mayday to the tower in the flight's final moments. we'll hear the harrowing audio. the two paramedics charged with murder in court. prosecutors say they strapped a man face down on a stretcher causing his at the pleas they entered today. the new one-two punch of severe weather on the heels of that cross-country winter storm we're tracking it. the showdown between the u.s. and germany over providing advanced tanks to ukraine's forces google, the latest tech giant to announce layoffs, slashing 12,000 jobs. why is the industry being hit so hard? and the mourners flocking to graceland to say a final farewell to lisa marie presley. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone authorities in indiana tonight say it could have ended so much worse when a gunman lined up employees at an evansville walmart store last night and shot and wounded a

female employee. police tonight crediting the actions of another woman employee who secured the wounded victim from further harm as police moved in to locate the shooter police body cam video capturing the minutes of terror and the final showdown between police and the alleged gunman the evansville police chief saying there is no doubt that he was going back to finish what he started calling the worker who jumped into action a hero a note of caution here, you may find some of the sounds and images disturbing. jesse kirsch has details. >> reporter: tonight, indiana police releasing body camera footage, which they say shows the frantic search for a gunman inside an evansville walmart after he shot an employee in the face before turning his handgun on officers >> walmart, be advised, active shooter. >> reporter: investigators say around 10:00 p.m. last night, ronald ray mosley ii fired at police in and outside the store where he once worked --

>> drop it drop it! drop it! >> reporter: -- before police shot and killed the 25-year-old. nbc news spoke with a woman who says her niece, amber cook, is the victim who police say was walking and talking after being shot. >> she is still being treated and is in stable condition. however, she will be affected by this shooting for the rest of her life. >> reporter: police say just before 10:00 p.m., about a dozen employees gathered in the break room when mosley showed up with a handgun. that's when police say heather moore bolted from the room calling 911 then returning to help cook as the suspect fled >> heather moore is an absolute hero. she helps get th victim up, gets her out of the room. and takes her into another room and locks the door, turns off the lights and hid behind computer equipment. >> what do you want to say to the employee who made that 911 call so quickly? >> thank you you definitely have a co-worker that's life you saved. for doing that, her instincts were absolutely heroic, and we can't thank her enough. >> reporter: authorities believe mosley targeted former

colleagues police say the suspect worked at this walmart in 2022 when he assaulted four fellow employees before the company fired him. just hours before last night's shooting, prosecutors say he was in mental health court for that very case investigators found a suicide note in his home after the shootout >> jesse, what are police saying about the weapon he used >> reporter: the evansville police chief tells me he doesn't know how the suspect got that weapon, but adds that even with his prior plea deal, mosley could have still legally purchased that nine millimeter handgun. lester >> all right jesse kirsch starts us off. thank you. the dramatic final moments before the deadly crash of a small plane just outside new york city. the desperate mayday communications between the pilot and control tower just released. kristen dahlgren has details. >> reporter: the crash touched off a massive search in the woods just north of new york city flight control had lost touch with the single engine plane

less than two miles from an emergency landing at westchester county airport >> i understand you are losing oil pressure >> yes, we are losing oil pressure this is an emergency >> reporter: the plane had taken off from jfk airport about a half hour earlier pilot baruch taub was bringing his friend, ben chafetz, home to ohio from a funeral in new york the situation dire as the plane lost altitude >> you have engine power right now? are you able to maintain altitude? >> no, the engine is overriding mayday, mayday, mayday >> you want to correct back to the left for the runway on your 10:00. radar contact lost. >> reporter: neither man survived chafetz was a mechanic who owned a repair shop and had a wife and kids at 5:27 he texted, i love you and the kids. we lost engines. the plane went down one minute later >> i don't think any of us want to contemplate what it would be like to know that your life was about to end, and you were going to speak to the people that you loved the most and try to say something to them to summarize the

life that you had together >> reporter: rabbi eli skorski was a good friend of the men. >> ben chafetz was always doing for other people with a kind, gracious attitude. he took people into his home to live there, people who didn't have good situations just very gracious, good, kind people. >> reporter: remembering the two men, not for how they died but how they lived, with generosity and love kristen dahlgren, nbc news in illinois today a judge ruled that a trial can proceed for two paramedics accused of first-degree murder in the death of a man after the paramedics strapped him face down on a gurney. shaquille brewster has that story >> reporter: tonight, two paramedics charged with the first-degree murder of earl moore jr. pleading not guilty in an illinois court. state investigators say peter cadigan and peggy finley strapped moore face down on a

