Morning News NOW Full Broadcast - Jan. 14

[Music] good friday morning i'm joe fryer and i'm savannah sellers right now on morning news now blocked president biden dealing with two big blows this morning one from the supreme court which ruled against the president's sweeping covet vaccine mandate for the workplace shutting down a key part of his plan to overcome the virus and on capitol hill president biden failing to unite his own party to pass new voting rights legislation after key democrat kirsten cinema said she would not support removing the filibuster to get it done the president now vowing to regroup and try again as long as i have a breath in me as long as i'm in the white house as long as i'm engaged at all i'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislations have moved we have team coverage with the latest on the setbacks the fallout and what it all means for the biden agenda seditious conspiracy charges against the leader of a far right group for his alleged role in the capital insurrection more on his arrest and the arrests of 10 other people more than one year after the attack weekend warning millions of people bracing for another major winter storm with heavy snow and ice expected to slam much of the eastern half of the country we're tracking the storm's latest path and home sweet boat a woman gives up life on land to live on the water full time she'll join us to talk about the sacrifices she's had to make for the lifestyle change and why she says it's all worth it you can probably imagine some of those sacrifices have to do with the bathroom and he didn't think but we'll find out we have a lot of questions yeah exactly all right we begin this morning though with a big loss for the biden administration and the supreme court and its efforts to enforce sweeping coveted vaccine mandates for large private companies it was a 6-3 ruling the court led by its conservative majority wrote that osha that's the occupational safety and health administration did not have the power to regulate public health in a statement the bide administration said it was disappointed by the ruling arguing that if his administration had not put vaccination requirements in place quote we would be now experiencing a higher death toll from cobit 19 and even more hospitalizations here to help us break down the ruling and what it means moving forward we've got nbc news legal analyst danny cevallos and dr bob lahida he's a professor at the hackensack meridian medical school and the director of autoimmune and rheumatic diseases at st joseph health he's also the author of immunity strong good morning to both of you danny we'll start with you the ruling comes just three days after the mandate went into effect talk to us about the reasoning behind the supreme court's decision and what impact it could have on any future legal challenges to vaccine mandates the court essentially concluded that osha overstepped its bounds no surprise when you consider a justice like gorsuch's history this is something that gorsuch has always been uh cautious of is what he called the regulatory behemoth the idea that the regulatory agencies of this country who are not elected and who don't go through a democratic process in order to create law simply create rules that govern the country and so no surprise if you've been following gorsuch's career that this is an opinion that would come from a court uh upon which he sits basically the reasoning is that osha has a a job to regulate workplace safety covid19 affects people everywhere irrespective of being at work whether they're on the street whether they're anywhere whether they don't have a job at all and so for that reason osha overstepped its bounds when it went from just regulating safety measures at work to regulating public health generally and for that reason the mandate's put on hold it's not struck down it's not gone forever that seems to be the supreme court's increasing role these days is ruling on uh temporary restraining orders and injunctive relief which really just hits a pause button until the issue is resolved at the court below so dr bob i mean we're dealing with a record surge in cases due to the omicron variant right now what are your thoughts on this ruling when it comes to public health what might be the impact the impact is going to be great joe because most hospitals i would say virtually 99.9 of the hospitals in the country are taking medicaid and medicare funding so they would be under this rule and that all employees as all employees of any hospital will have to be vaccinated protectively now doctors offices take medicare and some take medicaid and clinics do too and i don't know how the ruling is going to affect private physicians and their care of patients that's interesting then the second point is police and fire do not take government funds unless they're in a specific category and neither do ems people but some ems programs do take medicaid and medicare funds for their transports for example critical care transport so they're going to be under the gun as well yeah i want to talk more about what you're talking about there was a separate five to four decision from the supreme court they did allow a similar vaccine mandate to stand for medical facilities that take medicare or medicaid payments so danny i'll ask you talk to us about the reasoning behind the court's split decision on both of these mandates why they were okay with one but not the other ah the the power of the spending power it's the quiet it's nothing like the commerce clause power but quietly the federal government can regulate what a lot of people do in the states using the power of the first and this is no exception they're essentially the court is essentially saying that facilities that accept money from the federal government in the form of medicare medicaid do have to comply with vaccine mandates and that of course is a separate issue then simply osha uh broadly saying that thou shalt have either testing or or be vaccinated it's a separate analysis but basically the court is saying that as long as these facilities are willing to accept the money then they have to comply with the rules that come along with that money so not