it's vitally important that the special counsel will allowed to complete his investigation. >> president trump's pick for attorney general vows to protect the mueller investigation but is it enough to convince his critics. >> a brexit break down. what a crushin defeat could mean for the future of britain. >> more green for the stream. netflix gears up for the biggest price hike yet. >> cuts deep without showing a razor. the company's ad for the me too era that some say goes too far. >> rihanna takes her father to court. why she says the family name falls under her umbrella. early today starts right now.

>> i'm frances rivera. let's get right to bill karins tracking it all for us. >> one of them is located over the four corners region and the other is coming into california and this is going to cause all the problems and have all the big impacts as we go throughout the next 48 hours. so we had flash flood watches. remember all the fires that we had? we'll get a lot of the debris flows so widespread rain. flash flooding, debris and look at the snow impacts from california into the wet. some areas could get up to four feet of snow and huge wind impacts too and all of it is going coast-to-coast. >> the president's pick for

attorney general back in the hot seat this morning for day t oat. senators grilled william barr with democrats zeroing in on his views on the russia probe. he promised to protect the mueller investigation. experts invited by lawmakers from both parties will speak about barr. blayne alexander has the latest. >> the testimony you're about to give to this committee. >> president trump's pick for attorney general and the man that will oversee robert mueller's investigation promising he will not fire mueller without good cause. >> it's vitally important that the special counsel will allowed to complete his investigation. busharr first served as attorney he was confirmed unanimously but today facing a tougher road because of his 2018 memo offering criticism of mueller's investigation. >> it looked like a job

application. >> that's ludicrous. if i wanted the job and was going after the job, there are many more direct ways of me bringing myself to the president's attention. >> instead barr said he was just sharing his thoughts on a specific theory and pushed back on a familiar line from president trump. >> i don't believe mr. mueller would be involved in a witch hundred. >> when pressed by democrats, barr would not commit to recusing himself. >> let's imagine it's a judgment call and the judgment by the career ethics official in the agency are that you recuse yourself. under what scenario would you not follow their recommendation? >> if i disagreed with it. >> but did promise to remain independent. >> i will not be bullied into doing anything. >> when asked about the shutdown. >> we need money now for border security including the barriers and walls and slats. >> supporting president trump's call for a border wall.

>> 26 days into the government shutdown and the stalemate drags on. president trump tried to go around house speaker nancy pelosi inviting moderate democrats to talk border wall over lunch but they all said no thanks. problems are piling up for cash strapped federal employees. the hard working men and women in the coast guard are the latest to miss a paycheck. susan joins us with the latest. >> now federal workers are coming closer to missing a second paycheck. there's another meeting at the white house. this is one is with the problem solving caucus. it's democrats that are not leadership. hopes are not high. it could end up like yesterday when the president invited only rank and file democrats from districts where he did well. so the argument -- they all declined that invitation. so the argument remains the

same. the president demanding $5.7 billion for a border wall. democrats including chuck schumer demanding that the government reopen. >> our republicans are feeling the heat. trump some but he seems impervious to people's pain which is just disgusting but our republican colleagues in the senate, more and more of them are beginning to scramble. our argument is simple, open the government. open the government. >> now the white house is calling back nearly 50,000 workers to do certain functions including food inspections, airline safety functions and processing tax refunds but they're going to be working without pay. the u.s. state department is confirming a u.s. citizen was killed in kenya. footage shows scenes from the terror attack that claimed 14

lives and went on for hours. this morning all the terrorists have been eliminated. bill has more. >> reporter: nightmare in nairobi as gunmen storm a luxury hotel complex. it's popular with wernesternwes. they have begun a murderous rampage. people running for their lives after one terrorist blew himself up in the lobby. they escaped from windows, they hid under anything. he ens of police unsure who was hunting floor to floor for these men, the killers, seen on hotel securitycameras. >> they're from al shabaab. the same group that stormed the nearby shopping mall five years

ago killing nearly 70. there's a siege and many dead. >> this morning a man hunt for a hit-and-run driver caught on camera running down a gas station manager while trying to get away without paying. the tragic death, over 22 dollars. >> a mechanic helping out at the pumps helping a customer to pay $22 after filling up his tank, the driver refuses and begins pulling out. police say the suspect accelerates. the video too graphic to show killing the 59-year-old married father of 2. >> i have no feelings right now. >> the suspect trying to use a fake credit card. his black suv has front end damage and no lightning plates. he was an immigrant from turkey working at the same gas station for years.

the community ur continues. >> real life family drama for pop super star rihanna. she has filed a federal lawsuit against her father and his business partner claiming they exploited her name in business dealings. it accuses them of trying to trade on her hard earned success and the recognition and good will associated with her last name. she is seeking an injunction on the use of the name as well as unspecified damages. neither could be reached for comment. netflix announced tuesday it's raising monthly prices on all of it's u.s.bscriptions. it will effect 58 million customers. it goes into effect immediately for new users and rolls out over the next three months for existing subscribers. the new price plan is part of the push to fund more original programming. the most expensive plan is going to jump from $14 to $16 a month

and it's going to cost a lot more for netflix and chill. bird box is what we're paying for, crown, to all the boys i loved before. >> sounds like it won't matter, those extra $2 to you. >> considering the hours of entertainment that we all get from it too. >> that's right. >> it's worth it. >> good morning. so on thursday a little bit of light rain. a little bit of light snow. as we go throughout thursday night into friday morning, it's cold enough that we'll get minor accumulations of snow, especially in the northeast. we'll be watching 1 to 2 inches of snow from ohio all the way into new england. so a minor event but the timing

appreciate that. talk about cold in the middle of winne winter, fargo with a high of 4. >> the one that's going to impact us over the weekend is going to be the big one in the east. >> we'll stick around to hear that. bill, thank you. an epic fail, a burglar's attempt to rob a jewelry store that had no jewelry in it. the man is breaking in and then once again, watch his reaction when he realizes that all the cases right there are empty. after being robbed twice before the owner started keeping all the jewelry in a vault after hours. there's a sign out front but the would be robber did not get the memo. all right, moving on. >> hopefully he thinks better of it next time. just ahead, brexit talks break down raising questions about the fate of teresa may. at walgreens, we want you, to keep doing you...

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