february going out with tens of millions under a winter weather alert. the biggest snowstorm of the year bearing down on the northeast while families across the south pick up the pieces after severe storms spawned tornados angie's here tracking it all student loan forgiveness heads to the supreme court the cases that could make or break the white house plans to help millions struggling with student debt taking out the toxic waste removal restarts after that fiery train derailment in ohio as the government aims to answer

burning questions from residents. it's ron desantis versus disney florida's governor sets his sights on the happiest place on earth with a new bill. and even the tooth fair see feeling the bite from inflation. kids are finding more pillowe p before we're closing out the month. >> glad to be with you, i'm frances rivera >> after a mostly mild whether or not for much of the northeast, snow finally fell in parts of the new york metro area, including new york city. and now rain is washing it all away into new england more snow is expected today, and that could make for a slippery commute. meanwhile in michigan, more than 1 147,000 residents spent another night in the dark. >> severe weather brought high winds that toppled trees

morgan chesky starts us off. >> reporter: oklahoma facing a mangled mess homes shredded and cars tossed from terrifying tornados >> there's possibly a tornado going over us right now. >> reporter: the storm spawning nine reported twisters slamming the southern plains with devastating winds drenching rain and hail >> hello everybody okay? you in there >> reporter: the city of norman, oklahoma suffering a direct hit. >> my house is destroyed my property, as you can see, is destroyed. >> reporter: can you salvage anything >> i'm not sure. >> reporter: but dinah hummel worried less about her home than her barn full of beloved horses when the storm ripped the roof right off. as you walk in you don't know what to expect >> i'm thinking every horse is dead and all of a sudden all the noses are coming out, and i'm going oh, my god it is heartbreaking, but i'm so

glad that the horses are okay. >> reporter: the same system lashing parts of new mexico and texas in a sandstorm, blowing up so much dust it's recorded on radar. at least four reported twisters touching down in illinois as 42 million people face winter alerts from the great lakes to the northeast. new york city prepping for what could be their biggest snowfall all year on the west coast where millions were battered by record snow and rain another round is now soaking the golden state outside los angeles, saturated hillsides giving way >> scariest part is the people that live up there and just thinking about how much more rain could come. >> reporter: coast-to-coast extremes wreaking havoc as millions hunker down >> morgan, thank you let's get straight to nbc meteorologist angie lassman who is tracking that system for us and where it's going to linger

and stay >> we're going to see this system and another one work on for folks in the west coast. it's a bit after busy week weather wise here's what's going on satellite and radar wise can you see some of this rain moving through new york city new york city starting to get intothe wintry mix we'll start to see the rain working through here as we go through the rest of the morning hours. but still you'll weak up to snow on the ground and the cars additional snowfall could be as high as 8 inches the farther north in new england you go. places like southern maine, vermont, new hampshire will see higher amounts especially in the higher elevations. we'll see things quiet down as we get into tomorrow but in the meantime t , it wille a difficult commute in boston and hartford more than six months after it was first introduced, the supreme court will hear oral arguments today over the

legality of president biden's proposal to forgive student loans for borrowers. brie jackson joins us with more. good morning student debt is a major issue and very polarizing. how did we get here? >> student debt forgiveness was a major issue for president biden on the campaign trail, and the white house unveiled its plan for student debt relief back in august the proposal would forgive up to $10,000 in student debt for people earning less than $125,000 per year. and cancel up to $20,000 for pell grant recipients. while millions of americans applied for the program, it was met with immediate backlash and blocked by a federal appeals court in november. the supreme court will hear two different challenges starting today. one is from a group of six republican-led states that sued last sent. they argue the president overstepped his authority by taking the action without approval from congress the other challenge comes from two student borrowers who claim

that they would be excluded from the plan they argue that the biden administration deprived them of their procedural rights by not allowing the public to weigh in. president biden acknowledged the challenges during an event for black history month at the white house. >> my administration is making ourcase in the supreme court, and i'm confident the legal authority to carry that plan is there. i promise you. i have your back and this is so much more we can do >> reporter: the supreme court also agreed to take on a case over the constitutionality of the consumer protection bureau >> a lot at stake. brie, thank you. now to breaking news the u.s. marshal service says it's suffered a major security breach according to a spokesperson, the ransomware attack earlier this month attacked a system that

