good morning. growing calls to resign. both of new york senators now joining a long list of the state's lawmakers calling for governor andrew cuomo to stet down. this as even more women come forward accaccusing him of inappropriate behavior. the governor digging in. >> did not do what has been alleged, period. >> can cuomo withstand the mounting pressure to resign? >> help is here. the first wave of direct payments expected to hit bank payments this weekend after president biden signs the nearly

$2 trillion covid relief bill into law. they say it can't come soon enough after a financially worr as much for what the next few months hold. controversial comments. ron johnson under fire this morning for remarks praising the rioters who stormed the capitol. >> i knew those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law so i wasn't concerned. >> why he says he would have been concerned if those protesters were from the black lives matter movement or antifa. march madness. winter is holding on for one last gasp with a major storm preparing to drop up to four feet of snow in the rockies. that same system spinning off a tornado in texas with more possible today. dylan's tracking it all. those stories plus the rose and the thorns. abc announcing chris harrison

will not return as host of the next season of "the bachelorette" after controversy following his defense of the contestant's past racially behavior. todd, saturday, march 13th, 2021. good morning to you. everyone is ready for spring. in some areas it feels like winter. dylan's going to have more on the mixed bag coming up. right now to our top story. new york state's top democratic senators joining the chorus of calls for andrew cuomo to step down. this as more women come together with allegations of

inappropriate behavior, >> reporter: hey, peter.trongly good morning to you. yeah, that is right. support is slipping fast for the governor. the majority of new york's congressional delegation is asking him to resign. a defiant governor cuomo is saying he is not going anywhere and it is critical to wait for the facts. this morning new york's two senators joining the list of people saying cuomo must go. in a joint statement released friday senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand wrote in part it is clear governor cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of new york. governor cuomo should resign. meanwhile, more accusations were published in new york magazine friday. jessica baitman said cuomos hands had been on my arms, my

shoulders, the small of my back, my waist. another woman caitlyn said she was hired as an aide for her looks and that she was verbally and mentally abused by him and his staff. avoiding the cameras for days cuomo was spotted walking on the grounds of the governor's mansion friday. on the same day during a teleconference with reporters he denied any wrongdoing while rejecting calls for him to step down. >> i did not do what has been alleged. period. i won't speculate about people's po former attorney general who's gone through this situation many times, there are often many motivations for making an allegation. >> reporter: lindsey boylan, one of the first women to accuse the governor of inappropriate behavior firing back on twitter writing he is calling up hate and speculation to be directed

to his accusers. 14 house democrats from new york including alexandria ocasio-cortez and others are putting pressure on the governor to resign. cuomo is caught in an investigation launched by the attorney general's office and an impeachment inquiry by the state assembly. >> none of us has done anything like this before. >> reporter: the stage is now set for what could become new york's first impeachment proceedings in more than a century. now if governor cuomo were to be impeached or decided to step down, his successor would be number two, lieutenant governor e governor in the state of new york history. she has a lengthy career in politics serving in congress and she is also a lawyer by training. kristin, peter. >> kathy park with the very latest on that from new york this morning. thank you. now to the other major story.

we are following those direct payments that many americans are anticipating this weekend. the first round hitting bank accounts this weekend after president biden held a rose garden celebration on friday for that nearly $2 trillion covid relief bill. it was an event with only democrats underscoring the deep divisions. nbc's kelly o'donnell is here this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, kristin. this will get real for millions of americans who have been waiting for that extra financial help. those checks are rolling out now and will continue to be sent out in batches over the next couple of weeks and so they can expect to start seeing that in their bank accounts. and now the work shifts to a new promotional tour for the president to try to tell americans what is in this new law and how it will work. covid. rolling out results. >> we have to get this right. details matter because we have to continue to build confidence

in the moern people that their government can function for them. >> reporter: the irs says the first wave of $1400 direct payments hit bank accounts this weekend and will continue over the next few weeks. >> help has arrived. >> reporter: with real impact for faith purdue of missouri. >> it's a relief. finanially it was hard. >> reporter: as a married mother of three teenagers, her family can expect $7,000 in direct payments. >> to have a little bit of weight lifted off of our shoulders. to not have to worry as much as maybe what the next few months holds. >> reporter: friday democrats gathered for a socially distanced victory lap in the rose garden. president biden tempered the celebration with a warning about the burden to manage the $1.9 trillion being spent. >> it's going to require fastidious oversight to make sure there's no waste or fraud. >> republicans who all voted no

