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drinkers. and what happened after this homeless man lent a helping hand that has everybody talking. it's thursday february 26th "early today" starts now. good morning, i'm frances rivera. right now a fright think new warning in the fight against isis. fbi made it clear in a speech to the attorney general. >> i have home grown violence extremist investigations in every single state. investigations of people in various stages of radicalizing. this isn't a new york phenomenon or washington phenomenon this is all 50 states and in ways that are very hard to see. the warning comes as three suspected isis wannabes are arrested on u.s. soil. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams with what they were allegedly willing to do. >> reporter: at new york's kennedy airport fbi agents arrest add brooklyn man they said was headed overseas to join isis fighters.

they accuse him of plotting with another brooklyn man to get to syria through turkey. authorities say if the men couldn't get there, they talked of staging attacks here. perhaps planting a bomb at coney island or even trying to kill president obama or the police. >> it was made quite plain, based on their own statements that if they were not able to go that they would seek to acquire weapons here handguns machine guns and seek to attack very specifically police officers. >> reporter: the fbi says the case began last august when he asked on a uzbeki website if he would be a martyr if he would shoot obama to strike fear in the hearts of infidels. investigators say even after he admitted posting that message when fbi agents questioned him in august he kept right on planning. the fbi said he e-mailed an isis supporter overseas about his parents saying i need to sneak out of here with extreme caution

without being noticed by them. the fbi says he was under close surveillance in brooklyn meeting with someone he did not was an undercover informant. >> they really make us question the approach federal government takes to young muslim men in america. >> reporter: prosecutors say a third man raised money to help the other two pay for their plane tickets. >> those people exist in every state. >> that was nbc news justice correspondent pete williams reporting. terror risk at a crucial time lawmakers have one day to figure out how to fund homeland security. nbc's tracie potts live in washington. tracie the senate could vote on a plan today which is what the house has been waiting for. >> reporter: exactly. but is it going to be the same plan the house is willing to approve? that is the key question. if not, they can't get this on the president's desk in time by midnight tomorrow and we could be looking at a homeland security shutdown affecting 230,000 employees, most of home by the way, would have to stay

on the job without pay. so they are still doing a lot of back and forth behind the scenes here and getting a lot of pressure from around the country including new york. you just talked about those two arrests. the new york police commissioner is telling lawmakers they need to get this done. >> with all that's going on in washington at the moment the debate about withholding of funding for homeland security this is not the time to engage in activities that would threaten our counter-terrorism capabilities and effectively to hold our counter-terrorism agencies hostage to political machinations. >> reporter: president obama put it that way, too, as a latino forum holding the money hostage. the issue was immigration, whether the president will back off his orders allowing millions of undocumented immigrants to stay in this country. the president said he'll do just the opposite push for more immigration reform. we're waiting to see if they

will meet their deadline tomorrow. >> the ticking of the clock is getting louder as we speak. tracie potts, thank you. as large parts of the eastern seaboard remaple encased in ice this morning we have a massive pileup to show you in bangor, maine. police are absolutely shocked there were no fatalities yesterday. it started as an initial crash involving 25 vehicles on slick roads. that numbered trip he would to 75. some crashed into each other, others veered off the road to avoid collisions. seventeen people went to the hospital. 50 vehicles needed to be towed away. president obama defending his immigration policy. jose today's balart host of telemundo and msnbc for a town hall meeting. president obama had this message for republican leaders trying to undo his executive actions. >> if mr. mcconnell the leader of the senate and the speaker of

the house john boehner want to have a vote on whether what i'm doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. i will veto that vote because i'm actually confident that what we're doing is the right thing to do. >> at one point president obama challenged potential 2016 front-runner jeb bush to do more to pass immigration reform. >> i appreciate mr. bush being concerned about immigration reform. i would suggest that what he do is talk to the speaker of the house and the members of his party. because the fact of the matter is that even after we pass bipartisan legislation in the senate i gave the republicans a year and a half -- a year and a half to just call the bill. we had the votes. they wouldn't do it. >> the rnc tweeted, "obama was against his immigration action before he was for it said at