contained sensitive information including identifiable details about subjects of investigations, third parties and some marshal service employees. a senior law enforcement official familiar with the breach tells nbc news that this database did not contain any information about people in a witness protection program the agency says the system was disconnected from the network. now the justice department has opened an investigation. the fbi have arrested a man called the sedition panda for storming the capitol during the january 6 riot jesse james rumson was allegedly seen wearing a panda head and entered that you emergency fire escape he's facing several charges including resisting or impeding an over. including to the fbi after date he encouraged rioters to breach another door and grabbed an officer's face shield. now to the alex murdaugh double murder trial where the defense has rested it came after a couple of notable courtroom successes for the defense that day the judge granted their request to take the jurors on a tour of

the crime scene. and a blood splatter expert raised doubts about the prosecution's case he testified that it was unlikely that the murders were committed by a single gunman also, murdaugh's brother john marvin testified the prosecution says they have four or five rebuttal witnesses before closing arguments later this month alex murdaugh is accused of killing his son and wife in june of 2021. coe fac he could face life in prison the house energy and km commerce committee plans to hold a hearing near east palestine, ohio no date has been set yet our george solis has the latest from the ground where waste removal has resumed. >> re

>> reporter: emotions still running high >> norfolk southern is making me question whether i'm a good parent >> reporter: three weeks since the derailment, charise, mother of two, says she's feeling trapped between the sea of doubt. >> i have a son and daughter, are they in ten years going to be diagnosed from cancer from this >> reporter: the epa temporarily paused shipments over the weekend. they're now being transported from east palestine to epa-vetted disposal sites in nearby cities. >> the addition of these disposal locations gets us closer to having enough capacity to finish the cleanup. >> reporter: officials in michigan and texas irate over what they say was the surprise delivery of tons of contaminated waste from the derailment. >> the outward effect of it looks like we're being sandbagged >> reporter: ohio's governor announcing five truck loads of contaminated soil were returned to east palestine. as the ntsb continues its

investigation, norfolk southern says it continues to work on track removal and soil excavation while the cdc continues door to door survey efforts to check on resident has anyone been to your door >> not one single person >> reporter: what does that tell you. >> that they don't care. >> reporter: michael regan is visiting for the third time to visit the derailment site and meet with residents. spacex has launched a new jeb r generation of the star link satellites spacex says the new version is sma smaller and has four times the capacity they are designed to provide internet service in remote areas around the world let's bring back angie this thing did go from coast-to-coast >> we have another one we're going to watch over the next couple days that's going to go coast-to-coast and impact people with severe weather and winter weather and california will see

more rain and snow you can see some of that rain working through places like pittsburgh at this hour. cleveland, buffalo all seeing rainfall meanwhile a little farther to the north, snow for new york city wintry mix over the next few hours. there's system i'm talking about. we're going to see added rain and mountain snow for folks in california not as intense as it was with the previous system but still impactful. as we get through the middle of the week and into thursday and friday we'll see the potential for squoo for severe weather we'll have the potential for wind, hail and tornados as well d addeann charleston, new orleans, 83. plenty of sunshine for oklahoma

city 75 as the high today. next couple days are going to be busy, guys we'll talk more about the severe weather coming up. >> that's a check the weather every day week you've heard of the running of the bulls, but what about the running of the dinosaurs nearly 150 people wearing inflatable t-rex suits raced on the beach in southern japan. dinosaurs of all different colors sprinted across the sand, a lot of them face planting. it's so tough to run in that organizers were happy to see people enjoy the race as many events had been canceled due to the pandemic >> see thwe see these so often. >> those inflatable dinosaurs, they're so funny, especially the t-rex ones we are back in one minute as jeffrey epstein's confidante prepares to appeal her sex trafficking conviction chris rock is gearing up to break his silence. s gearing up break his silence. at the end of a long day,

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