want to go live now to a supercaucus site in ottumwa, iowa where we find nbc's jacob soboroff jacob, how did this evening play out there? >> reporter: lester, good evening as a matter of fact, the evening's still playing out. let me show you a little bit of what's going on a supercaucus location is a location where more than one precinct is caucusing at the same time. so here you see one this way if you take a look over at this part of the gymnasium here, excuse me, the cafeteria at ottumwa high school, you see other people here. about 1,000 people have showed up tonight here to participate in the caucus, which as a matter of fact is still ongoing. it is an important night. it is a critical night. but it's not the first decision that folks had to make here >> reporter: with the wind chill factor making it feel like 40 degrees below zero in parts of the state the first decision iowans faced tonight is whether or not to venture out to their caucus site. >> 100%. this is iowa >> the real supporters will come out tonight and weather won't be an issue >> if you're from iowa, you should be

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jacob soboroff is where a large group of caucusgoers is expected tonight in ottumwa, iowa. jacob. >> reporter: lester, good evening. this is ottumwa high school in wapello county. it's what's known as a supercaucus location. that's because multiple precincts will be voting all under this one roof this evening. they expect as many as 1,000 people here. but picking a candidate is not the first decision that these folks have to make. with the wind chill factor making it feel like 40 degrees below zero in parts of the state, the first decision iowans face tonight is whether or not to venture out to their caucus site. >> 100%. this is iowa. >> the real supporters, they come out tonight and weather won't be an issue. >> if you're from iowa, you should be used to this weather. >> reporter: potentially counteracting the frigid conditions, iowans' pride in going first. in recent years gop caucus turnout when there's been no incumbent in office has been growing. iowans we met like architect ben foote want their say. >> are you going to caucus tonight? >> i'm planning on it, yeah. >> y

nbc's jacob soboroff joins me from the bus in durham, new hampshire.the scene, what are you hearing? >> we're here, we're not on our way. we made it to durham, new hampshire. you got back from winter break today? today is the first day back. first time voting, anybody? first time voting. first time voting for president, raise your hand. almost everybody. okay. so, let me start with you. what is your name? you want to mel me what party you're going to vote for? >> patrick, i'm going to vote for the republican. >> you're going republican. >> your name? >> diana, i'm voting democrat. >> okay. >> catherine, voting democrat. >> okay. >> i'm kim, i'm voting republican. >> all right. >> i'm kelly, i'm voting republican. >> i'm ty, i'm going to write in cease-fire. >> that is something i see a lot of kids, students at the university are doing. that's voting with your vote for a cease-fire in gaza. why are you doing that and not one of the candidates? >> i don't feel like any of the candidates are expressing what the people feel. >> so if it comes down to joe b

jacob soboroff is in auto tum wah. >> they'll hear speeches to convince them to come out and caucus, incredible place. they just celebrated their 100 years as you can see right here, go bulldogs. they're ail going to come down these stairs. the caucus is a little different from the democratic caucus which no longer happens and everybody is in the same room. here there's 22 different precincts is what's known as a super caucus location. everybody from the different parts of this county are going to come down this hallway into classrooms, as a matter of fact. so, for instance, there's classroom 120 right over here. usually you can see on the walls here, it's a spanish classroom. this evening it is going to be a singular precinct location. you're going to take your ballot, put it in a ballot box and count those ballots in this room. this is not where the official results are tabulated. that happens over here. come with me. ultimately, this place, like it was back in 2016 may very well prove interesting to the results and important to look at. president trump won by maybe 35 percentage p

jacob soboroff brings us an exclusive look as the space shuttle gets into its last launch position. >launch position it was on its final mission to space now, more than a decade later, "endeavor" is about to embark on one last journey it had be the center piece at a display. whose crazy idea was it to stand it up as if it's going to be launched >> we said the best way to display it would be if launch position >> reporter: not only the best position but the most technically challenging. >> absolutely true >> reporter: as they stack the system piece by piece. starting with the aft skirts, and the fuel tank and the 100-ton shuttle itself, all to create the only display of an authentic space shuttle system in the world oh, wow, this is cool. the museum's president jeffrey rudolph let us drop in on the construction project as they lifted the rockets into place. they're going to fasten it to the top of the solid rocket booster. for an even better view, we climbed 15 stories heading up, 150 feet in the sky. to get a glimpse of what to come the museum, as you're moving these pieces, is being

