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josé diaz-balart. right now hundreds of thousands across the american south are waking up to no power after a deadly ice storm pummelled the region. we'll take you live to arkansas. in memphis, police are facing new questions on the discrepancies in an initial police report compared to the video detailing the deadly beating of tyre nichols. on capitol hill, in just a couple of hours, the house will vote on whether to remove congresswoman ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee for what republicans have called anti-semitic remarks. we'll ask congresswoman pramila jayapal about that and more . a brand new congressional dads caucus has just launched and seeks to advocate for working families. it's congressman jimmy gomez who brought the idea to life will join us to discuss. and is an early spring around the corner? punxsutawney phil makes his groundhog day predictions.

and we begin this hour with the extreme winter ice storm impacting the southern u.s., the dangerous weather has resulted in at least eight deaths, and right now more than 490,000 people are without power this morning. the overwhelming majority of those outages are in texas where austin energy says the most significant outage since the major disruption back in 2021 is underway. the icy conditions are leading to treacherous accidents. take a look at this one in oklahoma. a semi truck sled into a highway median just missing incoming traffic. already this morning, more than 700 flights have been canceled. joining us now from west memphis, arkansas, is nbc's guad venegas. what's the latest on conditions where you are? >> reporter: jose, good morning. well, i have a piece of ice that we took from one of our vehicles. this is what we have going on right now here in arkansas.

this was on top of one of the vehicles, and if you look behind me, this is a park that is completely covered in ice. i've been sliding around all day carefully, and you know, the temperature right now is 31 degrees. it's still below freezing point, and compared to yesterday, it is a little warmer. we saw the temperature yesterday was in the mid-20s. it was much colder, but it was also frozen. but for some reason, now that some of this stuff has begun melting, it's even more difficult to walk on it. it's very slippery, so we still have icy conditions. now, when it comes to the roads, we saw that video of the truck. that -- the highways here in arkansas have had issues like that as well. now, almost everyone i've spoken to today, yesterday, that said they went on the road at some point during the storm because they had to get to a place say they saw a vehicle spin out of control or run into a patch of ice, and what happens is it just

takes one patch of ice for a vehicle to lose control and go into an embankment or just crash into a tree or another object, so that's why it's so dangerous. authorities ask people in the entire region from dallas to oklahoma, here in arkansas, and in parts of tennessee to stay home, not to travel if it wasn't necessary. but you know, we have a lot of commercial traffic making its way through a lot of these highways, and we've seen some of those accidents. and of course some of those even created a lot of traffic. meanwhile, in the cities, this is what we have. we spent the day yesterday in downtown memphis, and that was the exact same as this. there's this video of some people that have been ice skating through streets. i keep saying if i had ice skates, i could probably ice skate through this park, but of course that's just an example of how dangerous it can be to try and walk in these conditions. jose, i should also say, you know, when i went outside yesterday after watching the latest information, keeping in mind that it was going to be dangerous, the first step i took

outside i nearly slipped because it's so difficult to know which part is going to be more slippery. so you know, those are just examples of what the conditions are like as this ice storm warning remains into effect into later today, jose. >> thank you so very much. it's good seeing you this morning. we're also keeping a close eye on capitol hill where any moment house democratic leader hakeem jeffries is holding his weekly news conference as house speaker kevin mccarthy is scheduled to hold one later this hour. mccarthy's news conference comes hours after he and president biden attended the annual national prayer breakfast in washington where the president alluded to his meeting with mccarthy yesterday. >> start treating each other with respect. that's what kevin and i are going to do, not a joke. we had a good meeting yesterday. i think we got to do it across the board. doesn't mean we're going to agree and fight like hell, but let's treat each other with