a big surprise there uh the court at least in the last decade or so has been increasingly uh accepting of the spending power and actually giving it a pretty broad interpretation so dr bob let's talk more about that decision it's going to cover 17 million health care workers in 76 000 medical facilities we know you know better than any of us the medical field has been dealing with a shortage in health care workers do you think this ruling has any impact on that shortage is are we at the point now where most healthcare workers are vaccinated what do you think could be the impact of this it depends on the institution joe we have mandated the flu vaccine for example for many many years but right now this is going to result in a lot of health care workers doctors and nurses resigning or being terminated from their positions not so much a big problem in the northeast where these mandates have been in place for place for many years but in other parts of the country rural hospitals for example and in those states which are not really highly vaccinated this could have a major impact on staffing yep good point that's exactly where we could see the biggest impact of this all right danny cevallos dr bob lajeeda thanks so much for helping us break down these big court decisions now the white house has announced new points of focus as they try to lead the charge on controlling the spread of the very contagious omicron variant the us recorded another million covid cases in the past day bringing the total now to 64 million cases since the pandemic began health experts are now telling us to upgrade our masks and president biden says there's a plan to make more high quality masks like those n95s we're talking about again available for free this comes as hospitals are overwhelmed especially in the six states you'll see on a map here federal medical teams are now on their way to hospitals there giving health care workers some much needed relief there's that map now yesterday the president addressed the frustration a lot of americans are feeling right now about the pandemic you know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year omicron variant is causing millions of cases and record hospitalizations but as long as we have tens of millions of people who will not get vaccinated we're going to have full hospitals and needless deaths nbc news correspondent antonia hilton is joining us from one of the hospitals who's going to get federal help that's in coney island hospital in brooklyn new york and nbc news correspondent josh letterman is following these latest developments out of the white house on its response good morning to both of you antonia i'll begin with you so first just tell us what kind of help is on the way to the hospital where you're at good morning savannah so i'm here at coney island hospital and they are one of these six hospitals in various states that is receiving one of these military medical surge teams starting on monday of next week and what it's going to look like is teams of 20 or more people coming in and essentially joining the hospital staff here it's going to include physicians nurses technicians clinicians who are going to jump in right into the everyday operations to help hospitals like this one really survive the next 30 days or months they're going to be on the ground for about a month long period and the idea here right is that because of the surge in cases but also really critically the overwhelming of the operations here at hospitals like coney island hospital where there have been staff members who have taken early retirement people reporting extreme burnout and then also staff members catching omicron themselves and not able to come to work and actually do critical life-saving services here the idea is that these folks from the military search team are going to come in and help float the hospital through these next critical four weeks or so savannah now josh let's talk about some of the federal response here this is just the latest form of federal help hospitals are getting these boots on the ground but what else has the government done to help hospitals in this surge and what else could be coming yeah savannah these teams are part of a joint military operation that the pentagon has actually had up and running since august and the numbers have ebbed and flowed their u.s air force army as well as navy forces right now it's about 630 or so but in december president biden announced another thousand troops would be going to hospitals in need as they anticipated uh this crisis we're facing right now with omicron so these teams at the hospitals including the one where antonia is at right now are the first batch as part of that surge of forces will see more teams deployed in the coming weeks the biden administration through the massive coveted spending bills that were passed last year has also provided hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to hospitals that are in crisis right now but president biden says the real issue here is not the money but the unvaccinated take a look unfortunately while our military's stepping up as they always do there are others sitting on the sidelines and we're standing in the way if you haven't gotten vaccinated do it personal choice impacts us all our hospitals our countries but the reality is savannah president biden keeps beating this drama of we need to get the unvaccinated to get that shot but he just lost one of his most important tools to do that in that mandate the supreme court put away as joe was just discussing yeah absolutely now antonia where you are in new york that's of course not the only area where hospitals are feeling the strain it's happening across the country including in our neighboring new jersey a hospital there's also going to get federal medical team to them how do they plan on using that team that's right and that is university hospital in newark and what they say is that they expect this surge team to come in and become a seamless part of their operation so if you're a patient or person visiting the hospital the idea is you almost wouldn't notice that they're there because they're filling already critical positions you know again these are physicians