officials. one a national security adviser. he heads into 2018 with the fate of the presidency in his hands. >> just been told we have had cameras on us while we were having this conversation the whole time. thank you very much for joining us. >> good night. from the cross roads of the world to the seat of power. >> fantastic 2018. we're off to a very great start as you know with the great tax cuts and getting rid of the individual mandate which was very, very unpopular as you know. >> president trump offering optimistic view heading into 2018 at a new year's eve black tie party at mar-a-lago. >> his nemesis threatening america. then in colorado, a domestic violence call that turned deadly for a sheriff's deputy in what's

being called a police ambush. wicked winter weather bring alo along treacherous travel. kicks off msnbc live. good morning. happy new year to all of you on this brisk morning. fireworks and record cold temperatures across the u.s. helped ring in the new year. revelers braved real temperatures in new york city of below 7 degrees and kicked off the celebration with a birs of confetti and fireworks as the crystal ball dropped 70 feet in time square. thousands of spectators packed the navy peer in the chicago for the countdown as the temperature continued to drop by the hour. reaching zero just before midnight. boston welcomed 2018 with a celebration that included add flurry of fireworks over the harbor at midnight. many parts rung in the new year with dazzling displays.

security was higher around the globe. nbc gabe gutierrez tells us more. >> from dubai to seoul. >> to hong kong. 2018 is already making a spectacular. >> for new year's, hoping to have a year full of love. help others where i can. >> scotland, with bag pipes. hungary took the plunge early. while even north korea puts on extrav gent sidney harbor lit up. as the rest of the world rings in the new year, police are on high alert in turkey. authorities have arrested more than 100 people with suspected links to isis mill atlantas. istanbul doubling the number of officers to prevent a repeat of last year when aattacker killed

dozens at a nightclub. in germany, strategic terror security. >> 31,000 police officers in london. 8 million londoners. i would love them to be the eyes and ears of the police to keep us all safe. >> around the world, 2017 is now coming to a close with a cascade of lights. in japan, a celebration of new beginnings and letting go. gabe gutter resident, nbc news. >> it is a new year. that means day one for many of your 2018 resolutions. according to a poll, topless legal conclusion of 2018 is a tie between being a better

person and losing weights. while new years resolution are a big focus this time of year. only about 44% of americans plan on creating goals for 2018. popular resolution enjoying life to the fullest. breaking bad habits and spending less money to save more. buzz feed compiles no-brainer list. unfollow toxic people on social media and look at your phone less. also suggest you only apologize when you mean it and try to do more of what you love in 2018. developing this morning, we're learning five members of a new york family are among 12 dead when a chatter plane crashed in costa rica. 10 americans and local crew members were on the flight that perished when it went down. crashed in a mountainous area. popular tourist destination. photographs of the crash site show burning wreckage of the plane. woods 140 miles west of the

capital. government officials say the crew included an experienced pilot. costa rica aviation director says the nature air charter was headed for san jose when it went down. cause is under investigation. law enforcement have identified a gunman that left a sheriff deputy dead and injured several others. suspect opened fire seconds after officers entered his ohm responding to a disturbance call. calling it an ambush. community is in mourning. get more from nbc steve patternson. >> a deadly shootout in what the sheriff is calling an ambush. >> we have one deputy down inside the apartment. all of us have been hit splooatt once. >> all started responding to a disturbance call. >> heard about 15-20 gunshots. >> police say the gunman opened

fire at the responding officers after barricading himself in the broom. in the end shot seven deputy. five deputies and two civilians. >> all were shot very quickly. more of an ambush type of attack on our officers. he knew we were coming. >> police warning residents to shelter in place and stay away from walls and windows as deputies returned gunfire killing the suspect. the deputy killed, 29-year-old zachary, a father of two, who joined the department just seven months ago. >> this is a sad day for the sheriff's office. >> visibly shaken. >> we are deeply saddened by the loss of zachary. when i sat with his wife and helder hand, i could see in her eyes her life was over. >> residents in law enforcement showing their support as perish was taken from the hospital to the morgue in a somber

