Wednesday, November 11, 2026

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0:51We're tracking three major breaking news stories as we come on the air. NBC has just projected a key Senate race. The NVIDIA CEO facing a new scandal and a deadly building collapse in New York City. Dozens of firefighters desperately searching for survivors. Aerial video of the moment a person is pulled from the rubble, a child rescued. Half of an apartment building crumbling to the ground, leaving closets and bedrooms exposed. We're live at the scene. Breaking right now, NBC News projecting Democrat Scott Colom will be the next senator of Mississippi. Why it's such a historic win. New reporting, Justin, NVIDIA's Jensen Wong reportedly had a second extramarital relationship, This one with a top company executive.

1:37The growing pressure he faces after that scandal with an alleged Chinese spy. A 15-year-old chased through the streets of New York City and gunned down days after he reported he was being bullied at school. The alleged killer now captured. We hear from his grieving parents tonight. Former President Biden sitting down for his first on-camera interview since his cancer diagnosis. what he revealed about the disastrous presidential debate and the one thing he says would have made him resign from office. Explosive classroom chaos. Fireworks set off inside of a school in France. Students and faculty running for cover.

2:13And tonight we go one-on-one with the CEO and founder of Ring, which just unveiled an indoor drone for your home and an AI-powered rover to patrol your office. Can they really protect against intruders? Plus, the new league jockeying to become the Formula One of horse racing. We speak with the co-founder, Betting Big, on the future of the traditional sport. Top Story starts right now.

2:42And good evening. We are coming on the air tonight with some breaking news. At least one person killed and six critically injured after a building collapsed here in New York City. Right now, an urgent search and rescue mission still underway. DOZENS OF FIREFIGHTERS USING CHAINSAWS AND PICKAXES TO TEAR THROUGH THAT WRECKAGE. THE BUILDING ON THE EDGE OF A CONSTRUCTION SITE IN BROOKLYN CRUMBLING AROUND 4 O 'CLOCK. MOMENTS AGO, THIS STUNNING MOMENT, A PERSON PULLED FROM THE DEBRIS ALIVE. YOU CAN SEE THEM THERE, LOOK CLOSELY, CARRIED OUT ON A STRETCHER. AND WE KNOW A CHILD THAT YOU SEE HERE WAS RESCUED FROM THE RUBBLE AS WELL.

3:15FIRST RESPONDERS SEEMED LOADING THEM INTO AN AMBULANCE. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE ON THIS MOMENT IN A BIT. And this footage just coming into the newsroom of another person carried out on a stretcher. No word yet on the condition. And there's striking video showing parts of one building still standing with the entire side sheared off. You can see right into closets, into stairwells, right into people's homes. Witnesses say the moment of the collapse, it felt and sounded like an earthquake. And tonight, it's still unclear what exactly caused that building to go down. Here's a live look at the scene right now.

3:45You see all those firefighters still working on trying to find survivors. They've set up lights and are holding flashlights as the darkness sets in. Sam Brock, he's been on the ground there for a couple of hours now. He joins us live. Crews have been searching for a while and it's not over yet. Tom, look, this is deadly and it is dynamic. We have been watching this search and recovery effort going on here for the last hour or two since we've been on scene. I should emphasize the recovery at this point. That's the language that the Department of Buildings was using. Initially, when these reports first came in, Tom, it was two people trapped beneath rubble.

4:20Clearly, it's more than that. The latest information that we have from FDNY, one person confirmed killed, six in critical condition, six others who are injured. And as you mentioned in the top of your show tonight, there was one person that was pulled out on a stretcher no more than 20 minutes ago from where we are. Let me talk about what you're looking at here. You have, to my right here, an FDNY robotic scene. There's a little bit of obstruction trying to get a clean view of that, but they have screens set up. And it appears, Tom, that they're looking at the aerial shots from drones and other units that they have above as to what's going on with all of those dozens of firefighters combing through debris still.

4:56I mean, this started at 4 o 'clock this afternoon, and there are still dozens of people down there pulling up pieces of wood and cinder block and everything else that's under there, as you're also looking at the building that has been sheared off from the side. I mean, this is a look, a perspective into someone's life, their clothing, their personal possessions just hanging right there as beneath that building, which was apparently a construction site. This, according to a senior city official, that building just collapsed right into it. So we don't know, Tom, if it's construction workers involved.

5:25Is it residents? Is it a combination of both? We are watching all this play out right before our eyes. Tonight, the urgent search underway in a New York City neighborhood. First responders racing to the scene just after 4 p.m. in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn after a reported building collapse. You've got a building collapse here, possibly people trapped. The FDNY describing it as a major technical rescue response. At least one person is dead and another is in critical condition. An unknown number of people taken to local hospitals. The search unfolding live on our station, WNBC. You can see the exterior wall of this apartment building completely fallen away.

6:03We're seeing what appears to be a closet, the stairwell in the hallway, somebody's apartment, their bed, their clothes laying there on the bed. I mean, Dave, these images, like I said, you can only hope people aren't home. Watch as firefighters transport a person wearing a hard hat. Is this one of the two that we're unaccounted for or is this someone hurt in the mad scramble to try to rescue someone? It's just too soon to know. We watched as first responders removed what appeared to be a young child out of the debris and into a waiting ambulance. Authorities using drones to aid in the search operation.

6:35I mean, I'm shaking right now. Just to think you have kids that are home from school, families that had the day off today, thinking that it's a regular day and turned into what we see right now. Okay, Sam joins us live once again there on the scene. And Sam, some witnesses told you that they had concerns about the construction that was happening there today? So the Department of Buildings, Tom, says it's going through a process right now of inspecting the structural stability of not just this building to my right, but all the seven or eight other residences that are connected to it. Presumably, there wouldn't be an ongoing search and rescue effort right now if there was risk of another imminent collapse.

