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i'm lindsey reiser, we've got a jam-packed hour ahead. right now, 50 million americans are waking up to winter alerts, including heavy snow, ice, even some tornadoes. a fast moving storm system tearing across the great lakes into new england, dumping heavy snow and complicating the morning commute for many. new york city is seeing its first steady snowfall of the year. take a look at this, the normally bustling bridge in the daylight hours eerily empty covered in a soft bed of snow. illinois dealing with its own severe weather. two tornadoes touching down, setting off terrifying sirens. we're tracking all of it for you this morning. plus, growing frustration in east palestine ahead of the epa administrate's third trip to the town since that toxic train derailment. federal officials knocking on more than 500 doors in town checking on residents, some of whom have been diagnosed with health conditions like bronchitis. others are fearful of getting sick in the future. >> i'm scared for what's going

to happen in five or ten or fifteen years. that's my biggest concern. i'm concerned with myself, but i want to make sure that my kids are going to be okay. >> coming up, the new plan emerging to haul the ceo of the rail company before congress. >> and fox news under oath. newly released court documents revealed company founder rupert murdoch admitted that some hosts knowingly pushed false election claims. how much legal jeopardy could this put fox? right now, the justices are hearing arguments in two cases that will determine whether president biden's plan to cancel debt for tens of millions will be moved forward. we're going to begin with the breaking news at the supreme court. joining us from outside the court, nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor. what are we expecting to hear today? >> reporter: this is a big day at the supreme court. if you can hear, there are protests already with people in

favor of the student loan relief program. this does all come down to a biden administration program that was launched in august 2022. the president was saying that he wanted to relieve student loan debt up to $20,000. of course now you have two particular groups that are suing to stop that. you have gop states in biden versus nebraska. you have the department of education versus brown, two student loan borrowers say this program isn't expansive enough. we have been talking to people on both sides of this issue. first we also talked to an attorney who is against this. we also talked to the city university of new york city who's the chancellor in favor of this. take a listen to what they told us. >> are we really comfortable with the executive deciding that these huge programs are just going to come into existence? i don't think we should be. i think we've all gotten too comfortable with it.

i think we should get back to the constitution and having congress make the laws. >> this is the right policy for this time, and in our history, as we move forward, we need to continue to support affordability. >> so the way that the supreme court rules here could have a huge impact. the white house status, up to 40 million americans could be impacted by that. that's in addition to the 26 million americans who already applied to the student loan relief program. you already have 26 million people waiting in limbo here. this conservative majority court could rule that the president overreached and he was not in line with the federal law. the biden administration is saying that there really is a natural disaster here, that being covid-19 and that allowed them to have these emergency powers in order to do this. definitely a case to watch, and definitely a case that's bringing a lot of people to the supreme court today. >> let's give you an idea of what's at stake, and how we got here. a reminder, $10,000 worth of federal student loan debt would be forgiven for individuals

making $125,000 or less or households making $250,000 or less. pell grant recipients who demonstrate financial need would get $20,000 forgiven. here's a time line of significant events. back in 2019, then presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren proposed for getting up to $50,000 worth of student loan debt. president biden, then candidate biden, now president, suggested doing so back in 2020. a minimum of $10,000. then remember the pandemic hits, then president trump signs the c.a.r.e.s act, that pauses federal student loan payments and no interest is acued from the meantime. the official forgiveness proposal is announced in august 24, 2022. then we see lawsuits coming. graduate students sue, a group of states sue, and a federal judge rules it needs to be blocked for the time being. that leads us to today in oral arguments at the supreme court. mortgages makes up the lion's

share. what's next? student loans. and we also see the trajectory here of how much student loan debt has aggregated, how much it's increased over the last few years. this is a graph from the white house. this is the argument that they're giving on why this is needed. we see the cost of a four-year public university rising, at the same time the amount of pell grant values staying relatively the same. we are going to continue watching these oral arguments throughout the day, and we will keep you posted. >> turning now to the major winter storms impacting more than 50 million people coast to coast. the northeast is seeing a messy mix of snow and ice that forecasters are calling likely the biggest snowstorm of the season. in the midwest, more reports of tornadoes touching down, uprooting trees and destroying homes. and in california, multiple highways were shut down due to the snowy weather there. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in windsor, connecticut, and nbc meteorologist angie lassman is

