to get from passive of a major bipartisan infrastructure deal in jeopardy. first afghanistan, while a majority of americans supported the president's decision to get out the withdrawal was haphazard. and calamitous for 13 of our service men and women. and after a attack that kills americans at the kabul airport, a u.s. drone killed ten afghans, seven of them children. and then the vaccination 47th in the world. 55.1% vaccin

right, atlanta, mclaughlin from south carolina is only the 2nd athlete in the history of mixed martial arts to compete being an open transgender. she won her fight last friday against a female opponent. and that ended in a 2nd round with a rear naked choke, which is quite a brutal way too. and, and mixed martial arts about that caused a lot of control. the see among pundits in experts who said that this was an unfair advantage. primarily because atlanta was born ryan mac laughlin spend 6 years in the us special forces before starting her transition in 2010. and before that transition, as we can see, ryan was quite a muscular man. so that's why many of the pundits and m a and very renowned pundits as well said that this was unfair, irrespective of how one treats the rights of transgender people, they all said they supported the rights of transgender people. but from a sporting perspective, this was unjust, lend listen atlanta mclaughlin transition 5 years ago. which means that she lived 33 years of her life as a man tonight mclaughlin fat and be to buy a logical woman. what a shock this

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here's erin mclaughlin >> reporter: nestled inside this so-called giant forest, the largest tree in theto save it from encroaching flames the iconic tree known as general sherman is over 2,000 years old, stands a towering 275 feet high. almost as tall as the statue of liberty. the sequoia attracted tourists from around the world. with flames creeping closer, crews cover the base of its massive trunk with fire resistant wrapping in an effort to try to protect it >> there are so many reasons to protect the tree. for tree lovers, they're so special >> reporter: one massive blaze torching over 23,000 acres. the burn area visible from space. >> we have crews working all through the giant forest looking for those new spot fires and extinguishing them. >> reporter: redwoods like these and giant sequoias have adapte to fire, so even if the flames reach them, they could survive fire officials say it is down to intensity of flames and forest management. concerned visitors sharing fond memories of adventures to see the tree >> sequoia national park is a gem, a national treasure. we have seen real

lester >> all right, erin mclaughlin, thank you. >>> and in another closely watched court battle, pop star britney spears scoring a major victory in her fight to free herself from her father's control. joe fryer has that >> free britney now! free britney now free britney now >> reporter: the free britney movement could soon go from rallying cries to reality because of a petition filed tuesday by britney's father, jamie spears, for 13 years has been part of the pop star's conservatorship, put in place after several public breakdowns. the filing says if ms. spears wants to terminate the conservatorship and believes she can handle her own life, mr. spears believes she should get that chance, adding that britney has recently demonstrated a level of independence that calls the conservatorship into question. >> jamie spears now says he wants the conservatorship to end, but that doesn't guarantee it will, does it? >> no. the judge has the final word but make no mistake, the decision by britney's father and conservator to insist she deserves her freedom is a milestone in the free britney move

as of last count, 113,000 households have applied for disaster assistance. >> liz mclaughlin, nbc news. >>> up next, concerns over a covid outbreak on board. an update on the cargo ship that's now docked in san francisco. >>> an at-home workout gives one of our viewers a run around for her refund. >>> and some cooler weather on the way to the bay area. you can see the fog starting to roll in right now. i'll have details on that and more on the caldor fire coming up in about eight minutes. california! all of our homes share power. but heat waves can stretch our supply to its limits. flex alerts remind us when to use less energy from 4-9pm. so we can all stay up and running. sign up today. >>> we have new details about that cargo ship anchored in the bay with the covid outbreak on board. two crew members were admitted to the hospital and four discharged and put in isolation. the six of them were taken off the ship yesterday after testing positive for covid. a total of 21 crew members are on board, 19 tested positive for covid. about a dozen had mild or no symptoms. it had stay here ancho

