nbc's rehema ellis is following the shooting in philadelphia. the suspect appeared in court for the first time a few hours ago. what more can you tell us ahead of this press conference we're expecting any moment? >> i can tell you i expect that we will hear a lot of outrage and disappointment and heartbreak from the members of the community as well as law enforcement because we heard some of that yesterday. what we know already, lindsey, you pointed out that a 40-year-old suspect was arraigned in court today. he's being held without bail. he appeared via closed circuit tv. he was appointed a public defender. the judge asked the suspect questions in an effort, it seems, to discern whether or not that suspect could tell the difference in what was going on. he got yes and no answers, which seemed sufficient for the judge. again, he's being held without bail. we also learned that he is from this community where all this heartbreak was rained down upon over the weekend, and maybe that's even more heartbreaking to people. we learned something about so

are on the rise we get more from rehema ellis >> reporter: for months, doreen swardal suffered extreme joint pain and fatigue >> it took me a year and four different doctors to get a diagnosis. >> reporter: and that diagnosis was alpha-gal syndrome, typically caused by a bite from a lone star tick >> that tick bite leads to an allergic response to th alpha-gal sugar that's found in red meat and after you eat red meat, then you drop the allergic reactions. >> reporter: doreen says now she's also allergic to dairy and even gelatin and according to a new report from the cdc, out of 1,500 doctors surveyed, 42% have never heard of alpha-gal syndrome, and 35% said they weren't confident of their ability to detect or treat it symptoms include hives, itching, abdominal pain, vomiting, and chest tight ens. the cdc says alpha-gal syndrome, traditionally found in mid-atlantic states, is spreading 110,000 suspected cases have been identified since 2010, but experts estimate the true number affected is closer to 450,000. >> the challenge is getting to those primary care front line providers that ar

here's rehema ellis. >> reporter: for months she suffered extreme joint pain and fatigue. >> it tookyear and several doctors. >> reporter: it's typically caused by a tick bite. >> it leads to an allergic response to the sugar found in red meat. and after you eat red meat you develop the allergic reactions. >> reporter: doreen says now she's allergic to dairy and gelatin. according to a new report, out of 1500 doctors surveyed, 35% said they weren't confident of their ability to detect or treat it. symptoms include hives, itching, abdominal pain, vomiting and chest tightness. cdc says the syndrome is spreading. experts estimate the true number affected is closer to 450,000. >> the challenge is getting to those primary care frontline providers that are seeing patients and having them become aware so we can speed the diagnosis. >> reporter: doctors say use tick repellant. do frequent checks. is this fair to say it has changed your life? >> anything i put into my body i have to monitor. >> reporter: a call for awareness of an illness understood far too little. rehema ellis, nbc news. >>>

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back with us, nbc news correspondent rehema ellis. what can you tell us?nanimously decided that robert bowers is eligible to be considered for the death penalty. and it had to be a unanimous verdict on the part of the seven women and five men who were considering this. this verdict came down after perhaps a little less than two hours of them deliberated. they started that deliberation yesterday, continued it this morning, and shortly after they went into the deliberation room, they came back with a verdict. and again, this jury unanimously saying that robert bowers is eligible to be considered for the death penalty. what happens now is they're trying to decide in the courtroom whether or not the -- both sides will begin their argument to the jurors about whether he should or should not get the death penalty. will that begin tomorrow, or will it start next week? and that's a discussion that's going on. so what's happened again, ana is that this jury completely rejected the defense argument that robert bowers was mentally incapable of making this decision, t

rehema ellis is following this for us. >> they are still investigating. there was a preliminary arraignment for the suspect in this case, a 40-year-old man brought into court this morning, charged with multiple counts of murder, aggravated assault. no bail was allowed for this person. he's being held without bail. as a result of this killing of five people, one as young as 15, the oldest, 59 years old, and there were twin toddlers who were hurt. one was shot in the leg as they were in the car with their mother, another's eye was injured as a result of shattered glass. the community also came together this morning to talk about what can be done with this violence. one doctor said they deal with it on an every day basis, but what happened over the weekend was unusual in terms of the type of weapon that was used, the number of people killed and the wounds reverberating through the community. we hear from the nurse who was a part of the emergency team that worked with the victims. listen to what she said about how even health professionals who deal with traum

