a wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city dr breggin nichols is already accused are prescribing a massive amount of opioids to 5 patients who later died when i heard that there was 4 other deaths that i sort of thing oh good evening oh midwest city ducky dr i'm homeless tonight 3000000 jobs davis i'm just reading and listening to the jury just raising as many times as you just got and he. was very happy she got a rest question on t.v. oh. yeah i don't know where it was said was this is from 3 doctors i mean did she harm i didn't know any internet i met a man why america should search for men and manage to get my daughter. a met. you. mean these are navy have spent their entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away as a painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic burden family hiding in the secret and shame with addiction. she's headed for back surgeries dr nichols was liza's doctor for 7 years she was the 1st to fall into the opioids trap when i 1st started seeing her i thou

blizzard conditions sweeping the midwest right now causing hundreds of accidents. cities from the gulf coast to the northeast now bracing for a messy holiday. where the storm is headed. >>> plus, pricey parties. how sports teams are cracking down on players who ignore covid rules. >>> a whiff of home. the gift that could be a breath of fresh air to anyone feeling homesick this holiday season. >>> and the heartfelt message from one little girl during a covid christmas. >>> good thursday morning, everyone. i'm mona kosar abdi. >> and i'm will reeve in for kenneth. we begin with president trump unleashing more chaos in the final weeks of his administration. overnight the president arrived at mar-a-lago for the holidays after issuing a new round of pardons for more convicted felons and throwing a wrench in the covid relief package. >> the president also vetoed a bipartisan defense spending bill so popular it passed with a huge majority in both chambers. now the stage is set for a possible override, which would be the first of his presidency. for the very latest, abc's faith a

rose williams coming to you -- you are the editor and president of "the kansas city star," extremely influential in the midwestcover all issues, but particularly kansas city, which spans two states, missouri and kansas. talk about when she came to you, your response and what this apology means to you. >> sure. andmara anda said, whole team, and she made a great point, which is we were speaking for a number of people at "the star," a number of people who were excited to be on the steam. when they came with this idea, the answer was easy. it was an absolute yes. the execution i think was difficult because as i wrote about in the column, as reporters really dug in and unearthed a t of these very human examples that really system --me how this systematic problem in our coverage had revealed itself in stories we told and stories we did not tell, it was difficult to reconcile that with the sort of place we have come to love and appreciate. but we also understood that those frameworks, those historical frameworks for coverage are difficult to tear down. even though i think "the star" has been the last four years tryi

parts of the midwest including minnesota's twin cities were hit with more than eight inches of snow thisweek. >> the first was wet and raining and then froze down. it's cold enough, people should have boots on. >> winter storm watches are extending as far as kentucky and tennessee. much of the east coast meanwhile will have a wet christmas. areas like new york city could see between two and four inches of rain and wintry blasts of wind up to 70 miles per hour. >>> just about 20 minutes now before 7:00. a holiday classic with a new twist. >> still ahead on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, how a bay area performer is bringing together people from around the world for a very special retelling of the nutcracker. >> hi. i am morning video editor. thank you so much for watching this year as we provided he isen cher coverage. i wish you and all my friends and family a very merry christmas and happy >>> a lot of rain sitting off the coast. we do have rain for christmas day but the specifics and timing and how much, that's what matters. we will look at that coming up in detail in the forecas

police responded to hundreds of crashes and spin outs on christmas eve, parts of midwest including minnesota's twin cities were hit with other than eight inches of snow. >> the first was wet and raining and then froze. it's cold enough, people should have boots on. >> winter storm watches are extending as far south as kentucky and tennessee. much of the east coast meanwhile will have a wet christmas. areas like new york city can see between two and four inches of rain and wintry blasts of wind up to 70 miles per hour. >>> cdc announced all travelers arriving in u.s. from united kingdom will have to test negative for coronavirus, requirement taking effect on monday. this order coming in response to a new and possibly more transmissible coronavirus variant set to have originated in the uk. a live look at sfo, one of the airports with flights direct from london. the travelers must have a negative pcr or antigen test within 72 hours of boarding their flights to the u.s. they must also give documentation of their lab results. airlines have to confirm test results before the flight. >>> a holiday classic with a