respect. >> the two men met in the oval office for more than an hour yesterday to talk about a variety of issues including the need to raise the nation's debt limit to avoid an economic catastrophe. mccarthy also said it was a good meeting and that both men promised to continue the conversation. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst, and brian greer, former general counsel for the cia. so ali, now that the president and speaker have met, where do efforts to deal with the issue of the debt limit go from here? >> reporter: look, i imagine, jose, that this is going to continue to be a rocky road, however respectful these men are going to be as they travel it. because it's clear at this point that both sides still have the same stances that they had when they went into that meeting, which is to biden this is a nonnegotiable issue, you have to raise the debt limit or there

will be catastrophic economic fallout. for mccarthy, he wants it to be a kboerks. for him the fact that biden was willing to meet yesterday is the beginning of that. he sees that as a victory because it's an ongoing salvo of an open dialogue. what biden is challenging mccarthy to do because republicans want to make cuts to spending, show what those cuts to spending are going to be. we're going to see the president's budget after the state of the union. we're also expecting him then to continue to call on republicans to release theirs to see how they end up doing the spending cuts that they are talking about. but in this conversation about spending, jose, i know we're talking about the debt ceiling. it's important not to conflate them because the debt ceiling amount of money that we're talking about is money that has already been spent, not future spending. so that shouldn't be lost in this conversation as republicans and democrats kind of go back and forth on this issue. >> so important, ali that you mentioned that. did this meeting do anything to change the relationship between the president and the speaker? >> well, it is significant just

in the fact that you haven't seen president biden meet with kevin mccarthy very many times. up until now. they've been in office together overlapping for two years, but they've had basically no relationship up until now. the president didn't see much need in meeting with kevin mccarthy when nancy pelosi was the speaker and running the house. there wasn't much of a purpose for kevin mccarthy to meet with president biden in that sense because he wasn't likely to get anything out of it, and so i think that just the fact that they're having a meeting is obviously a change in tone, a change in the way business is conducted. that doesn't mean as ali said, that they are going to meet in the middle on the substance of it. the substance of it they haven't made any progress that you can see, but there was -- yesterday coming out of both sides, the fact that they had -- something where washington is today, a meeting by itself is considered -- a harsh toxic atmosphere the last few years, but it is what it is. >> yeah, i mean, the fact that

they're saying, oh, we're treating each other sichlly is like a step forward in a way just tells you a lot about how our politics has just become so, in many ways, toxic. brian, i want to turn to the classified documents controversy. the fbi spent nearly four hours searching president biden's delaware beach house to see if there was any classified material there. the president says the search was consensual and that no classified documents were found. how is it that material could end up outside of secure locations like in private homes or in outside offices? i mean, it's still that question of how is it that some material we don't even know how much was able to end up in these places? >> first off, thank you for the promotion. i was a lawyer at the cia but not the general counsel, but i did work on these matters. >> thank you. >> while people have pointed out mishandling of classified information is a problem throughout the government.

this stems from the white house environment. normally an environment is segregated where you have everything classiied in one space, everything nonclassiied in one space. all that is going on together almost simultaneously. you have unclassified materials and discussions mixed with classified. combine that with these chaotic transitions. combine that with the fact that the presidents take a lot of personal material home. that's the narrow cause of this in my mind. the reform should be focused on how to improve that chaotic transition period. >> so brian, we've had folks from the house on talking about this, you know, in the house, in the senate, there's scifs, and you go in and leave your phone outside. it's different in the executive. >> >> yeah, like i said, typically it's going to be segregated. i mean, not that dissimilar from what you might see in the senate. the west wing is different. you have to leave your phone

before you go into the west binge, but they are going to have classified briefings one minute and elementary students the next minute. that is more unique for sure, particularly in the west wing. other agencies are more like you might see in congress. >> so ali, what is being talked about in terms of legislation to prevent classified material from ending up in places that it shouldn't be? >> reporter: it's clear that everyone here agrees that information is ending up where it shouldn't be in terms of these classified documents, especially on the senate side. you're watching the heads of the intelligence committee move forward in lock step not just trying to get more information on this, but in saying that this information needs to be handled more carefully. on the one hand, some of the conversation is around the idea that we over classify documents, but on the other piece of it, legislatively, there is an effort beginning in earnest right now between the heads of the oversight committee in the house to just try to figure out

