late sunday evening, the secretary of homeland security abruptly resigns. why was the president soed frustrat and what does it mean for u.s. immigratioolicy? >> a shooting spree over the weekend in chicago, 24 shots in 30 hours, including three children under 13 years ofge >> freed, the american kidnapped at gunpoint and htad h five days while on safari in uganda has been released. did a ransom lead to her freedom? >> a investigation into three historically black churches that were set on fire in the same south louisiana parish in just ten days. >> in a thrilling final the lady bears at baylor university are your ncaa natnal champions.

erlts starts now. good monday morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'mli mhall. a major shake up at the white house this morning amid the battle over border security.ki rstjen nielsen is resigning as secretary of homeland security, but will stay on the j through wednesday. the president announced nielsen's departure over twitter as well as her interim replacement. nbc's tracie potts has more. good morntrg, ie. >> reporter: good morning, marlie. it is breaking news overnight with a response from nielsen about staying on for a couple more days after the president said she was resigning immediately. you mentioned her replacement. that will be kevin mcillean, president of c and poureder patrol. that is significant because it seems to be the issue border that caused the president to ask nielsen for her eresignation. resident reportedly frustrated over the number of migrant families crossing the border. now, she steps down just days after standing with president trump at the border in ca lexico

talking about the portions of the wall that had built there. but this growing frustration been building over migrant families approaching andte ng the united states. so nielsen will step down and that creates a full holes in the department of homeland desecuri. crats saying what's going on here with the number one stepping down. no deput inplace. now moving up customs and bordeo patrols, commir creating an opening there. president trump recentlyulled a nominee for the department of homeland securi, sohere is quite a shake up going on in that department rigow with its head changing as of yesterday. >> all right, tracie, thank you. >> meanwhile, the stage is set for a major showdown on capitol hill this week betweenoness and president trump. democrats want six years of the president'sax returns turne over by wednesday, and the full

mueller report released without rens from attorney general william barr. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more on what to expect. >> reporter: count down to tax y. not the usual april 15th deadline, but this wednesday, when house democrats demand irs turnover six years of president trump's tax retur >> is that all? >> reporter: a curt response from the white house. >> no, never. nor should they. >> reporter: acting chief of staff mick muaney called it a nonstarter. >> voters knew the president could have given his tax returns. they knew he didn't and they elected him anyway which is of coursehat drives the democrats crazy. >> i've been under audit many years because t numbers are big. >> reporter: house democrats argue that proper oversight allowsohem review how the irs is auditing the president's returns. >> this is a president who has resisted any oversight or inquiry into his affairs, and so i think the chairman of ways and ans has every right to determine is the irs following its own policy and protocols.

>> reporter: the other big deadline? the mueller report. team trumps say attorney general barr should release as much as legallysible. >> no republican is pushing back n full disclosure of the report. i haven't heard any republican -- >> reporter: but democrats insist the ttorney general review should not remove classified, sensitive, or grand jury information from the nearly 400-page fussia probedings. >> congress has a right to the entire report without redactions whatsoever so we can what's there. >> reporter: the window for congress and by extension the public to getome acces to the mueller report is fast approaching.ne the attorney l pledged to make portions of the report available by mid april, and congress is holding out an already approved subpoena as a stick if necessary. frances? >> a o right, kellyonnell for us. kelly, thank you. >> now to the latest in the 2020 race, indiana mayor pete buttiegieg got very perj a personal about his struggle to

come to terms with his sexual orientation as h prepares to run as the first openly gay candidate for president. for more on this we go to hac's ns nichols. >> reporter: for the first time mayor pete buttiegieg described in deeply personal terms a kind of internal war. one that the 37-year-old was only able t a winer he came home from serving in afghanistan. >> when i was younger, i would have done anything to not be gay. if you had offered me a pill to make me straight, i would have you had timebefore to give me a sip of water. if you had shown me exactly what it was inside me that made me gay, i i would have cutt out with a knife. >> reporter: but h o wentto thank god there was no pill, no knife. thue scholar didn't come out to his parents until he was 33 and his constituents in 2015. the next year he won with 80%.

68% of voters were comfortable with a gay presidential candidate. in some iowa polls he's at%. he seemed to take aimt mike pence saying anyone who had a problem with who he was actually has a problem with his creator. >> hans, thank >> after five days in captivity, an american tourist is safe again released after she was kidnapped by armed gun men after going on safari in uganda last esday. nbc's sarah harman has the latest. over.orter: her ordeal is days after kimberly's dream vacation to uganda turned into a nightmare. the woman from orange county, california, and her local guide wereur ambushedg a game drive through a national park. the suspects usede her cell ph to call her family and demand a half million dollars ransom. according to a ugandan security official, she and the gui both safe and in good health. rescued near the park's border

of the democratic of the congo. wild frontiers paid a ransom for their release. nbc news has not independently verified this. u.s. government policy is to never pay ransom for hostages, but that doesn't always stop omilies oranizations from doing sote prily. secretary of state mike pompeo defended the no-payoly. >> please remember that any payment to a terrorist or terrorist regime gives money so they can seize more of our people. we cannot accept that risk. us. wouldn't ask that of ilen a small payment to a greep to facilitate theng of tens or even hundreds of others, including americans or foreign nationals in that region. >> rep welcomed their release with a tweet, but offered no more details. she and her driver are still in uganda being interviewed by police about their ordeal. while there w nod about those who kidnapped them. sarah harman, nbc news, london.

