in poughkeepsie, and a police officer who was just out doing rounds drove up behind her and he ran the horn. >> and that's when she came out and the police officers, hysterically and described what happened. >> he's laying on the couch. he's just laying there. >> reporter: earlier that day child protective services had visited their home after an anonymous caller reported that they noticed nikki was often bruised. >> she has testified that that day he went to work and when he came home he looked different than she'd ever seen him look before. she's testified that he took out his gun -- >> and i said i don't want to touch it. he handed me bullets. he loaded it a couple times. >> and then hours passed, according to her testimony he had sex with her against her will. >> when i thought he was asleep, i got up and i went to go get the kids. >> he woke up and pulled the gun from inside the couch. >> and he reached into the couch and i kneed him and it fell and i shot him. >> reporter: nikki was taken into custody, questioned and later charged with second-degree murder. it would be months bef

> it's actually lovely this time of year. >> i would be the queen of poughkeepsie.. a lot of stuff there. it's not okay if it's not the end -- i don't get that because the end is the worst part. you die. >> emily: the end is the best part, it's like when they kiss or when they walked on the il or when the bank gets robbed, it is something awesome, right? >> i don't know of anything that ends with just a kiss, we are all adults, right? are we -- are we in seventh grade? >> emily: on the hallmark channel. >> this time of year again. they play some terrible christmas music and then the exact same movie with the exact same actors kissing women comes on again. every hallmark channel movie. >> and they all get five stars. >> you know that 80% of the hallmark channel ratings are guys just ragging on the movies while their women watch them? >> cam loves the homer channel! and i say turn this [bleep] off! and he won't turn it off! >> throw some twists in there every now and then. >> which tells me cam will be going to see "magic mike." >> if you don't turn this off i'm going

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. >> maybe we'll go to poughkeepsie. we want to go to japan. now maybe i'll die without ever going there because it's never going to end. that is a little dramatic. there's people less dramatic than i am feel this way. that feel like things are coming back and see hope and boom, it all comes crashing down again. >> neil: you shouldn't talk to brian so much. thanks very much. we're examines how people are responding to this. meantime, something else for you to worry about. not that it's a big worry, but we might have the government shut down tomorrow night. but you know, it's just money and job security and the economy. what could go wrong? ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. (gasps) ♪ did it work? only pay for what you need ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ spider-man no way home in theaters december 17th the ergo smart base from tempur-pedic responds to snoring- automatically. so no hiding un

. >> from houston and poughkeepsie, today. >> great crowd >> let's take a good, long look at these awesomee we're getting back to the old days i love these big friday crowds >> meanwhile, folks, we are working on something next week actually working on a lot. among the stories that we're working on, though, the remembrance of pearl harbor from 80 years later harry smith is going to be sharing his visit to the memorial and rarely heard stories of the days bravery and heros. >> look back at that let's go to your news at 8:00. the u.s. had just one report of the omicron variant yesterday morning, but 24 hours later, a whole different story. cases detected in at least five states nbc's sam brock has the latest on the spread and what's being done to prevent an all-out surge. sam, good morning. >> yeah, savannah, good morning. for so many families right now, the question is how concerned he should i be about the omicron variant and the transmissibility, savannah, appears to be quite high new research out of south africa indicates it is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 to 6 times more likely to

poughkeepsie, you'll see that snow into massachusetts but look what happens tonight. going to turn to rain for most people. but from scranton up to burlington we have winter weather advisories because there will be enough cold air that it could be ice. so keep that in mind if you are planning to travel early tomorrow morning on christmas morning. a lot of folks do that to try to get to grandma's house and such. now across the nation we will see record heat like the warmest christmas eve and christmas on record for parts of texas into oklahoma, even missouri, and in seattle you'll have some wet snow to start christmas and then some actual snow christmas night, so if you need snow in the northeast you better go get it because this will all melt by tomorrow. >> ginger tracking it all for us. >>> we turn now to the verdict against that former police officer who shot and killed daunte wright. kim potter was found guilty of first and second degree manslaughter and stephanie ramos spoke with daunte's family and she joins us from minneapolis. stephanie, good morning. >> repor

we'll have some icy spots from poughkeepsie, advisories and warnings.until noon for most folks, boston included that you have to watch road, especially some of the highest elevations. west, truckee already started their snow and my goodness, they got hit so hard in parts of the sierra last weekend. we had that five to eight feet. well, another three to five feet and that's by just christmas day. watch as those bands of rain come into the bay area. santa barbara, even los angeles, amy, as we kick off christmas eve going to be super rainy. >> wow. good to know and plan ahead for it. ginger, thank you very much. >>> turning now to kellogg's workers ending their 11-week long strike after ratifying a tentative new contract with the cereal giant. let's go to alex perez with all of the latest details for us. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, amy. after weeks of back and forth and the company even threatening to replace those striking workers, a deal has finally been reached. the union representing some 1,400 kellogg's employees and the company hav

decide what you want to donate, you decide to donate, we want to donate to the children's home in poughkeepsieose to donate, because i mean, so many things out there that you don't, sometimes you don't even trust but this giving machine is one of them that you can trust and giving back, especially in times like this. will: yes, yes, we're watching it on the screen by the way we can see these vending machines located across the country by the way as you mentioned there's several in new york city, but they are also in nashville, oakland, kansas city, honolulu, arizona, all over the country, as well. what made you decide to get involved with this , marino? why is this a charity or why was this an opportunity to give back that you wanted to be a part of? >> well the reasons why i always wanted to be engaged in giving is just that. giving, especially in christmas. you know, times like this , we're battling with so much stuff and there's people that need hope and christmas is very special time for us to share and bring hope to those in need. therefore, i always love to make sure that we do the right