before i was just -- i was just gabe, and now i'm gabe the skin head, and everyone respects me and fears me. it happened to me and i'm not willing to let it happen to anyone else. >>> first thing i like to say about the american flag, i don't salute the american flag, two of the states stand for alaska and hawaii, i stand for my own flag, the banner of the white race. >> with me is chris picciolini, the director of the northern hammer skin heads. i believe we are warriors today and fighting for a great cause, which is the white race. >> it's painful to admit, but that the me, 22 years ago. today, i see the world very differently. >> joining us now christian picciolini, he is the cofounder of life after hate. >> hello, this is christian. tell me what is going on, man. >> for more than a decade, i maze it my -- i made it my mission to help people disengage from hate groups. does he talk about using weapons? there's a resistant to work with someone that was a violent white supremacist. he is preparing for the race war. there's so many more people who need help. i get calls and e-mails from

gabe, how is she ? (gabe)just a little bit ago we got some good news.this six year old hit by a stray bullet last night in oakland is going to survive. she is in stable condition.the chief of police visited a couple hours ago to bring her something special and then she had a strong message for people using guns in her city. this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the

some sort of emergency, you said, with gabe harris? actually, it's more your emergency.rs? we brought them here. you c-can't transfer my people! they're not your people. not after gabe tells the doc area supervisor that his p.o. made him break the law for his own ends. you know, leo's got quite the tale of being ordered into rikers to shank a fellow parolee. i want them out of there now! hey! hands behind your back. what are you doing? ending your reign of terror. (shouts) (handcuffs tighten) you can't arrest me. sure can. and detain you until doc osi gets here. go to hell. both of you. do me a favor, janko. put our fellow law enforcement officer here into the detectives cell, will you? happily. you know, you're gonna get your very own parole officer, and i hope he's just like you. jamie: as soon as doc starts their investigation, you guys will get assigned a new p.o. you'll tell them i didn't want to stab anybody, right? yeah. and gabe, i can't guarantee that you're gonna get to see liza, but i'll put in a good word. officer reagan. uh, why'd you help out me and liza? y

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gabe, your article provides fascinating insight into roger stone's mind-set even as the president in the fallout of stone's indictment, the potential reaction there, stone for his part repeatedly said i'm not testifying against the president but from what he said today and what you're hearing, could that change? >> clearly anything with roger stone is unpredictable but as i reported in "vanity fair," put it into context. he's had a long and complicated relationship with the president. he calls him privately mr. ingratitude. he's rankled by the fact that roger stone was responsible in many ways for donald trump's political rise and during the 2016 campaign he was essentially cast aside even as the "washington post" reported, donald trump would call him late at night and have private conversations so these men have history and if roger stone is facing years in prison, people around both men say anything is possible in terms of cooperation. >> based on that and his name for the president, do you think the option of being pardoned is not something he can count on? >> i clearly think that

gabe gutierrez is in houston with details. gabe, what are you learning about this? >> reporter: lester, good evening. there is growing concern among tsa union officials this shutdown could be devastating for more than 45,000 empye many of whom make $30,000 to $40,000 a year. they simply can't afford to go without a paycheck. the national tsa treasurer tells nbc news some officers have already been calling in sick. for its part, tsa says it's sia. call-outs began over the holidays but causing minimal impact. wait times may be impacted depending on the number of call-outs. while travelers haven't been impacted thus far, the question is what happens next week if this shutdown is not resolved? tsa workers won't get paid next friday. lester? >> gabe gutierrez in houston. >>> as the shutdown drama plays out, president trump hitting back from the rose garden at a congresswoman that made a profanity-laced vow to iea nbc's kristen welker has the story. urs after making history as the first palestinian american woman sworn into congress, michigan democrat tlaib is parking a f

