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come equipped with terrain non-heterosexual men and women in 23 countries and the report avoidance warning systems. found that gay men are rated >> terrain, terrain. more negatively than lesbian pull up. pull up. >> reporter: but the faa has not women in all 23 nations. a philadelphia man has ordered the change and the ntsb turned himself in after allegedly stealing a half says this chopper did not have phd len dollars in jewelry from the technology >> a central question in this investigation is why they er sofitel hotel where decided to fly in this kind of marginal visual weather the suspect christopher daniel allegedly stole iverson's backpack containing $500,000 conditions >> reporter: investigators are really focused on recovering and worth of jewelry according to examining some key pieces of police daniel is facing multiple theft evidence, including they say the charges. all right. the super bowl is now just four days away, and for many it's passengers' iphones and cell phones, did they capture any evidence at all, any video those moments in between the recordings of the final moments action on the field that are the real reason to watch before the crash, as well as the here's nbc's gadi schwartz >> this is going to be good. pilot's ipad, which should have >> reporter: it seems like every had his flight plan, and the year our super bowl ad avionics which might have been expectations get higher and able to grab and capture some higher >> come out come out -- data about the flight. and then in addition to that the >> reporter: and so does the star power chopper's engines. master of drama bryan cranston were they in good condition? any evidence of a failure? channeling his inner jack the blades from the chopper and the tail rotor nicholson for mountain dew all of that would give them any >> here's mountain dew zero! sense of whether there was a mechanical problem leading up to

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official details have been boogie nights actor heather confirmed. now the powerful earthquake graham turns 50. that shocked the caribbean oprah winfrey 66 the 7.7 magnitude quake is the and magnum p.a. actor to selleck turns m strongest ever recorded by cuban instruments. vibrations strong enough to force evacuations as far away as miami. nbc's sam brock has the details. >> reporter: in the middle of the caribbean -- >> exit now! >> reporter: -- a powerful earthquake rattled the region. >> guys, there was just an earthquake >> reporter: panicked people running from their homes and offices sxwlp there are about 180 of us. we're inside a ballroom, a giant ballroom, when the floor started shaking. >> reporter: a massive 7.7 we tried to get the politicians temblor off jamaica's northwest to deal with the problem. but they wouldn't. so we took it to the voters coast, creating sinkholes, sparking tsunami warnings across and forced big tobacco to pay its share of healthcare costs. the region and several aftershocks. the quake even felt in south we fought oil companies for new clean air laws florida. >> like a subtle sway of the and closed a billion dollar other buildings just kind of corporate tax loophole to fund public schools. like doing this. >> reporter: in miami buildings by going directly to the people were evacuated en masse. we got results. firefighters right now in that's not something you see a lot of

downtown miami just coming out of the building as we speak. from washington these days. there were at one point so many hundreds of people on the street i'm tom steyer and here on brickell avenue that no i approve this message. one could move let's make change happen. >> reporter: back in jamaica -- >> whoa. that was intense >> reporter: -- officials are now assessing the damage right now at 4:30, major sam brock, nbc news, miami it's time for q&a on capitol market street makeover. hill today as the next phase of live team coverage on the huge president trump's impeachment trial gets under way changes made overnight to market street in san francisco and what you need to know to get around. with opening arguments behind us plus one of the biggest homeless encampments in sonoma now, senators have 16 hours to ask questions about the case county is being relocated. each query must be written and delivered to chief justice john good wednesday morning. roberts. meanwhile, president trump is taking his defense on the road i'm laura garcia. >> and i'm marcus washington. >> while we are creating jobs we'll get through the commute in a bit but first the forecast. and killing terrorists, the congressional democrats are obsessed with demented hoaxes, >> we're seeing the most dense crazy witch hunts, and deranged fog in livermore and parts of the tri-valley. partisan crusades. elsewhere, you're seeing a nice it's all they know how to do clear drive. clouds are a lot higher as we the do-nothing democrats start out with a live lookth b n >> ybs's tracie potts joining us

