>> elliot and ivan schwartz. >> reporter: ivan schwartz is a classically trained sculpture and turnedt tubman. i often have to sit and think, where is this going to begin. >> reporter: from anne frank at the national world war ii museum in new orleans, and abraham lincoln seated at gettysburg, to all of the women represented at the virginia women's monument, the work of schwartz's team can be seen pretty much everywhere. >> there is that famous quote from michelangelo or somebody, you just chip away. it makes it sound so simple. >> reporter: it is not that simple? >> no. you have to think about what you want to do and you have to think very hard. because t we'r going to wind up is an inanimate object. >> reporter: schwartz works in a style similar to that of michelangelo and many other great sculptors. he oversees the work of a team of skilled artists. >> these guys can do what i can do way better than i ever could do. i leave the real world and enter a real fantasy world where i'm thinking, what are you going to do with this person who has been represented so many times before? >> re

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that's why sarabian and schwartz were subpoenaed.ton was on the white house speech writing team. the committee says they want to talk to him because he may have had input into a draft of the former president's speech that he gave at the ellipse on that day. there's something notable as i was reading through the subpoenas for sarabian and schwartz. some of the contacts they had were with people previously subpoenaed. others of them, though, have not been served subpoenas, at least not yet. there were a few names that jumped out to me. donald trump jr. and kimberly guilfoyle. both those people, sarabian and schwartz, have worked with them, advised them over the years. they have not been subpoenaed by the committee but if i'm reading between the lines, that could happen in the future. >> ali vitali, thank you so much for that. >>> let's move on. the justice department is creating a unit to fight domestic terror. the threat of home-grown extremism has grown over the last year with the number of fbi investigations into domestic terror mor

a beloved tv presence since television itself began here's gadi schwartz ♪ thank you for being a friend>> reporter:r: for america's last golden girl -- >> someone was actually able to deceive me once. >> do tell, rose >> st. olaf's most famous ob/mag. >> what's that >> obstetrician magician. >> reporter: tributes pouring in from around the world. >> she has led an incredible life, was a wonderful person both on the screen and off the screen. >> reporter: betty white, just shy of her 100th birthday, today remembered for her perfect comedic timing. >> facebook is a great way to connect with old friends. well, at my age, if i want to connect with old friends, i need a ouija board. >> ladies and gentlemen, betty white! >> reporter: a youthful age of 88, she became the oldest person ever to host snl after a million people petitioned to get her on the show. >> when i first heard about the campaign to get me to host "saturday night live," i didn't know what facebook was and now that i do know what it is, i have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time >> and in her later years, betty white'

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i remember when fao schwartz was still there. there was this magic to being in the city when you told people. and now sometimes when you talk about going into the city people will often wince because they are afraid of the crime, afraid of the drug use, and you have said you want to clean that up. how is that going? what is the key to bringing back san francisco and that feeling of having that iconic, beautiful place where everyone was welcome including tourists, including anybody who came from other parts of the bay area? >> well, you know what is different from that time of fao schwartz and us growing up and the magic, it's not much of a difference. the difference is technology and videos and how people take videos of one particular incident to show and create a story about who we are as a city. i think it's important that we make sure that we tell our own stories, that we create our own narratives, and part of that is of course to deal with the challenges that exist in san francisco like any other major, densely populated city

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and that's what we've really got to change. >> our thanks to gadi schwartz for that report. >>> let's take a turn and check on the weather with janessa webb good morning >> hi, good morning. yes, temperatures continue to be pretty frigid acrossdwest. we're going to see falling temperatures today if you're in the northeast. it's the warmest part of the day right now. we have the upper 30s. we are definitely going to be taking a tumble. that's why the national weather service has issued this dangerously cold wind chill advisories and watches, warnings in place for 12 million people throughout your afternoon. and that's going to continue into your evening. right now, as i said, new york city, 38 degrees, bulling ton 24 look how temperatures trend on the downward when you factor in the air temperature and winds, the feel l pretty chilly across the southern plains. we are in the mid 50s. we'll take a look at the week ahead coming up, guys. >> we'll check in in a bit >>> an ice fishing trip went haywire in wisconsin over the weekend. 27 people spent an hour and a half floating in green bay