the gunman was found guilty in his federal trial last month, nbc news correspondent rehema ellis is following to this jury, right, can you explain what happens next? >> reporter: certainly, this was a verdict they had to come to in two phases. first phase, they came to today finding that robert bowers is eligible to be considered for the death president. people responding in various ways as you can imagine, their community was torn apart by someone walking in, heavily armed and then slaughtering 11 of their friends and fellow jewish members who were just worshiping on a saturday sabbath. how are they responding in jeffrey fink el stein said this. >> this was an act of anti-semitism, not an issue of mental illness. >> the federation -- the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh doesn't take a position on the death penalty but on people being held responsible for their crimes. this is considered the deadliest anti-semitic act in u.s. history. this same injury on monday will begin to hear arguments from both the prosecution and defense as to whether or not he should be sentenced to death or lif

. >> joining me now, rehema ellis.s this more interesting, concerning, is that he has evaded authorities before when he was originally captured in the first place. what do we know at this hour? >> as the officer was saying there, they believe he is still in the warren, pennsylvania area and in the wooded area around allegheny county. you heard him say they found stockpiles and camping equipment. because this man is someone whom they identify as a survivalist with military training, they think he would be well prepared to hide out in wooded areas. so that appears to be where they are focusing their search now. and to your point, he is someone who is being held and considered armed and very dangerous and he was in authority's custody on rape and murder charges, so this is someone they consider to be very dangerous, garrett. >> rehema ellis, thank you. >>> in a florida federal prison, disgraced sports doctor and convicted sex offender, larry nasr, is in stable condition after prison officials say this morning, another inm

let's go to nbc's rehema ellis, following the verdict in the tree of life shooting. how are the victims' families, the pittsburgh community reacting to the news that this gunman is now facing the death penalty? >> well, they are pleased that the criminal justice system and this process is moving along, and somewhat quickly in terms of what the jurors did. it took them about two hours, a little bit less in this phase of this sentencing to determine that robert bowers, 50 years old, should be eligible to be considered for the death penalty. we spoke with jeffrey finkelstein, head of the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh. listen to what he said about what happened today. >> we are grateful for the jury's efforts to reach a just decision today. the federation does not have a position on the death penalty. but this was an act of anti-semitism, and the defendant deserves to answer for his crime. >> in fact, by all accounts, this was the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. on monday, what the jurors will begin to do is listen to more argument from the prose

nbc's rehema ellis has been following this story. what do we know? >> reporter: we know one of the gunmen, the primary person, a 40-year-old plan, not yet been identified by authorities. but police say yesterday last night that person apparently was armed with an ar-style 15 rifle, handgun and another gun and began shooting in this neighborhood. authorities say they were able to arrest this person while 9 the shooting was going on. they approached the person, spoke verbal commands to him. the person apparently surrendered to police without police having to fire any weapon whatsoever. they thought they had four people dead, then several others later, lindsey, they found another man was dead in his living room. all and all, again, police say that there was a second person who picked up a gun and was firing it at the shooter. they have arrested that person as well. so what we know is that seven people were shot, five of them are killed, all men between the ages of 20 and 59. and in addition, two others were injured, two children between the ages of 2 an

msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, also with me, nbc's rehema ellis.se proceedings today? >> they're both asking jurors to do something that's difficult. prosecution wants to put this man to be eligible for the death penalty. the defense attorney is trying to spare his life, saying in essence, isn't it insane to think that anybody would go into a synagogue on the sabbath, heavily armed and deliberately target jews. that's the prosecution basically saying that, and saying he has evidence to show that his client has a brain disorder, that he has psychiatric disorder, that he has schizophrenia. the prosecution, on the other hand, is saying, no he doesn't, there's no evidence of any of those things. you're talking about whether your client is mentally disturbed, but the prosecution is saying he's intentionally criminal. and the jurors, these seven women and five men have got to decide, what do they do. normally if someone is considered ill, which a mental illness is, we don't put them to death. we don't make them eligible for the death penalty, but the pro