nbc's gabe gutierrez has >>more reporter: this is gabe gu werrez in atlantahere after lines like these last week, the tsa is now calling for backup. around the country, i 10% o employees called off work on sunday compared to just 3% on the same day last year inmiami, tsa officer andrew nvozz says he's still the job but the government shutdown is making it harder to pay his bills. >> to go into a month like this, it's been a gut punch. >> reporter: the tsa is starting to see staffing issues at these large airports, at several, including atlanta, newa, and new york's laguardia, the agency is callingio in nl deployment officers who typically help during national disaster >> i showed up and another lead showed up, and only three officers showed up. nd on that shift, you're supposed to have at maximum, give or take 16 officers. >> reporter: atsa spokesman says this is uncharted territory, and with increased callouts, citing financial hardship, this could have a compounding affect and force contingency plans at airports nationwide. meanwhile throughout the country and across social media, st

gabe, good morng. >>ood morning. the president in his first prime time oval office address making the case for his long promised border wall and for increased security here at the southwest border. democratanwhile, firing back as this government shutdown drags on. the president insisting once pouringat drugs are across the border, but the drug enforcement agency has said the st majority of illegal drugs come through legal ports of entry. drug smugglers using vehicles getting the drugs over the er bo and critics say the wall wouldn't really do much to help any ofthat. apprehensions at the border are up slightly, but not at record highs. up around 400,000 l t fiscal year. not nearly as much year 2000, werehere were more than 1.5 million appre ansions. heret the border there are many people who say this wall won't do much ofanything, and it is the trump administration's policies that are forcing undocumented immigra not to turn themselves inm for asy at legal ports of entry, but to t to make the dangerous journey to rem

kron 4's gabe slate has more. this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief shares how the parents are holding up sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "the are shaken"oakland police believe the stray bullet was from someone firing up into the sky at midnight to celebrate new years. they intend to find that person. sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chie

kron 4's gabe slate joins us live from where the i how is she ? just a little bit ago we got some good news.this six year old hit by a stray bullet last night in oakland is going to survive. she is in stable condition.the chief of police visited a couple hours ago to bring her something special and then she had a strong message for people using guns in her city. this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief

and yes, increased funding for border security as gabe gutierrez just showed. there is human trafficking. there is drug trafficking and we should do more to combat that. >> you know better than the average person how complicated this is, how very complex the negotiations have been, how emotionally as well as legally fraught they can be. do the democrats have a point where they say you cannot negotiate this under these circumstances? the government should never have been shut down. 800,000 people are not getting paid. open up the government and then let's have the conversation. but if we're going to wait to get comprehensive immigration reform while 800,000 people are waiting to get paid, i think at some point the airports are going to be shut down, don't you? >> i agree with that, chris. there's no need to shut down the government in order to have a good debate and a good result on immigration reform. but this is where we are. we don't get to choose. this is where we are, and we know in order to reopen the government we're going to need a bill that gets a major

gabriel "gabe" zimmerman. bill badger. these were the people wounded by the gunman. congressman ron barbour who is now my district director. ken dureshka. james fuller. randy gardner. congresswoman gabbie giffords. susie heilemann. george morris. mary reid. pam simon who is in the gallery with us today. mavy stoddard, ken tucker. the members of my community had never seen such a devastating tragedy before yet they responded with compassion and kindness toward the survivors. and the families of those who were murdered. they did not let this horrific tragedy define who we were. three memorials sprung up spontaneously. at the site of the shooting. at congresswoman giffords' office. and at the university hospital where the most seriously wounded were taken. thanks to the quick actions of members of the public who rushed by the the wounded and first responders lives were saved that morning. this mental health of everyone in attendance was adversely affected. and many of the survivors still endure the physical and mental impact the shooting had on their lives. the families

