that was michelle flory. —— fleury. couple of hours there has been some positive news for investors. china has confirmed that talks will resume with the us next week, aimed at ending the trade war between the two sides. rico hizon is following the story in singapore. i have a sense of deja vu here. we have been here before. is anything going to come of it? this mightjust be the happy new year's news that we are all waiting for. but of course, keeping ourfingers are all waiting for. but of course, keeping our fingers crossed that there will be genuine progress next week. there is a vice ministerial level meeting hopes to end a dispute which is inflicting increasing pain on the two global economies and dragging global markets lower, and the two nations have been locked in a trade warfor the two nations have been locked in a trade war for most of 2018, disrupting the flow of hundreds of million ‘s worth of goods, and stoking fears of a global economic slow down. —— hundreds of million ‘s of dollars. china's economic minist

agency had become aware of the security breach in december and contacted individual lawmakers but not flory unpoliced he only found out late thursday after a call from his political party so far he's had no word from security officials even though he's among the politicians most affected by the hacking. similarly kosik has been tracking this story for us he joins me now in studio max you heard there german authorities they've known about this for weeks why did it take them so long why didn't we know about this sooner well it's not uncommon for investigators for example incurring a case is to keep the public on inform for certain terms of like keeping the investigation going like strategic reasons but in this kaiser it's rather problematic because they said they knew by mid december when the initial publication of the lings where the data was circulated with became public but they only yesterday stated that they're now looking into it they had yesterday and crisis meeting with the intelligence services and the internet the german federal agency for information security problematic it is beca

a few years later at this flori florida florida sorority house he killed. >> he felt no matter what heid that he was smarter than all of them. >> reporter: his televised murder trial where he acted as his own attorney attracted millions of women. before his death, bundy finally confessed to more than 30 murders, although the true number of his victims may never be known. >> for everything that he did to the girls, the bludgeoning and the strangulation, i feel that the electric care is too good for him. >> reporter: he was executed 30 years ago last week, but his infamy lives on. >> he defied stereotypes and became a media star. he knew how to manipulate the media. and more importantly, his murder trial was the first nationally-tell advised trial. bundy made serial murder mainstream entertainment pause because we watched it live. >>> on a chilly night we take you to the caribbean to swim with whales. whales. touch shows how we really feel. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, the first and only treatment of its kind offering people wi

. >> a new report out today shows the south flori real estate market shining bright, while the northeast is facing a long market chill. average sale prices up 7% in miami and up 20% in bocraton. ft. lauderdale, palm beach and wellington also posting solid numbers for the fourth quarter, according to a report from douglas elleman and miller samuel. florida brokers say it has been the strongest start to a winter selling season in years. but manhattan just finished its worst year since the financial crisis.gr nwich, connecticut, once home to all those hedge fund billionaires, it now fille with empty mansions. prices there falling 20% in the quarter, and there is now a two and a half year supply of luxure so why the tail of two markets? well, taxes are one big reason. the new tax law which limits the amount of stateoc and taxes you can deduct makes it more expensive now to live and own in new york and other high-tax states. >> a person, a business owner making a million dollars a year will actually be saving enough money in taxes to support a $2 million mortgage on a condo in miami. >> tdemo

funds originally set aside, the recovery efforts in puerto rico, california, north carolina florida a, flori elsewhe elsewhere. joining me our correspondent and our peter baker, he's also an msnbc political analyst and our political recoporter. >> peter, what is the white house doing and what do they think they can get away with in order to redirect funding to the wall? there are laws in the book that allow presidents to reallocate funds that have not been spent on public projects particularly military construction project. it has not been used in this particular way before. if he were to go forward, there may be a court challenge, we don't know which way it will go. there is some president there is a sense of laws in the book. i am hearing more these days are republicans questioning whether this is a good idea. you know you heard marco rubio saying listen if you can do this for a border wall, democrats can come in and decide that climate change is a national emergency and suddenly they're taking proactive you knunilateral acti we should worry about separation of powers. the president has ki