least 25 times he didn't have the authority." all right. you may be tired of winter but one dog from alabama enjoying the cold here while she can. this pup is lulu from alabama, got to play in the snow after several inches fell in her hometown. in georgia some of the students there at the university look what they did, a little fun on the snow day. a group filmed themselves jumping into the pool with the frigid temperatures. that video on twitter. freezing looking at them but you know they had a great time. more on the weather, meteorologist bill karins. >> why does everyone love snow dogs animals, it's just fun to play in it. >> we're over it. right? >> if you dealt with it more than a couple of days you're over it. the snow in the south is historic. once in generational snow in areas like alabama, grant had 11 inches in alabama. that's incredible. huntsville tupelo top three all-time single day snow event, seven and eight inches. raleigh and charlotte didn't get

quite as much. but areas around richmond washington, d.c., it's snowing out there this morning. see on the map all done in raleigh and carolinas. another couple of inches here maryland and delaware enough snow they will have to shovel as they go through the the morning hours there. cold relentless arctic flow in the north. brutal windchills and temperatures right into the beginning of march unfortunately. some areas like syracuse, new york, haven't gone above freezing in 26 days. imagine that 26 days in a row without a break in freezing. no snow melt no ice melt. in the northwest, there will be showers today especially in the mountains. the cities themselves seattle lso how dry it's going to be in central

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dropping a little bit. again, we don't get a lot of rain out of this but just enough. keep it cloudy cooler. a slow change to weather pattern. >> umbrella worthy? >> yes. >> there you have it. thank you, bill. in entertainment news actress lindsay lohan has been ordered to redo 125 hours of community service. a judge ruled lohan improperly received credit for appearing in a london stage play. the community service stemmed from 2012 reckless driving when lohan crashed into a dumptruck on california's pacific coast highway. did you see this one? madonna at brit awards and to stumble on the cape. one of the back-up dancers tried to pull it off of her but ended up knocking her over. fortunately the pop diva recovered and was able to finish her set. lady gaga will be joining the cast of "american horror story." she revealed the new season's name which is going to be "hotel."

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"today," former police chief said jonbenet ramsey case was mishandled. she was found dead in the basement of her colorado home in 1996. the former bolder, colorado police chief now acknowledges his officers mishandled the probe. the local district attorney's interfered in the investigation. from koaa in colorado springs, homeless man gets job offer. go fund me page after good deed. this weekend he spent three hours helping drivers push stuck cars out of the snow. his good deeds seem to have gone viral. some donated food and offered him a job. another person created this

go fund me page. from forbes mind-controlled drones. scientists work on ground breaking flight. a company said this created a special cap that measured a pilot's brain activity allowing pilots to fly drones with their minds. >> what if they have like a different thought in the middle of the flight. crash? >> i can use a candy bar right now? a little dangerous. "washington post" donald trump says he's serious about 2016 bid, hiring staff and delaying his "celebrity apprentice" gig. he told the post he's more serious than ever about running for the white house. he said, quote, i'm not doing this for enjoyment. i'm doing this because the country is in serious trouble. boston is digging out after several recent snowstorms. the city will begin removing space savers. those are items used to mark off parking spaces residents have shoveled out of. caused a stir but the mayor of boston said if you spend hours digging out your parking space,

you should have access to that space for a reasonable time period. i'm asking residents to remain respectful of their neighbors and their property. people there take parking spots seriously. one parking dispute ended up with what resulted in smashed windows. the message, "not okay." i was in boston for many many years. it is an honor system and it is serious business. >> it's not your right you shoveled out to get your car out. somebody has a chance to pull in. >> i've seen ironing boards save space. >> watching them fight over the space is the entertaining part. veterans affairs on the agenda senate committee will hold discussion on 2016 budget. among those discussing bob mcdonald. pro football player marshall faulk 42 singer badu 44. singer songwriter michael bolton turns 62 years old.

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