let's start with you, gabe. president trump's claim that there's a new migrant caravan and been tweeting about this one. he tweeted mexico is doing nothing to stop the caravan which is now fully formed and heading to the united states. we stopped the last two. many are still in mexico but can't get through our wall. but it takes a lot of border agents if there's no wall. not easy. what is the case right there on the border, gabe? >> reporter: good afternoon. we're here in arizona and we spoke with several border agent yesterday talking about what they call a crisis at the border and a humanitarian crisis. let's take a look at what the president said today talking about that new migrant caravan coming from south america enrote to the united states. that caravan about 2,000 people or so did cross from guatemala into mexico and that's much like the previous caravan that we saw several months ago. it was several caravans that merged together into one. in all about 7,000 or so migrants ended up heading toward the u.s

thechool was closed yesterday due to threats of violence according to astatemen gabe gutierrez is in kentucky with more. >> nick sandman a kentucky student says he wasn't disrespectful when he appeared to confront nathan phillips. he sat down exclusively with savannah guthrie. >> do you feel that you owe anybody anapology? do you see your own flt in anyway? >> as far as standing there, i had every right to do so. my position is that i was not disrespectful to mr. phillips. i respect him. i'd like toalk to him. i mean, in hindsight, i wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole >> the covingtonh catholic h school students, some wearing make america great again hats were in wd.c. lastk for the march for life. >> at the parade i felt threatened because when we were there and we were in front of them, they surrounded us. >> but after more videos emerged, defenders of the students say thereas a rush to judgment. >> do you think the students did anything wrong? >> no. >> a stude whose parents didn't wantis face shown told nbc affiliate his classmates were using schl chanlts to dro

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >> just devastating. >>> we turn now to the drama in washington. the new year set to begin with the government still in a partial shutdown. but today, new signs president trump and democrats may be ready to bring it to an end. we'll get the details now from nbc's garrett haake. >> reporter: 2018 will end with the federal government still partially shut down. ten days in, the parties still divided over funding for the president's border wall, still not talking. >> the house will be in order. >> reporter: the house and senate in for just minutes with most lawmakers still out of town. service the senate stands adjourned until january 2nd, 2019. >> reporter: late tonight the president telling fox news. >> i'm here. i'm ready to go. it's very important. a lot of people are looking to get their paycheck. so i'm ready to go any time they want. we are not giving up. we have to have border security and the wall is a big part of border security, the biggest part. >> reporter: but what does the president actually want? mr. trump has shifted from a concrete wa

. >>> this is gabe gutierrez in atlanta where after lines like these last week, the tsa is now calling for backup. around the country, 10% of its employees called off work on sunday, compared to just 3% on the same day last year. in miami, tsa officer andrew vause says he's still on the job but the government shutdown is making it harder to pay his bills. >> to go into a month like this, it's been a gut punch. >> reporter: the tsa is starting to see staffing issues at these large airports and at several, including atlanta, newark, and new york's laguardia, the agency is calling on national deployment officers who typically help with staffing shortages during natural disasters. >> i showed up and another lead showed up. and only three officers showed up. and on that shift, you're supposed to have at maximum give or take 16 officers. >> reporter: a tsa spokesman says this is uncharted territory, and with increased callouts citing financial hardship, this could have a compounding effect and forced contingency plans at airports nationwide. meanwhile, throughout the country and across socia

. >>> this is gabe gutierrez near the border. >> -- said cat, you get out. there is work to be done. >> reporter: where laura walsh works for the forest service and is furloughed. >> just not a very great place to be where you're putting federal workers as political pawns. i want to go back to work. >> reporter: sheri kinart is an epa worker in colorado. both of her children have special needs. since the shutdown began, she has already had to stop some of their out-of-pocket therapies. >> i'm hoping that congress will come to their senses and put something through and hopefully the president will compromise. >> reporter: but some of president trump's supporters say the shutdown is worth it. >> i do feel like there is a crisis on the border right now. >> reporter: cory griffin lives in alamogordo, new mexico, home to the border patrol facility where a guatemalan child died last month in u.s. custody. >> we also want to extend our condolences -- >> reporter: congressional democrats toured the facility this week. >> and they say we don't need a wall. it's all t

