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[Music] good evening thanks for tuning in I'm Gatti Schwartz coming in from Los Angeles and here's some of the stories we're watching tonight hundreds of police officers are searching for a man suspected of murdering five of his neighbors there's always a danger when you've got a guy that just shot five people in the head execution Style and the Mississippi River has finally peaked but that doesn't mean the flood threat is over [Music] kind of speechless my first time down here during the flood

and it's and riding it out with the Neighbors showing me what to do and your favorite TV shows could soon be shutting down production if there is a writer's field strike in Hollywood this week it is going to have a massive ripple effect that you could borderline call a tsunami effect also with the help of AI doctors are able to find tumors faster than ever before the deal is it's an incredible advancement we can have a molecular diagnosis in three minutes instead and he's only 12 years old but h

e is detailing some of the world's most iconic cars hey everyone detail kid here for the details to make the difference [Music] and tonight police are trying to find the man accused of killing five of his neighbors including a nine-year-old kid The Manhunt which started in Cleveland Texas is now in its third day today with police acting on two tips out of Montgomery County that did not pan out one of them led to schools nearby going into lockdown now the suspect 38 year old Francisco oropessa se

en right here is considered armed and dangerous authorities are offering an 80 thousand dollar award for any information that could lead to his capture we have over 200 law enforcement Personnel from federal state and local agencies trying to bring this subject into custody we're asking everyone for your help so we can bring this suspect or this monster I will call him to Justice on Friday Oro PESA who is shooting his gun in his front yard was asked by his neighbor to stop because they were tryi

ng to put their baby to sleep then proceeded to load an AR-15 semi-auto rifle went to the neighbor's house and opened fire killing these five members of the family Sonia Guzman Diana Alvarado juliusa Rivera and Jose cesares and their nine-year-old Daniel lasso authorities say they were all shot in the head execution style then took off and right now authorities say they have hit a dead end with this Manhunt we do know that oropesa is a Mexican national who was deported from the United States fou

r times and yet it has that tattoo on his left arm NBC News correspondent Priscilla Thompson joins me now Priscilla it seems like they keep getting close to potential sightings today how's it going right now yeah Gotti it's still the suspect remains at large the good news is they have been putting these signs up around town asking for tips and that seems to be working as you mentioned there were two reported sightings today and a neighboring Montgomery County and we saw police going out in full

force to search those areas but ultimately they have not been able to apprehend the suspect yet and to give you a bit of background on how we got here and the hours after this initially happens so on Saturday officials here were very confident that they were going to be able to catch this suspect they said that the wife had been cooperating that they had someone who had been in touch with the suspect even as he was on the run and they were closing in on him in a wooded area just a few miles from

where we are or so they thought but when they got there they actually found the cell phone and clothing from the from the suspect that had been abandoned but he was nowhere to be found and shortly after that the dogs that were tracking him lost his scent and so since then we have seen officials going door to door investigators going door to door speaking to neighbors trying to figure out any potential leads searching homes searching cars and of course now they are urging people to call that tip

line and to report anything the FBI says they do believe the suspect May begin reaching out to friends and people who he knows and they're hoping that this 80 000 reward May entice any of those folks who may know anything to come forward with that information Gotti I can't imagine how the victims families are doing right now any work from them yeah yeah I spoke to the father of the nine-year-old boy who was murdered and that man's wife was also murdered his name is Wilson Garcia he actually arr

ived back to the scene while we were there and he was incredibly emotional inconsolable as he's dealing with his heartbreak and he described his son as someone who loved animals they had gotten him a horse and he also had a dog and he would rush home from school to care for those animals and we're also learning that all five victims were Honduran Nationals and two of those women who were killed Deanna Alvarado and Julissa Rivera actually used their bodies to cover the three children who survived

uninjured and police have confirmed that we've also heard that from Mr Garcia who was in the house the night that all of this happened and I asked Mr Garcia what his message is to the killer who is still out there right now and he told me that he wants him to please turn himself in he said that he does not want to see another family experience the pain that he is now dealing with Scotty Priscilla thanks so much and work here in Hollywood could come to a grinding halt tonight that's if Studios a

nd the writers Union don't agree to a deal film and TV writers could walk off the jobs tomorrow essentially they want better pay job security and more information as the industry turns to streaming now a strike is very possible and we've seen it before the 12 000 member Union walked out from a November 2007 to February of 2008. joining us now is NBC News correspondent Marissa Parra Marissa how's it looking any last minute Headway or does it look like we're going to see a strike here well that is

the million dollar question Gotti and that's a question that even members of the WJ are wondering and I've been speaking to people who are at the negotiating table and they can't share very much but um honestly what we could probably expect is this is probably going to come down to the wire you're looking right now that's almost 98 of wja members voted to authorize a strike but in terms of the likelihood that we'll see one I don't even think we're going to have an answer to that until probably

