that's the way you do it. that's how i got my husband, do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? do you see your own fault in 'lanyway? >> yl hearus exclusively ahead. >> and then a crack in the shutdown show down as the senate will take up two bills, but this as thousands of federal workersf faceancial desperation right now.er >> while youe sleeping another big upset at the australian involving serena williams. >> new orleans saints fans hevolt but could a legal challenge force rams and the

saints to replay the final two minutes of the nfc championship game? >> and the first ever unanimous vote as he c leads thess of 2019 baseball hall of famers. early today starts right now. good to be with you this morning. >> the covington catholic high school student at the center of the controversial viral video is speaking exclusively to nbc news. thechool was closed yesterday due to threats of violence according to astatemen gabe gutierrez is in kentucky with more. >> nick sandman a kentucky student says he wasn't disrespectful when he appeared to confront nathan phillips. he sat down exclusively with savannah guthrie. >> do you feel that you owe anybody anapology? do you see your own flt in anyway? >> as far as standing there, i had every right to do so.

my position is that i was not disrespectful to mr. phillips. i respect him. i'd like toalk to him. i mean, in hindsight, i wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole >> the covingtonh catholic h school students, some wearing make america great again hats were in wd.c. lastk for the march for life. >> at the parade i felt threatened because when we were there and we were in front of them, they surrounded us. >> but after more videos emerged, defenders of the students say thereas a rush to judgment. >> do you think the students did anything wrong? >> no. >> a stude whose parents didn't wantis face shown told nbc affiliate his classmates were using schl chanlts to drown out insults from another group of notestors. identified as black hebrew isra israelites, but the chants continued when phillipser eed

the picture saying he was tryin tointervene. >> there was three people ere. our guys started jumping up and down and clapping acing with them. >> school chants should be in school and this wasn't school. >> native americans protested in covington and even president trump weighed in calling the students symbols of fakeews and how evil it can be. but phillips says the soudents sh accept responsibility for their actions. >> the students should go through some kind of sensitivity training, cultural education of some kind. >> the diocese had initially said that the students could face expulsion. now it says a tarrdty investigation will begin this week. >> all right, gabe gutierrez. thank you. you can see morf savannah's exclusive interview this morning on the "today" show. >> operations are back to normal after a disruption tuesday night. the federalniviation adration told nbc news that arrivals at newark were

temporarily suspended because two drones were detected in northern new jersey. no suspects have been idefified but caught, drone operators can face criminal penalties ande the incident comes just one month aftrones stranded thousands of passengers days before christmas. >> looks like serena williams pursuit of a recor tying 24th grand slam title will have to wait. the u.s.ennis star was knocked out of the australian open after being defeated by pliskova. serenaead 5-1 in the third set on wednesday. she was one point fromct viy. one point away when she appeared to turn her ankle on her first match point. pliskova came back winning six stight games to clench a victory. she will now advance to the semifinals against u.s. open champion 33 days into the government

shutdown and another tinancial bl workers. 800,000 government employees will miss their second paycheck after lawmakers failed to strike a deal by the midnight deadline. tom costello has more on the growing impact. >> a second missed paycheck has many federal workers in crisis mode. >> my land lord made it very clear that i have a week to pay or i'm going to be evicted. >> his situation even more precarious than when we first met a week ago. called back to theirs but without pay and likely to miss a second $1,100 paycheck. he pays $700 a month in rent for himself and his autistic son plus utilities, insurance, medicine, gas for the car and groceries. he has just $350 left ithe bank. >> i live paycheck to paycheck like many other americans do and right now, it's dire need. >> food banks areng fee more and more government workers. on capitol hill, a group of

coast guard families. >> there's a lot of expenses in the coast guard, in the military life and we're happy t do it but we committed ao to pa paycheck. >> 2,500 tsa oleicers f to show up to work on monday, most citing financial hardship. theonger they go without paychecks the higher the absentee re is expected to decline. >> the job itself is stressful but we feel disrespected. it's demeaning. >> the shutdown is shutting down family finances. tom costello, nbcews washington. >> the plight of furloughed federal worrs isn't all falling on deaf ears in d.c. mark warren introduced a new bill to prevent government employees from getting used like pawns in future shutdowns.ng transferunnecessary pain and inflicting damage in the coming years act or justtop stupidity for short, if there's a lapse in fundin the

