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policies being implemented. alex will be in the field reporting from the front lines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories. >> are going to be. >> told. >> through field. work and. >> frontline reporting about the consequences. of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at 9:00 on msnbc. >> it's good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports at this hour, cracking down on what president donald trump is calling the era of mass deportations. with immigration enforcement operations rocking cities from los angeles to boston standing

down, president trump and the president of colombia avoid a possible tariff war after reaching a critical deal over u.s. deportation flights. also heading home for the first time in more than a year, thousands of palestinians are now on an emotional journey back to northern gaza as part of a cease fire deal between israel and hamas, and seeking answers. what we know about the chinese a1 ai advancement deep sink that's fueling the serious drop in the u.s. stock market right now. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we start in chicago. that's the city at the heart of trump's expanding immigration enforcement. nbc's shaquille brewster is there. still cold, but what's the latest on this shaq? >> well, chris, we know those operations are still underway. there are more arrests taking place that targeted enforcement operation that ice describes is

well underway. and what we're seeing with that is one it's multiple agencies involved. it's not just ice, but we know top doj officials were here earlier this weekend. we also know that dea is involved. fbi, many federal agencies involved in acquiring and picking up some of the people who are here illegally. and we also know a little bit about the scope of this operation because of the added support and added manpower. we know that there are about ten teams across the chicago area, according to a source familiar, each team with about ten agents, and they're fanning across, working through a list of people that they are targeting for pickup. but the thing that's causing concern is something that tom homan admitted in an interview with gabe gutierrez, our colleague, just yesterday, in which he said there are also collateral arrests that have happened and that will continue to happen, which means people who are not on that target list. you have these agents still picking up, and it's because of that. you're hearing a lot of fear. you're hearing speculation in the community here in chicago and on

the ground here in chicago. i want you to listen to a conversation i had with a venezuelan migrant yesterday who attended a know your rights training, teaching people how to interact with ice agents. listen to what she told me about the mood in the community right now, and what she learned at that training. they've called us and tell us, don't go out. stay inside, because immigration is here, where you guys tell us where you are. we take care of each other. and they're watching where immigration is and telling us, take your documentation wherever you go. okay. >> este cuando nos. >> and they've explained to us like in the workshop, we have to say we're silent. speak with. i want to speak with the lawyer. >> the mayor of chicago, encouraging immigrants and members of the community to attain to a to attend trainings like the one i was at yesterday. and you have the governor of illinois saying yesterday that

he encourages ice to pick up people who are here illegally who have committed crimes, but he says that he will defend and protect those who are not committing crimes and who are just members of the community. chris. >> shaquille brewster, thank you. president trump is declaring victory over colombia involving tariff threats and deportation plans. nbc's kelly o'donnell is reporting from the white house. kelly, tell us about this and what the situation is now. >> one of the early. >> showdowns on the world stage for president trump and colombia was in the. spotlight because colombia had raised concerns about repatriation flights that are part of the operation, that shaquille was just talking to us about, with flights coming from the u.s. of migrants who were not here under authority, under legal authority, and are being sent back to home countries. and so, president trump, wanting to make a very clear point, and he did it in a very trumpian style,

where he threatened use of tariffs and other kinds of penalties. and colombia's president also had raised concerns and talked about the humanitarian nature of this operation. and they were able to sort it out and come to an agreement that would not have the tariffs, and there would still be some ongoing. this is a kind of foreign policy negotiation that is sometimes framed as a dispute because there are tension points. but it escalated very quickly. >> and then. >> that was in its own kind of leverage, which is something we see president trump do where he. uses the force of his office and his personal style to try to extract something that he is looking for on behalf of the country in this case and this operation that he wants to see. and they were able to sort it out. but it's the kind of thing that can leave some scars on the international stage when there are these bruising fights that are very public. at the same

