priscilla villarreal: a female was found deceased. craig melvin: when it comes to news about the underserved and under-covered, people in laredo usually turn to priscilla villarreal. we're live, fyi, just so you-- oh, we're live. priscilla villarreal: hey, want to say hi? hi, everybody. to her more than 200,000 followers priscilla is known as la gordiloca. la gordiloca, the big crazy woman. thank you. everybody says "the fat crazy." they're like-- craig melvin: she deals mostly in crime. but unlike traditional news outlets, her reporting is done off the cuff via facebook live streams as events are unfolding. and so if something's going down in laredo, la gordiloca usually knows about it. priscilla villarreal: they call me and say, hey, there's a chase here by, you know, central laredo. and you can get to it. i'm up and going. craig melvin: that rawness and immediacy seems to keep laredo clicking on her. now, la gordiloca was asking the same questions as melissa's family. josh mankiewicz: who would want melissa dead? i-- i have no idea

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priscilla, good morning. >> reporter: laura, good morning.thissuspect. it comes after authorities may have found that crucial piece of evidence overnight, that gray backpack that they believed the shooter was wearing during the crime as this morning questions about who this person is and where he is are continuing. this morning, an urgent manhunt growing wider. >> we also have reason to believe that the person in question has left new york city. >> reporter: the nypd police commissioner saying on cnn that this man, a perso of interest in the killing of unitedhealthceo brian thompson may have fled the city. the update comes after an extensive video canvas the chief of detective says that shows the suspect leaving the hilton hotel after the shooting, getting on a bike and riding into central park. then riding out of the park at 77th street before he's seen walking on 86th. >> from there we have him in a taxi cab and the taxi cab takes him up to 178th street and broadway, which, as we know, is the port authority bus center. >> reporter: where he

>> priscilla thompson in pennsylvania, thank you. >>> former house speaker nancy pelosi has been air lifted to a military hospital in germany following a medical emergency. the 84-year-old took a fall yesterday during a congressional trip. she was then airlifted to a medical center where she underwent hip replacement surgery. no word yet on when she will be able to travel back to the united states. >>> president-elect trump brought politics to the football field for today's army/navy game with a public show of support for his embattled cabinet nominees. aaron gilchrist has the latest. >> reporter: tonight president-elect donald trump making a cameo at the annual army/navy football game. surrounded by the house speaker and the incoming vice president and senate majority leader and some of his more controversial cabinet picks, t ulsi gabbard and pete hegseth, the army national guard veteran who trump chose as the secretary of defense. a high-profile show of support for hegseth, whose selection has been challenged for allegations of drinking and sexual assault, both of which he denies.

priscilla: good morning, the situation this year is looking quite sensitive.ompared to previous years. we are now at 73 percent only compared to 86% at the same point last year. and why do we care about it? for the past two years, since europe's energy crisis, we have relied heavily on gas reserves to keep on navigating the cold snaps that the regents eventually faced. when russia cut most of the supplies to germany. lizzy: and by the end of today we should know whether, when it comes to the halts of russian natural gas to ukraine, whether there will be no deal, no gas flows, no deal, some gas flows or a deal reached on gas flows continuing. what's looking likely? priscilla: if previous times are any guidance, we won't know until the very last minute. what is different this time around is that we are going to the third war -- the third year of russia's invasion of ukraine. so the situation is a little bit different. strategists in wall street, goldman sachs, morgan stanley, j.p. morgan, they all have christ in a no transit deal heading into next year. but we w

priscilla, good morning. >> reporter: laura, good morning. while the nypd says they did not id luigi mangione until after he was arrested, we know authorities reached out to his mother the night before he was taken into custody. she confirmed the suspected gunman could in fact be her son. this morning, new details about an urgent tip identifying luigi mangione as the possible shooter of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson four days before arrested. two officials tell nbc news that san francisco police thought the man caught flashing a smile in the hostel looks similar to the man in the missing person's poster. one of the tips nypd received days following the murder. mangione's mother filed a missing person's report in november after not having spoken to her son since july. the information comes as the fight to bring mangione back to new york intensifies. >> i will continue to say he will be prosecuted in new york city. >> reporter: manhattan district attorney may soon drop his fight for extradition from pennsylvania to new york. >> we will se

