shaquille brewster has more. >> reporter: the wildlife conservation society scrambling to protect other animals after three ducks died at queens zoo. 12 other birds also dying at the bronx oo after possible exposure to the virus. officials say they are still waiting for tests to confirm bird flu was the cause. the non-profit that operates the zoos writing in a statement, we moved vulnerable bird species to protected areas. on friday, the governor ordered a week-long shutdown of all live poultry markets in new york city after seven cases were detected during routine inspections. >> there's no immediate public health threat. >> reporter: the cdc linked one death to the virus since 2024. the spread has led to growing concerns. >> the average person doesn't need do anything specific. the highest risk group are people who had day to day jobs where they are around flocks of animals. >> reporter: birds have been slaughtered, driving up egg prices where many shelves have been wiped clean. experts emphasize it's safe to eat chicken and eggs that are fully cooked and drink pasteurized milk. peopl

shaquille brewster is there. >> reporter: another brutal round of winter weather sweeping across the country. heavy wind and up to a foot of snow blanketing missouri and kansas city this truck jackknifed. firefighters in minnesota struggling with windchills of 40 below. their equipment and lines s freezing. in detroit, a water main break forced families out into the cold amid freezing temperatures monday. after a 4 1/2 foot wide pipe failed swamping a neighborhood. >> face feels like it's freezing. >> reporter: windchills in chicago hitting 23 below zero. >> it's brutal. >> reporter: as the arctic blast expands, it will plunge much of the country into bone-chilling cold with parts of the midwest bracing for a foot of snow. >> this is a snowstorm in the middle of a natural disaster. >> reporter: kentucky can see up to six inches. a new threat as towns have barely started recovering from historic winter floods. heavy rain pushed the kentucky river into town. >> we got the flood first. we're trying to clean up. the cold, frigid temperatures and snow is coming later today. we're doing th

nbc's shaquille brewster is outside the courthouse in liberty, missouri.e, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst charles coleman. shaq, this did just happen. what do we know? >> yeah, chris. >> it was a relatively. >> quick hearing that just took place. there was no live. >> video feed. >> from inside that. >> courtroom, so i'm basing. >> everything on notes that we're receiving from a producer who was inside. >> as you. >> mentioned. >> andrew lester pled. >> guilty to a. class d. >> second degree assault. >> felony. >> according to missouri court websites. that's something that's a charge that can carry a sentence of up. >> to seven years. >> but we don't. >> know what the terms of this agreement. >> exactly were. >> in this case. our producer inside is saying that andrew lang. 86 years old, he got or entered into the courtroom using a wheelchair. we know that charles family was there. ralph was also there in. >> that courtroom. >> and chris. >> this is a. >> major development. >> in this case. >> for obvious reasons, of the guilty. >> plea. but

shaquille brewster, appreciate it. >>> let's turn to consumer news. tiktok is back in app stores, and on all-star weekend, a look at the most valuable nba franchise. steve kovach joins us with the money minute. >> happy friday and valentine's day. let's start with tiktok because it's officially back in the u.s. app stores, apple and google restored the app last night, nearly a month after it was remove to do comply with a u.s. ban on tiktok. president trump has since paused endorsement of that ban, but apple and google were waiting to bring the app back until they were sure they weren't violating the law. >>> meantime, credit card debt has hit a record $1.2 trillion, according to the federal reserve bank of new york, which said the increase was hardly due to holiday spending and stubborn inflation. making matters worse, credit card delinquencies are high as borrowers have had a hard time paying off their balances. >>> and the afternoon nba team is worth over $4.6 billion, that's according to cnbc sports official nba valuations out today. that puts the

shaquille brewster, nbc news, fleming, neon, ken particulary. >>> all right. get right to al roker and as we heard from shaq there, that same area is in a massive section of the country about to face wind, snow and bone-chilling cold. >> that's right, tom. we are looking coast to coast at these winter weather advisories for 43 million people literally from coast to coast. we are expecting this system to dive into the plains for tomorrow. gusty storms near the gulf coast and wednesday the storm tracks quickly across the tennessee river valley. while not lot of snow, and also in the mid-plainses from six to inches of snow. from the dakotas and all of the way to texas we're talking 67 million people and we're talking windchills from ten to 20 degrees below zero. complete details coming up tomorrow morning on "today." tom? >> we'll stay tracking it all week as well. al, we thank you for that. >>> overseas now to the battle for the future of ukraine. top officials from the u.s. and russia will hold talks this week about ending that war, but ukrainian leaders aren't

