of dogged reporting, for asking the tough questions, for getting the answers we deserve and for being a trailblazer, frankly, for all of us women in this industry. andrea, thank you. we are going to miss you here on msnbc every day, but we are grateful that you will still be in the broader family and still help us all make sense of everything happening in the world. congratulations, andrea and best of luck on this next chapter. that does it for us this busy week. thank you so much for joining us. i'll see you back here on monday. same time, same place. for now i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. >> good morning. 11 a.m. eastern, 8 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart, and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the fbi. this morning, the acting director of the fbi says

he was forced to hand over the names of bureau employees who worked on cases related to the january 6th attack on the capitol. joining us now from the justice department, nbc's ken dilanian. ken, good morning. what have you learned? >> good morning jose. in a memo to the workforce that went out last night, acting fbi director brian driscoll told them that he had been ordered by the justice department by acting deputy attorney general emil bove to turn over the names of all the fbi employees who worked on january 6th cases. you'll remember that previously, he turned over a list of employee identification numbers in response to a request from the justice department. and in a memo previously, the justice department declared that that was insubordination. so driscoll, who could be fired at any time he was installed by the trump administration, really had no choice but to comply here. he said he sent the names over a classified channel to try to ensure that those names are never made public, which is the big concern among fbi agents and

personnel. jose. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. and now to new developments in the efforts by president trump and his allies to reshape the federal government. federal employee unions have filed a lawsuit against the trump administration over its attempts to gut the u.s. agency for international development. the administration is now moving to cut nearly all of that agency's workforce. meantime, the president's plan to shrink the federal workforce is facing its first legal hurdle. a federal judge temporarily paused until monday the implementation of a buyout offer to almost all federal workers. now, the white house, through its press secretary, said in a statement, quote, we are grateful to the judge for extending the deadline so more federal workers who refuse to show up to the office can take the administration up on this very generous, once in a lifetime offer. this, as the washington post reports, employees of elon musk's department of government efficiency have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal

employees, including treasury and state department officials, in sensitive security positions. now, energy secretary chris, right, pushes back on that about dodge employees working in his agency. in an interview with cnbc. i've heard these rumors. >> they're like. >> seeing our nuclear secrets or all that. none of that is true at all. they don't have security. what is true? i know exactly who they are. we have three people in our building run through, checked by our security, and they have access to look around and talk to people and give us some good feedback on how things are going. i think nothing to be worried about here. >> with us now. nbc's white house correspondent aaron gilchrist, washington post foreign investigative correspondent greg miller, and msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. so, aaron, the white house is confident all of this is proper, legal and necessary. there have been a number of lawsuits and protests over the trump administration's actions. has any of this had an impact on

the white house? >> well, jose, i think the short answer is no, not really. we've seen more than two dozen lawsuits after some 50 plus executive orders, actions and memos have been signed by president trump. and in every instance, we've seen the white house push back to say, as you noted, what caroline leavitt said in the statement, you showed earlier that they believe what they're doing is proper. they believe what they're doing is legal. we saw a statement from a white house spokesperson that said, this is really about accountability and efficiency and trying to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. and so when you look at some of the cases that we've seen pop up in court, for example, birthright citizenship, that's something that organizations have been pushing back against and fought in court. but at the same time, you've seen doj lawyers do their part, too. they're going to go to court on monday to talk about the deferred resignation program, the buyout that the trump administration saw paused by a federal judge just yesterday. and so these are all things that that are still out there, things that the administration intends, it seems to continue pushing forward.

