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evacuations in the east. and another storm is already brewing. a gop split screen and the countdown to the caucus. sparks fly in iowa as donald trump puts on a show of his own while his rivals faced off on the debate stage crushing news for the crimsonnicnnick sabak saban isng it quits keeping artificial intelligence out of real music the iconic space shuttle is m in a brand-new exhibit hi there, good morning i'm frances rivera millions of americans are now in recovery mode this morning after a string of monster storms tore across much of the country killing at least five people many in central plains are

digging out from heavy snow while others in the northeast are drying out ased into waters recede nearly five inches of rain were dumped on the already-drenched region a tornado outbreak in the south leveled buildings like this one in south carolina. the moment it collapsed caught right there on camera. in north carolina, a historic home dating back to the american revolution went up in flames during the storm the cause is still under investigation, but officials suspect downed power lines sparked the place. and an avalanche killed one person and injured others. and another storm is coming in from the west. >> here we go again. we've got men tplenty of alerts across the country we have a storm system that's going to take pretty much the same path as the previous system winter alerts right now topping

40 million and that's as that storm continues to push east we'll likely see more of these alerts pop up through the next couple days. this swings through the plains and does bring some folks a bit of snow. we'll also see that colder air starting to work into portions of the northern and central plains we'll tell you about that coming up in a bit. but as we get to friday, that's when it becomes really impactful. we've got snow draped across portions of the great lakes. and this just isn't going to be heavy snow the flooding concern had be there plus the potential of strong to severe storms over the next couple days lasting from the afternoon to the evening hours with the chance for more tornados in the picture. fran stes frances, back to you now to iowa where republican candidates are making this final pitches before the caucuses.

donald trump spoke at a fox town hall where he hinted that he already knows who his vp is going to be. but the campaign quickly down-played that comment saying nothing has been finalized good morning, brie >> reporter: good morning, frances. it was a very busy night in the hawkeye state. the moderators asked mr. trump how much time of his potential second term would be spent focussing on getting back at his political rivals the former president has promised retribution multiple times on the campaign trail, but he answered last night by saying he wouldn't have time for it >> i'm not going to have time for retribution. we're going to make this country so successful again i'm not going to have time for retribution. and remember this. our ultimate retribution is success. >> reporter: and frances, as you mentioned, trump's top two rivals in the primary were back in the debate stage last night

nikki haley and ron desantis wasted no time launching attacks at each other. haley repeatedly called desantis a liar, while desantis called haley as a moderate who cannot get things done. >> she blames other people, leadership is about getting things done. stop making excuses. make it happen >> if leadership's about getting things done, how did you blow through $150 million in your campaign, and you were down in the polls. are you not a manager. >> very instructive about what the -- >> i think i have the floor. >> governor, governor, governor desantis >> important -- >> governor desantis. >> what is more important here >> governor desantis, it's geefrn governor haley's time. go ahead >> i think i hit a nerve >> meanwhile, chris christie has dropped out of the race. christie's bdeparture may and

boost to nikki haley's campaign, but he was caught on a hot mic saying he doesn't think she's up to the challenge christie is not expected to make an endorsement until after the iowa caucuses monday >> we'll be ready for it, brie, thank you. hunter biden will be arraigned in los angeles on tax charges. it comes after a day when he gate crashed a congressional hearing with his lawyers two committees voted to hold the president's son to be held in contempt of congress for ignoring a subpoena. as israel and gaza near a full hundred days of war, the palestinian health ministry says the death toll in gaza has reached more than 23,000 people. our raf sanchez has the latest on diplomacy in the region >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken has met with mahmoud abbas. it was by all accounts a tense

meeting. the min palestinians calling for an immediate cease-firecease-fire the palestinian authority also frustrated that israel's far-right finance minister is withholding palestinian tax revenues collected by israel they are calling on the united states to do more to free up that money the u.s. has said that's something it wants to see. but so far the israelis are not budging, and this comes as israel prepares to defend its conduct in gaza n front of the international court of justice, where south africa has brought a case against it, accusing israel of genocide. the case will be heartd by 15 international judges and much of the evidence that

south africa has supplied to the court is based on the casualties figures inside of gaza, but also statements made by israeli officials from the israeli president on down, which south africa says points to a genocidal intent on behalf of the israeli government meanwhile, the israeli military is saying two palestinian journalists killed in an airstrike earlier this week were in fact members of hamas and palestinian islamic jihad, a smaller militant group the israeli military supplying what it says are documents, proven that these journalists were members of these militant factions nbc news has not been able to independently verify those documents. we've reached out to al jazeera, the part-time employer of one of those journalists and haven't yet heard back, but more than 70 palestinian journalists have been killed so far by israeli

forces inside gaza, according to the committee to protect journalists. >> raf, thank you. we told you about the storms marching across the country, and there is also a round of bitter cold impacting the east this weekend. angie lassman is tracking all of that for us. hi, again, angie >> bundle up it's time to at least. a of folksa of folks are going the coldest weather of the season these numbers sitting way below normal, and it only gets worse as we go through tomorrow. 8 degrees in omaha this spreads farther to the east as we get into next week and we see places like chicago drop down to 3 degrees washington, d.c. ends up into the 30s. places like minneapolis, though, saturday, sunday, monday, it's going to be a struggle to get abe orov9 degrees.

birmingham hits to 60. and that's a look at your forecast, frances. >> the football world was rocked wednesday by two unexpected departures alabama head coach nick saban announced he would be retiring after a coaching career spanning nearly three decades his legendary run led to six championship runs with the crimson tide and the sea headqhawks announcey were parting ways with pete carroll, although he would remain in a supervisory role "early today" is back in a minute with boyneitcoin, and

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