7:11But DOB says they're looking at the safety right now as we speak. They have not identified a cause of what catalyzed this entire tragedy. Sam, stand by for us right there. And I want you to listen in as I talk over some of these live pictures coming in right now. We see a gurney, and it looks like they're taking it into a pile that they have there. You can see dozens of FDNY firefighters on the scene right now, and it looks like they're hovering over something or someone. Because of the gurney, it stands to reason they're about to rescue someone. Again, we're going to be very sensitive with these pictures because there's a lot that's still unknown about survivors, about people hurt.

7:48This was a devastating collapse. You saw from the pictures in Sam's story there of exactly what it looked like. and you can see the major construction equipment they have, those big diggers they have right behind the firefighters there, and those ladders up some of these piles to help the firefighters as they search through all the rubble, all this dirt, and you can imagine that concrete and that debris. A lot of times these buildings, especially in the Bronx area, can be older, and in Brooklyn as well, I should say, they can be a little bit older, and so when that collapses, you have all types of dust, you have the drywall, the wood, the concrete, you see it all there.

8:23and they're picking through all of this. They've been doing this since 4 o 'clock earlier today to try to find those survivors, but you can see what a mess it looks like right now. And the problem at this point, even though they have a lot of lights, the problem at this point is that it is dark right now, but you can see how hard they're still going at it. They're still tearing at everything. It looks like the scene that we were over just seconds ago, our choppers are going to go back over that right now, and it appears they're still kind of hovering over something there to see what exactly it is.

8:51Again, I can't stress this enough. We want to be sensitive because we don't want to show you anything live that could be somebody who maybe did not make it out alive. It looks like they've put, again, something or someone onto the stretcher now, covering it up with that blanket. They're putting the straps on to make sure that that person doesn't fall off. From what we can see, it looks like it is a person, and it looks like they are taking it back to one of the paramedics here. The sheet is over there. It's unclear the condition of this person right now. Again, but it speaks to sort of the dangers that are involved in this type of collapse, what has happened, and why this is still very much an emergency situation.

9:36Sam, I know you're on the ground sort of outside that perimeter. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT PERSON IS BEING BROUGHT ANYWHERE TO WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. UNFORTUNATELY, IT DID NOT LOOK LIKE A GOOD SITUATION, BUT IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PERSON. YES. I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICS BECAUSE OUR VIEW IS OBSTRUCTED, BUT YOU'RE DEFINITELY GIVING SORT OF A BIRDS EYE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. I WILL TELL YOU, TOM, THAT THERE WAS A STRETCHER SITTING THERE READY TO GO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS FIRE TRUCK. I CAN'T SEE IT NOW. BUT CLEARLY, IT TELLS YOU THAT officials here and emergency responders were expecting to take more people potentially out of that rubble and you think about what time of day this happened four o 'clock in the afternoon lots of families are home lots of kids are home from school the building itself was three stories and you can see just from the vantage point here there's at least two or three units and a couple of different floors so there's no telling how many people were inside of the building when it actually collapsed not to mention tom that if it was an active construction scene which it was according to that senior city official, there were people on the ground as well.

10:38So we're working right now with an ambiguous number of total victims or total people involved. We just know that there were two active components going on here, a construction scene and a building filled with people and filled with families, the side of which you're looking at the sheared off version right now. I have not seen what you just described, a victim being pulled on and put onto a stretcher, come through here. They probably would, right? Like the last time this happened, about 30 or 40 minutes ago, it came right down the street. So I am seeing some activity of drones and such directly above me.

11:08I don't know if that's related to the scene you were describing. But if that victim does come out here in the next few seconds or minutes, we're going to see it and capture it. And you just hope that person is okay, because periodically we've seen a few so far, and I'll tell you, not everybody looks like they were even necessarily moving. In some cases, I'm standing far away, it's hard to tell. But you would imagine that the fatalities right now, one, six critical conditions, That is a number that definitely has the potential to rise as we get more information. Yeah, the rescue we witnessed did not look promising.

11:39But again, we don't know. Sam, real quick, before we let you go, we saw one of those drones from the FDNY landing there. Before we let you go, do we have any idea how many people are possibly being looked for right now? And I know you don't have that exact number, but is it two or three floors of that adjacent building that collapsed, the wall collapsed? So, in terms of how many people, Tom, might be still trapped, the only number that we've gotten since this all started was two. The two people were known to be trapped, and the two others were taken out of the rubble in the early hours of this tragedy.

12:14So it is complete speculation at this point to say how many they might be looking for, just that we were given that figure. And this recovery effort has been going on now for at least four hours since that point in time. So that lends some insight, perhaps. But as far as well as the other buildings. I didn't catch the second part of your question because it's pretty loud out here, but I'm just watching right now as firefighters are still walking nearby. You have the robotics team. The drone just came down, and I just can't get a view as to what they're doing in this exact moment from where I'm standing.

12:43Sam, it's great. Your reporting has been helpful, and stand by for us in case we need to come back and there's any more developments there. We thank you for everything you're doing tonight. We have more breaking news to get to. This time on Capitol Hill, NBC News can now project the Democrat, Scott Colon will win the Senate race in Mississippi. This will make him the first black senator in the state since Reconstruction. Let's get right to Ryan Nobles. Ryan, this is a major win not only for Democrats, but a historic win in that very red state they've just flipped. Yeah, that's right, Tom. Keep this in mind.