back with us now our reporting team, priscilla thompson and rehema ellis.'re watching what's happening there in pennsylvania right now. i'm reminded of what we're hearing from our court reporters or those -- our producers who were inside the courtroom about mangione's demeanor, how he seemed animated, chatting with officers even. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. he was sitting in the courtroom just behind me a little bit earlier today, and he was very attentive according to our producers in the courtroom as he was having to sign papers and read through documents as they were talking through the charges he faces here and also the possibility of extradition. at one point, he was even smiling while he was sitting next to his attorney, thomas dickey. we know they appeared to be having some pretty animated conversations and we did ask dickey about those conversations when he came out and spoke to the press after all of this was over, and he did not -- as you might expect, divulge what exactly they were talking about or what led him to be

priscilla about last, last block. and if you're talking about millions of mass deportations, that, of course, could cause worker shortages in areas like agriculture and construction. and also there are concerns around a potential trade war. so, yes, an interest rate cut today looks imminent, john. but yeah, it could be the last one for a bit. >> so what's going on with the markets? because we've had this really epically good year yet. i keep reading over the last 24 hours that the dow managed to do something. on the downside that it hasn't done in like decades yeah, nine days in a row. >> the dow is down. we have not seen a losing streak like that since 1978. back when jimmy carter was in the white house. you can see on that chart how the market had been going straight up. i mean, john, i remember being on set with you in new york after the election and there was so much excitement in the stock market, but it has come back here. i would caution, though, we're talking about the dow. it's just 30 stocks. the broader mar

following all the latest developments, joining us from new york city, priscilla, what is the latest?ng. a number of detailed coming and focus overnight. first, the fbi is now taking a more public role in this case, announcing that $50,000 reward in addition to the $10,000 that the nypd was offering for any information that could lead to the arrest of this unidentified suspect. the other thing is, police finding that potentially crucial piece of evidence in central park after searching on foot, and with drones, that gray backpack that they believe the shooter may have been carrying when he carried out this crime, and we are told that backpack is being taken to a lab, where it is going to be inspected for fingerprints and potentially dna evidence before it is opened. they are hoping, according to two senior law enforcement officials, that could lead to clues that could help them find this person or shed or details on this case. as we are talking about the f not involved, we also know there are local departments assisting the nypd, including atlanta police. you may remember that police

priscilla, what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, alicia, a number of developments.d perhaps most important that the fbi is confirming that they are involved and they are really taking on a more public role in all of this by announcing that $50,000 reward, in addition to the 10,000 that the nypd is already offering for any information that could lead to the arrest of this suspect who remains unidentified at this time. and the other big piece of news that we got late yesterday was that the nypd was able to recover that backpack that they believe the shooter may have been wearing, so they recovered a gray backpack after they spent a lot of time in central park yesterday using drones and also with officers on foot looking for that backpack. because of the extensive video evidence they have, which they say shows the suspect riding that bike into central park with the backpack on and then riding out of central park without the backpack, and they were able to find a gray bag. that's headed to a lab where it will be inspected for dna and fingerprints and police hoping there

priscilla, good morning. thank you for being with us.ogether what they think is a timeline of events. can you take us through what it is that we know so far? >> reporter: yeah, charles. very robust timeline of events. so investigators do believe that this suspect was on a bus that originated in atlanta, georgia, and made its way up to new york city with several stops along the way. he arrived at port authority on november 24th, so ten days before this crime occurred. and they also say that they caught him on video just a little over an hour after he arrived, that he came to the hilton hotel where we are where this crime occurred. we also know that he was staying at that hostel on the upper west side. they were able to get photos of his face, the only photos that we have because apparently according to witnesses he wore his mask most of the time when he was in new york city but when he was talking to a woman at the front desk at that hostel, he may have flirt and flashed that smile. we have that photo of him smiling. the other part of the