. >> joining us now, nbc's shaquille brewster, who is in batesville, where floods overtook the downtownart with you. what is the scene there right now? i mean, we heard that harrowing story. i can't imagine that there aren't more stories of people having to do similar things to get out. >> you definitely. >> hear stories. >> like that all across the. >> state. >> of kentucky. and it's also. >> you hear. >> people that. >> are. >> still struggling. >> thousands who are still without. >> power. >> people without running water. >> and that's. >> why the governor earlier. >> today in his update. >> essentially gave. >> residents of the state a deadline. he said. >> that if by this. >> afternoon, if. by this. >> evening you do. >> not have. >> electricity. >> if you do not have. >> a safe way to heat your homes, then you need to be staying. >> with residents. >> or with relatives rather, or taking the state up on one of their 15 shelters that they have in effect at this point. and what you're seeing is also a race against time for this. the decrease in temperature and the snow that is expect

she spoke with nbc's shaquille brewster. >> i felt like i was going to die, really. we ended up going into the attic. >> reporter: you were trapped here. >> yeah, absolutely. >> and, while water recedes in some spots, allowing cleanup in some areas to begin, we can tell you some 300 roads are still closed, making rescues even more challenging. and we still don't know how many people are trapped. nbc meteorologist angie lassman joins us now with when and where this next storm system will be striking. angie, good morning. >> good morning, jessica. no rest for the weary when it comes to weather. we've got 50 million people under alerts right now with snow falling currently in kansas city and st. louis. the snow, heavy rain, ice is all going to be on the table, specifically for the plains today. notice gusty storms that we could see across parts of the south today. heavy rain working across that region leading to flooding in the coming days. as we get into wednesday the system quickly tracks across the tennessee valley, still dealing with snow on the backside of it as we

shaquille brewster, nbc news, fleming-neon, kentucky. >> all right, let's get right to al roker. al, as we just heard from shaq there, that same area is in a massive section of the country, about to face wind, snow, and bone-chilling cold. >> that's right, tom. we are looking coast-to-coast at the winter weather advisories for 42 million people literally from coast-to-coast. we're expecting this system now to dive into the plains for tomorrow. gusty storms near the gulf coast on wednesday. the storm tracks quickly across the tennessee river valley by thursday off the coast while not a lot of snow in the northeast, heaviest snow will be along the midatlantic coast and also in the mid plains anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of snow. and as far as that bo-chilling cold, from the dakotas all the way down into texas, we're talking 67 million people under brutal cold watches and advisories. in fact, we're talking about windchills that are anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below zero. complete details coming up tomorrow morning on "today." tom? >> all right. we'll stay tracking it all week as w

she spoke to nbc's shaquille brewster. >> i felt like i was going to die, really. we ended up going to the attic. >> were you trapped here? >> absolutely. >> some 300 roads are still closed, making rescues more challenging. and we don't know how many peop are still trapped. angie lassman joins us with when and where the next storm system will be striking. >> we've got another busy couple days ahead of us as the system is going to emerge and work its way to the east. can you see the winter alerts we have up. 50 million people including winter storm watches and warnings across the mid section of the country and extending out east. plenty of snow currently working across the plains. kansas city, wichita waking up to that. you can see the heavy snow, ice and rain developing over the plains. by the time this is all said and done, we'll have significant snow and rain specifically across the south. we'll see some of that rain, a couple of inches. and then the icing potential is there as well. notice by the time we get through wednesday, a lot of this works offshore, and w