time, they were able to come to an agreement. the white house is saying that this is america being respected. the colombian government saying they were able to sort it out. and so this could be a pattern that we would see again with other countries. now, colombia is an important u.s. ally in that region, especially because of all of the unrest in venezuela. so these can be delicate matters with countries that we consider friends. so they've sorted it out for now. but will there be other wrinkles like this as we go forward? we should not be surprised, chris. >> yeah, definitely. to be continued. kelly o'donnell. thank you. let's go to gaza now, where tens of thousands of displaced palestinians are streaming north to the ruins of their homes. nbc's daniele hamamdjian is reporting from tel aviv. and i understand we have some new information on just how many people have returned to northern gaza so far. the pictures we've been seeing, the video, it's extraordinary. >> it is. extraordinary for. >> people who will remind you

that they have a. >> painful history of forced displacement. >> we were talking about thousands. >> tens. >> of thousands going back today. the latest official. number by the. >> government in gaza. >> suggests that 300,000. >> people displaced returned. >> to northern. gaza today. they've been waiting since. >> saturday at. >> the intersection. of what's. >> called the netzarim border. >> and because, of course, there. was a hiccup in the negotiations in the deal, they had to wait until this morning, but finally. >> they were. >> allowed to go back. >> young people. >> old people carrying nothing and. >> carrying everything. >> which. >> to be frank. >> is not much to begin with. and many will. >> ask, well. >> what are they going back to? in some cases. >> you're seeing. >> family reunions, parents who have not seen their children. >> in 15 months. >> in some cases. >> people will go back to discover what. >> if anything, of. >> their homes. >> are still standing. >> in other cases. >> people will want to. >> dig through the rubble. >> to find loved ones who were

never found and give them. a proper burial. >> i mean. >> these people will remind you that they would rather die in gaza than. >> be forced. >> to leave it. and this, for. >> them. >> is the picture of victory. >> being able to return home. >> when we've heard. >> throughout this. >> past 15 months, certainly those within the benjamin netanyahu's government, i'm thinking. >> of the right. >> wing ministers talk about. >> reversing the 2005. >> decision to leave gaza. >> they saw. >> this. >> as an opportunity. >> to. >> resettle northern gaza. >> but there you have. >> hundreds of thousands of people. >> returning back home today. some of them were asked what they made of donald trump's decision. >> or policy. >> proposal to be transferred. >> to. >> egypt and jordan. and they. >> will say over. >> and over again that they would rather die on this land than be forced to leave it. >> chris. >> daniele hamamdjian, thank you for that. now let's talk about those tech stocks that sent the

markets into a tailspin today, as the chinese ai firm threatens u.s. dominance in that race. nbc's brian chung is following this very closely for us. okay. talk to us about what we should know about this chinese firm, but also a little craziness in the markets today. >> yeah. >> i mean, just to rehash. >> those numbers that you just saw, the nasdaq is having a terrible. monday to start off the week, down about 3.5% right now. and this has kind of been the story since the entire trading session started at 930 this morning. all of this coming after the jitters in the ai space off of this chinese application that's making waves. it's called deep seek, and it's a chinese firm again. that is now available. >> in the united states. >> and it's become so popular that it is now the number one free downloaded app in. >> the apple. >> app store. it's a chat bot, very much like chatgpt from openai, which you may have used before. you can ask it some questions. you can get some answers very quickly. but what's remarkable about this is that the company behind this deep sea app says that they were able to

train this model after only 5.6 million usd of investment. so yes, it's as smart as perhaps some of those other chat bots that are out there, but it's the fact that the chinese company behind this was able to build it so much cheap, so much more cheaply, and so much more efficiently than perhaps we've been doing here in the united states. among the likes of microsoft, meta, openai, the number of other players that are in the artificial intelligence space, which has a lot of people wondering at the beginning of this week, is the united states, perhaps even behind china in terms of the ai race? this is something that was underscored by the oval office meeting last week. president trump and open ai founder sam altman. but again, markets having very much a rough day in response to this chinese development, which is quite the breakthrough. >> kris brian chung, thank you. in 90s, what happens when the federal government's watchdogs federal government's watchdogs are let go? if you take or have taken humira for moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and still have symptoms... you don't have to settle.