midwest. in minneapolis the city saw more than 8 inches of snow this morning and more to come and then the storm heads for the east coast where it's expected to unleash flooding, a lot of rain, a lot of wind tonight into christmas morning. let's go to nbc 4 washington meteorologist somara theodore. good to see you. what kind of conditions are we looking at across the country? >> well, that really depends on where you live look, severe storms in the carolinas. flooding from the mid-atlantic to new england winter storm in the midwest as you just said and high winds along the east coast with gusts reaching upwards of 50, 60 miles per hour so here's a look at the storm. you can just really see how far reaching it is, tapping into that gulf moisture bringing rain into the southeast right on up into the mid-atlantic, new york, up into boston and then back west we have snow in parts of ohio, down into kentucky and tennessee. if i turn the satellite and radar off, you can really just see how lit up in watches and warnings much of the eastern seaboard is. so we've got that threat for tornados and severe

we looked at the experience of many cities in the midwest that had meat packing plants and we envi envisagedet of circumstances here. we didn't have major outbreaks in those plants. we took tests to test fishing crews before they went out to sea. we also did a few other things that were a little bit different from everyone else, where we happened to be the city that had one of the largest soup manufacturers in the country, joseph laboot, which took it on the chin. there aren't many people buying suits these days, but they entered into making masks, and we entered into an agreement where they would make masks for all our city residents. we're one of the first four cities in the country to do that. we have given out 400,000 masks, and i think the pervasiveness of mask wearing here has certainly helped our cause. a number of things that we've done along the way like that to try to just get out ahead of the virus. as it is, in san jose as it is everywhere, there is still a ways to go, and, you know, we're hopeful about the vaccine. it's the light at the end of the tunnel, but vaccines plural, bu

. >>> leading the news, a newspaper in the midwest has apologized for decades of racist coverage "the kansas city" posted a letter, an apology from the kansas city star the editor of the newspaper says the death of george floyd sparked an honest examination of the paper's past, saying in part, the newspaper disenfranchised, ignored generations of black stories, writing when black people were written about, they were cast primarily as perpetrators, advancing a toxic narrative. >>> battling for potential playoff positioning. new york on the board first, but we wouldn't be showing you a field goal if the giants had better highlights. browns qb baker mayfield cooking, hitting off to cooper, then jarvis landry the browns make like zeus and slay the titans, the giants rather, an attempt mythology joke. >>> for the first time since 2008, the patriots will miss the postseason i don't think their afc contemporaries feel bad about that at all. at 9-5 the dolphins are in the afc wild card chase. the ravens and raiders need a little help with two weeks left to play. >>> a christmas song has taken a profound

midwest today. some places will see more than a foot. the twin cities will get several inches. it all moves to the north and east before another storm system starts along the gulf coast and brings rain to the eastern u.s. by new year's morning. checking today's high temperatures, colder today in the northeast. 30s from chicago to the rockies. 76 in miami. 43 in albuquerque. >>> coming up, the deadly wall collapse at a construction site and the emotional rescue. >>> also ahead, the viral video showing a woman lunging at a black teenager after wrongly accusing him of stealing her phone. what could now happen to her. >>> and later, what we've learned about actress lori loughlin's release from prison >>> thank god that he's okay. >> god save me. god save me. >> back now with that distraught construction worker in brooklyn, new york, who was getting lunch when a retaining wall collapsed on to two of his colleagues, killing one and injuring the other. investigators are trying to determine what went wrong. >>> ghislaine maxwell, a former associate of sex offender jeffrey epstein has b

midwest. john, for you on thursday, the city will make a run at 55. d.c.aking a run at 60. >> not sure i want that on thursday/friday, chad. i'm grateful for the warmer weather compared to minneapolis, but i wouldn't mind some snow on christmas day. so work on that. >> i will. >> chad myers, thank you very much. >>> nearly $500 million in special interest money funding a flood of ads ahead of georgia's senate runoff elections. where is that money coming from, next. service at the ready. at mercedes-benz, it's not just a job, it's our mission. from our expert technicians armed with state of the art tools and technology, to genuine parts made for the perfect fit. whether it's our place... ...or yours. we're there. rain or shine, day or night. no one knows your vehicle better. to learn all the ways we can be at your service, call, click or visit a dealership near you. these days you need more than an education. so that's what we give you. introducing career services for life. learn more at phoenix.edu >>> money pouring into the new georgia runoff races with t

