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Fixing say the schools work together to determine financial aid award for students. many declined or didnt immediately comment. yale and brown said they have faith in their financial practices. she broke this story. melissa, break it down. what happened here? >> couple dozen colleges do work together to create a formula by which they calculate students financial need and the lawsuit is saying they shouldnt be allowed to work together because they are need blind admission. theres a carve out for ...

>> like, you can do that >> you can do that >> reporter: at last check the wait list for the book was at 64, motivating the young author to get going on a sequel. >> its called "the jacket eating closet," based on actual events >> reporter: a budding publishing empire thanks to a sneaky plan by dylan hisself. joe fryer, nbc news. >> author and marketing genius thats "nightly news" for this wednesday. thank you for watching, everyone im lester holt, please take care of yourself and each other. go...

>> dana: fun to watch his career. a big life ahead of him. i love skateboarding. what an inspiration to so many young people across america. thank you for all youve done and fourth place is good, right? >> bill: not the medal but -- >> dana: a young boy in idaho breaking into the publishing business. he wrote an 88 page graphic knowledge the adventures of gill ons christmas and put it on the shelf and the library added it to its catalog and there is a 55-person wait list to read it. author dillo...

Read his book. >> when one person sees me do this, they want to do it, too, and that is inspiring. >> reporter: there is now a 64-person wait list for dylans book. the library estimates that will take about two years for everyone to sign it out. >> hi, david. >> hey, david. >> reporter: dylans parents, susan and alex. >> inspiration for other childrens and adults alike i think is the best part of this all. >> if you believe in yourself and you can make your dream happen and thats what he did. >>...

One of the librarians found it. they put it in the lie bear. -- library. did you sign up for a book? >> dana: you did at some point. books on the wait list? >> bill: we had a pretty good library. it seemed to me like they were always available. maybe i just didnt read enough. >> dana: my mom used to get annoyed. you could only check out five or seven books at a time and i would read two before we got home and she is like oh, i had to read books over and over again. >> bill: we had a good library...

>> yeah. >> bill: whats the story about? >> a christmas story. >> bill: and what do you like about christmas, dillon? >> i like decorations. >> bill: me, too. i like that. >> dana: what was it like that you had a wait list at the library? >> there is. 55 -- >> dana: we might have lost them. what kind of luck are we having today trying to get this kid on the line. alex, are you there? maybe not. >> bill: well hang with it. this is covid cable, folks. we can still use that phrase, cant we? >> dana...

Russian forces into separatist held areas of ukraine, what hes calling a, quote, peacekeeping mission. were following all these late-breaking developments. theres other news were following as well. the former president donald trump used this presidents day here in the united states to launch his new app, truth social. its a carbon copy of twitter and it is an alternative to the big tech social platforms that famously banned the former president in the wake of the insurrection. lets bring in cnns...

Issues that users have issues downloading the app. >> i think this is another chapter in the war on truth. we see truth social but theres something orwellian about the language about this where a post on the site called a truth and its coming from a brand, donald trump, that is known for dishonesty. the app did officially launch this morning. it has been in development for months. they have already missed some deadlines. its now actually up in the app store, people can try to download it and sig...

Hes going to make them. >> if i can find the four and a half minutes to take to prepare something that complicated, i will do it. >> yes. but you are very specific about it. i think its something we would all enjoy. coy, thank you so much. so much to talk about in sports right now. we appreciate it. coming up, an 8-year-old boy walked into a library. he hid his book, a book that he had written on the shelf. and now the book is a hit. theres this long line of people on a huge wait list trying t...

Scottsdale. provided what they believe to be success stories of them bringing the things and then the mask mandate is lifted but it was nothing to do with the phony lawsuit and they have what they believe to be a winning strategy but it is scaring people who dont know that this is all fake. >> ben collins behind that story up on nbc news.com. mandatory reading for folks interested in your beat. thank you. been about a year since donald trump wassed kicked off the platforms and now trying to ge...