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be around, how that money should be distributed, how much money should be spent. we'll listen in to what j.d. vance is talking about and the questions he gets asked. and if he makes news, we'll let you know about that. meantime, the sudden mass, late night firing of independent government watchdogs by the trump administration is causing confusion, frustration and in fact, setting off alarms all over washington. 18 inspectors general, whose job is dedicated to rooting out waste, fraud, corruption and abuse were swiftly let go by president trump late friday night and now are out of a job today. one of them is hannibal mike ware from the small business administration, and he shared this with my colleague ana cabrera. >> the reason was due to changing priorities of the administration. and the reason that is alarming is because igs are not a part of any administration. the protections that were baked in to the act

are is everything absent having to provide a real reason? we're looking at what amounts to a threat to democracy, a threat to independent oversight, and a threat to transparency and government. >> i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent vaughn hillyard, former aide to then speaker john boehner and paul ryan. brendan buck. and with me here in studio, new york times reporter jeremy peters. brendan and jeremy are msnbc contributors. so vaughn, i guess the baked in part is a law, right, requiring a 30 day notice of the removal of any inspector general. republican senator chuck grassley said he'd like a further explanation, but do we know is there one? >> in this? would we hear? chuck grassley also says the president must provide firing of an inspector general any time it is

not clear. what if. nor of course, was. >> okay, we're going to we're going to wait for vaughn and maybe we'll get back to him. maybe since he stepped under that overhang, we have not quite a great signal. but but let me ask you, jeremy, i mean, this is something that's been around since watergate. this is something that was put in place to say you can't have the fox guarding the hen house. so what's happening here? >> right? i mean, exactly. and there is a law on the books that sets very specific parameters for how you can get rid of inspectors general, if that's what you want to do. congress has to be given certain notice, and you just can't do this the way that trump has apparently done it. now we'll have to wait and see. kind of what, if anything, congress under republican control decides to do about this. but as we know, this administration is not a huge fan of accountability. it views positions like inspectors general, not as a form of keeping political figures in

check. and within the law. it views them as a form of political retaliation and retribution. and so i think you're going to have a really hard time convincing a republican congress that this, in fact, is something that trump has done, that he shouldn't have done, because time and time again with the senators, like mitt romney gone and all the others who used to have, you know, something of a spine, at least in standing up to trump when he went too far. those people are gone. and the people there who remain who might be inclined to say, all right, let's let's just pause here and take a look at this. they're not going to speak up unless they they think it's in their political interest. and right now, it certainly doesn't seem like standing up to president trump is something like this republican party wants to do. look no further than the confirmation of pete hegseth, a man that they knew, republican senators, many of them at least, was completely unqualified to be defense secretary. and this is before all the allegations of sexual misconduct came out. so

i'm not expecting a whole lot of resistance here from inside his own party. >> well, brendan, let's talk about again, you know, this was a watergate. at least the modern day inspector general. it was post-watergate. the whole point is an independent check against mismanagement and abuse of power. so what is lost by not having someone truly independent there to do it? >> yeah. >> inspector general are all about making sure you have good government. i mean, it's the basic oversight of your agencies. and look, these are not political actors. these are people who. >> do really. >> long, laborious investigations to make sure that programs are running the way that they should be according to the law. but also, you know, as you said, rooting out waste and fraud. i mean, that is one of the stated goals of this administration, obviously, with the doge and what elon musk is up to, you would think that you would want to have somebody looking under the hood at some of these, these agencies to see where they're not getting the job done. look, i'll just say

there's not a real good reason to be firing a bunch of inspectors general, unless you simply don't want anybody holding you accountable for things. and jeremy used the right word accountability. and this is a president who his his time in politics has been marked by a lack of accountability. he was impeached twice, but acquitted both times. he got off on really all of his his legal trouble. he's a person right now who thinks that nobody can check him. why even have these positions? i'm sure he'll fill them with somebody who will nominally take the role, but does not want to be held in check and frankly, doesn't see any reason. you know, his worldview that that these types of things should even exist. >> so the question then becomes, who is trump eyeing to fill these roles? right. because the concern is that it will be somebody who will rubber stamp. they'll have the title and supposedly independence, but they will rubber stamp whatever the president wants. so let's