criticized the scale of spending. >> i think this package could have been focused to those who lost their jobs, who had a loss of income. >> reporter: and claim the biden team is too quick to take credit on vaccine progress. >> the trump administration did a great job putting the vaccines, 300 million of them, in a place where we could put them in arms. >> reporter: next comes the road trip. president, vp, their spouses travel next week to promote and explain what the biden relief plan will do. >> yeah. kelly, the deep divisions raising questions about whether proibd will be able to move forward on the rest of his agenda. meanwhile, i know you are watching another big story. wisconsin senator ron johnson raising eyebrows for comments he made about the rioters who stormed the capitol on january 6th. tell us what he said. ter: kris getting a lot of attention. ron johnson has been a frequent

critic around security that was supposed to be at the capitol on january 6th and he's been very sympathetic to those in the crowd, especially trump supporters who were there that day. in a new interview he's really raising eyebrows. here's what he had to say. >> i knew those were people that loved this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law so i wasn't concerned. now had the tables been turned and, joe, this is going to get me in trouble, joe, had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. >> he acknowledged this could get him in trouble and certainly there are people who are saying those are racist remarks to make that distinction about the color or the political identitesters part of january 6th. this does f pattern of ron johnson talking a great deal about other kinds of protests that happened in the country in

2020 and saying there was not enough attention put on those events and destruction in various cities related to that. this is one of those stories we'll be watching as it is picking up steam especially on social media. kristin, peter. >> we sure will. kelly o'donnell, thank you very much for that. as many states around the country loosen their covid restrictions, several basketball teams are now being forced to sit out their post seasons ahead of march madness due to the coronavirus. morgan chesky is following this from dallas. morgan, good morning. >> reporter: hey, peter. good morning to you. college basketball taking a huge hit. three teams tested positive for covid. this is coming with started. this morning chaos for college basketball. the kansas jayhawks, a perennial favorite the latest to be

affected by covid-19 dropping out of the big 12 tournament after confirming a positive test. the coach said obviously we are disappointed and our players are disappointed. we have followed the daily testing and additional protocols. covid shaking up the acc tournament with uva and duke dropping out due to positive cases, this as the stage is set for the ncaa march madness tournament next week. all games exclusively in indiana. they will play on a half dozen local courts at 25% capacity. >> i'm not naive. there's going to be things that pop up in the coming weeks and we'll have some struggles and challenges to work our way through. >> reporter: meanwhile, signs of precovid live starting to show. loosening restrictions as vaccine availability increases. >> there will be no statewide restrictions on events for

oklahomans. the city is now allowed to keep their mask mandate in place for the next two weeks. >> people need to wake up and realize that the mask mandate, i mean, it's not a big deal. you don't get upset when you have to wear seat belts. >> reporter: and health experts agree now is not the time to give up all precautions. >> cases, hospitalization deaths remain high. we've been fooled before. now is the time to double down to see this through. >> reporter: and here in texas 26th.yes now look ahead to that is when the case between the state of texas and the city of austin go to court. >> morgan chesky in dallas with the abrupt ending to a lot of college basketball seasons. thanks, morgan. that massive settlement just reached in minneapolis in the

george floyd civil case. approving a $27 million settlement with floyd's family as the officer who knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes stands trial for murder charges. gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: this morning some are questioning the timing of the settlement right in the middle of jury selection for the criminal trial but the floyd family is calling this a big first step. >> justice for george floyd. >> reporter: right after the historic settlement, george floyd's family neild in prayer in the neighborhood where he died. >> what does this mean for the floyd family? >> it's just a step closer to justice. >> the minneapolis city council unanimously approved the $27 million civil settlement, the biggest pretrial award following a deadly police encounter in the u.s. >> they cared about george floyd life and his life matters and that black lives matter. >> attorneys for the four

expolice officers in the floyd civil case did not respond to requests for comments. it tops the $12 million payout the city of louisville awarded for breonna taylor after she died a year ago. >> it may be designed to calm protesters as the murder trial of derek chauvin gets underway. >> they could have settled eight months ago and they chose not to. >> reporter: 7 of 14 jurors have been seated. opening statements are about two weeks away. chauvin is the former officer charged with second degree murder and man slaughter in floyd's death last may. he's pleaded not guilty. they say floyd's drug use contributed to his death. this week they added another charge of third degree murder. while celebrating the civil settlement, floyd's family is now calling for conviction. >> the way that people all across the world have paid tributes to him, i never thought

in america that my brother would be on stage like this. >> reporter: the settlement also includes a half million for the neighborhood where floyd died. it remains closed off to traffic as the criminal trial unfolds here in this heavily fortified courthouse. >> revealing interview you did there with george floyd's brother. gabe, thank you. the start of spring may be one week from today, but a major winter storm is taking aim at the rockies and it could drop up to four feet of snow in some places. the same system responsible for at least one tornado on friday in texas and there could be more today. nbc's gadi schwartz is near denver. all bundled up. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peter. the good news is this storm is moving slower than expected which is giving people more time to prepare in denver.