and nurses and clinicians real health care workers with the skills to triage patients to run everyday hospital functioning and that's what they really need i mean the ceo of the hospital has described them as bursting at the seams and so this is really critical care and the idea is that you're going to see them looking like the same nurses and doctors who are supposed to be there every day in and out but who right now are in many cases sick themselves and unable to support critical functions take a listen to dr sharif al-nahal he's the president and ceo of university hospital and he talks a bit about the meaning of this help they're about to receive it's all hands on deck we're going to be deploying them strategically where we're hurting the most so the emergency room for example making sure that we're staffed up in our intensive care units and really whatever the skills that these folks come with a lot of hospitals are in a similar position to us we serve a very vulnerable community here we are bursting at the seams and again could not be more grateful for this and what's critical to know too is right this is newark i'm here in brooklyn and these are hospitals that are serving you know really diverse communities communities that have been hit the hardest by covid often seen some of the most challenging outcomes and so the support they're about to receive from the federal government they are saying that they're incredibly grateful because it's not just about their hospital functioning but it's also about helping and surging resources to the most needy communities savannah yeah josh let's talk about a couple more of those resources which are those high quality masks as well as tests that americans can request online it was really some vagueness around this for a while but we do have a better idea of when that will be available what did the president say well at least we know now savannah that the president has a plan or is going to have a plan to get free n95 high quality masks to americans who need them we don't know exactly what that plan is other than that president biden says we'll know more about it next week ostensibly it would look something like the program that they are also in the middle of putting together to distribute free covet 19 home test kits to americans who request it through a website we know that according to the white house by the end of next week they expect to have taken delivery of that first batch of 500 million tests that president biden has ordered yesterday he announced another 500 million are also in the works and we expect that by the end of the month the first of those covet 19 home tests will be in the mail to americans all right josh and antonia thank you so much for your coverage this morning now as you have noticed we cover a lot of covert news every day we talk to a lot of doctors and we know you have questions about the pandemic whether it's about this variant vaccines or masks maybe you're still thinking about getting your first dose we have doctors on our show ready to answer your questions so email us you can see it there on the screen morning news now at nbcuni.com with your questions and thank you to those of us who have already done so we love getting answers for you you can also let us know if you want to stay anonymous when you're asking that question we're following major new developments in the january 6th investigation federal prosecutors filed new charges against key members of one of the groups accused of playing a central role in the insurrection investigators now say more violence was planned even after the attack nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more it's the most high profile charge yet stemming from the capitol riot stuart rhodes of texas the leader of the far-right oath keepers is in federal custody accused of conspiring with 10 other members of the group to carry out acts of violence to stop congress from formally counting the electoral college vote for president they're charged with the crime of seditious conspiracy while all conspiracies are serious a seditious conspiracy an unusual federal charge not often brought is even more serious as early as two days after the election prosecutors say rhodes reached out to his group's leadership team with this encrypted message we aren't getting through this without a civil war in late december court documents say he messaged the team we need to make those senators very uncomfortable with all of us being a few hundred feet away the day before the riot the fbi says one of the oath keepers drove around the u.s capitol on a reconnaissance mission on january 6 the government says as rioters began breaking through police lines rhodes messaged his leadership saying the nation's founders stormed the governor's mansion in massachusetts a short time later oath keepers began working their way into the capitol in two groups lined up in military style formation stuart rhodes remained outside the building but in the hours after the riot the government says he met with his team to plan further violence in the following weeks prosecutors say he spent more than 17 thousand dollars buying weapons and ammunition and on inauguration day they say rhodes messaged after this if nothing happens it's war civil war 2.0 his lawyer says the evidence doesn't support the charge last year rhodes himself said members of his group went off mission by entering the capitol but that he never instructed them to do so all right pete thanks so much and now while the fbi arrested the leader of the oath keepers yesterday as you just saw the house committee investigating the attack move forward with their work as well the committee issued subpoenas to twitter reddit and the parent companies of facebook and google the house panel wants those companies to provide more details on how their platforms spread misinformation in the days and weeks leading up to january 6. nbc news capitol hill correspondent leon caldwell joins us now leanne good morning to you so walk us through the details of these subpoenas what exactly does the committee hope to learn are they focused on what the companies did do what they didn't do all of the above joe so this is a follow-up