gabe, good morning. >> reporter: marlie, good morning. after weeks of pregame controversy swirling around super bowl liii, the big game turned out to be the blandest one in recent memory, the lowest-scoring super bowl in history. the only super bowl not to have arters.down for the first thre in the end tom brady led his team to victory in the fourth quarter 13-3, his fifth super bowl win, c noncontroversial game the league needed after the headlines. the halftime shchopined on soci media for theis did not take after to perform amid controversies surrounding quarterback colin kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. no mention whatsoever of any of that. new england becomes the first super bowl team since the 1972 miami dolphins to win the big game the year after losing it. most valuable player of this game, wide receiver julian edelman. >> all right, gabe, thank you. we'll have play-by-play highlights and analysis coming up as well as all the action from the halftime show and a recap of the biggest commercials of the night. >>> you

nbc's gabe gutierrez went to roma, texas, to get a perspective there. >> reporter: in the rio grande valley, a smalwall. e had with the border wall originally has been will it displace residents in our community? >> reporter: freddie gare is the city manager in romroma, texas, an hour's drive west of mccallen, near where construction on new parts of the barrier are set for this month. the rio grande valley sees the most border apprehensions. overall, they've dropped dramatically over the last two decades. this resident opposes the wall. he fears this property, in his family since the 1700s, will be taken away to build it. is there a crisis at the border? >> not that i know of. >> reporter: right now, there is no border barrier throughout most of roma. ross pereira is the chairman of the local republican party. >> i say we do need a wall, or as most folks say now,n worry it could be built through neighborhoods closest to mexico, breaking up communit aheir homes. >> people that live here, the biggest frustration is they don't really know anything about what's going on. >> reporter: thi

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, colombia. >>> and now to a disturbing case in texas we first told you about one year ago when a kidnapping victim was killed during a rescue attempt by the fbi. authorities now say an fbi agent may have lied about what happened raising new questions about whether or not the nation's top law enforcement agency is holding itself accountable. nbc's ken dilanian has the story. >> reporter: it seemed like a tragic mistake. a young father in houston held for ransom was shot to death last january. not by his kidnappers, but by an fbi agent trying to save him. his 13-year-old son now on orphan being raised by his half sister. >> his heart is hurting. >> reporter: authorities called the death a simple accident. the fbi agent told houston police he uses m-4 rifle to break a window at this house where valadares was held captive. he said somebody started to pull on the rifle from inside. >> when he felt he was starting to lose control, he intentionally discharged his rifle. >> reporter: but now new questions about whether valadares died because of a fbi agent negligence.

. >>> nolan and his buddy gabe are on a road trip in wisconsin. >> it's cold. >> they have traveled fiveis. >> cool. >> the l. wade childress, it's on dry land. >> someone really got lost. >> about 34 years ago that boat sank and it was recovered and put here, for 33 years. >> now what? >> now since the doors are wide open, the windows are wide open, there are no signs that say no trespassing, snenelson and gabee going to hop on board and check out this rusty relic. >> be kind of sneaky. we don't want anybody to see us. >> the whole place peeling apart. they find a couple of random items, like a toothbrush, old fuse box or switchboard. looks like a power center for different areas of the boat. >> things back then were built to last. >> not built to float. >> there's that. >> am i am the only lamo that has a bleeding heart about stuff like this it makes me sad to see something so cool one time be a piece of trash in the middle of nowhere. >> i know where you're coming from it's a neat antique relic to see. it would be cool to see it sea worthy. >> it's not historical. it's not like the ma

nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. >> reporter: nathaniel rhodes' van crashed last august in charleston, south carolina. according to a police report the father of three was already on a stretcher in an ambulance when an officer decided to conduct field sobriety tests after finding an open bottle of wine in his van. annette was his wife of 35 years. >> it was unbelievable. i cou i couldn't imagine. >> instead of going to the hospital rhodes went for dui. >> why wasn't he taken to the hospital? >> that is the big question and that's the question that both charleston ems and the city of charleston police department have to answer. >> in this surveillance video provided by nbc news by the family's attorney emts at the police station evaluate him, but don't seem to realize he has internal injury, eight broken ribs and a ruptured liver. >> it hurts. it really does. rhodes eventually slipped a coma and died four days later at the hospital. after nbc news started asking questions about the case, charleston's police chief asked the state to conduct an independent investigation. in a written sta

