you too? build the wall wednesday. president trump expected to fund a border wall between the u.s. and mexico. but that's just the beginning. with no evidence to back it up, the white house doubles down on the claims that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegal in the election. stomach viruses tearing through u.s. schools as it reaches its peak season. and what went wrong at this railroad crossing. "early today" starts right now. good morning everyone. it's shaping up to be a very busy day. president donald trump lays the ground work and sets the mechanism of government in motion to make good on his most

overwhelming campaign promise. tweeting late last night, big day planned on national security. among many other things, we will build the wall. nbc news can report the president is expected to sign an executive order directing federal funds to be shifted towards starting that process of building the border wall. the very same one that served as a rallying cry for the candidate throughout trump's entire campaign. they say president trump will enforce mexico to ultimately pay for that wall. the president will head to the department of homeland security today to sign the order and it comes weeks before he meets with his mexican counter part. whether today's move is more than just opticsi or following through with a campaign promise remains to be seen. >> trump would invoke through a bush era law, the secure fence act of 2006. a law that was backed in congress by then senators barack obama and hillary clinton. for 2006 fact sheet the law was

signed by bush to towards comprehensive immigration reform, something trump has been against. and "the new york times" reports today's border order is just one in a series of actions to quote crack down on immigrants including slashing the number of immigrants to settle in the u.s. and blocking syrians and others from entering temporarily. mr. trump plans on taking action against sanctuary sites, locations that adopted policies to protect undocumented immigrants. they targeted one such city in this late-night tweet. he tweeted if chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going up i will send in the feds. >> that wasn't the president's only evening post as he praised one cable news channel and bashed its competitor for their inauguration coverage. tweeting congratulations to fox

news for being number one in inauguration ratings. they were many times higher than fake news cnn. the white house doubled down on the president's false statement when he told congressional lawmakers that millions of illegal votes had cost him the popular vote. the associated post reads dogged by popular vote media coverage. we have all of the details. >> reporter: this time it's not candidate trump repeating voter fraud, but president trump with the white house now officially endorsing a debunked conspiracy theory that millions of people voted illegally. citing studies that don't back up his claim, the press secretary backing up his boss, who told congressional leaders at a reception monday night that quote illegals, people voting illegally cost him the popular

vote, if proven, it would be fraud on an unprecedented scale. something that could undermine an entire election yet the white house confident in the president's victory. >> why not say he will investigate if he believes in the things's position that there was massive voter fraud. >> he said 3 to 5 million people could have vote illegally based on the studies we have seen. we are here on day two. let's not prejudge what we may or may not do in the future. >> the national association of secretaries of state standing by its confidence in the systemic integrity of our election process. not aware of any evidence supporting the president's voter fraud claims, but open to learning more about the administration's concerns. >> free and fair elections are the bedrock of our policy and seems like president trump is trying to take a jackhammer to it. >> republican senator lindsey graham all but tweeting with the president to allow a free and fair election.

>> our president has to learn is you don't get to think out loud. you don't get to have casual thoughts, you have to move forward and talk about things on the empirical data. >> despite the apparent focus on election conspiracies the president continued to plow forward with bold actions. resurrected two controversial projects, the keystone xl pipeline, and the dakota access pipeline. casting it as the campaign promise capped to create more jobs. sean spicer insists construction on the pipeline will happen fast despite opposition. from native americans and environmentalists. nikki haley is going to washington, being confirmed despite her lack of foreign policy experience. haley tweeted this image last night wrying thank you south carolina. i will miss you. she's expected to be sworn in after senators voted 96-4 on her nomination. while the senate is expected to

hold a full vote on exxon mobile chief rex tillerson as secretary of state sometime next week. another trump nominee where a senate confirmation hearing takes a turn. the controversial surrounding president trump's inauguration and the falsehoods told by the administration regarding the crowd side made its way into congress's walls. watch while democratic senators press trump's nominee to weigh in. >> i wanted to start with what he referred to you as a bold truth teller. i have behind me two pictures taken at about the same time of day in 2009 and 2017. which crowd is larger, the 2009 crowd or 2017 crowd? >> from that picture it appears the crowd on the left is bigger than the crowd on the right.