when it hits a little bit later this morning it is forecasted to be one of the worst storms in years and it could last through monday. >> right there. >> reporter: overnight a scary scene. tornado touching down outside lubbock, techs zblas wow. >> reporter: it's the leading edge of a storm now pounding the rockies. drivers in utah stuck on a snow covered freeway. authorities shutting down i-15 after several slideoffs and crashes on friday. >> you just feel for these folks right here. >> reporter: a week of rough weather in the left. in hawaii, major flooding. rivers taking over streets rushing through homes and cars. >> i was just glad we made it out of there. >> reporter: in southern california rain soaked hill sides slid into neighborhoods. >> very scary. it makes your hair stand up. >> reporter: the same storm hitting california making its way to colorado. it's a potentially historic snowstorm. the governor activating the

national guard. covid vaccinations put on hold. >> please stay in this weekend and stay off the roads. >> reporter: the highest snow totals expected in the higher elevations above boulder as much of colorado's rocky mountains are once again under avalanche watch during a season that's already killed 11 people. in denver more than 500 flights have been canceled for the weekend. those riding it out hoping to catch a break. >> just chilling on the freeway. been here an hour and a half. >> reporter: now the last weekend of winter expected to end in a blizzard. . and as it stands right now, about 98% of colorado is under a state of drought and even with some of these snow totals the several feet expected in the higher elevations, the foot of snow expected here in denver, it still won't be enough to break the drought. guys, back to you. >> this is a real storm, gadi schwartz in colorado.

thanks so much. it sure is. it comes as we are ready for the spring. let's bring in dylan for a first look at the forecast. >> hey, i know you have a couple of nice days, itching for springs and snowstorm comes in. typical march. 13 million people under some sort of storm watch or flood watch. the snow in denver has not gotten started yet. we have the heavy rain out towards southern missouri. the area of low pressure is slow moving as gadi pointed out. once the snow arrives later today we are going to see it stick around and become very heavy. that will give some time for significant amounts of snow, especially through denver where we could see about one to two feet of snow. as for rain, flooding is possible with three to four inches back through parts of nebraska. the snowfall we could see cold and chilly to start, but it's going to be such and

sunny and lovely day ahead. here's a look at your headlines for the weekend. afternoon sunshine today. looking out ahead, we have a rain chance that moves in tomorrow evening. but today, go out and enjoy. temperatures will be comfortable, in the 60s. and we will see sort of a sneak peek of spring, which officially starts next saturday. 59 degrees in oakland. 65, san jose. palo alto, 61. livermore 63. full forecast at 7:00 a.m. and that's your latest forecast. back to you guys. >> dylan, thank you very much. still to come, anger and outrage after a racist rant on a girl's basketball team was ca

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good morning. it is saturday, march 13th. a live look outside at 6:27. clouds and fog. a gloomy start as we look over san francisco. we really appreciate you starting your weekend with us. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana joins us with your microclimate forecast. >> hey there. good morning. you're right. we are seeing a little bit of that cloud cover. no worry, by afternoon, we will get so much sunshine. we are seeing morning fog. mid-60s for the interior valleys. a couple of mid-50s for the coastline and peninsula.

5 in san francisco. 65, san jose. afternoon sunshine is expe out by afternoon. let's ta you can about your headlines for the weekend. afternoon sunshine. we have a new rain chance that moves in sunday night. that full forecast at 7:00 a.m. . >> see you then, vianey. thanks so much. millions more california answer become eligible for covid vaccines. appointments are booked quickly online. some who have tried for days to land one lineup for extra doses in san francisco, the executive director of disability rights california says he expects vaccine sites will be set up specifically for vulnerable populations. state leaders expect 900,000 doses next week and the week following. >> i mean, i think it's important to recognize that the

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we are back on this saturday morning, march 13th, 2021, with this out of this world look at check this out two nasa astronauts making a space walk outside of the international space station this morning. their mission expected to last for about 6 1/2 hours. they're making a couple of upgrades to the spac amazing to what's happening about 250 above our heads, these are live pictures. incredible. >> nice tight shot of her pony tail bouncing around as they go through the space walk this morning.