tracking the weather. >> reporter: it looks a lot more like winter in new england than we have seen in year. you can see it's still coming down. it has been falling at least like this, if not more, since sometime early last evening. and so about 4 or 5 inches on the ground where i am, just north of hartford, connecticut, state police say they have been called out on 40 motor vehicle accidents, luckily just minor injuries, but definitely some slippery roads. this is the first significant snowfall of the season for many places, like here near hartford, also boston getting some of its highest snowfall totals of the year. new york city only had half an inch to date this entire season, and it now has 1 to 2 inches on the ground. and so for a lot of people kind of welcome news that winter is back, they were ready for it. plows here, hundreds of plows in connecticut, out on the roads, keeping things clear.

they pre-salted the roads. so traffic is moving, although people are being told, if you don't have to go out, stay inside a little bit longer or do be careful if you're on the roads. >> thank you. as people dig out, i understand there's another major storm system building up. what should we expect? >> we should expect an impactful weather week for us. not just the snow we're watching moving out for parts of new england and upstate new york, dealing with snow falling. once this gets out of the picture, we're going to see things amplify, on the west coast. it's a cross country storm system that starts to develop. we have people dealing with winter weather alerts, and add on inches of snow, especially in extreme northern portions of new england. that's where we still could see some of that additional snow through the day today, but notice how it all moves out as we get into really the evening hours tonight and by tomorrow. we've already seen that transition over in places like new york city. we'll have additional snow for places like boston, and again in new england. as we get into the end of our

workweek, we'll have another chance for rain and snow for parts of the midwest and the northeast, and not to mention, some severe weather, too. and it's all going to come from this system. it eventually makes its way on shore here as we go through the day today, impacting folks on the west coast. california, they're in for another round of rain, some mountain snow, and then the south, in the plains, rather, and into the southeast is going to be in for another round of severe weather, not just one day of it, but wednesday, thursday, and friday we could have impactful weather that could mean strong storms, hail, wind damage, tornadoes, all of that, all thanks to the same system. here's how it plays out. we'll get rain and snow for california through the day today. it doesn't seem that it's going to be quite as intense as it was last week. so we're not looking at that kind of -- those kind of impacts we saw from the images coming out of california. nonetheless, it will be something they have to watch for. we'll see the impacts when it comes to severe weather, developing in the plains and stretching to the southeast as

we head into wednesday, thursday, and friday, not to mention some of the added snow and rain as well. >> we know you'll keep track. angie lassman, thank you. frustration is mounting in east palestine, ohio, as michael regan make his third visit since the toxic train derailment. teams with the epa, fema and cdc checked on more than 530 east palestine households in three days. some residents have been diagnosed with bronchitis and other health conditions since the disaster. doctors expect those chemicals are responsible, and there's growing momentum on capitol hill to hold the rail company accountable. >> a good first step will be hearing directly from norfolk southern ceo. i hope you'll work with us in good faith to come before the senate as soon as possible. >> nbc's george solis is in east palestine. george, what do we know about regan's third swing through town, and what do residents want

to hear from him? >> reporter: on that message of accountability, that's something that the head of the epa has said numerous times they want to hold norfolk southern accountable. here in this third visit, we know the head of the epa is visiting the derailment site as we speak. he will come to this high school to meet with residents and meet with teachers here for the first time as far as we know. he's going to visit businesses in town. a big headline, they're going to set up a welcome center run by epa staff to further address residents' concerns. a number of residents feel enough hasn't been done. some residents tell me they haven't seen anyone come to their door. i spoke to a mother of two yesterday who feels simply enough isn't being done. they're thankful for all the support that's come from around the region, even around the country in terms of food, shelter, and bottled water, but there's still real questions