>> what if he tells you to say something other than the truth? do you resign at that point? >> i don't imagine the president would tell me to lie. >> i beg your pardon? he told sean spicer to go out there and say things that were demonstrably untrue. >> i'm not sure, privy to the conversations between the president and mr. spicer, so i can't comment on that, i'm not sure if that conversation took place or not. a stomach bug called the norovirus is spreading across the nation. officials shut down one high school. to scramble to contain the outbreak. it hit some 20 million americans per year. no vaccine and it's extremely contagious. >> it can also contaminate the environment. >> here are some tip to prevent it. wash hands and hot water for at least 30 seconds. hand sanitizers are not sufficient. the virus can live on in dishes and bedding, as well.

so you got to handle those with disposable gloves. wash in very hot water if you can. disinfect surfaces with a bleach-based cleaner. >> we have antics plin nation for dayton's sudden collapse at the state of the state address. the government released that he has process state cancer, but he still intends to serve the final two years of his term. >> people deserve a governor that's qualified to perform a job intellectually and physically. and i believe i am. i expect to be judged for how well i perform. >> daten says there's no evidence that the cancer has spread and he will be tweeted at the mayo clinic. switching gears to what's considered to be the holy grail of snowmobile stunts. this is pretty scary. a swedish man successfully lands the first double back flip pulling off two full rotations. the man who did it, daniel bowden. a three-time x games gold medalist. believe it or not this is not

his first world record. in 2008 he performed the longest snow mobile back flip launching his sled 150 feet. we call it getting some serious air time. >> you don't consider the practice it involves. how scary that must be. too. >> couldn't pay me enough money to try something like that. >> speaking of snow feats, nbc's bill karins is here with the weather. >> we're not getting quite a foot of snow out of this. eight million people under winter storm warnings or with weather weather advisories. in the middle of the country. little bit of snow in madison to green bay, as far as the snowball totals go, an additional two to four inches here in southern wisconsin, we're starting to add up our epic rainfall totals from the past weekend. it wasn't your average rain storm. san francisco had 66% of the january average this weekend

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president trump has been busy tweeting in the last few minutes. first up, the commander-in-chief says he will ask for a major investigation into voter fraud, this on the heels of his comments that he believes three to five million illegal votes were cast. and president trump just added that he will be making his supreme court pick on thursday of next week. and now for news developing out of somalia. several people have been killed in the state capital of mogadishu. this car bomb went off after militants rammed it into the gate of a hotel popular with officials. police caution the death toll could rise as this blast was one of two that went off in the area. keep it here on nbc news and we'll bring you more details as we get them. . developing overnight, a massive sink hole opened up outside of

philadelphia. the home in montgomery county gobbled up the yards of two homes and a pickup truck. fortunately there were no injuries reported. it's one of the most-read stories from the "washington post." badlands national park was bad to the bone in defiance of trump. the south dakota park's twitter account fired off a tweet storm of climate science data, retweeted tens of thousands of times before being deleted. a park official blamed a former staffer who had access to the account. on saturday the trump administration told the national park service to halt all tweets. and a united states secret service agent is under fire this morning for saying on facebook that she would not take a bullet for the new president. now the controversial social media posts were written back in october before trump was in office. however, it was recently unearthed by the "washington examiner." the secret service says it is taking appropriate action against that agent. a lot of us when you travel, who are you going to leave your pets with? london is unleashing what

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this morning the search for a kayaker gone missing in the bay. a missing driver as well. once again searchers comb the creek in niles canyon for a young woman. the reason the family is still holding hope. new executive orders. president trump is not slowing down. today in the bay starts right now. >> a very good now wednesday morning to you. i had to think about it. >> sam brock knows what day it is. this is a nice idea, sunny weather. >> it's cold, though.