congress is saving the shutdown showdown for another day. lawmakers passing a late-night bill to keep the government up and running just in the nick of time but the fight is far from over

of the we're live from capitol hill with the budget battle. a fresh look at an infamous murder case. why the los angeles innocence project is taking up scott peterson's case. bracing for another winter wallop many another dangerous blast of ice and snow sweeping from coast-to-coast this morning. angie lassman is tracking just how bad it could get it weekend. a pet food fight purrina fires back against allegation on social media that its chow isn't safe for dogs and cats, but is it enough to convince pet owners? and papa don't preach. we made it to friday "early today" starts right now hi there glad to be with you. i'm frances rivera we begin on capitol hill where a government shutdown has been averted for now. both the house and senate have passed a funding bill narrowly

preventing a partial shutdown that would have started this weekend. the bill now goes to president biden's desk brie jackson joins us from d.c this move by congress only bought them just a little bit of time >> reporter: that's right. so this is another stopgap solution this new bill pushes the funding deadlines only from january until march. its to prevent that shutdown that would have been triggered at mted any night midnight ton*a at midnight. they did reach an agreement with cl chuck schumer on how much to spend. the new stopgap bill gives negotiators the time they need to pass the final funding bills. >> it allows us to fight for our policy changes ex-ou, our policy

riders, and it takes time to do that to allow just a little mover t mormore time on the calendar >> it's exactly what the american people want to see. no chaos, no spectacle, no shutdown >> reporter: and this funding bill is separate from the national security package that has been stalled over disagreements about border policy some conservatives did ask speaker johnson to add an amendment on immigration to this short-term spending bill but johnson rejected that request, because he said that this issue is too complicated, and he knew that this bill needed to be passed quickly. frances? >> thank you so much, brie donald trump is urging the supreme court to keep him on the colorado ballot. lawyers for the former president filed a brief arguing that trump did not engage if insurrection and that colorado's ban would disenfranchise millions of voters trump is focussed on his main

rival in new hampshire nikki haley. >> nikki haley will never secure the border i don't know that she's a democrat, but she's very close far too close for you. i actually think she might go to the democratic party >> he threw a temper tantrum last night he's doing other things to attack me but won't get if front in /* and answer the questions. rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. >> trump, haley and ron desantis are expected to hold multiple events in this weekend ahead of tuesday's primary. it looks like hunter biden will testify after all in the house impeachment inquiry into his father the president's son will sit for closed-door deposition on february 28. previously, he said he'd only testify publicly in the probe. republicans have paused their efforts to hold him in contempt of congress. the united states is working with saudi arabia to not only end the war in gaza but resolve the wider conflict by

establishing a palestinian state. as an incentive for israel, saudi arabia would normalize relations with the jewish state, but benjamin netanyahu has already rejected the idea out of hand let's go live to claudio lavanga. what do we know about this proposal >> reporter: good morning, frances. according to sources familiar, the proposal includes a framework for the rebuilding of gaza following the war with the help of neighboring area countries, the establishment of a moderate government. but saudi arabia's insistence is that any plan should include a pathway to a proper palestinian state. as you mentioned, benjamin netanyahu has already rejected the idea or the plan outright by saying, and i quote, i'll clarify that in any arrangement in the future, the state of israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea this truth i say to our american

friends. an israeli prime minister has to be able to say no, even to the best of friends. another israeli member who says no is isaac herzog who was in davos. he underscored the significance of normalizing relations between israel and saudi arabia but at the same time said the israelis are not ready to think about a peace process, especially when they feel threatened by hamas in the south and hezbollah in the north. let's take a listen to what he said >> every israeli wants to know that he will not be attacked in the same way from north or south or east. >> reporter: now before october 7th and the hamas attacks, israel and saudi arabia were well on course to normalize relations, but now that comes with preconditions that israel is not ready to accept the disagreement that also puts israel and the u.s. on a collision course as israel deviates even further from the united states, frances >> claudio, thank you.

a devastating report on the uvalde school shooting confirms what many already know the police response was a failure. the significant factor was that the officer treated the gun plan as a barricaded threat and not active shooter the grandmother of one of the murdered children shared her reaction with nbc's morgan chesky >> this is why i am so angry with those officers that were right outside the door right outside the door while we were sitting out there wondering what was going on inside there, while they were sitting there lying to us. >> the report uncovered heart breaking new details like parents being told their children had survived when they were already dead. new this morning, an unexpected development in the case of scott peterson in a notorious case, he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife back in 2004, and sentenced to death a year later. but now his case will be taken up by the los angeles innocence project. a non-profit dedicated to exposing wrongful convictions.

the group says they want to get flu evid new evidence from peterson's original trial where he pleaded not guilty his lawyers tried to get limb a n him a new trial in 2022 but a judge denied it. here's nbc's emilie ikeda. >> reporter: as the unrelenting streak of perilous weather powers on. a plane skidding off the taxiway in rochester, new york >> use your discretion an aircraft just slid off. >> reporter: emergency vehicles surround the plane, racing to evacuate the 53 people on board. luckily, no one was injured. with the deluge of snow and ice over the pacific northwest, crossing country treacherous roads sending cars sliding from washington to alabama. >> it's cold, freezing >> reporter: a year since a

blizzard killed dozens of people around buffalo, western new york transformed again by winter's wrath. this restaurant is bear lay recognizable, frozen by bone-chilling temperatures and buried by a sea of lafk-eke-eff snow, parts of the area have seen more than 60 inches of snow since saturday that's almost as tall as i am. >> reporter: hundreds of trucks working to clear roads >> you really have to be careful. >> reporter: over the last week, at least 47 people died in the extreme weather nation wide. >> [ bleep ] holy [ bleep ] >> reporter: three of those victims killed when a power line fell on their car in oregon. de'andre white's family believes he died of hypothermia, remembering him as someone who would always help others and in tennessee, a state of emergency after the most recent

storms claimed at least 14 lives. this dramatic video just released by state police in nearby kentucky, capturing the rescue of four stranded college students who had been camping. wind whipping around them. the paraj of conditions burying communities coast-to-coast >> the powerful storm is pushing into the northeast today nbc meteorologist angie lassman is timing it all out for us. we'll see how we'll change our plans. >> we might have to change the travel plans we've got 98 million people under alerts as the system works into the northeast, mid atlantic through this morning and into the afternoon hours. here's the deal right now with your radar you can see some of the snow falling from the great lakes to the mid atlantic we've got a wintry mix happening, too that's going to make the roads

kwiek quite slick. we are still left with the snow across roads, travel will likely be impacted, and notice what happens as we get in tomorrow. we see these really strong and cold winds set up. and that means more of that lake-effect snow that they do not need near lake erie and lake ontario but will definitely get. we'll see upwards of a foot to two feet for those areas closer to i-95, anywhere from an inch to four inches we'll again see impacts when it comes to air and road travel more than 40 millioa des moin do

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