from the grocery store. >> does it have anything to do with what the fed will do in terms of rate cuts? >> yeah, absolutely, the fed is looking at the numbers and saying inflation is down, and they want this number to be somewhere closer to 2%, and the federal reserve not likely to cut rates as soon as some households and analysts may have expected, and some say maybe that will happen earlier in the spring. >> thank you so much for breaking it down for us. good to see you. that does it for us. see you back here tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. filling in for katy tur. thank you for joining us. i am ana cabrera, reporting from

new york. josé diaz-balart picks up the news coverage. in new york, people are voting right now in the special election to replace expelled congressman, george santos. why the stakes are incredibly high for the entire nation. the senate passed the $95 billion security package to help israel and ukraine, and why it might not hit the house floor anytime soon. in texas, we have details about the shooting inside joel osteen's houston mega church. what investigators are saying they are finding. and donald trump making a last ditch effort to avoid prosecution in the 2020 interference case. we again this morning with a winter storm that is blanketing the northeast, dropping several inches of snow per hour from pennsylvania to massachusetts.

right now 46 million people are under winter alerts as officials are warning residents to stay inside. boston has declared a snow emergency as it braces for up to a foot of snow. new york city schools moved to remote learning with it expecting the biggest snowstorm in more than two years. flights around the region already canceled. and joining us, tremaine lee in brooklyn, new york, and bill karins. how are conditions where you are? >> reporter: it's stark contrasts as what we saw over the weekend. we continue to see the snow pile up and pommel the northeast, and we are seeing the rain transition into the snow and that impacts the consistency of

the snow, and it's wet and heavy and you can see the weight of the snow on the tree branches here, and that speaks to one of the concerns from officials that the branches could break and topple on to power lines. in pennsylvania, 100,000 people there are without power. as we walk over here, the other major concern is travel. it can be treacherous, and when we were driving out here several hours ago it was already slick and now the conditions are worse. not far from where i am standing this morning, we saw a car that slid off the road and into an embankment and nearly down a 20-foot ravine, and police say that driver is okay. looking broadly at the travel impact, air travel, for instance, more than 1,100 flights already canceled across the country today, and jfk, newer and laguardia airports among the hardest hit.

>> take care of yourself. tremaine, how are things meanwhile looking in the city? >> reporter: my favorite park in brooklyn, and we have already seen a parade of people and their dogs and the children with their sleds, and the largest public system in new york city, 1.1 million students were not on a snow day but back home with remote learning, and some parents and students were saying they could not log in and get zoom, but today folks are starting to stream out. this is wet and nasty and officials are urging folks to stay off the roads. officials with the mta said subways and buses are on schedule, but the fleet of buses, 5,500 of them have been out there with their chains, and some of the trucks from a new chaining system on their wheels, and while they are asking folks

to stay off the roads, folks are still streaming up. they are asking folks to be careful out there. >> thank you. bill, what is going on right now at this hour? >> we are 70% done with the storm, and in western pa, the hardest hit areas outside of philadelphia south of the poconos and northern portions of new jersey. we are in the winter storm warnings, and not have seen the heavy totals in long island, new york, and probably three to six inches, but the roads are much better. providence all the way down towards cape cod, we could still see the one to two-inch per hour snow rates. d.c., baltimore, you are done. new york city, one hour from now the snow is over with and that will progress this evening throughout areas of southern new

england. additional snow on top of what you have, maybe new york, central park, one to two inches. philly, you are done. hartford, one to two for you. has not been a lot in boston, probably ending up with a total of two to four inches. and in the islands, we could get an additional 3 to 6 inches. the coastal areas in new jersey, about 31, and 43 in nantucket. cape cod is closer to the storm and that's where the greatest impacts will be for the winds. we expect minor to moderate flooding. at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon, we will see high tides towards nantucket, and we expect minor and over wash on the shore, too. >> bill, it seems like it's a relatively small storm, there's nothing major behind it? >> no, we get a little quiet