legislation would renew payment for all aspects of the government. this is not one of the bills up for a vote in the senate tomorrow. for the latest on this, let's get ove to tracie potts joining us from washington d.c. tracy, good morning. still nof signs compromise? >> no, no compromise here but we are goi to see phillip, the first senate votes since this shutdown began 33 days ago. we have two votes coming up hetomorrow, one on president's plan that would exchange protection for a million a dreame refugees for money for his border wall and then the democrats plan will also get a vote. that was not originally the plant but they w to reopen government temporarily for a couple of weeks until february 8th and then deal separately with border security. but here's the thing. both sides need supportrom the other side to get it passed and so the bottom line is both of these plans up for a vote fail. ow are expected to

>> all that needs to happen is our democratic friends agree it's tim to puthe country ahead of politics andote to put the standoff behind us. >> the president had to make a proposal to try to shake things up it was not a good faith proposal. it was not intended to end the n shut >> there's still a lot of finger pointing going on with republicans increasingly inting at house speaker nancy pelosi saying she is the one that's not cooperating with the president. >> as far as we know, is the president still planning to go ahead with the state of the union address last week? >> asoarently remember pelosi disinvited him suggesting that during the shutdown they rescheduledhis from january 29th next week which is when she had originally invited him. the white house said they were moving forward. they were invitep and ad the invitation. the disinvite came lat and they're moving forward with plans to do this on capitol hill but we're also told that white

house speech writers are putting together an alternate plan in case the president ends up delivering h message at a different location. maybe that's still up in the air as well. >> all right, tracie potts, thank you so much. >> one for the history books in cooperstown, new york. mariano rivera became the first player ever to join the baseball hall of fam by unanimous vote. >> i'm calling to tell you that the baseball writers have t elected youo be in the baseball hall of fame. >> i have another piece of news -- yes. >> you are the first-person. >> comes with a stat line almost too good to be true. >> yeah 19 years with the yankees they won five world series. posted 652 saves. that is the most of all time and when he was dialled in, he was unhittable. to put things in perspective, more people haven walked the moon than players who have scored against rivera in the post season, 12-11.

rivera now in a class of his own in the hall of fame and the rest of the 2019 inductees include roy haliday. edgar martinez finally got the call and yankees/oriele tgreat avalanches in recent days in colorado and new mexico left thre people ad. authorities now warning to use extreme caution. miguel has the story. >> moving at speeds of over 100 miles per hour when an avalanche rumbles downhill. >> we saw the skier fight for his life as all the snow starts moving underneath him. >>fter two men w killed in a wave of cascading powder at a ski resort in new mexico last week. another skier lost his life in an avalancheear aspen colorado monday while in the backcountry. across the 8u.s., have been

killed in avalanches this season. >> it doesn't take a ver large avalanche to bury somebody. they can knock somebody off their feet, push them through the trees or push them over a cliff. >> though avalanches are rare, the odds of surviving one like this man did in calornia may be even more remote. the danger most critical after a storm. >> good morning. you're seeing that whole storm front start to m its way to the north here and that heavy snow triggers the avalanches. right now, satellite composite radar, you can see the upper midwest. portions of the midwest, dealing with the wintry mix. there is the dividing line, a little bit o sleet and freezing rain. look at the advisories and winter storm warnings we have in place, out toward chicago and all the way into milwauke storm totals were looking at possibly 3 to 4 inches across

erie p.a. that's the big weather story for today. here's aloser look at your day ahead. >> temperatures, they are definitely cooling off across fargo. we're back in the lower 20s under cloudyskies, but you can see a slight warm up. that makes everybody happy here ross the northeast and mid-atlantic. we're back in the 50s. >> we are tracking another shot air.old seems like we can't get abreak. shocking images of a car crash in pennsylvania. look at esthat. itted in that purple compact car being crushed from ends. it happened tuesday morning. a box truck rear ended the small car that was then sent underneath the suv. here's the good news, although the cars were badlyge da everyone involved walked away. y.ou were not hurt, seri theo. spom goodness. still to come, the suroising

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