we begin this half an hour with a check of the headlines back here on earth both of new york's democrat senators have joined the growing list of lawmakers calling on governor andrew cuomo to resign. the governor remaining defy ye defiant. cuomo now faces an investigation by the state's attorney general's office and an impeachment inquiry from the state assembly. >> embattled bachelor franchise host chris harrison will not be returning for thenext installment. instead, it will be hosted by former former contestants last month harrison announced he would be stepping back over a contestant's past behavior nbc and warner brothers making the statement last night saying they are dedicated to improving representation at all levels of their crew no permanent decision has been

made about harrison's long-term future with the franchise. >> and another story we're watching this morning, the outrage in oklahoma after an announcer used a racist slur at and a girls' high school basketball team took a knee, not realizing his microphone was open the latest from nbc's blayne alexander. >> we will right back here live. >> reporter: it was just before tip-off in the high school girls' basketball tournament near tul sa, oklahoma when players began to kneel, the announcer sounded off using racist language, not realizing they were speaking into hot mics [ bleep ]. >> they're going to kneel like that [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the announcers were not part of the school district employed by an outside group, which announced an investigation friday

norman high school superintendent met with the players. >> what was your first reaction when you saw that video? >> disgust and outrage, and that hit me hard. we're going to support them in their decisions and everything they do. >> reporter: friday norman teachers took a knee in support. the city's mayor tweeting her outrage, and from a state lawmaker -- >> when you surprised when you heard that language? >> i wasn't. i was angry, i was frustrated. it's very frustrated that some of it has been so normalized, and particularly on the issue of kneeling . >> reporter: friday n norman tigers were back on the court this time both teams taking a knee. one team summed up the events saying simply this is why we neil. for "today," blayne alexander, nbc news. that announcer got himself in a little bit of trouble there. >> yeah. something that i think is going to be a big talker in the coming days. let's check in with dylan right now. another look at the forecast. we spring ahead.

places. >> good reminder. don't forget to change your clocks ahead tonight before you go to bed. we are looking at some strong storms. these are spring-type thunderstorms. we do have the chance of large hale, damaging winds. isolated tornadoes across the area. as the wind shifts to the east, we could see a chance of stronger storms from arkansas into tennessee. temperatures you'll notice in the northeast have dropped significantly. we are done with the 60s and 70s. we'll replace it with 40s today. cleveland, 41 degrees. we will start to waurm a little bit as we go into next week, but it is going to stay on the fairly cooler side. minneapolis goes from 50 to 49 tuesday, charleston should get up to 66. cleveland, look for a high of 53 on wednesday. and we do have some morning clouds to kick start our

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dermatologist told her, no big deal. eventually, just to be certain, she went in for a biopsy. you were confident. i put it off. coronavirus the pandemic the reason i put it off. >> i was very confident until that phone rang at 4:58 on a tuesday afternoon and she said, i don't even know how to tell you this but it's invasive melanoma. >> reporter: jill's story during the pandemic is not unique. according to a recent dana farber cancer institute study. cancer screenings dropped by more than 75%. >> in theory there is a fear that some of the cancers, i wouldn't say as much risk as perhaps would have been diagnosed at the later stage. >> reporter: here's where jill's story may shock you. this 50-year-old's job, she's a doctor, an obgyn. >> reporter: you purposefully wanted us to see what happened to your face?

>> i did. >> why? >> i think it tells a bigger story. i want someone to look at my face and say, oh, my gosh, like could she have done something different had she gone in earlier? >> reporter: it takes a lot of courage to sit here and -- >> and admit it? >> it does. i am a doctor but i'm also a human and i made a mistake. >> you want others to learn from this? >> i want my mistake to not be other people's mistake so if i can help one person get into the doctor because i did this story, i'll be happy. >> reporter: in one way dr. jill was lucky. her cancer measured .4 millimeters. had it been .3 larger she would have had to begin chemotherapy. the scars, >> reporter: it cost? >> cost me a lot. >> reporter: big warning to everyone. >> big warning. >> reporter: indeed. look, my own family, both my parents, my aunt, a cousin all died from cancer.

my sister and another cousin survived cancer and so wake up this morning, listen to what your oncologist and doctors are saying. if you use the pandemic as a reason to skip that checkup, no more waiting, guys. time to go in and get that checkup. >> melanoma is personal in my family, kerry. that is an important warning. the courage for dr. jill to come forward. everyone look at your loved one, what do we need to do? let's get lives back to normal. >> what an important story. kerry. thank you for bringing that interview to us. she was so powerful. appreciate it. we'll take a little bit of a turn now and check in with dylan who will lighten things up with pop start. hey, dylan. >> we are going to talk about the royals and what the british the royals and what the british public tnks abouthi at novartis, our goal is to help keep cosentyx accessible and affordable. or you need help paying if you're taking cosenans don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis.