a better way to have this system going forward. again, it's in its very early stages, but it's a rare glimmer of bipartisanship especially from the oversight committee where we are going to see some pretty partisan investigations coming out of it over the course of the next year or so. but also at a time when acrimony is really at its peak on capitol hill. this is sort of the congress that we thought we were going to get when we entered a period of divided government. even just look at yesterday, the way that some of these committee hearings ended up utterly breaking down and kind of going off the rails with members showing unflattering pictures of each other in committee hearings. others telling their colleagues that they thought they were insurrectionists. i mean, yesterday was a really big sign of the toxicity on capitol hill. on the classified documents front, it's a glimmer of where in a bipartisan fashion we could see progress going forward, but this is a really tough environment in congress right now. >> ali vitali, peter baker, and brian greer, i thank you so much for being with us this morning.

still ahead, interest rates are going up again, even though prices are slowly coming down. we'll explain why that's happening and what it means for you. but first, as tyre nichols is laid to rest, we could soon see new video surrounding his deadly police beating. what it's expected to show. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports." so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry.

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16 past the hour this morning, a call to action from tyre nichols' family after the 29-year-old was laid to rest on wednesday in memphis, tennessee. during the service tyre's mother thanked the community for their support and urged lawmakers to pass the george floyd justice in policing act without delay. >> there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. >> amen.

>> because if we don't, that blood, the next child that dies, that blood is going to be on their hands. >> joining us now is nbc news correspondent ellison barber who's in memphis this morning. we're learning more about potential discrepancy between the initial police report following tyre nichols' traffic stop versus what we saw on the video, and there's even more video that has yet to be released? >> reporter: yeah, there are a lot of moving parts here. there are, it appears, major discrepancies between what was described in the initial police report and what we saw play out in the body and street camera video that was released from the night of january 7th. this unofficial copy of the report says that nichols was stopped for reckless driving and refused a lawful detention and then -- and i am quoting from the unofficial copy of the report here -- he started to fight with detectives.

it goes on to describe a fight at the second scene claiming that nichols was actively resisting police by pulling duty belts and grabbing one officer by his vest. forgive me for looking down so much, i want to make sure i'm getting the language here correctly. this unofficial report then goes on to say that a chemical agent was dispersed at that second scene as was at the first and that one officer used his department-issued baton while attempting to get the suspect, tyre nichols to comply. what it does not mention is that officers repeatedly punched and kicked tyre in his head and face while he was handcuffed on the ground, even though that is apparent in both the body camera footage and the street camera footage we have of that night. this unofficial police report actually first surfaced on a facebook page of an individual, a guy who is a talk show host, a blogger, a long-time resident of

this city, he goes by the cussing pastor online. he posted a photo of this unofficial report sunday night. the memphis police department, they still have not officially released this. they would not comment on this unofficial copy or the copy that nbc has obtained, but a spokesperson for the district attorney's office tells nbc news that the account they have in the official report in their possession matches the account that is in this unofficial report. one thing that cannot be overstated here is the role that the community, the black community and local activists have played in moving this case forward. we spoke to one local activist who was incredibly instrumental in getting the name out there of the sixth police officer that was relieved of his duty because of the events that transpired this night, and she says that they are far from finished with demanding transparency. listen. >> i think there's a lot of information that folks have been

asking for that we still haven't gotten. i think it's important that we have the ultimate transparency because if you're willing to beat someone in public, if you're willing to tase someone and incite violence on them in public, if you're willing to stand around and not render aid and render care in public, then you need to be out in the public as well. we need to know exactly who you are because you're a danger to the public. >> reporter: that woman, amber sherman is arguably one of the biggest reasons we know the name of the sixth office, preston hemphill who deployed his taser, according to the memphis police department at the first scene and was relieved of his duties but not fired on january 8th. she noticed a last name, his last name in that affidavit that was posted on facebook, then started snooping around looking for more information. found a first name. then found a photo on the memphis police department's facebook page of that officer, matched the wristband on his apple watch in that photo to the wristband she saw in the body camera footage and then amplified it on social media.