joining us now, nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson and retired nypd detective and director of the black law enforcement alliance, mark claxton. so priscilla, new details from the investigators, but give us a walk through of what we know as of right now. >> reporter: yeah, jose, so there's been a wave of surveillance video that has been coming out over the past several days, helping to begin to understand a timeline of what happened in the moments both before and after this heinous shooting. but also now, in the days leading up to it. obviously, the big news being that police are now looking at that greyhound bus ride from atlanta to port authority arriving on november 24th. so ten days before this shooting, and of course, those photos from that hostel where it is believed this person of interest, suspect, may have stayed, where he had that unguarded moment when he was talking to a woman there, taking down his mask so we actually see his face. and so investigators are undoubtedly right now interviewing other people who may have seen or interacted with him, trying to figure out

priscilla thompson starts us off. >> reporter: line after line after line. this was a chaotic scene at new york city's penn station today where hoards of rail passenger gers were left stranded. >> routes between new york and philly, d.c. and new york and boston and d.c. delayed or cancelled due to downed power lines blocking tracks and equipment unavailability. >> trying to get out of here. >> all of this couldn't come at a worse time for holiday travelers desperate to get to where they're going like caroline keen on her way to see family. >> really trying the trains. >> reporter: at the airports mostly clear skies. things getting a little better after days of winter weather. across the country there have been more than 4,000 delays but fewer than 100 cancellations. back at penn station tonight, many left hoping for a miracle on 31st street. >> do you think you're getting t tonight? >> i don't think so. i want to know sooner rather than later. >> priscilla is joining us from a crowded penn station. are things looking better? >> reporter: the good news is, th

we're going to end that because it's ridiculous cnn's priscilla alvarez joins us now. >> and priscilla, on these topics of various immigration topics. a lot of it was familiar territory, but he did in that interview appear to shift some thinking around dreamers yeah, that was his most notable comments in the interview that aired on sunday indicating that he would be willing to work with congress on this subset of the undocumented population. >> those are those undocumented immigrants who arrived to the u.s. as children, many of whom are already adults, and he said in that interview that he willing to find some consensus with democrats and republicans. >> take a listen and we have to do something about the dreamers, because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age, and many of these are middle aged people now. >> they don't even speak the language of their country. i will work with the democrats on a plan, and if we can come up with a plan. but the democrats have made it very very difficult to do anything. republicans are very open to the dreamers now he's correc

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nbc's priscilla thompson has more. >> reporter: line after line after line, this was the chaotic scene at new york city's penn station where hoards of rail passengers were left stranded for hours. how long have you been -- >> we -- >> reporter: routes between new york and philly, d.c. and new york, and boston and d.c. delayed d or canceled due to downed power lines blocking tracks and equipment unavailability, amtrak says. how frustrated are you? >> i'm enraged. and our christmas celebration is -- this evening. we have gifts and trying to get out of here. >> reporter: all of this couldn't come at a worse time for holiday travelers, desperate to get where they're going. lake caroline keen. >> there are so many delays this time of year. really choose amtrak because you can count on the trains. >> reporter: at the airports, mostly clear skies. things getting a little better after days of winter weather. across the country, there have been more than 4,000 delays, but fewer than 100 cancelations. back at penn station, many left hoping for a miracle on 31st street. do you think you're gettin

please tell us, priscilla, what is the investigation focusing on at this hour? >> reporter: yeah, al, good evening. two things that the investigation is focusing on. one is central park. that is where the nypd found that backpack they believe belonged to the shooter late friday and we know that there have been divers in central park continuing to scour that area, looking through the waters there and this is a very specialized dive team that is using a grid system to really meticulously look through those waters for any signs of evidence, particularly the possibility that the shooter may have dumped the gun somewhere in the waters in central park and again, that is where they found that backpack that had in it a jacket and also monopoly money. that bag has since been taken to a lab where it has been inspected for fingerprints and dna and the other big focus is the new photos released overnight by the nypd where you have a very clear picture of this person of interest's eyes. it appears he was sitting in the back of a taxicab in new york city and that comes after