recession. police say all of the injured deputies are in stable condition. among them, son of the nearby boulder county sheriff recovering after emergency surgery. >> this is a tragic day we'll be feeling for a long time. >> the community now mourning the loss of one of their own. >> steve patterson reporting there. tensions between the u.s. and north korea continue to escalate, north korean leader saves the united states should be aware that his country nuclear forces are now a reality. during his annual new year's day address, he said the u.s. should know the button to launch nuclear weapons is on his desk and the u.s. mainland is within striking range. >> nbc joins us live from seoul with more. good morning and happy new year. >> that's right. there was that warning for the united states. and peace offering of sorts. for south korea. quite a surprise in this will speech. lasted about 30 minutes. the address to the nation on new

year's day. kim jong-un not making a single mention of president donald trump, but he did talk about what he called the u.s. nuclear threat saying that his country now has a deterrence in the form of own nuclear arsenal he claims it's able to reach the whole of the u.s. mainland. said his country wouldn't strike first, but would retaliate if attacked. the mention of south korea. the mention of olympics due to take play just about 50 miles south of the border next month. kim jong-un saying he hopes the olympics are a success. all positive from him. saying that he was willing to potentially send a delegation to

south korea. and that he thought it was time for south koreans and north koreans to sit down and talk. this morning the presidential spokesman for south korea said they welcome the proposal. two people killed at a rally in western iran. in a tweet, trump cheered on the protesters. iran's leader is firing back. nbc matt bradley following it all for us from london. good morning to you. >> good morning. happy new year. >> haven't been signs of yet today. ten people have been killed in the past four days of protest. in iran, the regime strikes back. after four days of

anti-government protest and just as many tweets from president donald trump supporting protesters for finally getting wise, iran's president broke his silence. in a speech to his cabinet, he defended demonstrators right to protest, but took a swipe at president trump. this man in america who is sympathizing with us today has forgotten he called iranians terrorists months ago. he has no right though sympathize with iranians. the unrest, now deadly. two protesters killed at a rally. officials blaming the death of foreign agents. official warned that protesters who cause disorder will pay the price. confronting them in streets. organizing progovernment counter protest and shutting down apps like instagram and television. highly encrypted messages service popular in iran. experts say president trump's tweets won't aleppo iranians.

>> actions in terms of travel bans, visa bans. nasty things he said about yi n iranians. >> this mooechvement is take tennessee on a life of its own. started thursday as a burst of anger against soaring prices and unemployment has widened into nationwide demonstrations. the largest since 2009. some activists even chanting against the supreme leader. a dangerous move in a country where politics are dominated by clerics with a history of crushing decent. >> unclear whether president's speech yesterday will calm the protesters after all. president is considered a moderate leader. just one re-election by a wide margin last spring. that increase in the causality numbers from 2-10 if that turns out to be true could really inflame tensions further. >> matt bradley, live in london.

thank you so much for that report. heavy snow may have contributed to a big pileup in southwest michigan. as many as 50 cars involved in the crashes on i-94. minor injuries reported and police said drivers were going too fast for the conditions. part of tv highway closed for several hours. in wyoming quite a rescue effort when a heard of elk fell through the ice on a reservoir. about a dozen of them ended up stranded. using chain saws and ropes and volunteers cut through ties and brought the animals to safety. more than 20 people took part in the rescue effort. now to meteorologist with a check of arctic blast we're getting. >> oh, my gosh. just won't stop. days and days we're going to see this for a few more days before we get a small break and third surge of particulolar air. windchill advisory over 115 million people affected by this. we're seeing windchills some

spots 50 below zero. all because of this arctic air coming down from canada. jet streamed so far down the south. usually the roadblock. dipped down. allowing this cold air to come in from canada. waking up to temperatures so cold this morning. one degree in columbus. feels like one. not a lot of wind. zero is what it feels like in boston. 19 below zero is what it feels like in duluth. 18 kbloe zero. look at this number here. feels like 36 below zero. almost hard to imagine as you wake up this morning. tuesday morning. not much better. a lot of us getting back to school and work standing out at bus stops. we're going to zee temperatures eight degrees in memphis. 14 in raleigh. 3 in hartford. a few more days and then another round this weekend. >> that is really cold. >> it is. >> thank you, michelle. plenty more ahead. including the year's ten most impactful political moments of 2017. we'll count them down, next.

