coverage. thanks for staying up late. thanks for watching. join me sunday nights 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern. right now my job is not to represent the world. my job is to represent the united states of america. the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we all bleed the same blood. we all salute the same great american flag. and we all are made by the same god. >> in his first address to congress, president donald trump strikes a drastically different tone while laying out an ambitious agenda for health care, immigration, infrastructure and more. and severe weather is to

blame for three deaths in the midwest. more than 100 people across the country could be affected by storms today. plus, 12 injured after an suv crashes into a high school marching band performing in a mardi gras parade. it's just the latest dangerous moment during the festive holiday. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, march 1st. i'm alex witt alongside ayman h mohyeldin and alex burgdorf. last night the president called for unity for all americans. and inside the house of congress where he spoke -- >> i am here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength. and it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. a new national pride is sweeping across our nation. and a new surge of optimism is

placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. every problem can be solved. and every hurting family can find healing and hope. the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivial fights is behind us. we just need the courage to share the dreams that fill our hearts. from now on, america will be empowered by our aspirations, not burdened by our fears. inspired by the future, not bound by failures of the past. and guided by a vision, not blinded by our doubts. i am asking all citizens to embrace this renewal of the american spirit. >> after the speech the president won praise for its tone. rich lowry tweeted, as i've been

trying to tell some of my liberal friends, we are just five weeks in and they shouldn't discount trump learning as he goes. and former president george w. bush's speech writer michael gerson wrote, i had thought trump and team incapable of learning. but they learned from failed inaugural. a memorably normal speech. same troubling agenda. and nick cordfessore who, i feel like i can actually hear the editing battles between bannon and priebus in this speech. the toalty really veers around. and susan rice wrote, why do i

have this feeling, that won't go away? >>reat job to donald trump's speech writer. while wilbur ross offered his perspective to nbc's kelly o'donnell on how the president performed in his speech. >> reporter: do you think he changed any minds tonight? >> i don't know if he changed any minds. my father used to say there are three things you never change people's minds on, politics, baseball and sex. >> now perhaps the most powerful moment of the night came when the president addressed a controversial january raid in yemen in which navy s.e.a.l. william ryan owens died. >> we are blessed to be joined by corine owens.

william ryan owens died as a warrior and hero battling against terrorism and securing our nation. >> now the mission has plenty of critics including senator john mccain and u.s. officials recently told nbc news that so far it yielded no significant intelligence. and this is a conclusion that the white house disputes and the president waited until last night. >> i just spoke to our great general mattis, just now, who reconfirmed and i quote, ryan was a part of a highly successful raid that generated large amounts of vital intelligence that will lead to many more victories in the future against our enemy. ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. thank you. thank you.

[ applause ] >> so that led to that extended standing ovation you hear lasting over a minute and a half. >> and ryan is looking down right now, you know that, and he's very happy. because i think he just broke a record. >> so very powerful moment there. joining us here on set is nbc's cal perry. you can see it's a touching moment, it's a powerful moment on a subject that has somewhat contested in washington. was this raid successful or not? the president making the argument it was absolutely successful. >> and by almost every measure it wasn't when you look at the numbers of what happened in yemen on that day. you had ryan owens killed, six other u.s. troops wounded, 25 civilians dead including 9 children. but in an amazing pivot from the children who earlier in the day

on "fox & friends" was almost laying the blame. take a listen. >> this is a mission we started before i got here. and this was something that was, you know, that they wanted to do. and they came to see me and explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected. my generals are the most respected we have had in many decades, i believe, and they lost ryan. >> but here's the thing, this is a man who campaigned by bringing up some of the memories of our biggest heroes in the military. and he needed this moment. this was maybe his first presidential moment on a scale that was a national scale. you saw there the amazing applause from the gallery there for corine owens. so this was something of a bridge he needed to gap, not only did that trend across the country, there was a long and thorough section about what this country needed to do for veterans, but between donald trump and the joint chiefs of staff, specially general mattis.