shaquille brewster begins our coverage. >> reporter: historic and deadly flash floods slamming the south. >> we have lots of roads that are closed due to flooding. >> reporter: at least eight dead in kentucky. fears that number could go up. more than a thousand rescues, crews racing to save people in rising waters. entire neighborhoods wiped out and under water. the governor declaring a disaster emergency. >> this is one of the most serious weather events we've dealt with in at least a decade. >> stay off the roads. if you hit water, turn around. it's not worth dying. >> reporter: power out to hundreds of thousands across the region. the devastation hitting tennessee. a catastrophic situation unfolding in the northwest part of the state after floodwaters overwhelmed the levee, pouring into this community. rescue crews rushing resources to the area. >> water's coming out pretty quick and getting pretty high. >> reporter: neighborhoods from tennessee to virginia under water. some places getting nearly 8 inches of rain. and it wasn't just the floods. four confirmed tornados across the south

shaquille brewster on the ground in kentucky. >> reporter: historic and deadly flash floods slamming the south. >> we have lots of roads closed due to flooding. >> reporter: at least eight dead in kentucky, fears that number could go up. more than 1,000 rescues. crews racing to save people. you can see the scope of the damage in communities across the state. entire neighborhoods wiped out. the governor today declaring a disaster emergency. >> this is one of the most see our weather events we have dealt with in a decade. stay off the roads. if you hit water, turn around. it's not worth dying. >> reporter: power out to hundreds of thousands. the devastation hitting tennessee. a catastrophic unfolding in the northwest after floodwaters overwhelmed the levee pouring into the community. crews rushing resources to the area. >> the water is getting high. >> reporter: neighborhoods underwater. some places getting nearly eight inches of rain since just yesterday. it wasn't just the floods. four confirmed tornadoes across the south, too. >> a free fell on our house. >> reporter: george solis i

joining us now nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster, he is in hard-hit kentucky, also with us with the forecast is nbc news meteorologist bill karins. i will start with you, shaq, because you are out in it. could the winter weather this week that they are going to get, i assume, affect everything that's happening around you, all the recovery efforts. >> reporter: absolutely. and that was the warning that you heard from the governor earlier today that essentially one put a deadline for folks saying if you don't have running water or electricity you need to seek shelter now because the temperatures are going to plunge. also saying the cleanup efforts in areas like where i am now are being hampered because there are preparations in place for the upcoming snowstorm. i want you to listen to a conversation i had with an emergency operator here in bettiville and listen to what he told me about the breakdown of staff and resources because of the incoming storm. >> we are just a small town, i think i've heard it described as a dozen eggs doing 36 jobs so everybody halls to do three things.

nbc's shaquille brewster is live in pikeville, kentucky, and nbc meteorologist tevin wooten is here. . this triggered president trump's first fema funding authorization in his second term. i thought it was notable given he said he wanted to get rid of that agency. but on the ground, just how bad is it today and what help do folks need? >> well, ali, you have different scenes here in this state. in some areas, they're waiting for the river to still crest, so they're still very much on guard. and others, you have the river cresting in the water receding. but this is an area that the governor said was one of the hardest hit. and i told you in the last hour about how the fork river is back there behind that fence there, and you could just see with the mud in this yard, the power of the water coming rushing in. you see the fence completely toppled over. and when we talk about the height that the water got to. ali, look, this is the water line. you see the clear distinction that shows that the water went well above my head. i talked to told me she was in one area of the house, and the water

nbc's shaquille brewster is in pikesville, kentucky, as one of the areas hardest hit. >> well, ali, we, called this county the hardest hit in the state. and i think this area kind of paints that picture fairly well. and that's because behind me you have the fork river where it's supposed to be. but if you were here about 24 hours ago, it was completely up to what neighbors say would have been over my head. and you see some of the mess that it's left, the mud on the ground, that atv that's completely overturned. when you keep going around, you see the car and you see where the mud is on that car. that just shows you the height of the water in this area. the good news is that the water has receded in this area. but i talked to local officials, the county judge here, in fact, who told me that there are people who are still trapped. the governor said across the state, there are thousands of people, about 14,000 people without water, 17,000 or 14,000 without electricity, 17,000 without water. the concern today is reaching those people and providing them some resources. listen to a little bi