there were no evidence connecting him to new york state. >> we are now joined from pennsylvania by priscilla and we are set to see luigi mangione again soon ? >> reporter: right. he is due back in court later this month but the manhattan da said we could see him face a judge as soon as tuesday if you waived extradition. >>> to politics now with robert f kennedy junior getting ready to make the rounds on capitol hill this week to try to drum up support ahead of formal hearing to put them in charge of the health agencies but tonight new questions about his views on one of the most successful vaccinations ever, the shot to prevent polio. >> reporter: tonight fresh focus on robert f kennedy junior, with president elect trump's pick for health secretary as he prepares to court senators on capitol hill this week. he is still facing scrutiny over past comments about vaccines. >> i do believe that autism comes from vaccines. >> reporter: he is expected to face questions about his views on vaccines now after the new york times reports a lawyer helping him build his team petitioned the of da to revoke

thanks a lot, priscilla. 1120 for you on this monday morning.'s take a live look at interstate 80 near castle peak in the sierra chains no longer required this midday, but over the weekend it was a different story. drivers were dealing with heavy snowfall and icy conditions. the weekend, snowstorm and hopefully more this week should give a big boost to that sierra snowpack. take a look at that snow pack wigist kari hall, who is tracking those conditions. it's still snowing there, so i wouldn't be surprised if within a few minutes we hear that the chain controls are going back up and at times during the weekend they just had to shut it down. both the highway and the interstate getting to the sierra. so we're looking at palisades tahoe where it's raining mixed with snow and just really depends on the elevation. and we're going to see more of this activity going throughout the day as temperatures rise up to 38 degrees, we'll see a changing over to rain. and then later on tonight as it winds down, temperatures will be dropping and everything will be

let's start the hour with nbc's priscilla thompson. so priscilla, welcome again.k us through an extradition process and what we can expect next. >> reporter: yeah. so you heard the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg there saying that they have some indication that he could waive extradition and that he could be in court to do that as early as tuesday. and that was a very interesting statement when we all heard it because it's contrary to what mangione's attorney said earlier this week in court, which is that they would attempt to fight the extradition of him back to new york city. but of course that came after we're now learning that he has a new defense attorney in the new york city case, a high-profile new york city defense attorney in karen freedman agnifilo. she has spent seven years as the chief assistant attorney in the d.a.'s office before going into private practice there. so we have reached out to them for comment about this news about the possibility of an extradition and have not yet heard back. but here is what governor kathy hochul had to say abo

>> priscilla thompson with the very latest.pd detective and black law enforcement alliance director mark claxton and former manhattan assistant attorney and msnbc legal analyst catherine christian. let's start on the grand jury indictment we're anticipating. mangione has already been charged here in new york so explain the grand jury. why go in that direction? >> it's a requirement. in order to proceed with a felony you have to present to a grand jury. the next step is to have a groour hear evidence and diet whether or not they need to indict him and whether or not he'll be indicted the case will move forward. >> does that accelerate the time lean if they come out with an indictment? >> yes. it's the reason why it's good to have an attorney like karen friedman agnifilo who knows new york state law and she knows the longer he stays in pennsylvania gives them more time and if they get an indictment. >> you know her personally. >> i know her very well. >> how do you see her role here. >> what you want to do as a defendant, you sho

priscilla thompson is reporting from new york city. here in studio, tom winter. what do we know about the bullet casings, tom? >> one of the things we have to keep if mind, we've got these words written on there. does it speak to a motive? a message this suspect is trying to send, but it can also be a diversion, too. you have to consider those things as well. does it have a broader meaning? i think it's important as soon as i say that to say the nypd thinks this is a targeted attack from everything that police have said that they've uncovered. is there any indication he's going after any other individuals? no, but i think when you look at the totality of this investigation at this point, it's clear this person was on a particular mission and that they were definitely going after this person. what type of message they were trying to send, why they were doing that, what they were up to leading up to it is something that obviously nypd and the detective bureau is going over right now. one of the things they've uncovered, the images we're looking at on screen. this c