gabe gutierrez is on the arizona border. >> reporter: in this nighttime video from the border patrol, you can see a bus in mexico dropping off dozens of migrants. and then they simply walk across a remote stretch of the arizona bord, marked only with a small fence. this is where it happened, that's mexico right there, and right where the undocumented immigrants were drorped -- were dropped off and walked right here to the other side of the border. >> i think you can ask any border patrol agent here that's been around from one year to 30 years as myself, and they'll tell you that this is a crisis. >> reporter: earlier this week, more than 300 undocumented immigrants crossed illegally near yuma. smugglers burrowed under the border fence to slide them through. >> we see large groups of families and unaccompanied children, and it's created a backlog in the immigration system. >> reporter: overall, apprehensions at the southwest border have plummeted over the last two decades. in the tucson sector alone, a drop from more than 600,000 to just 52,000 last year. is there a crisis on the borde

nbc's gabe gutierrez has more from houston. >> reporter: her family says jasmine barnes' life was summed up by her ve love, laugh. tonight, there is an all out manhunt for this killer. >> for this man to come out this parking lot and fire off shots at me and my kids was totally wrong. >> reporter: her mother is now out of the hospital after being shot in the arm. she told us she was going to get hecofour daughters when a red pickup truck pulled up next to her and a man started shooting. >> then my baby was an angel in disguise and i'm going to be leading the charge until i get justice for my baby. >> reporter: a $50,000 reward is being offered to help find the gunman. sheriff's deputies are looking for that red pickup truck captured on surveillance video. >> it does definitely seem to be random, however, we're not tone deaf to concerns there could be a hate motive to this. >> reporter: jasmine's family is begging for the public's help to find the man who took this young girl filled with joy. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, houston. >> also in texas tonight, the tragic case of a 14-year-old boy

nbc's gabe gutierrez has more on that controversy. >> reporter: these pictures obtained by the local paper, "the tallahassee democrat," show michael ertel at a private halloween party in 2005 posing as a hurricane katrina victim. at the time, ertel was a county supervisor of elections. just weeks ago florida governor ron desantis had appointed him secretary of state. >> it's unfortunate. i think he's done a lot of good work. but at the same time, you know, i've got to have an administration that's going to be focused on what matters to floridians, and i don't want to get mired into kind of side controversies. >> reporter: according to the paper, the photos were taken just two months after hurricane katrina ravaged the gulf coast. ertel is seen in blackface wearing red lipstick, earrings, and a new orleans saints bandana. there's nothing i can say, he told the paper, when asked about the photos. today the paper says it shared them with the governor's office. ertel abruptly resigned hours later, just a short time after testifying before lawmakers about election lawsuits. nbc news could

now it says a third party investigation will begin this week. >> all right, gabe gutierrez. thank you. you can see more of savannah's exclusive interview this morning on the "today" show. >> operations are back to normal after a disruption tuesday night. the federal aviation administration told nbc news that arrivals at newark were temporarily suspended because two drones were detected in northern new jersey. no suspects have been identified but if caught, drone operators can face criminal penalties and fines. the incident comes just one month after drones stranded thousands of passengers days before christmas. >> looks like serena williams pursuit of a record tying 24th grand slam title will have to wait. the u.s. tennis star was knocked out of the australian open after being defeated by pliskova. serena lead 5-1 in the third set on wednesday. she was one point from victory. one point away when she appeared to turn her ankle on her first match point. pliskova came back winning six straight games to clench a victory. she will now advance to the semifinals against u.s. open c