weather and then towards the upcoming weekend, we will talk about california again, and they have another el nino storm coming in on saturday and sunday. >> thank you. in the face of the winter storm, voters in new york's third congressional district are heading to the polls for today's special election. it's a race that could have a big impact on washington. voters are deciding who will replace george santos, who was expelled in congress in december. joining us now, nbc's yasmin, and how is it looking there? are you talking to some heading to the polls on this wintry day? >> reporter: it's certainly wintry, to say the least. i am starting outside, because every single person that has been coming into the school throughout the day has been coming in, and they have been shaking off because there's so

much snow outside and then walking over here to jerry to give them their address and get their location as to where they want to go. you are the star of msnbc this morning, and give us a sense of how folks are showing up this morning. we were 160 -- 161. where are we this hour. >> the probably about 255, 260 now. >> reporter: what are your expectations for the day considering how important this is for this district? >> close to 5,000. >> is that what you thought would happen? >> i expected 150 to 200 max, because we had so much early voting, and the early voting there was 10 and 20-minute waits for the voting, and i thought it would be light but it's not. >> the star of msnbc, josé. thanks, jerry. i will talk to you in a bit. when we talk about special

elections, josé, and we talk about turnout, and normally with the special elections turnout is not that great but as you heard from jerry, looks like even with the weather conditions happening outside, people are still showing up to vote because it's an incredibly important election to them. i asked folks outside this middle school why it was so important to them, and what matters most to them in this election. here's what they had to say. >> i am a democrat. i don't believe in what the republicans are doing. i would like to see somebody in place taking care of business instead of being a hater and creating problems for everyone. so that's why i am here. >> taxes. and what do you call it? the economy. >> reporter: we also heard a lot

about immigration as well. tom suozzi held the seat, and and kornacki can speak to the implications of this election, but one thing i noticed with all the folks i have been speaking to, and a lot of the women here, it seems, voting democrat today whereas a lot of men that i have been speaking to plan on voting republican, josé. >> thank you. send my best to jerry for me, would you. >> reporter: i will. >> steve, let's talk about the national implications of the race, and that district, it was a plus biden heavy, right? >> yeah, this is a unique district. this district, new york's 3rd. this is long island over here, and then basically this is the

line that separates long island from new york city. there's a portion of the district that is in new york city. it's actually in queens, and it's the outer part of the borough of queens. this makes up about 18% of the vote, and the last election of the vote was 18% of the vote and that came from the queens portion, and the rest came from nassau county, and that's a big suburban county on long island. this is a district, and there are not many in the country that voted for joe biden in 2020, and biden carried this district over donald trump by eight points. in the mid-term election in 2022, this was an open seat, and suozzi who used to sit in it, was running for governor. santos came in and ran by eight points, and so a 16-point swing there, and a big part of the republican success in the

district in 2022 and all of long island in 2022 and a lot of the new york city suburbs, it was a reaction, it seems, to new york city, to democratic control, crime, quality of life and those sorts of things, and what republicans are running on, they have spent a fortune -- so have the democrats, on television ads. the ads feature suozzi negatively, and not much about pilip. it's an interesting test here. suozzi, former congressman and long-time political fixture in nassau county going back three decades, and does that name and familiarity overcome a big shift in the last few years towards the republicans. which of those two things will win out? the familiarity of suozzi and

the long-time bond between him and the voters, and i think that's the question. >> steve on that mid-term, the 2022, was that an outlier as far as how it traditionally runs? >> well, if you went back 40 years, you were talking about one of the most -- 20 years ago it started to change and became more of a democratic county, and then in the last five or ten years, there has been a resurgence of republicans in nassau county, and they have won a whole bunch of offices here, and the success the republicans had in this district and along long island, they had a good night in the 2022 midterms, but not on long island, and it was

the reason they were not able keep the house. more drama over the aid package for ukraine and israel, but another attempt to impeach of the homeland security secretary. and then trying to find a deal to free the hostages still being held by hamas. we're back in 60 seconds. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. protect yourself with pfizer's abrysvo... ...a vaccine to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. it's not for everyone and may not protect all who receive it. don't get abrysvo if you've had an allergic reaction to its ingredients. a weakened immune system may decrease your response. most common side effects are tiredness, headache, injection-site pain and muscle pain. ask your pharmacist or doctor about abrysvo today.

