Dr. . Azar, thanks for joining us. I just want to kind of remind folks what acetaminophen is, um, what type of medications you can find it in, um, and what it does.>> So, acetaminophen is what we categorize as a fever reducer and pain reliever. It is an over-the-counter medication. It's probably one of the most common and widely used over-the-counter medications for those two purposes.So when we talk about availability of fever reducers for pregnant women, we really are only talking about acetaminophen whic ...

Is the federal government going to shut down. It's a question we ask ourselves every few months when the funding deadline comes up, and it's coming up again on September 30th. The Republican le house has already passed a short-term bill to keep the government open, but it was rejected by the Senate where it needs 60 votes to get approved.>> On this vote, the yays are 44, the nays are 48. The 60 vote threshold having not been achieved, the bill is not passed. And now the House is out of town until September ...

Everybody's favorite week up in Alaska. Fat bear week, baby. 12 big bears in Alaska.They've all been eating a lot of salmon, bulking up, getting ready for winter. You get to vote online for your favorite fat bear. Starts today.It's open to the public. We love all bear bodies here. The winner is going to be announced next. ...

Robot Empires. They are finally making their big league debut. Starting next season, MLB players will be able to challenge calls made by home plate umps by using the automated ball strike system.It's also known as ABS. >> The umpires aren't going away. There are still going to be home plate umpires.Effectively what this is is a challenge system, but the way it effectively works is you have these 12 Hawkeye cameras that are situated in your home plate and they take body scans of the players ahead of time goi ...

Your house is on fire. >> Jonathan Pope says it was his neighbor across the street >> who first alerted his family to the raging fire that was consuming his home. >> I see somebody opening the front door and he's like, "Hey, get out of the house. Get out of the house. There's a fire." >> It was just before midnight Saturday.Jonathan's wife grabbed their 9-month-old baby as the family took off running, unaware at first the home was even on fire. The fire department calling it accidental, caused, they say, by ...

Well, Robot empires, they are finally making their big league debut. Starting next season, MLB players will be able to challenge calls made by home plate umps by using the automated ball strike system. It's also known as ABS.We covered the story back in March when Major League Baseball tested the technology during its spring training games. And fans overall very divided on this concept. Take a listen.How it's been for the last 100 plus years as how it should stay. Can definitely see the advantage of it. As ...

I don't know if you all have followed the news and we're still learning a little bit about it, but what we know is that in Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility, an immigrations and customs enforcement facility was opened fire upon by a violent left-wing extremist, a person who wrote anti-ICE messaging on their bullets. And there's some evidence that we have that's not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated. They were politically motivated to go after law enforcement. They were politically m ...

NBC News correspondent Jay Gray is live there in Dallas for us. Uh Jay, you've been following this from the start this morning and moments ago, we just learned the identity of the shooter. Uh what do we know at this point.>> Yeah, Vicki, it is a 29year-old Joshua John, we are told. Still trying to find out more information, but that confirmed through multiple law enforcement sources to NBC News. Again, 29year-old Joshua John.Uh we don't know anything about a criminal background. And that's something we're g ...

Now to breaking news in Pittsburgh where three students are injured after a stabbing at a high school. Police say it happened at Carrick High School and it stemmed from an altercation in the hallway. One student is now in police custody.Here's what one mother had to say about the violence. This happens every single day and just something needs to change, especially in Pittsburgh. Like it's a it's a small city, but we're a family.Everybody knows everybody in this city. Every kid in this school knows what hap ...

I want to bring in NBC News senior homeland security correspondent Julia Aninsley now. So Julia, we know the FBI is now investigating this shooting as an act of targeted violence. We heard Senator Cruz saying this is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or Customs and Border Protection offices or agents.What do we know about the threats and the tension around these agencies right now. Well, he did reference some. In fact, just yesterday, six woman women were charged with an ambush in Alvarado, Texas, ...