13:13With this win, Scott Colon will become the seventh African-American senator to serve in the United States Senate in the next Congress. To put that into context, there's only been 14 African-American senators in the history of the United States Senate. So this is indeed a historic win. He is the first African-American to represent Mississippi in the Senate since Reconstruction. He's the first Democrat in almost a generation, and the previous Democrat who held this seat was actually an avowed segregationist. So already tonight, Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is the Republican incumbent, has called Cologne to concede the race.

13:46She's put out a video also saying that she respects the will of the Mississippi voters and wishing Cologne the best as he takes that seat from her. Now, with this win, Democrats will now hold at least 55 seats in the upcoming Congress. But there's still one race that's yet to be called, and that's the Alaska race, where the Democrat Mary Peltola is holding a slight lead over the incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan. It is likely that that race will move to ranked choice voting, meaning that we won't know the winner until at least November 18th. But if Democrats are also successful in Alaska, that means they will have a 56-seat majority, and it will also mean that they have flipped nine red seats in what has become a remarkable midterm election result.

14:31Tom? That blue wave grows tonight. Okay, Ryan, we thank you for that. Also breaking the scandal involving NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong reaching a fever pitch. Multiple new reports tonight that the company's board is expected to meet to discuss his future. And the New York Times out with a story alleging he had a second extramarital relationship. Our Hallie Jackson with the new developments tonight. Tonight, the report of another extramarital relationship by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The New York Times citing five people who worked at the company speaking under the condition of anonymity, reporting Huang had the relationship with a top NVIDIA executive who reported to him.

15:08Huang is already under investigation for an affair he's acknowledged, that relationship with a woman believed to be a spy by U.S. intelligence agencies. NVIDIA did not reply to NBC News' request for comment on this news story of Huang's alleged relationship with one of his own employees. Now we have seen the shares move after hours on this. Shares in the tech giant plunging in after hours trading as the story raises new questions about Huang's role at NVIDIA and whether he can remain his CEO. Earlier in Washington today, one senator calling for Huang's resignation over concerns about the affair with the alleged Chinese spy.

15:42I just don't think he should be, you know, in the role for now, if not forever. Hwang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and as CEO built it into the world's most valuable publicly traded company. His role in the AI boom that's fueled the U.S. economy, impossible to overstate. I don't think we've ever seen one individual that important and that integral to what we're seeing today, probably in the last hundred years. It's a blessing on the upside. It's a curse on the downside. And that's what makes us such a quagmire. All right, Hallie Jackson joins us now. Hallie, Jensen Huang is a rare class of a CEO, right?

16:21So closely intertwined with one of the most important companies in the world, like a Steve Jobs, as we've seen in the past. If he were to leave, his exit would create a massive hole. Yeah, I mean, it would, Tom. We've also got tonight now multiple media reports that the board is meeting to discuss his future. And you've laid it out. Jensen Huang really is NVIDIA. This is what we hear from all of these experts, from people who are so familiar with this company. There's really no succession plan. There's no clear number two. He's got a lot of direct reports. He's said to have something like 60 of them.

16:52But there are real questions of what happens if he were to step aside or be asked or forced to step aside. Keep in mind that NVIDIA is also intertwined with his personal life. His two adult children work there. And his wife runs the company's billion-dollar foundation. Tom. Okay. Hallie Jackson on this fast-moving story. Howie, always great to have you on this show. Now to the striking moments at Arlington National Cemetery on this Veterans Day. A group including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, scolded for laughing near the tomb of the unknown soldier. Gabe Gutierrez has that video. Tonight on Veterans Day, a stunning reprimand at Arlington National Cemetery.

17:30All visitors will maintain that spirit of silence and respect at all times. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, seen here with his wife and senior Pentagon officials, taking pictures near the tomb of the unknown soldier. The group talking and laughing, followed by a sharp warning. All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times. U.S. Army sentinels continuously guard the area 24 hours a day, verbally admonishing anyone who fails to show proper decorum. It is requested that all visitors remain behind the chains and trails at all times. The Pentagon tonight responding, quote, The Secretary and the entire department have always honored and will always honor the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe.

18:19While commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum. The incident coming just after President Trump laid a wreath at the tomb, which is one of the most sacred war memorials in the U.S. then giving a speech to veterans. On Veterans Day, we reaffirm our undying gratitude to every patriot who has answered the call of duty. A day after the House rejected impeachment articles against Hegseth, the president praising him to cheers from the crowd. The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

19:01I had a feeling that was going to happen. and he's done a fantastic job. Democrats are expected to try and impeach Hegseth again once they take control of the House in January. Tom. Okay, Gabe, thanks. Let's bring in NBC's Courtney QB, who covers the Pentagon. Courtney, who were those other Pentagon officials with Hegseth, and do we have any more details about what they have been discussing or how the situation sort of escalated? Yeah, so we know that they were, his wife, Jenny Hegseth, was there, as well as Tammy Radabaugh, Ricky Buria, his chief of staff, and then his deputy chief of staff, Patrick Weaver.

19:33So it's fair to say these were senior Pentagon officials and then, of course, his wife, who is very involved in Pentagon business, as there's been a lot of reporting about over the past nearly two years. Now, one reason that this is such a violation of the sanctity of that tomb is there are very clear rules about being at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. You are not supposed to take photo, have photo ops there. There's not supposed to be loud noises. There's not supposed to be loud talking. it is not only told to people when they come to visit, but there's also signs saying just that. And I think one of the reasons people may not realize is, yes, this is an entire cemetery, of course, that is dedicated to the men and women who've fallen, who served in uniform.

