cracking down on the migrant crisis top white house officials head to mexico to address the issue as big city mayors step up to stem the flow of migrants from the southern border.

then, the battle over the ballot will donald trump be on the 2024 ticket we're live with the two opposing decisions all but certain to land before the supreme court. a miraculous rescue. hear from the good samaritans who saved a man trapped for days in his truck and his incredible fight for survival you can't spell lawsuit without a.i. the "new york times" takes on chatgpt in a legal battle that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence. and if 2023 was one small step for nasa, will next year be one giant leap back to the smoon we are blasting into thursday. "early today" starts right now good morning and thanks for joining us, i'm jessica layton cities across the country are desperate for solutions to handle the mass influx of asylum seekers right now. and now new york has a new plan. new york city will start

requiring charter buses transporting migrants to give a 32-hour advance notice before arriving mayor eric adams announced the new executive order at a meeting of blue city mayors all struggling with migrants being bussed in if sofrom southern sts >> to make sure we have sufficient staffing we are also requiring that these charter buses arrive only between 8:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. monday through friday, and to only drop off passengers at one spot unless directed otherwise by new york city emergency management >> migration was also on the agenda at this top-level meeting in mexico city where the u.s. secretaries of state and homeland security met with the president of mexico. the americans pushed for measures to restrict a surge in migrants reaching the southern u.s. border. mexico said it wants to see more done to address the root causes

of migration from countries like venezuela and cuba and now to the big battle over whether donald trump can appear on the ballot state courts have been making different decisions, and now republicans in colorado are asking the supreme court to settle this once and for all chris pollone joins us from washington, d.c. >> we know colorado made history when it banned the former president from the ballot. what happens next? >> reporter: yeah, jess, that's right. it's the first time that section iii of the 14th amendment has ever been used to block a presidential campaign. that provision stops anyone who engaged in an insurrection from holding government office. it was added to the constitution after the civil war to keep former confederates from serving in the government. but colorado state court banned trump from this primary ballot because of his role in the january 6 attack on the capitol. the republican party of colorado has appealed the decision to the supreme court. lawyers representing them called it a grave attack on millions of

americans' fundamental right to vote they say if it is not reversed it had have an irreparable harm. michigan's supreme court just rejected an effort to keep trump off the ballot yesterday there have been dozens of lawsuits across the country trying to disqualify him from the ballot but so far colorado is the only state where the effort has been successful now it is up to the supreme court to decide if that ban had s w will stay in effect. just after a year after narrowly winning reelection, lauren boebert is jumping to the other side of her state. she announced she had be running for the fourth congressional district district in 2024 instead of her current seat in the third. ken buck announced his

retirement she has been outraised by adam frish who came within 600 votes of beating that conservative firebrand in 2022. a veteran was missing for ten years. now donnie irwin's family finally has answers. using a drone, an amateur investigation team found his vehicle submerged in a pond. mara barrett spoke with the drone pilot who helped bring closure. >> this is the pond. >> reporter: this is the remarkable moment a youtuber broke open a case that had been unsolved for a decade. there in the water, a car belonging to 59-year-old donaldedonald irwin. what went through your mind? >> i went through all the mosts. but at the same time, i flew i h knew i /* knew knewly

had a job to do. >> reporter: he and his team used a drone for the aerial search hingele taking out his kayak >> i have sonar equipment mounted. and that sonar equipment allows us to see when's actually down inside the water. >> it is confirmed it is a vehicle. >> reporter: after identifying the hyundai elantra as a match, the camden county, missouri sheriff's office and cadaver dogs found remains in the pond along with an artificial hip consistent with the one irwin had. >> the land oern had just baled up hay around this pond and was sitting at the top of the hay, and by itself, it rolled down the hill and went into the water. that hay bale acts as a filter and cleans up the water. if that hadn't happened, i could have flown over it and not seen the car. >> reporter: after ten years,

hinkle's team bringing closure to a grieving family have you been in touch with any of the family members? >> yvonne is donnie's sister, and she's been the driving force behind this the entire time. the first thing i said to her was i'm sorry that this is your christmas present. and she was, she said, no. you gave me my brother back. >> we're learning more this morning about a life-saving discovery in indiana two men were just looking for a good place to go fishing when they spotted a driver who had crashed and was pinned under a bridge for six days. nbc's shaquille brewster spoke with them about the rescue >> reporter: indiana state police celebrating two fishermen who discovered a man trapped in the mangled truck stuck under a highway for six days >> it's a miracle that he survived and that he was found >> reporter: just before sunset tuesday police say mario garcia

was searching for fishing holes when they spotted something under this overpass. you didn't know its w was a car >> it was that mangled up. >> reporter: they walked up and found matt pinned inside it ended up on this side of the creek. >> i woke him up he turned around and looked at me with his eyes wide open, like the biggest relief you've ever seen on a person, like are you real we're right here >> reporter: police say he drank rainwater to survive >> his sheer determination that he was not going to die. >> reporter: his family says he's in critical condition but was grateful to be found >> he asked for our names, individually and then he said thank you, thank you very much. >> reporter: an afternoon walk >> i see it as an act of god

