music's biggest night filled with amazing performances, surprise appearances, a sign of the times and the big winners too. the mueller investigation hangs over donald trump as he prepares to deliver his first state of the union address with a focus on immigration. >> new details on an overnight doesn't california police are calling a side show involving 200 vehicles, fireworks and more. a virus that looks like the flu acts like the flu and can land you in the hospital like the flu. >> elon musk's company is reportedly selling home flame throwers for $500. >> should bar tenders be worried about being replaced by this. "early today" starts now.

good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. a night of powerful performances and statements at the 60th annual grammy awards in new york city with mix taking center stage the evening began with supporters sporting white roses in support of the time's up movement. the night continued with performances like five-time winner of the night kendrick lamar who opened the show an performed a medley of songs from his album tackling racism in the united states and then keshia's me too movement of the night. ♪ i hope you find your peace falling on your knees ♪ ♪ praying >> it has become one of the most talked about moments as she performed her single "praying" joined by the faces there cyndi lauper, camila cabello, andrea day, b.b. rexa with a resistance survival chorus. it doesn't stop there as ka bela a cuban immigrant spoke about

d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> tonight in this room full of music's d.r.e.a.m.ers, we remember that this country was built by d.r.e.a.m.ers, for d.r.e.a.m.ers, chasing the american dream. >> cabello went on to introduce u2 who performed an ode to immigrants on the hudson river with the statute of liberty as the backdrop. >> politics brought laughs when james corden held audition says to read "fire and fury" inside the trump white house with contenders like john legend, cardi b and even former presidential candidate hillary clinton. hiding behind that book. the show took place in new york for the first time in 15 years. it was a night full of performances from country artists to broadway legends and the song of the summer, of course, "despacito" brought down the house. alessa car ra was one of the few female singers of the night. carrie fisher won for best

spoken word album for her memoir "the princess direist." they celebrated the win on social media. . the big winner of the night was bruno mars. he took home six awards and cleaned up, album, record, song of the year along with best r&b performance and song and r&b album. as it stands this morning president trump is hours away from delivering his first state of the union address. the speech centers on one theme, building a safe, strong and proud america. they are sentiments the president echoed last night tweeting about the economic gains made under his presidency saying the country is on, quote, the right track. and while this won't be his first joint address before congress, it will be the most watched political event of the year. and it will serve as a chance for mr. trump to hit the re-set button and forge ahead into the second year of his presidency. or remain deadlocked with democrats on a litany of issues. edward lawrence has more on what he with can expect. good morning.

>> good morning. the big question, the first question is will he stick to the script. he's a very different speaker on a teleprompter and off. the president expected to use this big stage to try to move past the russia probe. he's already started doing that an twitter, promoting the success of the economy saying that unemployment is near record low. you will hear that again and again over the next two days. >> we're doing incredibly on an economic basis, financial. stock market just hit another new high. we've had 84 since the election, 84 new market highs. what happened is we passed a tax bill, not easy to get, many people have tried to do it, they weren't able to do it, and this is the biggest one we've passed bigger than the reagan bill, and it's had a bigger impact than anybody even thought. >> reporter: and the economy or state of the union will focus on the economy but talk about bipartisan, a number of different issues,

infrastructure, immigration, talk about trade, and also national security going forward. francis? >> edward lawrence, thank you. while the president is sure to tout wall street's success and recent economic gains, is the russia investigation that could overshadow the evening with the prospect of mr. trump's testimony in robert mueller's probe expected to hang over the evening. as the administration fights back reports that the president sought to fire mr. mueller in june. >> i'm not aware of the president intimating he wanted to fire robert mueller. keep in mind a couple things. robert mueller is still the special counsel, don mcgahn is still head of white house counsel office, taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on investigations not proving any collusion thus far with russia. >> it all comes as some lawmakers urge republican leadership to take up legislation protecting mueller from being fired. but there seems to be some disagreement within the gop about whether that's necessary. >> i've got legislation

protecting mr. mueller and i'll be glad to pass it tomorrow. >> it would certainly wouldn't hurt to put that extra safe guard in place given the latest stories. >> i don't think there's a need for legislation to protect mueller. >> if there's an issue that arises we will take it up. there is not an issue why create one when there isn't a place for it. >> the white house made sure to point out that mueller remains at his job as special counsel and has no intention of removing him. u.s. soldiers may be revealing sensitive and dangerous information jogging with those fitness devices. "the washington post" reports an interactive map published by strada shows the fitness activity of 27 million users of devices like fitbit. in highly populated areas the information appears as large blazes of light on the map but in remote areas there are clearer lines of activity which can be dangerous in war zones and around military bases. the spokesperson of u.s. central command tells the post the military is looking into the implications of the map.

if it looks like the flu and acts like the flu it might not be the flu. there's another virus that could be adding to the seasonal misery. # the virus is called adenovirus and can often look like the common cold or flu with symptoms like fever, headache, body aches and sometimes coughing and breathing problems. it's so risky that the u.s. military vaccinates recruits against two major strains. but most clinics don't test for adno virus unless people are hospitalized with severe illness that isn't helped by immediate treatment fallout over the misconduct allegations against las vegas icon steve wynn continue this morning. the billionaire resigned as finance chairman of the republican national committee over the weekend following the "wall street journal's" bombshell report claiming wynn had a history of sexual misconduct, even settling one such allegation for $7.5 million. wynn denies the allegations, calling them preposterous. the president who chose wynn for the rnc post was informed from wynn's resignation on route to

the u.s. from the davos forum in switzerland. wynn has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to both democrats and republicans over the years, predominantly funding gop lawmakers' campaign coffers. now a handful of republicans are announcing they are giving back the donations with congresswoman karen handel and house speaker paul ryan saying they are sending wynn's donations to charities. no word on the other gop lawmakers who have received donations from wynn. president trump is taking credit for a decline in the african-american unemployment rate again. this time by taking aim at rapper and music mogul jay-z. in an interview with cnn, jay-z was asked how he feels about president trump's alleged vulgar comments about african countries. jay-z responded by saying trump's words were disappointing and hurtful. >> it really is hurtful, more so, like everyone feels anger, but after the anger is really hurtful because like you are looking down at a whole population of people and you're so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and have beautiful everything. and it's just -- like this is

the leader of the free world speaking like this. >> president trump fired back on twitter crediting his policies for helping to lower black unemployment rates and seeming to anticipate this response, van jones tweeted another portion of his interview where they discussed if trump lowering unemployment excuses his comments. >> that's not missing the whole point. you treat people like human beings. >> while the black unemployment rate did fall to a record low of 6.8% last year, it was a continuation of a trend that started under the obama administration. trump did not specify which of his policies helped lower the rate. here we are on a monday and soggy start to the week for the pacific northwest. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with more. >> big differences from the pacific northwest and southern california. southern california, the santa ana winds and fire danger and the pacific northwest you can see the huge storm off the coastline of british columbia and just a plow, atmospheric river if you want of the clouds

and moisture. most towards the olympics in northern portions of washington state and cascades. we could get an additional one to three inches maybe four inches at most and a lot of the rivers are coming up and some of them are starting to approach minor flood stage. we're not expecting huge issues but we will watch the rain potential and the wind alerts for southern california and that will get -- be improving after this afternoon by tonight the rain showers in areas of northern portions of oregon during the day today. the week ahead does look a little calmer for the west. >> actress and u.n. special envoy angelina jolie visited a refugee camp north of jordan on sunday and met with refugees who told her of their daily struggles. the actress called on world leaders to find a solution to the syrian crisis. >> a viable political settlement

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66-year-old woman known as a serial stowaway arrested again after being spotted at chicago's o'hare international airport this weekend. marilyn hartman has a year's long history of sneaking on to airplanes. officials say hartman was taken into custody after police responded to a disturbance call where a woman was refusing to leave the airport. hartman was charged with misdemeanor trespassing on state land and violating the condition of her bail bond. she was previously arrested last week after stowing away on a flight to londs where she was arrested and returned to chicago. hartman has spent a year in jail after repeated attempts to sneak on airplanes at chicago airports. a shaken community in small town pennsylvania after four people were gunned down in the early morning hours at a car wash. police say the gunman, timothy smith, killed the victims, all in their 20s, in two separate car shootings sunday. a fifth person survived with minor injuries. police say smith also suffered a gunshot wound to the head, possibly self-inflicted. this morning he is the on life support as authorities try to piece together a motive.

