medications to treat adhd. the high demand combined with low out put from lawmakers have prolonged the shortages. pharmaceutical companies say they aren't getting enough ingredients to make the medication. a position the drug enforcement agency defuts. the "indianapolis star" reports multiple states are reporting new cases of measles. the cdc issued an emergency warning last month after identifying cases in several states with some tied directly to international travelers. the highly contagious virus was declared eliminated in the u.s. back in 2000. that does it form us this morning. we'll see you tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on "ana cabrera reports," donald trump back in court. the former president arriving just moments ago at a courthouse

in florida. the latest in this case involving classified documents found at mar-a-lago as the special counsel details an immediate threat to witnesses. plus, international outrage. nato now responding to trump's comments that he would let russia do whatever the hell they want to nato allies. also ahead, a test of tensions between president biden and israel's leader as new nbc news reforth biden has called his countera, quote, a-hole, and the race to replace george san tolls. how the fight for the notorious politician's seat has big implications for the gop's small majority in the house. e house. thank you so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. breaking news at a courthouse in florida this morning, where

former president donald trump arrived for a closed hearing involving classified documents found at mar-a-lago. you can see there are trump supporters on hand there. this is the first time trump has attended a hearing in this case since his initial appearance. it comes days after special counsel jack smith warned of specific and immediate threats against witnesses. msnbc's katie phang is outside that courthouse in florida. also with us, former federal prosecutors and former special counsel to robert mueller, michael zeldin and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. great to have all my brilliant legal minds with us. katie, in terms of what to expect in this hearing, does trump have to be there? >> reporter: no, not only does he not have to be here, but it's highly unusual for a criminal defendant to appear for this kind of hearing. normally it's just defense counsel. i will note, ana, that the co-defendants to donald trump, walt nauta and carlos de

oliveira are excluded from today's hearing. the big question is why is donald trump here? we have a little sound that will probably clue us in as to why he decided to make the trip from mar-a-lago this morning. >> they ended up with the now famous raid on mar-a-lago. we're having a talk and they raided my house. they did it for publicity reasons. they did it for election interference reasons. >> reporter: so, ana, you heard that, the publicity reasons he's blaming the doj for. we know donald trump enjoys that publicity. you can't see, but behind the courthouse there's an entrance called a sallyport. that's where there's a secured ability for someone like donald trump to enter with secret service detail. there are about 100 supporters here today, mainly peaceful. it's a big show i guess for donald trump to arrive. this is the first time he's attending any type of court

hearing in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. he doesn't have to be here. candidly, he's not going to speak as i'm sure danny and michael will agree with me, having your own criminal client speaking up in court is something to be seen. you've got to kind of picture this, right? he's in court with aileen cannon, the presiding judge, with no department of justice lawyers present. we're not going to know what's going to happen because it's closed, but we're definitely interested in seeing what the results are. >> danny, is there any impact his presence could have on the legal proceedings here? >> yes and no. in theory, having your client there may show the client is interested. maybe that's trump's theory. katie is exactly right. there's absolutely no reason for trump to be at this particular hearing. it doesn't really serve his interest in the sense he likes thiks r things to be public. it's a sealed hearing. if you wanted something public and reported, this is not the hearing to have it done. it's not a dispositive issue as

far as i know. it's sealed as far as i know. something that might result in the case being tossed. you might expect donald trump to be there as a show of force. to be there for a hearing on something that isn't possibly going to end the case, it does seem a little strange, that even taking the legal element aside, if you just want to make a symbolic appearance or act out in court in a theatrical way, which trump has done in other courthouse, state and federal courthouses as well, this is probably not the one to do it. again, it's sealed. >> he can't talk about what's happening inside, right? >> yes. katie brought up another thing. sometimes your client don't listen to your advice and they speak up in court when they shouldn't. it's never a good idea. it's not something the judge wants to hear. trump knows that. i assume he knows that. he doesn't seem to care. he'll do it anyway. it doesn't held your case. maybe trump doesn't care that much about helping his case, although he probably perceives