from an august 26 letter that the committee sent to these four companies and actually more companies as well asking for some of this information now the committee says that after four months of negotiations with these four committees they are unsatisfied and so they are sending these to penis and each company what they want from it is a little bit different from reddit for example this is where the subreddit the donald uh was and where there was a lot of violent conspiracy theories on that subreddit uh they want to know what youtube did and what their algorithms are as some of the people involved in january 6th used youtube but one one thing that is underlining throughout all of these subpoena requests is that all four of these social media companies were readily used by people who were involved in january 6 or perhaps even planning january 6 joe savannah leanne let's now turn to something else that's brewing on the hill so this ongoing battle between the white house and senator cinema and mansion over the voting rights legislation so we now know both senators reiterated their opposition to killing the filibuster yesterday something we've now heard president biden say he would do and this is even after president biden took a trip to capitol hill so what happens now i mean what do senate democrats plan on doing now to keep this legislation alive given there's still this issue within their own party yeah well they had a deadline of martin luther king jr day to accomplish this and there's been another thing that has been thrown at them one of their members senator brian schatz has gotten coveted and so they don't even have 50 votes to even address this situation so everything has been put off until next week but even so there is basically zero chance that they're going to be able to pass this legislation because they're not going to be able to pass these rules changes this is what president biden said leaving that closed door meeting with senate democrats yesterday i hope we can get this done the honest-to-god answer is i don't know we're going to get this time as long as i have a breath in me as long as i'm in the white house as long as i'm engaged at all i'm going to be fighting to change the way these legislatures have moved me the reason is of course because senator cinema and manchin came out saying that they would not support any rules changes that would enable the passage of voting rights legislation that those two senators met with president biden again last night very very blunt and very short readout from that meeting saying they just had a respectful discussion sounds like zero minds were changed savannah joe and leanne looking way ahead we learned yesterday the republican national committee is considering withdrawing its candidates from taking part in presidential debates in the 2024 election now quickly what could this mean for presidential campaigns we don't know yet now this is just a threat negotiations are ongoing but there's been one person who has been critical of the committee on presidential debate that is president and former president donald trump so this could be an effort to appease him they say that the commission is rigged and partisan uh so we'll see where these negotiations go but this has been an institution running these debates for three decades all right leanne caldwell thanks so much yeah let's get a check on your morning news now weather meteorologist bill karins joins us now with the latest on that major winter storm expected to impact millions sleep all over the country hey bill good morning yeah it's gonna be a busy four days good morning to you guys snow has already fallen this morning we got school delays in some areas some cancellations and we're pushing this storm from the plains today all the way through martin luther king jr day on monday into the northeast so we got quite a journey to go on here so the snow this morning already breaking out minneapolis des moines the snow is starting along with ames so you got the idea of where the storm is going to hit it's a narrow band through the northern plains that pinkish peach-ish color there that's a winter storm warnings that's where you're going to have the highest impacts from fargo to des moines and then everywhere in blue is under a winter storm watch that's where we're still waiting to iron out the details exactly what you're going to deal with but for my friends in northern the carolinas ice is a big concern mostly just going to be a snow issue from memphis to nashville pittsburgh buffalo charleston and in western portions of new york so let's play this out by the time we get through this evening snowing pretty good in areas of southern minnesota and in iowa will go from rain to snow tonight in kansas city st louis and then tomorrow we'll watch rain the snow in areas like little rock it's going to take a while but we will get some snow in the backside after a rainy day in memphis same for you in nashville as you wake up sunday morning you'll get some snow to deal with then sunday this is when the storm really blows up it gets much bigger heavy snow a lot of travel issues in the appalachians interstate 81 by far it will be a very dangerous ride if you're going to try to do that probably advise not to as you go into sunday you notice the storm tracks along the coast so that's mostly a rain event from dc baltimore philly new york providence up to boston interior sections get the most snow so as far as snow totals go the blue is around three to six inches once you get to the purple that's nine inches so a pretty good snowstorm there for iowa today lesser amounts kansas city st louis and then areas in the east it's the appalachians west virginia western pennsylvania western new york who really gets the higher totals it's a quick burst of snow over to rain in areas especially from dc to boston and i mentioned that ice guys if we're going to have any big problems that linger into the work week next week it would be from power outages in the carolinas we are concerned especially from charlotte to raleigh winston-salem greensboro those are the areas we're most concerned with all right we know you'll keep an eye on it bill lots to cover thanks so much thank