good morning, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. late last night, a major set back and h h plan to protect those living in united states illegally. and a vote was 2-1, president obama laid out his executive action a year ago and would have delayed deportation for lot of people including children brought across the border illegally. republicans argued it was over reach and with this latest setback, it's unknown if it will ultimately succeed. president obama may not be in office to see it through. dozens of boycotting football players are headed back

today, this after resigning. nbc's jacob has those details. >> reporter: aftererwo months of anger and unrest on campus, an stunning. >> i'm resigning as president of the university of missouri system. >> reporter: and hours later, the chancellor announced he will be stepping down at is this end of the year. students say this semester has been plagued with incidents of ralths huh racial harassment. in september, the black student body president said a group of white students had shouted the "n" word at him. >> i'm walking down the street and someone shouts it at me again. >> reporter: they say a swastika

university's reaction was infuriating. they couldn't believe the news. enough to bring some too t trs. andd proenough proprotesttester jonathan butler to end his hunger strike. and last year's riots in ferguson were les than two hours away. the tipping point came over the weekend, a photograph worth a thousand protests. the football team backed by their coaching staff refusing to play until the president was out. now back in the game. >> please, please, use this resignation to heal. not to hate. and let's move forward together for a brighter tomorrow. >> now president's wolf 's

tonight's gop debate is prpred to be something of a cage match. and things are heated. donald trump is getting vicious with ben carson and rubio's camp is saying bring it on. meanwhile, hillary clinton officially filed for the new hampshire primary. and they've never indorsed a candidate this early in the process. some of ben carson's fellow candidates aren't exactly sticking up for him. >> reporter: he says he's been scrutinized more than any other candidate candidate. and some of his republican opponents say he's got be to able to take the heat. listen. >> and i heard him this morning say he's b bn more scrutinized

>> if you try and hit your mother o or the head with a hammer, your p pl numbers go up. i never saw anything like it.. >> reporter: that's donald trump, of course, he'll be senlt center stage with ben coursen, carson could also face more question about claims he's made about his past, about a west point scholarship that he never applied for, and discrepancies, how or when or if that ever happened about his violent youth and number of other things that he says are irrelevant 20 or 30 years later and he just continues to be hounded with questions about that. and watching for jeb bush and marco rubio. will they tangle again? the flor idians we saw in the

coururng an indorsement from walker. and rubio met with walker last night on the eve of this debate,, an indorsement for either of them could bring much needed support, especially from evangelicals. >> we'll be watching, thank u. ;>> an oklahoma police officer is happy to be alive after becoming a target during a high-speed chase. he was preparing to lay spike strips when the suspect drove towards him and he fired his weapon that suv an act the police chief describes as deliberate. >> that wasn't the sound of braking. the suspect made the intentional turn towards the officer. >> the officer suffered minor injuries. back up arrived and they were able to arrest the suspect, 41-year-old stacey ann bunsy

charles greenhouse jr. and derrrrk stafford arere beingng held for a shooting that killed a 6-yeararld and kiticallycritically injured his father. he was laid to rest in mississippi yesterday. and hughes said his client's condition is improving but has not yet been told that his son has died. they confirm that he had no outstanding warrants. and they say the shooting occurred at the end of a pursuit. and he says while he has not seen a police body camera video, he believes it will show his client's hands were up at the time of the shooting. and he's the son of a local district attorney whose office has recused itself from the case. it is a stunning

say they plan to phase out their killer whale show in their san diego show and all this coming after criticism of their treatment of orcas in captivity. and they've seen declining attendance especially since the documentary "blackfish" sparked world wide out rage. and they replace what they call a more informative and more natural setting for the orca. so, far no announcements for changes at other seaworld parks. a new painting by italian artist sold for a monday, now a private chinese collector purchased it at christy's reclining nude is the second highest price ever for a work of

a the highest was a picoso that sold for 179 million. and the previous modigliani hadad sold for 70 million. and a wet weather system moved througug nevada. and as mucuc as a foot of snow is expected in parts of the area and you can see early ski season skiers. they are loving every minute of this. bill karins is watching as well. and it doesn't come in the form of rain but they'll take it anyway they can. well, the weather maps are going to be active, especially tomorrow and possible blizzard conditions, colorado and kszansas. this is tropical storm kate, 60 miles per hour. not go being a problem for anyone.

and heading to southern new jersey steady rain and eventually during the day, the heavy rains will be in central pennsylvania and maybe minor travel delays, only about a quarter to a half an inch h om bostst to d.c. it's a nice, calm before the storm type day but that storm is kicking through the central planes and tomorrows when we expect the possibility of a severe weather outbreak. and sometornados. it's possible they'll st. louis and central missouri. don't want anyone being caught by surprise. that's your national wealther and now a closer look at the day ahead. so, for today you can see the cloudy kind of dreary skies expected from cleveland to pittsburgh all the way across

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he's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: at the 2012 london olympics, breath gold and bronze medals in the 800 meter went to the russians. now those two athletes face a possible lifetime ban from international competition, part of what a new report calls systematic doping and a deeply rooted cheating in russian athletics. >> we found samples in the laboratories, payaynts of monies in order to conseal dodong cysts. >> reporter: the report concludedethathe londonames were in a sense sabotaged. during the 2014 sochi olympics, they posed as technicians and the antidoping association

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and they make them better at preventing escape. they have a point there. the plan is still currently in discussion. so, two american civilian contractors were killed in jordan yesterday. a third was wounded during the shooting spree near amman. the gunman was a former police officer recently fired from his job. they say no u.s. military are involved or located at the training facility. maureen o'hara passed away last month of natural causes. indiana in, a family came home to an unlikely guest. a deer got a little too comfortable in the master bedroom. they say it broke through the window and made its way through

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tuesday. a agday -cotton harvest is trying to wrap up down south. plus, east coast farmers could be facing the supreme court. in agribusiness...usda prepares for its next big grain report. what does the ending stocks look like? do they go up on corn one hundred million or soybeans go up 50 million. researchers say some dairy farmers might want to