midwest. and more americans see and feel the devastation in big cities, and inowns, coastlines, farmlands. red states and in blue. billions of dollars of damage. home and ms. -- memories washed away. farmlands washed away. and just last year, the defense department reported that climate change is a direct threat to more than two thirds of operational critical installations in this world, particularly in the united states. many calamities are colliding all at once. it's not just the pandemic heaping people inside. it's poor air quality. air pollution is associated with the increased risk of death from covid-19. folks, we are in a crisis. just like we need to be a unified nation in response to covid-19, we need a unified national response to climate change. we need to meet the moment with the urgency it demands. from this crisis -- from these crises, i should say, we need to seize the opportunity to build back and build back better than we were before. that's what this administration is going to do, with the help of these fine people. you know, we think about climate wellenge -- climate chan

expect above normal temperatures in the midwest today. 50s in chicago. 40s from minneapolis to detroit, 60s in kansas city. also 60s and 70s across the south. mostly 40s in the northeast. >>> coming up, the spy games between china and the u.s. allegedly involving sex, money and charm. >>> but first the toy shortage looming this holiday season. it's not just a few popular toys in short supply. >>> and the crash landing >>> back now with an explosive end to an otherwise successful test flight by spacex. the starship had just flown eight miles into space, and no one was on board. as it was starting to land in texas, spacex says there was a problem with the fuel system which caused the rocket to come down too fast and crash. >> it's going to go boom every once in a while, but the good thing about this is that there was no one on board. this is why you test things before you put people on board and make sure that they're going to work, so i don't think this is really a major setback for them. >> the starship is supposed to help put humans on mars in 2024. elon musk says despite the explosion, the mission provi

parts of this country, particularly the midwest would really benefit from high-speed rail between cities. i am alic schools, product entirely of public schools. i am a public school kid, midwestern public university kid, lucky enough to grow up in the postwar era and go to college in the 60's and 70's when it was cheap. .here are big ideas we could again become a model to the world. think about the interstate highway system knit us together back in the 50's. it had that impulse of the cold war behind it. we were going to be ready for defense by the interstate highway system. nobody drives on the interstate highways anymore thinking about defense against the soviet union, but we are glad we have them. john: hanover, maryland, this is steve, republican. caller: good morning. i hope this question is not off-topic, but it is relative to the issue of slavery and misinformation. -- when the founding fathers wrote the constitution, the idea -- what was compromised was that a slave would be considered to be 3/5 of a person. yesterday i democrat called up about this issue and said this was disenf

see for our infiltrating our city council members, are dorky congressmen are midwest mayors with goodentions, none of i it. whites of their bipartisan outrage? to beg you've assume they're playing for the home team kennedy in world war ii the "new york times" are delay reports on behalf of the allies in the last two decades the report any bad news about her troops on the battlefield or country because they see themselves as global citizens. listen, the whole idea being a patriotic newspaper is gone. that is not how they view it for they see democrats as their allies and they will back them up. the trump era has exposed that as unfortunate as that is for their yellow journalist they have a particular perspective, that is fine for illicit that's what it is it is what it is. before modern warriors is greatly been writing books like crazy but this is fantastic but some of the stories in here, you forget that people put their lives on the line, protecting freedom even when the government makes really bad awful decision decisions. your book is a nice way to balance that out and restore my f

expect above normal temperatures in the midwest today. 50s in chicago. 40s from minneapolis to detroit, 60s in kansas city. also 60s and 70s across the south. mostly 40s in the northeast. >>> coming up, the spy games between china and the u.s. allegedly involving sex, money and charm. >>> but first the toy shortage looming this holiday season. it's not just a few popular toys in short supply. >>> and the crash landing disaster for spacex. why some actually call it a success. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps people breathe easier and improves lung function. it also helps prevent future flare-ups. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy