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nbc's priscilla thompson is in hollidaysburg this sunday night , priscilla, welcome.ng us up to speed. defense attorney, a possible indictment, and potential extradition. >> yeah, alice, i will start with the new details. we are now learning that while the nypd said they did not i.d. luigi mangione until after he was arrested, we now know that authorities actually contacted his mother the night before he was taken into custody, and that she told them the photos of the suspected gunmen could in fact be her son. identifying luigi mangione as the possible shooter of united healthcare ceo brian thompson four days before he was arrested. four law enforcement officials tell nbc news that san francisco police caught the man flashing his file in the manhattan hospital looks similar to the 26-year-old in this missing persons poster, and notified the fbi. one of hundreds of tips the nypd says it received in the days following the murder. mangione's mother filed a missing persons report in november after not speaking to her son since july, the report says. the new information co

priscilla, to you on the ground here in midtown manhattan.tors are working on the belief the suspect got to new york on a greyhound bus from atlanta on november 24th. got here late that evening. what more do we know about the timeline here? >> reporter: right, and that is an important piece of evidence for a number of reasons, including that police are trying to track who may have bought that ticket and how that ticket was paid for, and again, trying to figure out if they can identify that individual, not to mention the people who may have spoken with him on that bus or seen him on that bus and might be able to shed any sort of insight there. i should note greyhound is not commenting beyond saying that they are fully cooperating with authorities, and also, that the atlanta police are saying they have not been contacted by authorities about this, so perhaps a bit unclear if he boarded that bus in atlanta or may have picked it up on one of the stops along the route here to new york city. but to your point, it is helping them to build out this t

joining me now with more on all this is priscilla thompson from pennsylvania. priscilla, welcome.e move to higher agnifilo and how likely is mangione to return to new york soon? >> reporter: yeah, alex, so, agnifilo had previously worked in the manhattan district attorney's office for seven years as the chief district attorney, so she knows the office that is prosecuting this case very well. she has worked in the new york criminal justice system for decades, so she knows all of that very well. and while she has declined nbc's interview request, she was on cnn earlier this week before being hired and she talked about the sheer amount of evidence against her now client, but she also laid out a possible defense strategy, take a listen. >> he was brilliant in his whole life, he comes from this great family, something changed, right? significantly, something changed. and they are going to, i think, potentially have a not guilty by reason of insanity, potential defense. it looks to me like there might be a not guilty by reason of insanity defense that they are going to be thinking about

priscilla thank you. i want to go to the pentagon, where katie lillis is, and just get the reaction from the pentagon. just a reminder to everyone. there are u.s. forces that remain inside syria, right now. >> so, yeah, that's exactly right. >> there's about 900 american troops still in syria. their job is to continue to take the fight to isis. they are there on a counter-isis mission. they are not sort of directly involved in any way in the events that led to the downfall of bashar al-assad. right now, our sense from the both the biden administration and the pentagon is that these troops aren't going anywhere, at least for the foreseeable future. but that could, of course change on january 20th, when president-elect donald trump comes into office. trump, during his first administration, sought to completely withdraw all american troops from syria. he was eventually persuaded to leave this sort of smaller footprint of about 900 troops that that rotate in and out and are there to basically try to keep the

>> okay, priscilla, thank you so much for that. a bit later this hour i will be joined by the president of rady, chris brown, to dive into what exactly a ghost gun is. that is the weapon allegedly used in the shooting and how accessible they are in the u.s. all this breaking news, as well. >>> former speaker nancy pelosi is on the mend after undergoing hip replacement surgery overseas this morning. that is according to her spokesperson. pelosi was injured during a congressional trip to luxembourg. joining us now from capitol hill we have nbc's gary graham buck with an update. what the speaker pelosi's update looks like? why has your team been so tightlipped about the details of how this injury happen? >> yeah, hip replacements are easy for anyone, let alone an 84-year-old. i am sure will get more information about her recovery as she gets back in the u.s. in the coming days. but it may be a few days. this all started friday, midday, and luxembourg when she was over there for a congressional delegation of official events marking the