11 59 tonight which is that deadline last minute it what exactly is the union asking for yeah so in simple terms more pay but the reasons why they say that today's climate is just so different especially the last time they negotiated especially the last time there was a strike you're looking at some of the demands there but I think the headline there really is streaming there's not really a standardization when it comes to streaming and just in terms of the pay it's totally different you know a

lot of times these writers get paid per episode but with streaming you may notice they have less episodes and they take longer to produce so it means that they can't go and work other jobs it just means that they're getting paid a whole lot less I mean a lot of them are saying that it's it's difficult to live off of what they're currently making now I know some of this revolves around the issue of AI everybody's talking about Ai and there's been talk of okay well how do we protect our jobs from

robots taking over yeah but then the question of if a writing strike does happen what are the chances that some of the studios May use AI to fill in on some of those those Rider heads yeah so a lot of interesting questions you have there and obviously a lot of concerns from writers and frankly I think every industry is looking to see how much AI is a threat to their industry and what we've seen with chat jpt just how much it can do can produce can write for them so when we talk about The List of

Demands from wga you might have seen on that list having some sort of regulation for artificial intelligence was on that list because they are threatens and they say they want to make sure that writers are the ones doing the writing so I think in terms of whether we're going to see artificial intelligence if there is a strike if that's used probably unlikely because this is still being developed however it is a very real threat clearly because it's something that they want to bring to the negot

iating table in this latest round of negotiations and that negotiating table is happening right now all the way to midnight yep we'll see what happens thanks so much thanks Scotty and today one of the biggest banks in America closed up shop Federal Regulators seized First Republic early this morning then to keep customers from losing everything they say they needed a buyer that's when JP Morgan Chase stepped in now this is the second largest bank failure in U.S history on top of that it seems to

be following what could be a trend this is the third bank to shutter this year and some important context here these three collapses were bigger than most of the banks that closed shop in 2008 and joining us now is NBC News business and Tech reporter Brian Chung Brian what happened and how is this different from svb and uh and signature yeah well it's different in the way that it was resolved Gotti and it was really interesting to see all this transpire over the weekend I lost a lot of sleep bu

t essentially what happened here is that the government decided in the middle of the night 3 30 a.m Eastern Time to announce that it was going to close the bank but then simultaneously announced that JPMorgan Chase by the way the largest bank in America was going to come in and buy it immediately from the government now that was very different than the way that signature and also Silicon Valley Banks were closed because they were taken into receivership had the doors shuttered and then ultimatel

y government held the bag for a number of days before they were able to sell those assets to other Banks so that did change the calculus here because it means that the assets over at First Republic were never at risk of essentially having to get guaranteed beyond the 250 000 it's like the government wasn't able to pay out any of the money because they never actually opened the doors of First Republic as an entity that wasn't held by another private business because in this case all those First R

epublic Bank branches were just Chase branches and you mentioned the history of this First Republic Bank now the second largest bank failure in history the only one that was larger than that was Washington Mutual in 2008 and guess who bought that bank at the time JPMorgan Chase huh didn't we didn't we hear we shouldn't worry don't we keep hearing that again and again in fact I think we've got uh President Biden on March 13th after signature and svb closed let's take a listen today thanks for the

quick action in my Administration over the past few days Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe your deposits will be there when you need them confidence uh what is what we saw today and over the weekend say about the health of the baking system right now yeah well I mean certainly when you take a look at what's happening here especially when you consider this happened weeks after what we thought was going to be the worst of the situation with those other two Banks failin

g it does underscore that look we might not be out of the woods yet on this banking issue but you have to remember that when it comes to First Republic this was a bank that was already flagged in March as potentially the next one to go given its similar profile to the other two banks that failed and even though it is certainly large it is uh not in the top ten and there's also thousands over four thousand banks that are smaller so really what we're looking at here is a relatively isolated incide

