reports, piling on. gets socked with more than feet of lake effect snow and more is on the way. the danger is the sheer weight of it all. >> collapsing roofs under the weight of six feet of snow. you can imagine the stress it is putting on structures here. >> executive action. the president goes it alone on immigration reform, setting off a political war with republicans. >> part of staying competitive is making sure we have an immigration system that doesn't send away talent, but attracts it. that's what i will be talking about a little bit tonight. as far as keeping america prosperous and strong. >> coming up here, valerie jarrett, the senior adviser and luis gutierrez. campus shooting in florida. three university students are shot when a gunman opens fire at

midnight in the library. >> there has been a shooting in the library. >> someone runs up the stairs and said there is a guy with a gun, everyone get out. >> good day. a big day in washington. i'm andrea mitchell. president obama will address the nation on why he is going around congress to take action on immigration. valerie jarrett is senior adviser to president obama and joins me now from the white house. thank you very much for being with us. >> good afternoon. >> good to see you. tell us what the president is going to be out lolining tonigh. millions of people will be affected. what can be tell us about the actions? >> certainly, andrea. he is looking forward to having a chance to address the union and the american people tonight to talk about how he will improve security at the border and focus on prioritizing the

deportation of felons and not breaking up families and figuring out ways of improving opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators and high tech folks to stay in our country. he is looking at everything he can do within his authority and there limits to his authority to try to fix our broken immigration system. it has been two years now since he was in las vegas and began advocating congress to pass a bill and a year and a half since the senate passed a bill. he made it clear that if congress did not act by the end of the year, he would take actions as every president since eisenhower has done on immigration. this is well within the scope and if tomorrow they pass a bill he can sign, he will look forward to signing it and these actions will go away. >> the president has been proposing this for two years and

every president back to the 1950s has taken executive action on immigration. this is what president obama said to jose in 2013. this was president obama acknowledging on telemundo last september that he did not have the legal authority. let's watch. >> young people who basically have grown up here are americans that we should welcome. we are not going to have them operate under a shadow. if we start broadening that, essentially i would be ignoring the law. in a way that i think would be difficult to defend legally. that's not an option and i do get a little worried that advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately think well, somehow there is an out here. if congress doesn't act, we will

have the president sign something and that will take care of it. we won't have to worry about it. >> why did he say he didn't have the legal authority to do what he is planning to announce tonight? >> no, he is not. that's not at all. he was right. he doesn't have the legal authority to do everything that is in the senate bill. the president believes we should provide a path to citizenship for people who are prepared to pay back taxes and learn english. that was in the senate bill. he can't do that. there great limitations to what he wants to do to what he can't do. after last year he went back to his secretary of homeland security and he said give me recommendations about what i can do that is well within of scope of my authority and upon the advice of his council as well as a wide range of experts around the country, what he will announce tonight, he has the authority to do. >> does it concern you or the

president that in our new "wall street journal" poll, 48% of those questioned disapprove of him taking executive action and only 38% approve. >> one of the reasons he wants to address the american people is to explain what actions he is taking and put them in context and give them a real concrete example of what he will be doing and after he does so and he is looking forward to having a chance to go tomorrow to las vegas and talk about it again in more depth that the american people will understand what he is doing. we have always been a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws and everything he is doing is consistent with that theme. a bipartisan bill was passed by the senate and what the president is doing tomorrow is not that bill. it is a much more limited action, well within his scope of authority. he is looking forward to having that conversation with the american people. >> valerie jarrett, thank you very much for giving us the

context behind the decision making. we appreciate you coming on. it's a big day. the speech will be at 8:00 eastern. right here on msnbc. joining me now from capitol hill, luis gutierrez, the leader in the fight for reform. one of the congress member who is attended the dinner with the president last night. tell us any details you can share. the president is going to be announcing swallow as many as four million people and a million more who are the families of dreamers as well. >> it has been a long road to get here. you and i have discussed it on many occasions. as i was sitting there eating my salad and listening to the president yesterday, i thought about the thousands of american citizen children who implored me with this congress to do something so they wouldn't lose their parents. the spouses, husbands and wives of american citizens, some of

them in the armed force who is said luis, you have to fix this system. i thought about the families who have been part of the united states with the foreign born husbands and wives. the president wants to focus on families. on children. there going to be millions of american citizen families and children who are going to be so happy and delighted when they hear the president is saying you know what, i want to put gang bangers and felons ahead of deporting families. i want to put drug dealers ahead of deporting children. i want there to be a prioritization that goes with our values. >> does he go far enough? health care and other benefits will not be included. >> the senate did not get benefits. you cooperate get benefits for the next years. nothing takes the substitute of legislative action. this congress and house has

