predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what is happening now and ending on election day november 8th is not typical, it is not. as of now, it is not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. now it is more like a shark nato. typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances. to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins. feeling good because things are bad. high inflation, fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power. right now, that is democrats. they are responsible and accountable. phrases are up nearly everywhere you look. life is more expensive, but which of course i mean life cereal, weak and processed wheat products. up more than 20% here. as the late great rapper might say, straight butter baby. by which of course, i mean the tuck cost butter is up 30% august to august. of course, our friends in saudi arabia are making sure that we all continue to feel more pain at the pump. tha
becomes live. the conversation is going to be driven by the people that i met. across the state of pennsylvania where abortion rights is on the ballot this year. the viewpoints may anger some out there but we are taking what we heard from these americans to a panel of advocates, as well as legal and medical experts. let s talk about abortion rights, coming up shortly. i hope you will stay with us for. i will start with a brand-new nbc news poll which found voter interest in the upcoming midterms has reached an all-time high. 70% of all registered voters expressing just that in the upcoming election. either a nine or ten on a ten-point scale. that is the highest percentage ever in a survey for a midterm election with less than three weeks to go let s get out to the campaign trail on the key battleground state of pennsylvania. jewels, it s good to talk to you. the senate and governor s race there, two other races driving voter interest. what are you seeing on the ground? th
we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut jury, nearly a billion. let s go outside the courtroom. bryn, you were in there when the big figures were read out. walk us through the jury s decision. reporter: big figures leading up to the announcement of the numbers, even the jurors were taking a deep sigh. there was just so much pressure and tension inside that room. then what a release from these family members when those numbers were being read and tallied. i can tell you as we talked about, robbie parker, he received the biggest amou
good monday morning. i am garrett haake in washington. we are watching a number of major developments this morning, starting with fallout from another deadly weekend of gun violence across the united states. look at what happened over this one weekend. yesterday, mass shootings in arizona and michigan and then in chattanooga, tennessee. second mass shooting in that city in as many weeks. saturday, another shooting in arizona with others in south carolina and in georgia and then that chaotic scene in philadelphia where three people were killed. in all, at least a dozen people killed. this morning, we re seeing new surveillance video of the exact moment shots rang out in philly sending a massive crowd into a panic at an entertainment district. the suspects there are still on the loose. we go to philadelphia for a live report in a moment. we also go to uvalde, texas, hearing from a funeral attendant that tried to go after the robbery elementary shooter but was held back by polic
gun laws and investing in mental health at any time since sandy hook. can we get there by the end of next week? i don t know. on the war in ukraine, british intelligence officials say russian air strikes in kyiv over the weekend were focused on critical railways for supplying ukraine s capital. the fighting is intensifying in the east as vladimir putin warns of new strikes in response to the u.s. providing ukraine with longer range weapons systems. we re looking forward to what promise to be bombshell hearings before the january 6th committee this week with the promise of new witness testimony and previously unseen material. we begin with that spike in gun violence. join here we with me is garrett haake. the gun violence in philadelphia over the weekend just one example of the chaos sparking fear in so many communities. reporter: in a terrifying example at that, there have been more mass shootings so far this year than the number of days that have passed in 2022, a stri