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to call 2017 a rolling year is a understatement. there was a trump phenomena. the russia investigation the me too movement and more. certain to go down in the record books, but just who and what stood out if most. msnbc brian williams and nicole wallace count down the year's most intriguing people and movements. take a look. president has not been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> so he is someone that said out loud what a lot of people in washington only say behind closed doors. with a couple of cocktails. >> number nine.

mayor of san juan, carmen cruise. >> hurricane maria one of the strongest storms to hit puerto rico. >> we are dying. and you are killing us. with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy. >> what she did probably saved lives. mike flynn. >> former national security adviser to the president of the united states. and the question that we sort of lead with after this dramatic news of his guilty plea is not just what does he know and what has he told mueller and the answer is everything and whatever mueller wants according to every prosecutor who has ever been involved in a case like this. colin kaepernick. what he has stood for appropriately knelt for has attracted the attraction and criticism of donald trump. >> paul: wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when

someone disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now out. he's fired. >> cal kaepernick epitomized peaceful protest and the right to do so. >> vladimir putin. >> at the end of the day, he messed with us. the only part that doesn't satisfy most americans is trump isn't mad about it. >> he was a prisoner of war. so not for the first time in his life is he in the fight of his life right now. john mccain. >> this year you could argue has been really extraordinary. one in the fight against cancer and two in that thumbs down vote against repealing health care. >> this brings us to number four on our list. the reporters. >> this is something when we

first sat down to talk about this list. basically an old fashioned print newspaper war without print. >> they've also become our story tellers of this presidency. number three, the twitter feed of the president of the united states. it's hard to believe the time of day, the frequency, the day of the terrorist attack, he is likely to attack the media or to country already under attack. all of which brings us to number two. something we are calling after some deliberation, the reckoning. the way of sexual harassment and assault, accusations, and dismissals and, certainly, more than one industry. >> a lot of people probably believe that's long overdue. >> robert mueller. >> he defines discipline and focus in a way that makes him in

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grab life by the horns. running of the bulls happens every year. this could have been par gore. top half of the list. turn to the world of sports. number five, rocky mountain load. >> most dangerous thing you can do on a horse. >> these colorado cowboys use horsepower to steer the flats. check out portlander sledding own trail. number four. shoveling the snow. these contestants competed in soe sol shovel races. third on the list, one strike two balls. turned paparazzi into spraninto number one. block head. if this boteenager isn't settin record for most concussions, he wins anyway.

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be a fantastic 2018. we're off to a great start. great tax cuts and getting rid of the individual mandate which was very, very unpopular, as you know. >> president trump offering optimistic view heading into 2018 at a new year's eve black tie party at mar-a-lago. to his nemesis, kim jong-un, threatens america with a nuclear

button at his fingertips. in colorado a domestic violence call turned deadly in what's being called a police ambush. wicked weather. deep freeze kicks off msnbc live for 2018. good morning. happy new year to all of you on this brisk morning. spectacular fireworks and record cold temperatures in many cities across the u.s. helped ring in the new year. revelers braved real feel temperatures in new york city of below 7 degrees and many kicked off celebrations with a burst of confetti and fireworks as the glittering crystal ball dropped. temperature continued to drop by the hour. reaching zero just before midnight. boss tone yan welcomed 2018 with first celebration and fireworks over the boston harbor at midnight.

>> from dubai to seoul. >> to hong kong. 2018 is already making a spectacular. >> for new year's, hoping to have a year full of love. help others where i can. >> scotland, with bag pipes. hungary took the plunge early. while even north korea puts on a show. sidney harbor lit up. as the rest of the world rings in the new year, police are on high alert in turkey. authorities have arrested more than 100 people with suspected links to isis militants. istanbul doubling the number of

officers to prevent a repeat of last year when attacker killed dozens at a nightclub. in germany, strategic terror security. >> 31,000 police officers in london. 8 million londoners. i would love them to be the eyes and ears of the police to keep us all safe. >> around the world, 2017 is now coming to a close with a cascade of lights. in japan, a celebration of new beginnings and letting go. gabe gutter resident, nbc news. >> it is a new year.

