breaking overnight, an amtrak train with some people stranded in heavy snow since sunday. when will they be rescued? e'll talk to one of passengers. >> police in florida revealing intimate details as they issuea arrest warrant for billionaire bob kraft, owner of the new england patriots. officially charged with soliciting prostitution. >> after a long trainride, north korea's kim jong-un pulls into vietnam for an official stateha visit twill culminate in a summit with president trump who is scheduled to land in a w hours. >> singer and producer r. kelly is finally out of jail on bond after pleading not guilty to sex abusehaes. >> and jon stewart goes in to tslp 9/11 first responders.

"early today" stight now. >> good morning. i'm marlie hall. >> good to be with you. .i'm frances rive breaking news in the northwest. stranded for over 30 urs, a winter storm that snarled roadways in western oregon has also trapped over 180 passengers aboard a train.li stt 11 was traveling near oak ridge when it struck a tree causing it to stop dead its tracks. nobody was hurt but due to worsening conditions, the train has been trapped there since sunday evening. passengers were headed to klammath falls. clear the orking t roads and get passengers off the train, but the situation is growing tire with resources running low for the dozens of people on board. joining me now on the phone ise those passengers, carley bigby. carley,ou've been trapped on the train for over 30 hours. i can't imagine what that's been like. so tell us what's been the worst of it. >> um, i think the worst of it as been the lack of communication that has happened

with amtrak to the people who train.the a lot of the information we've been finding out has been through news articles that we'vn found social media. not even announced over the train. >>ow are you guys dealing with food? are there enough resources there when it comes to that? understand that there's some young kids there as well, some people with health issues? >> um, so the food, the snack car is officially out, so the breakfast and d ner car is offered first to the people who are in the sleeper cars, and en offered to business class and then the left overs to and so as of right now, i think that we have the last mealt, tonihich is a light dinner with rice. but, yeah, kids -- kids aren't really eating what's being offered and so it's a l of snacking stuff and people combining their little meals together. >> i can't imagine the patience there in that running thin for some of the passengers.

carley, talk to me about how everyone isdeal, how you're dealing with it. is everyone pretty much being paent about this? >> yeah, i mean for the most part, there's just nos. answ so i think everybody is kind of anxious about not having any answs that are given. i'm a teacher in klammath falls, oregd at p rosa middle school. it's frustrating not knong en i'll be able to get back to my classroom or back to work. i feel like a lot of peoplave expressed that. it's the lack of communication. we don't even know how to communicate with our families or even with our jobs. >> when you say that very d quicklyou mean that you can't make calls out to them as far as reaching out to people who need informed? >> yeah. the only service provider that actually is really working is verizon. but just because amtrak hasn't really informed us on where we're going to be going. >> carly, i hope that changes for you and you get hugs from

your students. carly bigby, thank you for your time. >> tou. >> breaking news, north korean leader kim jong-un has in vietnam ahead of his second summit with president trump where two leaders will continue denuclearization talks that began last summer. as the north korean motorcade made its way to the malia etel, hite house press core was abruptly ordered out of their wdicatedk space there. for the latest let's go now to bill neely who is in hanoi. bi, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, marlie. this must be the longest journey made by any leader to any summit in recent history. 2 1/2 thousand miles by train, and then by ck it t 2 1/2 days, but kim jong-un is finally here in hanoi, relaxing at his hotel about half a mile from here. and as you say, unusually, the white house pressrps was ordered out of the hotel. they had no idea kim jong-un was going to staythere, but they were told very severely by

vietnamese officialso get out now, and they've been relocated to the international media icenter. so k at his hotel relaxing. we expect that atome point he will come onto the streets hereof han ere of hanoi as he did in hanoi, for a walk about. president trumpl wrive in five hours' time. interestingly, when kim jong-un arrived, we saw the same 12 black-suited body guards that we saw in singapore jogging alongside his mercedes-benz limousine before they got into their own cay,. and as i drove the 105 miles to hanoi. president trump will arrive here. he'll be greeted by the vietnamese president. he'll relax at his hotel. he'll have lunch tomorrow with the v tnamese primeminister. and tomorrow evening there will be, according to sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, a brief one-on-one conversation between the president and kim

jong-un before they sit down tor a dintogether. that dinner will also be attended by mike pompeo, the secretary of state, mick hi mulvaney, the of staff, and by two people from north korea, probably kim's sister and his spy chief general kim. that will be tom night and then on thursday, the main summit where t stakes a high, but expectations it has to be said are pretty low. back to you.ou >> bill, thank >> and while the president is in vietnam, his former attorney is in the hot seat on capitol hill. michael cohen will kickoff three days of testimony before congress in just hours. questionre about russia off the table in tomorrow's public hearing before the house oversight committeot but that's the case for today's behind closed doors ppearance with the senate intelligence committee. nbc's susan mcinhe is joins us now from d.c. with more on what we can expected to. susan,>>ood morning. eporter: hey, frances, good morning. lawmakers will have a lot of questions for michael cohen, including why he provided false