she had a tweet showing all of that that was viewed over a million times. about a day later the memphis police department confirmed that officer's name, that he was at the scene, his involvement, and that he was on leave. and they also said a seventh officer currently unnamed had been placed on leave as well. jose. >> ellison barber in memphis, thank you so very much. up next, imagine the government chipping in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to pay for your bills no strings attach. we'll take a look at where that's being done now. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. they can help you create a retirement-income plan designed to balance growth and guaranteed income. and provide access to specialists who help with estate planning to look out for future generations so you're not just growing and protecting your wealth. you're sharing it.

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a welcome reduction in the monthly pace of increases. and while recent developments are encouraging, we will need substantially more evidence to be confident that inflation is on a sustained downward path. >> with us now to talk about this is cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman, what should we take away from this interest rate hike? >> you know, i think you hit it just right, jose, and good morning. the rates are going up. they've gone up another quarter point, and they're going to go up probably at least one more time. the good news on that front is maybe they're just about done. the other good news is we're seeing an easing off or a leveling off of the rate of inflation, and it's beginning to come down, and if it comes down further, maybe the fed can ease back a little bit on its rates. that's what the market is predicting. now, just to be clear, fed chair jay powell who you just had on there, he's leaning against

that. he's saying don't get too excited here. we're not all that confident inflation is going to come down. there's a bit of a tussle or back and forth between where the market thinks the fed is going and where the fed thinks it's going. >> and so what are the indicators that the fed takes into account on that balance if they decide finally to at least stop with the increases and maybe some decrease. i would look at three things. the first thing i'd look at, the most important is the inflation rate. that has come down for five or six months now be the year-over-year rate remains high. the fed wants to see the labor market cooling. it doesn't want higher wages out there to lead to higher inflation. in other words, you pay your employees more, you have to raise prices and that creates more inflation. the third thing i'd look at is the growth rate. the gdp growth rate. that's supposed to come down this year.

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couple of weeks. that's according to two senior officials and a former senior administration official. joining us now nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. good morning. what can you tell us about this detainee and why did the transfer happen? >> so there's a couple of things that are unusual about this. this is a pakistani citizen, but he also was a resident of the united states. he spent his high school years in baltimore. after graduating from high school, the u.s. granted him asylum after the attacks on september 11th, he returned to pakistan and joined al qaeda ultimately working for al qaeda's operations chief, its planning operations chief. so he was the only detainee to be held at gitmo who had a status in the united state. he moved from guantanamo bay this morning, flew to belize where he will be resettled. this is the first time the biden administration has resettled a

detainee. they have repatriate them, but this individual majid khan was cleared for release prior to this decision to send him to belize. this took months and months of diplomatic wrangling and discussions to decide where to send him. a senior state department official telling me that the decision, they're very pleased with the decision for belize to take him in because they believe that they were very thoughtful and thorough in their decision-making process ensuring that they would be able to secure him safely in that country and that they would be able to provide for him and for his future. he was cleared for release from guantanamo nearly a year ago in march of 2022. he's not the only one at gitmo who has been cleared for release. we also write in our story we just put out online that there's two other brothers, the rabbani brothers, ahmed and abdul. they have been cleared for release from guantanamo bay. the u.s. has been working to get them and other detainees who are cleared for diplomatic agreements with other countries

to get them repatriate in the coming weeks and months as well, jose. >> so courtney, sorry because -- so he's been sent to belize. he was cleared for release, so is he free in belize, or is he detained there? >> reporter: he is. the u.s. is very particular. they don't like to talk about the specifics of any of the security arrangements or humanitarian arrangements they make with countries in these agreements. he is cleared for release. a senior state department official said at this point there are no specific plans for his wife and teenage daughter whom he's never met to join him in belize, but the hope is they will be able to join him in the coming weeks and months. the belief is that when they're surrounded by family, the detainees, they have a much better chance of moving into society, becoming a productive part of the society there. the state department official i spoke with about this is hopeful that, in fact, his family will actually be able to join him there. >> courtney kube, thank you so very much. and in just a couple of