that means day one for many of your 2018 resolutions. according to a poll, topless legal conclusion of 2018 is a tie between being a better person and losing weights. while new years resolution are a big focus this time of year. only about 44% of americans plan on creating goals for 2018. popular resolution enjoying life to the fullest. breaking bad habits and spending less money to save more. buzz feed compiles no-brainer list. unfollow toxic people on social media and look at your phone less. also suggest you only apologize when you mean it and try to do more of what you love in 2018. developing this morning, we're learning five members of a new york family are among 12 dead when a chatter plane crashed in costa rica. 10 americans and local crew members were on the flight that perished when it went down. crashed in a mountainous area. popular tourist destination. photographs of the crash site show burning wreckage of the

plane. woods 140 miles west of the capital. government officials say the crew included an experienced pilot. costa rica aviation director says the nature air charter was headed for san jose when it went down. cause is under investigation. law enforcement have identified a gunman that left a sheriff deputy dead and injured several others. suspect opened fire seconds after officers entered his ohm responding to a disturbance call. calling it an ambush. community is in mourning. get more from nbc steve patternson. >> a deadly shootout in what the sheriff is calling an ambush. >> we have one deputy down inside the apartment. all of us have been hit at least once. >> all started responding to a disturbance call. >> heard about 15-20 gunshots. >> police say the gunman opened

fire at the responding officers after barricading himself in the broom. in the end shot seven deputy. five deputies and two civilians. >> all were shot very quickly. more of an ambush type of attack on our officers. he knew we were coming. >> police warning residents to shelter in place and stay away from walls and windows as deputies returned gunfire killing the suspect. the deputy killed, 29-year-old zachary, a father of two, who joined the department just seven months ago. >> this is a sad day for the sheriff's office. >> visibly shaken. >> we are deeply saddened by the

loss of zachary. when i sat with his wife and helder hand, i could see in her eyes her life was over. >> residents in law enforcement showing their support as perish was taken from the hospital to the morgue in a somber recession. police say all of the injured deputies are in stable condition. among them, son of the nearby boulder county sheriff recovering after emergency surgery. >> this is a tragic day we'll be feeling for a long time. >> the community now mourning the loss of one of their own. >> steve patterson reporting there. tensions between the u.s. and north korea continue to escalate, north korean leader saves the united states should be aware that his country nuclear forces are now a reality. during his annual new year's day address, he said the u.s. should know the button to launch nuclear weapons is on his desk and the u.s. mainland is within striking range. >> nbc joins us live from seoul with more. good morning and happy new year. >> that's right. there was that warning for the united states.

and peace offering of sorts. for south korea. quite a surprise in this will speech. lasted about 30 minutes. the address to the nation on new year's day. kim jong-un not making a single mention of president donald trump, but he did talk about what he called the u.s. nuclear threat saying that his country now has a deterrence in the form of own nuclear arsenal he claims it's able to reach the whole of the u.s. mainland. said his country wouldn't strike first, but would retaliate if attacked. the mention of south korea. the mention of olympics due to take play just about 50 miles south of the border next month. kim jong-un saying he hopes the olympics are a success. all positive from him. saying that he was willing to potentially send a delegation to south korea. and that he thought it was time for south koreans and north koreans to sit down and talk. this morning the presidential

spokesman for south korea said they welcome the proposal. two people killed at a rally in western iran. in a tweet, trump cheered on the protesters. iran's leader is firing back. nbc matt bradley following it all for us from london. good morning to you. >> good morning. happy new year. >> haven't been signs of yet today. ten people have been killed in the past four days of protest. in iran, the regime strikes back. after four days of anti-government protest and just

as many tweets from president donald trump supporting protesters for finally getting wise, iran's president broke his silence. in a speech to his cabinet, he defended demonstrators right to protest, but took a swipe at president trump. this man in america who is sympathizing with us today has forgotten he called iranians terrorists months ago. he has no right though sympathize with iranians. the unrest, now deadly. two protesters killed at a rally. officials blaming the death of foreign agents. official warned that protesters who cause disorder will pay the price. confronting them in streets. organizing progovernment counter protest and shutting down apps like instagram and television. highly encrypted messages service popular in iran.

experts say president trump's tweets won't aleppo iranians. >> actions in terms of travel bans, visa bans. nasty things he said about iranians. >> this movement is take tennessee on a life of its own. started thursday as a burst of anger against soaring prices and unemployment has widened into nationwide demonstrations. the largest since 2009. some activists even chanting against the supreme leader. a dangerous move in a country where politics are dominated by clerics with a history of crushing decent. >> unclear whether president's speech yesterday will calm the protesters after all. president is considered a moderate leader. just one re-election by a wide margin last spring. that increase in the causality numbers from 2-10 if that turns

out to be true could really inflame tensions further. >> matt bradley, live in london. thank you so much for that report. heavy snow may have contributed to a big pileup in southwest michigan. as many as 50 cars involved in the crashes on i-94. minor injuries reported and police said drivers were going too fast for the conditions. part of tv highway closed for several hours. in wyoming quite a rescue effort when a heard of elk fell through the ice on a reservoir. about a dozen of them ended up stranded. using chain saws and ropes and volunteers cut through ties and brought the animals to safety. more than 20 people took part in the rescue effort. now to meteorologist with a check of arctic blast we're getting. >> oh, my gosh. just won't stop. days and days we're going to see this for a few more days before we get a small break and third