nt when you take a look at what happened with this bank they lost 40 percent of their deposits in the first few months most other Banks of comparable size only lost about five percent Gotti so it's very much an unusual circumstance that happened at that bank and Brian one last question don't worry this one's just a tiny one here the debt ceiling it looks like we're on track to max out our debt limit uh by the beginning of next month what happens then yeah that little thing it's a big it's at the

center of really political gamesmanship in Washington DC because it could hold up the ability of the government to pay its bills and by the way Gotti bills that it's already racked up this has nothing to do with spending and can't control spending that's already been done it's essentially issuing debt to pay the bills that it's already wrapped up now for what it's worth the treasury saying just today that it's estimate for when it will run out of money to pay those bills will be June 1st that's

an estimate it could change you have some on Wall Street saying this evening like Parthenon ey is saying that they feel like they could probably hobble by through the first half of July but quote it's probably preferable not to play with fire and fire is apparently what Washington is trying to trying to Grapple with here reality NBC's Brian Chung thanks so much and the Mississippi River has finally crested hitting its peak in Davenport Iowa today the highest it got was 21.4 feet testing those s

andbags and the flood barriers that the town has been putting up over the last week now take a look at some pretty crazy time lapse that you can see one person's living room flooding over the course of the weekend unfortunately there was just nothing they could do to stop that water from coming in most roads and parks are closed but people have been still heading to the banks of the the giant Mississippi River and now the real question is what these towns are going to look like when the water re

cedes NBC's Jesse Kirsch has more guy you can see here in Davenport Iowa tonight still plenty of water downtown we are expecting this water level to start dropping slowly tomorrow but parts of this city will still be flooded into next week this area has been dealing with these flood waters for days we know that this is being attributed to Rapid snow melt from further north there have been flooded communities stretching up to the Twin Cities and this has been a days long slow-moving disaster whic

h we have seen but I can tell you having been in this community for days now that most of the people we've come across and obviously we haven't interviewed everybody but when we talk to people here the overwhelming sentiment is essentially a shrug that this is just part of life along the river they are used to seeing flooding here and it is something that is a worthwhile price to some of the people we've talked to to be able to live along the river they talk about the beauty the nature the scene

ry that they have here and this is something that they are willing to put up with so that is the scene we have seen time and again today we met a woman who lives in an area nearby in a community called Buffalo Iowa here's part of what she told us when we talked to her about seeing her home surrounded by water but she has sandbags around the home and she says that inside her home it is dry here's part of what she shared I mean if you were inside you'd have no idea yeah no if I had the curtains cl

osed I'd never know things they don't have in Downtown Davenport is a flood wall we've asked the mayor about that and he says frankly the cost doesn't make sense they really just focus on labor cost sure he says they have a lot of the equipment they need to handle flood mitigation he says they are working on other mitigation measures but what we think of as an above ground flood wall is not something they're thinking to put up and again flooding along the Mississippi that is just a part of life

along the river for some of the people we talk with here Gotti Jesse Kirsch thank you and we are following some breaking news tonight out of Illinois that's where a dust storm caused more than 80 cars to crash along a big highway there officials say at least six people have been killed more than 30 have been hurt in the crash that happened just north of Farmville according to the Illinois State Police the low visibility in the area was caused by powerful winds blowing dirt from Farm Fields acros

s the highway police also say two big rigs caught fire in about 28 commercial vehicles and 60 cars were involved in that pileup now because of the crash parts of Illinois Interstate 55 are shut down in both directions of course we're going to continue to monitor this story for any developments and still ahead this hour our dreams are your dreams America is grateful for our friendship with Israel now President Biden says he has no plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the W

hite House so house Speaker Kevin McCarthy essentially said no problem and invited him to visit Congress instead then the fire in the streets of Paris his workers there continue to push the government to do away with the country's higher retirement age all that is coming up Around the World in 80 Seconds starts tonight in Israel where house Speaker Kevin McCarthy is making some news today McCarthy took a shot at President Biden for not hosting prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House

then he suggested he come to Congress instead now this comes as Biden's relationship with Netanyahu has grown a bit tense back in March Biden said he was quote very concerned about Israel's democracy elsewhere in the Middle East an Isis leader has been killed in Syria this comes from the president of Turkey who said his country's intelligence forces have been after the Islamic State leader for quite some time and that he was ultimately found in a hideout about four miles from the Turkish border