refused to act on this issue and has forced the president to act to defend the communities of people. whatever the president does, it's the first installment. it's the beginning. congress has to work and act to fill it. it's time. think about it a moment. the president is going to invite millions upon millions of people in our country to register and get with the law and give them a work permit and pay taxes. he is going to require accountability of them. don't you want to know and want them to go so he can put all of the resources now that he doesn't have to go after them and put them on real criminal elements that can affect your and my and the lives of american citizens. >> of course the republican leader was on the senate floor today previewing their response

to the president's speech. let's watch. >> they oppose new law on law-abiding immigrants. >> nothing could be further from the truth. they are not in any line. they get a three-year work permit and have to go through a background check. guess who pays for that? the immigrant who applies to register with the government. won't we feel much safer and won't it be with our values if we allow people who have been working, established roots in their communities. they have to have american citizen children. this is about families. don't you want millions of american citizen children to be raised by their parents who are law abiding and ready to go through a background check. i want the billions that they will pay and top the say look,

congress has to act and the only to finish the job. this is a down payment and installment. congress has to act and the president wants to work with that. you know better than most, i will sit down with my republican colleagues and work with them. mitch mcconnell, they should stop whining and start legislating and saying what they will do. they have an incredible victory in the seasonate and new majority in the house. use it to do something constructively. republicans know that immigration doesn't unite their caucuses. being against anything obama is for does. let's put the american people ahead of partisan politics and what's good for your party. let's do what's good for america. what will the mean for the millions of families. here with me, my colleague, host of the run down here on msnbc. welcome. glad to have you here in

washington. good day. nobody better here to talk to you. it was your interview with the president. that's when he said there is not a law. valerie jarrett put that into context when he said he was saying then that he can't do the senate bill without an act of congress, but he can do what recollect presidents have do, do border patrol and deportation decisions. >> i wasn't asking about the senate bill. that's in the senate. i was asking the president as i have done the times i have spoken to him is what he could do, including, for example, expanding the deferred action for the dreamers. >> he is doing that by raising the age level. >> exactly. put this further into context. the fact is that the president is not going to apparently include the parents of children. what he was saying now and that

question is can't you do for the parents of the kids what you have done for the kids? he said i don't have the authority to do that. he was not referring to the senate bill. he was referring to something he is not going to be doing tonight. however, tonight is a big night. the kuengman was talking about this. 3.5 million people in this country have children born in the united states and they are in the cross hairs, possibly being deported. that is going to change soon, but the announcement is starting tonight. >> let me tell you my own experience today. knowing i was coming in here and thinking about all of this, first thing this morning at the gym, a woman i have known for 15 years at least, the receptionist checking people in. she me about the big day. my next stop, two other said what is in what the president is going to say. people i talk to every day and

never on this subject asking me what the president is going to do? that told me immediately. we are in washington, d.c., an area that is not primarily known for this issue. >> you know because you are observant and you have your eyes and your heart open. people fear that conversation. if you mention to someone that you care about the deportations, there is the fear that you could be it next. you are sensitive and you care. you listen. there hundreds of thousands or millions of people in the country that live under the radar. people that work. that go to work every day, fearing getting picked up and drop their children off in the corners to get the school bus and fear getting picked up. your mother may not come home. dropping the children off at the school bus. these are stories that are happening every day. this is important because there is a human element to it.

that's important to underline when we as well talk about the political dimensions in any story. >> so good to talk to you in person and you are here all day and all night. we will talk tomorrow as well. >> it's important that we see the statement by the president. 7:45 p.m. 8:00 he will be speaking. it's important. there a lot of people that will be watching this. their heart is going to change. >> thank you so much. >> speaking of big hearts. you watch the run down with jose every days weekday on msnbc senior and watch president obama's prime time announcement on immigration reform starting at 7:45 eastern tonight right here on msnbc. up next, digging out in buffalo and a new danger heading that way. a senseless campus shooting. when will it end? a packed library at midnight as

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it's historic and another round of snow is falling to the south. towns that are buried are being spared. check out this time lapse video of the storms. there is already feet of snow on the ground. lester holt joins me from new york. lester, what is happening? it's amazing. you were already up in the air today. me what you saw from there. how do you assess the situation? >> it's rough in spots.

it's true in more ways than one. there homes here where i was shouting to people, but they couldn't get to me and i couldn't get to them. they had to wait for private plows to come in and get them out. the folks are okay, but you mentioned i was in the area for about an hour or two. as you get further south, some neighborhoods where no plow has been and people can't get out. they are doing the best to get out their doorways. they are trying to get out because of the roof collapse. the through way is close and they are clearing snow from that. the vehicles have been removed and we saw one of the bands of snow working its way across the south. it's like a wall. they dumped snow in a short amount of time. folks are used to snow. used to a lot of it.

