, but costello was no show. rather than just go home, his constituents asked their questions to a large photograph of the congressman. costello said he had prior commitment. recent town halls like this one across the country had been packed with people and several have become quite rowdy. as a result in some lawmakers avoiding them altogether. the people planned on discussing topics including healthcare, victim of a crime and education >>> from our delaware newsroom an election is being hell for the state is senate seat of bethany hall long who is long. stephanie hansen, republic john marino. if marino wins it will be the first time republicans controlled the senate in 44 years. that covers middletown, glasgow and southern newark. polls close at 8:00 p.m. >>> democrats have a new p chairman, tom perez won to to beat keith ellison who will now serve as deputy. it was a dramatic vote revealing a democratic party still very much divided both men now say they will work to rebuild state and local democratic organizat

. >> hundreds of people turned out for a town hall meeting in phoenixville with ca costello, but costello a no show. rather than going home, they asked questions of a large photograph of the congressman. recent town halls like this one have become rowdy resulting in lawmakers avoiding them all together. the people at this one planned to talk about healthcare and other issues as well. >> stephany hanson won the state seat available the seat of bethany hall long now the lieutenant governor. >>> people normally head to reading terminal market for the food. tonight the annual party for the market included loud music and an open bar. hundreds of guests enjoyed the festivities for a great cause. proceeds will be used for the historic reading market. >> much more to come, a heartbreaking story from houston where a little girl was shot to death in her mother's car. >>> and a frat party combined with alcohol ends with the death of a student. >>> and jeff skversky has sports when "action news" comes right back. ♪ ♪ ♪fast, rhythmic drumming it's coming soon to the poconos! america's largest indoor w

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i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. the senate votes 52-48 to vote betsy devos' nomination. they con seend at 6:30 eastern this morning, unusually early time, hoping to avoid democrats' stall tactics. democrats criticize devos' positions on public and charter schools. cnn's sunlen serfaty joins us with more. >> reporter: good morning. this was a rarerly vote which inches betsy devos one step closer towards confirmation. this was just a procedural vote this morning, essentially to break a democratic filibuster and it came down party lines which now means that betsy devos will advance towards final confirmation vote in the full senate. that likely to come at some point very early next week. as you know, she has emerged as one of the most controversial, one of donald trump's nominees for cabinet positions. democrats really fighting this tooth and nail and actually to republicans announcing they are breaking ranks with republicans, will vote against her next week. this is something we saw senator schumer really implore on m

we begin with nbc's tom costello near the white house. tom, this protest just getting

i'm carol costello. thank you very much for joining me. president donald trump sets the stage for what may be the most meaningful battle yet. his pick for supreme court, neil gorsuch, heads to capitol hill, meeting the pence and lawmakers to vote on his confirmation. >>> democrats vow a bitter fight ahead. in the moan time, the battle heats up on capitol hill next hour. a senate committee gets set to vote on attorney general nominee jeff sessions. democrats forced a delay on that vote yesterday. president trump backpedaling after his spokesman raised eyebrows by saying the white house described travel ban is not actually a ban at all. trump tweeting about that just an hour ago. everybody is arguing whether or not it is a ban. call it what you want. it is about keeping bad people with bad intentions over the country. that controversy is not going away. we're covering all the developments on this busy morning. let's begin at the white house with cnn's jeff zeleny. >> even as the white house was hoping to change the subject and focus of the n

we begin with tom costello in washington. >> jose, good evening. a dramatic 24 hours, as of this moment tonight, the obama administration rules on immigration are in effect, not the trump rules. today we saw thousands of people nationwide protesting the trump rules. here in washington, they marched from the white house to the capitol to the supreme court. out in force, across the country, and around the world. >> trump is a missile ready to destroy himself and everything around him. >> reporter: another weekend protest one week after the trump administration's travel ban. >> america was made off the backs of immigrants and refugees. >> reporter: what would you like to see happen? >> i would like to see us bring in more refugees. >> reporter: the demonstrations today coming despite a late-night federal court ruling that temporarily halts the president's restrictions. >> crowds have gathered as part of an lgbtq rally against trump's immigration ban. they are chanting things like immigrants are welcome here and holding signs that say things like toget

tom costello nbc news at the irs. >> super bowl li kicks off tomorrow and already this morning there'some controversy brewing over a commercial that will air during the broadcast. certain parts of this ad had to be edythed before it was allowed to air. >> this morning paris is on and after an attempted attack at the louvre. the suspect went after soldiers with a machete before he was shot and wounded. investigators are now trying to determine if anybody else was involved. >> reporter: french police raiding locations around paris. an ongoing investigation after a terror attack at perhaps the world's most famous museum. it was a1r0u7k a.m. inside the luf. police say this 29-year-old egyptian suspect attacked four soldiers with a machete in each hand shouting god is great in arabic. there were shots this witness said. it was scary. i saw people falling. soldiers shot the attacker four times. he lived. a soldier suffered minimal injuries. 1,200 people were inside the museum. some hud on the floor. others evacuated to special safe rooms. police say the suspect arrived from dubai last week o

