overnight the remains of capitol police officer brian sicknick was placed in honor inside of the rotunda exactly four weeks after he lost his life. a tragic day for the fbi two agents shot and killed, three others wounded president bidew details on the trump impeachment defense plan. the wicked weather slowed the distribution of vaccinations

but now pharmacies around the nations will soon receive vaccines as the country struggles to stay ahead of the new variants. we'll introduce you to a couple who lives in a little bump of minnesota that's been cut off since the pandemic "early today" starts right now. good morning i'm phillip mena. >> glad you're with us i'm frances rivera an emotional and rare honor overnight for the capitol police officer slain during the insurrection four weeks ago today. the remains of officer brian sicknick lie in honor under the capitol rotunda this morning he's only the fifth civilian to receive the distinction. president biden paid his respects holding his hand over his heart as he stood alongside the urn alongside first lady jill biden chuck schumer also attended the ceremony the 42-year-old died while

defending the capitol from a violent mob on january 6th both chambers of commerce will pause to pay tribute this morning before he is laid to rest at arlington national cemetery later today. now to a tragic shooting two agents were killed and three wounded during a shoot-out in south florida. the agents were serving a warrant that was part of a violent crimes against children's case. our sam brock has more good morning, sam. >> reporter: phillip, good morning. two agents who spent their careers trying to crack down on the skploeation of children killed in the line of duty executing a federal search warrant. in sunrise, florida, a dark day for the fbi. the bureau confirming two special agents were shot and killed 36-year-old daniel alfin andd l

swartzenberger. >> dan and laura left home to carry out the mission they were signed for and love dodd, to keep america safe. >> reporter: three others were injured tied to a man suspected of violent crimes against children including pornography. >> the fbi is a family and our chosen profession is fraught with danger. today this grim reality has taken two of our best from our family. >> reporter: their heroism highlighted with police salutes as the caskets draped in the american flag left broward general hospital and then a similar sobering scene again at the coroner's office, the suspect declared dead at his home the flag at the fbi field office sitting half-staff while they try to figure out how

this happened, it's tragedy revisited for miami. more than 30 years ago, that's the last time two agents were killed in the line of duty, and it happened in south florida in 1986 phillip, back to you. >> sam, thank you for that. let's turn to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic the cdc is analyze 6,000 samples every week to try to track down the new variants but a lot of the focus has gone from testing to vaccinating. let's get the latest from gabee sites that reopenend it now plao ramp up its vax neighs over the next few days. with every hour critical, some vaccine sites like this one in connecticut reopened despite the weather. how frustrating has it been to get an appointment >> very frustrating. on a scale of 1 to 10, it's an

8. >> reporter: across the country from georgia to california, frustration isweek, february 11 government says it will deliver 1 million doses to 6,500 retail pharmacies nationwide, eventually expanding to 40,000 >> we have all of the infrastructure, all of the connection and community to be able to help those people who have been hard-hit by the pandemic. >> reporter: andy slavitt says he's concerned providers are holding back second doses. >> i think that's a function of what happens in a shortage people hoard if they are holding back second doses that were intended as first doses, they don't need to do that. >> reporter: what would you tell americans having a tough tyke making those appointments? >>s going to take a couple of months. >> reporter: there's a possibility suggested that those who have had covid-19 already

may only need one dose because they have robust antibodies even after a single dose. for this woman, her dose is a remind ender of what's at stake. >> hugging my grand children. >> reporter: they moved 200 million doses from july to may. >> thank you. president biden is making good on his campaign promise to tackle immigration reform. the president signed a trio of executive orders last night aimed at modernizing the immigration policies nbc's tracie potts joins us with more targeted president trump' the president said he's trying to reverse what was done in the last administration. those executive orders, three of them create a task force to reunify families separated at

the border th day one promise the homeland security secretary will oversee that order. the second will be to address what's happening at the border as people, migrants and others show up to request asylum. and finally he wants to review policies in our legal immigration system to see what can be changed there the president explaining why he's using these executive orders to create change. >> i want to make it clear there's a lot of talk with good reason about the number of executive orders that i have signed i'm not making new law i'm eliminating bad policy and we're going to work on dues and moraand national shame of the previous administration that literally, not figuratively, ripped the children from the arms of family what a stain this separation has caused. >> reporter: he's still working