jose. >> yeah. i mean, and something that president trump, when he was candidate trump spoke about doing over and over and over again. lisa, has anything the white house done so far violated any laws? >> well, that is an incredibly broad question because, as you know, they have literally flooded the zone with executive orders and other policy changes in the last 18 plus days alone. when we talk about the firings, yes, they have likely broken the law, in part because the president doesn't have the authority under existing supreme court precedent to remove what are called inferior officers, people who don't have policy making or other administrative authority, where we're talking about slashing the budgets or revoking all federal aid. again, that's likely on dubious legal ground because congress has the power of the purse. and when we're talking about money that congress has already appropriated according to lawfully enacted appropriations acts, again, that's something that's already been done that

belongs to a coordinate branch of government, where we're talking about access to data. on the other hand, by doge, that's one of those. it's a little bit more complicated. it depends on specific regulations that are pertinent to specific agencies. it also depends on what kind of data we're talking about. is this private information belonging to individuals, or is it more government level data? are the people who are doing that accessing? do they have the appropriate security clearances? so that's one of those situations where facts are going to very much matter in the litigation. that's already been initiated by some of these groups as i. >> and, greg, you helped break the news that the white house is doge. employees have accessed sensitive records at the office of personnel management, which is essentially the government's human resources agency. what are the repercussions of that? >> i can tell you that we spoke to quite a number of senior security officials who are very alarmed by the access that these doge employees are getting to

very sensitive data, literally records on millions of federal employees, including health records, great details, extraordinary details about their lives and their positions and their careers, and including administrative access in some cases, including at opm, which allows them to make alterations to these databases and to make changes to what others are able to see about what they've done. once inside. i think that the concerns are range from what an administration that has repeatedly vowed to retaliate against those it considers disloyal might do with access to that kind of data on that many federal employees, but also, what kinds of are your other guests have already touched on this? the security surrounding doge itself. the white house has indicated that they have been given security clearances, but it's almost inconceivable that

they've gone through customary background checks by the fbi, have gone through training on how to handle the data that they're getting access to. and i've spoken to a number of officials who are really worried that russia, china, iran, other adversaries will will seek to take advantage of these security lapses. >> and greg, while doge apparently is very clearly focused on, you know, the office of personnel management, usaid, these aren't the only places that have been looking into. >> no, no. they're looking they've gained access to treasury's massive payment system, which, you know, i don't think many americans understand how sensitive information is. it's not just payments to food stamps recipients in places around the world or to government agencies, but the payments, even for highly sensitive things, classified contracts for the cia, cia

assets overseas, they originate with treasury. it's not that treasury is making deposit in some agents account in moscow. there will be layers of protection between those transactions. but if you get into that treasury payment system, you have a roadmap to lots of extraordinarily sensitive information about the u.s. government and the secrets it's trying to protect. >> and, aaron, last night, the senate confirmed russell vote to head the office of omb. who is he and why are some senate democrats so opposed to him? >> well, russell vote held this position in the first trump administration for a time as well. director of the office of management and budget, the budget director for the president. and what we saw in the senate, in the senate yesterday during this vote was unusual. this was a roll call vote that was supposed to be happening where it's just a yes or no, as your name is called. but we saw democrats, almost all of them, if not all of them. we saw them articulate their no votes but try to give speeches

at the same time explaining why they were voting no. that was slapped down in each instance that we saw during this vote. but it was unusual. at the same time, we know that democrats wanted to make sure that the public was able to understand why they were voting against russell vote in particular. he does have a history as an architect of project 2025. he was one of the main authors. he has said in the past that he believes the omb director could play a key role in reducing the size of government and curbing government spending. we've heard democrats express concern that he would ignore laws and cut funding to programs that really help a lot of people. at the same time, republicans have said that they believe that he is going to be one who restores fiscal sanity to the way the federal government spends money, and that he would help to cut regulation and to make sure that the government is a good steward of the public tax dollars. and so we'll see him in this role. he'll play a big part in the work that we've already seen happening with the budget director, with opm, with doge as well.

