we're kicking off february with extreme weather, causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations already today as a deadly weather storm moves through the south of the. all ice on memphis this morning where the funeral for tyre nichols will be taking place before a global audience breaking overnight, a fugitive wanted for attempted murder, kidnapping and assault is now in police custody after an hours-long standoff jerome powell will have all eyes on him as an interest rate

hike is expected and a cautionary note for parents who use aptps to order food good morning i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. a day of mourning is just getting started in memphis many will gather in just a few hours to pay their respects to tyre nichols the death followed a beating and sparked outrage across the country. brie, good morning some members of the white house will be going to this service in memphis? >> reporter: good morning, vice president kamala harris will be traveling to memphis, tennessee to pay her respects to tyre nichols. attorney ben crump says harris spoke with the 29-year-old's parents on tuesday and said she was able to help tyre's mom smile. several other biden administration officials are

also expected to iattend the funeral, including keisha lance bottoms. the mother of breonna taylor and mother of george floyd will be there today. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy and spoke with members of tyre nichols' family >> my brother was the most peaceful person you ever would meet in your life. the most >> that's right. in he's never lifted a finger to nobody >> got a long fight ahead of us. >> that's right. >> we got to stay strong for it. so justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> justice for tyre. >> reporter: and five memphis police officers have been charged with second degree murder while two roothers are o administrative leave lawyers for two of the men charged say they will plead not guilty, and three memphis fire department employees were also terminated for not providing proper medical aid to nichols. now as memphis prepares to honor

tyre nichols, the investigation into his violent encounter with police continues frances? >> celebration of life, and i can imagine more calls to action there today. brie, thank you. breaking overnight, a grueling manhunt has come to an end. after an hours-long standoff, police in oregon have captured benjamin foster. he's the man accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman. s.w.a.t. teams surrounded a home in grants pass where he was hiding he was seen walking a dog tuesday morning. authorities spent a week searching for foster, who is considered extremely dangerous last tuesday police responded to calls of an assault and found a woman bound and bieaten unconscious. she's still in the hospital in critical condition he was active on dating apps police in omaha were able to prevent a potential mass shooting at a target store this comes as the ousu.s. is st

reeling from several highly highly-publicized incidents of gun violence >> at least six shots from inside the building. parties are running out. >> reporter: in nebraska, an all-too-familiar tragedy narrowly avoided this omaha target nearly became the scene of another mass shooting a man armed with a ar-15 rifle walked into the store and began shooting >> ar-15 rifle with him and plenty of ammunition there's evidence to suggest with shell casings that he entered the target and was firing rounds it's unknown at this time if he was firing at anybody. >> reporter: some ran into the parking lot. >> just a really loud bang, it sounded like something fill, and we kind of all looked around at each other like i hope that wasn't what i think it was >> the first arriving officers

went into the building, confronted the suspect and shot him dead >> reporter: omaha police have not named the deceased gunman, describing him as a white man in his 30s, also no word on motive. after searching the store both police and target confirm no one else was hurt. >> our thanks to maggie for that report on the stand at the alec murdaugh trial, a police investigator makes the explosive climb t claim that they have the defendant on tape tape conphysg confessing to murder >> reporter: in court tuesday the prosecution and defense battling over the meaning of a five-word statement made by alec murdaugh in an emotional interview with investigators >> it's just so bad, i did him so bad >> reporter: investigators recall murdaugh speaking about his son paul, saying, quote, "i did him so bad." the recording played aloud at

slow speed >> i did him so bad. >> reporter: defense attorneys suggesting the words may have been "they did him so bad", and questioning why if investigators believed it to be a confession to the murder they only made a mental note. >> what was going through your mental note? >> that was a mental note that it was definitely something that we need to follow up on. >> reporter: after prosecutors displayed several guns and bullet casings monday, evidence collected from the vast hunting property, the defense pushing back on tuesday, that the weapons shown were not involved in the murders >> he brought here in the courtroom, and introduced it in this case. >> i did, sir. >> yeah. a gun that couldn't even fire the bullet that killed paul, right? >> it did not fire the round that was located at the scene. >> reporter: last on the stand, cell phone forensics experts

describing calls and texts coming and going from paul's and maggie's phones. maggie's phone discovered in airplane mode. cell phone investigators also say there was a failed attempt to unlock maggie murdaugh's phone that night with facial recognition. they say it happened about an hour before alec murdaugh called 911. i'm catie beck for nbc news. slippery conditions turning deadl deadly in the know and ice-covered south. at least three people died due to weather-related incidents, and thousands of flights canceled with more on the docket today. here's morgan chesky >> reporter: an icy mess gripping the southern plains freezing nearly everything in its path >> it's solid ice up my walkway there. >> reporter: the frigid mix of rain and sleet putting 31 million americans under winter weather alerts icy collisions in arlington.

>> many roads will remain dangerous for the next 24-48 hours. >> reporter: any outages stem from ice buildup and not a failing power grid across the state, highways turned into skating rinks, causing hundreds of accidents and heaving some like this dallas transit bus stranded in the cold has it been this bad all morning? >> yeah. you lose any kind of traction. this is what's going to happen >> reporter: the driver, like so many others, stuck until reenforcements could arrive. sand trucks working s working ye t overtime as precipitation froze on contact it looks like snow, but we're standing on sleet that's turned into ice, huh? >> right >> reporter: where in arkansas a state of emergency was declared, frozen power line toppling over and catching on fire solid white and solid ice.

one semi losing control so badly cranes had to remove it in pieces as traffic backed up on a blocked i-40 for more than 15 miles. the polar threat remains far from over. morgan chesky, nbc news, dallas. let's get the latest on the storm with nbc meteorologist angie lassman. >> the same area that was impacted yesterday you saw all those visuals from in morgan's feed is going to be the same today. more ice will be accumulating. the radar's already busy out there with snow, sleet and rain. here's where the alerts are currently up where you see the bright purple. that is where we have ice storm warnings at this hour. 30 million people included in those alerts through the day today. be mindful if you have any travel on the roads out of airports that could be impacted. this is on top of what we already received yesterday we could see the highest amounts centered into texas, west of the

parts of dallas, san angelo, and that comes in at about a quarter of an inch we know that with a quarter of inch of ice we could see downed trees and power lines and the roads will once again be a mess. we have heavy rain that's going to work into parts of the southeast over the coming days today it look like dallas sits at freezing with snow, sleet and hail possible. and over the next couple days, we're still going to see the system impacting the southeast for tomorrow with heavy rain but it's the cold that will get your attention through the weekend. >> it will shake you into reality thank you. "early today" is back in 60

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