>> girring that over here. >> lord. he always up in there. i've just had an opportunity speak with president trump and he, i would say to all my colleagues has indicated he is prepared to sign the bill. he will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same ttime. >> t will happen at 10:00 a.m. eastern in the rose garden, defying the house speaker and also calling for $8 billion to build a wall. this morning there's a new attorney general, william wirr ll officially oversee the mueller investigation. as an fbi insider, y'cos former number two mes explosive new allegations about what happened aer the comey was fired. >> amazon packs up and pulls their plans for a new york hq.

>> police have more questions about what really happened. >> time is rning out for the 1 winner of the billion dollar t lottero claim the biggest prize inck pot history. so who is it? early today starts right now. great being with you on this friday morning. i'm frances rivera. the deal to overt another government shutdown heads to president trump's desk this morning. congress passed the spendingt bill overni with the flick of a pen from house speaker nancy pelosi. the president says he will sign the bill t andn at 10:00 a.m. eastern he is expected to officially declare a nncional emer to help build his border wall. tracie potts joins us with the latest. we confirmed some details about the president's planni ovt. >> exactly. we now have a break down of exactly how the president plans to spend that money. take a lo. he wants to spend $8 billion for this wall.

1.37 from the bill that was passed last night. the budget dea that hes signing. 600 million from a treasuryru department forfeiture fund. another 2.5 billion from a pentagon drug interdiction program, and then 3.5 billion a fr military construction budget within the defense nt depart now, there's push back on both sides of capitol hill including from drats that say this ist an emergency at all. >> you want to talk about a national emergency, let's talk about today, the one year anniversary of anotherio manifest of the epidemic of gun violence in america. that's n aional emergency. why don't you declare that emergency, mr. president? i wish you would. >> speaker pelosi says they're contemplating going to court on this. she argues it's n an emergency because illegal border crossings have actually been going down

for years. on the other side of the ai'll, there's growing worry on the republicans about the fall out from this emergency declaration. >> right. all republicans aren't on board. interestingly mitch mcconnell who has initially oppos it now says he will support it but other republicans think it'sn overreach. that it's bad precedent for the president to set an emergency in an area where it's not clear this is an emergency at all. theye thinking down the road, what if aoc dtic president did the same. >> tracie potts for anus. you. attorney general william barr begins his first full day on the job this morning. he was officially sworn in thursday and now oversees the mueller investigation. it comes amid explosive new claims fro the russiaprobe. the former acting director of the fbi is shedding a har light on president trump in days after the firing of james comey. >> thereay afterdent trump fired fbi director james comey, the man that took over as acting

fbi director, andrew mccabeed op an investigation into whether it amounted to obstruction of justice. that's according to his new book, the threat, coming out next week. he tel 60 minutes he wanted to be sure any investigations involving the president would keep going no matter what. >> i was very concerned that i was able to put theusa case on absolutely sol ground in a fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace. >> mccabe says the president deliberately lies to get what he wants and could never pass a lie tector test at the fbi training nter. if he were on the box at quantico he would break the machine. the day before robert was named special counsel during a meeting at the justice department, deputyy attor general rod rosenstein brought

up the 25th amendment. the jtice department said any such comments were made sarcastically and notseriously. cabe said in his first conversation with the president after comey's firing, mr. trump brought up mccabe's wife that ran for state senate and lost. he quotess the president saying that must have been really tough to lose, to be a lor. in two tweets president trump called mccabe a puppet and disgrace to the fbi. mccabe was f from the fbi last year at the recommendation of senior officials there that accused him of lying about discussions with a reporter. u.s. attorasy inngton is still considering whether to liosecute mccabe for that. now that w barr is attorney general, he takes on the job of ngoverse the robert mueller investigation which appears to be in it's final phase. barr will soon receive the mueller report and he will decide how much of it the a

congre the public are allowed to see. >> pete, thanks.yo ne wasn't the prime location for amazon's new headquaters. the tech giant announced its decision amid growing opposition from staal and loc lawmakers. tom costello has the latest on the fall t. >> the world's biggest company is saying no thanks to the world's financialpi l. amazon had announced it would bring 25,000 jobs to new york's long island city as part of its hq-2 initiative splitting 50,000 jobs with northern virginia. but almost immediately it faced stiff opposition. opposed to the potential impact on traffic, housing, schools, and the financial agreement amazon struck with the city and state. now,hree month later, the company is pulling the plug on it's new york plans. >> it shows that every day h americans stie the power to organize and fight for their communities and they can have more say in this country than the richest man in the world.