you heard him talk about how general ensured him that this would lead to other intelligence. >> nbc has not confirmed that the intelligence is substantial. >>he source tells nbcws, no significant news came out of the raid. just some bomb-making information. specifically one video that was and old video. so certainly a contradiction in what was exactly taken off the ground in yemen. >> cal perry, thank you. in his speech, president trump vowed to protect the u.s. from radical islamic terrorism despite the fact that lieutenant h.r. mcmaster argued against using that phrase. >> our obligation is to serve, protect and defend the citizens of the united states. we are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical islamic terrorism.

according to data provided by the department of justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-relate terrorism-related events after 9/11 came here from other countries. >> the newly-released homeland security department finds just over half the people the president talks about were actually born in the u.s. meanwhile, president trump is expected to sign a revised travel ban order in the coming days. officials telling the associated press the new order will remove iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary bar from the u.s. the president called for sweeping immigration reform last night. >> we have seen the attacks in france, in belgium, in germany and all over the world. it is not compassion but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.

those given the high honor of admission to the united states should support this country, love its people and its values. we cannot allow a beachhead of terrorism to form inside america. we cannot allow our nation to become a sang ware for extremists. >> and as a driving force in the rise of republicans across the country, the president last night spoke out on the issue of health care. >> i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. >> president trump did not offer specifics but instead laid out five guiding principles on the subject. first, to cover pre-existing conditions and a smooth transition for those on the health care exchanges. to use tax credits and health savings accounts to buy insurance. provide flexibility on medicaid for inindividual states. to push for reforms on drug prices. and finally, to allow patients

to purchase insurance across state lines. his calls were embraced by republicans with standing ovations, which drew few signs of approval from democrats. >> mandating every american to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for our country. the way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance and that is what we are going to do. it is not a choice, it is a that in necessity. i am calling on all democrats and republicans to help us from this obamacare disaster. >> health care reformers at the heart of the democrats' reasons to the speech, steve mashir talked about states that embraced the medicare expansion

but also voted for donald trump. >> does the affordable care act need some repair? sure it does. but so far every republican idea to replace the affordable care act would reduce the number of americans covered. despite your promises to the contrary. mr. president, folks here in kentucky expect you to keep your word. because this isn't a game. it's life and death for people. just who are these 22 million americans, including 500,000 people right here in kentucky, who now have health care that didn't have it before. look, they're not ail yeps from some distant plan et. they are our friends and our neighbors. >> in his speech, president trump singled out the state of kentucky's health care citing beshear's republican successor. >> governor matt bevin of

kentucky said obamacare is failing in his state, the state of kentucky. and it is unsustainable and collapsing. >> that's a big deal. okay, 12 members of a high school band are hurt after being struck by an suv during a mardi gras parade. what officials are saying about the driver. plus, parts of the midwest have been hit with deadly severe weather. and the risk continues for more than 100 million people today. bill karins will join us with a full check on the forecast coming up.

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welcome back, everyone. this morning 12 members of a marching band are recovering after being struck by a vehicle in a mardi gras parade in gulf

shores, alabama. according to officials, the 73-year-old man was driving the ford expedition that hit him. he's said to be cooperating with authorities and officials believe there's no indication alcohol or drugs were involved. nor was this believed to be intentional. >> i saw him drive over these kids and they were just shocked, left and right. everybody was in shock. >> now video taken prior to the incident shores a ford expedition behind the band. the fire rescue has not confirmed if the suv seen in this video and the same suv involved in the incident. over the weekend, a 25-year-old man drove into spectators along a mardi gras parade in new orleans. that driver faces multiple charges. and police say his blood alcohol level registered a .232. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, some scary storms last night in missouri and illinois. where is this weather going to move to next? >> it will sweep to the east coast later today, but we're still trying to figure out what happened last night.

a deadly evening. we know at least three separate towns where we had deaths reported from tornadoes. one was in the missouri area on interstate 55 with numerous cars and vehicles that were flipped. ottawa, illinois, that's one of the areas earlier in the evening right before dark, we had all these pictures come in. so we are talking dozens and dozens of families literally looking at a place to live and how they are going to clean up and move on with their lives. and look at these pictures, if you have damage like this, you are hap to survive the storm. but there was one death in the ottawa, illinois, area. we are not done yet. in all, we had 20 to 22 tornadoes reported. we'll get the official count in a couple days, but the storms are still tracking. they are not done yet. we have to get the storms all the way to the east coast later today. it is very warm, the humidity is pumping up the eastern seaboard, the storms will remain with us throughout the day. memphis to paducah, there's no tornado warning. just wind damage threat. so for today, this is as many people as we typically get in