jose >> gadi schwartz in los angeles.hank you. >>> turning now to a deadly winter storm sweeping the nation. 57 million under alerts for snow, floods and dangerously cold temperatures. kathy park now on how its impacting travel and if there's any relief in sight. >> severe weather crippling the country from coast to coast. >> this is just terrible >> in the pacific northwest record rain and snow melt turned roads into rivers. the rising water swallowing homes and stranding drivers who needed to be rescued extreme flooding in western washington shut down a 20-mile stretch of i-5 in seattle, a landslide pushed a home off its foundation with a man still inside two hours outside the city 72-year-old delbert pratt drowned while moving his car to higher ground on the other side of the country, at least 57 million americans are under winter weather alerts this weekend as freezing rain threatens the nation's midsection before heading east. >> this is terrible. i can't even feel my fingers. it's numb. >> chicago, pittsburgh, balti

gatti schwartz, nbc news los angeles. >> i want to know his lottery numbers. amazing. that's "nightly news" for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each ♪ ♪ ♪♪ why does the sun go on shining ♪ ♪ why does the sea rush to shore ♪ ♪ why do the birds go on singing ♪ ♪ why do the stars glow above ♪ ♪ don't they know ♪ ♪ it's the end of the world ♪ ♪ it ended when i lost ♪ ♪ your love ♪ ♪ i wake up in the morning ♪ ♪ and i wonder ♪ ♪ why everything's the same ♪ ♪ as it was ♪ ♪ i can't understand ♪ ♪ no, i can't understand ♪ ♪ how life goes on ♪ ♪ the way it does ♪ ♪ don't they know ♪ ♪ it's the end of the world ♪ ♪ it ended when you said ♪ ♪ goodbye ♪♪ [cheers and applause] >> kelly: welcome to "the kelly clarkson show." to give it up for my band, y'all. "the end of the world." singing that sharon van etten song, what's your connection to that song? >> i have a relationship to that song. there has been a few times where i absolutely felt like it's been the end of the world especially with my first relationship. rela

that's in comparison to july 6, 2020 here's nbc's gaudi schwartz. >> reporter: cautious optimism from experts studying covid-19, say thing is a strong chance vaccinated or not, the majority of americans will come into contact omicron, which is pushing us close to herd immunity >> you have a virus that replaces another virus, and that has less of a degree of severity, that would be a positive outcome >> reporter: omicron made up the majority of cases in the u.s. just weeks after first being detected >> pretty much everybody will have some immunity to this virus come spring. >> reporter: early research found patients infected omicron may have increased protection against other variants, like delta. >> we'll have more variants, but each will impact us less and less >> reporter: in london, hard-hit by the variant, the peak may have passed. in south africa, where omicron spread wildly in november, the government said the worst was over with no spike in deaths could we be seeing an end to the most dangerous part of this virus? >> not now, the next six, eight weeks are going to be terrible b

now. germany's chancellor, olaf schwartz will visit washington in february. it will be his 1st trip to the u. s. capital since taking over from england. michael since taking office shawls has traveled to paris and brussels. a date for the washington visit has not yet been set. british prime minister boris johnson held a birthday party during england's 1st cove at 19 lockdown and june 2020. when indoor social gatherings were ban, that's according to britain's i to the news. johnson is under pressure to resign after a series of allegations that parties so place at number 10 downing street during the lockdown. and britain's high court is rule that wiki leaks, founder julian assange, can appeal to the supreme court against his extradition to the u. s. he is wanted there for wiki leaks, publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the afghanistan and iran. the army has taken control in burkina faso, members of the military announced the news on national t. v. soldier said they had suspended the constitution, dissolved the government, and cl

arthur schwartz, andy and ross worthington., according to the committee's documents, helped put together the speech that trump delivered at the ellipse on january 6th. it's a no brainer as to why the committee would want to talk to him about that. very historic speech that the then-president delivered. sirabian and schwartz, meanwhile, are two very close, long-time allies and advisors to donald trump jr. they're about as close as it gets to the president's oldest son and the fact that they have now been subpoenaed signals that the committee appears to be homing in on don junior himself. now, sirabian's lawyer has already issued a statement saying he plans to cooperate with the committee within reason, at least to some extent. him immediately saying that within minutes of the subpoena being issued is something that the committee is going to see certainly as heartening, but in the same breath, his lawyer said they're puzzled as to why the committee would issue this subpoena of him, because, according to the lawyer, he just wasn't