that was one of the worst hit areas from that deadly Quake that hit back in February and tens of thousands are still trying to get out of Sudan after violence erupted two weeks ago between rival military forces over the weekend the U.S organized two convoys to help Americans reach Port Sudan where they hoped to escape by boat meanwhile the un's top of the official in the country says that Sudan's warring generals might be getting closer to a more permanent ceasefire and today the state departme

nt confirmed that an American has been killed in Ukraine now they haven't said who was killed and we're still working to confirm more information on what happened meanwhile an overnight strike from Russia hurt at least 34 people including five children NBC's Ellison Barber has more from the ground from kharkif Gotti Russia's latest missile attack started around 2 30 a.m local time before most people woke up every single region in Ukraine was blaring Air Raid Sirens the Armed Forces of Ukraine sa

ys they intercepted 15 out of 18 cruise missiles fired by Russia when they could not stop slammed into the city of Pablo local officials say dozens of homes there were destroyed and 34 people were injured among them children the youngest just eight years old it was the second major airstrike in three days Russia says they've been targeting military-related infrastructure Reserve units and Supply hubs for ammo and weapons they claim all of the targets have been hit but we've seen these strikes ca

use a lot of Civilian Bloodshed Friday's wave of strikes left 25 people dead 23 of them in the city of umam some of the victims were laid to rest this weekend one family buried two of their children eleven-year-old Sophia and 17 year old kirusha their six-year-old brother stood next to their caskets and cried all of this comes as Ukraine inches closer to launching a counter-offensive that they've been preparing for training for for months and this week we saw a hint of what might be to come Ukra

ine says They carried out an attack on an oil Depot in russian-occupied Crimea in preparation for the counter-offensive Ukraine's top military official has said their forces are prepared at a high percentage to carry out this counter-offensive but exactly when it will happen that is a closely guarded secret Gotti Alison Barber thank you so much meanwhile in France Mayday takes on a whole new meeting this year May 1st of course is the day that commemorates the labor movement all around the world

and today protesters battled with police as they continued to push back against President Emmanuel macron's increase in the retirement age NBC's Richard Ingle is in Paris with more protesters here in Paris are now clashing with police we are in necess right in the center of Paris and what's Happening Here is police have ringed this crowd and occasionally the riot police will rush in to try and break up the demonstration and they will push in with their Shields fire in tear gas but so far it is n

ot working because the protesters will just pick up the tear gas throw it back at the police occasionally kicking them pushing them back and this is all about the government's new law changing the retirement age here from 62 to 64. the government says it's necessary because people are living longer not as many people are being born not on that many people entering the workforce and the government of President macron says unless it does this the system is going to go broke but people here don't a

ccept that they say there is money out there there are plenty of wealthy people plenty of wealthy corporations and that they should pay more and that what they're fighting for here is the value of Life a work life balance that life is not just about working and working as long as possible but critics say it's unrealistic that this day had to come but people here don't want to see it happen and it is not just in Paris there have been demonstrations in cities Nationwide according to organizers lab

or unions there have been more than two million people out on the streets including 500 000 here in Paris alone the police put that number at a much lower they say it is just about 100 120 000 in Paris so far there have been dozens of arrests some injuries but outside of this Square where it is most intense right now there have been a lot of peaceful demonstrations families out in the streets taking part in this movement because they say they are standing up for a fundamentally French principle

this principle of a work-life balance which the government says it wants to keep but can't afford Richard Engel thanks so much still to come the latest on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his long-running beef with the Walt Disney Company but how did it all start again and how's it going to end we're going to have that then you got to see this nothing like a beer uh baseball and a baby a Dodgers fan has gone viral after showcasing some serious multitasking during yesterday's game the Dodgers sh

ared that video of a dad who caught a foul ball with his bare hand all while holding a beer and a baby in a carrier strapped to his chest and he did not spill a single drop he made it look so easy that the Dodgers gave him uh an MVP worthy skill a shout out in a tweet titled dad power about a triple play we'll be right back welcome back let's get you caught up in 30 seconds police in Texas say they have no idea where a murder suspect is right now zero leads and he is suspected of shooting and ki

lling five of his neighbors with an AR-15 over the weekend the Mississippi River finally crested the peak was 21.4 feet and we are just hours away from a possible Rider strike TV and film Productions could shut down across the country if there's no deal met by midnight tonight and in Florida there is a lot going on at Disney right now like the local governing board that oversees Disney in Florida is suing Disney now this suit was filed less than a week after the company sued Governor Ron DeSanti