stretcher during a hospital transport causing his death. body camera video from december shows springfield police officers responding to a call apparently involving people inside of a home with firearms >> there's no one here with guns. he's hallucinating he's having alcohol withdrawal. >> reporter: but after arriving, officers realized the caller needed medical assistance and requested an ambulance. >> want that water? >> reporter: paramedics arrived 15 minutes later. >> sit up. >> reporter: refusin to offer moore medical assistance according to the police. >> we ain't carrying him. i am seriously not in the mood for this [ bleep >> reporter: officers helped moore through the home, lifting him onto the stretcher where cadigan is then seen placing him face down prosecutors say the two paramedics then tightly strapped him in moore just 35 years old died about an hour later, his death ruled

a homicide >> cause of death as compressional and positional asphyxia. >> reporter: attorneys for both defendants deny any wrongdoing. finley's attorney telling nbc news her response that night can't in any way be considered a criminal act. moore's family disagrees. >> they tied him down like some kind of animal and killed him. my baby suffocated. >> reporter: a case now heading to trial both paramedics facing up to 60 years in prison shaquille brewster, nbc news all right. let's turn now to two storm systems we're watching tonight, one bringing heavy snow and rain to the east, and there's yet another system moving in behind that angie lassman is tracking it all. angie, what are you looking at >> lester, it will be a busy week for the eastern half of the country. we have lingering snow showers moving offshore with that system that moved offshore, but now we turn our attention along the gulf coast where we have our next system develop this is the first of two that will impact folks here as we go through the weekend and eventually into the workweek here's all that heavy

rain that will potentially cause some localized flooding and bring snow to parts of the northeast as we get into sunday. this will cause tricky travel trouble and start to calm down by the time we get into the beginning part of our workweek, but by the time we get into parts of tuesday and into wednesday, we'll watch that next system start to work through. you can see the heavier snow is into parts of interior northeast. as we head into the workweek >> angie, thank you. now to a new rift in the alliance supporting ukraine a split between the u.s. and germany over sending tanks there. disappointing news for ukraine, which relies on western military aid. richard engel has the latest >> reporter: if russian president vladimir putin can't have ukraine, he seems content to obliterate it hoping one day the nation will submit the daily horrors made today's news from germany even more bitter a new crack in the alliance supporting ukraine with german and u.s. officials unable to resolve a dispute over sending battle tanks there,

although u.s. officials today insist germany's hesitanc is not because the pentagon won't send american tanks either. >> today, i'm confident that ukraine's partners from around the globe are determined to meet this moment. >> reporter: the u.s. is sending $2.5 billion in more ammunition and weapons, including bradleys and stryker fighting vehicles, but if tanks are for now a step too far, the administration is happy to pile on financial pressure >> the department of treasury will be designating wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization >> reporter: today sanctioning members of a russian private security firm, the wagner group recruiting prisoners for front line duty in ukraine and is proving more effective than the regular russian army wagner is led by yevgeny prigozhin, putin's old confidant and one-time chef, who now doesn't shy away from showing up on the battlefield. and tonight there is

concern about a russian spy ship spotted off the coast of hawaii. the pentagon believes it is gathering intelligence and is remaining in international waters lester? >> all right richard engel tonight, thank you. google today joined a growing list of tech giants scaling back adding to the tens of thousands of workers in the industry who find themselves unemployed. business and data reporter brian cheung looks at what the layoffs mean for all of us. >> reporter: google parent company alphabet is the latest tech giant to slash its workforce, announcing cuts today of 6%. in an email to employees, the company's ceo said it had hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today. google with 12,000 employees cut joins other big tech companies that ramped up hiring during the pandemic microsoft this week said it would slash about 10,000 workers amazon began layoffs expected to impact 18,000 employees all this after meta said late last year it was letting go of 11,000 smaller tech companies have also been reducing head count.

>> for me it was my first time, so it was a little bit of a gut punch. >> reporter: in louisville, kentucky, amber fields was laid off two weeks ago from her job at online styling service stitch fix. how easy or hard is it to find a job in tech right now? >> it's very difficult. there is a hiring freeze there is a backfill freeze we're not just not hiring, we're not replacing the roles we just laid off. >> reporter: with the unemployment rate at a historic low 3.5%, experts say the tech sector layoffs seem contained so far >> the question is whether it's a ripple or avalanche. >> reporter: the fed forecast unemployment rising t 4.6% this year as it raises interest rates, that can mean 1.8 million more americans losing their jobs amber is taking the time to work on her own start-up project. >> this is why i go beast mode is because i got a little person looking at me, so what are we eating today? i'm like, you're right. let me figure it out. >> reporter: tens of thousands of workers now in the same boat >> brian, the big