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> tonight we are tracking a dangerous winter storm on the move. millions under threat of floods in the south and bracing for a snowy blast from the plains to the east coast. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer is monitoring it for us. dylan? >> good evening, lester. heavy rain is going to start to build in from the south early tuesday morning. this is falling on saturated ground so we could see some flash flooding along with the fact that we could end up with about 4 to 5 inches of rain. on the northern side 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 into indiana. this will also affect the appalachians, washington, d.c., up into new york city, before it changes over to rain. we could end up with about 4 to 6 inches of snow through d.c. higher amounts in the appalachians and also across central and northern new england. but in the middle here you can see we will pick up about 1 to 2 inches of snow before that changeover. lester? >> all right, dylan. thank

over 1 million people headed there and gabe gutierrez takes us inside the major effort to protect the city and the game. >> reporter: these are the blackhawks swooping over super bowl liii. >> we've been preparing for this for several months. >> reporter: customs and border protection agents on the move, preparing to enforce a 30-mile no-fly zone around mercedes-benz stadium on game day. authorities say so far there have been no credible specific threats against the big game but they're on high alert. more than 70,000 people will attend the game. 150,000 tourists are expected. so are 1 million people at pregame events throughout atlanta. has security been on par with a presidential inauguration? state of the union? >> it is. every bit of that. this very helicopter we're in right now will be patrolling around the stadium on game day, providing live video feeds from the air of what's going on. >> reporter: on the ground, more than 5,000 officers watching more than 10,000 security cameras. >> it's all hands on deck. >> reporter: all hands and all eyes, both on and off the field. gabe gut

tonight our gabe aggressive approach. >> reporter: this is a combat veteran with a semiautomatic rifleatrolling florida's manatee school for the arts hoping to prevent a school shooting. why a long gun? why not just a simple glock? >> it's not a sporting event. i'm not looking for a fair fight. if anything like that ever happens, i want absolutely overwhelming firepower, i want overwhelming odds in our favor. >> reporter: after the parkland massacre, the florida legislature required every school in the state to have at least one safe school officer to protect students from potential shooters. >> i want to make sure we've got the right tool at the right time. >> reporter: dr. bill jones is the principal here and decided that instead of school resource officers, he wanted guards with combat experience. for you it was extremely important that these employees have been shot at before? >> reporter: at least nine states now allow districts to arm teachers or other arm teachers or other staff members. some have considered expanding the use of metal detectors. just this month new jersey requir

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. >>> tonight the ntsb is trying to figure out what caused a massive boeing 767 cargo plane flying for amazon to drop out of the sky in texas, killing the crew on board. investigators are now doing a painstaking search under water, looking for those critical black boxes. nbc's tom costello is with them. >> reporter: using airboats and cadaver dogs, the urgent search for clues and one more victim still missing from atlas air flight 3591, swallowed up by the marshy blackness of trinity bay. we join the se hawthorne. pieces of the plane, large and small, bobbing in the water. >> we think somewhere in this i went in. >> reporter: it looks like it splintered into a million pieces. >> i guarantee probably a million pieces, a good description. >> reporter: as the 767 began its final approach to houston, air traffic controllers told the pilots there was wind and heavy rain ahead. suddenly, at 6,000 feet, the plane dropped off radar as it went into a fast, steep nosedive, hitting the water in less than 10 seconds. >> we're looking for bodies. we're looking for