listen to what one member of congress had to say about this. >> if he's going to remove us, put. >> in. >> new folks who are willing. >> to make. >> those hard calls, even. >> if it's. >> you know. >> against, say. >> a trump appointee. >> you know, in the. >> administration. >> if it's finding. >> ethics misconduct. >> that's. >> where the. >> rubber meets. >> the road. >> that's the key question. >> is an. incoming ig. >> going to. >> be willing. >> to. make that negative. >> finding about. >> a trump appointee? >> that's the key issue here. >> even better than a member of congress, because you can hear the concern in his voice. right. and i guess whoever gets these jobs next will indeed, the concern is have trouble raising any real objections to anything that they may think donald trump wants. so what could realistically things look like if these nonpartisan guardrails are gone? >> i mean, i wouldn't expect

these jobs to be filled very quickly. i don't think that this administration has much use for the mechanisms of government that hold it in check, that are there to make sure that there isn't abuse of power and waste and cronyism, political favors going on. i mean, that's just not something an aspect of the government that trump thinks is very necessary. and there's really not not much there to hold him in check if he decides not to make that a part of his government, not to make honesty and accountability and efficiency, you know, in a broad sense, kind of part of what he wants the federal government to be doing for people. >> so in this case, brendan lindsey vaughn was asked about this and he said, well, yeah, it's not legal, but and i'm going to quote him, just tell them that you need to follow the law next time. there are other areas, though, in which some republicans are raising concerns. and one of those is

let me just find the note that i was looking for. oh, well, let's play this next set of sounds, which is a concern about republicans breaking from donald trump over removing key security clearances. take a listen. >> ultimately. >> these inspectors general serve at the pleasure pleasure of the president. he wants. >> new people in there. >> he wants people focused. >> on getting. >> out waste and fraud and abuse and reforming these agencies. he has a right to get in there who he wants. >> i don't understand why one would fire individuals whose mission is to root out waste, fraud and abuse. so this leaves a gap in what i know is a priority for. president trump. so i don't understand that.

>> i would encourage the president to revisit the decision for those people who are being targeted by iran, as the president was targeted for assassination by iran, as the chairman of the intelligence committee, i've reviewed the intelligence in the last few days, the threat to anyone involved in president trump's strike on qasem soleimani is persistent. it's real. iran is committed to vengeance against all of these people. >> what senator cotton. told me the threats seem to be real against these individuals, and i don't want to leave them hanging. >> so we had two separate sets of sound there. i'm going to blame vaughn hillyard because he's not here to defend himself. and so things got a little confused about which sound that we were throwing to. but the point is that security clearances have been revoked for some folks, brendan. and you know how that works. and you know why that happens. i wonder what your your thought is on that and what you just heard from those last two members of congress. >> yeah. i mean, look, there's a lot of enthusiasm for the trump

administration right now, but it's all sort of fun and games until you put someone's life in danger. and that's clearly the situation here. john bolton and others have been targeted by by iran. and we know that they have put out hits on them. and i'd love to know what the explanation is for why you think that that is no longer a threat. but clearly people in the intelligence space think it is still a threat. and while john bolton may have said mean things to you, i don't think you want to be the one responsible. if something terrible were to happen to him, particularly someone who has been the target himself, the president, the target himself of these threats from iran and obviously others, this, i think, just reinforces that there's very little concern for humanity behind the politics of this president. if you're if you're for me, i'm with you. if you're against me, i don't care what happens to you. it's the same concept played out with the january 6th prisoners that that he released. if you're for me, i'm for you. and that's that. that just very self-centered

worldview. and god forbid, i certainly hope that nothing happens to any of these people have had their security taken away. but it should wake people up to how this president views the world. >> vaughn hillyard and jeremy peters, thank you, vaughn, wherever you are, brendan buck, if you can, please stay with us. and coming up, what happened when florida governor ron desantis called a special session to boost president trump's deportation agenda? we'll talk about that when chris we'll talk about that when chris jansing reports, [♪♪] are you one of the millions of americans who suffer from an upset stomach after a big meal? try pepto bismol. unlike some products, pepto coats and soothes your digestive system, to provide fast 5-symptom relief. stock up on pepto today. ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term