picture, how difficult will it be for some of these laid off employees to find work >> lester, well, it's not going to be easy, but the latest numbers that we have show 10.5 million job openings in this country. the challenge is that as sectors like tech and now also finance see pullbacks, i there a match between the positions that are available and the talent pool all of a sudden a lot larger. >> brian, thanks very much. in 60 seconds 50 years after roe v. wade, america is an abortion battleground after the supreme court decision overturning it we're in one state feeling intense new pressure

we have new details on the supreme court's probe into the stunning leak last year, that draft opinion overturning roe v. wade. the supreme court marshal revealed she spoke with each justice, in addition to court employees, but investigators were not able to identify the leaker and this weekend marks 50 years since the roe v. wade decision in the months since it was overturned, the u.s. has become a

patchwork of laws varying from state to state. anne thompson with more now on the deep impact on clinics. >> reporter: the days are nonstop at florida's jacksonville health center. 50 years after roe versus wade and seven months after the dobbs ruling that overturned it demand for abortion at this planned parenthood clinic hasn't slowed, says this manager >> it's getting worse. honestly >> what do you mea it's getting worse >> the amount of patient load that we need to be able to see more patients. >> reporter: four years ago the clinic offered abortion services once a week now it's up to five days dr. shelly tien specializes in high-risk pregnancies. of the 63 patients you're seeing today, how many of those are seeking abortion services >> the vast majority >> has it been like that since the supreme court decision >> it has. >> reporter: florida

bans abortions after 15 weeks with narrow exceptions it also requires two in-person doctors visits at least 24 hours apart, but the outright bans and heartbeat bills in neighboring states have more than doubled the out-of-state patients here. for opponents of abortion rights like andrew shirvell, it is a frustrating consequence of the supreme court decision >> it's actually extremely infuriating because here florida's leading on so many other issues, but we should not be in this position at all. >> so what's next? >> what's next here in florida, we're pushing for a complete abortion ban >> reporter: but at the clinic dr. tien believes any restrictions come with dire consequences. >> women are going to die because of what has happened to reproductive rights in this country. >> reporter: a recent commonwealth fund study analyzed data from 2020 and found maternal death rates were 62% higher in

states that had abortion restrictions. the battle is now in states like florida. >> i think the dobbs decision properly returned the public policy fight to the states, and that for the foreseeable future is where activists on both sides are going to be engaged. >> should medical doctors have a role in crafting abortion law? >> no, i don't believe so. >> reporter: dr. tien disagrees. >> it must be shared decision-making between the patient, her family, and her health care team. >> do politicians have a role in this >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> reporter: rulings may change, but the debate has no end in sight. anne thompson, nbc news, jacksonville all right. coming up, it may say organic, but is it food fraud the new warning and crackdown next

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>> reporter: now a quick refresher on what actually gets the so-called organic stamp of approval. it's produce grown without any synthetic fertilizer, pesticides or genetic modification, and meat and chicken raised in living conditions that allow living conditions that allow for open grazing, no antibiotics or hormones and fed 100% organic feed usually all of that is promised by a label that some dishonest companies have used for fraud. over the last several years organic fraud rings have been busted importing nonorganic products in from eastern europe and selling them at organic premiums while prosecutors in states like iowa, south dakota, and minnesota have charged some farmers for selling organic fraud, as well now the government is beefing up its oversight in the $63 billion industry for the first time in decades, requiring organic import certificates for goods from overseas, more unannounced inspections, and an increase in the number of trained organic certifiers >> if you cheat in organic, you'll get caught, you'll go to jail, or you'll be fined. but what this does, it really makes that

easier to catch the bad guys and harder to be a bad guy in the first place. >> reporter: while organic farmers like the alexandres say it's always good to look beyond the label and do your own research into exactly how your food is grown. >> people used to know their farmers. do you think it's time to get to know their farmers again? >> absolutely. >> of course yeah, and we always invite all of our consumers and anybody we talk to to come see our ranch and farm any time. >> reporter: gadi schwartz, nbc news up next, the pilgrimage to graceland and a massive outpouring for lisa marie presley

finally tonight, at graceland, the iconic home where lisa marie presley grew up, preparations are under way for this weekend's farewell to the king of rock 'n' roll's only child priscilla thompson is there. >> lisa marie was the princess, you know, elvis' princess. >> reporter: tonight, flowers, teddy bears, and cards line the gates of graceland an outpouring of love for lisa marie presley, the daughter of the king of rock 'n' roll. >> we've watched lisa grow up, and we've seen a lot of elvis through her. >> reporter: lisa marie's sudden death at 54 years old after suffering cardiac arrest last week stunned the world. >> oh, i was sad beyond words i cried. she was his only child. who will carry on his name? >> reporter: many of those flocking to graceland now never had a chance to meet elvis. >> good evening. elvis presley died today.