' families, and sometimes you just have to set that aside and do what you do. >> thanks to erin mclaughlin for that report. >>> popular spot if i podcast personality joe rogan revealed he tested positive for covid in a video to his 13 million instagram followers. >> we immediately threw the kitchen sink at it monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, z-pack, brprednison everything. >> the fda advises against one of the drug rogan mentioned as it is primarily used to treat parasites in animals. >>> back to our top story, nbc meteorologist janesa webb has the details. good morning, janessa. >> good morning, frances this is a tropical system like no other we've not seen anything like this before. now an historic and deadly situation continues to unfold for sections of the northeast. we saw land fall on sunday that was five days ago and ida has really maintained its integrity as it continues to touch about 20 states in the last five days so, right now, we are dealing with a tornado watch that's currently in place for martha's vineyard i do expect a tornado warning to go into place in the next 10 to 1

the man he's missing make up| nearly a whole team. john mclaughlin nearly a whole team.here, nor our defenders stephen o'donnell, nathan patterson, and greg taylor. missing from midfield are players like mctominay, armstrong, mcginn and forrest. kevin nisbet also hasn't travelled. the captain naturally is more concerned with who is there. it’s captain naturally is more concerned with who is there.— with who is there. it's about trying to net as with who is there. it's about trying to get as many — with who is there. it's about trying to get as many points _ with who is there. it's about trying to get as many points on - with who is there. it's about trying to get as many points on the - with who is there. it's about trying | to get as many points on the board this week as possible. and looking back on it, with no regrets, still being in the qualifying campaign in november. i think it will be close, but it's up to us to put in the performance as we know we are capable of. and if we can do that, i believe we are difficult to beat. even with a full squad, denmark away would

erin mclaughlin, nbc news >>> up next, our exclusive look at the surprising new way some are building rockets in just months in our series "the new space race." >>> now to our series the new space race, and our exclusive inside look at something that could revolutionize space travel it's the world's first 3-d printed rocket here is jacob ward >> reporter: it once took thousands of american engineers more than a decade to get something into space. now this company says its huge 3-d printers can make a rocket in two months, maybe less >> we have the fourth generation printer which we haven't talked about publicly yet, but it's ten times faster printing than this. so instead of building a rocket fuselage in 60 days, it will take six days >> reporter: not only can the company make the big parts of a rocket like a nose cone, but they can also make all of the intricate components of the engine. >> two, one, zero. >> reporter: with a first launch planned for 2022 relativity rockets is like a lower budget competitor to spacex, carrying satellites for nasa, the department of defense, and a hal

our thanks to liz mclaughlin. a lot of people upset about all of this, but the battle does continue for many people. >> this isn't the first time texas made bills on abortion bans that made headlines. >> they plan to introduce 20 weeks and other restrictions. in doing so, she became a nationally known voice for supporters of abortion rights. former texas state senator and founder of the organization, deeds not words, wendy davis, is joining us live right now. >>> right now, we're watching american businesses closely to see if they'll respond. do you think that they'll -- they will? and would it impact any of this at this point? >> i certainly hope that they will. and i think women across the state and honestly across the country are going to do their darnedest to make sure companies will respond. think about it this way. in many companies, women are more than 50% of their work force and their consumers. and if they expect that they can appease us by saying that they support things like women's international day or

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it's a feeling the mclaughlins hope they can experience soon too. >> we can't wait, but we know full well we have to wait until they complete their job and make sure it's safe for us to return. >> reporter: the progress fire crews made have them feeling optimistic and grateful. in carson city, alyssa gourd, nbc bay area news. >>> we have new details this morning, a firefighter assigned to battle the dixie fire has died. he passed away from an illness not related to the fire. crews have been battling the dixie fire northeast of chico for nearly two months. flames burned close to 890,000 acres, 1200 homes and buildings have been destroyed. containment stands at 56% with full containment expected by the end of next month. >>> now to a follow-up to a story we brought you yesterday morning. a live look for you at oracle park where the san francisco giants are facing a dramatic finish to the regular season with the rival los angeles dodgers. but they're now dealing with the potential strike by concession workers who say they're worried about catching covid when they serve fans at games and

i want to start with this mclaughlin versus provost m. m a fight. this is the latest and a growing list of formerly male fighters or formerly male athletes dominating the women's sort of competition. so i'm gonna start with you eric on this, is this, or is this fair? is this right now? it's ridiculous is what it is it to have this last by we're talking you meant to be top of the hour. this is a former special forces operator for the united states military, the finest fighting military in the world. this is who's going out and fighting someone else who's never been in combat. someone you could be experienced fighter, but we're talking about special forces here. and they're going into the ring and playing in this whole new, well, i'm going to go beat up on. it just doesn't make sense to me to go beat upon women because you decide you're going to change your gender. and now hop in a ring and beat them up. that's not fair. if they're going to do anything, they should have their own classification, create a 3rd classification, and then everybody go fight