let's priscilla, thank you, still a lot of questions.within the studio is danny's criminal attorney and msnbc legal analyst. okay, last wednesday, on the day of the murder, you wrote in your sub stack, brief legal, that you thought the suspect would either be caught immediately or not at all. it is not immediately at this point. is it possible he could really get away? >> i am still considering this in my window of immediately. absolutely, because it needs to be from a subset column to work out. so, we're going for is still a media -- and i do believe it will be swift. i think authorities are not telling us everything they know, i think they are releasing things little by little, but i think in terms of identifying who he is, that step, we are either there or very soon going to be there, and then it is just a matter of tracking down where he has got into in the intervening days, but i do believe one or the other. this is not going to be something in a couple months, it is either going to be pretty much right away, i still think we are in

our priscilla alvarez joins us now from the white house. and priscilla, the u.s.yrian rebel leader a terrorist. however, they say that that leader has talked about a lot of the things that they want to do. the question now is, what will they actually act on? >> well, that is the question. and it's one that u.s. officials are grappling with this evening. remember that this fall happened quite suddenly. and abruptly while the u.s. was monitoring and tracking these developments in syria. senior administration officials acknowledged to reporters earlier today that this is certainly a surprise. and now comes the task of trying to sort out the next steps. and as you just mentioned president biden in his remarks earlier, said that it was, quote, a moment of historic opportunity as well as risk and uncertainty. so he did also take a bit of a victory lap by saying that u.s. policy had in some respects and russia were tied up and he said that that basically didn't allow them to syria and left them in this situation. now, the president also saying and outlining a plan ahead

priscilla alvarez, cnn washington. >> our thanks to priscilla alvarez for that report. let's discuss this and more with congresswoman madeleine dean, a democrat from pennsylvania, a member of the judiciary committee and a former trump impeachment manager. congresswoman, thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. so, president-elect trump expresses this openness to dreamers, saying he wants to work with democrats to protect them. he made similar remarks in his first term, expressing some openness. but when a deal fell through, his administration tried to end daca. i wonder what you envision a bipartisan agreement on dreamers might look like well, good to be with you. >> thank you for inviting me today. i welcome the president elect and his hope to find a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. >> but as you point out, we have been down this road before and it's in direct. very strange incoherent conflict with what he said later in that interview around birthright citizenship. imagine he's open to dreamers path to citizenship, as am i. it is the right thin

priscilla, great reporting. a lot of reporting ahead, i expect from you. up next, president elect trump has long threatened to have his perceived political enemies prosecuted. now, house republicans may be laying the groundwork for him to go after one of their former colleagues, liz cheney will tell you about that. and, of course, someone who joined her on that committee will join me next on new year's eve, live with anderson and andy. >> live coverage starts at eight on cnn with dexcom g7 managing your diabetes just got easier. >> so what's your glucose number right now? good thing you don't need a finger stick. >> how's all that food affect your glucose? >> oh, the answer is on your phone. >> what if you're hitting low at night? >> wow. >> it can alert you. >> and you can even track your goals. >> manage your diabetes with confidence. with dexcom g7, the most accurate cgm. learn more@dexcom.com. >> i told myself i was okay with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms, but just okay isn't okay. and i was do

and so john and priscilla, literally all over the world. so they went to ireland and research there. they went up to to new haven, connecticut to go through the library at yale. they went up to my father's prep school at st paul's in concord, new hampshire, an and the work that they put in was absolutely incredible. and john's written a great book, so i really you all enjoy it and on the last year on the campaign trail, even though i'm not in politics, i ran into judge mike barranco on wife kim everywhere and you were one of the first ones to tell me how much you enjoyed the book and you shared it. other members of the baltimore county bench and others in the bar association. so i want to thank you all for that to. but none of this would be possible. john, you hadn't have done an incredible job writing daniel brewster story. so i want you to know how grateful the entire brewster family is to you, john. thank you. thank you all all. thanks gary. i'd like just to give a few brief reflections about the book and about how i got involved in this