not this much in such a short amount of time. it's taking people off guard. they are expecting more snow. we heard estimates of to two feet in areas. that are doing the best they can. again, the folks we have spoken to in this neighborhood say they are okay, but they are trying to get out. a lot of the private plow drivers who would normally clear out are being hired by the municipalities to deal with the main road and a lot of folks are waiting here and trying to get to the grocery store. a travel ban is in effect for many areas. even when you get out, you can't go anywhere. >> what about the worry about the people's roofs. the weight on the roofs and roofs collapsing. we saw the rear doors and windows were being blown in. >> it's a problem. feet of snow in cases. when this warms up which it will, it will get heavier. that's a concern. i talked to a man halfway down

the block. he managed to dig out his driveway and he was on the roof getting rid of the snow as quickly as he can get rid of it. you don't want to hear that because it's dangerous for folks to be on the roof, but the risk is that once this starts to melt, things get heavier and the other issue is the risk of blooding when it starts to melt. all this snow, look around. it's not pretty. >> lester, it's just unbelievable. thank you very much for being with us. a busy day and a cold day. down south in florida, a gunman opening fire at florida state in the early hours of the morning. three students were shot. two are stable and swop in critical condition. new video taken momentings after the attack shows another student

lying on the ground, holding his leg saying he is bleeding a disturbing scene indeed. he was shot and killed by police. police say he was an fsu alumnus. the sports editor for the fsu school paper and joins us now. me what you saw and what you learned as you go about this ho hisk scene. >> i was not there for the incident. i just got home when i learned there was an alert on the campus. i drove down around 1:00 when everything cleared out. there was not anything on campus. it was empty. students were trapped nearby. on lockdown. students were being evacuated out on the fourth floor. armed policemen circling the area, trying to clear it and making sure there were no more

gunmen. we know now that the shooter fired shots off where he had the final confrontation with the police where he shot at the police after they asked him to put the gun down and they fatally shot him. we do know now that the shooter was an fsu alumnus. graduated in 2 247005 and got h law degree in 2009. one is in critical and is stable and grazed by a bullet and was released to let go. >> tamron hall talked to one of the students in the library checking out a book. here's a bit of that conversation. >> i just checked out a couple of books from the library to do a research project and as i leave, i go down the steps and the person behind me fires a gun

and it very clearly is a gun where this happened, but at the time i didn't want to accept that a gun had gone off. i slowly turned around and saw the gunman run up to another student and shoot them twice before the student fell to the ground. it was at that moment that i realized i needed to leave. as soon as possible. so i spun around and sprinted to my car. when i got to my car, i called my dad immediately and he calmed me down and said i needed to call the police and let them know what happened. which i did. when i got back to my house a little later, i was going through my bags to -- i'm sorry. i was going through my bags to get my books out to finish my research paper and the front

cover of one of the books was just completely mangled. when i opened it up, i realized that something had pierced through the book and gone into the second one. >> perry, i don't know if you could see this, but we had a shot he had taken of his book. the book he had taken out of the library with a bullet hole clearly piercing it. you are a student journalist, but you are a young person and you have to be reacting as anyone would on any campus at the horror of all of this. >> definitely. you don't expect it to happen to you. it's a cliche, but it's true. everywhere said that. we are a notable and a big school, you don't expect something like this to happen here. you don't expect a student let alone an alumnus to bring this

kind of tragedy upon campus here. you can just feel the sense of sorrow and mourning here today. there is a vigil a couple of hours ago on the green in front of the library. students were around and people were hugging. there were tears. it's a very, very sad scene here. >> briefly, perry, did the alert system work? >> it was out. i talked to a girl who was on the fourth floor in the library. they got the alert system. announcing there was a shooter. we know that fsupd was there within minutes and he was right behind them and they were so fast made us save a lot of lives. >> great job and our thoughts are with you and your fellow students there. >> thank you. >> up next as president obama prepares to make a big announcement on immigration reform, a reality check on what his decision will mean. you are watching "andrea

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everything he can do within his authority and limits to his authority to try to fix our broken immigration system. what he will announce, he has the authority to do. >> valerie jarrett only moments ago. the president's plans will have a lot of ripple effects beyond the obama presidency. joining me now for our daily fix. managing editor post politics.com and "washington post" ruth marcus. you among others have been writing about the precedent-setting. you wrote a column about beware of what you wish for. if you take these actions and there is a republican president, democrats may not like what happens. >> we have gone through a lot of debates about executive

authority and the correct uses of authority and taking us to war and things like that. i understand that there is a very serious humanitarian concern. i am open minded about the president's legal authority to do this. there is a lot of leeway. >> you don't just play one on. >> i did read a lot of articles about this. there is a particular history we go into. we talked about it with presidents reagan and bush in allowing classes of people to remain. there is the policy precedent. what happens when say president cruz or president paul decides that enforcing the mandate as part of health care is not going to be part of what his irs does? i keep being assured this there will be a satisfying answer to it. i am staying tuped. >> what about that? >> we have a great example of