our jacob soboroff was among the first to test that he will tell us all about it but, first, this isell, today, that includes the desert. >> a new surf club opened in palm springs of all places jacob soboroff grabbed his board, got a chance to experience it firsthand. how did it go, sobo? >> it was honestly unbelievable. thank you to our bosses for this assignment surfing is being transformed each has its own unique approach in technology, but sharing a similar mission to bring the thrill of surfing to people living hundreds of miles away from the nearest coast it's a strange feeling to be on an early morning surf quest while going east into the desert but with the opening of the palm springs surf club, board toting surfers could be a permanent part of the landscape. we had a chance to test the waters just before the official public opening there are settings for every skill level from the waikiki beginner version to the more advanced barrel option >> this could be my last shoot ever that one takes a little getting used to. >> i'm in the desert i'm surfing. everybody's still alive. i

. >>> as people in new hampshire headed to the polls, our jacob soboroff boarded a bus with a group of college students and came away with a glimpse of their thinking beyond today. >> reporter: here in durham, new hampshire, it's express service from college campus to the polling site if you want to know what young people feel like at the university of new hampshire, there's no better place to be than on this voter shuttle bus. on board, troubling signs for president biden. when you're in there you can choose biden you could write him in or pick another candidate. are you going to pick biden or another candidate? >> i'm definitely going to pick a different candidate. yes. >> reporter: neither trump nor biden are speaking to you? >> no. that's really it for me >> reporter: mr. biden not on the ballot but can be listed as a write-in candidate did you write in president biden's name today or vote for somebody else? okay, go for it. tell me who. >> i wrote in cease-fire today >> reporter: cease-fire there's a campaign to write in cease-fire in support of the cease-fire in gaza did you all

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jacob soboroff is at a polling location. why the granite state is unlike any other primary state he's covered. >>> and we'll also unpack what voters could be feeling about donald trump if he becomes the party's nominee. >>> plus teaming up with kamala harris on this election day. a big rally this hour in virginia. part of their nationwide tour hoping to fire up voters about the dangers of the growing restrictions os to abortion in this country. all those stories and more when msnbc special coverage of the new hampshire primary continues after this. we'll be right back. imary conti after this we'll be right back. will statest mr. marbles will receive everything he needs in perpetuity thanks to autoship from chewy. i always loved that old man. and he gets the summer house. what? save 35% off your first autoship order. at chewy. t-mobile built a 5g network so powerful, it goes beyond the expected. and now, t-mobile 5g internet for homes and businesses is here. just 50 bucks a month with no exploding bills or annual contracts. l

exhibit, the california science center is planning to lift a space shuttle into launch position jacob soboroffst look hey, jacob good morning. >> reporter: hoda, ground breaking is the way to describe this thing this is the external fuel tank that's been used in countless united states space shuttle missions of course, the space shuttle is no longer in use anymore but what's happening today is this thing will go around the corner, and it will take two hours to be put in position and be stacked vertically. after that, the space shuttle will be an exhibit that you will not see anywhere else in the world. >> six, four. >> the last time nasa's endeavor space shuttle it was in launch position -- >> and liftoff. >> -- it was on its final mission to space now more than a decade later, endeavor is about to embark on one last journey as the california science center in los angeles prepared to lift the shuttle upright for a first of its kind exhibit that will be a centerpiece to the new space center so whose crazy idea was it to take it from this position and stand it up as if it was going to be launche

but it is in los angeles jacob soboroff is investigating this to go behind the scenes to find out whate treats so delicious. >>> and later on the 3rd hour, we are focussing on the mind jim quick is going to show us some exercises to sharpen our focus. >> all right mr. roker, all eyes on you today, bud. >> all right let's look ahead to the weekend, okay so saturday snow, wind, ice, rain in the mid-atlantic into the northeast. great lakes. pacific storm comes in in between sunny and cool. then on sunday, sunday leftover snow and wind in new england big snowstorm hits the rockies milder in the central plains sunshine through the golf. >>> good friday morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. today it's going to be a nice one, temperatures in the low 60s and it's going to be chilly again tonight, down to the upper 30s. a cold front coming in tomorrow will bring our high temperatures only into the mid 50s with afternoon rain. we see it clear out on sunday, but look at those morning temperatures near freezing on monday morning. as we go >>> all right. here it is it's the season finale sunday nig

