tensions at an all-time high along the ukraine and russia border president biden now saying russia will pay a heavy price if it sends in any troops after critics said he opened the door to an incursion. another day, another million covid cases. the omicron surge showing no signs of slowing, but you can soon grab some free n95 masks to protect yourself peloton c.e.o. back pedaling on reports the company plans to temporarily halt production of its bikes and treadmills but was it enough to save the company shares from free fall?

if it's three's company, then six is a crowd. a new york hospital welcomes, one, but two sets of tripletts it's almost the weekend. e early today starts now i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. millions under winter weather alert. nbc's emily akayed a with more on the conditions. >> reporter: a crippling cold across the country >> i have my boots, scarf, everything >> reporter: the arctic blast plunging temperatures from parts of the midwest to new england. feels like negative 24 degrees in minneapolis and a bone chilling negative 6 in chicago more than 20 million americans under winter weather alert a messy commute along i-95 as rain and snow hampered the northeast as people headed into work >> it's a little slippery. hopefully people are taking it

easy out there >> reporter: in burks county, pennsylvania, this car sliding 0 of the road into a ditch severe weather packing a winter wallop heavy sleet and snow hitting arkansas and kentucky. strangers to the snow are bracing for a winter weather beat down. texas activated its state operation center >> on a freezing night, the level of crisis changes, and we need to do our part to come together really as a city and make it possible for everyone to be inside somewhere. >> reporter: out west in colorado, treacherous road conditions temperatures plummeting and fog limiting visibility. a multi-car pile up involving four vehicles killed one person in adams county. and shutdown a major interstate. that storm system set to move eastward to the carolinas where states of emergency are already in effect. the area just recovering from widespread power outages last weekend. facing up to a third of an inch of ice >> we do have people in the water. >> reporter: the dangers of that ice on display in new jersey last sunday. newly released body camera shows

first responders rescuing three people who had fallen into a freezing lake. >> if you don't sit, it's too late, you're in. >> reporter: residents getting a second dose of mother nature's fury within one week >> and our thanks to emily akada for that report. coming up meteorologist janessa webb will have a look at what you can expect this weekend. one year into the biden administration, and the white house faces grim approval ratings. in a new nbc news poll, a majority of americans are giving the president low marks. nbc's steve kornacki joins us now to break down the numbers. >> well, frances and philip, one year into his presidency, joe biden in our new poll, approval rating of just 43%, a majority say they disapprove of the job the president is doing now, we can put this in some context. let's compare how biden is doing at the one year mark with how his recent predecessors were doing. how does he stack up he is a few points better than where donald trump was at this

point, at the one year mark in our poll, trump was actually under a 40% approval rating. if you go back to barack obama a little bit further, biden is under where barack obama was obama was at 50% at the one year mark so biden is in between the two of them. and the concerning thing for democrats and for the biden white house certainly, both trump and obama had very rough midterm elections. and you look at that number for biden, it's right in the range where trump and obama were so didn't work out well for them in the midterms. a bit of history i think biden white house is certainly hoping to defy this year. we could also break this down by race, his approval rating. you can see among white voters, black voters interestingly here, hispanic voters, look at that, joe biden's approval rating in our pollackly a 49% disapprove rating among hispanic voters in 2020 there was a bit of a surprise shift some of the hispanic vote went away from the democrats toward donald trump and republicans one of the questions heading into '22, is that going to

continue could that accelerate? if it does, that could scramble our politics considerably. we'll certainly keep an eye on this number as the year progresses >> we sure will. all right, steve, thank you. president biden facing an uproar after bold statements about a potential attack on ukraine. he is cleaning up to appease and reassure allies. today secretary of state anthony blinken will meet with the foreign minister to try to diffuse the escalating crisis. here's richard engel >> reporter: it's clear the ukrainian officials, ukrainian government are upset, frightened even by what they heard from president biden. president biden more than once suggested that the u.s. sees a difference, that he sees a difference between a small russian military incursion into ukraine and a major russian invasion of this country, which he said would trigger massive economic responses and economic

sanctions from the united states and european allies. the ukrainian foreign minister said that there can be no difference, and there must be no difference between a incursion and invasion a russian military action is an invasion and an invasion is an invasion is an invasion. the white house itself issued a clarification after president biden spoke, saying that there is no difference between a small incursion and a major invasion of ukraine because the white house and ukraine, nato allies don't want to give the impression that president biden gave a green light to vladimir putin to do a minor military action, to take a piece of ukraine and that that would not trigger a massive response or the same level of response that a major invasion of this country would be and when you're entering into negotiations, which started here in kiev, will continue when the secretary of state meets the russian foreign minister in geneva, you want to have the

