>> my granddaughter dylan. >> dylan, what a great name. >> named after dylan. >>fter dylan dreyer?er was born, dylan. >> oh, my goodness. that's amazing. >> how old is she? >> 15 months. >> i love it. thank you. the world needed more female dylans. i love it. >> happy birthday. >> that's so neat. >> a future young meteorologist. ve i love it. have you e been named after somebody before? >> no, especially a girl. that's evenbetter. >> the cutest. >> that is so sweet. >>> forget greeting cards or e-mail gifs, the hottest way to express your feelingsor this mng we're going inside the factoryhe wherey are created, changing the way we communicate. >> i didt know there was a factory. >>> a rising star who is not only funny and entertaininma bu s you think, too, hasan minhaj host of "patriot act"t i ri here in our studio. this is his first time on the "today" show. so i'm excited to talk t hasan. >>> are you ready? it's time. our first get fit today check-in to see how we're doing with our challenges. >> so sad. >> spoiler alert. not allowed. >>> coming up, on the third hour of "today" we

dylan is in for al. >> this is a massive storm. youan see the winter werth add vies are expansive. 91 mill one people in the middle ofom stype of advisory. we have a flood watch in effect because of several days of heavy rain expected. let's first see the heavy rain as it moves in from the south. low pressure moving in from the gulf of mexico. the snow will overspread the plain states, move into the upper midwest. heweier snow as . it arrives in chicago by tomorrow morning. right at the same time heavier snow moves in to wrd. that means tomorrow morning's commute is bad from d.c. over into chago. it arrives in new york by tomorrow evening and then exits as we go into thursday morning. it does look like we will all see that transition from snow to ice and then eventually to rain. but before it changes over to , raine can see about six to nine inches of snow across thed upper t. through the great lakes region looking at two to four inches. d.c. could see four to six before thechangeover later in the morning and early in the afternoon

>> my granddaughter dylan. >> dylan?my daughter michelle in chicago loves you, and so when her daughter was born she wants dylan. >> oh, my goodness. that's amazing. >> how old is she? >> 15 months. >> i love it. thank you. >> there's a dylan out there. >> the world needs more female dylans. i love it. >> happy birthday, too. >> thank you. >> happy birthday. >> that's so neat. >> a future young meteorologist. >> i know. >> i love it. >> that's so cool. >> have you ever been named after somebody before? >> no, especially a girl so that's even better. >> i really, really love that. >> coming up, greeting cards, they're the hottest way to express your feelings or the short little animated clips you always text your friends. we're going inside the factory where they're created and changing the way we communicate. >> pretty cool. >> i didn't even know there was a factory. >>> also, guys, a rising star who's not only funny and entertaining, hassan minaj is right here in our studio. had is his first time on the "today" show. >>

>> dylan, thank you. the bombshell new book by former fbi director andrew mcbe, overnight he made new claims about president trump, russia and the mueller investigation after sitting down with savannar yey. we'll start with nbc white house correspondent peter alexander. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the president and top aides trying to discredit andrew mccabe as a liar and a leaker. the firedrbi direc is not backing away from his account and the concerns he says that led the fbi to launch an investigatio to determine if president trump was secretly working to helpga russiast u.s. interests after the firing of james comey. overnight fired acting fbi director andrew mccabe detailing why he raised f redlags about president trump and russia. >> do you still believe the president could be a russian asset? >> i thinks possible. i think that's why we started our investigation, and i'm really anxious to seere w director mueller concludes that. >> reporter: it follows his appearance with

>> dylan, thank you. 'll get to the nationa morecast in a few minutes. >>> also this rning, it'll be a little longer until special counsel robert mueller releases his final report on the russia investigation to the attorney general. a senior justice department official telling nbc news it will not be given to the justice department while theld presiden a high-stakes summit with north korea's leader. this as president trumpays he's ready to veto any legislation that tries to stop his national emergencycovered f pennsylvania avenue this morning. we start with geoff bennett, our white house correspondent on the north lawn. good morning. reporter: peter, good morning. the waiting game continues. a justice department official says special counsel robert mueller's reportex is nocted to be delivered to the attorney general as early as next week, as was widely reported. house democrats though are demanding thathenever the report does drop on the ag's desk, he must make it public. judgment day delayed, as a senior