we get more from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the most serious incident occurred just yesterday. 4:35 p.m. at washington-dulles. just as an air france boeing 777 was coming in for a landing, a drone suddenly buzzed the cockpit. >> we have a drone at about 100 feet. >> you said it was off your right side or left side. >> left side, just above my head. >> reporter: the tower then immediately warned the next plane. >> we've just had a report of a possible drone, about 800 feet. >> on wednesday, another close call involving a giant lufthansa airbus a-380 taking off from houston. just 800 feet off the ground, a drone came within 100 feet. in honolulu on thursday, a drone came within 50 feet of a private plane, another close call in jacksonville. while pilots reported 1200 close calls in 2015, that number jumped to more than 1800 last year. five a day. >> if they impact an airliner or another airplane, they're going to do the same amount of damage or more than birds. >> reporter: the challenge, radar doesn't pick up most drones. while the faa has been testing potential drone detection

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> we'll take a short break. when we come back we'll have the life after the white house of president obama. >>> there's a mystery still nagging at the new super bowl champs. while thousands lined the streets in boston today in the rain and snow to cheer on the patriots, police were busy trying to track down tom brady's missing game jersey, which the mvp believes was stolen from a locker area. the jersey now the subject of a full blown investigation being led by the houston police department is valued at half a million dollars. >>> in san francisco a historic move. it's the first major city in the nation to offer free community college to all its residents. about 30,000 students are expected to benefit beginning this fall. the city will pay for it with a tax on multi-million dollar property sales. to qualify you have to have lived in the city for at least a year and a day. >>> what a lot of people are calling richard and barack's excellent adventure. that's former president obama out of office, and from the looks

here's nbc's tom costello. >> it's a new twist on an old email phishing scam. at mitchell gold and bob williams furniture, 1,000 workers have had their personal information compromised after several employees received an email that appeared to come from the ceo. >> it was an email that looked like it was from me and sounded like it was from me, but it wasn't from me. >> the email tricked employees into giving away company payroll information. just two weeks later, several workers say criminals have already used their stolen information to file for an irs refund. >> it's really a violation of people's privacy. it's nerve-wracking to know that you might be at risk on your credit scores. >> here's how the scam works -- the criminals send emails posing as a company executive. often using a very familiar tone, like hi, are you around today? once the employee responds, the scammer asks to verify personnel names and social security numbers. even w-2 forms for all employees. thinking the request is from the real boss, employees gladly hand over the information. >> cybe

tom costello, nbc news, bethesda, maryland. >>> still ahead, treating lower back pain. new hope for relief without surgery or potentially addicting prescription drugs. >>> also the grammy moment that still has everyone talking tonight. >>> we're back with important news for the 80% of adults who suffer lower back pain at some point in life. before you turn to drugs, injections or surgery, new guidelines say you should try some other things first. therapies that in the past have been considered alternative treatments. nbc's kristen dalgren explains. >> so now all the muscles of the back are being gently released -- >> reporter: in allison west's class at yoga union they make it look easy. >> bend the knees. >> reporter: you might never know most students are here to overcome often crippling back pain. >> it is difficult to get out of bed and walk. >> reporter: monica afessi used to get cortisone injections. now this is her medicine. >> i'm just feeling better. for me it's made a great impact because i know that i can take care of myself now. >> reporter: in new recommend

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> we're back in a moment with a historic basketball feat that's never been accomplished until now. >>> we're back with an apparent assassination brazenly carried out at an international airport. the target? the estranged half brother of north korea's infamous leader. and it's raising suspicions that kim jong-un may have once again marked one of his own relatives for death. nbc's keir simmons now details. >> reporter: a cold-blooded execution straight from a spy movie local media reports say. north korean dictator kim jong-un's half brother, kim jong-nam apparently targeted by two female assassins. he'd criticized north korea's supreme leader. the staged hit at an airport in malaysia. an unidentified woman covering his face with a cloth laced with liquid, police say. he was seen struggling for help and sought assistance from airport staff but died in an ambulance. north korea's ruthless ruler showing no mercy. kim jong-un had his own uncle put on trial and executed. kim jong-un's late's parent target, his father's son. kim jong-nam had been their f

tom costello now with the story. >> reporter: harrison ford may best be known for his acting, but he's also an accomplished pilot, though the faa is vetting a potentially dangerous incident involving ford and his single-engine husky in california. aviation sources tellens abo nb he had been cleared to land at the airport but instead he lined up on c or charlie where planes taxi before takeoff. he flew right over the top of an american airlines 747 that was heading before preparing for departure. it was loaded with 110 passengers and six crew members for a flight to dallas, unclear if anybody on board knew what happened. once on the ground, mr. ford radioed, was that airliner supposed to be beneath me. and he was told i landed on c. landing on a taxiway is a clear faa violation. the question, was ford distracted? >> unfortunately, we've seen this sort of thing before, where somebody mistakenly identifies a taxiway for a runway, and in this case, the runway that he was to land on was very narrow. >> reporter: it was just two years ago that ford was injured when his world war ii era plane

