into a winter wonderland. and from super bowl champion to egg on his face. peyton goes head-to-head with magic. "early today" starts right now. good morning. breaking news in oregon. the fbi has negotiated a surrender of the last of the occupiers of an oregon wildlife refuge. in a live stream of a phone conversation, the occupiers said they would surrender this morning but only if they're escorted by nevada politician and the reverend franklin graham, the son of famed evan jlest, billy graham. the fbi then swarmed the refuge, block all entrances and exits and leading to hours of tense negotiations. ammon bundyti and others were

ammon bundy's father was arrested by the fbi late last night and taken into federal custody. so far no word on what charges clive faces. to politics, where the republican presidential field is shrinking after some poor performances in new hampshire. carly fiorina and chris christie both announced they're suspending their campaigns and donald trump is taking his momentum to south carolina. where he declared quote you're next and a win would propel him to run the tables the rest of the primary season. he over pushed his general electability saying he could even win states like new york and michigan. peter alexander spoke with john kasich fresh off his strong second place finish in new hampshire. >> reporter: how do you navigate the anticipated negative attacks? >> i'm not going to let somebody

>> reporter: watching the results come in tuesday night, kasich was more reflective. >> we plugged away and plugged away. the little engine that can. >> reporter: but he faces a steep uphill climb in a state with far more christian conservatives, a target audience for ted cruz. >> the men and women of south carolina s i believe want somebody who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. >> reporter: jeb bush's days may be numbered. >>mo jeb bush is a leader who will keep our country safe. >> reporter: but so much for southern charm. a marco rubio advisor indicating this statend is going to be a blood bath. >> south carolina will be definitive and determinative. >> reporter:at still south carolinaens may avoid the establishment altogether. . >> theal people in south carolina are angry right now and they

>> nbc's peter alexander reporting. for the democrats, bernie sanders is in a new york state of mind. sanders headed to new york city wednesday meeting with civil rights c leader and msnbc host, reverend al sharpton. theyar discussed civil rights for african americans and the flint water crisis over breakfast. the sanders campaign is increasing the effort with minority voters.vo they have touted indorsements from keyem african american leaders. but a number of law makers are accusing him of being absent on issues important to african americans. "there's no credibility to the things that are being said at career. sanders trailed clinton by a wideargin among the state's

he addressed thiss issue with sharpton. >> you hadar a great victory last night and you now moving to nevada and south carolina.. how do you intend, because clearly new hampshire and iowa are mostly white stateses if not nearly white, how do you intend to deal with a diverse populous? >> it comes down to what we believe and what we are fighting for economically and in terms of social justice and criminal justice. once the word get out who i am, what we stand for, we're going to do just g fine. >> sharpton says he plans on meeting with hillary clinton next thursday before anoinsnounceing his indorsement. and hillary clinton is turning her focus to south carolina and nchb nevada.

hampshire she could be facing critical problems with key voters. they're e alarmed by voter's reasons for abandoning clinton. she lost on honesty and trust worthiness by a whopping 86 points and she even lost with women by 11 points. sanders even over took clinton inli young women voters by 59 points. thepo campaign is counting on her fire wall of minority voters in more diverse states ahead. the congressional black caucus will formally indorse clinton calling her a better candidate forte african americans. quote she's been talking about this for a her entire life. i've only heard about it from sanders in the last year. clinton will look to halt sanders growing momentum when they go one on one in milwaukee in the next democratic debate.

indicate the k country's army chief of staff has been executed. theyex have multiple confirmations from various sources.so the execution was for corruption and conspiracy, according to the sources. south korea's intelligence service says 70 some executions since kim jong-un took power. the senate bill mandates sanctions in those involved in the missile development program. republican senators marco rubio andco ted cruz return to join in that vote and presidential hopeful, bernie sanders missed a vote but released a statement supporting the legislation.n. it was in part a response to the missile launch by north korea as seen in this footage released

officials in pyongyang said it was a satellite launch. a disturbance at a maryland shopping center ends in tragedy with two sheriff's deputies gunned down and the suspect killed. they were responding to a punarau bread and after speaking with thepe suspect, one deputy was shot w whout warning. evans was later found by a second deputy whom evans fatally shot. he wasas fired at by two other responding wodeputies. >> today's a sad day for the hartford county sheriff's office and the citizens of hartford county who we are sworn to serve.

year veteran of this agency, and the other officer had served for 18 years. >> the identities have not yet beenet released. tense moments for a news crew from our flagship nation. a man ambushed a reporter outside a brooklyn court house. he ran up to him and pointed him with an object resembling firearm and said give me your money and ran off. here's something you don't see every day. a wild elephant went on a destructivet ram page in a town in india. he sent residents running for their lives. authorities say the giant female actually fwandered from a nearby forestea and pretty mad. after several hours of running

shoot it t with a tranquilizer gun. they used a crane to remove it from the town. in michigan, lake effect snow coated areas with up to 10 inches with three to five incheses still exectpected. in peohio, part of i 90 was closed due to a 50 car pile up. 17 people were hospitalized. nbc meteorologogt here witit forecast for the rest of the country. . good morning, rafael. >> and that lake effect snow continues again@ today. it's like the same satellite picture here. another foot of s sw possible here. and snowow showers even in and around new york city. arctic air is on the move. the coldest air of the season in the next few days. we're dealing with wind chills below zero already. saturday morning it feels like

even d.c. feels like ro. this is saturday evening, valentine's weekend. new york city folks are up in the restaurants and it feels like 9 degrees below zero. dangerous cold as you head to buffalo with wind chills in the teens below zero. and we could set records in 2ur78 terms of the coldest valentine's day onnt record. right now we're forecasting a temperature of 1, 1 degree. that's the actual temperature sundaype morning. that's a lookor at your nationall forecast, now here's a look at your day ahead.a we're tracking those lake effectec snow showers. again, a foot possible along the great lakes and a high of 29 degrees in new york. 20s and teens in the midwest. tracking light snow in the dakotas. so,s. really getting ready to bundle up bigime this weekenen

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brown, an unarmed black teen, was killed. for the 15th time,he man whwh assassinated senator robert kennedy in 1968 was denied parole yesterday. this after a friend of kennedy's who was shot pled for his release. he believes the senator was killed by an unidentified second shooter. four days after a 6 point magnitude earthquake hit taiwan, a maltese was rescued from the rubble. oh, no. >> check out the shocking video of a demolition gone very wrong. a parking garage in houston, texas collapsed on top of a crane with the operator still inside. luckily the operator was not hurt.

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28 years, secret service posts warning "no guns in whitete house." neather the secret service or the justice department could explain why it took 28 years to install them. the u.s. army has paid $820,000 to a federal lawsuit by a former police trainee. she says she was fired after she filed asexual harassment complaint for her supervisor. according to a recent study, the rate of new dementia cases has been declining over the last several decades. the most notable was a type caused by vascular disees, such as stroke. one reeztheory for the improvement is people are living healthier lives. near oklahoma city, fire crews battled a huge grass fire

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