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tambourine man." ♪ >> a lot of the stuff that dylan wrote in '63, '64, '65 was very political.sically, and they were awakened by the more personal perspective of his songs. >> dylan was a huge influence on john lennon. i think it inspired him to write more serious songs, deeper songs and be more experimental lyrically. ♪ i once had a girl or should i say she once had me ♪ >> bob dylan going electric is another one of those big seismic changes in the pop music era in the '60s. >> he was bold enough to leave his comfort zone. ♪ i ain't going to work on maggie's farm no more ♪ >> it's not just about dylan going electric, but it's also about the fusion of an emerging tradition in popular music that was really political, with rock 'n' roll which had largely not been overtly political. >> there's nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personally. >> you know, who needs him anymore? he's a part of your establishment and forget him. >> they're all my friends. >> they felt betrayed, like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie

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dylan's forecast just ahead. ie pourd attorney in the wake of that bb shell -- did the "empire" star orchestrate ama ssive hoax and will he now talk to police about it. we're live with the very latest. >>> all that, plus time to heal. >> united, that's h we feel. >> an emotional tribute honoring the victims of a tragic oorkplace shting. >>> clock's ticking with just two weeks to go, why hasn't anyone come forward to that nearly $2 billion lottery search to find the lucky winner. >>>nd what a wreck. >> are you kidding me? >> nascar, super bowl, the daytona 500 marred by a series of fiery crashes. >> they wrecked agai driversf the last standing taking the checkered flag, why that win meant so much to him and his team's owner, today, 1nday, february8th, 2019. >> announcer: from n news, thisit is "today" wh savannah guthrie and hoda kotb. live from studio 1a inro efeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today." thanks for joining us on this presidents' day monday morning. craig melvin here alongside sheinelle jone what a r

craig. >> all right, dylan, thank you. her foot steps. >> what do we love as pilots? it's taxiing down that runway. you then stand those throttles up. you feel the power from the engine. we pull back on those controls. you feel the airplane ascend. you're one with that airplane. >> beth powell is a pilot for american arms. >> i remember going to high school and i loveled everything with numbers and subjecting like math. >> my teacher told me i could be a mechanic or engineer. my dad asking if there's any female pilots because he's never seen any. of course i wallace suppos very by both. >> she moved to attend flight school. she received her commercial license at 18. >> brenda wallace ts the first pilot for meamerican airlines. >> brenda robinson. every time i walk led through that hallway, she look gd lied like me. >> powell startled flying with american eagle at 25 years old. in 2014, she became the first off south koricer of the 737. she is one of the few african-american women in the cockpit. >> you see those head turns

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natsvoice of dylan natsvoice of dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "it's been a hectic few days toigging-out in the sierra, continued winter weather has created treacherous travel conditions. deana stoopman, caltrans public information officer: "high winds, and it's blowing snow across the roadways. its making it extremely dangerous for driving."...so dangerous that caltrans decided to close the interstate for most of the day as visibility dropped to near zero.dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "it's one of those things where it can change at any minute up here. it's like yesterday morning we were pumping out a store that had flooded from the rain and by night it was a horrible blizzard."dylan goldberg works at this shell station in kingvale, and says business has been unusually slow with fewer drivers on the road. dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "this is the emptiest it's been. we've only had one person through since the roads opened."butted bridgette bjorlo reporting: "this area already has a lot of snow on the ground from previous storms, and now even more is on the way

dylan's back with our forecast. hey, dylan. >> good morning, guys. we do have this big storm system affecting the eastern half of the country. we have another storm making its way into the west coast, and that is going to bring snow even to areas like las vegas where we could see a wintery mix. in thewitheavy rain, swy upper t lakes and the mid-atlantic. lakes and the mid-atlantic. that's a l (clapping) every day, visionaries are creating the future. so, every day, we put our latest technology and vast expertise to work. ( ♪ ) the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, affordably and on-time. (ringing) ( ♪ ) the future only happens with people who really know how to deliver it. >>> garng. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we're seeing spotty rain off the coast of the north bay. probably will see some rain chances here and there, for much of the morning into the afternoon. not a whole lot of rain, as this cold front moves through and some breezy winds, but keep the rain chances in the forecas