about the accountability and long-term impacts of how the derailment is going to impact the community. take a listen to what this mother told me. >> norfolk southern is making me question whether i'm a good parent, and that's the most frustrating part. i want to believe i'm keeping them safe by allowing them to go to school and playing sports. everybody else is telling me, what are you going to do in five years, or the water is not safe to drink or they're getting rashes. >> reporter: yeah, powerful sentiments from this mother, and this echoes the number of concerns that we've heard from residents throughout the weeks of coverage that we have been doing here. so we do plan to ask the head of the epa several questions about some of the testing they're planning on doing, other questions and health concerns. enough isn't being done despite the visits from officials, the visits from former presidents, environmental activists, they're looking for real accountability here. >> making me question whether i'm a good parent.

just so heartbreaking. i know you as a new father, that probably tore your heart strings. thank you so much. next, breached, a hack of u.s. marshal service has compromised sensitive law enforcement information. what is at risk and how deep it goes? plus, while the defense may have rested in their case in the murdoch trial, they're floating a new theory in the double murder of alec murdaugh's wife and son, and a bigger question this morning, when will the jurors visit the crime scene? and fox news in the fox hole, a big revelation in unsealed testimony from billionaire founder rupert murdoch, in which he admits some fox news hosts knowingly endorsed false election fraud claims. what it means for the company. what it means for the company. so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone's bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else's?

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sensitive law enforcement information was compromised. joining me now is nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter. what do we know about what happened and what type of data is at risk. >> approximately a week ago there was a ransom attack. sometimes it's we'll look up your computer system. or they exfiltrate data. and that, according to the u.s. marshals is apparently what happened here. the justice department was called in to investigate and in the story reporting with my colleagues, what we have been able to determine, talking to senior law enforcement officials in on the record statements from marshals, apparently this has impacted their fugitive system, they have all the information about investigations when they go and try to get somebody who's wanted, somebody who's perhaps skipped out on federal bail.

it's that system, it's the information inside of it. it's potential family members that could be known associates of these individuals that they're looking for. it could even be u.s. marshal staff. what we have been told, according to one senior law enforcement official, is that the witness security program, or the witness protection program, as it's commonly referred to in movies, that system apparently was unaffected, and so those individuals whose identities must be protected because they're either about to testify at trial or have already testified at trial and could have risks at their lives. that system was not affected and people were not able to get data off of that. >> forgive my rudimentary explanation, how would the bad guys use that information, known associates of fugitives who are wanted and also what don't you know at this point that you want to ask? >> one of the things we're trying to determine, it's not clear to us even if people investigating this have been able to determine yet, and

sometimes these take quite a bit of time. who did this. and it could be a range of people, and i have seen this in the past of teenagers, this is a true example of teenagers, looking to try to determine being looked at in drug investigations or some sort of a smaller crime. it could be the large transnational criminal organizations, people could see if they're looked at abroad, in the united states, and whether or not there's a warrant out for their arrest. we see a lot of criminals out of eastern europe. it's possible that a nation state could be trying to determine where people might be trying to locate, known associates of individuals they're looking for, and we have seen in the past, large nation states attack u.s. government systems, though they have not been implicated here. china and north korea. it really runs the gamut of potential actors that could have been responsible for this. as far as the information that's taken, if i was a criminal and wanted to know what they didn't

know about me, it might be helpful to know what they did know about me. that's something we'll have to keep an eye out for. haven't seen this data posted online. we'll certainly be looking for it. >> tom winter, appreciate it. thank you. this morning, prosecutors are questioning their final witnesses before closing arguments in the double murder trial of disbarred south carolina lawyer alec murdaugh. before the jury starts deliberations, they will also visit moselle, the sprawling hunting property and site of the murders. with me is charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst. everybody i talked to can't believe that this was granted. i mean, talking about how rare these field trips typically are. what's your understanding of why the judge is saying let's do this? >> i'm personally familiar with judge newman, i'll put that out there, and i respect his legal accumen in terms of the ruling. this is an interesting case because the time line, the distance, everything that is necessary in order to make an

