4 out of 5 usee rseltra. us n. do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? do you see your own fault in anyway? >> you'll hear exclusively just ahead. >> and then a crack in the shutdown show down as the senate will take up two bills, but this as thousands of federal workers face financial desperation right now. >> while you were sleeping another big upset at the australian involving serena williams. >> new orleans saints fans legal challenge fornfc championship

game? unanimo 2019 baseball hall of famers. early today starts right now. good to be with you this morning. >> the covington catholic high school student at the center of the controversial viral video is speaking exclusively to nbc news. the school was closed yesterday due to threats of violence according to a statement. gabe gutierrez is in kentucky with more. >> nick sandman a kentucky student says he wasn't disrespectful when he appeared to confront nathan phillips. he sat down exclusively with savannah guthrie. >> do you feel that you owe anybody an apology? do you see you anyway? >> as far as standing there, i had every right to do so. my position is that i was not

disrespectful to mr. phillips. i respect him. i'd like to talk to him. i mean, in hindsight, i wish we co avoided the whole thing. >> the covington catholic high school students, some wearing make america great again hats were in d.c. last week for the march for life. >> at the parade i felt threatened because when we were there and we were in front of them, they surrounded us. >> but after more videos emerged, defenders of the students say there was a rush to judgment. >> do you think the students did anything wrong? >> no. >> a student whose parents didn't want his face shown told nbc affiliate his classmates were using school chanlts to drown o protestors. men identified as black hebrew isra israelites, but the chants continued when phillips entered the picture saying he was trying to intervene. >> there was three people there.

our guys started jumping up and down and clapping and dancing with them. >> school chants should be in school and this wasn't school. >> native americans protested in covington and even president trump weighed in calling the students symbols of fake news and how evil it can be. but phillips says the students should accept responsibility for their actions. >> the students should go through some kind of sensitivity training, cultural education of some kind. >> the diocese had initially said that the students could face expulsion. now it says a third party investigation will begin this week. >> all right, gabe gutierrez. thank you. you can see more of savannah's exclusive interview this morning on the "today" show. >> operations are back to normal after a disruption tuesday night. the federal aviation administration told nbc news that arrivals at newark were temporarily suspended because two drones were detected in

northern new jersey. no suspects have been identified but if caught, drone operators can face criminal penalties and fines. the incident comes just one month after drones stranded thousands of passengers days before christmas. >> looks like serena williams pursuit of a record tying 24th grand slam title will have to wait. the u.s. tennis star was knocked out of the australian open after being defeated by pliskova. serena lead 5-1 in the third set on wednesday. she was one point from victory. one point away when she appeared to turn her ankle on her first match point. pliskova came back winning six straight games to clench a victory. she will now advance to the semifinals against u.s. open champion. 33 days into the government shutdown and another financial blow to workers.

800,000 government employees will miss their second paycheck after lawmakers failed to strike a deal by the midnight growing impact. >> a second missed paycheck has many federal workers in crisis clear that i have a week to pay or i'm going to be evicted. >> his situation even more first met a week ago. called back to the irs but without pay and likely to miss a second $1,100 paycheck. he pays $700 a month in rent for himself and his autistic son plus utilities, insurance, medicine, gas for the car and groceries. he has just $350 left in the bank. >> i live paycheck to paycheck like many other americans do and right now, it's dire need. >> food banks are feeding more and more government workers. on capitol hill, a group of coast guard families. >> there's a lot of expenses in the coast guard, in the military

life and we're happy to do it but we committed also to pa paycheck. >> 2,500 tsa officers failed to show up to work on monday, most citing financial hardship. the longer they go without paychecks the higher the absentee rate is expected to decline. >> the job itself is stressful but we feel disrespected. it's demeaning. >> the shutdown is shutting down family finances. tom costello, nbc news washington. >> the plight of furloughed federal workers isn't all falling on deaf ears in d.c. mark warren introduced a new bill to prevent government employees from getting used like pawns in future shutdowns. transferring unnecessary pain and inflicting damage in the coming years act or just stop stupidity for short, if there's a lapse in funding, the legislation would renew payment for all aspects of the