>> all right, dylan. thank you. >>> overseas tonight, ukraine, its military backed by the u.s., is preparing for a potential showdown at sea with russia. nbc's bill neely is in ukraine reporting from the front lines. >> reporter: resisting russia. ukraine's navy now drilling for possible confrontation. fearing russia will attack at sea. as it did last year, ramming and seizing ukrainian ships. arresting two dozen sailors who are still in a russian jail. it's a conflict on land, too. ukraine's army took us to a frontline war where they're battling russian-backed separatists. >> all russian officers? russian commanders? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: it's a killing ground. trench warfare that's claimed 13,000 lives. russian snipers, they told me, just 300 yards away. a december cease-fire dead. this is a cease-fire in name only. broken thousands of times along this front line every week. the trump administration supplies weapons to ukraine. the u.s. now preparing new sanctions to a. this the main flashpoint betw

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>>> dylan, thank you. to the courts. 16 states are suing to block mr. trump's emergency declaration to fund the wall, calling it a hyped crisis to divert federal dollars. nbc's peter alexander is at the white house for us this morning. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, craig. good morning to you. those 16 states include california, new mexico, new york. they're accusing president trump of misusing his presidential power to build his wall, what the lawsuit calls a vanity project. the states argue the president's effort to spend billions by declaring a national emergency is a, quote, flagrant disregard of fundamental presidential powers, dismissing the emergency as a crisis and blast it as a unconstitutional and unlawful scheme. the president just minutes ago complaining on twitter about this suit. it all comes as new protests popped up around the country overnight. and among the president's fiercest critics is, of course, vermont senator bernie sanders, who just this morning announced that he is runnin

nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer r is mong it for us, dylan? >> good evening, lester. heavy rain is going to start to build in from the south early tu day morning. this is falling on saturated ground so we could see some flash flooding along with the fact that we could end up with 4 to 5 inches of rain.er on the norside of this storm, this is going to be very snowy and very messy, especially as we go into tuesday afternoon and tuesday evening through illinois intindiana. this will also affect the appalachians, washington, d.c., up into new york city, before it changes over to ra. we could end up with about 4 to 6 inches of snow through d.c.mo higherts in the appalachians and also across central and northern new england.dl but in the mhere you can see we will pick up about 1 to 2 inches of snow before that changeover. lester >> all right, dylan, thank you. >>> overseasonight, ukraine, its military backed by the u.s., is preparing for a potential showdown at sea with russia. nbc's bill neely is in ukraine reporting from the front lines. >> reporter: resisting russia. ukr

dylan dreyer has the latest forecast for us.t dylan, wn we expect? >> good evening, lester. it's still snowing here in new york, same goes for the midwest. in washington, d.c. and the mid-atlantic we've changed over to rain now. the snow will begin in boston shortly, andhen it will last through the night before changing over to a wintry mix and eventually rain by tomorrow the only area it will stay snow is up across central and northern new england. that will even wind down as we go into thursday morning. so any additional snowfall is minimal at this point except across new england, abt 4 to 6 inches possible. and areas hit hard by the rain with this storm already bracing for the next storm by the end of the week. we could see an additional 3 to 4 inches of rain, and that could lead to more flooding. lester? >> all right, dylan, thank you. >>> president trump says tonight it's up to the new attorney general to decide how much of robert mueller's report is made public. those comments come as all sides point to mueller finishing his work very soon, but as our pete williams rep

dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "this is the emptiest it's been.had one person through since the roads opened."butted bridgette bjorlo reporting: "this area already has a lot of snow on the ground from previous storms, and now even more is on the way. it may not look like it now but this right here is a car that as you can see is completely snow- covered."as for those who did brave the conditions...mike lewis, traveler: "i was driving and there was a bunch of ice on it, so i tried to pluck it off and i just ripped my wiper blade off."...they ran into some roadway hazards. but the snow didn't stop sandra mccormick from heading west to the san francisco airport. sandra mccormick, traveler: "it's beautiful ... old fashioned storm."in search of warmer weather, she are heading to hawaii.and as she makes her way to her destination, she has an important message to other travelers.sandra mccormick, traveler: "take it slow. be careful. don't follow too closely to other people. be respectful of everybody ... we're all trying to get somewhere safely." (robin)

yesterday it was dylan's turn. first a check of the weather. >> all righty. >> today's weather is brought to you by target, at the store or to your door, target run and done. >>> let us check your weather, start off with today. we got some wet weather making its way with mountain snows through the pacific northwest, also into the northern rockies, bitter cold in the plains. record highs in the mid-atlantic states and the northeast. much cooler tomorrow here in the northeast and new england. strong storms in the mid-mississippi river valley, icy conditions from the u.p. of michigan back through chicago and on into the mid plains. snow and frigid weather through the that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. you can see the snow in the distance looking from our san jose camera. you can also see the snow in the distance or maybe it's right outside your window. we're going to see temperatures only making it into the upper 4

let's go to dylan, tracking it for us., wild s a wild couple of days, especially toward las vegas. nches of snow,l las vegas, wher which closed the schools. it is not a typical sight. w snowplowe hitting the roads in usuly sunny san diego of all places. highys around los angeles were forced to close. we saw snow at the hollywood sign, at1,500 feet. flag staff, arizona, picked up nearly 40 inches of snow just two days ago. that storm is now moving east stalled ning with a front that is now producing some of this warmer air that's also producing these heavier downpours. flooding is a huge threat, especially through tennessee and northern mississippi. we have flash flood watches in effect for 25illion people. we have the chance of severe storms, as well, especially throug mississippi and into parts oftennessee. large hail, damaging winds, and also tornadoes are possible wits thrm system. we could see 3 to 4 inches of additional rain again onf top saturated ground that could lead to more's flooding. th look at the weather acro

dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "this is the emptiest it's been.ve only had one person through since the roads opened."butted bridgette bjorlo reporting: "this area already has a lot of snow on the ground from previous storms, and now even more is on the way. it may not look like it now but this right here is a car that as you can see is completel...mike lewis, traveler: "i was driving and there was a bunch of ice on it, so i tried to pluck it off and i just ripped my wiper blade off."...they ran into some roadway hazards. but the snow didn't stop sandra mccormick from heading west to the san francisco airport. sandra mccormick, traveler: "it's beautiful ... old fashioned storm."in search of warmer weather, she and her family are heading to hawaii. and as she makes her way to her destination, she has an important message to other travelers.sandra mccormick, traveler: "take it slow. be careful. don't follow too closely to other people. be respectful of everybody ... we're all trying to get somewhere safely." (justine) that was bridgette bjorlo repor

dylan goldberg, gas station employee: "this is the emptiest it's been. we've only had one person through since the roads opened."butted bridgette bjorlo reporting: "this area already has a lot of snow on the ground from previous storms, and now even more is on the way. it may not look like it now but this right here is a car that as you can see is completely snow- covered."as for those who did brave the conditions...mike lewis, traveler: "i was driving and there was a bunch of ice on it, so i tried to pluck it off and i just ripped my wiper blade off."...they ran into some roadway hazards. but the snow didn't stop sandra mccormick from heading west to the san francisco airport. sandra mccormick, traveler: "it's beautiful ... old fashioned storm."in search of warmer weather, she and her family are heading to hawaii. and as she makes her way to her destination, she has an important message to other travelers.sandra mccormick, traveler: "take it slow. be careful. don't follow too closely to other people. be respectful of everybody ... we're all trying to ge