informed decision about the evidence in front of the jury, does require some level of familiarity with the layout, and how it works and the distance between different spaces. what i find very interesting about this is that the crime scene is going to be more secure for the jury than it was during the investigation, and i think that's a very sort of nuanced point that people need to understand. there's going to be more security in terms of preserving the nature and the space of where things are. when that jury goes to see that scene than it was when the police actually failed to secure that crime scene as part of the investigation. so it will be interesting to see to what extent that plays a part in the jury's deliberations. >> yeah, of course the defense has been hammering how many people were at the crime scene that night, what was and wasn't secure. allison barber is outside the courthouse in walterboro, south carolina. you have been covering this. we know the defense rested yesterday. the prosecution plans more witnesses. what do we know? >> it's been a busy morning with a lot of back and forth again

today, before the jury entered the courtroom with the defense raising the issue with the judge that the prosecution said they plan to have about seven reply witnesses, simply to the pathologist, the defense had on the stand yesterday, the one that brought up for the very first time on the stand, the theory of two shooters. listen. >> do you have an opinion based upon more probably than not whether there was one or two shooters who murdered maggie and paul on the night of june 7th? >> i did have an opinion of that. >> what's your opinion? >> totality of the evidence is a suggestion of a two shooter scenario. >> you had a situation where you had a forensic pathologist for the defense arguing that some of what the prosecution's experts had said were exit wounds may have, in fact, been contact wounds and then raising questions of whether or not shot

in the back instead of the front, which would change the positioning of where a potential shooter was standing. that goes to why the defense is ask for the jury to take this trip over to the murder scene to see the feed room, to see some of these locations brought up to get a sense of the space they're talking about here. the judge in terms of this question of whether or not the state is calling too many reply witnesses said at this point he has to take it on a case-by-case, witness-by-witness time line, if you will, and see whether or not they are relevant. agree that they can't be relitigating everything they have done. it looks like the time line we thought we had yesterday morning was way off course. we thought we were in closing arguments by wednesday. now it seems like that might not be the case at all. >> let's talk about the two shooter theory and whether it's too late for the defense to be bringing something else up.

i remember the witness before alec murdaugh testified was suggesting that the shooter would have had to have been too short. remember, the prosecution has the burden of proof here. the defense needs to poke holes of reasonable doubt. >> the fact that the prosecution is attempting to advance as many as 7 rebuttal witnesses screams of desperation. that's not a good sign. what that says is we are not confident with the information we put out there. >> all of a sudden, alec murdaugh says i was there that night in that snapchat video, that is my voice. >> the prosecution themselves, mid way through the cross, essentially shifted their theory of the case in terms of what it was they were advancing as far as a motive is concerned. these things happen. you have to be able to adjust and pivot on the fly. i agree with judge newman. you're not going to be able to litigate every issue. if your evidence was as strong as it was, you wouldn't need

seven witnesses to rebut a forensic pathologist. when that person testified on the stand, it blew this case wide open in favor of the defense from a standpoint of being able to create reasonable doubt. that was a serious, serious problem for the prosecution. and the fact that they're trying to put this many witnesses on in order to rebut them shows that they know they are in trouble with respect to reasonable doubt created with this jury. >> this trial has been going on for weeks. does the prosecution run the risk if they've got so many more witnesses of confusing the jury, of drawing this out even longer. >> unquestionably, there are a number of missteps they have made and that would be another one in a long line. >> we'll see. thank you, and allison barber, our thanks to you as well. shocking revelations from the billionaire founder of fox news. what rupert murdoch said under oath about the election conspiracy theories and lies knowingly pushed by some of the net work's hosts. every good presidential contender needs a book.