s and that very same board since Disney sued us yes we didn't sue Disney sued us we have no choice now but to respond this district will seek Justice in State Court here in Central Florida where both it and Disney reside and do business okay so quick refresher how did we get here basically last year DeSantis signed the so-called don't say gay bill into law Banning Florida Elementary School teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation Disney CEO at the time criticized that bill

and in response DeSantis pushed the GOP controlled legislature to strip Disney of its self-governing status in Florida which comes with a share of tax benefits and then DeSantis appointed this new board to oversee Disney NBC News illegal analyst Danny Savalas joins me now and so Danny uh is this uh I'll see you in court no I'll see you in court kind of situation uh what's what's Disney suing for what's the board counter suing for yeah that that is exactly what this is this is upping the ante an

d of course Disney sued the State of Florida not just the governor Ron DeSantis alleging that they were essentially retaliated against as a company for expressing their first amendment beliefs uh and that in doing so they uh the State of Florida violated What's called the contracts Clause of the Constitution by infringing or affecting or uh um otherwise harming existing private contracts and Disney might have an argument there because it seems so Apparent from desantis's own statements that this

was retaliatory legislation targeting Disney now on the other hand Disney is such a unique entity within Florida that any legislation affecting it could arguably be not targeting but just something that affects this very unique kind of business structure on the other hand now the latest lawsuit you essentially have this board uh now suing to undo what a prior Disney control board did uh right before this new board took over they're arguing that it's what we call ultraviers beyond their uh their

power as a board to do not worth the paper that it's written on so yes you're gonna have two separate lawsuits proceeding in two different courts so does Disney still have the the self-governing benefits right now yes and no I mean you have the uh District which was formerly the Reedy Creek improvement district uh which is now a newly named different District the one that is suing Disney in court so and the difference is you may be wondering well why is the district that is exists to benefit Di

sney now suing Disney it's because of a change of personnel and that had something to do with DeSantis and a DeSantis uh run government uh hand picking folks that were are on that board this is procedurally incredibly confusing but uh most of the confusion comes from the fact that this board has changed names and changed personnel and the new board is trying to undo what the old board did that's so self-governing itself but also suing itself kind of it's it's a lot to keep track of uh there's be

en a lot of pushback from even some Republicans on all this that the DeSantis might have picked the wrong fight here um is he setting himself up for for failure from a legal standpoint possibly from a legal standpoint I think Disney I mean contracts Clause cases are hard to win but Disney really has a good argument that I mean it's being targeted because desantis's own words seem to suggest that uh that Disney itself is being targeted for its uh public speech or its response to uh Governor desan

tis's anti-wolf policies as he calls them so I think Disney has an argument there in terms of the board suing Disney to excuse me to undo what the prior board did they might have a case there that the board acted Beyond its power but both of these involve some really fascinating legal issues that are not that don't normally come up for example the contracts close of the Constitution so it will be very interesting to see how a court deals with both and if they try to resolve them even in one acti

on Danny savalos thanks so much and tonight people in Cuba are sleeping in their cars all because of a critical shortage on gas right now people have been waiting over a week just for a chance to listen to Philip take a listen foreign and some people have even been pushing those cars to gas stations trying to get a drop of fuel NBC's at Augustine has this report from Havana lines of vehicles that can stretch for miles and bleary-eyed motorists that oftentimes have to sleep in their cars for days

on end waiting for gas stations to be replenished with gasoline Cuba does not have enough oil that's why we're seeing almost surreal cues like this throughout the country the cupet which is the Island's National oil company has said that the country is currently receiving less than 40 percent of the crude oil it needs in which with which to refine products like gasoline and Diesel how did Cuba get into this situation two proximate reasons first of all Venezuela which is Cuba's main Ally since t

he year 2000 Cuba has had a barter agreement with Venezuela Cuba sends Venezuela doctors and teachers and other Professionals in return for Venezuelan crude oil lots of it but that is now coming under strain and it seems that Cuba is receiving less Venezuelan oil than it did before what's the second reason well is broke Cuba does not have enough money to import fuel on the open market and U.S sanctions on the country that have been ratcheted up over the last two years don't help economists say t

hey cost the island billions of dollars every single year that's less money with which to import fuel on the open market what's the upshot well apart from irritated and angry motorists there are price Rises for things like food at a time when Cubans are already feeling the pinch and just getting a decent a plate of food on the table is already tough for families but perhaps most emblematic today on the 1st of May the May Day Parade throughout Havana which in normal times would have hundreds of t