>> amazon blames politicians who will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project. among locals, bothnd reg relief. >> this is basically amazon picking up their toys and leaving the sand box. >> this was a revolution for queen's economy. this could have been something outrageoly awesome for us. >> amazon's cancelled order means a loss of 25,000 jobs and billions of dollars in economic impact. >> i think the protestors are gog to realize that while they won the battle they lost the war. >> new york maj bill de blasio says you have to be tough to make it here in new york. he says amazon had an opportunity here but it walked away. for its part, amazon said it will not reopen the discussions about where hq will go, those jobs are still going to northern virginia. you. to >> tom costello, thank you. members of the parkland,loda community came together thursday

to remember the 17 lives taken at marjory stoneman douglas high school one year ago. many schoolsdded new safety measures. gabe gutierrez takes us to one in florida taking an aggressive approach >> this is a combat veteran with a semiautomatic rifle patrolling the school for the artsin h to prevent a. school shooti >> i'm not looking for a fair fight. if anything like that ever happens, i want absolutely overwhelming fire power. i want overwhe odds in our favor. after the parkland, massachusetts, the florida legislature requires everyn schoe statery to have at least onee safe-school officer o protect students from potential shtters. >> i wo make sure that we have the right tool at the right time. >> dr. bill jones is the principal here and decided instead of school resource officers, hanted guards with combat experience. >> for youco it was extremelyt

important these employees have been e shot at before. >> oh, yeah. i have 2,100 kids here. >> at least nine states now allow armed staff members and some consider expanding the use of metal detectors. new jersey, silent panic arms. critics say these rifles go too far. >> what's most disturbing to me is schools are not combat zones. rifles are not needed in that kind of environment. r parents picking up their kids, it's a new reality. >> they're doing ab. good jo safety is first. >> i think that it could be going a bit too far. >> what message does this send to the kids. >> i think they get the point that this is a gun that's here to protect you. >> the first guard began here last fall. a second starts later this month. gbebeierrez nbc news. >> this morning the united stateshe congress iste one closer to dismantling america's ties to racism. the senate unanimously passed

bill thursday to make lynching a federal hate crime. this joint project of senators kamala harris, corey bookercknd cott failed to clear a gop controlled house last congress but it now mov to the house once hagain. harris tweeting she is hopeful ilthe measure swiftly pass. congress has tried and failed to pass anti-lynching laws some 200 times in the past 100 years. a large fire tore through a 5 story new jersey apartment building late last night sending fl ses and smokeoting through the air. officials believe the fire started in the basement and quickly spread upwards. smoke from the raging inferno could be seen for miles. firefighters rescued residents. 48 apartments were considered a total loss and 4paments next door had to be evacuated. threeac volunteer firefighters suffered minor injuries. no word on what started the

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.>> good morning, everyo i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. another government shutdown has been averted. congressd passe bipartisan lill to keephe government open, without al the money trump wanted. >> just ahead, what the president plans ter do l this morning. how about weather? >> one day of mild air

news 4 today starts now. >> congress acts to avohe an government shutdown. hite all eyes are on the house. president trump plans to sign a

bipartisan bill that provides less funding for a border wall than heat wanted. e plans to do to make the up shortfall. good morning, everyone. >> it is friday, february 15th, 2019. it's a bus friday. melissa mollet has the latest on your commute. we begin with chuck bell and a look at your torecast. y will be nice, chuck. >> yes, it is. the weekend still looks awfully cloudy and wet, especially tomorrow. a l ctlence of wet snow tomorrow. the odds of getti an inch of snow in the washington area looy lower t than yesterday. an they didn't look good yesterday. there's the colt front that will bring the winter-like weather in for the weekend. ahead of it, a southwesterly flow. it's bringing a couple of drops of rain. the warmer air is rushing in.e a cou drops around here. nothing heavy on the radar. prince george'scounty, out to