testimony during an earlier appearance at the committee. they'll want to know more potential information he has regardingis cooperation of obstruction, collusion, the hotel meeting so famous. during the time he was running for president and was making ov overtures toward russia. he will try to paint cohen as a liar and not credible witness. special counsel rober mller russia report is due out any day. we had a comment ahead of the report from rodosenstein who seems to be dampening expectations about the report. >> the guidance i gave my prosecors and agents i worked with during my tenure on the front lines of law enforcement, if we aren't prepared to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt in coot, we have business making allegations against american citizens. >> reporter: also today, the house is voting on a resolution to block president trump's

emergency decration to build that wall at the southern border. that is expected to pass the house, possibly pass theenate and die at the president's desk where he is supposed to iue his very first veto, frances, and it will end up in the courts. ll watch from here as the president is insu hanoi. n, thank you. >> the owner of the new england patriots has been charged with two counts o soliciting prostitution at a spa in jupiter, florida. robert kraft is one of many people caught in a prosecution i sting several counties in florida. the timing of one of the alleget inci on the very morning of the patriots' afc championshi. ga here with the latest is nbc's kerrepsanders. >> rorter: new england patriot's robt kraft joined by tom brady, kraft returning from los angeles after being spott by tmz sports at a pre-oscars party. meantime in florida, an arrest warrant was issued for the

77-year-old, charging kraft with two counts of soliciting anoer commit prostitution. if convicted, the billionaire, along with two dozen others who were part of this takedown, could be sentenced to yr in jail. officials releasing graph details of kraft's alleged sexual encounters at the massage parlor, one on the same day as the afc championship. on friday, a spokesman for kraft said, we categorically deny that mr. kraft engaged in any illegal activity the nfl released a new statement promising to handle the allegation in the would handle any issue under the league's personal conduct policy. >> are the clients unwittingly supporting the possibility of human trafficking? >> the alleged johns are enabling this criminal c to occur of human trafficking. >>ey are fueling it with their dollars. his is not about lonely old men or victimless crimes. this is about enabling a network of criminals to traffic women

into our country for forced labor and sex. >> reporter: prosecutoco ident in their case that they say has disturbing video evidence highlighting a serious problem. kerry sanders, nbc news, palm florida.nty, >> singer r. kelly walked out of of a chicago jail afterhi posti $100,000 bail. the r & b ledge end pleaded not guil to charges h allegedly sexually abused four victims, three of them uer age. nbc's ron mott is following the story for >> reporter: a wild scene outside the cook county courthouse and jail facility, walkingnger r. kelly out before a crush of media. he appeared in an orange f jump sum jail, pleaded not guilty to ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse involving four women, three of themth minors whe state contends he had sexual contact with them ranging from 1998 to 2010. r. kelly has long defended himself against highs accusations for the past 20

years. michael avenatti who says he's representing two of the alleged victims, said he turnedhe over an video to prosecutors that alleges to show r. kelly in sexual contact with a 14-year-old. as part of the conditions of his release, r. kelly was ordered to forfeit his passport. the judge also ordered him to have no contact with anyone under the agef 18 or with any e. the witnesses or the alleged victims in this c he's due back in court on march 22nd. pl frances? >> ron mott for us. thank you. >> many people are hoping for warmer dryer weather. in clarksville, tennessee, relentless rains turned this baseball field into a lake. several schoo in the state are still closed today due to severe flooding. tennessee has reported three recent weather related deaths. meanwhile, in minnesota hundrs of ice fishermen were left stranded after heavy drifting snow covered the access roads to lakeiddle axe. fortunately the department of natural resources says everyone who needed t get back to shore

made it safely last night. >> and here we go, because it's not over yre. s nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> a little mini snowstorm comi your wa we're going to start in areas of ting a in, bismarck g coating of snow. a the evening rush hour, a coating, not a big deal. it will get stronger as we go into wednesdmorning, then the snow will move into areas of new york state as we go through wednesday afternoon and evening. that's when it could be heavier. we could have enoughor accumulation plowing. as far as the snowfall forecast, when you get into blue colorth 's 2 to 3 inches of snow. north of minneapolis, green bay milwaukee to that, included into that, grand rapids, detroit possibly one or 2 inch. westerew york state, a lot of people will have 3 to 4 inches of snow. wednesday evening we could get a little coating of snow in aewas ofengland. so just be prepared. maybe some minor travel delays. that's a look at tor big weather of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, it's plenty cold enough, the snow. no doubt about that.

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morning. i'm aaron a gilchrist. i'm eun yang. >> human remains in a bag. >> the bus that stopped by quickly became a crime scene. we're taking you there as investigators figure out what happened. good morning, everybody. monday off to a nice, quiet start. it will stay that w for the next couple days before we turn the calendar a

news 4 today starts now. >> good morning, everyone. i'm eun yang. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. about 4:00 a.m. now. thanks for joining us. a wild monday weather-wise. strong winds blew acss the region all day yesterday,

knocking down trees, taking down power lines. this is the case in tenleytown. is was near the whole foods there. >> our melissa mollet was standing by with check on the roads. ck bell's start with c and what we can expect today. >> good morning. apparently, it not monday. i thought it was monday a second ago. it's probably i left my watch at home. i always weara a watch and a result, i feel completely disoriented. 39 degrees in washington. the wind, nowhere near as much of a factor as it was yesterday. temperatures are below freezing for most of the suburb only downtown locations and right around the bay are freezing. 26 in montgomery county. 24 in warrington. 27 inwinchester. a typically cold february morning for ityou. ill stay on the chilly