>> all right, gabe gutierrez, thank you. and by the way, savannah went on the ask sandmann about allegations he and his classmates instigated the confrontation with chance. also about the look on his face in the video. we'll have much more tomorrow morning on "today." >>> tonight there is word of a tentative deal in place between los angeles officials and the teachers union that would end the six-day teachers strike in the nation's second largest school district. the union still needs to vote on the agreement, which includes higher salaries and smaller class sizes. >>> tonight we're tracking a new winter storm causing trouble on the roads in the midwest where a number of accidents are reported. many of us are getting some relief from the brutal cold finally, but that new storm out of the rockies and plains will bring more snow to the midwest tomorrow. and that storm is raising fears of more avalanches after two in recent days in colorado and new mexico left three people dead. authorities now warning skiers to use extreme cau

with more, here's gabe gutierrez. >> pass is incomplete, no flag. >> reporter: ten days after the refs decided not to call this pass interference penalty, dashing the super bowl dreams of the new orleans saints -- >> we understand the frustration. >> reporter: -- commissioner roger goodell finally broke his silence saying he never considered changing the outcome of the nfc championship game. >> should the saints be here, and is this game tainted? >> the game of football is played on the field. and they're played by humans, they're coached by humans, they're officiated by humans. we understand the disappointment of the saints fans, the organization and the players. >> reporter: fans so outraged some have sued. goodell's comments not satisfying matt bowers, who's bought several billboards to make it clear he thinks the saints were robbed. >> it was devastating. it's insulting to me that roger goodell would somehow insinuate he understands how we feel. >> reporter: the saints head coach saying he's trying to get past it. >> i eat ice cream and watch netflix for three straight days. >> rep

nbc's gabe gutierrez is there. >> what would you say to the family? >> reporter: eric black jr. charged with capital murder in the death of 7-year-old jazmine barnes. >> the evidence is pointing to eric black as the driver of the getaway vehicle. >> reporter: prosecutors say black admitted to driving a dark-colored suv when his passenger opened fire on the car jazmine was in, thinking it belonged to someone else. the alleged shooter has not been charged in the case, but jazmine's family attorney and nbc affiliate kprc citing law enforcement sources identify him as larry woodruff, who was arrested on an unrelated drug charge. >> she did not deserve this at all. >> reporter: jazmine's mother, who was shot in the arm, had believed the shooting was racially motivated. the sheriff here now says it wasn't. >> this was likely a case of mistaken identity. >> rtethe n in this composite sketch. instead, after a $100,000 reward wa offered, a tip came in to an activist working the case. >> i feel some relief in this. because now my baby's got justice. >> reporter: jazmine will be laid to re

gabe, thank you. >> a good ending there. meantime, we have breaking developments tied to the government shutdown and air travel. just moments ago the faa said it is halting flights at new york's busy laguardia airport because of an air traffic control staff shortage. we are learning more this morning about a potential plan to pay some of those furloughed workers. tom costello joins us with that. tom, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. we have breaking news. the tsa chief announced moments ago they have found a way to partially pay tsa employees who worked from december 23 through january 5. not everybody. partial payment for those screeners. meanwhile, the flight attendants and pilots unions saying it makes no sense for air traffic controllers who are up there working without pay to add that kind of stress to one of the most stressful jobs in america. 10,500 air traffic controllers watch the nation's skies, but after a month without paychecks, some are joining other government workers at local food banks. >>

gabe, how is she ? this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief shares how the parents are holding up sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "the are shaken"oakland police believe the stray bullet was from someone firing up into the sky at midnight to celebrate new years. they intend to find that person. sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chie

nbc's gabe gutierrez is in sunland park, new mexico.efore we run out of time and see the president arriving on the hill, you're right there near the steel slats, the border area in new mexico. using funds from the bush administration, right? >> yeah, this is what the president -- exactly right. this is what the president is referring to when he talked about that steel barrier. we're here in sunland park, new mexico. right through here, the outskirts of juarez, new mexico. this is the type of barrier the president derided repeatedly as a candidate. he talked about there being a need for a concrete wall. now he's talking about a steel barrier. in the distance over there, you can see some students that are actually going right up to this border fence, and you can speak to somebody on the other side. now, this as you mention, andrea, the funding was set aside during the bush administration back in 2006. the actual fence was constructed just several years ago. before that here, there was a chain link fence. for the most part, people could tr