>> reporter: turning no what these good samaritans call a holiday miracle. shaquille brewster, nbc news, portage, indiana well, that winter storm is still wreaking havoc for travelers across the great plains this morning. thesnow knocking out power to 20,000 people in nebraska. while parts of colorado saw more than a foot of snow. and we got dense fog coating new york city. the fog extended all the way to the great lakes with visibility down to a quarter mile or less let's take a look at the weather map. the soggy system that drenched yesterday hwill continue soakin new england today. boston will still experience heavy downpours throughout the afternoon. the messy winter storm we have been tracking all week for you continues to weaken as it's now moving slowly south and east it had bwill bring an icy mix to

iowa, illinois and missouri throughout the day other regions forecast to see rain today include the florida peninsula and west coast the west coast staying active for the next several days with a parade of pacific storms set to d cloudyin casper 36. sc salt lake city 39. now to hawaii. a new nbc news documentary explains what went wrong in the run up to disaster some of the images here in this report are graphic we want to let you know that here's tom llamas with a preview of the series "in the ashes. >> reporter: it's the escape from the maui wildfires as we've

never seen before. this is what lahaina resident dough agoe rivera saw as he drove through an inferno with no power or cell service. he had no idea what the situation was. and the smoke, flames and horror lying on the street you see here >> somebody's down right here. >> reporter: were just the beginning. >> so adrenaline kind of kicks in and then i see the crew i'm going to meet up with. and the look on their face is something i won't forget >> reporter: the new film, "in the ashes", reexamines the people and events of the wildfire that killed more than is 100 people and destroyed a community. police did try to evacuate residents. but an apparent break down in official communication left many with no warning and almost no

way out. >> there was no guidance we had to make the decision on our own when it was time to go >> reporter: besides the government response, hawaiian electric, the condition powering hahighna is facing accusations this power lines sparked the blaze. >> i strongly believe that hawaiian electric should have done a power shutoff program that would have been entirely appropriate given the winds were over 70 miles per hour there were red flag warnings >> reporter: until last october, jennifer potter ran the regulatory body that oversees hawaiian electric. did hawaiian electric know this system was vulnerable during these high winds >> if they try and state that they didn't, that would be sort of an insult some of those poles are over 40, 50 years old, and a lot of them are compromised. >> reporter: in a statement to nbc news, hawaiian electric says the cause of the lahaina afternoon fire remains undetermined and that while ms. potter served on the commission

she did not raise concerns about procedures for responding to red flag wind warnings and did not mention the idea of pro actively turning offer the power. the state's attorney general is investigating the fires and government's response. and the survivors still stuck in limbo, with no real answers are searching for a way forward. >> sleep doesn't come easy anymore, you know? it's just the ptsd is real and it's going to be tough for a while, but we gotta make it. we got to do it for the people that didn't. >> and the full documentary "in the ashes" is available for you on nbc news.com. "early today" is back in a minute with the lyle battle that could change the future of artificial intelligence. and not dialing back apple watch returned to shelves despite a major patent dispute s despite a major patent dispute. cold water, on those stains? ♪♪ cold water can't clean tough stains? i'd say that myth is busted.

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year set up humanity's next step toward the stars >> three, two, one we have liftoff. >> reporter: that rocket roar and cheering coming from south texas in november. >> there's separation. >> reporter: was for a much-improved second test of elon musk's starship after the first starship exploded shortly after liftoff nasa and america have strapped their dreams to that spacex rocket that next flight will be early next year. then late in the year, nasa's artemis astronauts will loop around the moon. in 2022, an artemis test flight orbited the moon with no crew. that is the spaceship that will take the artemis two crew around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years this is a nine-day mission a quarter of a million miles just to get there. and this ship is nothing like apollo that carried neil

armstrong and buzz aldrin. it is much more advanced, much more automated already they're training at nasa's johnson center. >> i'm most looking forward to paving the way for the future back to the moon onto mars the fact that we get to contribute to that, absolutely an honor >> we are proud to be a part of the artemis generation we are the artemis generation. and we are going back to the moon >> reporter: later this decade, they hope artemis and starship will raunendezvous and begin building a lunar base. china wants to land its own astronauts there by 2030 also in 2024, boeing is hoping to finally launch its star liner to the space station many years delayed and behind

spacex and jared isaacman will command polaris dawn, another private mission with three others in a spacex rocket set to reach the highest earth orbit ever flown i caught up with them training in colorado. why do this? why do we need to go into space >> i mean, there are questions that we've been asking ourselves since like the dawn of civilization, right? that we don't flow answers to. the universe is so big >> tom, thank you. thanks for watching"early today. i'm jessica layton have a great thursday. i'll see you tomorrow. ll see yo.

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