housands of Cubans marching to celebrate workers day and implicitly the Cuban Revolution has been postponed for lack of oil at Augustine and Havana thanks so much and coming up the future of surgery we're going to take you inside a real life brain surgery to see how AI is being used in the treatment of brain cancer and it is something to behold the texture of this feels pretty abnormal too it's just a bit suspicious that there's consumer there and here's some of the other headlines we're watchin

g tonight the U.S is tracking another mysterious balloon this one was seen flying over parts of Hawaii and while the military says it doesn't pose any threats and didn't fly past any sensitive areas they still don't know who it belongs to and get this remember that huge explosion during the SpaceX launch a few weeks ago well now the FAA is being sued for even allowing that launch to happen some organizations think the agency didn't do an environmental review U.S fish and wildlife say the explosi

on spread debris for miles and even caused three and a half acre fire there and the pilot said American Airlines say they are willing to go on strike if the airline and their Union can't agree on a new contract now technically they can't strike without the approval from the U.S government but they are still hoping that the fact that they've authorized one will give them some help at the bargaining table and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk is not the best person to lead the company

but then also blames Twitter's board for forcing the sale to happen Dorsey just launched a new Twitter like platform called Blue Sky and this year's Met Gala is underway the rich and the famous made their way up the steps steps of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City just a little bit ago and this year his theme is Carl Lagerfeld the line of beauty meant to honor the late designer who is not without controversy lugerfeld has made a bunch of insulting comments over the years when it comes to

women's body image and even the metoo movement now a single ticket for tonight's event costs 50 Grand tables start at three hundred thousand dollars and on to the future of everything and that means gas stoves too they are the kind of stoves so many of us have in our kitchen but New York is looking to ban them and might just become the first state in the country to do so in brand new buildings NBC's nialla Charles has a story New York state may become the first to ban gas stoves in a controversi

al move to ban natural gas in new buildings by 2025. as part of a recently proposed budget deal for months some people have been concerned that the Biden Administration would back a similar Federal ban fueled by concerns from Republican lawmakers but the White House says the president does not support Banning gas stoves left-leaning cities across the country have passed similar bans while some other states like Texas and Arizona have prohibited a natural gas ban data from the EPA says commercial

and residential buildings account for 13 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions mainly from gas appliances and some researchers have linked as stoves to Childhood asthma and other health issues we'll continue to ensure a cleaner healthier environment for future Generations we have the nation's most ambitious plan we're proud of it in New York the ban is not finalized but the governor a Democrat is already getting pushback from critics like the restaurant industry where the majority u

se gas stoves why is the National Restaurant Association against Natural Gas fans over 90 percent of restaurant chefs report to the National Restaurant Association that changing the way that they cook with natural gas is kind of a profound impact on the quality of the dishes that are being served environmental groups say a natural gas ban could significantly decrease indoor pollution Dr Aaron Bernstein studies the health impacts of gas emissions when you burn gas indoors it makes air pollution t

hat's bad for lungs and that air pollution can reach pretty high levels particularly in kitchens where there's not a lot of violation but with 37 percent of American households still using gas stoves decisions about its future are causing friction we are certainly urging the New York state legislators and the governor to keep an open mind consider including exceptions for restaurants that are using natural gas from a public health standpoint really the question Banner no ban is how we can minimi

ze exposure because you know even with this band most folks are still going to have natural gas right for a long time NBC's now Charles joins us now in the studio at Nyla how soon could this happen in New York well the New York governor's office says right now they've reached a conceptual agreement with it expected to be finalized this week wow and it you know you we're just talking a little bit ago I've got a gas stove at my house you've got to cast over to your house what can people with gas s

toves at home right now do so this one's important because like you said I didn't realize before doing the story of all the risks associated with indoor pollution so I did ask the doctor that and what he said was every time you use your stove you should be having the vents on you should also open windows and open doors to increase the amount of ventilation in your apartment or home and if you have any kids make sure they're not in the room when you're using the gas stove and finally when you rec

eive some of these stories the there are stories that seem like they're going to definitely end up in court is that what seems like might happen here well it depends well we know when we look back at it in Berkeley California that was the first city to enact a similar natural gas ban for them Federal courts appeal struck that down but since then in 20 from 2019 a lot of other cities including Los Angeles have successfully passed and enacted uh similar bands so with New York State potentially bei