and erin mclaughlin is in a rural town an hour east of sacramento.es there are also surging. pennsylvania is seeing a major surge in cases. >> a 300% increase in positivity, they say it is time to call off the experiment. anti-mask parents say they will not abide by this order. we reached out to the schoolboard that voted to make masks optional. we also talk to some of the parents on the other side of the issue. there is a chilling effect on the silent majority here. the bullying intensified, not only to adults, but to adults bullying children. listen to this story of a 12-year-old girl as told by her mother. >> one of the anti-maskers came with her phone camera and was shoving it in her face, trying to get her to make a comment, my daughter is very brave, but that was intimidating. >> last night, craig, we learned that a board member resigned after fun lickly stating that he -- publicly stating that he was receiving death threats. the same thing we were doing last year when we kept our positivity rates low, we're doing this to protect vulnerable peo

aaron mclaughlin, nbc news. >> as i, said this is not a wrong continent.g up for, us if you want to witness the conversion from vaccine skeptic key vaccine believer, you'd have to visit your local icu. >> last thing before we go tonight, no one, no single death of a over 660,000 deaths during this pandemic thus far has a lock on our sympathy or our sadness by consensus. they are all set. all a loss to their individual loved ones as the president's over quickly says. they all mean an empty seat at the table. the small flags on the grounds of the washington monument are the most recent attempt to illustrate what we mean when we say we have now lost one and every 500 of our fellow citizens during this pandemic. we have a good idea at how many of them could have been prevented, had there not been such transit government malpractice and denialism. it gave rise to the anti-vaccine movement, which is now killing our people. and for any and all of your friends who get their news from the crazy side of facebook, those who say it's experimental, that it's a governme

joining us in knoxville, tennessee w the latest is liz mclaughlin. >> reporter: it just goes to show reporting really grim numbers. here in tennessee the recent steep surge is putting a strain on hospitals. we're in knoxville in the eastern part of tennessee where it's been hitting especially hard. we're at the university of tennessee medical center, the only academic medical center in this region, and we're going to speak to a doctor here with an update in a few moments but a couple of days ago as you mentioned only six icu beds left in the entire east part of the region. those icu numbers change constantly, but it's a low number and it's putting some stress on this system. now part of when icu beds free up, some of that is because someone might die from covid-19 and we're seeing a majority of those deaths a steep increase in mortality are with unvaccinated patients and the vast majority, talking like 97%, sometimes more, that's a trend we're seeing nationwide so there is a parallel here and this surge is some higher averages than we've seen since the winter surge, with a largely un

. >> nbc news correspondent liz mclaughlin is in austin, texas and nbc news white house reporter lauren egan is traveling. what can you tell us about this new restraining order, liz, that was filed by planned parenthood and what this means going forward? >> reporter: so travis county district judge did grant this restraining order but for planned parenthood it may be a step forward but there's still a long road ahead. it's very limited in scope. specifically protecting planned parenthood from being sued by texas right to life and its associates. that's an anti-abortion group that helped pass this law. so anyone else -- so any other abortion providers are still liable and anyone else can still sue planned parenthood or any other providers or any private citizens who counsel, finance or otherwise transport patients. so it's still very limited and planned parenthood said make no mistake there needs to be more relief for the women in texas. as of now, abortion clinics have no -- have no choice but to comply with this rule. so women between 6 and 22 weeks of pregnancy about still in texas do

it's a feeling the mclaughlins hope they can experience too. >> we can't wait, but we know full well we have to wait until they complete their job and make sure it's safe for us to return. >> reporter: the progress fire crews made recently has them feeling optimistic and grateful. in carson city, alyssa gord, nbc bay area news. >>> a firefighter assigned to battle the dixie fire has died. he died from an illness not related to the fire. crews have been battling the dixie fire for two months now. flames have burned 890,000 acres. more than 1200 homes and buildings have been destroyed. containment stands at 56% with full containment expected by the end of october. the smoke is thick in lake tahoe. check out this timeline. you can see it's frightening. it's amazing. it's been like this for the past couple weeks since the caldor fire really took off. and what's going up into the air up there impacting our air quality down here. tomorrow's going to be another spare the air day. our meteorologist joins us with more on that. >> it is, terry. and you know what has really helped in this fight