nbc's gabe gutierrez has more from houston. >> he's going to tn himse in. er reporter: jazmine barnes's family believes death is racially motivated. >> this is something i believe was a h hate crime. enough time it to know it was a woman with kid in the car. >> reporter: jazmine and her mother were on a coffee run sunday morning when investigators say a man opened fire killing the 7-year-old. >>> what will you miss most about your sis der? >> her smile. >> reporter: 1-old was in the front passenger seat. >> he was white and he had blue eyes. ffad a hoodie on >> reporter: she's deputies eleased this sketch of the suspect. it started off on the passeng side then switched lanes behind them and pulled up to the drivers sidan >>ou remember how many gunshots they were? >> no, but i know he finished his clip. he emptied out his gun. >> reporter: investigators are looking into whether this deadly encounter is connected to an unsolved shooting in the same arean 2017 where a white suspect fired into a vehicle carrying african americans. shaquille o'neal has offered t

nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest. t > reporter: the gunsund in her left arm only begins to tell the horrifying story. >> i turned around and my 7-yeaold was shot in the head. >> reporter: 7-year-old jasmine barns was among her n four daughtethe car around 7:00 a.m. sunday. from a hospital bed in houston, her bothemother tells us she was going to get coffee when a d red pickup pulleup next to her near this walmart and a man she says she did not know started shooting. >> toleverybody to get down in the car, and i reached over to protect my oldest because she was right next to me, the shots came through my window and broke my glass. i don't know how my baby got shot. >> rorter: somehow, she survived, but jasmine did not. >> jasmine is an out going, fun, loving outgoing, f child. gewe was going to coffee, coffee, and my baby lost her life. >> reporter: now a desperate manhunt late today sheriff's deputies released this surveillance image of the red pickup truck and they are looking for the gunman, possibly a white man wit

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, houston. >> also in texas tonight, the tragic r- case of a 14-yd boy charged with murder after police say he got behind the wheel to pull pranks th his friends and ended up kilng a 45-year-old mother. our ron mott with that story. >> reporter: tonight, newlreleased survey videos show unidentified teenagers throwing eggs out of an suv when a driver flashed a semiautomatic weapon and stted chasing them causing them to broadside a pickup truck killing 45-year-old sylvia zavala. >> they pulled the lady out of the car and she was dead on sight. >> reporter: the 14-year-old driver ran a red light and hit her car going at least 60 miles an hour. en >> happy indnt woman. >> reporter: leaving the single mother's family devastated. >> i feel bad, rightke do, but you took my mother's life away, and he has to pay for what he did. >> reporter: the tn behind the wheel has been charged with murder a police say the driver who chased after thteen but did not stop after the accident is cooperating. investigators say the teen driver took his ther's suv without peission. ron mott

said he'll donate his paycheck from this saturday's police officer game in her honor. >> thanks to gabe gutierrez for that report. >> a rotten day for apple weighing heavily on u.s. markets. the dow tumbled 660 points after the tech titan reported slowing sales in china, and blamed president trump's trade war. the tech heavy nasdaq shed 202 points over 3% of its value. the plunge has many investors now asking, is the high price of iphones part of the problem? nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: on the streets of china, apple's iphones are a hard sell. for the first time in 15 years, apple is cutting revenue expectations. c.e.o. tim cook telling cnbc the trade war is a major factor. >> as we look at what's going on in china, it's clear that the economy began to slow there for the second half. and what i believe to be the case is the trade tensions between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy. >> reporter: apple stock sank fast. >> apple shares are on pace for one of the worst days in history. >> reporter: down 10%, and pulling the entire market down

nbc's gabe gutierrez was there. hurricane-ravaged puerto rico.> reporter: on openinnight in san juan, lin-manuel miranda couldn't hold back tears. >> i just love this island so much, and i o just want it proud of me. >> reporter: more than two years after stepping down from the role that catapulted his career to new heights, he's reprising "hamilton." ♪ >> what moment did you savor the most? >> bringing my father out on stage tonight. no one's worked hard than him. >> reporter: his father took us to vega alta, where lin-manuel summers. childhood what does this island still mean? >> the most important thing i believe it's to redo its electrical grid. >> reporter: "hamilton" is now in a three-week run, raising money to help the arts on the island. >> resilience. that's what these people are. and the spirit here. you feel it. >> reporter: jimmy fallon is among those highlighting puerto rico's resurgence, the focus of a special episode of "the tonight show." >> what i remember from hurricane so vividly was the quiet, not being able to hear from the i