>> and lisa, so far, more than 65,000 out of the federal government's more than 2 million civilian employees have accepted that buyout. but what is the judge's decision mean for those who have accepted the buyout, or those who are actually thinking about it? >> not much right now, jose. and that's because the decision that the judge has already made is merely a pause of the action, sort of a freeze of the status quo until a hearing can be held monday after receiving more in the way of briefing and argument from either of the parties. but i will tell you that the white house, although the department of justice originally opposed that freeze on the federal buyout, there was a statement by white house press secretary caroline leavitt who said, essentially, we're celebrating this because it gives people in the federal workforce more time to accept our offer. that's contrary to statements that were previously made about the buyout. opm had said to people, basically, this is your deadline. take it or leave it. now. the white house is saying

the deadline has been extended. so there's a whole bunch of uncertainty here. and it's not just created by the court process, but by others who are participants in the political process surrounding it. we're going to have to wait until monday to see whether that freeze is going to be one, based on evidence and legal argument, as opposed to just giving the judge enough time to get his arms around what this is all about. >> jose aaron gilchrist, greg miller, and lisa rubin, thank you so very much. breaking overnight, the urgent search for a missing airplane in alaska with ten people on board, and more breaking news out of tennessee. an update on the search and rescue effort after a deadly tornado ripped through the knoxville area. and later, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu back on capitol hill. what just came out of his meeting with speaker mike johnson? we're back in 90s. johnson? we're back in 90s. you're watching jose diaz- want a next level clean? swish with the whoa of listerine. it kills 99.9% of bad breath germs

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involving another plane. right now, a search is underway for a flight that has gone missing while traveling between two cities in alaska. officials say ten people were on board. nbc's daniel griffin joins us now. dana, good morning. what do we know about this? >> jose, good. >> morning. >> to you. so this plane disappeared yesterday afternoon on a flight from utica to nome, alaska. so this plane took off around 237 on thursday, and the plane was just 40 minutes, or i should say 40 minutes after departing and just ten minutes before its scheduled arrival, that plane disappeared about 12 miles off shore. now, according to the nome fire department, before the plane vanished, the pilot actually told air traffic control that he was entering a holding pattern while waiting for a runway to be cleared. now, there were no weather advisories at the time, however, there was low visibility and light snow in the area. you've now got multiple agencies conducting the search, including the coast guard, and we have heard some

updates that they've searched all night, but unfortunately they have not been able to locate this plane. again, nine passengers and one pilot on board. officials believe that this plane was over the water at the time, but that's also their worst fears. because of that icy, watery condition. it's making the search really difficult. they've got specialized planes in the air that can search during darkness and low visibility, hoping to find the people on board this plane. but obviously a very heartbreaking situation. but we will be following this all day. >> jose danny griffin, thank you so very much. and turning now to capitol hill this morning, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu returned to capitol hill to meet with house speaker mike johnson. this after president trump doubled down on his proposal for the u.s. to take control of gaza, and for palestinians there to be resettled. here's part of what netanyahu had to say. >> the american-israeli alliance has never been stronger. i'm now completing a week in which which

began with an extraordinary meeting with president trump and under his leadership, the critical decisions that show his commitment and the american people's commitment to israel have come to the fore instantly. >> joining us now, nbc's yasmin vossoughian in tel aviv. yasmin, this is all occurring here in the united states. while we're awaiting the next round of names of those hostages who are supposed to be released by hamas. how is this impacting talks there? >> it's a little bit of a cat and mouse, because right now we're waiting for those names, as you mentioned. we're awaiting three names right now who we know are said to be men. those names have been delayed so far. however, we got word from a hamas spokesperson saying in fact, they were committed to implementing the cease fire deal. but that was followed up by saying that they don't feel as if israel is keeping up their end of the bargain in providing humanitarian aid in the way in which they have promised. and

what they're talking about specifically is tents and caravans, for instance. we've had terrible weather here over the last 48 hours or so, 50 mile an hour winds, consistent rain as well. so if you think about north gaza right now, you have hundreds of thousands of residents without shelter who are dealing with that rain and that wind. and so it's one of the reasons why the hamas spokesperson is now elevating this in his statement, along with saying side by side, though they are still committed to implementing the cease fire when it comes to those ongoing talks. jose, we have word from local media, but not confirmation from the prime minister's office that there will be a group of people going to qatar this weekend, maybe saturday, maybe sunday. this is all really up in the air. and i think some of it is dependent on the release of those names and seeing how the hostage transfer goes tomorrow, if, in fact, they do go to qatar to take up talks on solidifying phase one of the cease fire deal and then moving on to phase two