14 past the hour. we are following breaking news from capitol hill this morning. just hours ago the senate passed a critical $95 billion national security package that includes aid for u.s. allies, including ukraine, israel and taiwan, but it does not have funding for the border. the future of the bill uncertain in the house. just this morning, silent majority leader, chuck schumer,

had this message for mike johnson. >> i will speak to speaker johnson, i am confident there's a large majority in the house that will vote for this bill. i am confident there are many republicans in his caucus -- i know, i have spoke to a whole bunch of them, who feel strongly we ought to pass this bill, and i will urge speaker johnson to step up to the moment and do the right thing. >> joining us this morning, co founder of punchbowl news, and msnbc contributor, jake sherman. good to see you. any possibility the speaker heard what the senate minority speaker was asking? >> sure, he heard it, but i am not sure he will follow that. the house is gone for a week and they will come back and have government funding to deal with by march 1st, so a tricky calendar for them.

here's the questions that we will have for mike johnson and the house republican leadership? are they going to bring this to the floor? that is seemingly, no. will they try to add border security or strip ukraine out, and vote on the things separately? i don't know the answer to that. there's the fail-safe, which is a discharge position by which 218 house republicans and democrats have to sign a petition to force the legislation to the floor that the leadership is ignoring, and that's a high hurdle to get done, and some democrats will drop off because of the funding to israel, because some don't like that. they will have intense pressure on many republicans not to sign this petition. just a very tricky calculous for johnson and for the house republican conference at large when it comes to the bill. >> so back to the senate thing,

the house couldn't come together to pass that bipartisan immigration bill, the migration bill, budget bill, whatever you want to call it, and didn't address the millions of undocumented people living in the country, the dreamers, and none of that was in there, and is there any appetite at all to get things done on the border, immigration, or anything like that? >> there's an appetite but the appetite is for the hard lined hr-2, the house republican plan that passed a year ago, and it lost republican support and got democratic support and would have no chance in the senate and no chance getting on to joe biden's desk. there's an appetite, and what house republicans have not realized or rallied around is the art of the impossible, and it's not take my offer and take it to the bank or you don't get anything done. in that respect there's no

appetite to compromise truly from hr-2, because the senate bill, which had border provisions initially where house republicans rejected that out of happened, and even the border patrol union suggested it would be better than nothing. anyway, i don't think there's a chance there is going to be any meaningful compromise on the border this congress. >> yeah, it seems as though for many there are political benefits to things that are actually damaging, you know, and it's -- it's really unfortunate that that is the state of affairs. meanwhile the house is expected to try again tonight to impeach homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas? >> yes, there were an unexpected number of democrats in attendance, and steve scalise,

the house huh skwroer tee leader that has been out all year receiving stem cell treatment for his blood cancer he was diagnosed with last year, he will be back tonight. we expect it to pass at some point today and we expect that to be sent over to the senate where they will have to dispose of it when they return from their recess at the end of the month. >> bunch bowl news called last week's failed effort one of the biggest belly flops, and i believe belly flops could be part of the olympic sport on capitol hill the way it's going. >> it is. >> thank you, my friend. this morning we are learning new details about the shooter that opened fire inside joel osteen's mega church on sunday. two people were hurt including the shooter's 7-year-old son, who police say is fighting for his life. tom winter joins us. what more do we know? >> investigators focused on a couple different avenues as far as where they can go from here.