midwest. and more americans see and feel the devastation in big cities, small towns, on coastlines, and in farmlands. in red states and in blue. look, billions of dollars of damage. homes and memories washed away. small business is closed for good. crops and farmlands destroyed for the next generation of family farmers. and just last year, the defense department reported that climate change is a direct threat to more than two thirds of our military operational and critical facilities in the world, particularly in the united states. this could very well be a conservative estimate. so many health calamities are colliding all at once. it is not just the pandemic that keeps people inside, it's poor air quality. studies have shown that air pollution is associated with the increased risk of death from covid-19. folks, we are in a crisis. just like we need to be a unified nation in response to covid-19, we need a unified national response to climate change. we need to meet the moment with the urgency it demands. as you would during any national emergency. crisis -- from these crises, i should say, we need

floods, hurricane speed wind storms and severe droughts ravaged the midwest and more americans see and feel the devastation in big cities small towns, coastlines and in farm lands. red states and in blue. billions of dollars in damage. homes and memories washed away. small businesses closed for good, crops and farm lands destroyed for the next generation of family farmers and just last year, the defense department reported that climate change is a direct threat to more than two-thirds of our military operational critical installations in the world. particularly in the united states and this could well be a conservative estimate. and so many climate and health calamities are colliding all at once. it's not just the pandemic that keeps people inside. it's poor air quality. multiple studies have shown air pollution is associated with increase risk of death with covid-19. folks, we're in a crisis. just like we need to be unified nation in response to covid-19, we need unified national response to climate change. meet the moment with the urgency it demands as you would with any national emergency and from this crisis, from t

those are the words of mike fannon, the president and editor of the kansas city star apologizing to readers of one of the midwest'sntial newspapers for its decades-long history of racist news coverage. following the police killing of george floyd at the suggestion of reporter mara rose williams the newspaper began examining how it covered race and the black community since its founding in 1880. kansas city star reporters reviewed thousands of pages from their 140 years in print. fannon says, quote, reporters were frequently sickened by what they found. they felt shame at what was missing, the achievements, aspirations, and milestones of an entire population routinely overlooked as if black people were invisible. now the paper is owning and apologizing for its mistakes. he says the paper has disenfranchised, ignored, and scorned a generation of black kansas citizens. it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice, and recognition. joining me now, the president and editor of the kansas city star, mike fannon. mike, good to see you. thank you for being here. ever since the death of george floyd, good

cities or places you go. and that -- you can be in georgia in the midwest in the border, and that is kind of this unstoppable force, and putting politics aside no wall and no policy will end that. bogey your loved ones there are and people make thieves maces feel like home. >> we've been talk budget the south. let's bring it to the midwest. so you came to wilkes and to madison. what did you find here? >> i hadn't been to wisconsin so i went there for the first time through this book and i have been here multiple time but my idea for their midwestern chapter was to make a make lie the midwest feel like home and truly understand that over the pass tech candidate latinos are greg in the midwest and the south and higher levels than in florida. so-so i trade too guide myself through culture, and so it was through food, knowing i wanted to see what people were doing with food, and music, and so what i found in wisconsin there's this -- i didn't know that wisconsin had the largest latino music festival in the entire country which was news to me. that was interesting. so from through started figuring out, what was t

widespread power outages across the northeast atlantic city, gusts to 61 miles per hour all the way up to boston, 37 miles pera winter chg the upper midwest but very calm. sunny skies for minneapolis. one more aspect. we do have ice running through the carolinas. i'll show you that forecast coming up. >> a lot of people were at the store buying those de-icers getting ready for this janua janessa, thank you. >>> it was history on the hardwood for tara vanderveer her 1,099th victory came as the cardinals trounced the pacifics by 33 points >>> procrastinatoprocrastinatorr you. "early today" is back with two shipping dates to make sure your present gets under the tree in time ♪ lovely day, lovely day. lovely day. ♪ ♪ lovely day. ♪ lovely day, lovely day. ♪ no matter how you celebrate this year, make this holiday extra special with a gift from pandora jewelry. make this holiday extra special struggling to clean tough messes with wipes? try mr. clean magic eraser sheets. just wet, squeeze and erase icky messes in microwaves and on stovetops for an amazing clean, get the power of mr. clean magic eraser in disposable sheets. here are a couple ans

