joining us now is bobby wilson and her mother, monique. hi, you guys! >> hi. >> oh my gosh! ll going down in october. i swear i was stomping on the things left and right. i thought isn't there a solution for this? because you have one. al now honoring you. i wanna remind folks what yale said about you. it is so freaking cool. it's ezekiel doesn't normally do anything like this. this is something unique to bobbi. we wanted to show her bravery and how inspiring she is. we want to make sure she continues to feel honored and loved by the yale community. bobbi, how did you feel when you found out that you wanted on a like this? >> i don't think it was real if i. i was so excited. >> you are excited? >> what about you, mom? >> i was speechless! i automatically knew what it man. it just reconfirmed, for me, that bobbi really is a scientist. i was excited, like bobbi said, and proud. >> bobbi, why did you want to stomp out these lanternflies? what got me motivated, initially, to try to find a solution? >> well, i owe a cease to find them on my shoulder or my shoes. i didn't really, l

. >> 9-year-old bobbie wilson is making headlines after she was wrongfully profiled while attempting to spray invasive lantern flies in new jersey and now yale university is honoring her. last october she set out on a mission to get rid of the lantern flies with her homemade bug spray in her hometown. her efforts were cut short when one of her neighbors reported her to police. that incident went viral and caught the attention of an assistant professor at yale. >> immediately i saw the video, i took it personally not only as a new jersey native or black woman, but as somebody who does this work. >> bobbie was invited to the campus and honored for her environmental work. her collection was inducted into the peabody museum making the fourth grader now an official donor scientist. >>> trending this morning, snl announcing the next round of hosts and musical guests. among them is travis kelce, fresh off a super bowl win. his teammate patrick mahomes, celebrated with a trip to disneyland. kelsey is celebrating with a trip to snl. he's set to host on march 4th. the following week will be je

. >> nine-year-old bobby wilson is an environmental enthusiast.er hometown of new jersey. >> i saw a lot of posters, if you see this animal, stop it. >> the state of new jersey has a campaign called stamp it out. which encourages residents to kill the invasive species if they spot them. bobby learned about the campaign and school and went out to help with her own homemade bug spray. >> i had my paper that i would write on it to show how many i saw. after i sprayed, how many were left? >> bobbies efforts were cut short when her neighbor reported her to the police. >> there is a little black woman walking and sprained stuff on the sidewalks and trees. >> bobby's mother says what began as innocent fund quickly turned into something much more serious when the police officer told her why he was called. >> how did the events unfold for you that day? what were you feeling? >> i it took my breath away. i was immediately in tears. >> the neighbor's lawyer didn't give a comment to nbc news but told cnn his client has apologized. >> monique took to her local

i'm going to talk to nine-year-old bobby wilson, her research on bugs caused a neighbor to call the cops on her but that incident has not led to a major honor for the scientists. a conversation you will not want to miss. we begin off the coast of south carolina, where navy divers are retrieving what remains of that chinese spy balloon after being shot down by an air force fighter jet. we are also confirming that this is not the first time it has happened in u.s. airspace. a senior defense official telling nbc news at least three times during the trump administration, balloons from china were spotted. one other time at the beginning of the biden administration. joining me now is nbc's -- and nbc national security -- george, let me start with you on this one. from your vantage point, what can you see? what are you learning on the ground? >> good afternoon, yasmin. i can tell you that if this was the weather that it was like yesterday, you would not have been able to see anything. that is the top of this town. the minute i got to town, people were talking about the photos and images they we

when you think about nine year old bobby wilson, who i was just honored by yale, she is in fourth grade she was a budding scientist. looking at the lanternflies that were in her neighborhood, we are lucky we are not saying her name as a hashtag. instead, we are celebrating her. so the black girl freedom fund in the black girl freedom week is about really interrupting and changing the narrative it develops sitting up, black in innovation grows joy and cultural -- bring to a society. >> that is such an important point to make because there's a lot of energy around those attributes and yet we don't see that kind of support out there, at least we haven't in the past which makes this so important so doctor couvson, how close are you to begin to reach this one billion dollar goal and how will that money be distributed? >> so, we are very close to mobilizing, i would say, toward the goal of reaching our yearly benchmarks for this project. it is important to note that because we are operating from a standpoint of abundance, and operating from the realization that we would be working to mobilize

last october a police officer approached and questioned bobby wilson of caldwell, new jersey, spraying. someone called and said there was a little black woman spraying trees and it scared him. after learning of the incident, the yale school of public health decided to honor bobby in a ceremony last month for her efforts to curb the invasive species. the peabody museum of natural history at yale, in a rare move, accepted bobby's donation of her personal lantern fly collection. and gave her the title of donor scientist. an important term. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. i'll see you tomorrow night on "nbc nightly news" saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. >>> good friday morning. i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. this morning, major new national security concerns and

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