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i still give the credit to bob dylan, by the way. basement in the lookout, kid look what you did go down the manhole light use of a candle ♪ stop me. that's cap is one you get old. and memories are perfect. i can remember what i heard this morning. some words to live on. when the movement expanded into , this is whatce my mother said about the southern baptist preacher whose preaching the 10 commandments and said, thou shalt not kill. they'll shut not steal. not steal.lt preach on, preach on. thou shalt not commit adultery. the deacon walks out. when he gets to the door, he learns around and says, "now you done stopped preaching and meddling." that is how folks felt when dr. king went into economics, the class divide. it was one thing. they were supportive of the movement of himself, but when it moved into the barriers of class an opportunity, that's another matter. on the whole, this was inconsequential as to what it achieved toward dr. king's gold -- goal. this is something we have all been dealing with ever since. with doctors me

dylan dreyer has the forecast. dylan, where is this headed? >> good evening, lester. heavy rain is falling across the southern states with lots of cloud-to-ground lightning we could see the chance of flooding tonight with an additional 3 to 4 inches of rain possible. snow will overspread the upper midwest tonight. tomorrow morning in areas like chicago all thy overnto d.c. we will likely have snow during the morning commute. we will see it transition over to ice and then as the day goes on. in new york city and southern new england, the snow won't arrive until evening. as for snow totals, we could see about 6 inches or so back through the upper midwest. in d.c., closer to about 4, and in new york only an inch or two before that change over to rain overnight. >> thanks. >>> now to breaking news in the jussie smollett case. chicago police say the two brothers questioned and released met with police and prosecutors today after police sources say they claim the "empire" star paid them to stage an attack on him. nbc's miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: tonight law enfo

dylan is just outside our doors with the very latest. hey, dylan. >> reporter: good morning, guys. you know, for the first time since monday i am not standing outside in windchills below zero. it feels like two right now here in new york city, but millions of people from the midwest to the northeast have been stuck in the grips of this icy polar vortex. it's the reason behind the bone chilling dangerous cold, flight disruptions and at least 12 deaths. >> this morning frozen solid, some 120 million americans emerging from another day of icy misery. >> it's crazy. right now i'm just finding anyplace to hide. >> it's so, so cold. >> i've been here all my life. nothing as cold as this. >> reporter: in iowa firefighters battling ice as much as fire. in illinois a new state record, the city of mount carol plunging to 38 below. and in ohio a terrifying wipeout and near miss on a frozen bridge. the harsh chill now blamed for as many as 12 fatalities. at chicago's already crippled airport, bursting pipes now wreaking havoc. airlines reporting more than 6,000 airport delays and cancellations

dylan is here with that. >> good morning. an interesting situation out in the pacific northwest, take a look at the snow. this is in the seattle area where we've had about 6.4 inches of snowfall already. this is only the second largest 24 hour snowstorm in 20 years. so this is certainly unusual situation, 150 flights in and out of the airport have been canceled, a state of emergency has been declared. and the snow is still falling. it will move eastward as we go through the day, but we do have winter weather advisories and alerts in effect for the entire pacific northwest. if we take a look, it is going to move east into the rockies, it looks like mainly rain for coastal california, but snow in the mountains. we could see 2 to 4 feet in the sierra nevada mountain range. it will move eastward going into sunday. seattle could see another couple of inches of snow. same for portland, we could see 3 to 6 inches. mountain range could end up with 2 to 4 feet of additional snow. . >>> we've got 46 degrees this morning in san francisc

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as we climb out of this cold wave, nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer looks at what's ahead. dylan? >> good evening, jose. we are finally getting some relief from the grips of that polar vtex. temperatures tomorrow will once again get above average chicago should hit 44 degrees, kansas city, 60,egree degrees above average. down in atlanta, 57 with a few spotty showeho for all people down at the super bowl. then on monday, temperatures will continue to warm up. close to 70 in st. louis. huntsville, 68 degrees jacksonville, florida, 69 degrees. even in ston, 15 degrees above average with a high of 51. ose to 60 in new york city and temperatures slide down into the 40s and become much more seasonable as we go into the middle of the wein. >> in brihere is growing anxiety over brexit as the country prepares to leave the european union. this is prompting some to take drastic defensive actions to heotect telves. nbc's sarah harman has more tonight. >> reporter: with less than two months to go, britain still doesn't agree on how to leave the eu. >> no deal, a deal or no brexit. reporter: wi

a few months ago tiny dylan mean he wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a thousand residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every duel this house had as kids. this house the model the owner of this house every chest full of this when you come here often here each and every man or women or child around here is coughing has a pope him of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them are only changed from the man who. says. he them i want to test in your question i will wind up with a. question that needs. over one and a half million south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. itself it gets into our fourth week this past week think this that saw that is why so many people here this is the silent killer this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. or who do you know.