hours, the house will vote on a resolution to remove democratic congresswoman ilhan omar from the house foreign affairs committee. house speaker kevin mccarthy has been gathering votes to oust omar from the committee for what republicans allege are anti-semitic results in the past. one of the first two muslim american women to serve in congress reacted to the resolution saying in part, quote, there's nothing objectively true in this resolution. it's all perceived and filled with pretext. joining us now from capitol hill is nbc's garrett haake. good morning, where do things stand this morning on this vote? >> reporter: well, jose, speaker mccarthy has been working behind the scenes to try to make sure he'll have every republican, or at least enough of them, to pass this resolution booting congresswoman omar from the foreign affairs committee. he won't have bipartisan votes to do it. they do now believe they'll have republican votes and they're moving quickly here. omar was just formally seated on this committee last night. the vote will be today. republicans think they have the

votes, and democrats are rallying around omar, not because they think that her comments have all been perfect. many democrats have condemned the things she's said in the past, particularly going back to 2019 anti-semitic. they argue this isn't about policy disagreements or accountability or whether she learned a lesson, it's purely about political revenge. that was the message hakeem jeffries delivered a moment ago ahead of the vote. take a listen to what the democratic leader had to say. >> representative omar certainly has made mistakes. she has used anti-semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by house democrats when it took place four years ago. but what's going to take place on the floor today is not a

public policy debate. it's not about accountability. it's about political revenge. that is what it's about. >> reporter: at the end of the day, omar will be able to be seated on other committees. it's not kind of a blanket ban like we saw with marjorie taylor greene in the last congress here, but democrats are frustrated by this. they say this is an element of republicans basically not having the votes for anything on their actual agenda that they ran on, so it's about kind of scoring points against the libs basically, and you're seeing this political tit for tat going back to the last congress. but that said, you know, the house is a majoritarian institution. if mccarthy's got the votes congresswoman omar will no longer be on that committee by close of business today. >> and garrett, there was also a new development regarding freshman republican congressman george santos. the fbi now looking into an alleged go fund me scam? >> reporter: it seems like every day there's a development about congressman santos. in this case we reported on this go fund me scam, i believe

starting to report on it about two weeks ago in which a disabled veteran contacted santos who was running a charity at the time for pets. the veteran said he and santos worked together on a go fund me to raise about $3,000 for a life saving surgery for the veteran's dog sapphire, but when it came time for the surgery, santos walked with the money the veteran alleges. that story had been widely told in the media about two weeks, ten days ago, and now that veteran tells nbc news that he's been contacted by fbi agents who have asked him for all of his text messages with santos. he's providing information about the go fund me account, the fbi is neither confirming nor denying any information here. santos for his part has sort of denied this. he's said the story is outrageous but he hasn't explicitly said what part of it is untrue. he's really not answering any substantive questions about any of these various scandals that have popped up in this week in congress. jose. >> garrett haake on capitol hill, thank you so very much. joining us now, washington

congresswoman pramila jayapal who sits on the house judiciary committee. it's been a while since i got a chance to see you. it's good to see you. >> it's good to see you too as well. thank you so much for having me on. >> congresswoman, what do you make of this republican effort to kick congresswoman omar off the house foreign affairs committee. >> you know, jose, i think it is as our leader said a complete revenge move. it is a move that shows that republicans don't actually have bills that help the american people. they just want to try to create chaos here, and it is really, really unfortunate to see. i am so proud of representative ilhan omar. she is a first of a kind on so many levels. she would have been set to be the ranking member of the africa subcommittee on foreign affairs, which of course as a refugee, she brings a particular kind of lived experience that is critically important to this congress. and the idea that republicans