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to call 2017 a rolling year is a understatement. there was a trump phenomena. the russia investigation the me too movement and more. certain to go down in the record books, but just who and what stood out if most. msnbc brian williams and nicole wallace count down the year's most intriguing people and movements. take a look. bob corker, republican, departing senator from tennessee. president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the kpet tense that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> so he is someone who said out loud what a lot of people in washington only say behind closed doors with a couple of

cocktails. number nine, the mayor of san juan, carmen cruz. >> hurricane maria, of course, one of the strongest storms ever to hit puerto rico. >> we are dying. and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy. >> what she did probably saved lives. mike flynn. >> former national security adviser. >> to the president of the united states. and the question that we sort of leave with after this dramatic news of his guilty plea is not just what does he know and what has he told mueller because the answer is everything and whatever mueller wants. according to every prosecutor who has ever been involved in a case like this. colin kaepernick. and what he has stood for or more appropriately knelt for has

attracted the attraction and criticism of donald trump. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. out. he's fired. he's fired. >> and kaepernick was doing almost epitomized peaceful protest and the right to do so. vladimir putin. number six. >> at the end of the day, he messed with us. the only part of the story that doesn't satisfy a majority of americans is that trump isn't mad about it. he was a prison of war. so not for the first time in his life is he in the fight of his life right now. john mccain. >> this year, you could argue has been really extraordinary. one in the fight against cancer. and two in that thumbs down vote against repealing health care. >> this brings us to number four on our list.

the reporters. >> this is something we agreed on when we first sat down to talk about this list. basically an old fashioned print newspaper war without print. >> they've also become they've storytellers of this presidency. >> number three, the twitter feed of the president of the united states. it's hard to believe the time of day, the frequency, the day of a terrorist attack he is likely to attack the media or the country, already under attack. all of which brings us to number two on our list, what we're calling, after some deliberation, the reckoning, assault, accusations and dismissals in certainly more than one industry. >> a lot of people probably believe that's long overdue. >> and now the time has come for

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case. nbc's raphael seth takes a look back at the weirdest and wildest events of 2017. >> as we tumble toward a new year, nothing heightens the senses quite like jumping into an airplane and the top ten list. walk this way. all kinds of records were set in 2017, including walking on hands, walking on ladders and walking on water. this diy ironman set the record for fastest jetsuit. number nine, snake charmer. drought brought this cobra into the open where it drank from a water bottle. these russian bikers did a ride share with a grizzly. number seven on this list, but number one in cajones, gave this gator a spank.

this could have been part gourd. to the world of sport, rocky mountain low. >> the most dangerous thing you can do on a horse. >> using horsepower to ski the flats. check out this portlander who shredded his own trail. don't try this at home champ. number four, shoveling the snow. these contestants competed in shovel races at a new mexico resort going as fast as 70 miles per hour. third on the list, one strike and two balls, ceremonyial first pitch turned a paparazzi into a soprano. and our number one wild event of 2017, block head. if this bosnian teenager isn't setting the record for most concussions, he wins anyway. >> those are certainly weird and

wacky. i have to say, the u-bear, michelle, was my favorite. >> that was the best. >> a lot of arctic stuff, too, like skiing on a shovel. >> swimming in the snow, way cooler than i am. >> no pun intended. >> exactly. freeze warnings wherever you see the hot pink, texas, mississippi, alabama. we're seeing morning lows below 32 degrees. it's killing weather, meaning killing plants. cover them if you can. this is really different in the south. just above freezing in san antonio, below freezing in dallas. 21 degrees will be the high today, at least with a little bit of sunshine in oklahoma city. you head to the east. we're starting to see that -- really starting to see that frigid air. 29 in washington, 29 in new york city. boston, 19. we're looking at warmer weather for the southwest. this is where you need to be

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