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. >>> this is tom costello. fbi agents at the super bowl say they're growing increasingly frustrated. the problem, unauthorized drones flying around the mercedes-benz stadium. six confiscated yesterday alone, though none were threatening. >> it's taken up a lot of time for our agents and law enforcement officers to be targeting these drones when they could be working on other security measures. >> reporter: with 70,000 people expected on sunday, the concern is that a drone could crash, injuring fans or players on the ground, or a terrorist could use a drone as a weapon. on game day, the faa has declared a no-drone zone within a 30-mile radius of the stadium. until then drones must stay a mile away and up to 1,000 feet. the ban comes after drones shut down air traffic at london's gatwick airport in december, and newark's airport last month. >> drones are a concern. that's something that's come up on our radar the last of years with the popularity of them and the cheap economic cost of operating them. >> bring you

nbc's gabe gutierrez has the story.th grater at lawton chiles academs >> my son the most amazing kid, and the way that he was treated is not fair. >> reporter: earlier this month, according to an affidavit, the 11-year-old refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance, telling a substitute teacher that he thinks the flag and the national anthem are racist against black people. the confrontation escalated. >> i see this case as an example of a larger problem with african-american students being singled out a given more severe punishment. >> reporter: the school district says to be clear, thewatudent not arrested for refusing to participate in the pledge. students are not required to participate in theledge of allegiance. unfortunately a substitute teacher was not aware of this.is but theict says it was a school resource officer who decided to arrest the student. the lakeland police department says this arrest was based on the student's choice topt dis the classroom, make threats, and resisting the officer's efforts to le

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, charleston, south carolina. >>>veresident trump l early tomorrow for vietnam, the site of his second summit with north korea's kim jong-un. night, kim is traveling through china on an armored train to get there. the meeting comes as u.s. officials cast doubt on whether noh koras made changes to limit its nuclear program to date and whilent the presi will be overseas, he also faces challenges here at home. off bennett has more tonight. geoff? >> reporter: kate, president trump is playingp the possibility that the u.s. and north korea can come to an agreement on denuclearization, as he prepares for a second face-tn-face meeting with kim jong-un. mr. trump in a series of tweets says he expects the continuation of the progress he and kim made after t first meeting in singapore. but the president seemed to play down any new breakthroughs in this exclusively obtainedideo message shared last night with his supporters at his private mar-a-lago club. >> we have a terrific relationship and we'll see where it goes. whot kn

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nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. >> we have multiple officers shot, multiple officers shot -- >> reporter: it was a stunning shoot-out during an apparent drug raid that left two suspects dead and five officers injured. tonight there are troubling questions about how it all started. >> there are a lot of pissed-off cops right now. a lot of angry cops. >> reporter: a new police affidavit reveals investigators haven't been able to find any confidential informants whose tips supposedly led to the raid. none of the informants has identified the couple killed in the shoot-out as informers. one informant says he did buy heroin, but at a house five miles away. >> that's totally unacceptable. >> reporter: houston police chief art acevedo says it aps involved lied anwi likely face charges. >> what this sounds like is the officer believed there was activity there, did not have probable cause, did not want to work to get proximate cause, so he manufactured the probable cause by creating a false buy from an informant that didn't exist, and lied to the court to get the warrant. it's outrageous

nbc's gabe gutierrez has one of the night's big stars. >> reporter: today the patriots arrived back inngland. >> the reignontinues! >> reporter: after tom brady's record sixth sup bowl victory. thousands of fans celebrating through the night. here on the streets of atlanta and pretty much everywhere else, the consensus seems to be that this game wasnoozefest. the lowest-scoring super bowl in history. >> i'm 9 1/2 years old -- >> reporter: the breakou of the night may have been off the field. 9-year-old owen sermons from texas, born with a rare genetic disorder, and featured in this microsoft commercial. >> it mes a lot. everybody has an opportunity to be like the other kids. >> eporter: still, the last word of super bowl liii -- ♪ r orter: may have gone to new orleans after that controversial noncall kept the saints out of the big game the front page of its local newspaper this morning? "super bowl, what super bowl?" gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. >>> up next, great news about rl the gi who's touched a lot of hearts. the scenery never changes. that's why this is the view for every

