NBC News chief data analyst Steve Cornaki joins me now from the big board. And Steve, take us through this poll and and how is it concerning. In what ways do you see this being a factor ahead of next year's midterm elections. >> Yeah, Kelly, ahead of next year's midterms and certainly in the wake of those humbling elections in November, the off-year elections for Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey, we see Trump's approval rating in this poll at 42%.Now, back in the spring, start of his second term, uh, ...

We're going to begin today with Providence, Rhode Island, where police just released this new video of a person of interest. That's how they're describing the individual in the Brown University shooting. And they're calling on the community for help to identify this person.And it comes after late last night, authorities announced they would be releasing a man they had detained as a person of interest, saying the evidence no longer supported holding him. the mayor of Providence explaining the decision this m ...

It has been a weekend filled with violent, difficult news. >> Yes. And yesterday marked 13 years since another horrible thing.A national tragedy, the Sandy Hook massacre, which claimed the lives of 26 people, including, as you know, 20 children. >> Since then, Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization, has focused on gun violence prevention and making schools safer. It was co-founded by Nicole Hawkley, who turned unimaginable grief into action after her son Dylan was among the lives lost in New Town, Con ...

>>> A VERY GOOD MONDAY MORNING TO YOU. WE ARE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD OVERNIGHT. >> FAMED DIRECTOR ROB REINER AND HIS WIFE FOUND DEAD INSIDE THEIR HOME. >>> IT IS DECEMBER 15th. THIS IS "TODAY. " >>> STUNNING DISCOVERY. ROB REINER AND HIS WIFE, MICHELE, THE VICTIMS OF AN APPARENT HOMICIDE. THE LAPD LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION OVERNIGHT. >> THERE ARE GOING TO BE MANY FAMILY MEMBERS INTERVIEWED. >> STRAIGHT AHEAD, WHAT REINER'S DAUGHTER IS SAYING TO NBC NEWS THIS MORNING AS TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR ...

The two victims identified as Ella Cook. She was the vice president of the Brown College Republicans chapter. Another uh victim was named uh Muhammad Aziz Umarzakov from Usbekiststan who was at Brown University and studying there as well.A GoFundMe has been set up by that individual's family. Government officials confirming uh his death. So yes, obviously a tragedy for the Brown University. ...

Police have announced that Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested and booked on suspicion of murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. He's being held on a $4 million bail bond right now. Uh through the night, working with the coroner's office, they were able to identify them uh definitively as Rob and Michelle Reiner.Uh we have our robbery homicide division handling the investigation. They worked throughout the night on this case and were able to take into custody uh Ni ...

The defendants are all radical anti-government members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, which according to their own social media is an anti- capitalist anti-government movement that calls for their associates to rise up and fight back against capitalism. One of the leaders of the organization, Defendant Audrey Carroll, helped organize an even more radical faction of the group called the Order of the Black Lotus. In November 2025, Defendant Carol created a detailed bombing plot to use explosive device ...

Let's bring in NBC News Chief Justice and National Affairs Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell. Kelly, thanks for being with us. I mean, really just some stunning details here.Uh what I mentioned, the Turtle Island Liberation Front, as well as um what sounds like an even more sort of radical group within that group called the Order of the Black Lotus. Uh we understand sort of the leader here said that this sort of mission was quote everything radical. Tell me what just stuck out to you from that press conference. ...

[Music] We are coming on the air right now with breaking news out of Los Angeles where police have announced that Rob Reiner's son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested and booked on suspicion of murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. He's being held on a $4 million bail bond right now. Let's listen to what Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McConnell said at a separate news conference in this last hour.Yesterday at uh 12 uh December 14th about 3:40 in the afternoon, LAPD respon ...

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