20:16But the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a whole separate entity within the Arlington Cemetery, Tom. It is not only a place where the unknown soldiers and war dead have been buried and HONORED.

20:32IT'S A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN SEEN AS A SOLEMN POINT OF REFLECTION AND MOURNING TO REPRESENT ALL OF THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DIED, WHO WORE THE UNIFORM. SO FOR THAT REASON, FOR NOW A HUNDRED YEARS, SINCE 1926, THERE HAS BEEN A SENTRY JUST LIKE THE ONE THAT YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO RIGHT THERE, SOMEONE WHO HAS GUARDED THAT TOOM 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, NO MATTER THE WEATHER. THAT'S ONE REASON THIS HAS JUST GOTTEN THE TOOM. the kind of outcry that we've seen on social media and the reason that the Sentinel reprimanded the secretary and his delegation. All right, Courtney Kuby for us. Courtney, thank you for that.

21:10We're going to turn now former president Joe Biden opening up about his battle with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, sitting down with People magazine for the only on-camera interview of his scaled-back book tour. Biden revealing he did not know he had cancer while he was president, saying if he had known, he wouldn't have run for another term. Let's take a I WOULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE PRESIDENT. IF I HAD KNOWN THAT I WAS FEELING LOWSY BECAUSE I HAD CANCER, I WOULD HAVE RESIGNED. I WOULD HAVE NOT GONE FORWARD BECAUSE I DON'T THINK AN 80 - YEAR-OLD MAN WITH CANCER SHOULD BE RUNNING FOR, YOU KNOW.

21:46BUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE. I WANT TO BRING IN I'M GOING TO GET AN NBC SENIOR POLITICS REPORTER JOHN ALLEN FOR MORE. REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICS, YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THAT VIDEO AND SEE THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND NOT FEEL WHAT HE IS GOING FOR RIGHT NOW. HE HAD STAGE FOUR CANCER FOUR MONTHS AFTER LEAVING OFFICE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE AT THE TIME QUESTIONED WHY HE DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SICK AND HE ADDRESSED IT IN THAT INTERVIEW AS WELL. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY, TOM. HE DID ADDRESS THAT. SORT OF LEFT OPEN TO INTERPRETATION THERE WHAT HE SAID ABOUT HAD HE KNOWN THAT HE WOULD HAVE RESIGNED. FIRST HE SAID WOULD HAVE RESIGNED, WHICH MEANS LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE.

22:25BUT THEN HE SAID AN 80-YEAR-OLD MAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. OF COURSE, AS WE KNOW, HE ENDED UP DROPPING OUT OF THAT RACE AND HANDING THE RAINS TO KAMALA HARRIS. But you also hear Joe Biden explain in this interview that he was physically down, just did not know that he had the cancer. And then former President Biden also discussed his disastrous 2024 debate with President Trump. As a reminder, here's how that night went. I'm not sure if we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally beat Medicare.

23:11Thank you, President Biden. Here's what President Biden is saying about that debate now. I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY HAD MADE A MISTAKE IN THE DEBATE. TO ME IT WAS NOT VERY CONSEQUENTIAL. FIRST OF ALL, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ANOTHER DEBATE, WHICH THERE WASN'T. NOT WITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT THERE WASN'T ANOTHER DEBATE, IT DIDN'T DISTURB ME BECAUSE IT WASN'T CONSEQUENTIAL. AGAIN, I WANT TO STRESS THIS, REGARDLESS OF YOUR POLITICS, YOU CAN'T WATCH THAT AND NOT feel for the guy. But he seems to be saying, John, that it wasn't consequential when clearly it was. But I think that may actually speak more to the point that we're all saying here and we're seeing here.

23:51I mean, maybe he doesn't understand sort of the gravity of that moment. Yeah, I mean, it was consequential to every other Democrat in the country. It was consequential to Kamala Harris. I remember during that debate getting text messages from Democrats, some of whom were saying it was time for him to throw in the towel and to get out of the race. of course, consequential to President Donald Trump, who was reelected, and to American voters and even non-voters, all Americans, with the outcome of the presidency. So he now says that he didn't think it was all that consequential and that he would have gotten another chance.

24:23And I think that guided his thinking in those weeks where he stayed in the race before he dropped out. But the rest of the country saw what they saw on television and determined that he was not in a place where he could continue as a candidate. And then, of course, he told the American people that even though he wasn't capable of continuing as a candidate, that he could continue in the White House. And I think that was difficult for some voters to swallow. John Allen, good to see you. I know it's a tough topic, but appreciate your perspective as always. We're back in a moment with the 15-year-old gunned down on his way to school in the Bronx, his heartbroken family speaking out, and the teen now behind bars.

24:59Plus, the former star NFL coach accused of hitting two people with his truck in the heart of Nashville, the charges Rex Ryan's facing.

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26:37The teenager was shot and killed last month on his way to school in the Bronx, days after complaining to school officials that he was being bullied. The police say they are looking for two more suspects. While the heartbroken family gave a press conference today. I was at work when I heard that my son had been shot. Frimbong had only been in the country for a year, immigrating from Ghana to live with his father, according to the family, hoping to become a doctor, instead becoming a victim of gun violence. Javits collapsed on this sidewalk, and you can see the community has set up this memorial for him with candles and signs.