moreno, obviously deceased as a result of the firing of the gun, and then off duty law enforcement officers firing back at her. the whole thing, police say, lasted only 12 minutes from the moment she pulled up at the mega church to the moment she was shot and killed after firing, what we are told, approximately three dozen rounds in the course -- in the entirety of the event. the three areas of focus, number one, should she have had a gun? she's had six prior arrests and there's no indication here at this time she ever had a felony conviction, which, of course, could have been an issue. there's a documented history of mental health, an emergency detention order and that was in 2016, and it appears the guns were purchased legally. and was it a terrorists attack or hate crime? there's a difference between the two. or is there something else given

the individual's health history that could have prevented this. she recently had a dispute with an ex-husband and his family. they are jewish, but there's no indication they attended this particular church, so why did she choose this church? we are hoping to get a copy of the fed search warrant executed at her home, but what were the chemicals law enforcement found there. there was some indication first reported, and they are trying to determine whether or not those chemicals could have been used to make an explosive. what quantities were there, and did she do research on that, and that's something they will look out to try and determine all of those things. it appears the gun was purchased legally, and it certainly appears based on the timeline

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27 past the hour. breaking news this morning, the state department has confirmed that a u.s. citizen was killed in the occupied west bank on saturday. the department declined to identify the citizen. meanwhile right now cia director, bill burns, is in cairo on a potential deal to free the hostages, and biden and the king of abdullah discussed the operations in rafah, which is where israel told palestinians to flee for safety initially. this satellite image shows what the city looked like back in october. this is what it looks like now. more than 1.4 million people are currently displaced in that

city. joining us now, nbc's molly hunter from jerusalem, and also an msnbc contributor. molly, what happened in the occupied west bank? >> reporter: josé, we are getting details on this right now, and my producer minutes ago was able to reach his father, so we have a little new reporting to share with you. the state department says we extend our deepest condolences to the family and we are working together to press the government of israel for further information. and i can tell you about a 17-year-old that was killed on the 10th of february having a picnic in a suburb of jerusalem, and he was out with friends and family and got back into his car and that afternoon around 4:30

p.m. he was shot in the head by israeli forces. this is according to his father and the defense for international palestinian organization, that tracks incidents like this. they say 98 palestinian children under the age of 18 have been killed since october 7th, and we are getting more information from his family and will stay on the story for you. >> thank you very much. molly, what is happening in rafah? what do we know about the negotiations going on in cairo? >> we are a split screen today, and we are watching what is happening in rafah and what is happening in cairo, and it feels like a race in the negotiations. the u.s. sent bill burns to cairo where he is meeting with israeli counterparts and other officials from around the region, and then another race,

the clock is ticking, and we see that satellite image to show how impacted it has been. the palestinians were told to go there because it's safer, and our crew has been out speaking with people today. take a listen. >> reporter: now, there has been a heavy criticism from the u.s. and international organizations that the israeli military does not have an executable plan, and

they are trying to help. >> thank you so much. molly was referring to that, and we are seeing what is a growing split between the leaders in the u.s. and israel, and president biden asking for a halt in the actions. >> we have heard secretary blinken and president biden calling for a cease-fire, and they will tell you privately they believe a cease-fire is not only the best way to funnel more humanitarian aid to gaza, but to bring an extended period of calm to the area for the aid to go in, and it would be difficult for israel to go back to the same level of air strikes and assault on the ground after the extended period of cease-fire. that's what they have been for

privately for many, many weeks, and now publicly they are pushing for that, and it's clear that is not the plan for netanyahu. that split is out in the open for everybody to see. molly laid it out there so well, but you can't underscore enough how desperate the situation is on the ground for the more than 1.5 million gazans that went to rafah because there is supposed to be a safe place. there's no place else for them to go. more than 60% of the structures and otherwise in gaza already were leveled by the ongoing israeli offensive. we hear this from the palestinian families about forced displacement outside of the gaza strip, and they do not want to leave their homes. where is a safe space for them to go to? the split you mentioned, we will see how that plays out.