this particular judge, aileen cannon, as being favorable to him. again, if you're going to appear for a hearing, maybe pick one where the stakes are higher. >> trump's team has been claiming selective and vindictive prosecution. most recently his team filed a motion on friday to dismiss the case referring to the new hur report and the decision not to charge president biden. hurr made several material distinctions between mr. trump's case and mr. biden's are clear, underlying the evidence involving mr. biden, the allegations set forth in the indictment of mr. trump, if proven, would present serious aggravating fax. michael, is there any validity to this trump argument of selective, vindictive prosecution? >> not on evidence publicly available to us, and on evidence that's not publicly available to us, the hurr report, hurr, as

you say, ana, has specifically set forth in his report the distinctions between trump and biden. he says, look, i anticipate someone is going to argue biden got off and i didn't get off. let me tell you why that's not available. he sets it out in great detail and says most importantly, given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, trump allegedly did the opposite. he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he enlisted others to destroy evidence and then lied about it. those are material issues where this motion would be dead on arrive. danny is right, this is not a dispositive motion. this is not a motion to suppress evidence and end the case, but it is about turning over witness names and other important information that the government

says must be kept secret to avoid witness intimidation, and here it is, donald trump there on this motion, on intimidation showing up in a sense trying to intimidate the court? i'm not sure, ana. it's a very strange motion for him to be there on except that it deals with intimidation. >> katie, it was just last week special counsel jack smith revealed specific and immediate threats to witnesses in this case, warning against the release of documents to the trump team. do we know anything more about the nature of those threats? >> reporter: ana, i just wanted to clarify what we're doing today is actually a classified information session wherein the government and the defense talk about whether or not certain classified documents should be turned over. separate and apart is going to be a hearing on whether or not the government has to unseal certain information that the government has indicated would cause a threat of harm through the course of witness intimidation and other type of tactics on behalf of the

defense. there has been the disclosure of an active criminal investigation into one of these witnesses that has been threatened on social media. so, as we know, this saturday there was a deadline from judge cannon to turn over one of these discovery exhibits to just the defense team alone and not to make it public. that's what's pending, whether or not the public ends up getting information that otherwise jack smith want to keep hidden. >> danny, how carefully does the judge need to proceed here, given the potential threats against witnesses? >> what's interesting is jack smith said to the judge she applied the wrong standard in determining what information to release. to take a step back, we're dealing with classified information here. often it's the case that either side has to make motions. you write up a motion and attach exhibits. the record is presumably public. it goes live, it's out there. even if you file something way

inappropriately inappropriate. you can put something in the public record in seconds, i can do it right now from my laptop. if they're saying defense has access to all these classified documents. we need rules on what gets put up on the electronic case filing system. the government is arguing to the court or has argued to the court, look, you applied the wrong standard. you made us show too much. you made us operate under too much of a burden here. it's actually lesser. there's a little drama there. any time you ask a judge to reconsider her opinion, you're basically saying, judge, you got the law wrong, go back to the books, take a look again. always a nerve-racking motion to file. >> i want to ask about another case, michael. we're watching very closely what trump does. he had until today to ask the supreme court to take up his presidential immunity argument in the election interference case. just a quick reminder,he

judges with the d.c. appeals court denied his immunity defense. >> he's going to file a motion for cert in the supreme court. no question about it. he can't really go to the court of appeals and get the trial stayed. the three-judge panel said, you can go to the court of appeals in d.c. for a review, but we're not staying the trial. this trial is going to go forward. only if you go to the supreme court will we issue a stay, so that's where he's going to go. then i think the supreme court meets in conference on the 16th of this month, and they will make a decision about whether they want to take this case. if they do want to take this case, are they going to take it on an expedited basis. ana, by the end of the week, we could possibly get a ruling, if you will, from the court about the immunity case. i don't think they need to, but we'll see what they has to say.

>> mark the calenders. friday is the 16th. that's when we expect them to meet. thank you michael zelnick, katie phang, danny cevallos. when we're back in 60 seconds, trump draws global eyre as he says he would tell russia to, quote, do whatever the hell they want with nato allies biden allies rushing to dismiss concerns about a blistering special counsel report. also ahead, you thought the snow was over. get ready for weather whiplash that could impact millions. later, a super bowl that lived up to the hype from an overtime win with taylor swift and 2 sgie from the chiefs celebrating. >> viva las vegas. leave va, viva, viva las vegas! s that can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks.