here's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: just do it?t did it. >> his shoe blew apart. >> reporter: less than a minute into the high-stakes matchup between duke and north carolina with even former president obama looking on, the nike shoe on zion williamson's left foot gave up. >> that's unbelievable. >> he broke the shoe with his own foot. >> reporter: freshman superstar viewed by many as the next lebron james limped off with a mild knee sprain, but the damage was done. >> shares of nike falling this morning -- >> reporter: social media shaming the swoosh, nike just blew it. without its star player, duke ended up losing. here on campus they're calling it sneakergate. >> i'm not going to lie, i'm going to boycott nike forever. >> we're all very convinced it was sabotage. >> you think somebody sabotaged the shoe? >> yes. >> reporter: for its part nike wishes williamson a speedy recovery and says, while this is an isolated occurrence, we're working to identify the issue. maybe one solution? hey, just glue it. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, durh

gabe gutierrez reports from durham, north carolina. >> slipping and injured is williamson. >> reporter: this morning nike is on defense after a wardrobe malfunction for the ages. duke fans still stunned after a shocking sneaker split. >> what did you think of sneemer-gate? >> that's what i've been calling it! >> reporter: less than a minute into the high-staked matchup, former president obama looking on -- >> his shoe blew apart. >> reporter: the nike shoe tore open. >> that's unbelievable. >> he broke his shoe with his own foot. >> reporter: the freshman superstar viewed by many as the next lebron james limped off with a mild knee strain and social media pounced. nike just blew it. >> shares of nike falling this morning as duke's freshman superstar blows out of his shoe. >> reporter: nike's wishing him a speedy recovery saying in part while this is an isolated occurrence, we are working to identify the issue. >> the shoe just exploded. >> reporter: the injury is reigniting the debate over the ncaa's one and done rule where they're required to play a year in college before going pro. s

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> and in southern california, dramatic rescues after massive flooding and record rain, including some tense moments as a helicoer arrived to rescue a man stranded near a rushing river. emergency crews were able to save another man pinned between trs. >>> there is tough new talk coming from iran ton about the possibility of war with thee united sand israel. it came in our richard engel's exclusive interview with iran's foreign minister. >> reporter: just one day after a u.s.-led conference to pressure iran -- >> the iranian regime openly advocates another holocaust. and it see the means to achieve it. >> reporter: tonight a warning erfrom iran's foreign mini >> do you think there's a risk thll be some sort of war between iran, the united states, israel? >> certainly se people who were successful in creating a war last time are hard at it again. but i think some sense will prevail, and people will fin out that it's suicidal to engage in a war with iran. >> reporter: we also asked if he woultake up president trump his offer to potentially renegotiate the nucle

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. >>> hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of venezuela again today, protesting the government of nicolas maduro. while in this country some of those who have fled venezuela were showing their support for change. nbc's mariana atencio has more from miami. >> reporter: making his way through the crowds in the streets of caracas, venezuela, interim president juan guaido addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters. in an act of defiance, nicolas maduro held his own rally, proposing eay e national assemy led by guaido. here in doral, florida hundreds of venezuelans say they are reenergized by the trump administration's hard line against maduro. among them this family. they fled the crisis back home in 2007. >> after 20 years going through this nightmare, we're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: and the pressure is mounting. today an air force general defected from the maduro government. the situation growing more dire by the day. just this week more than 800 people were arrested. >> this moment we have people in

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gabe? >> reporter: hi, andrea.es, this is the pedestrian bridge where about 50,000 people cross into venezuela every day. as i can step out of here, you can see behind me not all these are staying in venezuela, or planning to stay in venezuela. what many do is bring suitcases and rolling suitcases and stock them up with supplies. they go over there for the day, some of them to work as well, then go back across the bridge to venezuela. but this is the city where aid organizations say that they plan to stockpile all that aid that is coming from the united states, and a stand-off is brewing in between the government of nicolas maduro and juan guido, who says that aid is desperately needed. as you mentioned, the maduro regime is blocking that aid from entering venezuela. the big question is what will happen to that aid? how will it get into the country, and what can be done? the u.s. has pledged $20 million in humanitarian aid. that's in addition to the $140 million that had already been allocated to the several south

nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. >> reporter: tonight asnd thou crowd into atlanta for super bowl liii, federal authorities are looking for some you might not easily see. >> we've got so mu money i one area that they're going to -- traffickers are going to bring the girls to them. >> reporter: gabby humphreys says she was raped atge 13 and after years of drug and alcohol abuse eventually became an escort, forced by araicker to have sex with strangers. >> do you think most peoplere ize how prevalent this is? >> i don't think they do because they don't want t look at it. >> reporter: in the past days there have been at least 40 arrests in a sex trafficking case in georgia. around the country, more than 8,500 recorded cases in 2017. while large gatherings are magnets for sex traffickers, human rights advocatesayt happens regularly and it happens 365 days a year. kn atlanta w at least 100 girls a night are being exploited. so our goal is to let the sup bowl be a platform to bring greater awareness. i >> reporter:n advance of the big name some nfl players havee launn aggressive campaig

gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. mb> some alarming health news tonight about the one killer of americans. a new report from the american i heart asion finds nearly half of all adults have heart disee, most of them diagnose with high blood pressure. nbc's medical correspond john torres is here. dr. torres, i was startled when i saw that number. does that mean all those people, half of american should be taking some sort of medication? >> not necessarily. we used to think high blood re prestarted around 140. with new guidelines, the new mber is 130. ideally though you want it 120. now some people might need chdication, but there are three important lifestylges that can really make a difference. exercise. just 30 minutes of activity a day can drop your blood pressure to 10 points. also following the dash diet. that w specific created to lower blood pressure. for every two pounds you lose, you could lower by up to 1 point.d nally, the new addition, sleep. you need seven hours every night for a healthy heart. >> we take t

. >>> this is gabe gutierrez in atlanta, considered one of the top cities for hum trafficking in the u.s. >> it is a very devastating situation. it's things that you have flashbacks about. >> reporter: cecilia roberts came to the u.s. from sierra leone when she was 11 years old and was homeless as a teenager. she says she met a couple when e was just 17 who used online ads to sell her for sex. >> the hardest part about its being manipulated and being hopeless. like having nowhere to turn to. nowhe to go. >> reporter: in the last decade, more than 49,000 cases of human trafficking have been reported to the national hotline. it gets an average of 150 calls a y. sex trafficking can occur in illicit massage or spa businesses similar to the ones in the florida case, but those aren't the only places. a it's happeniour local hotels and high-end hotels in atlanta, it's happening a lot online, and kids are solicited online and brought to someone's home or hotel room. >> reporter: it's a multi-billion dollar industry that's drawn increasing attention from the fbi, which has cracked down with s

gabe, i'll start with you there along the border. the wall.'s more than likely to be quite the focus of the president's address tonight. what's the sense from people there about the need for a wall? >> reporter: well, hi, there, craig. a lot of attention on the state of the union here in south texas. the new portions of the wall set to be built in some parts of south texas later this month. here in roma, texas, local officials expect new portions of the wall to be built by this summer. right behind me is mexico. this is one of the parts of the texas border where there is no physical barrier save for the rio grande behind me. you can see there's a marking right there. that's where local officials say some contractors have been surveying this area for the wall construction. i want to bring in the former mayor of romo, texas, current assistant city manager freddie guerra. what have you seen over the last couple months that local contractors are doing here? >> they've been setting up benchmarks to figure out the alignment of the wall that would in

gabe gutierrez, nbc news.> te-breaking developments from chicago tonight in the jussie smollett case as the actor officially goes from victim to suspect in teged assault against him. let's get the latest from national correspondent miguel almaguer. >> reporter: tonight jussie smollett is officially a suspect. chicago police say the actor filed a false police report, a felony. the bombshell comes clter he med to be a victim of a hate crime. law enforcement officials tell nbc news chicago police have issued roughly a dozen search warrants, scouring financial ann records, looking to link smollett to the men he claimed attacked him. >> they called me a [ bleep ]. they called me [ bleep there's no which way you cut it. >> reporter: police say ola and abel osundario told officers smollett hired them to stage the assault. this surveillanfaisurveillance both men buying a red hat and ski masks they say smollett told them to get. today the brothers reportedly entered a grand jury room to testify. the fbi is also looking into eismollett's claims he recved this death threat by mail. if he lied,

let's go to nbc's gabe gutierrez with the chilling details. >> reporter: christopher paul hasson had worked at u.s. coast guard headquarters in washington since 2016. but a newly released court documents prosecutors say the lieutenant was a self-identified white nationalist who called for focused violence and dreamed of ways to kill almost every last person on earth. he's charged with illegal weapons and drug charges but prosecutors say that's the proverbial tip of the iceberg, the defendant is a domestic terrorist. the court documents don't reveal any actual attack plans but the government says he'd been stockpiling weapons at his maryland home since at least 2017. 15 firearms and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. prosecutors say she'd drawn up a spread sheet of targets that included politicians like house speaker nancy pelosi, senate minority leader chuck schumer, and media figures like msnbc's joe scarborough and cnn's chris cuomo. and his internet searches included most liberal senators, where do senators live in d.c. and are supreme court justices protected? court documents

gabe sherman, i want you to help me explain. the president on jan 12th, right after the nation naa nal eal en. so sorry to hear about jeff bo sfrks o being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, i understand, is far more accountable. it almost feels as if the president was a little too giddy and aggressive in trying to second the enquirer's reporting there. explain that relationship. >> it is a relationship that has gone on for years, donald trump has been close personal friends with david pecker through his time in palm beach in florida and during the campaign as has been reported over and over again. the enquirer is a free tomorrow of advertising. and david pecker and ami went into a nonprosecution agreement to avoid campaign finance violations. so this a raises the question that all of us are asking is why does the nation nal nal en kwia did they do this expose? she not a celebrity, not a starlet or an actor, and this raises the question of was the enquirer either doing the direct bidding of trump world, or was this an i

nbc's gabe gutierrez on the border. >> these meal kits and hygiene supplies are only enough for several thousand venezuelans for just ten days, but it's all just sitting here in this warehouse right by the venezuelan border. >> reporter: today juan guaido recognized by the u.s. as his country's interim president at a rally. one college student saying, he's our barack obama. he gives us hope. tonight reports the u.s. is actively encouraging members of the military leadership here to defect to the other side. lester? >> kerry sanders in venezuela, thanks. >>> overseas, isis is making its last territorial st group into a very narrow corner tonight. our richard engel, who has reported conflict, has more.ound war ag isis is almost over tonight. the terrorist group that in 2014 ruled an area twice the size of new york state now holds a pocket in syria the size of new york city's central park. and even that is falling quickly. president trump, who's declared victory prematurely over isis several times, said earlier this week, now it's in sight. >> it should be formally announced sometime proba

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gabe, i want to come to you on this.ouse that's not related to donald trump directly? at this point, is there anyone who can explain to him that fiction he's putting forward and he and fox news are self reenforcing of the horrible crisis. the real effect of that, that texans are reacquainting themselves of imminent domain. arizona now has one democratic senator, officials are saying stop putting wire in our community and making us look like a prison. there is physical demonstration being made of this fiction that donald trump is paying tax money. you written donald trump is hated at this point. >> the state of union left trump stoked and some of his staff are miserable. white house communications director bill shine has tol told -- what is going on? is anyone explaining to him that he's turning red states purple with this fiction? >> the problem is no one can get through to this president at this point. as i and others have reported, this is a family-run business. donald trump is running the west wing very much he did li