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royals. >> prince harry and meghan markle shows the couple's popularity is not what it used to be after the couple's tell-all interview with oprah. nbc's matt bradley has more. >> reporter: queen elizabeth known for keeping calm. >> i just didn't want to be >> reporter: the queen appeared in public for the first time on friday with a preordered video call she never mentioned the crisis and seemed quite cheery. >> it's been a very interesting morning. thank you very much, indeed. >> reporter: new polls show the british public still love the queen and prince philipp, but they're turning against the sussexes for the first time, the popularity sliding into the red. a poll friday showed 48% of brittains had a negative attitude towards prince harry, compared with only 45% who like him. that's a 15 point drop in just ten days his wife meaghan, even more

disliked with nearly two-thirds of people holding negative views of her the polls showing a true generation gap more than half of 18 to 24-year-olds said they like the sussexings, but those over 65 are more negative. on the streets of london, mixed opinions. >> they've done nothing wrong at all. >> if they want to sort it out like that, so be it. >> host out of a job after doubting meaghan's description of being suicidal. >> i don't believe a word she says. >> they admitted she was among the tens of thousands who formally complained but 200,000 people have signed an online petition demanding his return. just remarkable to see that polling and that there's that generational divide, younger brittains still with harry. >> maybe divided between american's views and brittain's. >> we need the poll out of the

u.s. now to another couple, it looks like there won't be wedding bells in the future for jennifer lopez and alex rodriguez. the superstar couple was photographed just last month where lopez is shooting her latest movie the two, who got engaged in 2019 after two years of dating, have postponed their wedding twice due to the pandemic, but reports this week said it was still on track. no word yet from either j alt-lo or a-rod. music's biggest night is tomorrow and it's shaping up to an exciting show trevor noah is hosting and there will be bts and taylor swift taking the stage among the nominees, beyonce, who leads the a pack with nine nominations. she's poised to make history depending on the number of awards she wins, and she could become the woman with the most grammys, the living musician

with the most grammys or even the artist with the most grammy awards ever. fascinating. we'll see what happens tomorrow night. >> i can't wait to see trevor noah host. that will be fun. >> anything beyonce, too coming up next, we're going to move on and focus on a behind-the-scenes look in the land of music and a camp that's so cool they made a movie about it we'll show you right after this. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours.

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nbc's kevin dibbles shows us what it's all about. >> reporter: sooner or later everyone wants to be a rock and roller. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> reporter: just ask sebastian bach. >> the ultimate compliment you can give anyone, a politician, a dentist. >> he's a rock star. >> that's right. the ultimate accolade. >> reporter: and the ultimate dream of being a rock star comes true in rock camp the movie. a film about rock and roll fantasy camp where real life rock stars jam next to their real life regular folk proteges all started by david fischer. >> why do so many rock stars like to come to your camp? >> they really have an amazing experience. i think it reminds them what it was like when they first started and they see it as pure music. they look at these people's faces and they say, wow, that was me. i just got lucky. ♪♪ ♪♪

>> nancy wilson of heart is definitely and she's been a rock camp counselor, too. she's just released a new album and says her rock camp experiences take her back to the very beginning. >> reminded me exactly of why i started out, because it was the love of songs. all the people i grew up listening to and how those songs, you know, save your life. >> reporter: movie stars, ordinary folks like you and me rocking on. i actually was a rock camper for the "today" show a few years back cranking up the volume and living the dream. >> give it up for kevin kibbles. >> this is rock star status. >> thanks, sebastian. >> by the time they leave and go back to their regular job, they can't wait to come back. >> they want an encore. >> they want an encore. you want to get to that feeling that i had at rock camp.

>> reporter: they're right. rock and roll will never die and this film won't let it. for "today," kevin tibbles, "today." >> the best part was seeing him jamming. >> i didn't know he was a rock star. >> i pick jon bon jovi. >> bono. >> i don't know. i have no musical talent. >> you have golf talent. as long be as we're on that in the met golfer, what else? your love of golf. great shots of you. >> thank you. that picture on the right, that's when i was outn lake tahoe for the big golf tournament out there that i came in dead last in. i told them stories one where i hit somebody in the leg on one of the most famous holes so that was embarrassing. also one thing they didn't mention i landed a ball in

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counties join the freedoms that will be allowed for people in every county. plus, if you have thought about life after covid, one bay area expert gives us three different predictions of what to expect this summer and beyond. and a cold start as we look at clouds and fog over san francisco. but vianey arana is forecasting sunshine for this saturday, more 13th.

good morning. it is 7:00 on the. as we take a live look outside, the sun breaking through those clouds over oak land on a chilly bay area morning. thank you so much for starting it with us. i'm kira klapper. vianey arana