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trump committed snurinsurrectiod whether his name can remain on the ballot a precision drone strike killing an iranian-backed militia leader blamed for an attack on american forces. as tensions mount across the region an exclusive report on why the white house may soon take executive action prince william breaks his silence, speaking out for the first time about his father's cancer diagnosis the and just in time for valentine's day, big hopes for the little blue pill how viagra may fend off alzheimer's for men. "early today" starts right now good morning glad you're with me, i'm frances rivera hours from now, the supreme court will begin hearing arguments in a historic case the justices have been asked to decide if donald trump can be

excluded from colorado's primary. the decision could have consequences, major ones, as more states consider b bank the repu banning the republican frontrunner from their ballots. >> reporter: the colorado supreme court decided that donald trump could not be on the military citing the 14th amendment. the justices will need to decide if the events of january 6 were an insurrection, and if so, did trump participate. if the court rules against trump, this does not mean he is immediately disqualified from running. that decision goes to each state. colorado and maine have signaled that they would remove him while others have said they would not. this, of course, is not the only legal battle donald trump is facing any day now, we are expecting a verdict in the new york civil fraud trial. and on wednesday, a federal

judge rejected his motion for a mistrial in the e. jean carroll case in georgia, trump's attorneys are once again going after fulton county d.a. fani willis, arguing she should be disqual disqualified and trump's interference case should be dismissed. they say she made comments last month when she insisted that comments against her were racially motivated trump's lawyers are trying to get the charges dismissed in the mar-a-lago classified documents case they plan to file multiple motions to try to get those charges tossed out frances? brie, thank you. now to a nbc news exclusive. the biden administration is considering new executive pactin

to deter illegal migration across the border. republicans officially killed the national security package wednesday. the senate is now trying to pass a stripped-down version of the bill that takes out the border parts and leaves the aid for ukraine, israel and taiwan senator schumer says there will be a vote today. a procedural vote did pass last night, 58-41 but for final passage the bill would need 60 votes. five u.s. marines are missing after their helicopter crashed in california. the marines say the crew departed from creech air force base near las vegas tuesday night, heading to marine corps air station miramar in san diego county. the search for survivors is a race against the clock because of severe weather in the remote area where the aircraft went

down a u.s. drone strike has killed a militia commander in baghdad, part of the retaliation for the attack in jordan that killed three american soldiers centcom says the target was directly responsible for the attack on the american forces in the middle east. >> reporter: according to the oust, abubakar al saadi was the militant operator responsible for the killing by a drone of the three u.s. troops in jordan last month the u.s. says planning to take out al saadi began after those troops were killed and once there was an opportunity to carry out that attack the u.s. jumped at it they killed him in a drone strike really in the heart of

baghdad in a residential area on a busy street, prompting protests from iraq's armed services which says this was a clear-cut asass nation t , the /* /* iraq's military says this will push the government to wanting to end the operations of the u.s. in iraq, in other words, to kick the u.s. out. they say iraq bears some responsibility for the fact that its territory is being used to carry out deadly attacks against u.s. troops in the region. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has rejected the palestinian counter offer to an american hostage release proposal hamas envisions a phased withdrawal during which all israeli captives are be released crucially, the plan would leave hamas in place in the gaza strip. raf sanchez has the story.

>> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken insisting there's still a path to a deal to free israeli hostages, after israel's prime minister rejected a new list of demands from hamas >> clearly, there are things that hamas sent back that are absolute non-starters. but at the same time, we see in when was sent backspace to continue to pursue an agreement. >> reporter: hamas was responding to an american-backed proposal, saying it will free all its hostages in exchange for a four and a half-month cease-fire, leading to an end of the war. the release of thousands of palestinian prisoners and a total withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling the hamas proposal delusional. giving in to hamas' bizarre demands not only won't bring the relieve hostages, it will just invite another massacre, he said in gaza, israeli strikes hitting

the city of rafa mohamed stares at his hands, slaking uncontrollably in khan yunis, we fall troops deep underground into a tunnel that they say was for top commanders, and then a discovery. this was a cage where at least three israeli hostages were held you can see there is a slot for what they say was delivering food and here a lock from the outside. >> reporter: somewhere in these tunnels, more hostages, waiting desperately for a deal >> our thanks to raf for that report at least six people are still unaccounted for, including children, after a shootout that injured two officers at a home near philadelphia. police say they were responding to reports of a 11-year-old shot and a suspect inside immediately started shooting at officers amid the chaos, a fire broke out at the house as more authorities arrived on scene investigators are still combing through the debris for victims,

and both of the injured officers are expected to survive. abortion rights groups are fighting to get protections added to florida's constitution. florida's supreme court heard arguments wednesday about whether a proposed amendment can be added to the november ballot. the state is asking the court to keep the measure off the ballot because lawyers say it uses words like viability, which can have different meanings. the court is supposed to decide fort language accurately describes what the amendment will do. california racing to clean up after a deadly storm with more wet weather on the way. at least nine people have been killed in the state-wide storms. hundreds of mudslides have been reported some of the hills are just barely hanging on. but the west coast is not out of the woods just yet angie lassman is here tracking the snow falling out west. what are we expecting? >> we've got additional snowfall across parts of the rockies through the day today but we've also got a little bit of rain working through portions of southern california.

that's going to start towrap ups the day goes on. we've got saturated ground 19 million people included in the flood watch that will go through this morning we've also got winter alerts up across much of the west. those mountain ranges expecting to peck up additional snowfall but snow expected across parts of the northern plains, not to mention showers that will work across parts of the great lakes. by tomorrow we see the tennessee valley and carolinas deal with shower activity and we ramp up that rain as we get into your saturday your saturday plans may include needing the umbrella as you're heading out parts of the southeast. we'll get beneficial rain. but by the time this is all said and done we could pick ukansas

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que s we saw very small growth > growth as for the top-selling drink, it was vodka. premixed drinks retained popularity the coca-cola potentially reviving the soda warswars, i tickling consumer taste buds with spiced soda hot on the heels of pepsi launching a product last year. what does it taste like? raspberry and spiced flavors it's not spicy, it's bold. >> i like that there's zero sugar. b maybe we'll give it a shot, maybe with a shot, too imagine the super star who

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see this collection for the first time hoda kotb has the story. >> reporter: aalicia keys and her husband are unveiling something big. >> we've been collecting for the past 20 years. >> reporter: for the first time, more than 100 works from the couple's private collection are on display at the brooklyn museum the exhibition, titled "giants", features works of nearly 40 black artists from all over the world. i'm just imagining little kids walking through here can you picture it depicted in this beautiful way >> yeah. a lot of color, displaying 30-foot works. when people walk no thinto the , i want them to feel that they can be as giant as they want to be >> we deserve to be on all the walls of all the giant spaces. >> reporter: themes range from the modern-day protests to

celebrations, like this painting from derrick adams >> we never really see photos of people of color in pools i mean, just like pretty cool. >> reporter: giants, features emerging artists and trail blazers, including photographer gordon parks >> you realize we couldn't do this without all the people that came before us >> we collect from our heart, all of artists that's in the show are actually friends. >> reporter: one they count as a close friend is wylie, known for his iconic 2018 portrait of president barack obama >> what we do as artists is we zoom in on the every day, the things at that we take for granted and we say this, too, is graceful >> reporter: now the couple hopes to make a lasting impact >> when you're a little kid and you have all these dreams in your head, you don't even flow what's even possible and so to see it happen, you

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