27:14His father says that two days before he was killed, The principal from his school called and said that two of the students at the school had been suspended for bullying his son. Authorities have not made a connection between the suspensions and the shooting. Javits is my only child I have. Mayor Mamdani personally reached out to President Trump to get a visa for Javits' mother, who lives in Ghana. Thomas, what effect has this crime had on your family? It's a big hole for me. It's a big, big, big loss to me. The Department of Education says it is cooperating with the NYPD, but did not comment on reports that Javits Frimpong was being bullied.

27:57All right, let's pick it up there. Stephanie Gostroinja. Stephanie, as much as this is a story about gun violence, it is also a story about bullying. It's so horrific that it got to this point for this little boy who was basically trying to come here for a better life. You had a chance to speak with his family, and those interviews are so difficult. What else did you learn? Yeah, I asked the father about the bullying, and he said he didn't realize it was going on until the principal called that day and said there had been a fight and that two kids had been suspended. He asked his son, Javits, if there had been other events, and he said he'd been bullied for weeks and that he had reported it to the principal, but nothing had been done.

28:31Oh, geez. All right, Stephanie Goss, up for us tonight. Stephanie, thank you for being here. Coming up tonight, the founder of Ring joins us here on Top Stories. As we take a turn, we'll take a look at his company's new surveillance drone and robot looking to change the way you protect your home. Is this the next step in home security? We'll explain.

28:58We're back now with a new era of home security being unlocked by Amazon-owned doorbell camera company Ring. This is the company's all-new AI-powered drone that goes room-to-room patrolling for threats. It also allows users to manually deploy the high-flying tech to investigate a disturbance or scare off intruders. The Ring drone camera is set to go on sale in January for$250. I want to bring in Ring's founder and chief inventor, Jamie Siminoff, to walk us through how it works. Jamie, it's good to see you again here on Top Story. I spoke with you about eight months ago about your doorbell cameras.

29:31Now your company is taking the leap into surveillance robotics. Tell me why people would need this. I mean, I think with this, it's not just you're talking about sort of home security. This is also the when you're away from your home and something happens. What do you do if a leak happens under your toilet and your leak detector goes off? How do you know if it's a flood or is it just a little drip? And so this is a way to now have something that you always have a set of eyes in your home, no matter where you are. And of course, it also, to the security part, it is a big deterrence. I mean, you can set it so that if your door sensor goes off and your alarm, it'll fly over to that.

30:08It's a massive deterrence to have this thing fly to it. If one of your outdoor cameras has motion at night and you're set in an away mode, you can set it to fly to the window inside the house. This is only an indoor drone. It does have spotlights on it. And so we do believe this is like a very active and great deterrence, as well as something that gives you sort of peace of mind and always home when you're away. You know, I'm curious if a home were to have, you know, a glass break sensor with the drone sound, set that off. If you have a motion detector, how does it sort of interact with your alarm system?

30:42So we have all types of sensors. We also use a thing called the Alexa Home Map. So you can put the sensors on the map in your house. This does map your house. And then it will go to where the sensor goes off. So you can set it to if a glass break sensor goes off, it'll go over to that area. Motion sensor goes off, it'll go to that area. So it really is this like roving eyes that can see anywhere in your home when you're away. And I just, you know, I feel like we want to live in the future. I want to build the future. And I just can't imagine that right now, if I'm away from my house, that I can't see everywhere in my house that I want to.

31:17And to the other side, I don't necessarily want to have cameras all over my house that are stationed everywhere. So I do love the fact that this is privacy you can hear. It's loud. It's privacy that goes back when it's in its docking station where it charges. The camera's obstructed so it can't see. And so it really is like, you know, it's a very privacy-forward way of also being able to live in the future. Yeah, you actually gave CBS News a demo of this drone. I want to play a clip of what happened. NOW IT'S GOING SO FAST. IT LOST ITS CONNECTIVITY. IF IT LOSES CONNECTIVITY, IT'S SUPPOSED TO STOP AND LAND.

31:57SO IT DID NOT THERE. THAT WAS AN INTENSE REACTION. BUT IT BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT HAPPENS? AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE? WHAT KIND OF WENT WRONG? WE FILMED THAT LIKE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER WITH HER. AND WE WERE TRIALING. WE WERE THINKING ABOUT LAUNCHING also manual controls, which I would say that it became very clear for us that manual controls is not something that we're going to ship. So right now, the way the drone works is you have a map of your home. You can click on the main bedroom. It'll fly to that. But it does it all through the AI pilot now. So we got rid of the manual controls from launching it to the public.

32:35Just I'm going to ask here, people with pets, dogs, whether you have a small dog or a big dog, how do you make sure the drone doesn't take out Rover? Well, I mean, it is like, I mean, I'll just give you, this is, this is the actual drone. This is the size of it's 165 grams. It's, it's small, it's light. Um, but yeah, certainly you should try it. Uh, if your pets react to it, my, my dog has zero reaction to it. In fact, it just sort of just doesn't seem to be interested in any way. Um, but you know, you should see how it reacts to it. It's not like a vacuum cleaner where the dog seems to want to bite it.

33:06Um, but it's really not for it's, it's not a pet camera because you wouldn't want to HAVE SOMETHING FLYING NEXT TO A PET. IT'S NOT THE PROPER USE CASE FOR IT. IF YOU WANT A PET CAMERA, LOTS OF GREAT INDOOR CAMERAS TO USE FOR THAT. THIS IS MORE OF A PATROL, GO SEE SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING. YEAH. NO, NO. LOOK, I THINK IT'S AN INNOVATIVE IDEA. I KNOW YOU'RE ALSO ROLLING OUT A$1 ,000 CAMERA ON WHEELS CALLED THE RING ROVER. HERE'S WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. IT'S MEANT TO PATROL THROUGH OFFICES AND BUSINESSES. OFFICES CAN HAVE A LOT OF SENSITIVE MATERIAL LYING AROUND. So what are you doing to make sure people don't hack into these things?

