heads up if you live in brownsville or austin or houston you could be looking at severe weather as we head into the afternoon hours. otherwise current temperatures starting off on a chilly note. it is january 19th degrees right now. >>> maria molina, thank you so much. >> one football team is on top of the world this morning. but it's a grim morning for another team with news that it might be months before the big super star player is back on the field. brian kilmeade is here with the latest from the world of sports. >> you are up earlier than normal. >> normally i would be sound asleep. you owe me a favor. creme son dynasty. alabama winning the third national title in four-year. that's what the league refer to do. the number two ranked walked in favor crushing notre dame who played like a high school team. aj mccarron sending four touchdowns. this was over in the first quarter. if you tloins the announcers mccarron's girlfriend was the star of the show. >> you quarterbacks you get all of the good looking women. what a beautiful woman. >> wow. >> aj is doing some things right. >> if y

only problem we could have the severe weather in texas, as we go through tuesday, from houston to brownsville as the forecast goes, it's a cool, chilly morning, you need your jackets and gloves. this afternoon, enjoy this. upper 40s through the midwest. this is not normal, this could be one of the warmer weeks we'll see this month. >> thanks so much, bill. >>> a big foreclosure deal, a google exec heads to china. >>> plus, britain's prince charles opens up about royal fatherhood and his future grandchildren. you're watching msnbc. my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? ♪ i have direct deposit on my visa prepaid. my paycheck is loaded right on my card. automatic. i am not going downtown standing in line to cash it. i know where my money is, because it is in my pocket. i got more time with my daughter, we got places to go. [ freeman ] go open a new world, with visa prepaid. more pe

a few tornadoes are possible from houston to austin, san antonio south wards to the brownsville area. mean we're looking at just beautiful weather. i mean today in d.c., we could be 53 and sunny. i mean that's like mid-march like forecast. >> you have to love that in january. thanks so much, bill. >>> well, aig weighs a cureies way to say thank you. >>> the place where silence is not golden. >>> and a computer the whole family can sit down. to. >>> plus, a bumpy start to one couple's day to remember. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] staples is the number-one office superstore ink retailer in america. now get $6 back in staples rewards for every ink cartridge you recycle when you spend $50 on hp ink. staples. that was easy. i got your campbell's chunky soup. mom? who's mom? i'm the giants mascot. the giants don't have a mascot! ohhh! eat up! new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. hmmm. for giant hunger! thanks mom! see ya! whoaa...oops! mom? i'm ok. grandma? hi sweetie! she operates the head. [ male announcer ] campbell's

you drive down with a friend to brownsville texas. you check in with the u.s. authorities. what do you tell the u.s. people? >> we told them we have got this hunting shot gun and we are trying to go through mexico legally what do we have to do? they gave us paperwork to set out if you declare it with this paperwork you should be fine. we mapaid a fee crossed the borr and declared the weapon and that's where a short while after that that's where things started going wrong. >> you go voluntarily to the mexican side show them the paperwork and they did what do you? >> it took them a while to figure out what they were going to do. once the certain super peer kwhoer that made the decision that i was going to go to jail came through, started doing the paperwork. they didn't let us know we were going to jail, though. they made it sound like we were going to go to a place and pay a fee. so they took us downtown, we stayed there for four-days. my friend dot out. i stayed in and eventually i ended up in prison. >> what happened when you were in prison? >> there was pressure put on me

parts of alabama and georgia and heavy rain across southern part of texas and brownsville.u need the umbrella early this morning. as we continue our track west ward in california we are not dealing with any rainfall and we aren't expecting nif that today. there is a concern as far as wind goes with wind warnings in effect excessive wind advisories in effect out here with gusts expected to be over 40 miles per hour. here's a quick shot of the high temperatures expected for today only in the 20s in minneapolis. >>> now it is time to entertain this kim kardashian talking about the first time for the first time talking about being pregnant. she is already having cravings. what does she want? sushi apparently. she knows this not good to have while pregnant. instead she is having lots of veggies and dip. the big baby news leaked earlier this week by proud pa pa to be kanye west. >> getting into such a heated fight this is at a club in miami new year's eve that he was thrown out. witnesses say nick lobe i think that's his name was upset after vegara took a picture with a fan and s

in 2010 in the texas congressional district including corpus christi, and at the time included brownsville, a district, in other words, that was 70% hispanic. blake, himself, spoke no spanish, and was a political unknown; however, in 2010, despite the numbers being overwhelmingly again him, a midterm year, latino voters stayed home, and there was a big tea party movement in the area, and he won by 800 or 900 votes. >> beat senior, a long time democratic member of the congress. >> that's exactly right, yeah. he arrived because he was inexperienced of the ways of government at large. he arrived three and a half weeks after everybody else did because the recoup, and so he was, you know, i followed a lot of the congressman around to get aceps of the congressional experience, and his was one of the citizens politician who tries, as he might, to never catch up, just always, sort of, you know, holding on to the medicine ball for dear life and never getting on top of it. he was -- he -- his -- he told me he had this recurring nightmare that he was alone in his office, and there was no furniture, a