of the cease fire deal, that will include a member of shin bet as well. and that is domestic intelligence here in israel. so again, all up in the air right now, but again, seeming like a little bit of a cat and mouse as we await these three names to be released for the next three hostages to be exchanged tomorrow morning, likely. >> jose gavin newsom in tel aviv. thank you so very much. and joining us now from ramallah, west bank, is diana buttu, political analyst and former adviser to the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. diana, thank you very much for being with us. this surprise for everyone announcement by president trump on tuesday that the united states should be taking gaza, moving everybody out and then rebuilding it. how is that being perceived by palestinians? >> well, it's. >> ethnic cleansing, and i think it's important to label it what exactly it is. look, the israelis have long been advocating and pushing for ethnic cleansing. it didn't

start today. it's been ongoing since 1948. and when this genocide began in october of 2023, the israeli prime minister made it clear that gaza was going to be smaller in size and thinner in population. that means ethnic cleansing. and so now we hear a us president that is not punishing the perpetrators of this genocide, but is instead rewarding them by saying that he is also going to be complicit in this and that he's going to be part and parcel of moving, ethnically cleansing palestinians out from gaza. and so this is very problematic, and one would hope that that we would see that there would be an international reaction against these policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing, but i simply don't see it. >> so when we're talking about genocide and ethnic cleansing, you're talking about what happened in october 2023, you're talking about the october 7th massacre or what happened after that october 7th massacre, with the reality in gaza since.

>> well, obviously, i'm talking about what is what israel has done since. we're now looking at more than 62,000 palestinians that have been killed by the israeli army. we see that 90% of the buildings in the gaza strip are completely decimated. the hospital system has been destroyed. and so this has been a systematic process of genocide that international organizations and others have been saying is genocide. so the problem here is that unless we address the issue of israel's genocide of palestinians by holding israeli officials accountable, what we're instead doing what the united states is instead doing is saying that genocide is okay. it's okay for israel to commit genocide and to allow the ethnic cleansing of palestinians. that is very that is not only illegal under international law. it's immoral. and i can't believe that we're even having this conversation. >> well, we're having a conversation because when you talk about genocide, it's the

elimination of an entire people. and i don't know if that would be something that one could define in what has been going on in the war between israel and hamas, a war that started on 7th of october when 1200 men, women and children were killed, massacred and raped in their own country. but diana, one of the things that president trump said is that there is a if you repeat the same things over and over again, you're condemned to essentially have the same outcome. and i'm just wondering what would be a different outcome for the people of gaza, what would be a different outcome for the people that do want to live in peace, in harmony, without being in an act or state of war forever? >> well, first, i want to correct you about this idea of

what genocide is and what genocide is, is not the entire elimination of people, but it is the it is the practice of people that is expressed both in intent and in action, of making sure that they have no means of life. and so this isn't just the words that i've been uttering, but it's also the international court of justice. we also have indictments by the international criminal court against prime minister netanyahu. and so these what is happening is, in fact, genocide. the issue, though, to get to your point about what is it that people want, it's important for us to recognize that, to simply focus on one day, meaning october the 7th, is the height of dehumanization against palestinians. it's to ignore the history of israel's actions against them, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the ongoing ethnic cleansing process in the west bank, and all of the settlements, everything that they've done since. so if we want to move forward, i think we

have to address the root causes. and that root cause is that people have not been able to go to their homes. and i'm not simply talking about inside the gaza strip, but the people of the gaza strip. 80% of them are actually descendants from places that are nearby gaza. they've never. been allowed to go because. >> the people that live in camps in, in, in beirut and have been have been there for generations, many of them. >> so they should come back to palestine. that's the whole point, and that's the essence of it. and if we simply look for these band aid solutions of somehow throwing people here, throwing people there, ethnic cleansing here, ethnic cleansing there, that's not going to get to the to the root cause. the root cause was the ethnic cleansing of palestinians in 1948. and it's time for them to come back. >> so your concept and i'm, you know, i'm trying to is that the existence of israel, the existence of the jewish state in