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get started@worthy.com. >> today, president trump's anti-immigration agenda moved to some red states, with both tennessee and florida and their legislatures holding special sessions to debate immigration legislation. but in florida, governor ron desantis goal of ending in-state tuition for dreamers and requiring police to assist in immigration enforcement is now in limbo because republican leaders objected to the timing and called a special session of their own. meantime, in tennessee, legislators are considering a bill that would make it a felony for local communities to pass sanctuary city laws. nbc's marissa parra is in miami. nbc's kathy park is in nashville, and brendan buck is back with us. so, marissa, what exactly happened with the florida special session? >> well, desantis essentially saw a veto override. >> i'll explain on. >> the other side, but we saw both the senate. and the. state house. they gaveled out almost

immediately. here's a little bit of what we heard. >> i believe. >> special sessions should. >> be used sparingly. >> they should not be stunts designed to generate headlines. and the truth is. >> i dislike. >> special sessions because they inhibit the very thing the legislative process should encourage the push and pull of meaningful conversations that lead to the development of good and better ideas. >> so that was the florida house speaker shortly before gaveling. out into their own. special session, that we saw both the florida senate and the florida house do separately. and what we saw were some criticisms of desantis proposal. and i'll get to what comes next in just a moment. but specifically, they said it was too narrow. they took issue with. >> some parts. >> specifically, including holding police officers and. >> law enforcement accountable, who. >> do not cooperate with immigration efforts. and they slammed that as

unconstitutional. >> they also slammed. >> the proposal of what they called a, quote, mini me version of ice within the state. >> now, the legislature. >> filed the. >> trump act, and. >> they're still proposing hard. >> line immigration. >> policies that we've talked about here, including removing out. of state tuition waivers. >> for any students. >> who are not u.s. citizens. but here's something key that they're also proposing, chris, and this is key. they would give immigration oversight powers. they would take that from desantis and give that to the state's agriculture commissioner. so wilton simpson would become. >> the. >> state's chief immigration officer. >> and we're seeing. >> reaction all over the place. desantis responding. within the last hour or so, posting. >> this on his. >> social media. he calls it a quote, bait and switch. >> tactic. >> weaker than his own proposal. and he says this filed trump act is an insult to president. trump's name. and you can imagine florida democrats. >> are having. >> a field day with. >> this. >> posting gifs and memes of them eating popcorn. i will note florida democrat chair nikki fried noting on social media, quote, i wonder why they would

put this in the hands of agriculture. perhaps because agriculture is screaming that they will have no workforce for the second. >> largest industry. >> in florida. >> and chris. >> in terms of next steps, this still. >> has to pass. >> which is it is expected to do. it would have to be signed by governor desantis, but that would essentially be him signing away his immigration oversight powers. so we'll see how this all unfolds. but definitely a showdown here in florida. >> oh, how do you see this showdown going, brendan? >> well, i'll just say we think congress is crazy. any statehouse politics are always really, really interesting. and it kind of shows you that ron. >> desantis, 17 years in albany, new york, you don't have to convince me of that. >> yeah, it shows you ron desantis may not have made as many friends in tallahassee as people may appreciate. look, every republican right now wants to have the stamp of donald trump and immigration, you know, in their in their politics. i mean, they're all rushing right

now to say we're being tough on immigration, but there are certain realities that that runs into, whether it's the stuff that donald trump talking about doing is probably impractical, if not impossible to actually execute, but also the economic impacts of it. i think the point about this being put under the authority of the agriculture commissioner is a really good one. there's a lot of sectors in this country that would be devastated if there were wholesale deportations of certain people. so everyone is trying to, i think, figure out how can i be in good graces with donald trump style politics? how can i be strongly anti-immigrant without blowing up our own economy? and i don't know that they're going to find a good answer for that, because those two things may be in complete conflict with one another. >> all right, let's move on to tennessee. and, kathy, i see there were some protesters around you. what's happening where you are? >> hey, chris, good afternoon. >> to you. >> yeah, a rally is actually getting underway. >> right now. >> several hundred students, lawmakers are also in the crowd