you're seeing from brownsville, they had schools closed. and they had a lot of fun with that snow, too. el paso had 3.1 inches. abbean, austin, an inch of snow. a funnel was reported outside of miami, just south of it, actually. you can really see it well there. funnel different from tornado. tornado touches, has debris. a funnel is just a funnel. that's what they had in miami. and the weather today will be foggy inland in south florida, especially. just south of that stationary front. showers throughout the state. 74 for tampa. 62, a lot cooler in tallahassee. another storm up in the north, will be bringing just a few inches of snow for parts of michigan, into parts of the eastern great lakes and up into parts of new england, too. not the warmth and the miami-type funnels. but on the west coast, something to note for the weekend, you get about a half-inch of rain for san francisco, and rain down to l.a., as well. >> my first twitter photo comes from wisconsin. it is a sun pillar. that's an actual thing. i know i see your face, a little eye

. >> he drives from brownsville, texas to lafayette, louisiana, and all the while he is sick.have to assume that he was sick in the mexican prison in whatever brought the illness on happened there, correct? >> yes, sir. as a matter of fact, actually his symptoms started between 7 or 10 days prior to being let go. started having copious amounts of diarrhea, having more than five bowel movements a day. not tolerating taking anything orally as well. and then the fevers and the headaches started actually occurring once he was let go in texas itself. he just could not tolerate the drive to miami and was around lafayette, louisiana is where they decided to stop in the emergency room. >> bill: what was genesis of the illness what was wrong with him? >> it would be a combination of being so severely dehydrated from the diarrhea itself. he received a lot of iv fluids. several liters worth. did a lumbar puncture while he was in lafayette. >> bill: they work him up in lafayette. lumbar puncture means looking for symptoms of meningitis, right? >> that's one of the things. it also could be

it's closer from amarillo to chicago than it is from amarillo to brownsville texas. that's how big the state is. here in california it was perfect. if you are a faof sunshine, it was warm and sunny, morgan hill 67. oakland nearly at 70 today. redwood city 68. mid-60s for san jose, concord 62. here's the deal in the atmosphere. there is an active storm track. there is still moisture out there but it's 700 miles to the north in the pacific northwest. that high pressure dome that's been over top of us for a while still protecting us and shoving all of that moisture far, far away from northern california. high pressure not moving so the forecast won't change. chilly in the morning, mild in the afternoon. and you will be wondering why didn't i take a few days off, because thursday and friday are going to be awesome to get outside. saturday and sunday also awesome to get outside. there will be moisture building to the north. it will work its way south by the middle of next week but the next several days will be just like today. so temperatures running above normal. we'll b

host: thanks from brownsville texas, republican line good morning. caller: i wanted to say that congress will not be any different. you have the senate and a president who are way too far to the left. feel that boehner needs to stand his ground and represent us who are on the other side. i feel like in defense of wal-mart that everybody seems glory of a business who works really hard throughout the years and accomplishes their goal but nobody sees the hard work that it takes to build the business. that's what makes me really sad that people just want to take what everybody else had. host: liz had this on our twitter page. i wondering why anyone thinks this congress or president obama will do anything different. charles krauthammer has the return of real obama. the route retreat and president obama got his tax hikes naked of spending cuts passed by the republican house of representatives after which you might expect him to pivot from self-proclaimed pivot of fiscal balance. why ask the post on the eve of the fiscal cliff -- he has to interest in them.

brownsville, jamaica of chicago.here are also things we can do with the vice president and president. it's not just a conversation around newtown to being one about deaths that occur much more frequently in the kind of neighbors we are talking about. >> i'm going to let you in in a moment. i want to grab nicholas here. >> we talk the nra on one side and everyone else on the other. you mentioned the grandmother in chicago, it also brought to mind otis mcdonald who was the lead plaintiff in mcdonald versus chicago. there are also in communities like this, what i call the community of innocence. people who are elderly, the grandmother you mentioned here. the interest in self-defense they have is a significant one. i think it actually does a disservice to the debate to suggest it's only the nra with this interest in self-defense within the window where the state really cannot respond. it's a private crisis. >> this is incredibly important to you. it feels like part of what goes on is a sense of if communities are disarme

think about places like brownsville, texas, laredo, they set up equipment 100 miles from there on thee so they can have this network, operating in places that are considered transit points for drugs, think south of texas, mexican border states, those stations have been found in that part of mexico. >> was it hard to find these places? are they out in the open or hidden pretty well? >> they're in very remote areas. it's not very difficult to find the radio signals themselves. the problem is that they are encrypted, modern technology is allowing mexican drug cartels to buy equipment, the signals are encrypted and it's very difficult to determine what the communications are, in fact, but the signals are there. they are easy to attach. >> appreciate it. 15 days into the new year. well, we're going to ask about resolutions. how are your financial resolutions? we'll take a break and break down the money code to find out why you spend the way you do. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans -- we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insu