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nbc news' gadi schwartz is live in louisville, colorado just southeast of boulder.>> reporter: yeah, they're shocking. the images of the fire ripping through here are shocking. then there's the surreal images of these houses blanketed in snow. this neighborhood has about 120 houses and the only homes standing are two or three out of a hundred homes that have been completely destroyed. there's christmas ights that are melted. you can see refrigerators and debris that's fallen into basements. they've collapsed in on themselves. and all of this in snow has made it extremely difficult for crews to get in here and investigate the origin of the fire, which was four miles away, because the origin and the direction of the fire, much of it is covered underneath this snow. we know that two people are still missing. earlier, it was five people that were missing in all of that chaos. fortunately three people were found safe, they were basically evacuated, got separated from their family, and after things calmed down a little bit they were able to be reunited. but two people are

one of the organizers said they couldn't think of anybody less involved that sarabhai and arthur schwartzople like that, it's interesting, jon, a lot of people like that might be compelled to testify or willing to testify or leaning towards testifying because they don't think they have anything to hide. so is that will be/interesting to see. >> jake, let's talk about the president's speech in georgia yesterday. obviously a strong push for voting rights and one that democrats wish he had made earlier. you obviously know the senate as well as anyone. do you see any movement here at all, now that the president has brought the full force of the bully pulpit down? and whether that happens or not, let's say that stall still, do you think the president has done enough to silence the critics of his approach? >> those are two key questions, right, has he done enough to silence the critics? probably. there's questions both way. there's questions whether it makes sense to use the bully pulpit for something that you have no chance of getting into law. because there is no chance, at this moment, based

. >> michael schwartz is an investigative reporter covering russia for "the new york times." he joins us from kiev. what more details can you give us about this alleged putin plot and how britain got ahold of the information. >> >> there's not a lot of details to report. britain released a pretty threadbare communique laying out what it said was a plot to replace the democratically elected government of kiev with a kind of puppet regime headed by a poorly known ukrainian official from the country's eastern region. they didn't release a whole lot of information about where the information came from. they didn't release many details about whether or not this plot necessarily would involve an invasion by russian troops amassed on ukraine's border that the united states has been warning about for some time. and so what i would just echo was the secretary of state said, this is a highly unusual release of intelligence information that was clearly meant to send a message to the russians that western countries are aware of its planning but beyond that, there's very little we can say

joining me now from los angeles is nbc's gadi schwartz.t are the conditions of the house and of its owners? >> reporter: good morning, jose. fortunately, the couple who lives there and their dog are okay. but their home is still teetering from looks like an impossible angle. now, the homeowner told the seattle times that this all started when he got a call at 4:00 a.m. from a neighbor who told him water was gushing down his driveway. he got up, started driving around his neighborhood, saw a broken main, and then get a second call from his neighbor, asking him if he's okay, because his house just fell down a hill. the homeowner then rushes back to find his wife and his dog still trapped inside. his wife was unable to leave the upstairs, because the stairs were gone. so finally, she was rescued from that three-story, more than $2 million home. the family is absolutely devastated. they say they lived there in that house for 20 years. they raised all their kids there. and day don't know what they're going to do now. meanwhile, authorities are

gaudy schwartz there. thank you. and keep us posted, especially on the two missing folks there in colorado. meanwhile, the new year got off to a frightening start for nearly two dozen people trapped on a tram on a new mexico mountain. check this out. 21 people had to be rescued after two cars stalled on the popular tramway near albuquerque. they were stuck for about 12 hours. 20 people jammed in one car. one person was all alone in a separate car. a passenger talked to "morning joe" today about the freezing cold they endured. >> it was freezing. it was literally freezing. the wind was going bad. i thought we were going to hit the tower for a minute. i just didn't know we were going to make it off the tram alive sometimes. i did have a moment where you internally panic. and you just want to know what's happening, how am i getting off here? >> well, that was amber santos. they eventually had to repel down the car and hike to a clearing to be picked up by helicopter. yikes. >>> meanwhile, the prices of just about everyt