. >> so our colleague jacob soboroff spoke with college students in new hampshire who shared their skepticismng for president biden. here's part of what they had to say, listen to some of this. did you write in president biden's name today? or did you vote for somebody else. go for it. >> i wrote in cease-fire. >> reporter: that's a campaign to write in cease-fire in support of the cease-fire in gaza. did you all write in cease-fire? >> i did. >> reporter: cease-fire? cease-fire? >> now, yesterday, the president was at a campaign rally where he was interrupted 13 times, criticizing his handles of the israel-hamas war. how worried should the biden campaign be about that kind of statement? >> i think they should be worried, but it is not to the point where all is lost, right? i think that, i read somewhere, i think it was an column from npr yesterday noted that biden allies had suggested this fervor around cease-fire and what is happening to the palestinian people in gaza is going to blow over. i think that's bad advise to give the president and terrible advice for a campaign strategist. this i

jacob soboroff, thank you so much for starting us off this hour.to you. you are as we like to say an actual pollster. so maybe you're going to bring us down to earth on some of these numbers. jacob touched on this. just kind of how in recent polls trump says crazy things, he echoes hitler, he says he's going to be a dictator, more than 6 in 10 likely republican caucusgoers, 61% say it't matter to their suppo if former president trump is convicted. that was in the recent des moines register poll. when you hear those numbers, you think what is happening? is this the country we live in? but what does that tell us about i guess the republican electorate? but how do you think about that as it relates to the electorate writ large in november? >> well, a couple of things. one is he clearly has a locked in base of support, right? and he said it himself. he could shoot someone and not lose any support. and it's true, right? it only energizes his base of support. what i will say is when the horse race number is wrong it's usually because the pollster has pre

hallie jackson, jacob soboroff, kristen welker and steve kornacki breaking everything down you need to know. >>> 6:05 this morning. today many people in the bay area are participating in a national day of service and it comes on what would have been dr. martin luther king jr.'s 95th birthday. "today in the bay"'s bob redell is joining us live from the east bay. this is with more on how you can get involved in celebrating the late leader's legacy. >> reporter: good morning to you, marcus. interestingly, mlk day today is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to not only recognize and honor the late civil rights hero, but to also encourage community and positive change when necessary. this was the scene yesterday in vallejo, these people getting a head start on the holiday, where student volunteers from the community engaged in the learning center and planted trees to establish the new martin luther king jr. legacy growth here city hall in that city. there are many events taking place today throughout the bay area to celebrate dr. king's legacy. for example, oak

today's jacob soboroff is putting on his wetsuit and dropping in this morning. you can catch that coming up at 7:00 a.m. i have a girlfriend who goes quite frequently into the central valley where there's a place called surf ranch, famed surfer kelly slater brought the waves there. >> that's cool. >>> meantime, there are big waves in the actual ocean. i think they're pretty scary. >> yeah, i think today is a day you want to try one of those fake wave pools because it will be too dangerous in the ocean today. we've seen quite a bit of rain. let's talk about how much we've measured. as of now, santa rosa catching up to normal, and we've had over 12.5 inches of rain. the numbers will change as we go throughout the day. there's still a pretty big rainfall deficit in oakland, over 3 inches of rainfall needed there to catch up to normal. other areas i think we're making progress today. we've seen rainfall totals measuring over 1.5 inches for mount tam, in santa rosa over an inch of rainfall over the last 24 hours. hayward, close to an inch of rainfall. we're seeing a

look ahead to tonight's caucuses nbc news's national political correspondent steve kornacki, and jacob soboroffve, what are you looking for in this evening? >> yeah, a couple of different kinds of counties. look, iowa's got 99 of them here. two in particular, two types of counties here. number one, evangelical,s, loom so large. the modern formula, win the evangelical vote, win the iowa republican caucuses. mike huckabee in 2008, rick san tor up in 2012. 42 of the 99 counties in iowa were huckabee, santorum, cruz counties. donald trump lost iowa in 2016, lost to ted cruz. one of the big reasons was evangelicals were not yet really on board with donald trump. so places that were looking that fit that mold, a pretty big one in northwest iowa is sioux county. this was actually in 2016. i'll show you the results. a win for ted cruz, it was donald trump's worst county in iowa in 2012. he only got 11% of the vote right here. so in counties like this we want to see two things we're looking for tonight, number one, has trump improved, the polls certainly suggest he has. maybe the question is how much ha