ng the first Gotti it could be challenged by a court my electronics thanks so much for joining us and AI let's talk about AI a little bit it gets a bad rap sometimes but there are some places where it could come in super handy like brain surgery so tonight we are going to be taking a look at some brilliant new technology that can find biomarkers of a cancerous tumor in just three minutes compared to three weeks with normal technology and that means thousands of people could get treatments much s

ooner than ever which is crucial because when it comes to brain surgery every second counts NBC's Dr Akshay style has this story and just a quick warning is going into the operating room to show a surgery as it happens so some of this might be tough to watch at 56 years old George colossa was living the American dream a successful career in marketing a happy marriage and a sweet black lab named Charlie but one year ago his life changed forever you woke up one morning and you had lost the feeling

in the left side of your body what was that like scary because I did not understand what was going on they rushed to the hospital and after a few tests we had learned that there were three tumors there was one large tumor in the back that was about the size of a grapefruit and there were two other smaller tumors those were not able to be operated on he's brain surgeon NYU langoin helps Dr Dan oringer told George that he likely had glioblastoma the most deadly form of brain cancer the average su

rvival just eight months this really sucks I don't want this it took four long weeks before George could start treatment as doctors waited for the tumor's genetic tests to come back I think I just cried every day for a week straight one of those statistics that I found right away was a glioblastoma tumor can double in size in just 14 days time was not in our favor frustrated after watching other patients go through the same thing Orange has been working on a solution it really is hard for clinic

ians and patients I think to wrap their heads around that waiting period but now using groundbreaking artificial intelligence orringer invented a device called Deep glioma that can predict the genetics of a tumor in less than three minutes a process that can take up to six weeks one recent study found that deeplyoma was 93 accurate compared to the usual method we're here at NYU langone Health where we're about to head into a real-life brain surgery to see how they're using AI to help get patient

s a diagnosis faster so the plan for this operation is to take a small portion of this abnormality image that and use the artificial intelligence to predict the genetics microsys I don't think I've ever seen human brain before like that Magnificent the texture of this feels pretty abnormal too which is a bit suspicious that there's some tumor there that is the brain tissue that just came out turn it into the today now we're going to run deeply on my to forecast the mutations that underlie the tu

mor that we're looking at this is a genetic forecast that the AI has created that gives us a strong indication that what we're looking at here is genetically similar to glioblastoma Dr Schnoodle you're a pathologist here how big of a deal is this it's an incredible advancement we can have a molecular diagnosis in three minutes instead of three weeks further research is needed but the hope is that this technology could help patients like George start treatment earlier before the tumor has a chanc

e to grow bigger I would say time is survival and time is quality of life but for George living with cancer every moment precious this disease is um it's tough but on the other hand your spirit is still there my spirit's here and I'm gonna be okay no matter what happens I'm going to be okay and Dr Akshay Sal joins us now Dr style I have so many questions after seeing that okay so first off you heard him say he had eight months delivery he was told he had eight months to live then you heard that

four weeks we're waiting for results to come back and then a little bit later in the surgery room they said that it only took three weeks to to get a result but this could do it in three minutes are they talking about the same thing here yeah they're talking about the same thing and it's it's a little confusing so the average survival time for glioblastoma the most deadly and the most common form of brain cancer is just eight months Scotty and the problem is a lot of the time you're waiting to g

et the mutations back because those mutations can tell you how their tumor is going to behave and they really you need those mutations to get the final treatment plan and so for a tumor that has a survival of average of eight months you're spending a month right there just waiting to get that full treatment plan I mean that's that's not ideal and so what these researchers have developed is a way to get those in just three minutes using artificial intelligence with 93 accuracy compared to the usu

al method so right there in the surgery room they have their results that that seems like all of a sudden I mean is this a game changer it could be and here's here's the coolest part the clinical trial aspects because one of the biggest problems with brain tumor treatment is this thing called the blood-brain barrier so our body has this barrier to protect to protect the brain from things harmful things in the blood from making their way to the brain and because of that it can be hard to give tre

atments in the blood because you don't know if they're going to reach the brain so if you know right then and there in the surgery what mutations you have you could give something to the brain right then in the operating room that's something that we really haven't seen before and that's what all the doctors are excited about wow and does this just apply to brains and brain surgery or is this something that we could see with Cancers everywhere for now it's just brains but our researchers are act