a very well known harvard law professor islander schwartz came up with the ticking bomb theory. and he said, so what happens, for example, if a terrorist, as a ticking time bomb a small nuclear bomb in time square and the bon sticking. and we only have so much time, we must torture. and then, you know, the show 24 of course started every segment with that giant clock ticking away. and it kind of gave visual reality a visual imprint that resonated with this discussion of ticking time bomb. in addition to the way that it framed our reception of torture on a popular level, just among the civilians in guantanamo itself, they were getting pressure from the department of defense and they have these meetings. and in the meetings they screened the 2nd season of $24.00 and use that as a jumping off place to decide what tortures what methods they were going to propose to donald rumsfeld that they would use against the people they were holding in. guantanamo, i think, was very influential on the people that i worked with. i i know that some of the techniques that people wanted to use they

gadi schwartz has more on her remarkable life and her career. ♪ thank you for being a friend ♪ >> for's last golden girl. >> someone was actually able to deceive me once. >> do tell, rose. >> st. olaf's most famous obmag. >> what's that? >> obstetrician magician. >> tributes pouring in from around the world. >> she's led a incredible life, was a wonderful person. >> betty white, just shy of her 100th birthday, today remembered for her perfect comedic timing. >> facebook is a great way to connect with old friends. well, at my age, if i want to connect with old friends, i need a ouija board. >> ladies and gentlemen, betty white! >> at a youthful age of 88, she became the oldest person ever to host "snl" after a million people petitioned to get her on the show. >> when i first heard about the campaign to get me to host "saturday night live," i didn't know what facebook was. and now that i do know what it is, i have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. >> and in her later years, betty white's unstoppable nature took on a life of its own. >> what do you like to do in your free time

here's gadi schwartz celebrating the remarkable life and career of an american icon ♪ thank you for being friend ♪ >> reporter: for america's last golden girl -- >> someone was actually able to deceive me once. >> do tell, rose. >> saint olaf's most famous obmag. >> what's that? >> obstetrician magician. >> she's led an incredible life, was a wonderful person, on and off the screen. >> reporter: betty white just shy of her 100th birthday, today remembered for her perfect comedic timing. >> facebook is a great way to connect with old friends well, at my age, if i want to connect with old friends, i need a ouija board. >> ladies and gentlemen, betty white. >> reporter: at a youthful age of 88 she became the oldest person ever to host snl after a million people petitioned to get her on the show. >> i once heard about the campaign to get he to most saturday night live, i didn't know what facebook was. and now that i do know what it is, i have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. >> reporter: in her later years betty white's unstoppable nature took on a life of its own. >> what do you

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nbc's gadi schwartz joins us now from los angeles with the latest. great seeing you, my friend.reporter: hey, good morning, jose. yeah, the teachers participating in this sick-out are saying this is about their safety, the safety of their students, their families, and they have a list of specific safety measures they have in place. first, they want to go back to remote learning for two weeks while this omicron surge passes, they want mandatory weekly covid testing, they want tables and tents outside so students can eat. they want increased ventilation in large spaces like cafeterias, auditoriums, and they want those k-95 masks or n-95 masks for every single student and staff member, as well as extended covid sick leave with up to ten additional days. they're also taking a huge issue with plans to cut school funding by $40 million. and they're planning to drive a caravan to the district offices today. already, at least one principal at a high school says -- is telling parents that they may not want to send their kids to class today because of this sick-out. meanwhile, the distric

nbc's gadi schwartz has more. >> reporter: shuttered storefronts and closed signs a it has great nationaling its grip on workers as businesses struggle to keep doors open. a new estimate says more than 5 million americans could be isolating at home over the coming days, means even stores like apple, walmart, starbucks, and walgreens have been forced to temporarily close some locations or shorten hours. >> there's been a high level of extreme in the system, because of staffing shortages. we've had to reduce operating hours in some locations. >> fedex also warning customers of delays, but while large businesses are able to adapt, some small ones are barely hanging on. >> if you think about the 30 million small businesses in the u.s., 90% of them have fewer than 20 employees, 80% have fewer than ten. >> reporter: meaning if just one person gets sick, the entire operation could be crippled. >> we have the business, we don't have the staff. so that's really frustrating. and there's new clients that want to come in that we have to turn away. >> reporter: long beach's california bark bark day ca