>> it's so complicated, and you are absolutely right. there are not a lot of places where people can move near that area, and still not have to go to egypt, which is not acceptable. where can they go? it's a million and a half people, while at the same time yesterday the idf said they were able to get two israeli hostages out in that exact area, and it's so complicated and difficult. >> i mean, the layers of challenge here, josé, are extraordinary, both for protecting civilian population, and the u.s. has been asking israel to do, and the international court of justice weighed in and asked israel to do everything they can to prevent additional civilian casualties. we also heard from king of jordan yesterday expressing some

of the concern regionally, what it would mean for the broader region were there to be palestinians seeking refuge in neighboring states. this is a regional concern, but at the heart of the discussions right now is the u.s. and israel. an assault would be devastating. molly mentioned concerns about a catastrophe, and it's already a catastrophe on the ground, and famine and disease are already issues, and there's no support for civilians in gaza. it's hard to imagine how it could possibly get much worse. >> always a pleasure to see you. thank you, my friend. appreciate it. >> thank you, josé. up next, donald trump asks the supreme court to intervene in one of his cases again, and what the court just said in response. we will go live to one section of the southern border that is seeing a major increase in asylum seekers trying to cross into the u.s. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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38 past the hour. we have new developments in washington where just this morning two sources told nbc news that an audio reporting was made of the interview president biden and special counsel robert hur and his team had, and the interview lasted five hours but

there's no information on that. in his report the special counsel declined to prosecute the president for his handling of classified documents but cited instances of what he called a poor memory. there are new developments this morning in the legal issues surrounding donald trump, and he asked the supreme court to put a hold on the immunity ruling. the supreme court asked special counsel jack smith to respond by the 20th of this month, and that's a week from today. this came as the judge overseeing the georgia election interference case of trump and his allies said he would be

going ahead with the trial on thursday, diving buy the issues with the case. let's start with the trump appeal to the supreme court. what is going on there and how are things going to play outgoing forward? >> good to tell you, josé. a district court ruled against trump and the appeals court ruled against trump, and there's nothing typical about any of these proceedings. the trick here as we discuss the other cases is not think of this case in isolation, and in a sense former president already won because he wants to control which trial goes to court first and that's poised to be the hush-money case out of new york, which would have been his preference from the beginning. >> what is the status quo?

what is it that is in place now after the supreme court decided to take it and have some comment a week from today? >> after the supreme court decides to take it, it will remain in a statis period until they decided all they are going to do. nothing can happen before they receive the briefing coming back from jack smith, and then they will decide whether or not they want to hear the case the same way the court of appeals heard the case. the practical impact of that process is nothing can happen at the trial court level until the appeal process is completed, and that's what makes the hush-money case out of new york be the first case to go to trial. >> what could this hearing have on the relationship between the two prosecutors, what does that potentially mean for the case? >> a challenge here as we go from discussing cases where the law matters to get down in the dirt, because we are talking about trial tactics.

it could result in fani willis being removed from the case and the possibility of that happening is low, but it doesn't mean donald trump and his legal team have a victory here. i think they already won regardless of the outcome in the hearing. this is why. nobody likes having their dirty laundry aired, and fani willis is going to have her dirty laundry aired and they are good at maligning people. >> donald trump will be in new york for the pretrial hearing in the hush-money case we were talking about. what can we expect from that hearing? >> the hush-money case, this is the last hearing they will have before proceeding to trial, and we will talk about when the trial date will occur, and the fact that you get a trial date, it doesn't mean it will really go to trial on that date because

things get reset all the time. and everybody already forgot what it would have meant in 2016 for the hush-money payments to have been uncovered in a close election. it would have been a huge deal. this case shows how much a delay in time makes people refocus their attention to the benefit of the person facing the charges. >> thank you so much. good to see you. >> you, too. up next, the dow falling more than 400 points after the inflation report. what it means for you. we will go live to ukraine. more than 700 days into russia's invasion. what our own richard engel is learning. you are watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. p. that's a pretty good burn, right? when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i would be. but here i am...