joining us is liz mclaughlin in austin and former u.s. attorney mcquaid.o, liz, this is so wide range, it is putting pressure on people like ride share companies and people who work for uber and lyft. tell us about it. >> that is right, geoff. sb-8 is wide-ranging in that anybody who enables an abortion to happen after seven weeks could be liable up to $10,000 and the target of any lawsuit that anyone could bring, private citizens, and that is nerve-racking for people who provide a ride to clinics like the one we are at here today, and i used an uber today, and it was canceled three times before i came, and i changed the address from planned parenthood to a physical address, and i could get a ride, and maybe that is coincidence, but they are hearing concern and confusion, and wondering if the drivers are going there and why. lyft took a strong position quickly. they were the first to come out to say that we disagree with this law, and if fact, we will pay all of the legal fees if our drivers are targeted. and uber was behind saying this is not okay, and th

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>> erin mclaughlin reporting in los angeles. dr.n of northwestern university feinberg school of medicine. thank you for being with us. good morning. >> thank you, hallie. i appreciate the invitation. >> of course, there's a whole bunch of topics to talk to you about today. president biden will address this later this week, that information just coming in to us. we know that only 53% of the country is fully vaccinated. you have daily covid infections more than four times higher than they were a year ago. big crowds at places this weekend like at airports. what is your level of concern about a surge post labor day? we have seen especially past precedent with other holidays. >> one of the sad things here is, this is going to be a marathon. as a sprinter, i had hoped that once we got to a point where we had vaccines as well as the non-pharmaclogic interventions such as masking and distancing that we wouldn't be back where we were last fall and winter but unfortunately we're there and the virulence of these variants means that more peopl

i'm in northwest armory on se mclaughlin, this place is a mad house today. it looks like, you know, shopping day after thanksgiving. our business has been exponential amount of growth. there's been a lot more interest in personal protection. since there's been a couple of national tragedies, there's also been a lot more interest with the possibility of legislation and people concerned that they're not going to be able to get access to the things that they used to be able to have access to the organ legislatures considering for really bad bills, they would take away people's right to carry guns in various places, including one of them would limit your ability to carry in a school. if the janitor, it's sandy hook, elementary, had carried a pistol and he heard the shooting down the hallway and people screaming and then saw a young man not in a police uniform running at him with an a r 15 and had shouted to the guys, stop and then pulled his pistol out and shot adam lanza would that have been a good thing or a bad thing. the folks like jenny burdick and those, y

let's go to knoxville where we find nbc's liz mclaughlin. liz, talk to me about the situation there when you think about some of these astounding numbers, how hospitals really they're buckling under the pressure of these high covid numbers. >> reporter: absolutely. it's nothing short of a dire situation. and here in eastern tennessee they're being hit especially hard. we're looking at icu beds as one of the biggest challenges here in this region of eastern tennessee. they have these community calls three times a week where they kind of talk about the capacity. and sometimes there are zero icu beds for adults available, zero. other times statewide there's between 2 and 6% available. so really dwindling, and resources are very much stretched thin. this surge is even higher. some numbers even higher than the winter surge we saw before the vaccine was widely available to the population. we're seeing more patients not only in volume, but they're sicker. so more patients on ventilators, more patients that need icu beds, and of course that's puttin

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we have nbc's liz mclaughlin with us from austin and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance with us as well.ant to start with you, liz, and get the reaction first to the restraining order in texas. >> reporter: yasmin, the reaction from texas right to life is still celebratory. every day the law is in effect it is seen as a win for them. they're preventing abortions from happen. that doesn't take into account the lives of the women seeking those services. planned parenthood is grateful for some protection but it is very limited in scope, just shielding them from being sued by texas right to life, other anti-abortion groups. private citizens can still bring those lawsuits forward. they are complying but they say they're being intimidated by anti-abortion groups who are rallying around their centers. planned parenthood ceo alexis johnson had this to say. >> we've seen, you know, people staking out health centers, increased surveillance, suspicious calls, threatening our patients. so this is a win for protecting our patients, nurses, clinic staff, and ensuring, you know, that people have the ri