it by miles. sentencing day. president trump's one-timeai ca chairman paul manafort will be sentenced to prison today, but that's not all. use your common sense. how stupid would ibe for me to -- with my crazy past and what i've been through oh, right now i just think i need to be a monster and hold girlsgainst eir will, chain them up in my basement. y'all quit playing. quit playing. >> robert. >> i didn't do this stuff. this is notme. >> first the outburst, now r kelly is cooling his heels in a hicago jail at this ver moment. payingd again nor not over $161,000 in back child support. the man with all the answers announces he's facing the

biggest challenge of his life. >> thieek i was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. now normally the pgnosis for this is not very encouraging, but i'm going to fig this and i'm going to keep working. >> and withhis basket lebron james just surpassed the great michael jordan on the nba's all-time scoring list. and what in the world? they say there's an app for everything, but one to help you wag your tail? yup ear"early today" starts right n >> i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. after a bizarre andxplosive interview on cbs, singer r kelly is behind bars again this time for failingldo pay chi support. he owes $161,000. the woman claimed she had sex with kelly in a detroit hotel in 2001 when she was just 13 years

old. detroit police are now investigating. stephanie gosk brings us up to speed. >> reporter: r kelly is in prison for failingo pay child support as a swirl of action h from interview with cbs news. >> i'm a man. i make mistakes but i'm not a devil and by no means am i a monster. >> reporter: three-time grammy winner lashing out angrily when asked about allegations of sexual miscondu. >> i didn't do this stuff. this is not me. i'm fighting for my [ bleep ] life. y'all killing m with this [ bleep ]. i amoing to fight this. [ bleep ]. >> rort. >> i am. y'all trying to kill me. youillingme, man. >> reporter: rumors of sexual abuse and relationships with enage girls have followed r kelly for more than a decade.

with e you ever had sex anyone -- >> no. >> -- under the age of 17. >> no. >> never? >> no. >> have you broken any law when it comes to women? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: last month r kelly pleaded not guilty to ten charges of sexual abuse involving four women, three of them minors. his arres came soon after the release of adocu series, "surviving r kelly." oven women why interviewed accusing him some form of sexual misconduct. >> what i saw on tv this morning about the way he acted when he got upset, i can only imagine what he does behind closed doors. >>ynoyce savage says she wants to live with r. kelly. she calls her f first time in two years. >> i'm very happy. >> how will we know you're happy when we don't hear from you in tw years? >> i have to go now. >> i love you, joyce lynn.

>> i have to go now. >> that was stephanie gosk reporting. former trumpn campa chairman paul manafort will h learnis fate today. a federal judge is scheduled t sentence him from a trial that stole the spotlight back in august. manafort was found guilty on a slew of charges and now faces up to 24 years in a prison well as millions of dollars in fines. for the latest let's get to tts joining from us d.c. this morning. tracie, there is more trouble in store for man no for the next week. >> reporter: exactly. this week he is looking at a maximum of 24 years in the virginia trial. he pleaded guilty in washington. that sentencing is next week. manafort could be looking at another ten years either consecutively or concurrently, that' up to the judge. these are separate charges none of them r tated the trump

campaign. this could amount to a life sentence if he gets m the and consecutive terms. we will begin to find out the reso tion to thattoday. remember he cut a deal but lost it after being accused of witness tampering and lying. meantime, the mueller probe, the russia probe continues. you're looking here at the president and you can see the ivanka trump, his daughter, the white house now refusing to turn over documents about inka trump and her husband jared kushner and how they got security clearances. so we'll continue to watch that but also the big news today that came out of this mueller probe, what is going to be the sentence for former campaign chair paul manafort as he looks at than two dozen years behind bars. >> at 69 years old, that is quite a while. tracy, thank you. another explosive day of testimony onapitol hill for president trump's former attorney. michael cohen spent eight hours

behind closed doors in his fourth dayefore congress in just over a week. cohen reportedly handed over documents to the house intelligence committee that he says supports the claim that thr ident's legal team tweaked his statements to congress in which he lied. nbc's kristen welker has ormore >> repter: michael cohen was supposed to report to prison. instead with his sentence delayed, he was behind closed doors testifying again in front of congress. i'm here to cooperate and willontinue to cooperate so thank you all very much. according to a source familiar with e matter, cohen giving lawyers new documents aimed at backing up his explosive claim last week that the president's lawyers made changes to his previous testimon t aboutt scrapped trump tower project in moscow. >> there were changes made, additions. jay sepalo for one. there were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message, the message of course being the