government. this is not one of the bills up for a vote in the senate tomorrow. for the latest on this, let's get over to tracie potts joining us from washington d.c. tracy, good morning. still no signs of compromise? >> no, no compromise here but we are going to see phillip, the first senate votes since this shutdown began 33 days ago. we have two votes coming up tomorrow, one on the president's plan that would exchange protection for a million dreamers and refugees for money for his border wall and then the democrats plan will also get a vote. that was not originally the plan, but they want to reopen government temporarily for a couple of weeks until february 8th and then deal separately with border security. but here's the thing. both sides needher side to get so the bottom line is both of these plans up for a vote tomorrow are expected to fail. >> all that needs to happen is

our democratic friends agree it's t country ahead of politics and vote to put the standoff behind us. >> the president had to make a proposal to try to shake things up. it was not a good faith proposal. it was not intended to end the shutdown. >> there's still a lot of finger pointing going on with republicans increasingly pointing at house speaker nancy pelosi saying she is the one that's not cooperating with the president. >> as far as we know, is the president still planning to go ahead with the state of the union address last week? >> apparently so. remember pelosi disinvited him suggesting that during the shutdown they rescheduled this from january 29th next week which is when she had originally invited him. the white house said they were moving forward. they were invited and accepted the invitation. the disinvite cameey'r moving f pl that white house speech writers are putting together an alternate plan in

case the president ends up delivering his message at a different location. maybe that's still up in the air as well. >> all right, tracie potts, thank you so much. >> one for the history books in cooperstown, new york. mariano rivera became the first player ever to join the baseball hall of fame by unanimous vote. >> i'm calling to tell you that the baseball writers have elected you to be in the baseball hall of fame. >> i have another piece of news -- yes. >> you are the first-person. >> comes with a stat line almost too good to be true. >> yeah. 19 years with the yankees they won five world series. posted 652 saves. that is the most of all time and when he was dialled in, he was unhittable. to put things in moon than players who have scored against rivera in the post season, 12-11. rivera now in a class of his own in the hall of fame and the rest of the 2019 inductees include

roy haliday. edgar martinez finally got the call and yankees/oriele great. >> two avalanches in recent days in colorado and new mexico left three people dead. authorities now warning skiers to use extreme caution. miguel has the story. >> moving at speeds of over 100 miles per hour when an avalanche rumbles downhill. >> we saw the skier fight for his life as all the snow starts moving underneath him. >> after two men were killed in a wave of cascading powder at a ski resort in new mexico last week. another skier lost his life in an avalanche near aspen colorado monday while in the backcountry. across the u.s., 8 have been killed in avalanches this season. >> it doesn't take a very large avalanche to bury somebody.

they can knock somebody off their feet, push them through the trees or push them over a cliff. >> though avalanches are rare, the odds of surviving one like this man did in california may be even more remote. the danger most critical after a storm. >> good morning. you're seeing that whole storm front start to make its way to the north here and that heavy snow triggers the avalanches. right now, satellite composite radar, you can see the upper midwest. portions of the midwest, dealing with the wintry mix. there is the dividing line, a little bit of sleet and freezing rain. look at the advisories and winter storm warnings we have in place, out toward chicago and all the way into milwaukee. storm totals were looking at possibly 3 to 4 inches across

across the northeast and mid-atlantic. we're back in the 50s. >> we are tracking another shot of cold air. seems like we can't get a break. >> shocking images of a car crash in pennsylvania. look at that. it resulted in that purple compact car being crushed from both ends. it happened tuesday morning. a box truck rear ended the small car that was then sentlthough the cars were badly damaged, everyone involved walked away. they were not hurt, seriously. >> someone up there looking out for them. goodness. still to come, the surprising pick to star in the new sopranos prequel.

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welcome to wednesday morning. already january 23rd. taking a live look, wow, what a gorgeous look at the beautiful golden gate bridge. nice and clear out there. a cold start as well. good morning to you and thanks so much for joining us. i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. right now we want to get to meteorologist kari hall to talk about the cool temperatures this morning. >> it is cold this morning and it's going to be cool the next several mornings. here is a look at our new camera in walnut creek, a good morning as we start out with some of that cold air that you're seeing, and everyone heading out the door fairly well, no issues from the weather department, except you do need an extra layer or two. our temperatures in the 30s, pretty widespread for our inland valleys. right now it's 47 in san francisco. as we go throughout the rest of