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director of the fbi delivers a one two gut punch to president trump on wiretapping and the election. supreme court with a rough start to hisrmation hearing. new restrictions announced from homeland security on arriving from seven countries. how the fbi cracked the case of tom brady's jerseys. aby spnow. is look relacking? happy yasmin and coast
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plastered as the head o the fbi denounced the wiretapping allegations. >> i have no information that supports the tweets and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. the department of justice has as ike m the same for the department of juic all its comby added his name but not before dropping another nvestigation since last july in meddling in the 2016 election. >> i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our counter intelligence mission is government's efforts to16 presinclties investigating the natussociated with the
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russian ve campaign ands comeythat revelat. nbc's andreaes cey not only saying there's no evinc claiming president obama had ma unilaterally order a no preside >> reporter: add t this isfbi. >> were you engaged inyi. >> try very hard not to engage in any isms including mccarthyism. they wiretappedim oma ridiculous? would you agree? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: and the fbi
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revealing they're investigating possible coordination between the president's campaign and russia's hacking of democrats. a lengthy probe that could lead all the way to the white house. russia's motives? >> putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flip side of that was that hen running against the person he hated. >> reporter: admiral mike rodgers, the tale of two hearings. for democrats it was all about russia and the possible trump campaign connection. >> this was in part an iide job from u.s. persons, willing american accomplices or terribly naive ones or probablyh russian country and ourublins avoiding the topic of russia inst classified information allegedly from current nd intelligence officials, flynn and the russianheory how s
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know a telephone call to an agent of n't have told them. >> reporter: and hacking did not change the vote russia cyber actors c michigan? >> no, i doot e're a foreign intelligence intelligence or out a real time fact c did not influence the accurate? >> potential impact because it's not something we've looked at. >> reporter: after comey's rebuke asking if the president would apologize to president obama? >> we started a hearing.ing. there's a lot of things that aren't being covered in this hearing. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting.
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despite the bombshell news coming out of washington, mr. trump made no mention of the revelations while holding a campaign rally in louisville, kentucky. he remained fixed on health care. >> thursday is our chance to end obamacare and obamacare catastrophe and begin delivering the reforms our people deserve. >> overnight the republicans unveiled changes to that health care plan. those changes incluaccerating t obamacare taxes to 2017 rather than 2018. also giving states more flexibility in how they want to use their medicare program.ion o deal with older health care consumers ages 50 to 64. they could see premiums rise substantially according to the congressional budget office. the changes come hours ahead of thpr capitol hill where he is set to meet
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with conservatives as he and speaker paul rina tempt to pull off a victory when the bill comes before the full house for a vote. however, the president could lock in a big win in supreme court nominee neil the microsc. they're trying to bring down the hammer on the current administration and those same as the first day of hearings got underway. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: with a hug and a kiss from his wife for good he gorsuch comes a year after president obama nominated garland. da leaving the seat open for president trump to fill. >> i am deeply disappointed that it's under these circumstances that we begin our hearings. >> reporter: democrats said gorsuch must stand up for judges
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giving donald trump's tweets about the courts. >> his demeaning and disparaging courts about the shaken the respect of judicial ruling. >> reporter: judge gorsuch vowed to be independent. >> a judge who likes the outcome he reaches is probably a pretty bad judge. >> reporter: some scholars say gorsuch could turn out to be don't think you can expect to get the exact same ideology from neil gorsuch but they're g >> that was pete williams reporting. today homeland security and the tsa will officially announce new rtrictions on electronic devices on some air travelers. the new rules are in response t will specifically apply to passengers flying into the u.s. on certain over seas flights. they will prohibit some devices
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from the flight cabinhe to chec bags. and in a tweet jordanian airlines warned passengers would not be able to carry on laptops, tablets, cameras and other electronics but cell phones and medical devices would be is focd on devices means they must have very specific almost pristine intelligence on the threat. declined to specify the nature of the threat or how long the restrictions will last. heavy rains continue to inundate peru with massive floods and mudslides leaving at least 72 people dead and thousands more homeless. one m alive after he tried to drive through raging waters. his car swept into a ditch shattering his windshield. luckily he was able to climb out. >> it looks like a stun, he flips there, gets swallowed up and put him there. coulav with that windshield gone. back here at home severe
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thunderstorms on the way for tennessee and the west coast. bill karins has our report. >> that was a good leshe water. today we're watching showers in the mid-atlantic region. if you're leaving early today, philadelphia, d.c., towards the brelas. later this afternoon that we're going to pop up isolated severe storms. 8 million people are at risk from near memphis, near nashville, chattanooga and huntsville. wind and hail damage is possible with the tornado threat looking pretty low. the warmth continues in the southern half of the country. unfortunately another arctic to
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scary moments when the driver of a chuck wagon fell at a race at rodeo houston. officials were able to stop the race after the run away wagon narrowly avoided hitting the driver on the ground. the man was take zwroen a hospital for evaluation. leading the news, hundreds of families of 911 victims filed a federal consolidated lawsuit against saudi arabia seeking monetary damages. they claim the saudi government helped pay for its terror attacks through the alleged funding of al qaeda camps as well as transporting money, people and weapons around the world. this was prohibited until congress passed a new law in september. president obama unsuccessfully vetoed the law. people in tennessee are asking the public's help. find kidnapped 15-year-old student who hasn't been seen in a week. elizabeth thomas's picture prior to her disappearance.
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there you see it. in today's quick hits officials in south sudan say a passenger plane hit a fire truck and caught fire while landing in low visibility. amazingly all 49 passengers and crew got out in time. 37 of them were taken to local hospitals. oil could be flowing through the dakota access pipeline this week after a federal appeals court rejected an emergency request by two native american tribes to stop it. the pipeline will carry oil more than 1,000 miles from north dakota to illinois. and a toddler is getting a lot of online attention due to her striking resemblance to ed
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in the fbi's boston office the agency involved because of the international nature of the identified him as aernaonal media. a flagged one of its ownek. a blow to all the honest sports brady's jersey. th. you are going to get caught. >> reviewing locker room protocol sohe shirt. anne thomps york. >> there you have it. >> right? just ahead,ill go to love plus someearance of richar simmons. you don't want to miss it. minutes old. ♪ a baby's skin is never more delicate. ♪
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million dollar heist. this morning thieves dropping in. voters in philadelphia cast and sandusky scandal. former. xpects to give open guilty or not guilty. this is nbc 10 tracey davidson >> i'm vai sikahema. lths get right to bill henley. most accurate forecast in town. see a little green in the radar. >> few spring showers moving through the area. rain showers this morning and this hour. little bit steadier in northern
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delawand chester county and new jersey as well. won't be an all day rainfall and won't be chilly all suburbs jus freezing. delaware 42. philadelphia 40s will warm to s in fact see closer to 60 this afternoon. look at the warmup. low 40s at 9:00. upper 50s this rnorect for each part oaf our area when i come back in ten minutes. don't go anywhere. first jessica boyington will look at your f alert traffic. starting off this morning in plansdale. police activity partially seeing a slowdown there. check in with that to make sure seeing some eastbound delays as also in jj watching a down poll
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right lane of route 130 northbound. and end here oay. looks good so far. westbound towards the schuylkill. we had exclusive video of a jewelry heist philadelphia business. thieves drop through the creo ceiling. the thieves pulled off a pretty elaborate plan. what do the owners have to say. >> reporter: they're not happy. here's the store behindsed d wi for days. it was a mess left inside. upwards of one million dollars stolen. as the burglary happened. two men breaking through the ceiling. one man had a head. one man come
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