length of tim that the trump tower prospect stayed and remained alive. >> reporter: nbc news has not reviewed the alleged documents. cohen has pleaded guilty and lying to congress. the president's attorney jay sekulow firing back saying testimony that attorneys edited ment to ed his sta congress to alter the trump tower moscow negotiations is mpletely false. >> reporter: the white house is pointing us back to its previous comment on cohen's testimony saying it is, quote, laughable that anyone would take a l convicter like cohen at his word. >> kristin, thanks. a devastating diagnosis revealed late wednesday by jeopardy host alex trebek. he is battling stage four pancreatic cancer. we get the latest from nbc's anne thompson. ♪ ♪ >> this is pa"jy."

>> reporter: on "jeopardy" he is the man with all answers, but 78-year-old alex trebek sharing devastating news with his millions of fans. >> now just like 50,000 other people in the united states each year, this week i was diagnosed with stage 4 pannceatic er. >> reporter: this means the canceras spread t other parts of trebek's body. only 3% of people with thisdi nosis live more than five years. >> i'm going to fight this and i'm going to keep working. i plan too beat the low survival statistic rates. pat sajak tweets he would never bet against trebek andtr ek himself says he's counting on three more years, the number left on his contract. anne thompson, nbcnews. big changes for facebook. the tech giant which pularized

public sharing announced wednesday it is shifting towards private communication after a series of skantd dals involving user's personal. data mark zuckerberg said it will have a new platform t encrypt messages. . cebook lost 50 million users last ye with over a dozen democratic candidates expected to run in 2020, who will get the nod is anyone's guess at this point but we do know one thing, fox news will not be hosting any of the party's primaryebates citing a new report on the cozy relationsh between fox and the white house, the chairman of the democratic committee said they're not in a pition to do that. a homeless veteran and a new adjersey woman p guilty in federal court after scamming more than 400,00 from donors on go fund me. their scam went viral in 17

after johnny bobbitt jr. posed as a homeless man to give this couple t20ir last so she could buy gas for their car. now they cou face serious jail time. bobbitt is looking at 100 years and mcclure is facing up to 20 years in prison. >> duped a lot of people th 1e. >> that' years there. it is thursday. let's see how it's looking outside. good morning, michelle grossman. >> thursday, friday eve, whichever way you want to look at t. another day for freeze warnings in the south. 's kind of getting a little old. going to be another cold day for many of us. east chill in place. today and also friday before we start to round byhe weekend. 28 degrees in chicago. that is 14 degre below where it is in boston. that's a look at the big weather story today. here's a closer look at your day ahead. still feeling like winter in many spots, but we are slowly

rebounding in the south. temperatures in the s in parts of florida. the big chill is in the northern plains. we're looking at the teens. 13 in bismarck and 20s in of the midwest. so by this weekend we're going to be looking at some snow. we're also looking at weatherity of severe again in the south. something we'll watch closely. >> thank you, michelle. >> you're welcome. when his career is over, lebron james may not have more titles than michael jordan, but heill have more points. lebron just scored his highest number of points. he trails kareem, yoib bryant. the white house flood and the senator and survivor and shocking personal revelation. every day you're nearly fried to a crisp, professionally!

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> good morning. e'm eun yang. >> and h what's going on. a worker rescued from here in washington. more on the cold and windy rescue and how he's doing this morning. it is a freezing cold start. we're

news 4 today starts now. >> right now, keep coat, the gloves, the hat, the scarves, and here's a look at what is going to be another cold

day for us in the region. right now, 25 degrees. it feels colder than that. here we go eain. >> need a blanket. or two. >> i'm eun yang. >> i'm molette green, in for aaron this morning. a heads-up before we get back to the forecast. rockledge elementary is school today. rockledge elementary school is prince george's county. let's get to t forecast. >> chuck bell is here with everything you need to know. another freezing morning. >> what you should do, eun, convert to muslim and get a flannel burqa. temperatures inhe teens and 20s this mning. there's not a