rehema ellis is reporting from manhattan. good to talk to you.t do we know about the accident, why it happened, and the people that were injured? >> we just got an update, yasmin, the number of injured went from six to nearly a dozen, 11 people, in fact, nine we're told have minor injuries, two with serious but not life threatening. one of those is a firefighter. and we hope that that will be it in terms of a number of those injured. take a look behind me. that building that you see wrapped in orange, that's what we're talking about that's under construction, that crane that's on the very top of it. that's where the accident came from, and as tim comes back down, i think we should show some pictures of how amazing it was, this video of that fire, and witnesses talk about what it was like to be here in this area when it all happened. take a listen. >> all of a sudden, i heard kaboom, and all of my windows in my apartment shook. i have floor-to-ceiling windows. and then as soon as i focused my eye on the window, i saw this big crane falling. i imme

nbc news correspondent rehema ellis joins me now. this, and i count myself among them are a little bit freaked out. what is going on? >> this is something that has to do with a syndrome called alpha gal syndrome. doctors aren't familiar with this at all. take a look. for months, doreen suffered extreme joint pain. >> it took me a year and four doctors to get a diagnosis. >> reporter: and that diagnosis was alpha gal syndrome, typically caused by a bite from a lone star tick. >> that tick bite leads to an allergic response to the alpha gal sugar found in red meat, and. >> doreen says now she's also allergic to dairy and even gelatin, and according to a new report from the cdc, out of 1,500 doctors surveyed, 42% had never heard of alpha-gal storm and 35% weren't confident of their ability to treat it. symptoms include hives, itching, abdominal pain and chest tightness. alpha gal syndrome, typically found in mid atlantic states is spreading. 110,000 suspected cases have been identified since 2010, but experts estimate the true number af

joining me now is nbc news correspondent rehema ellis. this litigation on gun violence, what do we expect it to be and to accomplish? >> well, they hope it accomplishes something that brings about change. whether it will do that, there's no way that we can no. from the mayor yesterday, one of the things he was saying is this has to end. this is something we have heard many times across this country, way too many times, when this kind of violence comes down on a community, people are calling for change and gun safety of legislation. the mayor says there's a need for that. there's no need, he says for someone to have an ar-15, that they can then arm themselves with, and create havoc and harm, and dismay in a community, so, yes, they were going to try and make certain that there's some legislation that would be meaningful to try and stop the flow of guns in this community and others across the country, whether it will lead to that is anyone's guess. >> tell me about the suspect in the philadelphia mass shooting. opening fire on a random city

. >>> let's go now to nbc's rehema ellis with the latest on the an escaped murder suspect, who triggered a man hunt. >> this massive man hunt for michael berm has been under way for a couple of days now. authorities believe he might be in the warren county area and the allegheny forest, which is near the new york border. authorities say that he is wanted on rape and murder charges and has a history of kidnapping. how did he escape from the prison where he was being held on charges? authorities say that he was in an exercise area and he managed to hoist himself on top of some exercise equipment. and from there, he got through a metal roof. at that point, authorities say he had bed sheets with him, which were tied together. and he used those bed sheets to hoist himself down the wall and escape from the facility. authorities have been desperately searching for him from that point. they think he may still be in the vicinity because they say they have found some stockpiles and some camping sites. they say this man is a survivalist with military training, and he would know how to hide in the a

joining me now is nbc news correspondent rehema ellis.et's talk about this arsenal. >> yeah, they're saying something like 200 weapons found in a vault in the basement of his home in massapequa, long island. what does that tell us about this? we don't know, but as you heard authorities say, it's concerning to them that someone would have that many weapons. kept them in a vault. they're continuing to search his home. it's considered a crime scene. as well as searching self-storage vaults that he had out on long island, one in one location, another they searched yesterday, another they're searching today, trying to come up with evidence to connect this man. >> he was so far connected to or charged with three of the murders, connected to a fourth. what is the expectation about what might happen with that fourth murder, and where things might be going with the other seven bodies that were found. >> well, that's the big question. we don't know. they haven't released that information, but they are seriously, and arduously searching every aspect

rehema ellis joins us now with the latest.searched his home and we know that much, but we didn't know authorities saying they found over 200 weapons in a vault in the basement of rex heuermann's home, they said simply that's concerning, they don't know if that's connected with the case at all but it's concerning to authorities as they continue this investigation, not only at his home but also into storage self-storages he had in two different locations looking for any kind of evidence that may continue to connect him with this investigation that's ongoing. because while he's charged with first degree murder in three murders. he's a suspect in a fourth. >> of course this is all decades in the making, what are we hearing from his attorney right now. he's entered a not guilty plea, correct in. >> he absolutely has. his attorney said his client is innocent until proven otherwise. there's nothing about mr. heuermann that would suggest that he's involved in these incidents. it's a mystery per some neighbors around the community wher

. >> joining me now is nbc news correspondent rehema ellis.nting back then, and remained haunting for the people who lived in that area. >> it was a stunning development on a case that has baffled police for 10 years and haunted the relatives of the victims. this was the bail arraignment. >> which is unusual, by the way. >> which is unusual. he was remanded without bail. three counts of murder in the first-degree, three counts of murder in the second-degree, and he's the prime suspect in a fourth one. he didn't say anything. he was dressed in casual business attire. he has used multiple fake names, according to the prosecution. used multiple burner cell phones. he was recently found researching child pornography. investigators were tracking his recently online activities, and he was interacting with sex workers. you see a picture of him there now where he is being walked by police from, it looks like, where he may have had his arraignment back into a car. this is a 59-year-old man. he's an architect in manhattan, lives on long island. in the h

. >> rehema ellis, thank you for that. >>> now to morgan radford in miami where the 2024 candidates are vying for the crucial cuban american vote. talk about the strategies we're seeing there. >> that's right. this is a crucial voting block indeed. for starters, each of the campaigns has already lined up surrogates in the cuban american community. we have three candidates here from the state of florida. we've seen each candidate do interviews for spanish language media. after speaking to voters, the run away favorite is not the cuban mayor, it's donald trump, who got 17% of the cuban-american vote in the state's primary backing. one recent poll shows a 20 point gap between trump and desantis. that's across all ethnic backgrounds. trump has an almost 39% against hispanic residents. cuban americans make up the largest ethnic block. that's more than a quarter of its latino population. we spoke with those voters. here's what they told us. >> you kind of like can't say you support desantis because they will go after you. they feel that you're a traitor to trump if you do this, so that's why

joining me is msnbc news correspondent rehema ellis. so, how did this guy get out?:00 news conference coming up. he was in an exercise yard within the confines of authorities. and they are telling us they had surveillance cameras. well, he got up on an exercise -- piece of exercise equipment, climbed on top of that. from there he climbed on top of a roof and got through a metal portion of the roof. imagine, he had bed sheets with him or they were in place. they were tied together. he used that to shimmy down the wall and off into the woods. they're looking for him now. >> was he awaiting trial? >> he is awaiting a hearing arraignment. in fact, he's due to be arraigned in pennsylvania tomorrow on these charges with which he was in custody. >> so, police say he's a survivalist. >> yes, self-trained survivalist. someone interested in what's going on in the woods or how would he care for himself, feed himself if he had to. well, maybe, this is one of those times he has to. that's why they're saying they're searching in these wooded areas. the terrain is steep, very hill

priscilla thompson is in houston and rehema ellis is following the philadelphia story here in studio. what more can you tell us about the two shootings in texas? unrelated? >> so those two shootings richard appear to be unrelated. one of them happened just before midnight at a community block party that was happening to celebrate the fourth of july. and that is the shooting where there were three people killed and eight injured including a minor believed to be among the victims. what police described was really a chaotic scene. they were called out to this neighborhood on the west side of fort worth and when they got there, there were cars everywhere. foot traffic everywhere. they had difficulty even getting some of those balances in. they were able to find a number of those victims in a parking lot and get those folks treated but one officer actually found a victim and had to put that victim inside of his patrol car and bring that victim to an ambulance just because of the chaos and really the area where this happened. it was a block party so we're talking about a crime scene that is