nbc has more. >> reporter: the shootings happened at a small car wash in melcroft, pennsylvania, 55 miles southeast of pittsburgh. >> this is a pretty quiet place usually. >> reporter: 28-year-old timothy smith, armed with a semiautomatic rifle and two other guns, was waiting for the first two victims what they arrived just before 3:00 a.m. >> 27-year-old william scott porterfield and his companion 25-year-old chelsea lou klein, arrived in a silver dodge stratus and exited the vehicle for unknown reasons and proceeded to the side of the car wash where they were shot and killed. >> reporter: three more people arrived in a pickup truck. two were killed. >> the driver, 23-year-old courtney sue snyder, and the left front passenger, 21-year-old seth william cline, were shot and killed in the vehicle as it was in the stopped position. >> reporter: police say a woman

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in today's "quick hits," the philadelphia eagles arrived in minneapolis sunday, a week ahead of their match-ups against the new england patriots in super bowl lii. the patriots are scheduled to arrive today. a representative for prince's estate says previously unreleased music from the late artist is "coming soon," and he's describing the tunes as mind blowing. the tapes were discovered in a vault at prince's paisley park compound near minneapolis. and ronda rousey is ditching the ufc for the world of professional wrestling. rousy announced she is signing a full-time contract with the wwe during a surprise appearance at the royal rumble in philadelphia. new details surrounding elon musk's selling of flame throwers direct to customers at home and

what's ahead for investors. landon has us covered. good morning. wall street looks set to open lower after after the markets closed at record highs on friday. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 all rose more than 2% last week. there's a lot of economic data out this week including the key monthly jobs report this friday. it's the busiest week of earnings season with companies such as facebook, amazon and mcdonald's all set to report. meanwhile starbucks is testing a cashless store to see how digital and debit card payments affect the customer experience. the coffee chain added more than one million rewards members last quarter and starbucks is working on ways to reach nonrewards members including making mobile order and pay options available to all customers in march. and do you remember that flame thrower that elon musk teased on twitter a few months back. it's real and you can preorder one on-line for $500. musk be revealed the fully functional flame thrower this

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>> -- rather, some men have a proclivity -- >> careful. [ laughter ] >> oh, don't go there topics when it comes to dinner conversations. just make it easy, stick with the weather, sports and what you're watching on netflix and hulu and amazon prime. >> spot on depiction. >> self-promoting dad lavar ball made his head coaching debut overseas after serving an as assistant. he coached the squad to a victory in the finale of the big baller brand showcase in lithuania. lamelo and liangelo filled up the stat sheet. older brother liangelo added 31 points. ball will continue to coach the team only for big baller brand events. >> life in lithuania na. >> they're doing well. >> still making headlines. we're talking about him. >> may be living in the future of robotic bar tenders shaking

things up. that's agajengo that can make 1 drinks per hour and can make billions of drink combinations and was helped by eight to ten people. he made his debut during the grand opening of hard rock casino's new robo bar in mississippi. the bar is only the second of its kind in the united states. so you got a robotic bartender and done stories on the robotic pole dancers. you're all set. >> and then you call an uber and that machine shows up with no driver. >> there you go. >> on your own. no people. >> this video of a kindergarten class is getting attention after breaking into song for this reason. >> oh. >> tell him happy birthday. >> happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. >> that is the day of birth. it's been watched almost 9 million times giving viewers

their daily dose of cute. >> really cute to see. great science experiment. that's cool. >> thanks for watching. i'm phillip me. >> i'm fnara

♪ ♪ from one of the biggest moments to one of the biggest winners, a huge night at the grammys including s politics and a hillary clinton surprise. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> president donald trump state of the union address will focus on five key points, but could side show no shows members of congress overshadow the night? >> speaking of side shows, this was the scene in california overnight involving more than 200 cars and kept police