the severe weather risk area. 105 million people from memphis to mississippi all the way to southern portions of connecticut and rhode island later on today. the eastern seaboard it looks like the timing will be late today. we're dealing with this area in orange this morning with dangerous winds, maybe an isolated tornado or two. let me take you through the timing, this is at 7:00 a.m. the bright red lines is where the wind damage will be occurring. that's at 7:00 a.m. this morning. as we continue through time, we'll pause it here at the noon hour. pittsburgh, you're in the clear, you're done. kentucky, you're almost done. the strongest of the storms will be over the appalachians and into central p.a. then they will reenergize this afternoon. it will be in the 80s in southern virginia today. and d.c. could hit the mid-70s. then the storms sweep through. d.c., probably around 2:00 to 4:00. new york city, sometimes around 4:00 also with evening to rush hour. atlanta, 5:00 or 6:00. same for raleigh. a couple deaths reported last night. i'm sure the number

unfortunately is going to go back up later today as those storms sweep to the east. not a tornado threat, wind damage threat and the airports will be a mess the whole eastern seaboard. >> we'll watch all of it. thank you, bill. still ahead, a key injury in the nba. big names let go in the nfl. and a 10-year-old who is the real mvp of college basketball sports. yeah, that's next. ...i'm on...ute i wak. ...and on... ...and on. that's why i...

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welcome back, everyone. i'm alex witt alongside ayman mohyeldin and alex burgdorf. we'll get a look at the president's address in a moment, but here are the other top stories. 100 million people are at risk of severe weather today. one person was killed in missouri and another in illinois. at least 21 tornadoes swept across the midwest last night. there were also hundreds of hail and wind damage reports from arkansas to chicago. today that same storm system targets the ohio and tennessee value leasley valleys. and officials say that the wife of the man who carried out an attack at the orlando ghtclub scoped out the place

before the attack occurred. and trump plans to revive his travel ban list. because of iraq's key role in fighting isis, the revived plan will be an exception for visa card holders. the new order is expected to include language to make that clearer. and president trump opened his remarks last night by addressing the wave of anti-semitic attacks across the country, amid the allegations he's not been outspoken enough against these crimes. >> we are reminded of our nation's path to civil rights and the work that still remains to be done. recent threats targeting jewish community centers and vandalism of jewish cemeteries as well as last week's shooting in kansas city, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate

and evil in all of its very ugly forms. >> now that comment marked the first time the president publicly addressed last week's deadly shooting of an indian immigrant in kansas. ahead of his address, president trump allegedly questioned who was behind the uptick in anti-semitic threats. in fact, pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro's office said when asked about the rise, the president told a group that, quote, sometimes it's the reverse. and that, quote, someone is doing it to make others look bad. appearing to suggest the threats are coming from within the jewish community. meanwhile, in a tweet yesterday, anthony wrote, it's not yet clear who the jcc offenders are. in that tweet he included a link to breitbart news about and investigation of alleged trained provocateers at these events. until we know, it's highly

irresponsible to jump to conclusions. and he told nbc news this was to highlight his belief that goes to say there was no connection between the acts and the new administration. joining me from capitol hill, executive producer and co-host of the showtime's "the circus," mark halperin. >> the president spoke a remarkably different tone from his inaugural speech, especially this one on health care. here it is. >> i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. every problem can be solved. and every hurting family can find healing and hope. our citizens deserve this. and so much more.

so why not join forces and finally get the job done and get it done right? >> so what we hear is the president not really changing the message as much as changing the tone about this. who is behind this shift, mark? >> the reason the people at the white house were so excited before this speech, the reason they are so excited based on the president's performance is, they all saw, i don't think there was a person around the president who decided from the notion of, can we take his policies and a more optimistic tone, which anyone who knows donald trump knows and reflects what he's like more often than not, and harness those two together and try to deliver the message in a different way. it doesn't revolutionize his presidency, but it gives him the ability now, if he can keep this up, to communicate the same policy goals, the same ideas, but in a way that has the potential to have a lot of broader appeal than the way he's been talking about these issues at a lot of high-profile moments before last night. >> mark, i wanted to ask you, a