1948 is, per se, ethnic cleansing now would you? israel shouldn't exist. >> yes. israel was built. israel was built on the lands of palestinians. it was built through an ethnic cleansing process. it was built through the expulsion of 75% of the palestinian population. that's ethnic cleansing. and what palestinians have been asking for is what is internationally recognized, their right to return. they want to come back to their home, they want to come back to their land, and they haven't been able to do so. so if you have a state that is fundamentally premised on one people's superiority, jewish superiority, there's something wrong with that. and i think we really have to start taking this on. >> well, i appreciate you being on with us. i look forward to our continued conversations. i thank you. >> thank you. thank you jose. >> up next, an nbc news exclusive with the president of guatemala. why? he says he'll

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secretary kristi noem is set to visit the u.s. naval base in guantanamo bay today, as the administration plans to send a third flight there with more migrants. meantime, nbc's julia ainsley just held an exclusive interview with the president of guatemala after his country struck a new deportation agreement with the u.s. and julia joins us this morning. great seeing you, julia. so what did you find out? >> well, it was. >> interesting, jose, because i was speaking to president arevalo right. >> after he. >> met with secretary of state marco rubio, and he had agreed to take back 40% more guatemalans, 40% more immigrants, including people who are not even from guatemala. >> the country. >> tried the same thing in 2019 during the first trump administration, and we had heard that they did not find that successful. that was under a previous administration. so my question to him was, why agree to do this again? here's what he had to say. >> why would. >> you agree to take back migrants who aren't from guatemala. >> because they are not staying in guatemala? because they are they are going this is part of

their repatriation to other countries. >> and how will you be sure that you'll they'll go to other countries. will the us help with that? >> yes. >> because we discussed that the united states. >> is going to. >> be helping us in this process. >> are there any parameters to how this would work? >> the understanding is that we are not discussing about big numbers of people from other countries that are going to be coming here. >> so you can see there there's no specific they don't want big numbers. they don't think they'll be there long. but there aren't hard lines in terms of what guatemala will do and what they refuse to do. he also told me that guatemala will be sending a delegation of people to washington in the coming weeks to try to work out those details, but it could be that there's a bit of a gap here between what the us expects, which is for guatemala to take migrants that it can't deport from the united states, and what guatemala is expecting, which is just to hold people for a few days on their way back home. >> jose. ainsley, thank you so very much. up next, we're going to break down the mixed messages

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that would be january than expected. cnbc's senior market correspondent dominic chu joins us to break this all down. dom good morning. so what's this first jobs report of the year showing. >> so i. >> would say maybe the. >> best way to. >> characterize it is it was. >> a. mixed report. >> the headline gain. >> as you point out in the jobs number for the month of january was less than forecast. >> the u.s. economy did. >> add just about 143,000 jobs. that was below the estimate for 169,000. >> that was the estimate from economists. >> now that's a negative sign, right? unemployment, though, did tick lower to 4.4% from 4.1% in december. so from that's where it was. and that's a positive sign. the labor department also upwardly revised job counts from both the months of november and december by a combined 100,000 jobs. so that's positive. and on the wage gains front, on a month over month and a year over year basis, americans are actually making more per hour on both of those measures. so that's positive. again, they're