gabe gutierrez takes us to one in florida taking an aggressive approach. >> this is a combat veteran with a semiautomatic rifle patrolling the school for the arts hoping to prevent a school shooting. >> i'm not looking for a fair fight. if anything like that ever happens, i want absolutely overwhelming fire power. i want overwhelm odds in our favor. >> after the parkland, massachusetts, the florida legislature requires every school in the statery to have a least onee safe-school officer o protect students from potential shooters. >> i want to make sure that we have the right tool at the right time. >> dr. bill jones is the principal here and decided instead of school resource officers, he wanted guards with combat experience. for youco it was extremely important that these employees have been e shot at before. >> oh, yeah. i have 2,100 kids here. >> at least nine states now allow armed staff members and some consider expanding the use of metal detectors. new jersey, silent panic alarms. critics say these rifles go too far. >> what's most disturbing to me is schools are not combat zon

gabe gutierrez went to texas to get a perspective. >> in the rio grand value, a small border town ishitting a wall. >> the biggest concern we had was will itisplace residents in our community? >> freddie is the assistant cit manager in texas where the population is 11,000, about an hour's dri west of mcallen where the borderarrier is set to beginat l this month. this is the part that sees the most border apprehensions and opped dramatically over the last two decades. this residentppes a wall and fears part of this property in s willmily since the 1700 be taken away to build it. >> is there a crisis at the border? >> not that i know of. >> there is no border barrier throughout most of the area. ross is thehaman of the local republican party. >> i say we do need a wall or as most poke folksre saying enhanced barrier. there has to be a type of >> locals worry it could be built through neighborhoods closest to rexico,ing up communities and forcing people out of their homes. >> peopleiv that here, the biggest frustration is they don't knoha anything abouts going on. >> this past week, the

nbc's gabe gutierrez is there. t >> this he first time we're seeing the u.s. aid. we're told it will be stored at a warehouse a few hundred yards from here right at the venezuelan border. it's unclear when or if it will be allowed into that country. >> reporter: at this children's hospital tonight, speration. what do you fear is going to happen if this food and medicine is not allowed in? she says, "our children are going to die." the aid shipment was requested by opposition leader juan guaido, who says he is the legitimateresident. tonight the u.s. is demanding maduro let the food and medicine in. lester? >> kerry sanders in vezuela, thank you. >>> now to the rising cost d prescriptigs. in this case it's a doozy. a life-changing drug that used to be free but now costs about $375,000. how is that possible? here's katie beck in our seriesu "your money, yr life." >> reporter: college senior will shuller ves to run. just four years ago he feared he would never walk again. >> through the weeks i w getting worse and worse. >> reporteon threes after first experiencing mu

. >> this is gabe adams. he's 19 and he's living his best life. >> i had to push myself mentally to get to where i am today. all these people were doubting me. i'm just trying to live my life. >> was he born this way? he was born this way. he was born with hand heart syndrome. he was born in brazil but adopted by a family and one of 14 children. his dad says their biggest goal was to teach him to be as independent as he could be. he said it was really big for him to learn how to walk. it was big for him to learn to navigate the stairs and to be able to get into his wheelchair. he says being in that wheelchair is kind of hard. not really comfortable. you're sitting down all day. he signed up for a dance class because he wanted to move around. >> i first started dancing when i was in the seventh grade. i told myself i wanted to try out for the show. i didn't tell anybody i was trying out, because i wanted it to be a surprise. performed the dance in front of my entire junior high school, and i got a standing ova

for us gabe clearly the talks are going well. yeah without a doubt and they might be very close to reaching a deal here you know the trade negotiators are meeting behind closed doors these meetings were supposed to end on friday but they were making so much good progress on friday and into last week they started to extend it through the weekend they're not saying much on how things are going but the u.s. president donald trump is let me read you a tweet that he sent out just about an hour or so ago the tree where it in part i am pleased to report that the u.s. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with china on important structural issues including intellectual property protection technology transfer agriculture services currency and many other issues and then trump went on to say that that march first deadline which would have been friday when these new tariffs would have gone into place is now off the table there is no more deadline it's important what trump said there and that tweet because he really went down the l

this is proving to be gabe wright spot for the business. platform. half of the commerce in the us goes through the commerce in the us goes through the platform, and now brands want visibility. it's interesting that for the first time ever in facebook‘s result they named amazon asa facebook‘s result they named amazon as a competitor. 0ne facebook‘s result they named amazon as a competitor. one thing that we wa nted as a competitor. one thing that we wanted to talk about was the business model. shareholders are starting to grumble that amazon deploys all of the capital it makes into more expansion. that is how jeff bezos and his company has got this far. can it continue to do that, using that strategy when growth is slowing? i think they have a long way to go. longer term, there are some challenges facing amazon. they are not immune to the broader challenges facing the sector. of course, they are the disruptive force behind a lot of the changes. longer term, as they become more powerful, more influential, they are going to face government scr

