president trump takes the lead on u.s. preparations for the coronavirus as concern grows across the u.s. and the number of cases around the globe skyrocket. >> new details this morning on the horrific workplace shooting that claimed the lives of five workers at the molson coors complex in milwaukee >> the battle for south carolina heats up with new attacks on bernie sanders and the concern voiced by the house speaker among some democrats >> the sec has received over 1300 complaints stemming from this year's superbowl halftime show that was watched by over 100 million viewers. >> and then we'll hear from the

hockey player whose heart stopped during a game. a busy thursday ahead on "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. a mass shooting in milwaukee leaves multiple people dead. police swarmed the molson coors brewing company after reports of an active gunman five people were killed and the gunman later turned the weapon on himself nbc's kathy park starts us off with the details >> reporter: frances, good morning. we now know six people were killed in this workplace shooting including the 51-year-old gunman and this morning police say there is no longer a threat. the gunfire erupted at the molson coors beverage company in milwaukee. >> active shooter, shooter still at large >> reporter: police responding to calls of an active shooter at the famed beverage company law enforcement officials say the gunman was recently fired. the mayor says there are multiple fatalities including the shooter. >> it is a horrible, horrible

day for the employees here a very rough day for anybody who is close to this situation >> reporter: with heavily armed tactical teams flooding the area, officers with long guns stormed buildings. employees on lockdown told to hide anywhere they could, alerting of what police call a critical incident. as others nearby were ordered to shelter-in-place, including several schools. >> this has never been anything i would ever thought would happen around here >> reporter: located in milwaukee not far from arquette university, molson coors company sits on a sprawling campus with several buildings and more than 1,000 employees. >> this is an important company to the city. we all have friends or know people who work there. >> reporter: another active shooter terrorizing another community and it reports of multiple people dead overnight, the employees remain in the 20 buildings here on campus. officials made sure everyone was accounted for. back to you. >> all right, that was kathy park reporting

>> there are growing concerns here in the united states about the deadly coronavirus a new case was confirmed in sacramento it is suspected to be the first case where the source of the infection is unknown health officials say the person had no known exposure to the virus through travel or close contact with someone who was infected for more on the u.s. response to the virus, here's nbc's alice barr >> reporter: a show of strength from the trump administration, the president flanked by members of the coronavirus task force which he announced will be led by vice president mike pence >> we're ready to adapt and we're ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. >> reporter: it comes amid criticism that the administration has been slow to respond as the virus fans out across asia, europe and the middle east. more than 80,000 cases reported worldwide. the u.s. has had just 15 cases, plus 45 americans brought back home after contracting the disease overseas >> the president's early and decisive actions, including

travel restrictions, has succeeded in buying us incredibly valuable time >> however, we do expect more cases. and this is a good time to prepare. >> reporter: coronavirus is highly contagious and though symptoms are similar to the flu, it appears to be much more deadly roughly 2% of patients dying at the epicenter in china the national institutes of health says it will be a year to 18 months before vaccine is ready. >> the answer to containing is public health measures >> reporter: the trump administration is asking congress for $2.5 billion in emergency funding to prepare and speed development of a vaccine, though capitol hill critics say it's not nearly enough >> too late, anemic, hopefully we can makeup for the loss of time >> reporter: the senate's top democrat calling for $8.5 billion >> they shouldn't be saying, this is terrible, president trump isn't asking for enough money. how stupid a thing to say. >> reporter: president trump jabbing at democrats while calling for unity to protect

this country from a potentially dangerous outbreak alice barr, nbc news, washington >> the spread of the coronavirus continues to have a serious impact around the globe. overnight, china reported 29 new deaths linked to the illness the number of confirmed cases there has passed 74,000. in south korea where nearly 1600 cases have been confirmed, officials announced that joint drills with the united states military will be postponed indefinitely let's turn to nbc's ally arouzi who joins us from lone when it comes to iran, why is it spreading so quickly >> reporter: good morning, frances. for several reasons. first they denied the extent of it initially so immediate precautions weren't taken. even now, cities and villages haven't been quarantined it took authorities a long time to start cancelling public events and supplies are very hard to come by. basic necessities like sanitizers and masks and while the outbreak was at

its peak in china, there was constant travel to and from china with iran. but what shocked people the most, frances, is how many government officials have contracted the virus most significantly, the deputy health minister in charge of countering the coronavirus who we now know has contracted the virus. he gave a now infamous press conference to a room full of other people, sweating away and coughing the night before he did the same thing on state tv now, we're getting new numbers out of iran today. officially they're saying 22 people have been killed with 141 cases confirmed, and they're troubling figures across the world, frances south korea has reported 334 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total there to 1,595, with 13 deaths hong kong announces six new cases, bringing the total there

to 91. and as you mentioned china confirms 29 new coronavirus deaths with 433 new cases in the mainland also we had a report yesterday that brazil had its first new case in latin america. so it is spreading and people need to take precautions >> disturbing numbers and often disturbing images as well. ali, thank you >> joe biden is getting a boost. he scored a key endorsement as he tried to wrangle momentum from bernie sanders. it comes in the wake of the fiery debate tuesday night nbc's kristen welker has the latest on the race for 2020. >> reporter: a surging bernie sanders making his pitch to african americans in south carolina >> we're going to bring people together >> reporter: it comes after sanders got the front runner treatment in tuesday's raucous debate rivals piling on >> bernie will lose to donald