working. people are working more and generally making more money. as for where the jobs were, the biggest gain by far came from health care and social assistance workers. they saw 66,000 more jobs, retail industries added 34,000 jobs and government hiring added around 32,000. job losses came in professional and business services. they saw a decline of around 11,000. mining and logging dropped by 7000, and leisure and hospitality, which saw the biggest gains during the bounce back from covid, saw a 3000 net job loss. now the markets right now are reacting with some negativity, mostly because what a positive jobs report does is reduce the chances the federal reserve will lower interest rates more aggressively in a bid to boost the economy. interest rates are moving higher. that can often happen when there's better economic data. and as you can see right there, stocks are moving fractionally lower. so all eyes on the data going forward jose, given we haven't really seen the effects of trump

tariff and trade policy play out just yet, we'll see in the coming months. >> yeah, this would essentially be the last jobs report of the biden administration, correct? >> yes. timing wise, that's what it would be like. the carry overs are happening now. but in the coming months, as we start to see policy take shape, that is when we're going to start to judge whether or not the economy is moving in the right direction based upon policies from the white house. >> dominic chu, thank you very much. appreciate it. up next, what is deep sea and why is it raising so many concerns in washington? speak with congressman josh gottheimer from new jersey, who co-sponsored a bill to ban the technology from government devices. congressman, great seeing you. we'll chat in great seeing you. we'll chat in just a prilosec knows, for a fire... one fire extinguisher beats 10 buckets of water, and for zero heartburn 1 prilosec a day... beats taking up to 10 antacids a day. it's that simple, for 24 hour heartburn relief... one beats ten. prilosec otc. are my 5 morning alarms a metaphor

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joining us now, one of the lawmakers co-sponsoring a bill to do just that, democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey. congressman, it's always a pleasure to see you. i thank you for your time. what are your biggest concerns about deep seek? so deep seek is. >> and we found more information about this week is literally embedded in the code of their ai bot. right. the ability for the chinese government, our number one adversary to capture americans personal data, both what they're searching for, the documents they may be posting, and anything that might violate their privacy. and, of course, put our national security at risk. and so, like many americans, i'm deeply concerned when you have whether you're talking about tiktok or before it was huawei doing anything to infiltrate our country and to spew disinformation and to capture information on americans, our intellectual property, what people are searching for, what they're looking for, whether that's at home or in their offices. so this would actually this legislation will ban deep seek

from all government devices to make sure we protect our national security immediately without delay. >> you know, and i'm just wondering and i'm so glad that you mentioned these other companies that have done something similar. what is our what are the differences between deep seek and tiktok in the security way? >> well, we know it's deep. seek is a chatbot, an ai chatbot. we also know right now it's the number one downloaded app on the apple store, right. so people are downloading this and we know it's putting our country at a great vulnerability and risk, because this is where people as as if you've used one of these before, you know, you might ask it a question, you might post a document, and it could be a business document, a personal, a medical document where you're looking for more information. and the idea that we're allowing our number one adversary to capture that information, just like a lot of the concerns that came up, of course, have come up around tiktok, being able to get this information to obviously be able to better spew disinformation into our country and affect our national

security. and of course, people's personal privacy and our intellectual privacy. all these things are at risk by allowing. and we now know this right by information that came out this week. we know the chinese communist party, the chinese government is involved in trying and adding code into this chatbot, into deep seek to be able to capture this information. right. and so that should raise a huge right, a huge flag and something we should act quickly to deal with. >> yeah. you know, congressman, i can't figure out and maybe you can help me. just people tend to know this, right? i mean, this is not like what you're telling us is something that, you know, we've been showing. i mean, go, go on deep seek and say what happened to tiananmen square. >> and exactly. >> it just can't tell you anything. it can't tell you nothing. it can't find. >> anything about china. nothing. >> right. and, you know, the systematic violation of human rights in that country or the, you know, the talk to me about the cultural revolution, the ten year cultural revolution. oh, it was all fine and dandy. so but