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48 past the hour. right now ukraine officials are

anxiously awaiting for what is next for the u.s. security package. next week it will be two years since the war in ukraine started. joining us now from ukraine, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. two years. just amazing. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: josé, i have been covering this country for much of the last two years and i have not seen things as bleak as they are right now. there's a sense of apprehension, depression, that you can sense talking to ukrainians, talking to soldiers. the latest offensive that ukraine launched, its counter offensive didn't work. now the ukrainians are outgunned and outmanned by the russians, and they are very worried what might be coming if donald trump returns to the white house.

i was just earlier today in the city of erssan. russian troops are a few yards away from the city center there, and i spoke to people have have known for about two years now, and they were part of the resistance movement in erssan, and in many ways it incapsulates the entire experience of the country of the last two counteroffensive, the ukrainians came in. they were working behind enemy lines, including the people i reconnected with today. they drove the russians out. now from positions nearby, the russians are continuing to attack. most of the population has left. about 70% of kherson's residents are out of the city. the people who are living there are under constant attack.

a lot of the city is destroyed. we went to a shelter under a theater and saw kids -- because there are people in the city. most people have left -- who are for the last two years living underground and spending many nights in bunkers underground. they say that the situation is not sustainable. if they don't get more weapons, they're going to lose the city, they're going to lose this war. they are very worried there's an almost of the republican party backed by president trump that already wants to cut the funding from ukraine. they see if the funding is potentially drying up now or certainly harder to get than it used to be, they worry what could come down the line in the next year or so. >> richard engel, thank you very much. appreciate it. after the break, we will go live to the border in california where we find our own david noriega.

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to wall street where the dow jones industrial average is down by about 437 points at this hour. the markets reacting to the inflation report, which came in hotter than expected. brian chung joins us this morning. what exactly does this report tell us? why the reaction? >> it tells us the battle with inflation is not done. that 3.1% figure, that's how much prices increased between january of this year and january of last year. here is the perspective on what those yearly figures have looked like over the past few years. peak inflation in 2022, 9%. we made progress. but we have been going sideways since then. here is the 3.1% we got this morning. what economists say is we want to get to 2%. we are not there. here is the reason why we have seen inflation remaining so sticky. as one analyst i saw describe it, a little bit disappointing and frustrating as well. it's because of shelter. the cost of putting a roof over your head. these are monthly changes.

you can see it accelerated between december and january. costs are going up for just living, which is the biggest expense for most families. here are things people are spending on a daily basis which it comes to your average groceries in addition to gas. compared to a year ago, it's not that much worse when you consider prices are basically about the same among the four categories, egg, gasoline, milk and bread. eggs are a little more expensive than this time last year. prices not getting cheaper. that's why inflation, that battle is such at the top of mind heading into the election. >> thank you so very much. to the latest on the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. the epicenter appears to have shifted from texas to arizona and california. u.s. customs and border protection says both states are seeing an increase in migrant encounters. david noriega joins us. why is this shift happening. what are you seeing now?

>> reporter: good morning. i want to walk you through a little bit what we have seen here this morning. this is a secondary fence. there's another fence behind it that separates san diego from tijuana. this area in between the fences is u.s. soil. the border patrol has been using this as a sort of informal open-air detention site for mie -- migrants. you can still see some migrants we found here this morning are being processed. they are in the vans about to be taken to holding cells. there was a group of 60 or 70 migrants that had been here for many hours. i spoke to one of the migrants and asked him what motivated him to come to the u.s. border. i will play you a clip.

>> reporter: what he said, that he had been kidnapped and extorted by an armed group. i heard similar things. they are fleeing for security reasons, for physical safety in the face of organized crime. this has been happening for several months. the movement is shifting from texas, it has been active here for a while to the point where you have volunteer groups that have set up these semi-permanent aid installations to give people water, food, hot drinks, offer them legal advice. we have a group of migrants waiting to be processed. this tent is a group that is -- is a facility that the american friend service committee, a quaker religious organization set up to help migrants who arrive. they have legal and sort of practical information that they give people showing them -- telling them what to expect once they are in border patrol

custody. they have it in multiple languages. they have a number of ways that they have been helping here. they have been doing this for months, because what we are seeing here today, this is the daily reality on the u.s.-mexico border. >> david noriega, appreciate that. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the senate approves billions of dollars in aid for ukraine, israel and taiwan in an all nighter. the house speaker won't promise to give it a vote. democrats trying to find enough republicans to out flank the speaker and his far right supporters. we will have the politics with the whole world watching in a