trump. >> reporter: including over his controversial comments about fidel castro >> what i said is what barack obama said in terms of cuba. that cuba made progress on education. >> we're not going to win these critical, critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the democratic party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime >> reporter: but sanders getting back up from house speaker nancy pelosi >> will you feel okay if bernie sanders is the nominee >> yes >> do you have any concerns you could lose the majority? >> know. >> reporter: meanwhile, south carolina could be make or break for joe biden who is leading here and getting a prominent endorsement from top democrat congressman jim clyburn. >> we know joe but most importantly, joe knows us >> reporter: later, biden going after sanders with nbc's craig melvin >> he's not going to come anywhere near generating the kind of participation of young

folks that barack did in 2008. >> reporter: another target, billionaire former new york mayor michael bloomberg blasted by elizabeth warren over an ex-brooke landau berg employee's accusation that when she announced she was pregnant, bloomberg told her to get an abortion, something he has denied under oath. >> at least i didn't have a boss who said to me, kill it. >> i never said it, period, end of story >> reporter: democrats weighing in on the intense attacks. >> stop the fighting and let's all come together in order to accomplish this goal, which is to beat donald trump >> there needs to be a certain amount of -- to a degree to see who can take on trump. >> reporter: our latest poll shows just 9% of democrats here are undecided. this saturday's contest, the last chance to grab momentum before super tuesday phillip? >> such an important day coming up kristen, thank you >> a heroic rescue is caught on camera in ohio when the first

floor of a house caught on fire. >> we got you. we got you >> the couple was trapped on the second floor and their only option was to jump another officer also broke down the back door to rescue three dogs who were in the basement. everybody was able to make it out okay, and the fire is being investigated >> a new mini moon is temporarily orbiting the earth scientists at the university of arizona first spotted it on february 15th. they say it is just the second asteroid known to orbit the earth. measuring at just 6 to 11 feet across, it took years to get discovered experts believe it entered the earth's orbit three years ago. >> still impressive out of all of that they were able to pick it up. >> glad they were able to do that >> still took three years. >> but still they did. >> maybe watch austin powers all right. let's get into this forecast the big story and it's going to be incredible pictures, horrific to be caught in the middle of it is these lake effect snow bands. there's going to be a hose of snow spraying all over the top of areas of the tokyo plateau

north of syracuse south of buffalo. we haven't had impressive lake effect snow event. we're thinking we could see from syracuse to watertown up to 2 feet of snow and south of buffalo someone could end up with 1 to 2 feet of snow also. other areas will get snow in the higher areas of the' appalachia. northern new england is getting snow early today the other storm will be after the rain is gone shortly the winds are really going to pick up. 13 million people under wind advisory, high wind warnings the worst of it the higher elevations of the' sunshine throughout areas of the southeast. all that rain will be gone by the time we get through this afternoon in areas of florida. weekend forecast looking a lot better >> good to hear that all right, bill, thank you in today's quick hits the iconic oprah winfrey show is

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journalists who were jewish and people of color. they mailed swastika covered posters saying, we know where you live >> congress voted to make lynching a federal hate crime. it passed with just four votes against it those four were republicans thomas massey, louie gohmert and louie yoho and justin amash. it comes after the lynching of 14-year-old emmet still. they tried to pass anti-lynching legislation for 120 years. the first bill was introduced in 1900 by north carolina congressman george henry white he was the only black member of congress at the time the legislation failed to pass nearly 200 times the senate passed a version of the bill last year once the bills are reconciled, it will head to the oval office. >> a massachusetts utility company will pay a record $53 million fine for a series of deadly gas explosions. columbia gas of massachusetts has agreed to plead guilty to violating a federal pipeline

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nhl ironman jay bouwmeester a defense man with the st. louis blues collapsing during a game after what doctors describe as a cardiac episode. one he simply can't remember >> it's kind of been a surreal experience >> reporter: quick-thinking medical staff performing cpr beside the bench eventually shocking his heart back to life with a defibrillator. fans in the arena throughout the league sent well wishes to the popular player simply called, jay bo >> the support has been pretty overwhelming >> reporter: he has a defibrillator implanted. it shocks his heart if it stops beating. the device is becoming more common 10,000 americans get them each month. at 36, bouwmeester is in his 36th nhl season. he's won it all. stanley cup last year and gold medal for canada in the 2014 olympics now his focus is on his family >> it puts things in

perspective. >> reporter: the team says he will not spend the rest of the season, spending time with those close to his heart before deciding if his heart will let him play again kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> glad he's okay, though. thanks for starting your thursday with us i'm philli

and good thursday morning to you, february 27th. taking a live look out across the bay. >> do you like that, marcus? >> i do. i want to get a picnic basket with some eggs. >> you're thinking easter already. >> well, breakfast. moving ahead. >> i've never had scrambled eggs on a picnic. >> this early in the morning. >> it's going to be a great day but very warm. we're starting out with the temperatures now in the upper 40s and low 50s. it's in the lower 40s right now in parts of the north bay.