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this morning, new bomb shell admissions under oath by fox news founder rupert murdoch. court documents show the billionaire head of news corp. admitted that fox news hosts pushed false election claims or endorsed them outright. the documents are part of a $1.6 billion lawsuit by dominion voting machines. murdoch saw little evidence of president trump's then false claims that the election was rigged despite some of the rhetoric on his own network. the documents show he even said he found half of trump's claims quote bs and damaging. in a statement yesterday, fox news said in part, quote, dominion's lawsuit has always been more about what can generate headlines. as long settled law makes clear, the first amendment does not shield broadcasters that knowingly or recklessly spread lies. i want to bring in peter baker

"the new york times" and former republican congressman from florida, both msnbc political analysts. peter, how significant is it to see admissions from such a powerful figure like murdoch after revelations that some of these network hosts didn't believe these claims either? >> yeah, i think it's very revealing. it talks not just to the election issue and the fight dominion has with fox, but the whole trump era and his symbiotic relationship with fox over the four years of his presidency, and obviously in some of the time after that. what we see from these e-mails and what we reported actually, my wife and i reported in our book on the trump presidency "the divider," the fox/trump relationship was key to his political success, and also a fascinating look at the dynamics of his support. they were afraid not of trump so much as they were afraid of trump's base because trump's base was their viewership as they saw it. in this post election period, they were losing viewers to

newsmax, and other conservative outlets that were more willing to go along with president trump's line about the election. and so therefore basically they went along with things they knew according to these e-mails were not true. >> in these court documents, murdoch says he was trying to straddle the line between spewing conspiracy theories and calling out the fact that they are actually false on the other. talk about the importance of striking that balance in current republican politics? >> well, what we're starting to see is that all of these individuals and entities that were involved in promoting this massive toxic lie are being held accountable. that's what the november midterm elections were about. that was the big story, that the candidates promoting lies and untruths were held accountable. they were defeated and now we're seeing fox news being held accountable in a court of law. their chairman coming out and some of the hosts were lying.

this is significant, lindsey, because this is going to continue forcing the republican party and the republicans who are still promoting this lie to confront this reality to actually come clean. there are fewer places to hide every day. and i think we're just going to continue seeing more and more accountability for those who have promoted this lie over the last few years. >> these documents reveal more about murdoch's relationship with jared kushner. they say murdoch provided jared kushner about debate strategy, how unusual is that type of media relationship? >> well, i mean, look, if you go back in history, you'll find instances where newspaper owners back in the old days, even some media moguls were allied with political figures, but in recent times, modern times, that's not usual. in modern times there has been a distance between the people who own the large media organizations and the politicians they cover.

at least they're supposed to be. that's the theory anyway. you knew already, and what this underscores how close the murdaughs were to the kushners. they were personal friends. i think it was murdaugh's previous wife that helped bring ivanka and jared back together after a fight, and they were at each other's weddings and all that kind of thing. there's a personal relationship going back a long ways, and it reveals, again, what that four years of trump's presidency were all about in terms of relationship to fox. it was not a hands off, distant relationship as the media is supposed to have with people in power. it was a hand in glove operation that they were serving the same viewership and political base. >> do you see this lawsuit in and of itself or the revelations trickling out because of it leading to any real change. >> lindsey, again, every day, there are fewer places to hide for those who promoted this lie. i really do think, not that it's

going to happen all at once, more and more, you're going to see republicans pulling away from this. it is a dead end. i think this is going to continue the erosion of trump's political base. we're seeing more republican candidates looking at getting in to the 2024 primary because they are no longer afraid of donald trump. i think this is one of the big reasons why because the lie is finally being completely exposed and those who promoted it are finally facing accountability. >> peter baker and carlos kurbela, thank you. ron desantis has yet to announce a 2024 run for presidency. speculation is building that his candidacy is a fore gone conclusion. he has a new book out today highlighting his record in florida, including the controversial clash with disney which he just took to a new level. nbc's hallie jackson has more. >> hey there, the national book tour starting today is a series of moves in a kind of shadow