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international backlash this morning for former president donald trump following the comments he made over the weekend telling a crowd he would let russia, quote, do whatever the hell they want to nato allies he feels aren't doing enough. nato secretary-general reacting to the comments saying that, quote, allies won't defend each other puts american and european soldiers at increased risk. let's bring in nbc's garrett haake for more on this. garrett, how are members of trump's own party reacting to this comment? >> the reaction from overseas is quite different from the reaction we've seen from rangers. it's a reminder how much the party has changed from 2016 to 2024, where reaction from the gop to these comments used to be quite strong, over the weekend it's been pretty muted, including from current and former opponents of trump within the party.

listen to what we heard. >> he was talking about a story that happened in the past. by the way, donald trump was president and he didn't pull us out of nato. he's been president before. i know exactly what he's done. >> what poses as a national security risk is the possibility that he could be president of the united states again. we need to take him at his word, kristen. donald trump, when he came into office in 2016 was scared. he was afraid to be president. as a result he listened to a lot of good people around him, general mattis, general kelly and others, about these issues. in a second term he would not. >> marco rubio's lack of concern there is notable given he was the co-author of a provision that passed last year in the senate toic ma it harder for any future president to pull out of nato in the future. you have to wonder who he was worried about then if not trump now. the trump campaign is saying this is how the former president talks, this is how he notes.

they point out the fact that he didn't pull america out of nato in his first term and there wasn't this war with ukraine in his first train. this more hawkish republican party and the trump way of talking about this and way of perhaps bulge back from the world stage is the heart of the tension of what remains of this republican primary with nikki haley among the few republicans calling donald trump out for this rhetoric over the course of the weekend. >> garrett haake, thank you for all of that. joining us is msnbc political analyst richard stengel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. rick, good to have you here. you heard marco rubio brush these comments aside. what do allies hear? what does putin hear in those comments? >> once they hear is once a landlord, always a landlord. he uses the same language about people paying rent and being in arrears, the same thing he used in 2016. members of nato don't pay rent.

the only requirement is you give 2% of your gdp to your military spend. >> which they don't all do. >> which they don't all day. it came up a lot in the biden administration and came up sometimes during the trump administration. also part of the great toe agreement is article 5, which is one country is obligated to come to the aid of any other country that's the victim of aggression. >> that's the most important part. >> that's the most important part and it only happened once after 9/11 when all the nato countries came to our aid, sent people to afghanistan. it's something that keeps us safe. it's the most successful military alliance in history. so, of course, they're nervous about this, and, of course, he might have pulled america out of nato in a second term. of course, whose great dream is that? vladimir putin's great dream. >> congress just passed a bill to prevent a president from pulling the u.s. out of nato.

it would have to go to congress to take any kind of action. let's talk about the impact of these remarks. we heard from the nato secretary-general responding in part, quote, any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security including that of the u.s. and puts american and european soldiers at increased risk. can you expand on that? how serious is this, and what kind of potentially harmful impact could these comments have right now even with trump out of office? >> remember, you have vladimir putin invading the largest country in europe, ukraine, which is not a member of nato, will potentially be a member of nato, should be a member of nato. there are also small countries on russia's border that are members of nato. poland, they're very nervous about this military hedge man doing the same thing.

he's never moved troops to a nato country, putin hasn't, and i don't think he will while this agreement stays in effect. >> what's your response to the trump campaign arguing this kind of tough talk has worked in boosting these nato members' defense spending in the past. so don't listen really to what he's saying. it's all part of that strategy. >> there's been more increases in nato defense spending under president biden than there was under president trump. they looked at him and couldn't tell whether he was a buffoon or a stooge of putin or what he was trying to do. it seems to me within international relations, people like to see you've learned from experience, learned from the past. there's no evidence that trump has. >> richard stengel, good to have you. defense secretary lloyd austin, the man in charge of our nation's armed forces is back in the hospital this morning, he was admitted for a critical care unit for a, quote, emergency bladder issue. he since transferred his duties

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vote yes on e. welcome back. this past super bowl weekend the white house was trying its own offensive play, pushing back hard on special counsel robert hur's report which took several hits at president biden's age and memory. nbc's allie raffa joins us from the white house with more now. allie, what are we hearing? >> reporter: a full-court press over the weekend by the biden campaign, sdk allies, even the president's personal attorneys for his ability to serve as a second term as president in the aftermath of the special counsel report. this was really an all hands on deck response. we saw the white house circulate this memo over the weekend

quoting republicans who in the past have complimented the president on his mental fitness, saying on multiple occasions former house speaker kevin mccarthy has emphasized how smart, sharp and tough he finds the president. the best they can do to shift the messaging around it is to put people who regularly interact with the president out in front of the public to talk about their experiences with him. that's exactly what we saw this weekend when dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and biden campaign co-chair mitch landrieu were on "meet the press." >> i'm telling you this guy is tough, he's smart, he's on his game. this kind of sense that he's not ready for this job is a bucket of bs that is so deep your boots will get stuck in it. >> the most difficult part about a meeting with president biden is preparing for it because he's

sharp, intensity probing and detail oriented and focused. >> reporter: ana, over the weekend the biden campaign saent rare email in the first lady herself in what she addressed we know was the most personal and painful for the bidens, one of these accusations in the report about the president not being able to remember the date of his be loved son beau's death. i can't imagine someone would try to use our son's death to score political point. two senior campaign advisers telling nbc this email is their most successful and best performing after the email they sent when the campaign was actually launched. >> allie raffa, thank you. joining us is mark mckinnon, former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain. and also adrienne elrod, a former senior aid to the biden/harris 2020 campaign.

as biden's team is making this robust defense, nikki haley made this oddly specific prediction over the weekend. take a listen. >> my bet is 30 days from now i don't think joe biden is going to be the nominee. >> it's a different path forward for democrats even an option at this point? is there a desire for that? >> is this for me? >> yes, adrienne. >> absolutely not. i don't know where this came from, it bewildered many of us. we're not quite sure where nikki haley is getting the information. jad is already effectively the no, ma'am need. there's a primary o process, a couple other candidates who are geing far less than 1% in the primaries we've had so far. so joe biden is going to be the nominee and he should. he's had an incredibly successful track record, four major economic bills, the first black woman on the supreme

court, kept the nato alliance together, added two new countries to the nato alliance. i could spend all hour going through his accomplishments. i won't because they speak for themselves. he's going to be the nominee. >> donald trump questioning where haley's husband is, currently deployed overseas. take a listen. >> where is her husband? oh, he's away. he's away. what happened to her husband? what happened to her husband? where is he? he's gone. he knew. he knew. >> i am proud of michael's service. every military spouse knows it's a family sacrifice. if you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don't deserve a driver's license let alone being president of the united states. >> mark, this is a little reminiscent of when trump mocked john mccain for being a prisoner

of war. how do you make sense of this? >> it's a lot reminiscent. when donald trump attacked john mccain saying he's not a war hero, i like people who weren't captured, that was a moment at which myself and a lot of other people who had been in the republican party thought there was no way he could win the nomination. these kind of things are not going to surprise the base of the republican party. this is not going to fracture off supporters. this is the way donald trump has been since he attacked john mccain. the problem here is, for joe biden, is that i don't think there's anything that trump is going to say -- we talk about his nato attacks, his attacks on haley's husband. there's nothing he's going to say in this campaign that's going to surprise anybody or dislodge supporters. what's key is for biden to reenforce supporters that he's up to the job. let me just quote doug sosnick, a very smart democratic strategist from "the new york times." i think he nailed it. he said voighters will be given

daily reminders for the next nine months for how chaotic the next four years will be if trump is elected. in the end it will be up to biden to convince voters he's up to the challenge into his 80s. >> i don't understand, adrienne, why trump would risk it, go after a person serving overseas. she's out selling we love our military t-shirts. could it backfire on trump, these comments? >> you know, i don't think it's going to backfire with his base. i think mark just nailed it. his base is going to be with him. we know that. his base is not going to get him elected president of the united states. how does it appeal to the swing independent voters that will ultimately decide this election, it's not going to bode well. it didn't bode well when he made those comments about john mccain. it won't bode well with these

voters either. i don't understand why the maga base ab septembers them, why more republican leaders are not disavowing these comments. i do agree with nikki haley on that, that we need to hear more from the republican leader that these comments are not acceptable. but the bottom line is, it is not going to help donald trump by any stretch if he continues to make these comments in the general election. >> so we did talk about the comments that trump made about nato this weekend, saying he'd encourage russia to, quote do whatever the hell they want. mark, the crowd actually cheered when he was talking about that. how do you explain that? how does that statement register with republican voters? >> it's pretty head-spinning for somebody who served under george w. bush and john mccain do see how completely different this is from the approach the republican party took for really its history.

donald trump has truly reshaped the republican party in his image. his image is an isolationist. it's not to protect or defend our neighbors and allies as we have historically. to see people not only disagreeing with him, but applauding it, it's really troublesome for people like me who now feel like they're on an island in the all right. >> this is a man who wants to be commander-in-chief. >> that's right. so i think adrienne is right. this is going to be decided on the margins. we know what the base of the republican party thinking. the question is going to be how do things like this impact the really important swing voters that will decide this in november. >> mark mckinnon and adrienne elrod, thank you for the conversation. we're looking ahead to a special election with national ramifications when long island voters head to the polls tomorrow to decide who will replace expelled and indicted congressman george santos. the face-off between little

known republican macy phillip and former democratic congressman tom suozzi will determine how razor-thin the margins will be. sahil kapur is joining us from great neck new york. sahill, how important is this seat for both parties in the house? >> reporter: good morning from long island. the special election is tomorrow, and it is between maz zi phillip the republican, tom swauz zi, the democratic. it's a vitally important special election for two reasons. the first is the immediate implications on congress. republicans currently have a wafer-thin majority, 219-212 votes over democrats. we saw last week how tenuous that is, when that vote to impeach alejandro mayorkas, the dhs secretary, fell short by one single vote, ended in a deadlock. if republicans had that vote, that historic failure for them

could have turned out to be a historic impeachment, the first in 150 years. this seat will either give republicans a little built of an extra cushion or put further pressure on them to compromise with democrats if that shrinks. this is a bellwether district, one of several in suburb new york city that has trended a little bit from blue to red. it's the type of district both parties feel they need to win in the larger battle for the house. let's take a look at this race. a recent sienna kedge poll found tom swauz zi leads 48-44 over mazi pilip. on the issues, on addressing migration, that's a huge issue here, pilip has a nine-point edge on dealing with abortion. this is a pro-choice district. swauz zi also leads on the matter of protecting democracy and making congress work. talking to voters here, a couple of things stand out, there's

dissatisfaction with both parties, joe biden and donald trump are both unpopular. and voters are embarrassed by expelled representative george santos. >> it is one to watch. thank you so much, sahil kapur. next, israel says they have rescued two hostages taken by hamas. what it means for the pending cease-fire deal and the possible assault on raffa. later, a woman with a wiefl opening fire at joel osteen's meg gar church. what the famous pastor is saying about this incident. s pastor isg about this incident. covid-19? i'm not waiting.

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back with new hope today for the families of hostages still held by hamas as israeli security forces say they've rescued two cities from the raffa. palestinian health officials say the dramatic operation which included air strikes killed dozens of gazan slins including

women and children. right now israel says it's working on a plan to evacuate gazans away from raffa ahead of a military offensive moving in there. tensions are running high. nbc news learning exclusively that president biden has been frustrated over his inability to persuade israel to change its military tactics. prime minister netanyahu a primary obstacle. nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter joins us from jerusalem. let's start with the rescue. does this impact the broader hostages talks the bikes has been heavily invested in? >> reporter: we're getting more details about this daring hostage rescue operation that happened overnight. this account is only from the israeli military that at 1:49 a.m. israeli troops entered a building in raffa. raffa, as you mentioned, is the southern-most city in gaza. we have video released by the

israeli military, an aerial video shows troops going into a civilian house, oather men, both israeli hostages. about a minute later you see a mass save wave of air strikes. you can see this in the video. you can see these air strikes pummel this neighborhood. this speaks to how challenging it is to operate in raffa. it's so packed right now, 1.4 million palestinians have been told to go to raffa because that was apparently a safe area. now israel talking about the ground incursion, where the operation took place last night. as far as the hostages, both of them flown by helicopter, reunited with their families in tel aviv. both in good condition. as far as the talks go, what we know from a senior administration official speaking to colleagues of ours in washington, d.c. is they're pretty much there, but gaps still remain. we do see a lot of diplomatic