>> gabe, thank you. >>> there is breaking news from florida. at least six are dead and eight injured, some critically in a y fimultivehicle wreck north of orlando. you can see a semi truck among the vehicles engulfed by flames. 50 gallons of diesel fuel spilled on i-75. >>> an american man arrested in russia is ofcially charged with espionage according to his russian attorney but is he being held as bait for a potential prisoner swap? andrea mitchell has more on the mystery. >> reporter: tonight paul whelan is in solitary confinemein de this jail. he's been officially charged with espionage. u.s. experts say the marine would have come to the attention of russian intelligence because unlike most investigators, he was active on a russian site and ties to security services claimi whelan was arrested while meeting with a russian citizen allegedly receiving a thumb drive containing the name of security agency employees. his twin brother said he was there for a wedding. >> he wouldn't do anything to break the laws and i can't imagine he would have br

all right, gabe guti jrez and hallkson, thank you. let's bring in chuck todd. chuck, you have gained some insight into the president's plan for tonight. what can we expect here? >> well, what we can expect is not a lot of plans, and instead i think it's more of a case that he is laying out. the presidenappears to be pretty dug in, lester, on this. and it's my understanding he is not going to announce any sort of plan forward of how to end hutdown or how to get hi wall built. instead, this address tonight and his trip to the border in a couple of days appears to be designed to make the case to the american people to try to find a way to put pressure on democrats to cave here. the president thinks that he can win this political argument. hehinks tonight is about getting the public on his side and creating more pressure on the democrats, but i can tell you this. there are a lot of congressional republicans that do lieve the president's sort of political analysis here is correct. and if anything, there is fear that tonight's speech is only going to make the republi

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nbc's gabe gutierrez has more. >> pass is incomplete. >> reporter: days after the refs decided not tos pass interference penalty, dashing the super bowl dreams of the new orleans saints, commissioner roger goodell finally broke his silence, saying he never considered changing the outcome of the nfc championship game. >> should the saints be here and is this game tainted? >> the game of football is played on the field, and they're playedy officiated by humans. we understand the disappointment of the saints fans, the organization and the players. reporter: fans so outraged, some have sued. goodell's comments not satisfying matt baughers who has bought several billboards to make it clear he thinks the saints were robbed. >> it was devastating. it's insulting to me that roger goodell would somehow insinuate he understands how we feel. >> reporter: the saints head coach saying he's trying to get past it. >> eat jenny's ice cream and watch netflix for three straight days. >> reporter: the nfl is also taking heat for canceling maroon 5's pregame press conference. the band drawing criticism a

. >>> this is gabe gutierrez in atlanta where authorities are hoping to avoid a repeat of snow jam five years ago when just over 2 inches of snow paralyzed this city. >> we are expecting snow and ice to come through tomorrow, but we are epared. >> reporter: tonight brine trucks will be on the move as preparations for super bow are under way. if the weather deteriorates tomorrow, fans holding tickets to those pregame events will bet allowed to reum on wednesday. >> we want to expect the best but we are prepared for the worst. >> reporter: 19 years ago another ice storm slammed atlanta just days before it last host a super bowl. tomorrow many sgoools and vernment offices will be closed here, in a city where even an inch of snow is taken seriously. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. >>> it is jaary, it's supposed to be cold, but this is downright dangerous. what everyone wants to know, hod s it going to get and where? al roker watching it all for us. al, good evening. >> lester, the polar vortex back with a vengeance. normally trappedn the upper latitudes, it now has weakened so it drops d