priscilla, great reporting. a lot of reporting ahead, i expect from you.next, president elect trump has long threatened to have his perceived political enemies prosecuted. now, house republicans may be laying the groundwork for him to go after one of their former colleagues. liz cheney will tell you about that. and, of course, someone who joined her on that committee will join me next steven porter emergency crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. >> and who doesn't love a good throwback? now with vitamin d for the dark days, i told myself i was okay with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms, but just okay isn't okay. >> and i was done settling. >> if you still have symptoms after trying a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq works differently. >> rinvoq is a once daily pill that can rapidly relieve joint pain, stiffness, and swelling as fast as two weeks for some, and even at the three year mark, many people felt this relief. rinvoq can stop joint damage and in psa can leave skin clear or al

my father's life was all over the place, and so were john and priscilla. literally, all over the world. they went to ireland and research there they went up to new haven, connecticut, to go to the library at yale. we went to my father's prep school at st. paul's in concord, new hampshire. the work they put in was absolutely incredible. and john has written a great book so i really hope you all enjoy it. and on the last year on the campaign trail, even though not in politics, i ran into judge mike lourenco and his wife, kim, everywhere. and you are one of the first was to tell me how much you enjoyed the book and you've shared with other members of the baltimore county bench, and others in the bar association so i want to thank you all for that too. none of this would be possible if you had not done an incredible job writing the daniel brewster story so i want you to know how grateful the entire burster family is to you, john. thank you, all. [ applause ] >> thank you, gerry. i'd like to give a few brief reflections about the book and about how i got involv

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priscilla thompson has more. >> reporter: line, after line, after line this was the chaotic scene at of rail passengers were left stranded for hours. how long have y'all been here? >> since 5:30 this morning. >> reporter: routes between new york, philly, d.c., new york, boston and d.c. are canceled due to downed power lines blocking tracks and equipment availability, amtrak says. how frustrated are you? >> i'm enraged. and the christmas celebration is this evening. just trying to get out of here. >> reporter: all of this couldn't come at a worse time for holiday travelers desperate to get to where they are going. like caroline keane, who is on her way to see family and d.c. >> so many flight delays, especially at this time of year. they choose amtrak. >> reporter: at the airports, mostly clear skies. things are getting a little better after days of winter weather. across the country there have been more than 4000 delays, but fewer than 100 cancellations. back in penn station many are left hoping for a miracle on 31st street. >> do you think you're getting out today? >> i don't think

joining me now, and be sued-- priscilla thompson, thank you very much for joining us. what can you tell us about this backpack, and what lease were able to find inside? >> yeah, so several law enforcement sources tell us that while they did not find a gun inside that backpack they did find a number of other items including a jacket, it's unclear if this is the jacket the gunman was wearing when that shooting took place which we saw in those horrific videos that have been out there from that moment, and they also found monopoly money in that bag. so again unclear at this point what that might mean, but those are the items that police have in their possession. and we know that when they found this backpack they took it to a lab, they were testing it and inspecting it for fingerprints, for dna, and so while they might not have found the gun there could be other important evidence there, and we know police were back in central park today searching the area where they found that backpack, wooded areas for any additional evidence that they might be able to find and the possi

nbc's priscilla thompson is here with details.riscilla, good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. in an 80-page legal complaint blake lively is alleging sexual harassment and retaliation among other claims against baldoni who she says sought to destroy her reputation after they worked together. this morning actress blake lively making disturbing allegations against her "it ends with us" co-star and director justin baldoni. lively accusing baldoni of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment on set, and coordinating a smear campaign to ruin her rope eputa. >> she's broken into my building. >> a really nice view -- >> i do. >> reporter: lively says baldoni repeatedly harassed her and crossed boundaries during intermass scenes. the complaint says baldoni, fearing she would make her concerns public, hired a crisis management team to destroy her reputation. text messages with the complaint appear to show pr execs discussing baldoni's desire to see lively buried. one writing, you know we can bury anyone. >> you have