33:38And what's the idea for this one? So, I mean, just let's start with the second part, I guess, which would be the hacking. So we are the first company to launch end-to-end encryption. And then we launch now Take Encryption, which is a we're putting it on by default for all of our customers where we're key-based encryption. So your video is locked to the keys literally physically that you have on your devices. I THINK IT'S A GREAT THING. ON THE SECOND SIDE OF WHY SOMEONE WOULD HAVE THIS ONE, FOR BUSINESSES THIS IS GREAT. YOU GET TO GO AROUND THE OFFICE. IF YOU LOOK AT THAT FUN LITTLE LIGHT YOU SEE ON THE CEILING, THAT CAME FROM US TESTING IT.

34:15I LOOKED AND SAID WHERE IS IT? IT WOULD BE BEHIND A ROW OF DESKS THAT WE COULDN'T SEE WHERE IT WAS. And so I came up with this idea of let's shoot a light up to the ceiling. You can always see where it was, which I think is really fun. Yeah. So could something like this work outside or is it just indoors? So the drone is indoors just by FAA regulation. So you can't fly an autonomous drone outside. So the drone is for indoors only. We tell our customers that. We also have guardrails in place to make sure you can even hear it there. But it is made just for flying indoors. THE ROVER IS MADE FOR INDOORS.

34:53IT'S REALLY BOTH OF THEM ARE MADE FOR INDOORS. WE WOULDN'T REALLY WANT TO HAVE IT OUTDOORS. IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY WEATHER PROOFING SO IT WOULDN'T FAIR VERY WELL OUTDOORS. IF PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DECIDE BETWEEN THE ROVER OR THE DRONE OR THE ROVER, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER HERE? THIS IS$249. IT'S FOR A HOME IF YOU WANT TO AGAIN SEE SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE HOME, USE IT AS a deterrent every once in a while. The rover is meant for more frequent usage of doing, you know, patrols of something, which we don't think in an average home we're going to see that. $249 for the drone cam, it's$1 ,000 for the rover.

35:30So the rover is more expensive. Now, when you get, if you have a coffee shop or if you have a warehouse, you know,$1 ,000 of something that's going around and doing patrols and seeing what's going on. We do feel like that's an affordable price for business. Right. And a lot of the other solutions there. And again, then the drone cam becomes, I'd say, affordable for the home. Amazon settled a lawsuit three years ago after the FTC alleged that contractors were able to access Ring Doorbell videos without customer consent, right? How do you respond to concerns that these things are spying on us or using sensitive information for advertising?

36:03Yeah, we took an approach of show not tell with take encryption, you know, this variant of end to end encryption, which encrypts all of your videos to your devices. And therefore you have the control over how you share, how you want to use that video, regardless of where it's stored. Because I mean, you know, people be like, I'm talking about something. And then I open up my social media apps or I open up a shopping app. And somehow what I was just talking about pops up on the algorithm. You can guarantee with all certainty that all the ring cams out there, the Ring drone, the Ring rover, that they are not listening?

36:40And then potentially companies like Amazon can glean information off that. I mean, the Ring drone cam doesn't even have a microphone on it. So I'm pretty sure it's not listening. But yeah, with Take Encryption, I mean, the important thing for us is to make sure that our customers know that their videos are being encrypted to them and are controlled by them. And that's what we've done with Take Encryption. I think it's It's the strongest encryption that's out there in the industry. And that's the kind of things that the industry needs to do, which is why we've been leading it. I do want to ask you, because we've almost over-indexed on stories here on this broadcast, and Nightly News, my other show, when thieves go to houses and they have Wi-Fi jammers, and it seems like they just can just zap your cameras, zap all cameras.

37:28You know, what can you do, and what can people do to make sure those things are protected, whether it be the drone or the ring camera from these Wi-Fi jammers, because it seems like they're becoming more prevalent. Yeah, I don't know about that, but we do offer wired cameras, power over Ethernet cameras, Ethernet cameras. So if you want to, you can install those. When you say you don't know about that, I mean, what do you mean by that? You know what a Wi-Fi jammer does. No, I know what one does, but when you said the frequency of it, I said, I don't know if that's the case. But we do offer power over Ethernet cameras.

38:02So for people that are concerned about that, I would say, yeah, you can wire your cameras in. You know, we always are working on the best-in-class ways of making sure that connectivity stays regardless of what's happening in the environments. Remember, there's lots of things in Wi-Fi, houses next to each other, lots of interference that's always happening that we have to get around. So that's something that we're always working on to make sure is better. Do you have any advice, though, for people that are concerned about that kind of stuff? I mean, I know a Wi-Fi sort of portal is something different than what you're doing, but obviously your whole system is run on those Wi-Fi systems.

38:35Well, like I said, we have power over Ethernet cameras, and so if someone's truly concerned about that, I would just wire the camera, and then you don't have to have that concern. And that's why we offer all different variants of stuff, but it comes down to cost as well. I mean, there's cost of installation and cost of putting it in. Sometimes there's not really areas that you can wire to. Jamie, always great to talk to you when you launch the Ring Jiu-Jitsu Security Guard Humanoid. We will have you back on to talk about that one. Right after this, Tom. Right after this. All right. Thanks for coming on.