>> a rash of weekend gun violence terrorizes neighborhoods across the country. the chicago tribune reporting 24 people were shot in a little over 24 hours.eo foure were killed and at least 26 were injured in separate shootings this weekend. on the city's south side, bullets rained down on a baby shower after two gun men opened fire in a crowd of people. six people were shot, including a 10-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy. meanwhil in shreveport, louisiana, four people were shot in a mobile home. the have i can timz wers a 10 to 19. police say a gunman shot into a trler, injuring three females . and one male they were taken to the hospital. police are still searching for thect sus and in wilmington, delaware, people were sitting on their n stoops w gunshots rang out. six people were injured at the intersection of 10t and pine street. police there are investigating the cause of the incident. >> dramatic video of a drunk driver slamming into a chicago

police cruiser. cbd shared the surveillance. blowing through the red light and crashing into the scee of the posuv. that suv as you can see there goes airborne. the driver's blood alcohol content was .205. that i 2 1/2 times the legal limit. the officers were not seriously hurt, but t other driver did sustain injuries. >> the women's ncaa women's championship game had one of the most fantastic finishes in recent history. >> jackson richards, dran dram, brown and person for the championship. it's jackson. on the drive for the lead! got it t go! >>oe notre dame ds get the chance to tie it up,ut the hero from last year's championship, erica, misses the first frhrow. that seals the deal for baylor. the lady bears win the retch from the 2012 national championship game.e >> just beat the defending

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all coming in that region. >> good morning once again. grape land, the baseball size hail would have smashed windshield. let's move to the northeast. they're watching rain moving through. i have to point out northern new england it has a reputation for spring to be very ugly. it living u to that today. snow is breaking out in areas of maine. not only is it going to snow, it's going to be heavynow in areas of maine. we're going to clear out many areas of the northeast.if ou're south new york city south ward >> phil: feel like summer, very humid and very warm. onceou get from boston northward, it' going to chilly and cold. we even have another storm that's going to come in on tuesday. snowfall amounts in maine, this is not just little snow. that's 6 to 12 inches. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. look at the temperature differential today. we could be near 80 degrees in philadelphia. at the same time in maine it's going to be in the low 30s. that's pretty extreme. tloit the southeast we're going to be watching thunderstorms today and even the threat of severe storms.

coming up we're going to talk more snow. we're talking about a blizzard in the plains, some people are going to get nailed. >> we have to kee all the coats out, the heavy coat, raincoat, lighter coa>> losets full. >> bill, thank you. two sisters in arkansas got a sweet surprise from their father deployed for a year. joshua coal ber supplied his bdaughters in greenriar, arkansas. he spent the past ten months in east africa. so the school set up the b surprise pretending to hold an assembly for attendance. the reunion, of course, absolutely priceless. >> well, coming up, prince william just returne from a three week secret mission. new details ahead. aen three predominantly black churches in the saa set ablaze. you see me. but if you saw me before cosentyx... ♪ was covered. it was awfu but i didn't give up. i kept fighting. i got clear skin with cosentyx.

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the crash and are in stable conditioth the cause o accident is under investigation. >> now to louisiana where over the past ten days, officials say suspicious fires have engulfed three churches in the same rural parish. for more on how this is impacting their community, we go to nbc tammy leitner. >> reporter: pastor gerald's two sanity's congregation is visi visiting. >> what's done in the dark will be brought to the light. >> reporter: their church was destroyed. >> why? why would they do that? >> reporter: his is the third black baptist church to burn in ten ds in the s south losiana parish. a rural area where religion is present in most homes. >> the community is connected. we all belong to the same history. we all know eachther. >> reporter: shamika mallet is

searching for answers. do you think this could be racially motivated? >> yes. i think it has to do with race. >> reporter: her family has been attending saint mary's baptist for generation. her mother and grandmother are buried in the back. a authoritien't calling it arson yet, but say they found suspicious elements at each fire. >> we do believe that crimes have occurred. we believe that thehree fires obviously are not coincidence tal. they are related. >> reporter: there's a longy histf black churches being targeted in the south. pastortoussant says he believes something good will rise from these ashes. >> this causeds to call each other more than we ever called each other. this caused us to talk to each other more than ever talked to each other. >> reporter: he says the buildi is gone, but thurch is still alive. pastor ussant says he plans to rebuild bigger and better and the other two pastors say theya planning to start over.

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