here now with more is nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson in new york. the suspect? >> reporter: yeah, joy, here in the last hour, we have learned what could become a critical piece of information, which is how exactly the suspected gunman got to new york city, with police now saying that they're operating under the belief that he took a bus from atlanta to new york city on november 24th. sunday, november 24th. so about a week and a half ago, late night bus, and has been perhaps in the city for that long. and so as you noted, police really trying to get a fuller picture of what this suspected gunman's movements may have been in the hours and the days leading up to this brazen crime. and we know that they did search that hostel up the street on the upper west side, and they did speak to people who may have seen or spoken with the suspect, and of course, they got that crucial surveillance video, those images, the first we're seeing of this person of interest completely unmasked. so that has now been splattered across televisions throughout the day today. n

nbc's priscilla thompson is outside the courthouse in pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. right now luigi mangione is beefing up his legal team in anticipation of his likely extradition back to new york. as sources familiar with us tell us a grand jury could hand out an indictment this week. accused murderer luigi mangione has a new lawyer, high-power defense attorney karen friedman who worked in the manhattan d.a.'s office for more than seven years. >> the evidence is going to be so overwhelming that he did what he did. >> reporter: she declined nbc news' interview request but appeared on cnn earlier this week before becoming mangione's attorney laying out her thoughts about a defense strategy. >> he was brilliant his whole life. he comes from this great family. something changed, right? significantly something changed, and they are going to, i think, potentially have a not guilty by reason of insanity potential defense. >> reporter: how rare is it now for someone to try to mount an insanity defense? >> it's a huge risk bec

. >> nbc's priscilla thompson joins us from midtown manhattan steps away from where the killing occurredack. let's start with the photos. what do they tell us? >> reporter: we know the nypd has been working to put together a robust timeline of when the suspect got here, what exactly he did before his time and the moments leading up to and right after the crime. and i think some of what we are beginning to see is the fruit of that labor with these new images coming out. the clearest photo perhaps of this person's eyes in the back of a taxicab. a clear look at his face despite the mask and that image where he is walking, appears to be captured walking on the sidewalk. working to get these images out to the public in addition to the ones we saw that were captured at the hostel where he stayed and flashed that smile at the woman who was working there. authorities are still asking the public, that if you know this person and you have seen this person or you see this person, to contact them because as you noted, there's been no public identification of who this person is nor has this person be

i want to bring in priscilla thompson who has been reporting on this. tom winter joins us with jim cavanaugh, an msnbc terrorism analyst. tom, take us plus the big break so far. it seems to be the image, his face from the hostile where nbc news learned the so-called person of interest took down his mask to perhaps flirt or have a conversation with a woman behind the desk. what more do we know about the clues investigators are chasing? >> that's right, andrea. that is correct, that is our understanding he took the mask down momentarily in the one you're probably just about to see, there it is, him smiling and looking at an individual. yes, definitely a huge clue in this case, because what they were able to do is take that photo and they were able to do the type of forensic and computer work that the nypd is capable of doing to track him to that location just outside the port authority where he got off of that bus from atlanta. so that was really important, because it establishes when he came into the city, and it establishes a bit more of the timeline. n

nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson has the very latest. >> reporter: this morning, new detailsble shooter of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson four days before he was arrested. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news that san francisco police thought the man caught flashing a smile inside a manhattan hostile looked similar to the 26-year-old in this missing person poster and notified the fbi. one of hundreds of tips the nypd says it received in the days following the murder. mangione's mother filed a missing person's report in november, after having not spoken to her son since july, the report says. the new information comes as the fight to bring mangione back to new york intensifies. >> he should be and i will continue to say, be prosecuted here in new york city. >> reporter: manhattan district attorney alvin bragg suggesting the 26-year-old may soon drop his fight against extradition from pennsylvania to new york. >> we'll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he's going to contest extradition. >> reporter: mangione's attorney has not respo

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