39:07Thank you so much. Now to Top Stories News Feed, and we start in France with frightening video of fireworks erupting inside of a school. You can see the sparks shooting down the middle of a hallway, sending students and staff running out of the way. Local media reporting similar incidents happened at other schools across the country. It comes as France has been rocked by student-led protests demanding better conditions in schools. And in Florida, a handwritten sign helped police rescue kids trapped inside of a home. You can see the sign. It says, help us. Kissimmee police say a child held it up in a window and they spotted it via a drone.

39:43Authorities were responding to a domestic disturbance call at the home, later arresting a suspect that children were able to safely escape. And Usher and Chris Brown are canceling more shows on their joint tour as the artists reportedly remain locked in an ongoing feud. They just scrapped concerts in L.A. and Miami, bringing the total number of cancellations to six. It comes after TMZ reported they got into a heated argument backstage at their show in Atlanta last week. Fans who had tickets will be issued a full refund. We reached out to Brown and Usher's teams for comment, but we have yet to hear back.

40:14And the field goal fake out a college football game. Miami of Ohio showing multiple uprights on a screen behind the actual field goal, throwing Ohio Bobcats kicker off his game. The referee calling a penalty on that illegal move. Despite the bizarre moment, Miami went on to win 34-17. Okay, former NFL coach Rex Ryan is facing charges tonight, accused of running over the feet of two people in his truck, then driving away. Ryan Chandler picks it up from there. Tonight in the heart of Nashville, former star NFL coach Rex Ryan surrendering to police on multiple warrants stemming from an alleged hit and run.

40:54Metro Nashville police say Ryan hit two pedestrians with his pickup truck just before midnight on Thursday, running over their feet and causing minor injuries. Police say the pedestrians were crossing the street with a walk sign when the truck turned right and struck them. The pedestrians telling police he allegedly kept driving until he stopped at a red light a block away. That's when they say they waved him down and he stepped out of his truck to argue with them before driving away. He's now out on a pretrial release agreement, facing six misdemeanor counts for leaving the scene of an accident, failing to render aid and failure to obey a traffic signal.

41:33It comes down to his arm. Since the accident, Ryan has appeared on TV multiple times. joining ESPN as a football analyst. The network says they are aware and in touch with Rex. Ryan led the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills, known for his bold TV persona, or he was fired from the Bills during the 2016 season. In 2010, he gained media attention after possible images of his wife's feet were published online. There was another report of pictures. I was wondering if you would want to comment on that. I mean, it's, you know, it's a personal matter and I'm not going to discuss it. Ryan making light of the incident to this day, joking last month on the air.

42:14I'm an expert in a few things. One of them is feet. He's due in court for his hit and run charges next month. Ryan Chandler, NBC News. Ryan, thank you. Still to come tonight, the new horse racing league looking to take the sport world by storm, how it works and why it's being called the next Formula One. Stay with us. you know recommendations can be great maybe someone recommended this podcast and here you are but home projects are different if a podcast isn't your thing you lose a few minutes if you hire your cousin's neighbor to mount your tv you might end up with a lopsided screen and wall damage maybe i know a guy just isn't enough for your home that's why thumbtack works it matches you with top rated local pros with photos, reviews, and credentials all in one place.

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44:20Its founders have just secured a deal to air races on the USA Network early next year. Joining us tonight is one of the co-founders of HRL, Danny Epstein. He's also the founder of the investment firm Skylark. His co-founder on this venture, Greg Maffei, helped engineer Formula One's massive global expansion. Danny, thanks for being here on Top Story. Listen, I heard about this league. It piqued my interest. Explain to our viewers with everyone now on TikTok and Instagram and all types of social media and streaming. Why will this racing league take off? Thanks for having me, Tom. It's actually a great question.

44:57So a lot of people don't realize, but the Kentucky Derby, the most marquee horse racing event in the country and most likely in the world, continues to grow year over year. Over 24 million people tuned in this year to watch it, which is 20 % more than the Masters, actually. And so when we think about horse racing, it's one of the most unbelievable sports and it struggled to bring new young fans into the sport. At the same time, we're seeing younger fans have shorter attention spans. And so there's nothing better than watching a race that you can see the whole thing in two minutes. And so we're happy to bring a new format to horse racing to hopefully bring in a great young group of fans.

45:38So you say a great young group of fans. And I'll be honest with you, I'm interested, right? But I'm going to play devil's advocate here. You're going to be on cable, right? So how are you going to attract those young, eager, hungry fans that want to watch this? So we will, you know, we have great partners in the USA Sports Network. We'll be broadcasting live all three events in 2027 on USA. We'll also be live across YouTube and various other social media platforms. And I think what's unique with what we're doing is in horse racing, there isn't an opportunity to have storytelling and continuity because in most situations, you don't find out which horse is going to be running until the week of the race.

46:15With the HRL, we have 10 teams that are competing for points over the course of the entire season. And so we'll have, similar to what F1 did with Drive to Survive, our own YouTube native show that we'll be launching to follow the teams, the trainers, the principals week over week as they compete to be who will be crowned the horse racing league champion at the end of the season. Danny, you don't really hear a lot about jockeys, right? When it comes to sort of watching horse racing, you learn about the trainers, you learn about the owners, you learn about the horses, right? How do you build interest, right?

46:48Because I think when you look at sports, whether it be baseball or tennis or golf or boxing, when they really had their peaks and when they had their valleys, it all depended on the stars of the sport, right? Was there a major star driving the interest and driving the sport? How do you do that with this? It's a great question. We have a couple ways that we're tackling this. One, the jockeys are stars and they're unbelievable athletes. You know, we will be introducing not only a horse draft. So we're buying 80 horses right now. That process will be done the end of the year. And in January, all 10 teams will draft the roster.