lot of widespread acclaim from a speech of a cross-section of society. does this change in any way the political crosswinds going forward for the president, his agenda and policy? >> it does if it continues to keep this up. i think he was in danger before last night as being seen as someone who wasn't trying to unify the country, who wasn't being optimistic about the future of america, but focusing more on the negative with the two most high-profile speeches before last night, his inaugural address and convention speech being darker, more focused on what is wrong with america. he's not won over the country last night, but i think he opened up the door to some members of the democratic party on capitol hill. some around the country and give people a way to think anew about how he feels about the challenges the country faces. i'll say again, does this change his presidency or make it more likely stabilitily that his legislative agenda passes? no, but it gives him the ability to talk about things he cares

about in a way that people who know him are familiar with, but he's rarely shown the whole country. >> mark halperin, thank you so much for that. don't go too far, we'll see you coming up on "morning joe." the president appears to be softening his stance on immigration. according to a senior white house official, the president is open to legal status for undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes. and the president floated the idea in an off-the-record idea with his lunch members yesterday. he turned to aides and suggested maybe they should include it. after the lunch was over, aides rushed off to include stephen bannon and see ttephen miller. but when it came up in his speech, there was no mention of

the status. >> as we speak tonight, we are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very innocent citizens. >> now the president did say that he was open to immigration reform that switches away from the certain system and selects immigrants on merritt and skill. and we are hearing from the last republican president to push for immigration reform. here's george w. bush with our own willie geist. >> based on what you know about running the country, running the immigration system, do you think it's practical to go in and deport millions and millions of people who are here illegally? >> i don't see how that would work. and i'm not sure that's the intention of our government. you know, it's -- i think people who, you know, are charged with doing that, if that is the charge, i'm not sure it is, but i say it will be hard to do. the idea of running out rapists

and murderers, i think all americans would agree to that. >> the president told willie one of his greatest regrets is getting the congress to respond to the immigration bill. and listen to what president trump had to say about education equality. >> education is the civil rights issue of our time. i am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged kids, including millions of african-american and latino children. >> in fact, one of the president's guests what danesha merriweather who credits betsy

devos with hping her attend a public school. donald trump is backtracking after staying that black universities were real pioneers of school choice. you can imagine the reaction was swift to that comment. in fact, congressman barbara lee is tweeted, tone deaf, uninformed statement from devos. claire mccaskill wrote, totally nuts. devos friending that establishment of historically black colleges was about choice not racism. secretary devos later clarify in a series of tweets posting, hbcus remain at the forefront of opening doors that has been previously been closed to so many. providing an alternative option to students denied the right to attend a quality school is the legacy of hbcus.

then president-elect trump called nato obsolete. but last night he took a new position. >> our foreign policy calls for direct, robust and meaningful engagement with the world. we strongly support nato, an appliance that forges the bond of two world wars, that have grown in fascism, and the cold war, and defeated communism. but our departments must meet their financial obligations. and now, based on our very strong and frank discussions, they are beginning to do just that. in fact, i can tell you, the money is pouring in. very nice. we expt our partners, whether in nato, the middle east or in the pacific to take a direct and

meaningful road in both strategic and military operations, and pay their fair share of the costs. >> joining us onset, cal perry. does it sound like there's a 180 going on here and what does it say to our allies? >> maybe from obsolete to reconsider our role to strongly supporting nato to send your checks. this was the only ad-lib moment. this was the only ad-lib moment when he said the money is pouring in from our european allies. look, they are going to be happy about this, especially after all the russian talk. >> okay. >> let me ask you, obviously, when the president speaks, a lot of fact-checking takes place. anything blatantly stick out for you? >> four quick ones, the vast majority of those convicted of crimes are foreign born, not true. just over half. 94 million americans are out of the labor force. this is humanly misleading. he's including everyone over the aim of 15, including high school

students, college students, disabled and those stay-at-home moms. and the keystone pipeline he said would be creating jobs, he's off by 30,000. and families of undocumented immigrants have been ignored by our media. no. no. >> you can attest that is not accurate for sure. let's go back to the dakota pipeline, some of the jobs are assured for only six months. there's temporary employment for six months. >> support jobs, think of the applebee's that runs right along the pipeline, it will be tacked. hoe packed. hotels will be full. that lasts a year or two. the keystone pipeline will create 35 permanent jobs. yep. >> cal perry, great to have you