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gabe gutierrez joins us from the campus o duke university. y, gabe. reporter: good morning.ike is that its shares dropped and the i company i full-on damage control. nike executives flyin here to meet privately with duke of firms. it's renewing date over whether elite college athletes should be ampensated. nd injured is zion williamson. >> rorter: this morning nike is on defensefter a wardrobe malfunction for the ages. duke fans still stunned after a shocking sneaker split. >> what did you thinkf sneaker-gate? >> that's what i've been calling it. >> reporter: less than a minute into the high stakes match-up, with former prpt obama looking on, zionwilliamson's shoe tore open. >> he broke his shoe with his own fo t. >> reportehe freshman superstar viewedy many as the next lebron james limped off with a mile knee sprain. cial media pounced. >> shares of nike falling as duke's freshman superstar blows out of its shoe. >> reporter: for its part nike is wishing williamson a speedy recoveryhi saying whiles is an isolated occurrence, we're working to identify the sue. williamson's g

gabe gutierrez is at one of the crossings now, are they overwhelmed?right now we're in a columbian border town where tents of thousands come in to get their aide. about ten minutes from here at another bridge, bone that had been sealed off, several truckloads of aide from the u.s. have just arrived at the border. it is unclear how that aide will make it's way to venezuela since maduro's government promised to block that aide saying they're not a nation of beggars, as we understand it, u.s. officials and the columbian government escorted those truckloads of egg now being stored at a warehouse several hundred yards from where we were, and it is unclear how the aide will get into the country. they promised to get that aide into venezuela. the kwle be will the military, i want to show you where tens of thousands will come here on this bridge every single day. local officials told us they have seen a uptick, though. many of these venn ezuelans wil come here, they have suitcases, they will take supplies for the day and go back into venezuela. we were at a so

gabe. >> documents say that christopher paul had worked at the coast guard d.c. head quarters since 2016 and served in the u.s. marine corps in late '80s and early '90s. praurs kurts say the lieutenant was a self-described nationalist who looked for ways to kill every last person on earth. prosecutors say that the defendant is a domestic terrorist. he had allegedly contemplotted biological attacks and contaminating the food supply and drawn up a spread sheet of targets that included prominent politicians including democrats, house speaker nancy pelosi as well as moodia figures, including himself and other hosts at this network and cnn. his search history included most liberal senators. where do most senators live in d.c.? where and are supreme court justices protected? they say he stock piled steroids in order to potentially one day carry out these attacks and law enforcement sources tell nbc news they discovered all this when the ocoast guard looked through his search history. they're arguing he should stay in jail while he awaits trial. he's due in court tomorr

gabe mendosa gives us only sights and sounds. >> reporter: baseball season is aupon us. we love the giants, and i got to get the little one involved. >> excitement here at the park. always makes it feel good. getting back into the baseball season. >> this is a great time of year. the energy and excitement all the fans. all the players getting together for the first time as a group. and it is incredible. >> i came out with the family. we didn't really care about the weather though. more experiencing the ball field early before spring. >> let's go giants. >> we came out here today because we're lifelong giants fans. get a feel of the park, you know. you see the players and you get that excitement going. and you realize, okay. this is getting real right now. >> craziest thing i ever signed? nothing super crazy but i always find it amusing people want you do sign their phones. not the case but the actually phones. >> good time to get together right before we head to scottsdale, just really have a buzz before going into the season. >> giants pitchers and catchers report on tu