people know this, and yet it's still the number one app. how do you explain this, that people know this and yet there it is. >> well, i mean, i think some people know and i think part of why we're doing this, and of course, it's not just to ban it from from government devices like other countries have already. right. but it's also to go a step further and make sure the public knows, because i'm not sure the public listen. there's lots of things we download that might be helpful but don't understand the negative side of it. right? a lot of people i talk to about tiktok don't realize that 170 million americans, that i've talked to folks about this, they don't realize they're actually capturing your data and that they have the ability to mess with the algorithm and push out anti-american content or anti-semitic content onto the page. and what i worry about here is you have people searching, and we know that the government has the ability to capture the chinese government has the ability to capture that information, and then what they're going to do with it. right. and these are not our friends. these are people looking to do us harm. and so we've got to make sure people

understand, have all the facts and get this information out there. and that's what this is about. >> and i really appreciate you doing that. congressman josh gottheimer, thank you very much. and thank you for being with us today. >> appreciate it. thanks for having me. >> and now to breaking news from washington, where the acting u.s. attorney says he is opening an inquiry after getting a referral from elon musk. nbc's ken dilanian back with us. ken, what exactly is this? >> jose martin, the acting u.s. attorney in washington, d.c, is saying in a post on twitter that he is opening an inquiry into people he says are stealing government property and threatening government employees. and he's referring to doj's employees connected to elon musk. and this is the latest in a series of statements he's made along these lines, threatening to go after people who are impeding elon musk's employees as they go and try to remake the federal government. what's so unusual about this, jose, is that the justice department has a policy they don't comment on pending investigations, let alone announce them, except in very unusual circumstances. as our

viewers probably know by now, ed martin is a lawyer who defended january 6th rioters who has echoed many of donald trump's false claims about the 2020 election. now he's the acting u.s. attorney in washington, d.c, and he's threatening people who are getting in the way of elon musk. jose. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. up next, we're going to go to new orleans, where the philadelphia eagles will take on the kansas city chiefs this sunday at the super bowl. plus, a celebratory shout out to our admired friend and colleague admired friend and colleague andrea mitchell. covid-19? i'm not waiting. if it's covid, paxlovid. paxlovid is an oral treatment for adults... with mild-to- moderate covid-19

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enforcement officials are beefing up security measures in new orleans ahead of sunday's super bowl showdown. the big easy is hosting the big game, just over a month since the devastating new year's day terror attack on bourbon street killed 14 people. nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson joins us from new orleans. priscilla, good morning. what are what are things looking like there? >> yeah. jose. good morning. a lot of festivities underway here. and as we have been hearing from people who are out and about visiting the city for the game, they say that they feel safe. and i think some of that has to do with what we've been seeing. even as we're walking around. there are tons of police and law enforcement officers out on the street. nearly 3000 of them across federal, local and state agencies, many of them in uniforms, but some of them also not in uniform, patrolling these various areas. and you've also got a lot of barricades that have gone up in many of the areas where there are going to be a lot of people concentrated, including around the convention center where we are, and also

down on bourbon street. we've seen those big dump trucks and also metal barriers down there. and we also know that they've created sort of a safe zone in that area in the french quarter, where they're not going to be allowing any street traffic from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. they're also shutting down the cross streets so that there will just be no way for vehicles to get to some of those areas. so those are a lot of the measures that we're seeing. and of course, the president is also expected to be here on sunday. so you can imagine secret service is also doing their planning and working to assess the situation here. but this is deemed a level one event when it comes to security. and so you have a lot of agencies on the ground here. the governor declared a state of emergency in order to bring in additional resources. and officials here are saying that they are going to be able to guarantee that people are able to have a safe time while also having fun and enjoying the game. jose. >> priscilla thompson, thank you so very much, and i'd like to introduce you, if i could, to one of the survivors of last month's terror attacks in new