now with the very latest from d.c. tracie, there's also a new twist now in the fight for witnesses in this case >> yeah, it's interesting, phillip. because to get witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial requires a simple majority vote of the senators who are sitting as jurors to that. 51 if all democrats say yes, as expected, that means four republicans are needed and overnight we learned from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell that he told republicans he may not have the votes to block witnesses in this trial. there are apparently a number of republicans who are either willing to allow witnesses or at least considering it >> i think there are 10 to 12 republicans who are in play. and these are 10 to 12 people who have never said a negative word about witnesses and documents. >> i think the idea that's been expressed in the media about having each side be able to

choose a witness or maybe more than one witness on a pared basis has some merit >> reporter: number one possible witness right now at least for the democrats is former national security adviser john bolton, who according to the "new york times" has said in his unpublished book that he actually heard president trump tie aid for ukraine to investigating joe biden. democrats want to get him in the senate chamber to talk about that phillip? >> so much writing on what he knows and if he'll tell it tracie, thank you. happening overnight, a plane carrying 230 u.s. passengers evacuating from wuhan, china ground zero for the deadly coronavir coronavirus. has landed on u.s. soil. touching down in anchorage, alaska this as cases of the deadly coronavirus continue to climb. china has confirmed at least 132 deaths with nearly 6,000 infections, which has now topped the number of sars cases the rapid spreading of the virus is affecting business and travel the white house is considering suspending all china-u.s.

flights. but overnight british airways announced it is cutting all flights to and from mainland china. also, starbucks in china has temporarily closed more than 2,000 stores amid concerns of the outbreak and while there are only five confirmed patients here in the united states, the health and human services secretary said the virus is a potentially very serious public health risk but americans should not worry about their own safety in a shocking turn in the murder case of a connecticut mother of five authorities say her husband, who is charged with killing her, apparently tried to take his own life and remains hospitalized in critical condition here's nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter: photoos dowelos rushed to a new york hospital to be treated in a hyperbaric moxi poisoning after an apparent suicide attempt. desperate efforts to revive him at his connecticut estate hours after he failed to show up at an emergency hearing. >> bring an oxygen tank. >> reporter: police say they found dulos in his car in his

garage sxlp officers forced entry and immediately began to perform life-saving measures >> reporter: the once wealthy business facing charges of kidnapping and killing his estranged wife jennifer. his attorney responded to reports his $6 million bail was going to be revoked. >> obviously, the potential for a bond revocation was devastating news to him, but throughout he has been a fighter and resolute so this development comes as stunning news to me. >> reporter: arrest warrants claim last may dulos tacked his estranged wife when she returned home from dropping their children at school dulos has pleaded not guilty police say his dna was found inside the house he was barred from entering and that surveillance video shows dulos dumping trash bags including items with jennifer dulos's blood. before he was arrested for her murder, dulos told "dateline" he's innocent. >> can you have anything to do with jennifer's disappearance?

>> i did not but i'd like to leave it at that r the family of jennifer dulos declined to comment. >> our thanks to rehema for that report police in southeast kansas are digging themselves out of more than a foot of snow a winter storm burying homes and businesses the highest total reported is 15 inches many of the students there are getting a snow day today and drivers are urged to be really careful on the roads. for more on what to expect here's nbc meteorologist bill karins good morning >> good morning. it was a big snowstorm by kansas standards. that's as much as they get in a typical winter maybe even more than that. it's still snowing in areas of missouri, little bit of light rain through texas and arkansas and now into areas of tennessee. you sear where the snow is located just south of cants cancel city right into central missouri it looks like it's going to end up either in st. louis or just south of there there's a winter weather advisory for areas just south of interstate 70 as we go through missouri ando about 4:00 into north florida by 11:00 p .

p.m. we will see the rain moving p.m., rain from tampa to daytona. those are going to be a quick moving storm with on and off light rain throughout the southeast. ea freezing in areas of st. louis still a little chilly, though, in the northern portions of the plains we still have to talk about that potential weekend storm. we'll give you those details coming up. in the northeast >> all right want to hear all about the weekend. thanks, bill in today's quick hits a united states customs and border protection officer seized $900,000 in counterfeit singles. a man passed out after he learned the value of his old rolex watch. the man went on antiques roar it

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