activity. cia director in cairo this week. we're watching closely specifically for the gaps to close. >> molly, stay with me. i want to bring in major john spencer of west point's modern war institute. major, this was a dramatic rescue. israel says about 100 hostages still remain in gaza. how does this military operation impact the booeder effort to get the remaining hostages home? >> i think it's a signaling that israel's approach is the correct approach. israel's military pressure lead to actionable intelligence which this historic operation involving basically the nation of israel to retrieve hostages in such a densely populated area where hamas is using human shields, i think it shows israel's approach of clearing dense urban areas, that the hostages are in southern gaza and the best way to bring them home and to create a new phase of the operation for the palestinian people is to

continue to do these very intelligence-driven operations and clear those urban areas. >> everybody wants to see every hostage freed, of course. just remind our viewers that dozens of hostages were freed under the previous hostage-negotiated deal, when they exchanged palestinian prisoners for dozens of israeli-held hostages in gaza, now three have been rescued by the special operations. too few, still. the warnings of a ground invasion into raffa have escalated the tensions among the international community, egypt who shares the boarder with raffa warning of dire consequences, saudi arabia warning of serious repercussions. a million people are there in the south. slins were told to go south. they've been pushed down into raffa. where are they supposed to go now? >> reporter: that's exactly right, ana. they were told to go here. when you talk about the

consequences of the operation last night, gaza health officials say dozens of civilians in that area were killed. our team was out film in gaza at the hospitals, at the local areas, you see dramatic videos who have already evacuated from other parts. the criticism from europe, the u.s., some of israel's australian chest allies. when prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke with president biden last night, ana, in the readout we got from the white house, the president reaffirmed his view that a military operation in raffa shouldn't continue until the safety and security of more than 1 million people. clearly that plan has not reached the u.s. desk and has not been announced by any israeli officials to have a way to keep those people safe. really some of the strongest criticism we've received, we've heard, has been from egypt. as you mentioned, a strategic

ally in this. the strongest language, dire consequences. they talked about how really this is an effort to displace palestinians out of gaza into egypt, something egypt doesn't want. ana, they say this risks the peace treaty. >> major, nbc news has exclusive reporting about president biden and netanyahu's relationship with president biden saying his israeli counterpart is, quote, giving him hell and is impossible to deal with. the national security council says they have a respectful relationship. but i've got to wonder, could there be a breaking point for biden and where is that breaking point? >> i have no clue, ana. i know they have decades long of a relationship, both positive and turbulent. i agree with the calls that israel is and should continue to develop plans to evacuate civilians out of combat areas, to include any area necessary to eliminate the last remaining two

battalions of hamas that are using them as human sheelthdz, but israel has done that. by all measures, to include my study for decades of urban operations, israeli has gone above and beyond any army on the planet to prevent civilian harm. i think they'll continue to do that. israel has reduced air strikes, reduced casualties, they've reduced the number of operations. i understand the relationship is tense and it's a tension for the world. but i think the best way to end this is to continue to do the operation with extreme care, but to finish hamas. >> you obviously have the expertise that so many of us don't. when you hear 28,000 people have been killed in gaza, that is heartbreaking data point. of course, that number coming from the palestinians in gaza by hamas. thank you so much, retired major john spencer and molly, always

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from houston. morgan, what more are you learning? >> reporter: ana, police say this is very much an active investigation. we do no federal investigators have been involved in the early overnight hours gathering evidence we believe at a home that could belong to shah shooter about a half hour from the scene of the crime. keep in mind, this church serves upwards of 45,000 people each and every week. police say they -- the shooter walked in just before 2:00 p.m. yesterday right before a spanish service was set to start, and that's when this woman opened g incident that has shaken this church community, ana, to its absolute core. a sunday service interrupted by a terrifying sound in a house of worship. gunfire blasting through lakewood church's spanish service, the pastor pausing only to hear more shots ring out. the chaotic scene unfolding after police say an unidentified

woman armed with a rifle and wearing a trench coat walked inside and opened fire. >> a shooting at lakewood, two people down. we need an ambulance. >> reporter: a young boy in critical condition, another church goer shot in the leg. two off duty officers are credited with fatally shooting the suspect. police saying the wounded child arrived at the church with the female shooter but won't speculate if officer who is returned fire were the ones to strike that young victim. >> if it was, unfortunate, and that female, that suspect put that baby in danger. i'm going to put that blame on her. >> reporter: officers telling nbc news the woman was wearing a backpack and said she had a bomb. they also say she sprayed an unknown substance on the ground, but the bomb squad found no explosives. >> this is an isolated incident, we believe, at this moment, okay? no further danger to our public.

