breaking overnight. a tornado strikes in florida. details are still coming in to nbc news. we'll hhee latest as record cold temperatures are striking sections of the country from part of the polar vortex that broke away. to an nbc exclusive. kate snow speaks to directly to a number of undocumented workers recently fired from trump owned and managed properties. men oday in court, the two roadt for involvement in a rage incident that reached point? miles an hour will face the judge. race and the onfl. mothe coaches recently fired were black while all of their replacements so far are white. what the nfl has to say about it. plus, the big winners and must-see moments from the s.a.g.

lyawards. "ear today" starts right now. good morning. i'm marlie hall in for frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. officials are confirming that a tornadoriefly touched down in miami-dade county, florida. uge winds were powerful e to topple over a large truck and knock trees to the ground. homes in the area suffered minor damage. as of 10:00 p.m. last night, nearly 800 households across broward and miami-dade counties were without power. severe weather wreaked havoc in south florida causing flight delays a the ft. lauderdale international airport. as of this morning no injuries ngve been reported. florida is expec cooler than average temperaturesed the as the midwest and northeast bracel for record temperatures. let's go now to nbc meteorologist bill karins tracking it all for usmo gooding. >> germany. in many cases, this will be thee coldest since 990s a long time ago. we're seeing an expansion of our watches and war ngs in the area. now kansas city is included. 18 million people at risk of windchills.

an could go as low as 55 in a few spots there in the midwest. and again, t is kind of the warm-up act. then we're going to really to ge by the time we get wednesday. this morning negative 25 in fargo. in the negative chicago to detroit. it's really not all that bad. look what happensuesday morning. fargo negative 51. lacrosse, negative 34. and thenhe coldest for the midwest will be wednesday morning. some spots could be near negative 55. right now we're predicting negative 45 in chicago and negative 51 in madison. ridiculously cold and dangerous. >> unbelievable temperatures. thank you so much, bill. well, cracking down on illegal immigration is a cornerstone of president trump's platform, but now there is new evidence that another one of his golf clubs was eloying undocumented workers, this one just 30 miles outside of manhattan. several forme employees at the trump national golf club in westchester county areoming forward to tell their stories.

speaking exclusively with nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: for 14 years, gabriel sodano worked in building maintenance. >> like painting, plumbing. erything we had to fix there. partment he: in the shares with a wife and three kids, he showed us his uniform andf years pay stubs. maria priego was a seasonal housekeeper at the trump club for three years, both from pula, mexico, they crossed on foot. why did you come here illegally? >> to have a better life. >> reporter: you wanted to work. >> i wanted to work. >> reporter: they both say they presented forged green cards and social security cards when hired. they didn't ask any questions. >> not any questions, no nothing. >> reporter: did anyone at the trump golf club direct you to get false documents? >> no. >> reporter: but gabriel told us he thinks people at the highest levels of the trump organization knew they were hiring undocumentedrs woro save

money, paying low wages and no hinefits. do you they knew at the club that your documents were false? >> that' what i think. because they need employees, and, like, they don't check like really good. >> our jobs are being stripped from our country like we're babies. >> reporter: gabriel says president trump spoke with him during his years at the club and suspects the president also knew there were undocumented workers on staff. >> i cannot b sure about at, but he got to know. >> reporter: you think the president must have known? >> he mt haveknown. >> reporter: we spoke with six former club workers on camera and others who dn't want their faces shown. a dozen sed they were fn january 18th. rgarita cruz recorded her meeting. >> the club must end its employment relationship with you today. >> reporter: in a statement to nbc news, th trump organization's eric trump says we have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strgt hir

processes. if any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law. nated ill be ter immediately. we take this issue very seriously. this is one of the reasons my father is fighting so far for immigration reform. the system is broken. now the workers' attorney is taking some of them to capitol hill to meet with democrats. >> the trump organization is a criminal enterprise. there is a federal crime here, and these people who were fired are material witnesses to a federal crime. >> our thanks to kate snow. thisor morning that ay is calling for a federal and state invehiigation. the house had no comment on the suggestion that the president knew about undocumented workers. the government is back in business this morning. for now. hundreds of thousands of federal employees will return to work today in the wake of the longest shutdown in history. national monuments reopened or the weekend after president trump signed a measure to fund the government but only for three weeks, which means we uld go through all of this all