working on business efforts. >> what was dylan howard thing emerged. >> did he have any contact withnment officials? >> there is now a growing body of evidence that ami has enjoyed very close relationship or made aggressive business overtures towards the saudis. >> do you know on that trip if he made any contacts with the government? >> if i recall correctly, he did make contact with saudi officia officials. >> you know so many parts of this story. i didn't know you were going to say that on live go to you beca know so many parts of the story. they made a testation to the justice department that they had no contact with saudi government officials. >> this gets into the weeds here. it's what i do. i'm under here gardening. >>> there was a point where they turned to the justice department and are we in danger of being viewed as a foreign agent. >> what you're saying is true, depending on the timeline. the justice department may view that as miss leading. if they sa they hid the contacts officials. >> when they went to the department of justice seeking advice on whether or not what they

bob dylan for the song saying "the answer is glowing in ththe wind."ong, the topic is building a cause. ♪ roads must a man walk down man?e he is called a and how many seas --♪ and bobt was izzy young dylan in 1962. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, and those are the headlines. this is the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. >> welcome to our viewers. we begin today's show in virginia, where a reckoning about racism and sexual assault has left the state government in disarray, with virginia's top three elected officials, all democrats, facing political crisises that threateno o upend their careers and the state's democratic leadership. the controroversy at'enenveloped virginiaia since govovernor ralh nonortham admimitted to wewearig blackface last week took a shocking turn wednesday, when virginia attorney general mark herring also admitted to wearing blackface at a college party. just days prior, herring had called for governor northam to resign. the second in line, justin fairfax, is also embroiled in scandal after a woman who has accused

committee should talk to for additional information on this or anything else yes i believe david carr dylan howard. barry levine of am i as well. alan weisel berg alan garton trump organizations well thank you very much for your testimony and mr chairman this is a story of redemption thank you ma'am mr comer. mr cohen in your testimony you stated that you began work for the trump organization as a lawyer dealing with real estate transactions that's correct prior to coming to congress i served as a director of two different banks watson hundreds of loan applications and to try to determine your credibility or did i just want to ask you a couple of real estate transaction question just to see how in fact you operate according to the southern district of new york prosecutors you lied to banks to secure loans by falsely stating the amount of debt you were carrying mr cohen my question to you was it donald trump's fault that you knowingly committed a crime of deception to defraud a bank no it's not was that fraudulent loan you obtained for the trump organization or for you personally it would be

>> yes, dylan? yes? >> that wasn't me -- >> scott, excuse me, scott. >> just real quick, stephanie, in your -- kim touched on this point, i'm really hoping you follow-up here but the best thing that can come out of this is that it cmakes a longer conversation that we have a digital crisis. jeff bezos knows he'll be okay. does a 15 or 16-year-old boy or girl who is sitting and struggling with the mental anguish of a mistake they have made, do they know they will be okay? it is no accident that teen depression is escalating and suicide among teen girls has sky rocketed. this needs to be a bigger conversation around the emerging crisis in teen depression and what it means to have our mistakes digitalized. >> i cannot thank you enough for ending our segment on that powerful moment. >> as a mother of a 12-year-old, we have this conversation in my house almost daily. >> 100%. >> thank you so, so much. all of you. it's a really important topic. we are watching the house judiciary committee this morning, acting

we've got dylan dreyer, sheinelle jones.r. roker we'll see you back here on monday. it seems like every morning there's a new twist in this jussie smollett story. three weeks ago the actor told chicago police he was the victim of a hate crime, but now he's accused of making it all up. well, smollett made bail yesterday, and there are r