right now. they plan. >> on urging. >> the governor. >> to add. >> gun reform. >> legislation as part of. >> the special. >> session, which will kick. >> off later on. >> this afternoon. and there will be a lot of highlights. >> today that they will be. >> addressing in the next. >> couple of hours. this includes. >> a controversial. >> universal school. voucher program, also offering more. >> aid to halloween. >> victims still struggling. >> in the state. of east. >> in the eastern part. >> of the state. meanwhile, immigration as well. >> and we. >> do know that. >> according to. >> the bill that. >> is currently. >> being proposed. they're essentially trying to. >> create a division. a centralized. >> immigration enforcement division, and. >> the. >> governor is expected. >> to appoint a. >> chief executive. >> and this individual. >> will coordinate with. >> the trump administration when it comes to an illegal immigration crackdown. this person will. >> also pull funding. >> from a grant. >> that will essentially train up law enforcement officers. >> it will cover. >> operational costs. >> and as. >> you. >> mentioned, this will. >> also it will be a. >> class e. >> felony for.

>> elected officials. >> to adopt or enact any. >> sort. >> of sanctuary city policies. >> and lastly, anyone. >> applying for a. >> driver's license, they will need to identify their immigration status. anyone trying to get a. >> temporary d, will they have. >> a marker. >> that will be placed. on that. >> id. >> to kind of show their status? >> but as. >> you can imagine. this will have a huge. impact on the state, according. >> to immigration advocates. >> especially on the existing workforce. >> when you. >> look at. >> current data, roughly 130,000 here in the state of tennessee are undocumented, and 100,000 of. >> these individuals. >> are part. >> of the existing workforce. >> so these advocates are saying that this will. >> have a big blow if this bill. >> moves forward. >> but once again, i should point out, chris, there is a large crowd gathering behind me. this is in the wake of that deadly shooting not too far from here at antioch high school, when a student gunman opened several rounds in the cafeteria, killing a 16 year old and injuring a 17 year old student before taking his own life. so

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families and a doctor sued the state of north dakota after it passed that law in 2023, banning gender affirming care and in particular for minors, and in particular, it made the law a misdemeanor for health care providers to prescribe or to give hormone treatments or puberty blockers to transgender children, and a felony to perform gender affirming surgery on a minor. i also want to point out the legal arguments that are being made here. so the lawyer representing the families, the doctors, says, our argument is that all north dakotans have a right to access health care that helps improve their lives and well-being, and our clients are no different. we trust this court. after hearing all the evidence, we'll find that this law violates the fundamental rights of north dakotans and declares it unconstitutional. but this is a law that the state of north dakota is defending. and here's what the lawyer for their side says. the special assistant attorney general. he says the health care law is a constitutional regulation of the practice of medicine in an area of uncertainty. this is something the legislature has the power to do, has the right to do, and has the responsibility to do. and of

course, however this trial ends up, it's going to impact all of the different children in north dakota who are seeking that trans gender affirming care. i've talked to some families in another state in alabama who say that this is in some ways life saving care for children that are transgender so that they can block their their puberty from coming, and also sort of have the gender identity that aligns with them. but of course, the state of north dakota is pushing back hard. chris. >> yamiche alcindor, thank you for that. today is day one for pete hegseth at the pentagon, arriving to take over as defense secretary and promising to return what he calls a warrior ethos to the armed forces, and a, quote, shift from how business was done in the past. nbc's courtney kube is following this story for us. so what more do we know, courtney, about what pete hegseth and his defense department, how he'll lead. it will look like. well. >> chris, he gave us a little preview. >> this morning. actually. you saw the video of him getting out of the car this morning, being greeted by the chairman of the joint chiefs, general. >> cq brown. >> in. as he walked up those.