nbc's gabe gutierrez has more on what people are calling a real miracle. hey, gabe. an incredibl story. police say 3 yfrd casey hathaway wandered awa from his grandmother's home three days ago. he was playing with two other childr. they cameinside. he did not. family members looked for him for at least 45 minutes before calling 911, but then panic set in. hundreds of local volunteers as well as authorities and the fbi had searchedor him day and night. temperatures dipped below freezing at some points. there was real concern here. latehtast n a professional search and rescue team got a tip that he was in the brush abo a quarter mile from where he originally went missing. they found him there. he was crying, but otherwise okay. his family says one of the first things he asked for was to watch nelix and he jusit up when he saw his sister. it really is an incredibleor we're told he was overnight in the hospital for observation, but otherse he'soing okay. >> his folks saying heo wanted watch netflix. that was great. gape, thank you vermuch. >>> for the first time in weeks

gabe, what are students saying about all of this there? >> reporter: hi, craig, good morning.i get to the students' response i want to show you where we are. there's a small demonstration going on right now by members of the american indian movement of kentucky and indiana and ohio are also here. several groups as well. about two dozen or so. also onlookers. some people here who support the students as well. as you mentioned, as we've been reporting, the story has evolved after that initial video came out that seemed to show the students, one of them in particular in a face to face confrontation with that native american elder. the student has released a statement saying that group was taunted by a group of african-american protesters that were there known as the hebrew israelites. they say they were merely performing a school chant in response to that and that's when the native american elder came into the middle of it. now, here we heard from one of the students whose parents didn't want us to show his face. take a listen at how he described the situation. >> there was three

kron 4's gabe slate has more. this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition by a bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief shares how the parents are holding up sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "the are shaken"oakland police believe the stray bullet was from someone firing up into the sky at midnight to celebrate new years. they intend to find that person. sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "

kron 4's gabe slate has more. this is a rare sight, the oakland chief of police in street clothes and sneakers, on her day off, on a holiday, bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief shares how the parents are holding up sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "the are shaken"oakland police believe the stray bullet was from someone firing up into the sky at midnight to celebrate new years. they intend to find that person. sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chie

kron 4's gabe slate has more. this is a rare sight, in street clothes ansneakers, on r bringing a giant stuffed teddy bear to a gunshot victim.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of p"we start our new year with tragedy"oakland chief of police anne kirkpatrick visited the 6 year old girl who is in stable condition after being hit by a stray bullet new years eve night.this happened while her family was celebrating the new year at home, in their the backyard, on the 9600 block of thermal street.sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "i got to see her" oakland police say the girl will survive, she is in stable condition. the chief shares how the parents are holding up sound from - anne e. kirkpatrick, chief of police, oakland "the are shaken"oakland police believe the stray bullet was from someone firing up into the sky at midnight to celebrate new years. they intend to find that person. sound from - anne e. kirktr"we will use shotspotter technology, and match the bullet if we can" oakland's ch

nbc's gabe gutierrez is in houston with the latest. >> reporter: the reward for more activists to helprack down the gunman has been raised to $75,000. the sheriff say investigators have not ruled out the possibility that this could be a hate crime. this morning jasmine's family is pleading for help to find her killer. >> my baby was an angel. the person who may have killed or murdered my daughter, i just ask that you be man enough to come forward and face the consequences for your action. >> reporter: 7-year-old jasmine, her three sisters and their mom were on a cove run early sunday morning when investigators say a man pulled up next to them and opened fire. jasmine died afterhead >> he took away an innocent child who did not deserve this. she did n >> we were going to get cove, coffee. and my >> reporter: this morning she's out of the hospital but planning her daughter's funeral. sheriff's deputies also looking for this red pickup truck captured on surveillance video. authorities have not nailed down a motive. at this point does the shooting appear to be completely random. >> it does