dylan rice, senior analyst for community and cultural events giving you an update on after events.t's been a while. so a major development in the cannabis legislation development world. a few weeks ago, there was -- excuse me -- there was legislation proposed at the board of supervisors that would give the office of cannabis the power to create a new regulatory framework, essentially creating a cannabis events permit. this is something that the state recently authorized with the passage of bill ab-2020, letting communities decide when and where they want to have cannabis events. the full legislation is proposed, and it's going to committee on february 27, if you're interested. i've been doing outreach, letting event producers know that it's happening, and if they want to share their thoughts at the hearing or with their local supervisor, they can do so. i'll just sort of give you a breakdown of what the legislation is proposing. it would basically give office of cannabis the local signoff before it goes to the state for the final signoff. this is for both indoor and outdoor events

the sixty nine international dylan film festival with another star studded opening as always. and this as always festival director diesel cars like in his trademark trance and red skull he's been greasing the stones and so.

traitors within gallows in which basically it's given me a message to gargle dylan live in it is so they all telling you what they might do to you others posted threatening to burn the place down or to demonstrate in front of the restaurant most of abraham's employees are from all over the world some arrived as refugees others to work like chef taric personally i'm not really feeling very good ultimate just you know things get in charge we can hear on the news all the time talking about it and the people have been called in os here and say in the past the things about os and according to tar ex boss abraham there is one clear reason for this change. since the brits it was the divisions of our country have grown up so there's more division than before the brits it will took place so the freds were receiving an unacceptable that unpleasant and it's becoming the environment that the government would see created has been a bit hostile recent surveys show that around two thirds of the british. stink breaks it has make people angry or and the same amount believe their country isn't on a good p

it's happening. >> dylan, thank you. al will have more on the weekend warmup in a bit. >>> breaking overnight, the president trump speaking out in a wide-ranging new interview and raising eyebrows with what he's sa about the border wall battle and the mueller investigation.r peexander is on it from the white house. >> good morning to you. in the new interview, president trump says he's basically given up on negotiating with congress over his border wa, insisting he will build it on his own, two weeks before the next funding deadline. despite his intelligence chiefs this week contradicting him on several key world views, the president claims they are very much inen agre with congress struggling to come up with a deal, overnight in an interview with "the new york times," president trump dismissed the border wall talks. >> i think it's a waste of r ti. orter: and blasting the new house speaker. >> i think nancy pelosi is hurting o country very badly by doing what she's doing. and ultimately, i thi i've set the table very >>

dylan roof is a monster. dylan should never have been able to buy a gun. dylan rooff walked into a church in my hometown of charleston, south carolina, my birthdays of charleston, south carolina and he slaughtered nine people. in a bible study. i can't imagine a more horrific crime. and we all naturally look for a response. my friend, mr. clyburn, the majority have noted that thousands of people have wrongfully acquired guns because of the failure of our background check system under what's become known as the charleston loophole. the stated purpose of this underlying legislation, mr. clyburn's legislation, is certainly noble. to close the charleston loophole. the only problem is, it does not carry out that purpose. too often here we take up noble causes and we create legislation with nobody names and we pass this legislation to feel better, but the legislation fails to solve the roblem in the title. after these horrific murders, the families of the victims sued the federal government for allowing this monster to buy a gun. charleston federal district judg

joining us, nbc news technology correspondent jacob ward and nbc senior media reporter dylan byers. we know amazon promised 25,000 job, and millions of dollars in investment in exchange for 2 incentives. new york knew and had to be on some level for that kind of dough coming in the door. >> governor cuomo had said he tried to get a business with 100 jobs and the loss of 25,000 jobs a very big deal. the larger objection that so many people had is when you bring in a tech company. a huge $25,000 job tech company. ilths in t you're atracting outside talent. the best and the brightest. city leaders felt this wasn't going to be the right kind of benefit for that neighborhood and maybe for the city. people are on either side of this thing. people felt this was great for new york. and a whole bunch who think amazon strung the swear country along with the idea it would go in and change communities. it was never going to change new york. but is this good or bad? >> look, lining you said, it's a divisive issue. who feel like amazon doesn't deserve $3 billion in tax incentivings. another conti