>> reporter: this morning the shooter's motive is still unclear, but is part of an ongoing investigation. for church member mariah who just moved from colombia, the fear hard to fathom. >> i thought that maybe i will die after that. i just sent a message to my husband say that i love him. >> reporter: pastor joel osteen stressing had it happened just minutes later, even more church goers could have been targets. >> we don't understand why all these things happen, but we know god's in control. >> reporter: and right now we're still awaiting an update on the condition of that child wounded in this shooting that was last listed in critical condition. meanwhile, police are clarifying, there were rumors early on that there were potentially two gunmen involved e here. they say right now that they do believe this woman acted alone. ana. >> morgan chesky, really terrifying, thank you for that report. so winter isn't finished with us yet. as many as 49 million people are now under winter alerts stretching from the midwest into

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okay. heavy eyes, maybe an extra cup of coffee for the more than 100 million americans who tune in to watch the kansas city chiefs beat the san francisco 49ers in the super bowl. nbc's kaylee hartung has all the highlights for us. kaylee. >> reporter: hey there, it's as if the chief's entire season was encapsulated in this one game. it started off slow but in the end delivered unbelievable drama, only the second time in the history of the super bowl that we got overtime, bonus football in the super bowl, doesn't get any better than that as the chief's stars travis kelce and patrick mahomes proved

why they are the nfl's next dynasty. >> jackpot kansas city! >> reporter: the kansas city chiefs are champen yos again, their overtime victory over the san francisco 49ers making them the first team to win back-to-back super bowls in almost 20 years. >> viva, viva las vegas! >> reporter: the chiefs' hard fought win a nail biter until the very end. san francisco's defense dominated holding kansas city down through the first half. >> pancaked by armstead. >> reporter: keeping them to just 3 points as tempers flared on the sideline. >> he comes over to andy, he goes keep me in. >> reporter: but in the second half -- >> 10, 15, 20 -- >> reporter: some mahomes magic tied it up, forces just the second overtime in super bowl history, the final play punctuating a clutch drive, the moment caught me coal hardiman

completely by surprise. saying he blacked out. >> he looked at me, i said -- he had no idea, i said, dude, we just won the super bowl. >> reporter: and breaking the hearts of 49ers faithful who came into sunday as the favorites. >> just know that the kansas city chiefs are never underdogs. >> reporter: its most famous fan, taylor swift who was seen hand in hand with mama kelce, and sealed the victory with a super bowl kiss with boyfriend travis kelce. swift arrived in sin city just hours before kickoff, but the pop star was ready to party, throwing back a drink in the stands. the energy on the field only amped up at halftime. >> reporter: as usher rolled onto the world's biggest stage, his career spanning spectacle bringing the heat, featuring lil john and ludicrous and a fan favorite slow jam with alicia

keys. ♪♪ >> reporter: but they were far from the only stars shining in vegas, lebron james, lady gaga, jay-z and beyonce all in attendance. the queen bee even had a few surprises of her own. >> time for a surprise drop. >> reporter: appearing in a verizon super bowl commercial and dropping two new songs from her highly anticipated album and follow-up to renaissance. still, it was the chiefs who were over the moon. >> you got to fight for your right to party! >> this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that i've been able to go through three times now and, man, it gets sweeter and sweeter every time, baby. >> reporter: now with three super bowl wins in five years, kansas city's dynasty dreams are coming true. >> let's put that dynasty into perspective, with patrick mahomes winning super bowl mvp he joins tom brady and joe montana as the only players to ever win that award three times, and patrick mahomes is just 28

years old. he has accomplished more in his six seasons as a starter than so many of the greats of the game accomplished in their entire careers. and then there is coach andy reid winning his third super bowl. there are only two coaches who have won more than him, that's bill belichick and chuck nole. we are watching greatness in realtime. >> it was a fun game, thank you, kaylee hartung. that's going to do it for us today, see you pack here tomorrow, same time, same place. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning, it is 11:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josé diaz-balart. we begin with breaking news, what's happening behind closed doors right now in the case of classiied documents found at mar-a-lago. world leaders criticizing former president trump for his remarks saying he would not protect nato countries from russia if they fall behind on their membership payments. >> no, i would not protect you. in fact, i would encourage them to