over again. us s tracie potts joining from d.c. with the latest. tracie, good morning. so the president has threatened to resume then shutdown february 15th if he does not get funding for the wall, correct? >> exactly, phillip. so we've got a three-week reprieve he forhe president and democrats to try to work this out. make no mistake. the wall remains the big issue. the president did what he said he would ndo. he reopened government without a promise to fundhis wall. and the white house says even though he doesn't want to do it, a national emergency still on the table for the pentagon to pay for it. democrats say they've always been for border security. they are willing to talk about some sort of barrier, but it's a lot more than thw. and when these negotiations resume, we don't know. but we do know that one of the esident's closest allies, roger stone,n early campaign adviser, is nowpe saking out about his arrest last week. >> so that show of force whi

cost the american taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars was designed to pick me as public enemy number one, like the og. i'm not el chapo, but they sent more men after bin laden. it's a gespo tactic. it really reeks. >> stone faces seven counts from a federal indictment making false statements to congress to a house committee, witness tampering, and obstruction. he is due in court tomorrow. >>gh all tracie potts joining us from d.c. this morning. you.y, as always, thank suspectmanhunt for a accused of a killing spree in louisiana has come to an end. niauthorities in vir announce the arrest of a 21-year-old man wanted for the murder of his parents and a young woman some say was his girlfriend, although her family strongly denies they were dating. the motive behind the klings remains a mystery. well go now to nbc's fammy leitne the latest. >> reporter: this is the man police believe led them on a

multi-state manhunt following a louisiana shooting spree. >> we do not haveti a mo. >> reporter: and they're now investigating why 21-year-old dakota theriot mightle have k three people. >> i lost my bast brother. i y niece and my nephew. my heart's so pained. >> reporter: the three members of one family. this man, summer earnest was reportedly dating the suspect. her aunt said the family recently met theriot and did not approv >> something was desperately wrong with this boy. >> reporter: but police say theriot's shooting spree did not end there. he then drove to a neighboring county where he allegedly shot and killed his mother and father. >> we was able to get a dying declaration from him and only enough information to let us know it was his son thatco itted this act. >> reporter: a manhunt followed before t friot wasally captured more than one thousand miles away in virginia, but

heartbreak and qns remain. >> i don't want to be here no more. i can't take t pain. >> reporter: as loved ones try to find the why behind this tragedy. tammy leitner, nbc ws. meanwhile, flared tempers led to an extreme case of road rage, and it was all caught on camera. one man clinging to the hood of a car while the driver hit speeds of upes to 70 mn hour. it was all over a sideswipe. police have arrested both men. they're scheduled to appear in and nbc's kathy park has more. >> get off my car! reporter: it's not a movie scene, but real life road rage after a fender-bender, 65-year-oldichard kemrauski jumped on the hood of an suv attempting to leave the ene. the dri speeding up to 70 miles an hour on the busy massachusetts turnpike during >> he kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, try to get me to slide off.

i wasn't getting off the car. >> reporter: he managed to hang on for miles as an onlooker captured the dangerous highway ride. at o point, you see him lookingn dow at his phone, dialing 9 for help. >> kind of like just survival mode. >> reporte the driver finally hit the brakes when goodma ritans blocked him in. onera bystanderng a gun. police arrested the driver, mark with a ld for assault dangerous weapon, among other charges. >> he took my waterottle out of my car. he smashed my window. >> reporr: police also arrested kaauski. he is charged with disorderly conduct. two men on one wild ride that started with a minor crash and ended with major drama. kathy park, n news. >> a wild ride indeed. > that's a lot to risk for really no reason. let's toss to bill. >> let's tryo explahy it's going get so cold. all because of this polar vortex. we've known about the polar

vortex for the last sen ars. it's nothing new. it's a circulation up around the northe. p it expands during the wintertime, and it has some of the brutalest, coldest air on our planet. the circulation that usually contains it keeps ito the north. but occasionally pieces can break off, head to up. >> siberia, or this time north america. a potent petr piece has broken f, heading t the hudson bay. it's going give us some of the coldest temperatures we've seen in 20 to 25 years we've seen in the midwest. that's a look at the igbe ather story of the y. now here is a closer look at your day ahead. this is just a warm-up act. wooer in the ipo numbers. fargo at 2, 78. 6 in minneapolis today. temperatures will be plunging after your show in a lase chicago and grand rapids. in the northeast, the coldest airlor you w be wednesday and thursday. we also have snow to deal with before this. how much, abo coming up. >> thank you so much, bill. we'll check in a bit later. ll quite the commotion in new york after eight boats broke

loose dndach themselves from their cables, thanks to these massive chunks of ice on the hudson river. five barges, one tugboat, one mini barge, and one dinner cruise could be seening floating chaotically down the river. the dinner cruise named captain jpiii thengh got c on a rail rey bridge. no harm was done to the river or the structure of the bridges. >> but their dinner was ruined. ahead, heroic feator comic book movies and nfl questions. some say they have notone enough. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed,

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