schwartz distinguished professor of law, ucla school of law. the honorable karen kornbluh, director of digital innovation and democracy initiative. and senior fellow of the german marshall fund of the united states. and dr. mary anne franks, professor of law and michael r. klein distinguished scholar, chair at the university of miami school of law, president and legislative tech policy director, cyber civil rights initiative. welcome to all of you and thank you for being here. we look forward to your testimony. we will recognize each of you for five minutes to provide your opening statement. there is a lighting system in front of you. you will see lights. it will start initially green, turn yellow when you have a minute left. when it turns red, it is time to wrap up your testimony. so we will get started right , away. ms. goldberg, you are recognized for five minutes. ms. goldberg: good afternoon. chairman doyle each member of , this committee. my name is carrie goldberg. i stand for the belief that what is illegal offline should be illegal onl

nbc's gaddy schwartz joins us from los angeles with the very latest.unami conditions are, well, unusual, but not unheard of for the coast. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jose. fortunately, most of the tsunami's power was dissipated by the time it reached the west coast, but it was definitely a reminder of just how unpredictable nature can be, even something more than 5,000 miles away. it's looking like it dodged any significant damage, but with the bay area, there were several places that saw huge waves. and in berkeley, hundreds of people who lived in the marina boats as a precaution. and there were close calls we saw with people who didn't take those warnings seriously. a surfer was swept out and had to be saved by rescue swimmers who took him to a nearby sailboat. because coming back to shore was way too treacherous. and in alaska, jose, we're hearing this significanting report that people who lived there heard what sounded like a sonic boom at 3:30 in the morning, about seven hours after that volcano erupted, nearly 6,000 miles away. and it turns

confiscation, and all of the things that you should be missed. several of them remote support, fun schwartz with no yearly provide me with this. and i'm going to pull it needs to do with it. yeah. love bridges. i totally appreciate and could now when you're starting to monitor cultural, notice that you have to watch in shortly after you read to you and that which person but yeah. got you got a leg? none of my am i speaking with, i'm running out of like, my dad. this is mindy shaky dog. i work with. okay. not really. especially with adam emerson budget, negro building position to register to put on, put out with to austin. so would know who would love to participate in a bit live like no it after much, it could be an issue for his mom with hospice. don't many of the mom by hold off with a, with a lot of when you with the, with from 3 sure. me, you sure you the hood to my benchmark that we school desk in boyland in mind, ma'am tom? so for long but tom will start music here, cook the co filter, more narrow level, more willing to have a level of them for this year. and i went to the girl for co

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joining me now is nbc's gadi schwartz in los angeles. gadi, good morning. l.a.programs in the nation. what did they find? >> jose, it's hard -- it's massive. and it's hard to underscore just hoye big the l.a. unified school district testing program is. every week, they test about half a million students and staff to get those results. they compile lists to see who's negative, ask people to upload their results, and then they see who's allowed into the schools. and of course, they report all of that across the county, which as you can imagine, is a very big undertaking. but so far, they are pointing out that even though that 62,000 positive cases seems massive, in the full context of everyone, their positivity rate is actually around 15%. and they are emphasizing that they can now be sure that those 60,000 who would be at school this week are not at school. so they feel safe having kids in the classroom, continuing to physical the normal safety protocols of wearing masks in high-ventilated areas. but we have seen a few problems. some of the lines to get tests are

state, though, is calling in some unlikely substitute teachers -- the national guard here's gadi schwartz >> reporter: in classrooms across new mexico, the national guard taking up teaching posts during an education emergency. service members in both uniform and civilian clothing substitute teaching during an unprecedented shortage of educators >> i rose my hand right away and said it's absolutely necessary and i'd love to help. >> is she a good substitute yeah >> reporter: for airman amiraya heron, it's personal. seven years ago, she was a student in the very math class she's now overseeing. >> i was excited i was like, i want to volunteer for that and help out because i'm from this area, and i know even when i was in school, there was short staffing. >> reporter: the superintendent says with the recent surge of omicron, almost every day is a scramble to get classrooms covered what does a bad day look like for you? >> we've had as many as 25% of our teaching staff out in a day. >> reporter: so far, 50 national guard members have received rapid certifications to substitute. since the pand