you bill coming up his royal highness no more prince andrew stripped of his royal and military titles as a civil sexual abuse lawsuit against him moves forward we're gonna have the latest from buckingham palace also another twist in the vaccine controversy involving tennis star novak djokovic the overnight developments that's next on morning news now welcome back prince andrew has been stripped of his military affiliations with his mother queen elizabeth's approval after lawyers failed to persuade a u.s judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse virginia jufree says the prince sexually abused her when she was 17 years old an allegation prince andrew has repeatedly denied nbc news senior international correspondent kier simmons has more humiliation for the queen's second son royal sources confirming to nbc news he will no longer be called his royal highness a title he was born with buckingham palace saying in a statement with the queen's approval and agreement the duke of york's military affiliations and royal patronages have been returned to the queen the statement ending he is defending this case as a private citizen virginia jufree is suing prince andrew for alleged sexual assault when she was 17 years old she says she was trafficked by the prince's friend the late jeffrey epstein it was a really scary time in my life i had just been abused by a member of a royal family the allegations continued despite prince andrew's years of denials including saying he does not remember this photograph with jufree and ghislaine maxwell who was convicted last month on federal sex trafficking charges i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady none whatsoever the dramatic palace announcement comes a day after a u.s judge rejected the prince's bid to have the case thrown out potentially leaving him to face cross-examination in court this was a day the queen wanted to avoid but the palace clearly believes the damage to the royal family is too much a source close to prince andrew says he will continue to defend himself but it looks like he will have to do so alone keira simmons thank you so much let's now take a look at what else is making news around the world this morning nbc's alia rouzi joins us from tehran ali good morning good morning joe savannah while australia's immigration minister has revoked tennis star novak djokovic's visa for a second time in a row over his right to remain in the country unvaccinated the decision was taken by the ministry on health and good order grounds which means djokovic could be deported however the 34 year old serbian can still launch another legal challenge to remain in australia north korea has fired a possible ballistic missile into the sea off the coast of japan which should be the country's third such launch in two weeks the missile test comes just as the us imposed fresh sanctions on north korea and it's not just the tennis that's getting people hot under the collar in australia extreme weather has made the mercury hit degrees there matching the hottest temperature on record in the southern hemisphere and those are your headlines guys wow not exactly great tennis weather that is not comfortable right ally thank you so much thank you and coming up new developments actually in the murder of gabby potito why the police are now under fire for what a new investigation says they did and did not do in the days before she went missing this is morning news now a huge congratulations to all our friends on the today show this morning as the iconic program celebrates its 70th birthday back in 1952 nbc made history becoming the first network to broadcast a morning show a radical idea at the time dave garroway opened the very first broadcast setting the tone for generations to come since then today has covered nearly every major news event that's happened over the past seven decades giving viewers a front row seat to history and the today show also made morning show history with the first female co-host the first african-american anchor and the first outdoor studio now of course the today brand includes a streaming channel website social media podcast you pretty much cannot escape it last night the team celebrated the milestone watching the empire state building turn orange in honor of today there you see it that is a big deal in new york by the way so hard to imagine 70 years on television it it really is but that was did you see that last night the empire safety no this is the first time i've seen it i was able to see a little peek outside it was pretty cool yeah it's right it is a huge deal it's a big deal yeah orange very neat congrats to them now we've got new information related to the murder of gabby petito the story captured the nation and you might remember body cam video from police officers stopping potito and brian laundry on the side of the road well the police response shown in that video to the domestic violence incident between the couple is now being called a mistake an independent investigation is pointing out that a report of the dispute should have been sent to prosecutors is raising more questions in an already complicated case nbc news correspondent maura barrett has the latest this is what i'm going to do i've decided i am not going to cite you for domestic violence battery okay that's a moab utah police officer speaking with gabby potito and brian laundry back in august 2021 weeks before potito's body was found in wyoming it's this decision the fact officers chose not to cite potito for domestic violence that's now being called a mistake a review by an independent law enforcement agency found that officers made quote several unintentional mistakes stemming from that choice the review also says police reports are quote missing significant details around the who what when where and how of the incident this body cam video showing petito tell police she had slapped laundry officers working to figure out her intention when you slapped him those were you attempting to cause him physical pain or physical impairment was that what you were attempting to do what were you what were you attempting to do what was the reason behind the slapping and stuff what was what was it you were