. >> reporter: the appearance of former flori governor jeb bush aises speculation some believe hoganhe part of the republican party looking for a challenger to president trump. >> with this phenomenal example of leadership barely 30 miles prom washington, d.c., you'd think and he leaders from our nation's capitol would be paying anre attention. >> reporter: hogas said he's not interested in running for president, but he has not hesitated to criticize what hec s washington's debilitating politics. >> i'll work with anyone who wants to do the peoples business. governor's : the priorities include tax cuts, account in schools and redistricting. >> he expressed aillingness to work across party lines and we hope that's going to be the case. >> reporter: after all the speeches, the reptions and tonight's inaugural gala governor hogan gets down to business tomorrow, presenting his new budget to the maryland legislator here in annapolis. chris gordon, news 4. >>> a mother from virgini tepping up for furloughed families. >> it really hit home with me. >> the discreet approach that's seing her

in any other state people are like that's crazy but in flori florida, like that is best.he got another one. the scale allegedly aimed a - honey, she in the toy gun and a mail carrier and looted his truck. call me old-fashioned but i miss the good old days when the packages get delivered and then you stole them off the porch. that is so last year. package pirate was caught by police after she attempted to flee on the over black tricycle and notice how they pointed out the exact color because other this is not the only tricycle robbery today in florida. they had to differentiate. she has been released on bail but her tricycle was impounded. her boyfriend is getting her a new bike. there you go, beth. i got you a bike. if only hit a giant backpack to hide it in. so smart. topic number five. like a new year's gym membership this next segment is a dumb idea but it's time for viewer mail. thank you for nothing. indivisible rights i remember seeing kennedy on mtv when i was a kid and had no idea she was this mentally deranged. yeah, welcome to high death. jessica says - first hi

certainly are the visible faces of it, the real driver behind this policy i is marco rubio, senenator of floriwhere there is a significant amount of very radical expatriate not over just the last year to have or two, but back from 2001 and 2002, venezuelan have settled in miami. they're the same kind of weight that e exiles used to o have. marcoo rubio has beeeen the oneo whom trump basically outsourced venezuela policy. i should make one thing clear of venezuela's role -- the u.s. role in venezuela. on the one hand, there is this intervention that is taking place, but on the otother hand, the largrger play here is not actually venezuela. what is happening vis-a-vis venezuela in terms of the u.s. and pompeo and bolton's vision is reasserting controlol over re agenda in latin america. basically, r reasserting hegemoy that have been lost under the pink tide. venezuela is the staging ground. but this is a much larger continental move that has drawn players like bolsonaro in brazil, macri in argentina to say, you know, we are now turning back to the pre-pink tide days where it was the united state

the breaking news, the president's former adviser roger stone arreste in flori on criminal charges stemminga investigation. stone is accused by special counsel robert mueller of witness tampering, obstruction and making false statements. the indictment does not accuse stone of coordinating with the russian government election interferen in 16. he is scheduled to appear in court later this morning. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive involving president trump's n-in-law, jared kushner. two sources tell the network kushn kuopner's application for a secret clearance was rejected by two white house security specialists over fears he was open to foreign influence. their supervisor, carl klein overruled tha recommendation and approved the clearance. the background checknt iied questions about foreign contacts and meetings he had during the campaign. the house oversight committee is launching an official into the white house security clearance process. >>> there's a new controversy surrounding t nfl this morning. ,his one does not involve the new orleans sain rather an incident that happened during t

." >>> this morning investigators in flori are trying t piece together the cause of that fiery interstate crash near gainesville. east seven people were killed when two trucks and two passenger vehicles collided. nbc's kerry sanders is at the scene for us. kerry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. it has been more t 15 hours since the ghastly accident. a portion of interstate 75, one of the threees heading south, remains closed. investators hoping that the daylight hours will give them an opportunity to bette assess the scene so they can determine who was at fault.ti overnight invtors on the scene of a horrifying crash, trying to piece together what happened. the accident thursvoy afternoon ing two tractor-trailers, a passenger van, and a midsized sedan. >> and the fire was so big and so strong and so, so bad. >> reporter: all of the vehicles catching fire after 50 gallons of diesel fuel spilled and quickly became a terrifying inferno. >> when you have a truck involved and that much metal scraping each other and that tyol ofsion, there is a highba pty rot>> t rlieportehar: