. >> one story among so many lawsuits continue to pile up against astroworld organizers and travis scott, who was performing as the disaster unfolded at least 18 civil suits now filed. nbc's jay gray is live in houston on our top story tonight. jay? >> reporter: the investigation here houston police continuing to interview witnesses and go through what are hours of videotape. they haven't given any update about the investigation. the last time they answered questions was saturday the chief posted a statement they said any information will come through their twitter account. firefighters here in houston they are talking the chief of police talking today on the "today" show and then later in the day, during an interview with cnn, he acknowledged that his firefighters that were staged outside of the venue had no radio contact with emergency medical teams hired by the venue that were inside those seconds, those minutes do matter, according to emts we've talked with and they didn't have any communication. the firefighters ultimately rushing in and doing what they can there. we also know today

so far at least 46 lawsuits have been filed against travis scott and the organizers according to scott's reps, he plans to cover the funeral costs for the victims. >>> now a story that has real echoes of nancy harrigan and tonya harding, not on the ice, but this time from the world of soccer get this, a player for the french team, paris saint german, arrested today in connection with an attack on her own teammate aminata diallo is the suspect here her teammate, hamraoui is the alleged victim according to the newspaper, diallo is expected of hiring masked men who pulled hamraoui from a car and beat her. the men hurt her so badly, she couldn't play. so when the team took her play, diallo, the suspect, took her place at midfield. here's perry russ up. >> reporter: the french newspaper reports last week hamraoui was injured by her own teammate two men wearing ski masks pulled her out of the car and started beating her legs with an iron bar. she was taken to the hospital and got stitches on her legs and hands. bfn tv in france reports diallo is suspected of orchestrating the attack the two pl

scott gottleib said january is a time we could be emerging from the worst. it's likely to get worse before it gets better as the u.s. works its way through the delta wave while cases have plateaued nationally at just more than 70,000 per day, what that doesn't show is more localized surges and summaries the hot spot in late summer, states have some of the country's lowest transmission rates. the cdc data shows almost 70% of counties in the u.s. still have high levels of transmission. another 17% considered substantial. after mike osterholm calls right now a tipping point for the u.s. and says he's closely watching a few region seeing increases. states in the four corners area, the upper midwest and the northeast. also closely watching new york and california, states he sees as bellwethers with their big cities there is an expectation that places with high vaccination rates with lots of immunity will see lots of disease. public health efforts are doubling down on all to get vaccinated. >> meg tirrell, thank you. >>> president biden's expected to meet virtuall

scott gottlieb has pointed to january as the time you may be emerging from the worst of the pandemic but gottlieb also warns it's likely to get worse before it gets better as the u.s. works its way through the delta wave and while cases have plateaued nationally at just more than 70,000 per day, what that doesn't show is more localized surges and recoveries. in the south, the nation's hot spots in late summer states now have some of the country's lowest transmission rates. the cdc data shows that almost 70% of counties in the u.s. still have high levels of transmission another 17% considered substantial. a doctor from the university of minnesota calls right now a tipping point for the u.s. and says he is closely watching a few regions seeing increases states in the four corners area, the upper midwest, and the northeast. he is also closely watching new york and california. they see these as bellwethers with their big cities, but there is an expectation that places with high vaccination rates or a lot of immunity from infection will see less severe disease the public health experts ar

effective today, that's all no more scott cohn is outside the courthouse. >> reporter: free britney became a global movement. and now they couldn't be happier. >> she can live her life the way she wants to live it >> i'm speechless. it's been a long time coming i've been yelling about this since i was 14 years old. >> reporter: here's britney on twitter in the last hour freed britney, the new hashtag i love my fans so much her attorney addressed the crowd, saying this win is about more than just one very famous conservatee. >> they're looking at this conservatorship and conservatorships generally with an eye toward passing legislation to ensure that people are not abused. >> reporter: the turning point game in june with britney's extraordinary testimony by phone about what she called an abusive conservatorship, controlling everything from her rehearsal schedule to her birth control. in september, her father's conservatorship was suspended. no comment yet from that camp today. and matthew rosenguard says he wants answers from jamie spears, from britney's management firm, and others about th

the family filed a lawsuit against travis scott ever the little boy died. concert goers kicked and steppe on the little boy. police in houston, the city fire department and the fbi all investigating how that concert turned deadly. >>> boosters for everybody guidelines in the covid lane comes holidays all coming as states report a rise in covid cases in america are indoor gatherings a good idea for turkey day? is there a magic number that means no more masks? we'll hear from dr. fauci. >>> ghislaine maxwell accused of grooming under aged girls to have sex with jeffery epstein. >>> airlines staffing up for holiday travels. why one pilot union is saying no thank you. woman: i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. most who achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months had lasting cl

scott gottlieb, criticized messaging around the boosters as confusing. listen. >> i think the confusing message around the boosters may end up being one of the biggest missed opportunities in this pandemic we have now seen very clear evidence of declining vaccine effectiveness over time. there is different reasons why that may be the case but the trend is unmistakable and this has been apparent since the end of the summer. now, it's very clear. >> you can concur -- do you see a level of confusion that it shouldn't exist two years into the pandemic >> right well, in -- in some respects and in many respects, i agree with some of the things that dr. gottlieb says. let me explain right now, you have the recommendation and the authorization to give boosts, namely the third shot to people who have an mrna vaccine and the second shot for those with j&j but as for people 65 years of age or older, those with underlying conditions, and those who work in or live in an area with a high risk what dr. gottlieb is saying is that people, when they see that, they get con

the suit puts the blame on travis scott and on organizers saying they were negligent in failing to host a safe event this is video of the crush of fans taken that night. this from a man named cade goodwin there that night the crush left person after person suffering now we know at least ten people died in the houston concert. hundreds more injured. the houston firm says it plans to file another lawsuit with more than 100 additional plaintiffs coming up in the days ahead. >>> americans are shopping up a storm. despite prices rising at the fastest pace in more than decades. according to a new report out today from the department of commerce, retail sales increased by 1.7% in october that's more than double the rise in september and disruptions in the global supply chain have some americans stock piling gifts, ordering more than normal or more than they need, just in case something doesn't show up. a recent survey from oracle found 20% of shoppers say they plan to order more gifts in case some are delayed or cancelled. that number jumps to more than 40% among millennials. cnbc senior econo

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live with us now outside the courthouse scott, what happened in there? >> reporter: well, you know, it was -- this is probably the easy part for elizabeth holmes, shep. she was on the stand for about an hour answering frepgd ly questions from her defense attorney, kevin downey, about the early days of theranos about the idea that she had while a sophomore at stanford, dropping out of college at age 19, to start this company. before she's 24 years old getting three rounds of silicon valley funding from some big, big players. but the government, as i alluded to in the question to her, for the last 11 weeks has been painting a picture of someone who was essentially a liar, lying to investors, doctors and patients so she's had the chance now in the last hour or so to be able to get a feel for it, the jury has gotten a chance to get a look at her, again, without her mask for the first time in 11 weeks. they were very attentive during they are questioning but it gets tougher for her from here she'll be back on the stand next week and with the holiday possibly

remember the defense says that she never knowingly misled investors. >> scott live at the courthouse thanks. >>> a 38-year-old man now faces multiple charges for throwing a molotov cocktail into a deli in new york city. the fire department released surveillance video and here it is here on the outside of that deli in brooklyn, you can see the suspect lighting a molotov cocktail cocktail and throwing it inside. when he tries to throw a second device somebody knocks it out of his hand that's when the suspect runs away here is what it looked like inside the deli. wow, you can see the back of the shop erupt in flames there employees at work had to run through the wall of fire to escape then they put out the flames, still burning outside from the molotov cocktail the suspect facing charges that include arson, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon we don't know whether he hired an attorney. nor do we know whether he will appear in court. >>> out of order not a sane you want to see on your only bathroom especially if you are in space the problem plaguing astronauts returning from the

>> scott cohn in california tonight. >>> a wave of strikes, food service workers tess air in phoenix went strike today. same story in philadelphia, where workers at the windom hotel staged a walkout last week and workers at john deere last week struck a deal after a month on the picket lines. >>> will these strikes have a lasting impact the author of that article, david, thanks for being here tonight. why now for and how long do you expect this wave to last >> i think you're seeing them now for a couple reasons one there's been long-standing problems in the economy for decades with wages, benefits not being good enough, you know, with bad schedules and the like. then you have the covid economic, which really, really crushed a lot of workers and made them work incredibly harder, or in risky situation while they saw their corporations making record profits. so workers are frustrated, but right now they have some power, because there's a very tight lake market workers are -- they want to seize this opportunity to try to improve the quality of their jobs. >> let's talk about that when yo

scott, thank you so much, our scott cohn. >>> a chinese official speaking out on the safety of tennis star peng shuai a spokesperson says fears about her well being are overflown, and some people should stop the malicious hype, and not politicize this issue. he also declined to comment on whether the chinese government will launch an investigation into peng's sexual assault allegations against the country's former vice premiere over the weekend, we're told is that she's safe and that she asked for her privacy to be respected at this time but the head of the women's tennis association says he's still concerned about her safety meanwhile, human rights group, amnesty international is warning the ioc for entering dangerous waters in a statement, amnesty's china researcher said the ioc quote should be extremely careful not to participate in any whitewash of possible human rights violations >>> and the justice department set to pay millions of dollars over the parkland school shooting a court filing shows the doj has reached a tentative deal to settle lawsuits filed by the victims' families