what ruth is talking about. senate democrats changed the rules on executive appointments and judicial nominations. they just needed a simple majority of the vote to approve them. it's a good situation. president obama i think and his advisers area aware that this is a significant act that carries with it not just near term consequences, but long-term. he is clearly weighed those out and decided it's worth doing. they don't go into this i don't think unaware. the near term politicals fight and it will be a political fight. there three branches of

government for a reason. the democratic house members are fine with this action. the question is would they be fine if it was a republican president taking another action around even a stalemated congress. >> i wanted to reiterate something that was said. everyone is playing that clip including we have all week. his context is that the question is whether the families of dreamers could be included and the president was saying i don't have the authority to do that. he is not planning to do. >> that's an important point. i went back for purposes of writing this column. you can find it online at "washington post".com. they decided it was a little too cheap. to use those words against him.

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see then, but obviously that's not going to be the case. >> senator john mccain speaking of course with our own chris matthews on "hardball." last night about immigration. is this setting the tone for how democrats and the republicans are not going to be working together in the senate. joining me now is congressman and senator-elect gary peters. the only one to be elected. congratulations from michigan. great to see you. you are walking into a very controversial and difficult situation as you go to the senate. did you go to orientation class? >> yes, we had orientation last week. i was there with my republican colleagues and we were all together. it presented a great opportunity to get the new members and get to know them and have social time with them.

that was the mood of the orientation in january after we get more. we have a large number. americans told us they don't think the president should take executive action. >> we have a large population of folks and a large immigrant population. >> the thing that is frustrating for me is we have a comprehensive bipartisan plan that passed the senate already waiting for house action. if the house leadership would put the immigration bill on the floor of the house, i believe it would pass. republicans are voting in the

senate and the u.s. chamber of commerce and support for the support. mr. boehner and the leadership make it all go away. congress should take action and the bill is waiting for action and nothing gets done. >> what's your pop priority. >> michigan we continue to have high unemployment rate. the auto rescue was very, very important to my state and he contributed a great deal to the economy and we need to grow it and make sure small businesses have the tools they need. i will be focused on-ing and small businesses and bottom line, it's all about jobs and the economy in michigan. great to see you. thank you very much. congratulations again.

>> and new video surfaced to bill cosby, declining to answer questions. it's done a few weeks back on november 6th when they were opening for an art subject here. >> i wanted to ask if you wanted to respond about whether that was true? >> there is no response. >> can i ask you with the persona that people know about bill cosby, should they believe differently? >> there is no comment about that. >> after the interview was over, they asked the reporter not to use that part of the intervie. >> with i get something from you? that none of that will be shown? >> i can't promise that myself. >> six women have now publicly a

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matters most. joining me is the chair of special olympics. it is so good to have you. congratulations on the book. why did you want to write it and the focus is what is so intriguing. >> we live in a time where a lot of people are searching for things that matter. searching for believing again in the country and their families. we lost our rutter. where do you i go and where is my unique purpose? i wanted to tell a story of people who taught me the answers and how to find my center and how to believe again in community and others. in the human spirit all over the world. i wanted to share their story. most people don't think of the humble people in the community as the teacher. they think of the big shots as the people who know. i saw it differently. >> let's talk about rosemary. what did she mean to you some. >> if you look at the family, nine brothers and sisters and three had great careers in politics. is president of the united

states. one has an intellectual disability who is almost forgotten. not by brothers and sisters, but by the world. she was the person who taught compassion and more than anyone to president kennedy and certainly to my mother taught them that love is not something you earn, but something you give. she gave them the confidence that they could ask others to volunteer. they knew when they were asked to care for their sister, they had a wonderful time. >> testifies a lesson in a family of great privilege which caught them about the others. the other side of the world. >> sometimes in families, back then, even today we struggle in our families of secrets we keep. things we are afraid to reveal or weaknesses we have which we don't want to be kbashsed by. rose mary in a way taught us all

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together. i think it's a terrific lesson and a classroom of the heart, if you will. taught with a basketball or a swim in the pool. >> we are facing a big announcement on immigration and all of the people who are in the shadows. >> it's true. there is the politics of today and the presidents and the republicans and new majorities. most americans, the dreamers i know, they are young people and they work hard and study hard. they believe in this country. they want america to be a great place. they want it to be a place where people who start out small can grow and develop and become something. they are refreshing in the american dream. the politics will teach us and remind us that those dreamers whatever party we are from have lessons to teach us all. >> you remind me of a july 4th naturalization ceremony at

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