>> stairs, he actually. >> walked over to reporters. and told. >> us a little bit about. several executive orders that he expects to be signed and immediately implemented as early as today. so one of those included reinstating any service members. >> who were. separated from the military. >> for refusing to take the covid vaccine. this is something that president trump previewed during his inauguration address last week. we expect that we will get some sort of guidance at some point that will explain how exactly dod will implement that. upwards of 8000 men and women were separated from the military, from the military for refusing the vaccine. but, chris, it's not really clear how many of them may want to come back in. the big difference here is, even though dod said in 2023, people could come back if they wanted to after being discharged, only a handful of individuals actually came back. but this time, according to president trump, they will potentially get back pay for all the time that they missed. so that's a big that could be a big incentive, bringing more people, not only the covid vaccine.

>> we also. >> heard from secretary hegseth that he will be implementing some new anti die diversity initiatives. we don't know exactly what that's going to look like yet. that's something we're working on, more guidance. but essentially he has said that he will end diversity initiatives and programs within the entire department of defense. he's also promised that the trump administration and the pentagon under him will end service service for transgender individuals in the military. it's not clear exactly yet what will happen to those who are serving openly as transgender right now. that's something that's still being worked out. this is all. believe me. this is all very dynamic and literally happening today. so those are three of the initiatives that we're we're waiting for more. and then the fourth one is one that we're really interested, frankly, here in trying to figure out what it means. he has said that secretary hegseth has said that they will implement an iron dome for america. of course, iron dome is the air defense system that we've heard so much about since october 7th

and even before that, that protects the skies over israel. well, the u.s. already has this space architecture. it's this layered space architecture that protects the continental u.s. from ballistic missiles and some hypersonic missiles. but, chris, it's something that has been in development, trying to make it more effective at defending against some of these more advanced hypersonic missiles that some adversaries now have. we're waiting to hear exactly how the trump administration and secretary hegseth would potentially accelerate the development of that, or somehow move it into more of an iron dome like defense. but these are all the things that are that are happening here at the pentagon. chris. it's been busy and it's been very dynamic. >> and i know you'll follow it all for us. courtney qb good luck with that. thank you so much. well, there's an intense search on right now after a major heist at the netherlands drents museum, where thieves stole four archeological masterpieces that includes a golden helmet from 450 b.c. this

video, published by local authorities, shows three hooded figures at the museum's doorway in the early hours of saturday morning, and then the sudden explosion, sparks and smoke obscuring the camera lens before revealing the damage to the museum entrance. there you see it. the stolen art. approximately 2500 years old. this is the helmet of cotofenesti linked to romanian royalty. the thieves also made off with this three gold bracelets dating from around 50 bc. the missing items are all on loan from the national history museum of romania. officials say their value was, quote, incalculable to that nation's culture. a risky rain in california after wildfires tear through la. how today's weather could turn burn scars into dangerous mudslides. you're watching chris jansing reports watching chris jansing reports only on ahh, yellow! didn't pass the tissue test? buckle up! whoa!

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and even cars chock full of plastics, metal, lead and other harmful chemicals. nbc's steve patterson is live in pacific palisades for us, steve. i mean, what are they doing? they know this is potentially a problem. are there protections in place? bring us the latest. >> there are. >> a few things, chris. one of them you may be able to see right behind me. >> take a look. >> basic sand bags in the top. >> of. >> that. ridgeline over there. that is because if you pan slowly to the left, you'll start to see the burn scar. this is all over this area in. >> the. >> palisades. up above, even to the further to the left. there's a. >> home that burn. >> scarring continues. >> that is what is. >> so dangerous. >> homes that are. >> still intact. people that still. >> have property in. >> a fire. >> zone like. >> this can't. >> get to it needs something to be done. because when. >> the ground. >> is saturated, it loosens. >> the soil. soil like. >> that seven times more likely. >> to move. >> when there is a burn scar, thankfully. obviously it's sunny now. it's a lot better than it

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