i can't lo threere are dead, 11 inju in what authorities believe was a random terror attack at a popular french christmas market. and this morning police are still searching for the shooter. >> you keep talking about it. >> the last time, chuck, you shut it do you think. >> no, no, no. >> then you opened itery quickly. i don't want to do what you did. >> 20 times you have called for, i will shutdown t government if i don't get my wall. >> i am proud to shutdown the government forr tysecuri, chuck. we'll gained in the senate -- e nancuse me, did we win the senate? we won the senate. >> incredible exchanges inside the oval office over border wall funding. while today we learn the fate of president trump's one time long-time personal attorney when he is sentenced.

>> coast to coast picking up steam bringing with it mountain snow to the pacific northwest, dumping heavy rain across the south. forecasters say there could be flooding in thear colinas and travel diuptions from new england to florida. >> plus a hero cop to e rescue, risking life and limb climbing to the second story to ave a family fro house fire. "early today" starts right now. >> good wednesday morning. i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. a deadly terror attack at a christmas market inrance has left three dead and 11 injured. the streets of strasbourg turn intoandemonium after a gunman unleashed several rounds at the world famous christmas market. sending shoppers running for cove officialsay the 29-year-old suspect was confronted twicey police and was shot before managing to escape. >> france's counterterrorisms unit out in full force with 350 agents hunting for the gunman. the a.p. is reporting that five people hav been detained so far in connection to the case, but the killer is still at large. nbc's ali aruzi is joining us

iom london. ear the gunman was already on a terror watch list. s at more do we know? >> reporter: thaght, phillip. the assailant who was already known to security services as a possible terrorist threat, opened fire on a popular christmas market, killing at least three people and injuring 11 ot now five people are said to be in critical condition after the attack. the attack took placen the ty of strasbourg. it's about 310 miles east of paris on france's border with germany. it's a very popular place at this time of itar. as the largest christmas market in france, and it promotes itself as the capital of christmas. now, according to french authorities,us thect escaped after exchanging gunfire with soldrs and armed police. he is believed to be injured. now, initially some people thought the gunfire was firecrackers, then it was sheer panic when it becam clear what was going on. now, witnesses describe hearing gunshots and screams and shouts, an police telling people to

duck for cover. the city has been in lockdown as there is a massive manhunt underway to try and find the assailant. police haven't -- police have named him, bute are notaming him as of yet until we have fula confirmati paris is in illl, full terror alert mode right now u they can find the suspect. guys? >> let's hope it happens in very short order. ali, thank you. >> breaking news out of london, it could make this british prime minister theresa ma ds last in office. conservative party lawmakers say they have reached t theeshold to trigger a vote of confidence in the british house o v common. the will be held today between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. local time. mamakers have been angered over may's handling of brexit. if they vote noconfidence, may could step down or fight in a new election. but if she wins, she can't be challenged ain for one year. >> president trump's former personal attorney is scheduled fortencing today in a new york federal court.

ychael cohen pleaded guilty earlier thisr to charges, including campaign finance and business crimes as s lying to congress. the campaign finance violations are related to hush money payments made to two women ahead of the 2016 election. a move federal prosecutors say was directed mr. trump. for more on today's courtroom fireworks, let's get to nbc's tracie potts in d.c. tracie, thedyresident is alr weighing in on the cohen case. >> reporter: well, he certainly is, because in those guilty pleas, cohen implicated the president sayin that he directed those hush money payments. president trump has pushed back on that, but today is decision day for the president's long-time personal attorney. as you noted,e has n pleaded guilty to millions of dollars in fraud, tax fraud, bank fraud, nx evasion in his personal and business dealings, to mention arranging those hush money payments that you talked about. so, separate from all of that, the russia investigation.

obecial counselt mueller says he lied to the feds. today, decision day for michael cohen, with president trump possiby impacted all of this. here's the president's reaction. in an interview with reutersbo talking michael cohen, president trump said, michael cohen is a lawyer.e i ass he would know what he's doing. going on to say that, number one, it wasn't a campaign contribution -- talking about those hushoney payments. if it were, it's only civil, and there it's only civil, was no violation based on what we did, ay. so today, the question, what type of jail time will michael cohen get? he's asked f none, b the issue right now seems to be how much he's going to get. prosecutors recommending a substantial term. phillip? >> he's cooperating hoping for leniency. see what he gets. tracie, tha you. >> president trump has drawn a line in the battle over the border wal a heated meeting with top

threatened a shutdown if he doesn't get money elr his campaign promise. nancyi and senate minority leader chuck schumer both pushe back on the idea of a shutdown. nbc's peter alexander has more on the explosive meeting. >> reporter: the preview of what divided government und president trump looks like. >> nancy, nancy -- >> reporter: an unprecedented display of drama of disagreement in the white house with cameras rolling. >> you keep talking about t. >> the last time, chucou shut it down. >> no, no, no. 20 times -- >> i don't want to do wt you did. >> chuck -- >> 20 times you called for i will shutdown the government if i don't get my wall. >> reporter: chuck sch and nancy pelosi clashg with the government for his demand for $5 billion to build a border wall. that same wall the president promised mexico would pay for. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico. >> who? >> mexico. >> the experts you can do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and does president solve t problem.