corpus to houston down to brownsville, keep an eye to the sky and certainly listen if those sirens goff. tomorrow it pushes eastward and gets toward new orleans. new orleans gets into that not for today but for tomorrow. so here's the futurecast with this. there goes the rain as far north. by the time we head toward thursday, chicago, it's a rainmaker, so this is certainly more wet than white because chicago will be in the 50s by friday and saturday and in the 40s tomorrow. big picture today, the heavy rain, pretty dry. and guys, we're seeing much milder temperatures around the country than last week. so a big-time warm-up. so a lot of that snow is melting. and again, this moisture gets to the northern tier, but it's just a rainmaker. >> alexandra steele with our weather forecast and squidcast this tuesday morning. thanks very much for that. >>> it is 16 minutes past the hour. let's get you up to date. here's christine romans with this morning's top stories. >> still the kings of college football, alabama's crimson tide rolled over the not-so-fighting irish of notre dame, 42-14, to wi

the back by a barrage of gunfire in the streets of brownsville, brooklyn, within my own district. although new york city has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, senseless crimes like these occur all too frequently in my district and across new york city and in other urban communities across the united states. in 2012 the new york city police department reported 226 incidents of handgun violence in brooklyn, new york, alone. illegal grun trafficking and gaping holes in federal background check requirements are to blame for many of these ins dents. 8 -- incidents. 85% of the guns used in crimes in new york city are first purchased in states like virginia and georgia that do not extend the background check to purchase limitation requirements for private sellers. mr. speaker, i stand with my fellow law makers in congress, with mayor michael bloomberg, with governor cuomo, in demanding federal legislation that specifically addresses illegal trafficking of guns across state lines. and the requirement of background checks in all gun purchase transactions. to truly put an end to

tony martinez from brownsville. the newly elected mayor of san diego who is no stranger to washington debate. i think we saw -- who am i forgetting here? and so, please join me in welcoming our first guest today, mayor greg stanton. [applause] >> thanks, simon very much. i appreciated this framing comments by alan bersin from the department of security. welcome to the mayor's club. my understanding is used to serve in congress and i have upgraded to be in a mayor. [laughter] i'm still a relatively ricky mayor i took in early january and made increasing trade with mexico one of my highest priorities and my partner in that effort is mayor jonathan ross chatted to some he's doing a right now, but he'll be back down. all the mayors on the dais here today will recognize in this effort, mayors are going to lead the way. we are where the rubber meets the road. our number one job is job creation and economic development. the point you made at the beginning that her relationship with mexico is the united states number one bi

we have both been in el paso, brownsville, other places along the river, also in arizona, california. so we're not unfamiliar with the border and what goes on both sides of it for a long period of time. but that not the way these free trade agreements have been sold in the united states and that's the point of the book. people have been told they will be good for everybody. and we make the point that, no, the promises trotted out that we would sell more, have turned out to be false. we have actually -- we're selling more but we're buying more, so the deficit is greater. the job losses have been considerable in a number of industries. that nobody said would be impacted by this. so it's more that issue than anything else that we're trying to raise. there's not been a kind of straight talk on the issue of trade. so anytime you're going to enact one of those agreements, there's going to be some major dislocations, but that's not the way they're promoted. they're promote on the basis it will be a snag here or there but overall very good for everybody. and we say, that doesn't explain why w

this area in yellow that does include austin, san antonio, brownsville and the greater houston area allrms later this afternoon and tonight and, again, a few tornadoes possible. not really pretty in the northwest, you're waking up to another rainy morning from portland to seattle and we'll continue to watch that heading towards spokane who, by the way, had seven inches of snow yesterday. one of the few areas in the country. the warmth is very incredible all the way heading into the great lakes. no signs at all of mid-winter weather conditions across our country. look at these temperatures today. we're in the 50s. the low 50s from denver to kansas city, st. louis all the way through kentucky into washington, d.c. that's extremely rare. usually one side of the country or another is brutally cold this time of year. but even minneapolis will be above freezing. that continues tomorrow, too. we have a chance of even hitting 60 degrees in the nation's capitol by the end of the week. speaking of a beautiful, sunny capital. washington, d.c., january beautiful day. you're watching "morning joe" b

some cloudy, wet weather from corpus christi to brownsville.pse houston, baton rouge, and coastal louisiana during your day. so your wednesday forecast, very quiet weather pattern. this is going to continue for the next couple of days. there's no big snowstorms in sight. there's no big shots of cold air. we could gradually warm it up from here. highs today are going to struggle. it's a very cold january day from new england to the great lakes. we'll have another one on thursday. but even for our friends in the great lakes and the midwest, who are frigid the last week or two, i think by this weekend, you're going to see a little temperature surge. i think you're going to like it. we leave you with a shot of st. louis, a very cold-looking st. louis this morning. you're watching "morning joe," we're brewed by starbucks. weight watchers online worked for us. we don't argue much. we really don't. meg usually just gets her way, and i go along with it. i think it worked for matt because i did it for him. when i'm the one cooking, i'm the one calculati