jacob soboroff is in iowa.st didn't work right. do they think they've got the buzz out of it? >> reporter: i certainly hope so, joe. i think they hope so too here in the county where basically everyone in this county is going to come to the high school tonight to participate in this super caucus event. i want to walk you through the process a little bit. you're going to see the whole thing play out tonight on msnbc. as many as a thousand people are going to show up in this auditorium tonight and hear speeches from the campaigns up on that stage. once they hear the speeches, they're going to break out into groups. the high school is an incredible building. it dates back to 1923. they just celebrated their 100-year anniversary. it's a multilevel school. it's going to get complicated. they're going to come down the stairs. once they walk out of that auditorium and they're going to come here to the classroom level. when they say a super caucus location, it means there are multiple precincts here inside the high sch

jacob soboroff is there for us. jacob, how has your day win? how are you looking forward to this evening? and can you tell us what going to happen behind you tonight? >> reporter: oh, man. it's balmy now, like negative 1. earlier today, actual temperature around negative 12 degrees and the windchill was like negative 37. as far as how am i going? i'm feeling great because the temperature is scorching compared to earlier in the day. this is what's known as a super caucus location. they call it a super caucus location, this is a high school, everyone from this county votes at the ottumwa high school location. i want to give you a look. even if it it doesn't look like a lot of people yet, i'm not nearly done with the tour. we have a long way to go. this is the auditorium at ottumwa high school. the people are starting to fill in. it gives you memories of doing high school musicals and all that. i'm seeing stickers for trump, pins for desantis, i see one, i pick nikki. this is where the campaigns are going to convince people to caucus for their can

with a commanding lead there, but also pretty spirited battle for second place going on nbc's jacob soboroff morning, savannah believe it or not, it is negative 14 actual temperature right now outside in ottumwa, iowa caucus this thisve evening. and they tell me the cold weather is not going to stop them. the iowa forecast, all the residents in wapello county are kaerting outside. and they tell me the cold weather is not going to stop them the iowa forecast, below 0 temperatures in a battle between donald trump's top rivals to put a dent in his snowballing lead at the first in the nation iowa caucus the final nbc news poll before the caucus kicks off showing a whopping 48% of likely republican caucus goers supporting trump. >> you are very hearty people. i have heard that. >> reporter: at a sunday rally, in indianola the former president urging massive turnout. >> so brave the weather and go out and save america because that's what you're doing. >> reporter: meanwhile, former un ambassador nikki haley gaining momentum, climbing to second place with 20% with a message for former president tru

i want to go to dairy, new hampshire where jacob soboroff is at one of the state's largest polling locations. jacob, what are you looking at at dairy? >> this is pin ter ton academy in dairy. local officials tell me they can't say for certain, but they believe it could be the largest polling location based on the amount of registered voters, not just in new hampshire, but in the entire nation. as many as 20,000 people are eligible to show up and participate. they're already seeing an incredible turnout. hey, lisa -- i want to get you the latest numbers. they're track these in realtime. lisa is the town moderator. lisa, the town moderator, rachel in new hampshire, is the person who -- your only job is elections. you're like the county clerk recorder where i come from in los angeles? >> i suppose this could be right. this is my job. i just do elections. >> is it true this is the biggest polling place in new hampshire? if so -- if not, what's the turnout look like so far? >> we are the largest single polling place in new hampshire. our entire town, all four districts come here to vote. >> you h

all right, jacob soboroff for us, thank you. >>> a man wanted in the shooting deaths of eight peopleot himself the victims were found yesterday and sunday at three separate homes. police have not revealed any motive for the killings, but said that nance did know all of the victims. they believe he also may be connected to another shooting on sunday that left one man wounded. >>> tentative agreement last night ended a strike by faculty and other employees of the california state university system after just one day. the strike had disrupted the first day of the spring semester across the nation's largest four-year public university system. nearly 30,000 union members, including professors, librarians, counselors and coaches had planned to stay out for the full week, along with wage increases, the tentative deal extends parental leave from six weeks to ten weeks >>> it took her a while to get going, but american coco gauff won her quarterfinal match this morning. she's advancing to the semis of the australian open. she fell behind early against ukraine marta. the defending u.s. open ch