cities, to build more climate resilient communities that deal with more extreme floods, droughts, and superstorms. just look around the country today. what are we faced with? the west is burning. the midwest is being flooded. the east coast is being pummeled by more tornadoes and storms than it's ever had. we're in a state that's three feet above sea level. all of us along the atlantic ocean find ourselves with problems in terms of flooding. look, working with states, businesses, and labor to install 500,000 charging stations for the next generation of clean vehicles, smart grid system, reducing energy consumption and ushering in a clean energy economy all across america. some of us remember i met with five leading c.e.o.'s in america and five leading unions in america. and the president of general motors, after our conversation, our joint conversation picked up the phone and called, i'm told, california and said they're dropping their suit against california. they're all in on making sure that they are a-- we're the first in the world to have-- switch to and be able to get to a carbon neutral economic way to power automobiles as a consequence of dealing with electric vehicles. we can own

cities to deal with floods and super are storms. what are we faced with? the west is burning. the midwest is being flooded. the east coast is being pummeled by more tornadoes and storms than it has ever had. we're in a state that is 3 feet above sea level. as to we ha so we have flooding. we can installing 500,000 charging stations for the next generation of clean vehicles, smart grid system, reducing energy consumption. some of you may remember i met with five leading ceos in america and five leading unions in america. and the president of general motors after our conversation, our joint conversation, i'm called he told california and said that they are dropping their suit against california. they are all in on making sure that they are a -- we're the first in the world to have switched to and be able to get to a carbon neutral economic way to power automobiles as a konsz defense of dealing with electric vehicles. we can own the electric vehicle market and can put with those 500,000 charging stations, we can muput a million jobs back i detroit and the midwest building cars. pete will keep americans safe o

began as blizzard conditions in the midwest have now moved to the northeast in the form of heavy rain and severe thunderstorms. we got delaware, we've got new york city. and much of eastern new england already experiencing strong, damaging winds, downing trees and also resulting in power outages. the national weather service has issued a coastal flood advisory for much of the region with one to three inches of rain expected to fall this morning. >>> this week, congress extended the national moratorium on evictions, but for millions of americans that will not be enough. >> we're going to be out on the street that's what's going to end up happening. we're going to end up out on the street. >> after the break, democratic congressman dan kildee joins me a day after the republicans blocked the bid to increase the size of the stimulus checks. are americans on the brink of losing the benefits they need to survive this pandemic? we'll see. he benefits they needo survive this pandemic? we'll see. i got uh sausage - you can do better, steve! get a freshly made footlong, from subway®! you can even order on the subway® app! did i just get picked off by deion san

spread across the midwest, across the upper midwest, in places like north dakota even, as this has become an issue in states across the country, not just big cities like it felt like to some of these lawmakers, earlier on that has changed the state of play here. i think it's notable that bill cassidy from louisiana louisiana, a doctor, someone who represents a very red state, really hit hard by this pandemic, has been one of the people involved in this process and will potentially be really important to bringing other republicans on to this. everybody sees the real nature of this problem across the country, but translating that into political momentum has been almost impossible really since a few weeks after the c.a.r.e.s. act passed back in the early spring. >> it's a great point. garrett, we're going to pause just a second and listen in to pelosi who has started talking about the massive bill that's going to fund government and possibly covid relief. >> -- shelby on the senate side have come to great agreement on the 302bs, more appropriations talk and how they would proceed, they've made great progress, more needs to be done. and at the same t

tell hospitals are maxed out in some cities and they predict they will only get worse after the holiday. a storm that began with snow, strong winds, cold in the midwesttormenting folks in the mid-east, drenching the region with heavy rain and powerful winds into christmas morning. be safe out there, i'm ashley strohmeyer and now back to a book on special. ♪ >> sean: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." this year amid covid-19 restrictions and the lockdowns, it is important more than ever to appreciate american resiliency, hard work.. i did speak with the "dirty jobs" host our friend mike rowe about this and more. take a look. >> i watched the show. i love "deadliest catch" and i know you are voiceover. i wish ijo had your pipes. the injury, the risk, the 40-foot waves that the fishermen and the crabbers, you know, it's crazy. the roughest conditions. i am amazed at how great americans are. r i think in the coronavirus, if we ever stop, if the manufacturers stopped manufacturing and the packers stopped packers and farmers stopped farmers and truckers stop trucking, new york where i am would have died. >> the party is over. that was the pr