47:20So it will introduce a lot more strategy and kind of fantasy football elements to the sport. But the jockeys will also be drafted for their team. So we want to make them stars. They're unbelievable athletes. You know, we have our horses that we refer to as equine athletes, but we also have our jockeys that are stars. I think what is different, though, that what we're doing is we have 10 teams. All of those teams are going to be owned by very interesting groups of people. We have Vinny Viola and Gary Barber. Vinny won the Kentucky Derby this year with Golden Tempo. We also have Windstar Farm, the Trouts, for the last U.S.

47:56Triple Crown winner. But we're also going to have a number of celebrity and brand-owned teams so that you can find FINDING AFFINITY ON WHO YOU WANT TO ROOT FOR OR BET ON SO THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN VERSION OF, YOU KNOW, THE RED BULL VERSUS MERCEDES IN THE SPORT. Yeah. A HORSE RACE, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT IS. IS IT AROUND TWO MINUTES, LIKE AN AVERAGE HORSE RACE? Yes. So if people are tuning in and they're going to watch the horse racing league, how many races will they watch in sort of a night, if you will? So on any one of our events, we'll have four races. So there's an A and a B division. They race both on turf and on dirt.

48:29So you'll watch two minutes of racing. THERE WILL BE FOUR MINUTES OF LEAD-UP. YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO ACTUALLY, THE SPORT IS RICH WITH UNBELIEVABLE DATA BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE PAST, YOU KNOW, RACE AS WELL AS EVERY SINGLE WORKOUT FOR THESE HORSES IS TRACKED. SO THERE'S UNBELIEVABLE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE DATA WITH THE CONSUMER IF THEY WANT TO BET OR BE SMARTER ON WHO THEY THINK IS GOING TO WIN. BUT THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF LIFESTYLE PIECES AS WELL. YOU KNOW, HORSES ARE UNBELIEVABLE ANIMALS. AND EVERYONE THAT IS INVOLVED IN AND THEIR OWNERS AND THEIR OWN SPORT AND THE TEAMS HAVE SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ANIMAL WHETHER THEY GREW UP GOING TO THE TRACK WITH A GRANDPARENT WHETHER THEY 'VE BEEN RIDING SINCE THEY WERE TWO YEARS OLD OR WHETHER THEY'RE CURRENTLY RACING WITH THE STABLE RIGHT NOW.

49:11I WANT TO HIT YOU WITH TWO MORE QUESTIONS SO WE'RE ROUNDING THE BEND HERE. HIT ME WITH THE ACTION. HOW ARE PEOPLE BETTING ON THIS? HOW IS THAT GOING TO LOOK? Yeah, so, you know, in horse racing, every single race is a different owner, trainer, jockey. And so it's really hard if you are a casual fan to place a bet. You're usually placing it on a funny name. And so what we want to do here is create affinities to these teams so that if you want to tune in and find someone to bet on or root for, that you have a team to support. And so, you know, the betting will be available on all the standard race books, you know, both digitally and on the tracks.

49:44And we hope to introduce some new innovative formats that we're going to talk about early next year that we think will be easier to understand and allow for younger fans to get excited about the sport. Before we go, the great producers here at Top Story point out that some data shows that actually betting on U.S. horse races, I think this comes from Equibase, if I'm saying that right, has actually gone down year over year from 2026. How are you going to get people excited? How do you think this will turn that around? Yeah, so the sport doesn't have an attention problem. It has a retention problem.

50:18And we talk about that a lot. And they have struggled to find young fans who are betting right now online, on sports, or, you know, we looked at the World Cup. There was many, many bets that were bet not on who was going to win or lose, but how many corner kicks or what color the Gatorade was going to be. And so horse racing has struggled just to tell stories and to create those narratives where people get excited. AND SO WE ARE GOING TO INTRODUCE NEW FANS TO THE SPORT THAT WE THINK WILL TOTALLY CHANGE THOSE NUMBERS AND GET PEOPLE BACK TO THE TRACKS AND HOPEFULLY UPLIFT THE ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN WATCHING EVEN IF YOU HAVE A DOLLAR ON THE RACE YOUR HORSE COMING DOWN THAT HOMESTRETCH AND WINNING.

50:58DANNY, GOOD LUCK TO YOU. I AM DEFINITELY INTERESTED AND I 'LL BE WATCHING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME, TOM. YEAH. WHEN WE COME BACK TONIGHT, THE 89-YEAR-OLD VETERAN GOING VIRAL putting on a special performance during a tribute for the military members who've served our country. That moment right after this. Finally tonight, the impromptu tribute from one veteran to the country he served for decades. The moment and the story behind it touching so many on this Veterans Day. You're a high flying flag and forever in peace may you wait. It was a spontaneous moment, inspired by a powerful symbol, 89-year-old Anthony Chitowski offering an emotional tribute to the country he served.

51:56ANTHONY CHITOWSKI, The American flag was right in front of us. And I'm sitting there looking at it, and I requested to them, is it okay if I sing a song to the flag? Others joining in during the ceremony honoring veterans at a retirement home in Rhode Island. Chachowski served for three decades, first in the Coast Guard and then the Navy.

52:25His song and his story touching so many. This video already has hundreds of thousands of views. Oh, I'm glad to hear that. Though for him, the concept of going viral is still new. I'm an old timer. I'm still learning the cell phone.

52:49A song and a message he's so proud to share. I sang from the heart.

53:01And we are grateful to him and all the veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much for this great country. We thank you for watching Top Story. I'm Tom Yamas in New York. Stay right there. More news on the way.

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