>> it totally solves the problem. eporter: president trump even endorsing a partial government shutdown at the end of next week if he doesn'tet his way. >> and i am proud, and i'll tell you what. >> we disagree. >> i am proud to shutdown the security,t for border chuck. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for ite the last tou shut it down, it didn't work. i will take the mantle of shutting down and i'm goi to shut it down for border security. >> it shouldn't be shutdown. >> reporter: the markets immediately taking a hit. a shutdown would impact the department of homeland security and other agencies, temporily tting about 600,000 federal employees out of work. th three sparring over the takeaway from the midterms. >> we gained in the senate.ne nancy, we've g in the senate. excuse me. did we win the senate? we won the senate. ak when the president brags that he won northa and indiana, he's in real trouble. >> i did. >> rorter: with mike pence sitting there silent and the democrats clearly exasperated- >> mr. president, please don't

characterize the strength that i bring to this meeting. >> reporter:he president repeatedly misstated the facts. >> tremendous amounts of wall have already been >> reporter: in fact, very little new wall has been built, hasn'tgress still approved funding for any of the eight prot the trump administration is considering. hours later, the president surreal his spin on the scene. >> believe it or not, i think it was a very friendly meeting. you saw the beginnings ofit. it actually worked out to be i think pretty good. >> reporter: but democrats viewed it differently. >> this temper tantrum that he seems to thr will not g him his wall. >> reporter: behind closed doors late tuesday, nancy pelosi colorfully characterized her conversation with the presiden saying, according to a democratic aide, president trump's insistence on a border wall is, quote, likean aod thing for him, as if manhood could ever be associated with him. that's the latest from here. frances, back to you. >> all right, eter alexande thank you. >> the president's son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner is back in the news, granting a

rare interview to fox. butn' it's what he d say about the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi that is making headlines. nbc's hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: jared kushner on the side lines, but making a re move into the spotlight on fox news. side stepping a question about the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. >> i think our intelligence agencies are making their nd assessments ae are hoping to make sure that there's justice brought where that should be. >> reporter: nention by kushner of the saudi crown prince, even though the c.i.a. has already concluded he ordered the murder. with new questions now about kushner's close relationship with prince mohammed bin salman who has denied involvement. >> i don't know about that relationship in particular, but i think a c of us arecerned about the administration's relationship andss unwilling to call him on the carpet. >> reporter: kushner, the president's son-in-law and seniorr, advias been texting with the man he casually calls mohammed, according to "the new york times." and ay national secur council official confirms the two men have maintained contact since

khashoggi's murder. kushner arguing the president should not jeopardize the broader goals in the region like a possible mid east peace deal by alienating the saudis. outgoing ambassado nikki haley sitting down with nbc's craig melvin. >> i think we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone this. we won't giv you a pass, and don't do this again. and then i think that the h administratione to talk about where we go from here. >> reporter: khashoggi, whork for the "washington post" is now being honored by time magazine as one of its people of e year for his work defending a free press. >> this is the first time we've evero chosen someone longer alive as person of the year, but it's also very rare that a person's influence grows so immensely in death. >> reporter: as for kushner, one of his biggest policy priorities has been work on a criminal justice reform bill, one that is expected to ha pretty broad bipartisan support.

leaders plan t take that up by the end of the year. if it passes it will bkuone of ner's biggest wins in this administration. phillip, back to you. >> hallie, thank you. >> a large rainstorm is expected thischeek w will cause travel delays from the southeast to the mid-atlantic. let's turn now tonbc's meteorologist bill karins to tell us more about that. good morning, ibm. >> good morning. on top of all that we still have snow that has to melt and moderate to minor river flooding in the carolinas, too. heavy rain friday right through the mid-atlantic. that's when the heaviest rain will be over the mid-atlantic as we have theuge stor friday night into saturday, the heavy rain from d.c. t york, you'll wake up to rain early saturday morning in connecticut, massachusetts, rhode island, then during the day on saturda it's a little bit lighter and scattered in the southeast. how much rain are we talking about? e areas of red are up to 2 to 3 inches of rain. that's from tallahasseeight up e east coast. so again, minor problems with flooding, but a lot of problems in the airways as far as travel delays. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead.

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millions, police are still working to track down the shmter. f fixer to behind bars. campaign financecrime. "news 4 today" starts right now. it is 4:00 a.m. good evrning, ybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thank you for joining us this morning. no snow chances. two school systems dealing with snow.as s are closed in spotsylvania and king george county on a two-hour delay. >> for everybody else, we're tracking what you need to know for your wednesday. melissa mollet has her eyes on the ecommute. >>egin with chuck bell and the cold forecast. are we going to see a warmup? >> well, eun,e will s a bit of a warmup. don't plan on balmy 70 degree