campaign from governor ron desantis moving more and more into the spotlight. though he may not be an official presidential candidate yet, it seems like that is only a matter of typically. overnight, florida governor ron desantis making the case he knows how to fight for conservative causes! >> you got to have the courage of your convictions to stand strong, if you do that and people see you're willing to fight for them, they will walk over broken glass barefoot to vote for you. >> the republican governor widely expected to run for president. there's no official campaign yet, but there is a new campaign-style video. >> florida is leading the nation. >> and a new book out today. with desantis framing himself as a warrior against so-called woke culture. desantis avoiding directly confronting donald trump even as he emerges as the leading alternative to the former president in a 2024 race. a new poll shows mr. trump with a double digit lead over desantis and both of them well ahead of the rest of the

potential gop pack. former president trump mocking his possible rival. >> ron desanctimonious. >> ron laying out his blueprint. pointing to his record on issues from covid to education and behind the scenes, huddling with political donors in palm beach. just a few miles from mr. trump's mar-a-lago home. desantis apparently still months away from a formal announcement with multiple sources telling nbc news that any campaign launch, if he decides to run, would probably come in june. advisers insist the governor's attention is focused on what's happening at home. like the bill he signed monday that strips disney of its long time self-governing status in florida after the company came out against the state's so-called don't say gay law which limits how gender and sexual identity can be discussed in classrooms. desantis writes he warns

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this? >> it's extraordinary to speak to experts on tiktok and its users. you know, we are not a country that is one that tends to ban much. right? you can buy cigarettes in this country, you can buy alcohol in this country, but we're talking about banning a social media platform, and one that, although it is extraordinary successful is very very, you know, it's similar to the ones that we have seen already. you know,s facebooks, instagrams of the world, they collect a huge amount of data on us, just the way tiktok does. the difference here, this is a chinese owned company, and that seems to have set off this political furor. >> we heard right before the break that young woman saying, i just want tiktok, i don't care if china gets my information. why should we care? >> well, the reason that cyber security experts say there is reason to worry is two-fold, one is it is a tremendous collector of personal data. it grabs everything from your name, e-mail address, age,

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>> it doesn't look like we have that. >> i'm sorry, that's my bad. i'll characterize it for you. this is the number one super power in the world, afraid of an app that entertains teenagers, under let the free and fair market behave, you know, go forward here, and to sort of see this competition playing out here, this the the latest battle front in our tensions with china. >> jake ward, always good to see you. our own keir simmons gets a rare view inside crimea, where president zelenskyy said the war began and will end. with russia propaganda lining the streets, what the more than 2 million people there believe is an open question. million peoe is an open question. is crimea russian or ukrainian? ukrainian? business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts. (foreman) nice work. (vo) and retailers can get ahead of the fashion trend

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walk us through your entrance into crimea. what stuck out to you? >> reporter: lindsey, we entered crimea on the bridge behind me there, and that was the bridge that was targeted back in october and partially blown up. president putin described that as an account of terrorism underscoring how important this place is to him and how much the ukrainians would like to target it. so far we have been allowed to move freely without being questioned. this morning president putin's warplanes targeting the besieged down. russia is destroying the defenses there, zelenskyy said overnight. his ultimate objective is taking back crimea. in october an explosion rocked president putin's prized bridge

to the peninsula, and kyiv never admitted responsibility. we crossed into crimea by train, across what is called ukraine's internationally recognized border. this is where the explosion hit the bridge last october at around this time in the morning. the bridge was fully reopened just last week, and inside the territory is teaming with russian soldiers, and many civilians could be caught in the middle, 2.4 million people live here. is crimea russian or ukrainian? >> russian. of course, russian, forever this 73-year-old woman tells me. there's a bomb shelter? so what, she says. are you frightened? no, she says. if it's needed we will just go to a bomb shelter.

if we don't defend our motherland, we will become slaves. the west doesn't need russia, we need russia, this poster reads. the u.n. accused russia of many human rights abuses in crimea. she says all mothers, russian and ukrainian, weep for their children i can't speak about it without tears, she says. lindsey, general milley has said it will be very difficult for the ukrainians to push the russians out of crimea, and the only other entry is a land bridge over in that direction. president zelenskyy has said the war started here and it will end here, but nobody that we have spoke to was able to say when it will end or how much more bloodshed there will be.

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