nbc's tom costello has details. >> reporter: it happened at 6:00 a.m. at jfk just as the precheck lanes were opening up. 11 passengers managed to walk right through without being screened even though their carry on bags were. three of the passengers tripped the metal detector yet weren't given a secondary screening, two of the three shown here but it took the tsa two hours to report the incident to airport police and by then the passengers were gone, already on their flights. in a statement the tsa says, a k9 team was present at the checkpoint at the time of the incident and we are confident this incident presents minimal risk to the aviation transportation system. police say the passengers were identified and checked on arrival in california. >> yeah, i'd say that's pretty unnerving. i don't know how that happened. seems like there's pretty tight security here. >> i find it shocking given how tight security is these days. >> reporter: nationwide the tsa screens 2 million people at 440 airports every day. so far president trump hasn't appointed a new ts

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> we are back in a moment with some terrifying moments on the roadaught on camera. >>> back now with that surprise announcement from elon musk and spacex. launching a mission beyond the moon. they're taking some paying customers for the ride. the question is, would you want to go? here's nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: spacex, a private rocket company, going where no man or woman has gone before. into deep space. with two paying passengers next year. spacex owner billionaire elon musk announcing he's already taken two substantial deposits for a week-long mission to the moon and back. spacex's dragon capsule will circle the moon like the apollo 11 crew 47 years ago. but these passengers, who will be trained and called astronauts, will not land as neil armstrong did. >> that's one small step for man, one big leap for mankind. >> reporter: tonight the names of the two astronaut passengers, their genders, and how much they're paying, remains a secret. but a hint from elon musk, they're not from hollywood. kerry sanders, nbc news, kennedy space center.

nbc's tom costello has details. >> reporter: it happened at 6:00 a.m. at jfk as the precheck lanes were opening. 11 passengers managed to walk right through without being screened. even though their carry-on bags were. three of the passengers tripped the metal detector, yet weren't given a secondary screening. two of the three shown here. but it took the tsa two hours to report the incident to airport police, and by then the passengers were gone, already on their flights. in a statement the tsa says, a k-9 team was present at the checkpoint at the time of the incident. we are confident this incident presents minimal risk to the aviation transportation system. police say the passengers were identified and checked on arrival in california. at jfk today -- >> yeah, i'd say that's pretty unnerving. i don't know how that happens. seems like there's pretty tight security here. >> i find it shocking given how tight security is these days. >> reporter: nationwide the tsa screens 2 million people at 440 airports every day. so far, president trump hasn't appointe

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead tonight, new hope for women having trouble getting pregnant. how a new test can boost your odds, especially if in vitro fertilization has failed you in the past. >>> also an early peek at this year's super bowl ads and the beer commercial that's already brewing controversy. >>> we're back now with new hope for couples struggling to get pregnant spending big money on fertility treatments without success. well, now a new test is helping doctors get the timing just right and it's showing promising results. nbc's kristen dahlgren has details. >> reporter: every time jessica looks into these big, blue eyes, she can't believe it. there was a time she thought she would never be a mom. >> i was never going to have the only thing i always imagined i would be. >> reporter: on paper, everything looked great for ivf treatments. >> everybody kept on telling us, you're perfect and then it didn't happen. >> reporter: four failed treatment cycles. she and husband todd lost hope. and almost $100,000. >> i was seeing her get hurt every single time and

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tom costello, nbc news, silver spring, maryland. >>> meantime the president, the commander in chief of armed forces is raising eyebrows with his new comments about who is to blame for the u.s. raid gone wrong in yemen that resulted in the death of a navy seal. william ryan owens. it was a mission the president approved. andrea mitchell has the details. >> reporter: tonight the president responding for the first time to the father of the navy seal killed in that yemen raid. his father refusing to meet with mr. trump. >> this was a mission that was started before i got here. this was something that was just, they wanted to do. they came to see me. they explained what they wanted to do, the generals, who are very respected. my generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades, i believe. they lost ryan. >> reporter: those comments raising eyebrows. first the president not taking full responsibility for the mission he approved bringing up his generals, defense secretary mattis and joints chief chairman dunford and suggesting the decision to launch was made by the obama white h

>> tom costello in washington. thank you. >>> for his part, president trump lost no time firing back after his immigration order was put on taking a to twitter several times with harsh criticism of the judge and his ruling. others defending the move. all of it adding up to a new war of words as kelly o'donnell reports. >> reporter: late today protesters gathered near a trump-branded condominium ready to march toward the president's mar-a-lago resort home, while he spent several hours at a west palm beach golf club that bears his name. fresh air after a burst of frustration vented on twitter against friday night's temporary restraining order that stops the president's seven-country immigration ban. president trump reacted pointedly. "the opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned." >> i find that a temporary restraining order is in the public interest. >> reporter: judge james robart appointed by george w. bush explained his de

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