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Hurricane. first the tropical storm will hit puerto rico today. billions of dollars in company ownership on the line. the family blamed for helping spark the opioid crisis now in settlement talks. outrage at the attorney general. you won't believe where he's hosting a $30,000 holiday party. and in midst of a chicken sandwich war, one of the combatants is out of bullets. what popeye's is telling its hungry customers this morning. welcome back to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. hungry at 5:30 eastern time. 30 minutes past the hour here. a major update on tropical...

Litigation -- these settlement talks are something that would have been going on weeks or months now. but this news coming on the heels of this major oklahoma ruling where a judge sided with the state and said johnson & johnson was at fault for fueling the opioid epidemic there and deciding the company would need to pay some $572 million there. so pharmaceutical companies absolutely are going to be taking note of that ruling. >> does this effectively put a barrier between them and potential claimants? i mention claimants even if they don't have ownership in purdue pharma anymore could still ta...

Detention to 20 days. five minutes past the hour. breaking overnight, a prominent, wealthy family would give up ownership of purdue pharma under a proposed settlement stemming from this opioid epidemic. the sackler family would also pay at least $3 billion of their own money, this is according to multiple reports. purtuesday pharma -- purdue pharma, widely blamed for sparking the opioid crisis. the family getting rich off of it. it introduced octobxycontin. >> settlement talks say purdue is offering $10 billion to $12 billion total. purdue pharma confirms it is trying to settle 2,000 cities,...

More breaking news this afternoon. purdue pharma are offering to settle 2,000 lawsuits against the company. this comes on a day after an oklahoma judge ruled that johnson and johnson intentionally downplayed the dangers of opiods. a corporate drug maker to pay $572 million. what's the story? >> they have just confirmed with us, they are indeed in settlement talks. this is the national opiod litigation. it's where tribal governments have all merged together in one consolidated suit out of oklahoma, out of ohio. and they are confirming with us that they are in settlement talks at this point. nbc...

Chris wallace, asked homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen about the shooting. chris: i understand dhs officials had been in this synagogue recently. >> we conducted a site visit there with our protective security advisor in the area. this is something we often do. this is a way to support community protection. to be there on the ground and understand their need. jon: you can telecast entire interview with kirstjen nielsen tomorrow. or you can watch it here at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. eastern type at fox news channel. settlement talks will take place in a lawsuit involving the