with us. well, president trump's pick to lead the u.s. intelligence community is the latest nominee to break with him on russia's role in the election. telling lawmakers that the kremlin did try to influence the outcome. take a listen. >> russia's asserted this and global affairs is something i look upon with grave concern. which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism. russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nations, cultures and the elections and so forth. it's happening in europe now as we speak, but they have seemed to step up their game. >> former senator dan coates had his hearing to become part of national intelligence yesterday. president trump has repeatedly questioned the intelligence community's claim that is russia was involved and allegations between his aides and russia. >> that as a story won't go

away. >> i have a femaeling it will continue to go on. and bill karins is tracking the storm system moving across the nation. and president barack obama is making headlines for a record-breaking book deal. we'll explain all that. and he's ready to return to the political scene. we'll be back in a moment. runs on intel? that ride share? you actually rode here on the cloud. did not feel like a cloud... that driverless car? i have seen it all.

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unrecognizable. two vehicles were combined into one at one point, too. we also had significant damage in areas near ottawa, illinois. that's where another fatality happened and where numerous homes were damaged. once we get the sup up, we'll see some of the pictures and the aerial views of how many homes were destroyed. so we are not done yet. that's the problem. we still have tornado watches, though we have not had many tornadoes. but the line of storms is the most serious north of the memphis area here in tennessee crossing into the mississippi river. there's a tornado-warped storm with winds at 75 miles per hour. if it's not a tornado, you can get serious wind damage and power outages. about 105 million people are on notice. the storms are by memphis, and then they will track to the eastern seaboa. ey won't exit the east coast until 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. it's really all day long and all the millions of people at risk. it's only lasting about a half hour, but when that half hour of storms moves through, we got very high winds. the timing of the storms, take it to about 10:00 a.m. storms have cleared pittsburgh

by noon. that's good. about 10:00 a.m. for the pittsburgh area. right through the heart of west virginia and the mountains in north carolina and virginia from noon to 2:00. washington, d.c., you look to be clear by 4:00 p.m. washington, d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, new york, 2:00 to 4:00. then 4:00 to 6:00, the line from atlanta to south carolina and through raleigh. charlotte, you're also included that. probably around 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. we have 6 million people in the threat of flash flooding all along the ohio river. as far as rainfall totals go, it depends on where the storms trend, but we have had flash flooding overnight. we'll continue to watch areas of ohio, kentucky and northern portions of west virginia. ayman, we are not done yet. the death toll unfortunately will probably go up once we get the daylight pictures and find out what happened. >> it is still dangerous hot spots throughout the country we'll have to keep an eye on. bill karins, thank you very much for that. we'll switch gears now and talk about former president

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>> i just met with officials and workers from a great american company, harley davidson, and they wanted me to ride one and i said, no, thank you. at our meeting i asked them, how are you doing? how is business? they said that it's good. i asked them further, how are you doing with other countries, mainly international sales? they told me, without even complaining, because they have been so mistreated for so long, that they have become used to it. that it's very hard to do business with other countries because they tax our goods at such a high rate. they weren't even asking for a change, but i am. i believe -- >> cnbc's louisa bojesen is joining us live from london. louisa, how are the president's remarks going to be reflect in the market this morning? >> well, here in europe we're trading higher. we're seeing a rally up by 1.5%. so it could also be the fact that the speech is over and done

with. because essentially we didn't learn anything new with regards to the details on how all of these plans are going to be implemented. you heard him talking be about infrastructure spending, talking about this overhaul of the immigration system, improving jobs and wages. this massive tax relief for the middle class. and tax cuts for companies as well. but no details on how they are going to be achieving these goals that are being set out. let's talk about uber as well. because once again, under fire, the ceo is forced to apologize after a video surfaced of him arguing vehemently with one of his drivers. he was sitting in one of the uber cars, there was a dash cam that recorded him arguing with his driver over uber fairs and treatment of the drivers as well. in an e-mail to his staff, he said he was ashamed of his behavior and needed help. i feel like uber is needing help. and youtube is trying to get to the younger audience. this is a light version of the

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