the wager is the tail of a twitter page of the mayor of brockton, massachusetts. it involves philadelphia's rocky statue and the statue of famed boxer in brokton. >> so the bet is that rocky will wear the losing rocky will wear the gear of the winning team. >> the losing mayor would go with the winning team to the white house. as punishment. >> so if the patriots win, philadelphia's rocky statue must be draped in patriots gear on patriots day. if the eagles win, brockton's statue will wear eagles gear on the day of the mayor's choice. later in the show, we'll show you other ways philly and boston are making friendly bets on the big game. >>> call it a surprise of his life. all new at 5:00, brian westbrook came knocking on a die hard eagle fan's front door and what happened next was a life-changing moment. brittney shipp was there for the surprise. >> the road to victory for eagles fans include super bowl lii. it's an exciting but expensive task. traveling to minneapolis to see the game in person with flight, hotel and two tickets will set you back $10,000. the nfl

stephanie gosk, nbc news, brockton, massachusetts. >>> we'll take a turn now to the alleged hush money scandal that has so many people talking. it all started with a bombshell report claiming president trump's attorney paid an adult film star $130,000 to keep quiet about an extramarital affair. now that actress has spoken out but she has left far more questions than answers. nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has the story for us. >> reporter: for melania trump a standing ovation at the capitol on her husband's big night. he nowdsent's attorney gave six figures to stormy daniels to keep an alleged affair quiet. >> does this at all seem familiar to you? tighty-whities. >> reporter: the appearance comes after the "wall street journal" reported daniels received hush money before the election to keep under wrapped a supposed sexual relationship with donald trump in 2006. the allegations of an affair denied by the president's longtime lawyer and denied by daniels, herself, in this signed statement. but -- >> the signature on the original statement does not match the signatur

host: tom in brockton, assachusetts, line for republicans. caller: hey, guys. live in a city that probably is least one-third immigrants. ostly first generation, a lot of hatians and cape verdians. people, i have no issue with them. what i do have an issue with is system is broken and you know why it is broken, gentlemen? host: tell us, tom. caller: we have too many illegals in the country, what is not to understand? we had a policy last 30 years, eally started with jimmy carter, where you, you know what, come in the country to gally, we're not going enforce immigration laws, okay. so no, i'm sorry, i support this president, i belong to a labor union for 35 years. for democratic president, but this guy was ears. to my host: mr. johnson? problem agree we have a with undocumented immigration, we have too much undocumented immigration. unitedtion coming to the states should be legal. the problem is that we have an immigration system that has the sand in d in terms of the economic and labor force realities of today. truth is that we do have a lot of jobs growing in

let me set it up in terms of boston where it's going to be 13 below zero in brockton on saturday. ian bremmer, you grew up tough in chelsea and when you are living fat and large in weston or wellesley hills you know where chelsea is. your mother do it today in this environment in chelsea? could you have gotten to tulane in this milieu today? >> i didn't grow up tough. i grew up getting my ass kicked. today my mother would have voted for trump or she would have maybe voted for bernie sanders. no way sheolutely would have voted for a mainstream democratic republican. my brother voted for trump. nobody else from my neighborhood got out of the chelsea projects that is now talking on no way se would have bloomberg and i think it's precisely that environment that are saying this is working. tom: what is your party need to do to gain dominance in the chelsea's of wisconsin or minnesota where you lost the election? >> that is a good question. what you are talking about used to be the base of the democratic party and we need to find a way to communicate with people talking about the things

host: tom in brockton, assachusetts, line for republicans. caller: hey, guys.in a city that probably is least one-third immigrants. ostly first generation, a lot of hatians and cape verdians. people, i have no issue with them. what i do have an issue with is system is broken and you know why it is broken, gentlemen? host: tell us, tom. caller: we have too many illegals in the country, what is not to understand? we had a policy last 30 years, eally started with jimmy carter, where you, you know what, come in the country to gally, we're not going enforce immigration laws, okay. so no, i'm sorry, i support this president, i belong to a labor union for 35 years. for democratic president, but this guy was ears. to my host: mr. johnson? problem agree we have a with undocumented immigration, we have too much undocumented immigration. unitedtion coming to the states should be legal. the problem is that we have an immigration system that has the sand in d in terms of the economic and labor force realities of today. truth is that we do have a lot of jobs growing in the h

the city's mayor making a bet with the mayor of brockton, massachusetts over next week's super bowl.lines. you made a similar bet, pete, with jillian. pete: be careful what bets you make. you may have a lot of confidence in your team but there is a 50/50 chance they are going to lose. we will see how that one goes. fun stuff. rick, how are you? rick: i don't think everybody thinks there is a 50/50 chance. pete: there are some better odds in there. rick: let's talk weather this morning. we have a lot going on this week. a pretty active week and the return of cold air not immediately but coming back. here you go down across the southeast warmer temperatures but along with that pretty heavy rain. in fact some of this is causing flooding. we see spots galveston and just to the east over five inches of rain throughout the overnight hours into the morning. causing the flooding and continue throughout the day. out across the west, also flooding concerns. more moisture coming into the pacific northwest and snow and some avalanche concerns. here is how this storm is down across the south play