attempting to accomplish by slapping i was trying to stop telling you it didn't sound to me like she attempted to injure one officer later wrote in a report that the incident was quote more accurately categorized as a mental or emotional health break than a domestic assault it's all very interesting to see after the fact but at the end of the day both parties involved here are now dead does this change anything in terms of the legal implications in this case if anything what it does change it changes the need for change inside of that city inside of that state they don't have certain procedures in place of how to respond to certain domestic violence situations the biggest mistake that happened again it wasn't intentional is more because of lack of experience the most important thing is that when you're dealing with domestic violence cases those cases can go from a regular just screaming at someone to a homicide in a matter of minutes the review highlights that there's no way to know whether the outcome would have been different if police filed a more thorough report after the police encounter potito and laundry were simply separated for the night before continuing on their cross-country road trip mere days before petito would be strangled weeks before her body found now it's important to highlight moab utah is a rural community that sees a fraction of the domestic violence cases that other big cities like new york or dc might have and so while the review said that the police officers acted out of empathy and kindness they simply weren't adequately trained enough to tackle a domestic violence case like this and so the police department says that they're taking the recommendations from the review adding new policies adding a new domestic violence specialist new trainings new standards around taking the statement from 9-1-1 calls or taking photos of injuries while on-site reporting to something like this so that in the future their officers can better respond to a domestic violence case like we saw with potito and laundry all right great points there maura barrett thank you so much this week on his podcast into america nbc's tremaine lee got a sneak peek at a new documentary called the sun rises in the east he spoke with the husband and wife team behind the film which introduces a new generation to the forgotten history of a well-known part of brooklyn we were taught that our blackness was beautiful we are the original wakanda children the film is called the sun rises in the east it's a loving chronicle of a community organization in central brooklyn known as the east it's produced and directed by first-time documentary filmmakers cynthia gordiagiwa and her husband tayogiwa co-founders of black-owned brooklyn the east was dedicated to the principles of self-determination nation-building and pan-africanism which is this idea of course that all people of african descent have a common interest and should be unified founded in the late 1960s by young educators and students the east sought to create institutions by and for black people it was history in the making it was a mecca it was home and it was a revolution the centerpiece of the east was its school sasa or the freedom now school where black children were taught to see in themselves with white society often refused to we had 25 30 people taking black history class we had sewing classes and other classes that the community at that time identified that they would like to have so this told us that if we could do this and it could be successful that we could in fact develop our own types of schools g2 wayusi is the charismatic educator and social justice leader whose vision guided the east do i hear you g2 was dynamic and he had a charisma to him and so we really wanted to make sure that we impressed that on people that this was a significant figure in the black power movement thank you sister he left the group in 1977 and without his influence the east gradually faded away well uc died in 2013 but his legacy lives on he was a visionary who believed in them and and sort of pushed people into roles that you know they didn't necessarily see for themselves and many of the people that he encouraged have had lifelong careers it is a living active legacy um that people maybe take for granted or people don't even know that the way that brooklyn looks and feels is directly related to this liberation movement that the east set into motion what's the big takeaway or lesson that you hope uh viewers take away from it this is black history it's rooted in brooklyn but we think that this is a bigger story it's a human story and it's a story that we think can inspire you know people all over so fascinating it's an area people know well but a history people don't know well at all yeah exactly also it's so cool what tremaine has done with this podcast i mean the conversations that he has whether they are something like this that you've never heard of or right on the money right now we're talking about it's really neat yeah shining a light on important stories and you can listen to this latest episode of into america wherever you get your podcast check it out coming up living her best life even without hot water or plumbing up next on morning news now we'll talk to a woman who traded a one-bedroom flat for a 32-foot boat and why she says the sacrifice is worth it welcome back there's some good news this morning and relief for nearly 66 000 people who had defaulted on their student loans navient one of the largest student loan servicers reached a settlement with 39 states to cancel 1.7 billion dollars in private loans it's also going to pay those states 145 million dollars now the company was accused of lending to vulnerable students who were likely to default and not encouraging cheap flexible payment options officials say the agreement takes care of all six outstanding state lawsuits now as part of the settlement navient denies it broke the law and says the decision came down to avoiding quote additional burden expense time and distraction but good news for a lot of people this morning every month when it's time to pay rent or your mortgage it's not so fun to watch that money leave your account and that motivated