strongest, most united position possible and it seems that in this poker game that is happening between the u.s. and russia, president biden may have revealed a few too many cards richard engel, nbc news, kiev. the u.s. has now surpassed 69 million covid cases since the start of the pandemic. another 1 million cases have been reported in 24 hours continuing the trend of much of this week. the cdc now recommending people wear more protective masks like n95s or k n95s to protect against the omicron variant. the biden administration will be providing 400 million free n95 masks to pharmacies and community health centers beginning next week. to find a local health center, you can head to find a health center.hrsa.gov, and a check of your pharmacy is participating in the program, you can visit the address on your screen there will be ape limit of three per person now to a doctor who is

showing the difference of lungs of the unvaccinated and vaccinated covid patients. lisa robinson from our nbc affiliate wbal in baltimore has more >> reporter: >> there is a dramatic difference between the chest x-rays we see in patients that have been fully vaccinated and test positive or covid-19 and those who are not vaccinated >> reporter: dr. omar awan is the associate vie chair of education in the department of diagnostic radiology at the university of maryland medical center he wants the public to understand and see the difference for themselves. these are ct images of a covid patient who has been vaccinated on the left. and unvaccinated lung damage on right lung this black structure is the e he right lung, the left lung you can see in the vaccinated individual much of the lung is black. that's a good thing. it demonstrates air. >> reporter: it's a much

different story in the lung of an unvaccinated person >> you can see the burn of infection is much more pronounced in an unvaccinated individual versus a vaccinated individual >> reporter: the symptoms of a vaccinated person are milder than in an unvaccinated person >> those who are unvaccinated will have full-blown shortness of breath. there is a higher propensity for them to go into the i.c.u. >> reporter: he said he hopes these images will change minds you can see images, you can see clearly the proof in vaccination and how effective the vaccines are. by looking at a chest x-ray, oftentimes that is more helpful from a visual standpoint than just hearing people spit out statistics >> it's helpful. our thanks to lisa robinson for that report. the january 6 committee has requested an interview with former president trump's daughter ivanka. the panel says they want to hear about two conversations she had with the president in the oval office that day. according to the committee's report, the first daughter

pleaded with him to intervene to stop the violence at the capitol. the committee also wants details of a phone call she overheard between her father and the vice president. a spokesperson for ivanka trump notes that she condemned the violence publicly on january 6th, but they did not say whether she would agree to testify. nbc meteorologist janessa webb is tracking that big chill that we doled you about a little bit earlier. good morning, janessa. >> you know, this is temperatures we do not like to see going into the weekend many folks talking about indoor plans and that's a good idea because it stretches across much of the country look at dallas this morning. we're talking about 27 degrees some of the coldest temperatures of the season thus far and it continues for chicago to the cleveland area you factor in the winds. we're down to negative 2 for chicago, and that will continue to be pretty clear throughout the day. you can see temperatures, air temperatures not jumping up too much d.c. 28, but when you factor in

the winds, 19 degrees this afternoon. and the farther you go north to northern new england, temperatures are going to remain in the single digits this really spreads into the carolinas as we go into tomorrow, and they're dealing with that big ice storm and winter weather alert across raleigh, durham, into columbia, south carolina wind chills down to 20 below in some spots and i wish i could say this warms up going into your sunday. that's not the case. but monday we'll start to see just a settle in pittsburgh today, a high of 19 mostly sunny skies we also have a ton of winter weather alerts we'll talk about that coming up, guys >> a lot to brace for. thank you, janessa olympians are known for

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>> reporter: and not just because the chance of having triplets is one in 10,000, but because these are high-risk pregnancies. and even though all six babies were born prematurely and needed to spend weeks in the nicu, they all came home healthy last month. >> you'd expect a lot of trouble. >> i would start with baby a >> reporter: keeping them all straight, that can be tricky there's celeste, alma and sol and acoma named after acoma. she explained why through a translator >> translator: i told my husband i'm going to name the babies acoma, alma, arlette i told him that's the name of the doctor >> amber: is this it or will the triplett moms go for double trouble? >> no, that's it no more babies >> i personally, no, but my husband wants to try for the

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