would try to remove a member simply because they don't like what she says. listen, i serve on the judiciary committee. there are a lot of members who i feel use nativist language, who use all kinds of language that is incredibly insulting, but i don't want to kick them off of their committees. there is no equivalence between what democrats and republicans did with marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last session, which was for violent rhetoric, and what congresswoman omar has done or said. by the way, she has apologized for comments when she feels they have been the wrong comments or they've been taken out of context, she has actually taken ownership. so i think it's terrible. i condemn this move by republicans. i believe democrats will be united in saying that this is just a revenge move and a distraction from the real issues that republicans seem to have no ability to actually legislate on that would help the american

people. >> and congresswoman, speaking of the judiciary committee, it held a hearing on the humanitarian crisis at the border. what did you take away from that hearing? >> it's the same thing, and you know, jose, i can tell you, i can see that we're going to be dealing with a lot of this where republicans use immigrants as a political football. they are not really interested in identifying solutions or working in a bipartisan way. there are a few in their party that are, by the way, and i'm really looking forward to working with those republicans. but the republican leadership has decided that they want to try and turn every issue at the border into an issue of undocumented immigrants who are fleeing countries as you and i have talked about so many times to try to come to the united states. there is no dignity in that, there is no solution in that, and it is deeply disturbing to me that they would try to pin fentanyl overdoses and all these things where there is factual

information to show that none of that is actually true. >> congresswoman, i want to share with you -- and i know you've seen a lot of this, but the videos just in the last couple of days of showing the extreme people will go through to try and get to the united states. coast guard intercepted this boat packed with more than 300 haitian men, women, and children, all of them sent back to haiti. this video from telemundo of an ecuadorian mother and her 5-year-old son being rescued as they try to cross the rio grande. the son says my dad drowned and he died. i'm just wondering, this is -- these aren't numbers. these are men, women, and children who have dreams, hopes, and aspirations, and i'm just wondering, congresswoman, what do you see when you see these people? >> well, jose, you're so right. and i say this as an immigrant myself. it took me 17 years to become a

u.s. citizen. i now have the opportunity to serve as the ranking member on the immigration subcommittee. the first time an immigrant has done that. i look at these people who -- and i've been to the border so many times. i've met with and worked with immigrants over 20 years, and every story is a story of tremendous courage, resilience, and the conditions that people are fleeing. and it's also a story about america, right? america has been built by immigrants willing and unwilling, brought over on slave ships and escaping terrible situations to come to america because we are proud of that history. we also have international human rights treaties that we are signatories to and so this is about our domestic law. it's about our international obligations, and it's about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand for. these individuals who come, they would not make these journeys

unless things were so dire, and i feel like that compassion is completely lost in the republican description of who we're talking about at the border. >> and congresswoman, just think, 17 years to become a citizen and there you are an elected representative of this country. what an extraordinary life journey and what -- it says so much about all of us. congresswoman, i thank you as always for taking the time to be with us this morning. >> thank you so much, jose. up next, congressman jimmy gomez goes viral over these pictures symboliing the challenges working families go through every single day. we'll talk to him about the new caucus he created to tackle those challenges. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports."

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this caucus? >> it was, you know, i realized after all the attention we're getting for this historic vote, i wanted to just capitalize on that attention to bring some basic ideas forward. one, dads need to do more of their part at home, raising the kids, and in congress advocating for family friendly policies. i recognize that as a dad i got a lot of outside attention for something a woman would have been criticized for. but it is our responsibility to push back on those double standards, but also to advocate for all working families for child care, paid family leave as well as child tax credit. >> how has that been received. i see you have the child stroller right back there? >> it is a little bassinet. it has been well received. i think a lot of people are -- especially women are saying, yes, you guys need to stand up and do your part.

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good thursday morning. i'm lindsey reiser live at msnbc world headquarters in new york. we got our eyes on capitol hill this morning, just over an hour, house republicans are set to vote on a resolution that would oust minnesota democrat ilhan omar from the influential foreign affairs committee. it is a move that is sparking outrage from democrats. but underscores the looming paralysis and fireworks likely ahead for this 118th congress. with our capitol hill team noting it is