one woman to find an alternative she decided to start living on a boat elizabeth earl purchased her first vote in 2019 and says she has managed to live on just 350 a month she thinks she saved more than 27 000 on bills so far and elizabeth joins us now from her boat of course in manchetto england elizabeth good morning good to have you with us i mean i guess we first asked what made you decide to make this purchase to renovate a boat is it about money about the lifestyle a little of both um first i thank you so much for having me i think the answer is i need a lot of therapy to be honest um i i think i just i got the salem bug years ago and i just wanted to live my life collect adventures and you know i'm a banker's worst nightmare i'm a self-employed single artist there is no way i can buy a house solo so buying a boat and making some compromises was the the next best thing and by the way that picture from when you first bought it that's a little intimidating you had a lot of work to do on it right yeah i mean uh there were a lot of sleepless and a lot of wine might have been consumed after i bought that bow um i had to pretend to my mom a lot that things were going to be okay each time i see him he's like are you all right love and my i i don't know it's so cold but yeah it's been a lot a lot of work um and when covered here it's it was even harder because the workforce would usually come on weren't allowed to and i had to move in with my mum and dad as a 30 something year old woman i want to be an independent woman to make them proud and you know given a curfew to go to bed at 10 p.m it's not really what you want from your life as an adult um but you know living on a boat it was the next best thing and i'm so glad that she's at this point she's still not finished but i don't know if you've ever lived with your parents as an adult i love them i love your mum and dad but uh getting some independence back during covert i don't care what states are in i don't care if it's cold water i don't care that there's i have to live like a victorian it's it's fine i'm living on the bus line and also sounds like a great hgtv special for real i know i'd like to see the whole process of that by the way i know you're coming to us from your boat as joe mentioned so that's why we have some spotty wi-fi issues but it's actually working pretty well so you're in england now but where's the best place that you've ever docked because we know you've moved around yeah so i mean uh boat wise um because i used to um be crew on a sailboat i crossed the south atlantic with no experience whatsoever um i know i first got the taste of sailing in life so i could say something cool like saint helena but i think canal boat wise the best place i've ever ducked is home everyone can relate to that feeling of getting over a journey doing i mean i i did the cruise here over a long stretch over like two months i took my time and the best thing i ever got was to get back to you know where i live in the countryside near my family so i could be with them be with my dog and you know and get settled because that's why i got the canal boat i used to live in a sailboat and i adopted a street dog and turns out she hated salem so i got a canelo at the compromise and she still hates it but we're getting there it's fine it's good to hear and even on a boat there's no place like home you know i mean this this probably isn't for everyone so anyone who might be looking at this and thinking well i'm interested what are the major sacrifices what do you have to give up cooking showering what what do you got to do your date in life is impossible that's one thing it's it's impossible it i don't know what to thought to people about guys don't want to talk about your canal boat or your porta potty or pole or go collect kindling with you it's awful i don't know what's going to happen i'm never going to give my mother grandkids i don't know so there's that um the other compromise is like you know hot water when i was cruising there i had to do it old school i would heat up water on my uh log burner and i'd sit in a dog paddling pool and use a camping shower and i think i'll catch myself and look at myself and think what what am i doing but the trick is whenever you're doing something that's challenging or tough to couple it with something fun like a glass of wine or some chocolate or some music or a fun podcast it's just like i'm my own main character and an adventure book so yeah despite these challenges i think this appearance is only going to help your dating life yeah absolutely also they're probably intimidated because you look at you redoing the boat sailing the boat that's that's the issue let me know [Laughter] maybe that'll be a challenge here let's set you up elizabeth all right elizabeth thank you so much this has been a pleasure we really appreciate it and we wish you all the best yes enjoy so neat all right thank you so much now it's time for cnbc money minute the biggest financial headlines of the day and why they matter to you sylvana has to follow that sylvana good morning hey guys good morning so the ceo of mastercard says consumer spending trends look relatively positive so far this year following strong holiday numbers he tells cnbc spending will be helped by savings consumers built up during the pandemic and he says even if coveted cases surge and people don't feel comfortable going into the store they'll shift that spending online google is expanding its property portfolio in london it's paying one billion dollars to buy the same the central st guys building where it already occupies several floors the tech giant is currently waiting for work on its long-delayed uk headquarters to be completed google has more than 6 000 employees in the uk and plans to create enough office space for 10 000 in the coming years and stocks and real estate could be among the investment assets that could be turned into nfts that's according to venture capitalist and tech investor bill thai he tells cnbc adoption will pick up as the internet shifts to web 3.0 a new version of the web that's based on the blockchain technology used to create nfts and mine cryptocurrencies tai says web 3.0 is the