>> reporter: instead watching a similar scene play out as children more than 45 years ago when lisa marie was just 9 years old. his electric performances that infatuated fans then ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ ♪ crying all the time ♪ >> reporter: still drawing them today. >> when elvis died, i was 15 years old, and i remember the impact of that. when i found out that lisa marie passed away, it was like i need to be there >> reporter: sunday's service will be livestreamed from here on the front lawn at graceland followed by a procession through the meditation garden. lisa marie's final resting place alongside her son ben and her dad. >> her legacy will be the way she kept elvis' name alive, and elvis and lisa will live on forever. >> reporter: forever in the hearts of their family and their fans. priscilla thompson, nbc news, memphis. and that's "nightly news" for this friday. thank you for watching, everyone

i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪♪ i know it ain't all that late ♪ ♪ but you should probably

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baby ♪ ♪ i know you and you know me ♪ ♪ and we both know where this is gonna lead ♪ ♪ i want you to stay but you'll probably say ♪ ♪ that you should probably leave ♪ ♪ yeah you should probably leave ♪♪ [cheers and applause] >> kelly: all right, everybody, welcome to "the kelly clarkson show"! give it up for my band, y'all! so, that was chris stapleton's grammy-winning hit "you should probably leave." he's up for another grammy for his song writing skills he's incredible. if he gets the grammy it will be the ninth one, no big deal.

super impressive, i love covering his music here and just a awesome human. our first guest is known for winning awards as well. she is an author and a tony award winning actress and her latest film is called "daughter of the bride" on select theaters and on demand february 3rd and you can see her in "so help me todd" which is a great title thursdays on cbs and streaming on paramount+. everybody say hello to marcia gay harden! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, like i'm totally going to rip this whole plan and just perform on to her at some point.

this is so rock 'n' roll! >> this is beautiful rock 'n' roll. >> kelly: like elegant fleetwood mac i'm just saying. >> i'm having another body of experience because i was backstage and i saw you backstage in a rust colored dress and you are standing like this with a microphone to your mouth and you had your hand like this. and i said be quiet, she's praying. and this is like something she does before she goes on and i should have looked. >> kelly: this is what i tell people. it was her cutout. for a minute i was like am i going to go with it and pretend i was backstage and another dressing earlier? yes, as soon as you said, this is what they do when they put out the lighting and everything and do it for kellyoke. >> like, this is the way to do

it. i'm very into it. when you came on, like who is that then? still thinking it's all live person! that over there, i'm a ding dong! >> kelly: no, you're not, it's me and the first time they introduced it i was like i looked at it like oh, my god! i thought they were playing footage back! like what song was this? >> yet to be backstage in the dark. >> kelly: they light it! and it talks to me! >> it's hysterical. >> kelly: but i was going to be like i was totally going to do it, but don't make marcia look stupid. >> marcia needs a little help with it. it's me when you are at the critics' choice awards. i think it could be a fun event because i heard came blanchette like why don't we do televised award shows and i get what that is like we've got a lot of award shows when

you're awesome, but it's not for us. the award, but it's kind of for the fans. that was explained to me like it's to take you out of it for all the people that love you and love to support you and what you do. it is for them, so go for them. >> it's your gratitude and at the moment is getting anywhere on their own. from the minute you start you have got people supporting and helping you and the team of film and so many people that made a wonderful -- it's wonderful to have the gratitude. what do you get nervous about? >> kelly: you said that, i'd rather be nominated and not win because you have to do the speech. i get anxiety, not talking in front of people is hard but recently, but like i forgot. first of all you get up there and nobody tells you. but there like wrap it up, wrap it up right when you walk up! that they are telling you to shut up! and then i panic again!

and i get anxiety and like i didn't think everyone and i feel like they don't think that i'm grateful. it's a whole -- when you're nominated you're like congratulations, good luck with your speech! it is so hard! >> have a little more champagne. >> kelly: i'm not kidding you, i walked up there, turned to the camera and it said wrap it up! >> what about getting up there? did you see it? >> kelly: it's like "the hunger games" to get up to the stage! >> then there is like the stairs, no handrails, a beautiful dress trying to get up there and then what colin farrell doesn't help you up they are what about the one he doesn't stand up for? it's so gorgeous like i wonder. you see the real gentlemen they get up, they put their hand out, and -- >> kelly: i've never had this experience winning anrd