>> i think scott's point is great there. travel restrictions are likely too little too late. we know this variant has spread to other countries this is a different pandemic from march 2020. it's probably meaningfully different than least winter wit alpha. we need to prepare ourselves that this is going to be a tough few months regardless of this new variant, regardless of whether omicron becomes a variant we should be concerned with, delta is a concern we need to vaccinate we need to use masking and testing and all these things to create layers of protection. no one goes into the cold with just a jacket or just a hat or just gloves. we need to layer in protections. >> but it's exhausting i can tell you from dressing my toddlers, it's frustrating, exhausting and kind of how the whole pandemic has felt two years into it we're talking about all the efforts here including vaccination efforts here in the u.s., but what about vaccination efforts globally there's a big fight now about the sort of -- this new strain and what that's telling us we should or shouldn't have done to preve

scott. >> reporter: court has wrapped up for day an intense day as you recounted. a his -- elizabeth holmes could be leaving at any time emotional, frequently breaking down and revealing or claiming that the elizabeth holmes we came to know, the deep voice, supremely confident persona was a desperate attempt to please her abusive boyfriend at the time she dropped out of stanford not just because of her dream but claims she had been raped in college and wanted to rebuild her life by building a company that's when she turned to balwani who is 20 years her senior she met him while in high school she's a successful businessman and she asked him for help and she says he took advantage for her. controlling her diet, clothing and her voice. he told me i didn't know what i was doing in business. my convictions were wrong. he was astonished by my mediocrity in order for her to be a success, i needed to kill the person i was and create a new elizabeth. she said he also frequently forced himself on her sexually to prover that he still loved me asked by her attorney if she was

. >> scott, thank you. >>> jury selection is set to begin tomorrow in the manslaughter trial of kim potter she's the now ex-cop charged with shooting and killing dante wright during a traffic stop earlier this year in the minneapolis suburb, brooklyn center she said she accidentally pulled out her gun instead of her taser and didn't mean to shoot wright at all i'll tase you. taser, taser oh, i shot him i just shot him. >> potter has pleaded not guilty she's facing first and second-degree manslaughter charges. police digging in land fill searching f >>> l.a. police digging in a land fill, searching for the remains of a mother who's been missing more than a month now. she was last seen on october 17th at one of her son's football games in southeast los angeles. her ex-husband says he saw her leaving in a range rover with her dog named 7. but in a twist, someone later discovered that dog wandering the 28th floor of a los angeles high-rise apartment building her husband says he has no idea why he would be that close to that police. but police say they found th forensic evidence that led them t

scott gottlieb. >> the bottom line is we have an overwhelming toolbox to combat covid. by january 4th this pandemic may be over after we get through this delta wave of infection. >> music to our ears he says the end of the pandemic is in sight, thanks to vaccine mandates and new therapeutics that he says could soon become widely available and easy to use. specifically he's talking about covid pills. new today, pfizer announced its anti-viral pill cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in some high-risk adults the company's ceo told cnbc first this morning they plan to submit data to the fda before thanksgiving the announcement comes a day after the uk became the first country in the world to authorize merck's covid pill an fda panel scheduled to meet later this month to discuss whether to recommend the drug for certain americans. right now johns hopkins reports we're averaging about 72,000 new infections a day, but that's a 55% decrease from just two months ago data shows hospitalizations and death overall are both down. day by day, more young kids are getting

scott continues to say that he's fully cooperating with authorities and investigators. it's not the first time, though, that he's had to answer to police after a concert in 2015, the rapper pleaded guilty to reckless conduct after urging fans to rush past security during the lollapalooza festival in chicago. two years later he was arrested after a concert this time in arkansas where he, again, told fans to storm security and to crash the stage. several people there injured including a police officer and security guard tonight travis scott is saying that he is going to pay for the funerals of the eight fans who died during his show, and for psychological counseling therapy for their families >> jay gray, live on scene thank you. >>> let's turn to keith sullivan now, law professor at pace university school of law he's represented promotors and attendees in lawsuits involving concert injuries keith, good to see you again, thank you. more than a dozen lawsuits filed against travis scott and the afterworld organizers, who has the most legal exposure here in your opinion. >>