most efficient way to assign ownership of any type of asset guys great so we just won't be able to use the internet anymore yeah exactly she'll have something for us thank you you got it all right now it's time for this week's good to know today we're talking girl scout cookies on demand that's fun lower overdraft fees and soup scented candles here's our senior and consumer investigative correspondent vicki nguyen hey good morning you may be starting the new year with a new plan to eat healthier so double check that salad food production company dole issued a voluntary recall over concerns of listeria contamination the affected products are iceberg lettuce salad mixes from dole facilities in ohio and california the decision comes after some equipment was found to have traces of listeria a bacteria that can cause disease dole says no illnesses have been reported so far potential good news for bank of america customers the banking giant is lowering its overdraft fees starting in may the bank says it plans to cut overdraft fees from 35 dollars to 10. it will also stop charging fees for non-sufficient funds bank of america is following some online banks like fidelity and ally that already do this we're getting used to a lot of things on demand these days sign me up for this one girl scout cookies starting in february door dash drivers will deliver girl scout cookies to your home the new agreement means customers nationwide will be able to place orders for pickup or delivery through the doordash website or on the app but you gotta act fast you only have through april of this year to get those orders through sometimes a scent is all you need to get comfortable and cozy campbell soup is releasing two of its classic soup scents in the form of candles not sure how i feel about this the soup giant partnered with retail brand camp to sell chicken noodle soup and tomato soup and grilled cheese candles they're already available online at at select camp stores they cost 24 the great news here 10 percent of the net proceeds will benefit feeding america for news now i'm vicki nguyen and that's good to know then when the candle melts it's actually soup and you can just drink i'm kidding it's not would you burn it yeah weird right they're cute but i don't know weird all right coming back pulling back the curtain up next a new documentary putting a spotlight on what has been a difficult time for broadway we're going to take a sneak peek next on morning news now 2022 has begun with more uncertainty for broadway after last summer's big reopening coven 19 has yet again forced many shows to take a break or close a new pbs documentary takes viewers behind the curtain with a closer look at the great white ways turbulent year it's called great performances reopening the broadway revival take a listen broadway is also strong it's a family broadway is my home i am actually home when i'm on stage joining us now is the film's host and executive producer frank dalela who knows broadway better than pretty much anyone frank thanks so much for joining us this morning good to have you with us i mean this really shows how challenging i mean honestly the last two years have been for so many performers and others who work on these shows what did they tell you about how they've been doing well first and foremost it's so great to be with you guys this morning i'm a huge fan so thank you for having me on this show you know the past probably shut down literally overnight in march of 2020 and these folks were out of work immediately broadway was the first to shut down and it was the last to come back so in this documentary you see those lights finally go back on you see those curtains finally rise and it's emotional you know getting to be with these folks in the rehearsal room as they were inching their way towards the reopening nights it was very emotional for me to watch and it was emotional for them to experience absolutely and now the documentary also takes viewers behind the scenes and the week right before broadway officially reopen i know lots of people probably remember those viral videos of standing ovations and packed audiences i know joe you got to actually experience some of that first i was there in the first night of waitress without rio yeah it was so cool to hear about that i think maybe some people who just saw them online might not have realized what a massive undertaking it was to get to that moment i mean what do you hope viewers take away from watching all that hard work right before that big moment yeah i mean the first thing they take away is that they go out and buy a ticket for a broadway show because broadway needs audiences more than ever i have to say you know i've been back at the theater i was there joe that night when waitress came back and wasn't that amazing i mean literally every single actor walking into that onto that stage got entrance applause i mean i remember props getting entrance applause so i i just hope people go out and you know realize that the performing arts are essential the arts are essential and if you think about it you know artists got us through the pandemic think about all the artists who are on netflix or who we listen to on you know spotify and itunes you know these are essential workers in my mind and um i hope people just go out and buy a ticket to a broadway show because it's safe to see a show and even that announcement to turn off your cell phone got an ovation that night frank we're tight on time here but real quick what is one of your favorite moments in the documentary i have to say listening to adrian warren kind of talk about how she rediscovered tina you know that was a real brilliant performance she won the tony award for that finally this past september so to watch her get back on stage was very emotional to watch that is great to hear frank thank you so much and i'm definitely going to be checking this out and you can too you can watch great performances reopening the broadway revival on tuesday january 18th it's at 9 00 pm eastern on pbs frank thanks again for that that does it for this hour of morning news now the news continues right now [Music] thanks for 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