ually looking to lung cancer next lung cancer is where we've seen this explosion of targeted therapy based on mutations if you could get those faster why not they're looking at lung cancer next hopefully with just the same amount of accuracy guiding that's incredible how soon do you think that we could see progress here so in a couple years is when they're estimated to get this to the public you're going to need to validate this with more patients you're going to need further studies you're goin

g to need to get this in front of the FDA really how the FDA is going to handle artificial intelligence in general is going to be an interesting thing looking forward and I got to ask when you were in the operating room there and you saw how fast it was to get these results back what was your reaction I was stunned I couldn't believe it I mean you had the whole team there you had the pathologist you had the brain surgeon I was stunned and fortunately we were able to tell the patients and results

of those mutations as well and finally giving treatment directly to the brain that sounds like a lot more effective as well right because of that blood-brain barriers we're talking about a method of delivery of treatment that we've really never seen before so the potential here is really really exciting delivering future devices directly to the brain something that we really haven't done before Dr style incredible on so many different levels thanks so much for joining us anytime before we go wh

at were you doing when you were 12 years old I bet it wasn't detailing Ferrari is another iconic cards we're going to introduce you to a kid who is doing just that coming up next [Music] now we get to meet some pretty incredible young people as part of our best of us series and our next guest is no exception he calls himself the detail kid and he has worked on some of the most iconic cars out there with some very famous owners from Tom Selleck's Ferrari to Steve McQueen's jaguar in fact at 12 ye

ars old he is the youngest person to earn certification from the international detailing Association and it's not just Sweet Rides he gets to work on check out his latest project here she is the G3 Ronald Reagan and George Bush Air Force One I actually did this bright work a little bit of it did a little bit I did from about here to [Music] hear it with us now is the detail kid himself Stephen Thompson the third and his dad Stephen Thompson the second welcome to you both uh Air Force One okay go

tta ask well pretty hard job or was it was it spotless already uh it was uh okay it was pretty oxidized it was pretty oxidizing and then you buff like that Chrome was I mean that was shining yeah oh it looked very this color and we brought it back uh with some Polish uh metal polish nice and Dad this is a family business right when did this become a passion for you guys oh boy um I've been in the business 20 years and he's grown up in it and he's taken the shine to it just loving it and uh and h

e's taken it very seriously the last few years taken a shine to it what's the coolest project you guys have worked on together uh Air Force One yeah hard to top I gotta tell you down in La at the Peterson Automotive Museum I didn't get to work on that I was the photographer I wasn't invited to participate so he's done a lot more cooler stuff than I have I mean how do you teach your son to have an eye for detail or is that something that you just that just runs in the family uh he he loves cars a

nd he likes to do them right and um you know not only today where we uh were we up here uh doing the Air Force One but he actually had a social media um influencer reach out to him to go to Philadelphia this morning and he detailed two cars down there before we came here you were busy so so tell me what's your process when you get the call and you get there what's the first thing you do oh watch it and watch it that's you up on the on the roof there right yes okay so so you wash it and then on t

he inside my problem is I always like have food in all of the cracks uh what do you do oh we vacuum it and then we blow with the air gun and then we vacuum all the leftover crumbs all the dirt we clean that up and then we do the leather we do the dash all the buttons all the the rest of the things that a detailer would need to do wiping it down using cleaners carpet seats everything it's a it's a big job every car is different and so if you guys are jet setting around the country and you're work

ing on these things I know pretty much everywhere and people are calling you like do you pack it all in your bag or do you do you pick it up when you get there do they have some of the supplies I mean air guns you're talking about like a a pretty hefty amount of equipment right that's funny we had uh some good friends Tracy and Glenn um Automax they they helped him out they were on they they did the project at Air Force One um up in new uh Poughkeepsie and they they sent us when he had this job

in Philadelphia they lined them out with some stuff to take down there too so he's got relationships all over the country and so he can pretty much almost go to any state and and have a friend there that's going to help them out with some stuff whatever he needs at 12. I can't wait to see what happens at 13. what's next for you ah I'm not really sure uh hopefully Jay Leno's garage uh he's got his garage anybody with a car collection he he wants to go there so it's not it's not just one car you'r

e you're after collections yes yes okay so here's a question when you get your license what's your first car going to be 1969 Dodge Charger the generally but General Lee huh well thank you guys so much for joining us we can't wait to see what you guys do uh next and that does it for us tonight I'm Gotti Schwartz we're going to see you tomorrow but until then stay tuned now [Music] thanks for watching our YouTube channel follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the NBC News app