with congress, specifically republicans, to work with covide president wants to get it done before march 14th, the day that federal unemployment benefits, extended benefits run out. and democrats are gearing up do it without republican votes. the senate minority leader calls that unfortunate phillip? >> in elections, you can do that. we're getting our first glimpse of next week's impeach management trial democrats will argue he incited a mob to silence while his lawyers called the impeachment unconstitutional here's kristen welker. >> reporter: house democrats unveiling their impeachment case, pinning the blame for the deadly capitol riots squarely on former president trump saying mr. trump, quote, summoned a mob to washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down pennsylvania avenue, that he refused to accept the will of the american people, even quoting liz cheneying wu of the

fuss house republicans who voted to impeach who said president trump lit the flame of this attack in their brief, democratthis fih at the rally reporter: but in t defense, mr. trump's amend right to express his belief the election results were suspect and he did not incite violence. >> this is a very, very dangerous road to take with respect to the first amend, putting at risk any passionate political speaker, which is really against everything we believe in in this country. >> reporter: mr. trump's team argues it's unconstitutional to hold a trial to try to remove the former president because he holds no public office from which he can be removed. democrats are plafting that argument saying there's no

exception to the january impeachment. >> the trial must go on and he must be held accountable. >> reporter: only five republican senators say this is even constitutional, and democrats would need 17 gop votes for a conviction frances? >> thank you. sad news about the world war ii veteran who inspired the world during the pandemic. captain tom moore who raised millions for uk frontline workers by walking laps in his garden died after his own battle with coronavirus molly hunter looks back at his incredible life. >> reporter: we got sir captain tom moore just when we needed him, walking lap, slowly raising $145 million for frontline workers. >> the money is going to a good cause. >> reporter: a world war ii vet, a member of the greatest generation who had already given so much.

>> sunshine, that's what we all need, people like yourself you have a super culture you have a long time to go. >> reporter: it was a banner, a promotion to colonel, a royal air force flyby, even a hit song then a bucket list vacation to barbados and after weeks of pneumonia last week, he tested positive for covid. he had yet to be vaccinated. captain sir tom moore was 100. molly hunter, nbc news, london. much of the northeast is still digging out this morning after the major snowstorm. the nor'easter wreaked havoc the snow kept coming down tuesday making cleanup even tougher. the hardest hit places got nearly 3 feet of snow. it led to flooding along the coast of massachusetts the high tide filled some of the

local streets. >> it's a busy week for nbc meteorologist janessa webb and still weather alerts to look out for.a, good morning. >> good morning. this is just a storm system that won't die. what we are seeing right now is backside moisture. it is causing snow showers that are expected to linger throughout the afternoon we could pick up another inch of accumulate across new york city. that's on top of the official reading now of 17.2 inches for central park now, this storm system hopefully starts to pull offsure later on tonight, but it's going to bring some strong winds, and they're going to be picking up to at least 30 miles an hour this will allow for temperatures todrop feel-like temperatures for new york city, 23 right now. we're in the teens for northern new england. across the great lakes to green bay. this afternoon, the feel-like,s3

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the pandemic's economic impact has been devastating for so many including a small part of minnesota cut off from the rest of the united states. but as reported, they took matters into their own hands >> reporter: 40 miles off in the distance, they may as well be on the moon. >> right. >> karen and paul cut off from their own country. >> totally totally. >> yep. >> reporter: the colson's live on the northwest angle, the

little bump at the top of minnesota, only reached by driving through 40 miles of canada, all good until last march when canada and covid closed the border. >> very depressing there was nobody >> reporter: nobody able to reach the colson's resort, one of a dozen that provide jobs for the 100 or so people who ling on the angle. livelihoods severed for ten months. >> we had zero people at our place, zero. >> reporter: the angle needed something boldught it was kind crazy. >> reporter: he's one of the plow drivers now keeping open a 22-mile ice road across frozen lake of the woods, a lifeline. >> you've got to figure some way to get customers up here.

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