throughout the midwest, i am concerned about what happens in december and january as we move farther along. but right now i don't think anybody would've predicted last spring that the cityroit would have an infection rate basically half the rate of many in surrounding communities. >> now you endorsed joe biden early on in the race. >> i did. >> how do you see the vaccine rollouts going under his watch come early next year? >> well, there is no vaccine rollout plan. and this is the thing that concerns me the most. people are talking like the vaccine's around the corner. i was on a phone call with biden and harris a week ago. their point is a vaccine and vaccination. there is no plan in this country for the vaccines to occur. and we're going to have to, just in detroit, do 5,000 a day to get through this city in three or four months. i thought the movie made putting jeff zias in charge. i'm sure you remember when obamacare was first rolled out, there was a computer glitch and people couldn't enroll. i dealt with the trump people in march and april. the test kits are coming, the ppe or coming, they never told us the truth. we just need an administration to say here is how

we're starting on the radar right now in the midwest where we have snow in des moines, places like madison, wisconsin, up to traverse city more to come during the day today. future radar, snow is going to end in wisconsin this morning but it will continue and get heavier into northern michigan throughout the day. putting down at least another several inches of snow. and that's not it. that's storm one. storm two moves from colorado into southern kansas and oklahoma, even oklahoma city is going to see a decent amount of snowfall. a swath of maybe three to six inches of snow. amarillo will get snow. oklahoma city, tulsa and fayietville, arkansas. so how much snow are we going to see in total? a couple more inches in wisconsin. northern michigan, about 6 to 10 more inches of snow. and down into oklahoma, colorado, southern parts of kansas, northern parts of the panhandle, about 3 to 6-plus inches of snow. and last, but not least, the nor'easter. this could be a whopper snowstorm. we have not had a proper snowstorm here in new york city for about three years. least snowiest years on record almost in washington, dc, philadelp

midwest by the time we get into thursday and friday. john? >> it will be snowing out there, but we'll be wearing shorts in new york city! which is fine. i don't mind so much. all right, jennifer gray, thanks very much. so health officials are urging americans to stay home, do not travel for the holidays. but, you know, telling your folks you won't be coming home, that could be tricky. "saturday night live" takes on the challenge in this edition of late night laughs. >> i was calling because i just wanted to let you know -- >> mama, i don't want you to get upset. i won't be able to come home for christmas this year. >> and i guess since you won't be coming, i'll just throw your stocking in the fire. >> mom! >> i just don't think it's safe. >> okay, let's talk about this later. >> when? >> when you've changed your damned mind. >> i just don't think it makes sense for me to travel right now. >> if you don't love me, marie, just say so. >> oh, my god, mom! >> i didn't raise a coward. >> oh, my god, the worst has happened. i had a fall. >> mom, i know you didn't fall. you laid down very gingerly. i saw the whole thing. >> don't say anythin

all going away here in the new york city area and for most folks ip and down the eastern seaboard. you want snow? the place to be upper midwestyou don't have to dream of a white christmas. it will be a reality. expecting four to eight inches of snow in the upper midwest. a lot of snow in parts of south dakota. gusts to 55 miles an hour. blizzard conditions possible there. this will head each but mostly a wet, not a white, storm. could see severe weather tonight and tomorrow morning across the southeast. look how wet up and down the eastern seaboard. in fact, rip-roaring upper level and midlevel jet stream. wind gusts plab to 70 miles an hour. power outages from d.c. to philly to new york city and boston and especially coastal new england. a big storm and it's all rain. the western side it is snow. there will be some accumulation. this is interesting. one to two feet of snow on the ground. heavy rain run ago cross that. going to melt really quickly. possibility of flash flooding for upstate new york and also parts of pennsylvania as well. a lot of the snow will be gone. temperaturewise. arctic air plunging south. chicago 55 to