orleans, ryan quigley, and his best friend, tiger beck, were in new orleans last month, and then tiger lost his life during that terrorist attack. ryan survived. he was severely injured, but ryan is now getting ready to go back to new orleans. after being invited to the super bowl by the eagles, got a chance to speak with ryan yesterday. it's been 37 days since that tragedy. how are you doing today? >> i'm good. i just got back from physical therapy this morning. i have that four times a week for about 2.5 hours. and, you know, i'm just trying to get 1% better every day physically, which is definitely trending in the right direction. and, you know, i've been surrounded by so much love and support, you know, from family, friends and strangers and, you know, the eagles organization and, you know, everyone that you know, has heard about the news has reached out. and, you know, it's been truly the only thing that's helped us get through this tragedy. and, you know, i'm just

trying to, you know, continue to make my best friend tiger proud. and, you know, i'm trying to do that every day. >> yeah. i mean, let's talk a little bit about tiger and about that what happened that day. that was just i mean, how do you how do you even process that? but but tell me a little bit about tiger and tell me a little bit about about how you go forward. >> yeah. tiger was he was full of life, full of energy. he was one of the most spontaneous people i've ever met in my life. and, you know, my calling after after this horrific act is, is truly just to, you know, show everyone that he was he that he he made everyone feel like that they were his best friend. and, you know, he lived life so full. and, you know, he was my best friend. he was the first guy i met at princeton. we played football together. we worked together. we lived together. you know, we went to the gym together. we went out to eat together. i mean, we spent literally 24 over seven with

each other. and, you know, he always had a smile on his face. and, you know, my calling after all this is just to continue to introduce him to, you know, the rest of the world and try to encourage everyone to live like tiger. and, you know, because you never know. you know, never know when your last breath is going to be. and, you know, at the end of the day, it's, you know, you just you can't take anything for granted and you have to count every blessing. and, you know, that's my that's my one goal is to introduce as many people in this world to, you know, to tiger as i possibly can. >> yeah. and you know this process, right. of grieving but also of, of kind of starting a new, in a way, a life right for you. you know, i know just last week the eagles surprised you with tickets to the super bowl this sunday. ryan just you know, take me to that to that moment. >> yeah. he you know i they invited me i've been an eagles

fan my entire life i mean i grew up right out of the womb had eagles jersey on. and you know to be able to you know they invited us to a divisional game against the rams. and you know to be able to see, you know, tiger sister jenny, her friend and i were invited for, you know, a tour around the facility. we thought it was just going to be a tour. and they surprised us with tickets to the super bowl. and, you know, i promised tiger, you know, also being a huge eagles fan, if we made it this year that i promised him i was going to take him to the game. so for the eagles to, you know, help us, you know, fulfill that promise that i made to tiger and to help us rewrite the story down in new orleans and leave new orleans on a positive note and not not let this evil act win. and, you know, we're kind of taking our power back. and it's it was a tough decision because i said i originally was never going to go back to new orleans. but, you know, we're you know, we're not letting this guy win. and, you know, i just we're going to make sure tiger is there and present every step of the way this upcoming weekend. and i'm super

excited to again, this entire weekend, just to introduce as many people as i can to tiger because, you know, he's a you know, he's truly a special person. and he had so much positive energy throughout life. and, you know, i'm just super excited for it. and i'm very grateful for the eagles to grant us the opportunity to share his story. >> ryan, you're a special guy, man, and i really appreciate you being on all the best to you and continue success. and we're rooting for you. and we certainly support you as you continue on your life. thanks, ryan. >> thanks for having me, guys. go birds. >> and go ryan too. today is the last installment of andrea mitchell reports. after 17 years on msnbc. andrea is going to continue reporting serving our community as chief washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news. but if i could, if you permit me, i just want you to know something. how extraordinary andrea mitchell

is, how diligently, how passionately andrea mitchell takes her responsibility to serve. she's been reporting for more than 47 years. and you know what? no one, no one works harder. no one prepares more. no one cares more than andrea mitchell. her work ethic, her extraordinary depth of experience and intelligence are a gift to our profession. and it is an honor for me to work by her side and to learn from her every single day. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc news saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. and andrea mitchell, thank you for the privilege of a lifetime of service. she's next. >> and right now on andrea mitchell reports president trump's plans to shake up e