here is nbc's keir simmons. >> reporter: tonight, as this former isis wife and alabama mother pleads to return to america, a dramatic decision from the uk government, stripping citizenship from this british isis mother, effectively banning her from britain. despite joining isis in 2015, shamima begum had claimed she is not a threat. >> i'm a 19-year-old girl with a newborn baby. i don't have any weapons. >> reporter: now the u.s. must decide how to respond to hoda muthana's request to come home. she went to syria and joined isis in 2014, even allegedly threatening america with terrorism in tweets she claims she didn't write. but her family representative says she was brainwashed by online propaganda. she is pleading for a second chance. >> i know i ruined my future and my son's future, and i deeply, deeply regret it. >> reporter: the state department tonight leaving the door open while not commenting on this specific case. >> repatriating these foreign terrorist fighters to their countries of origin, ensuring that they're prosecuted and detained, that's the best solution. >> reporter

>> all right, keir simmons, thank you. >>> tonight while many government workers are still recoveringrom delayed pahecks, new numbers show strong hiring in january despite the government shutdown. employers added 304,000 jobs. >>> now an update on a story we first brought you here after an nbc news investigation. the department of housing and urban development notified tenants today in a rundown apartment complex in hartford, u connect, they would be relocated to new homes. in november our report found rodents, mold, roaches, and fire safety violations in that amplex. now hud has termin landlord's multi-million d contract. >>> just ahead as we continue, the racially charged video iggering outrage tonight. o waiten why you'll have longer for apple to fix that scary facetime glitch. >>> and meet the stars of the other big super bowl game this weekend. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ what sore muscles? what with advpounding head? .. advil is... relief that'

keir simmons has the story including one family's memorable and very meaningful trip of a lifetime. >alers. >> have to get a pen for that segment. >>> coming up this weekend, it's here, if you want to treat your family to a fun recipe, we've got the perfect one for you. we're talking cinnamon spiced french toast, and wait for it, we fry it. >> yes, we do. >>> on the third hour of "today," it's about to get a little bit competitive out here when we face off on the american ninja warrior junior. >> i was wondering what that was up for. >> remember when karen almost killed me? >> you're having a little post traumatic, savannah. >> juniors. >> we're not doing that, there's a wall here and i guess we're supposed to climb it. >> just know that i almost died one time on a segment like that. >> look at that. i guess we have to run up it? i don't really know. >> you do. it's not easy. >> guys, don't forget to download our new ask and improved "today" show app. check out digital video, how good is it hoda? >> it's amazing. it's the best app ever. text 66866, text today to that number. >> it's a

today's senior international correspondent keir simmons is here with more on that. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. ever since khoshoggi was murdered, the question h been o was behind it, even who ordered it. there are more reports the killing goes right to the top of saudi society. unknown to him, journalist jamal khoshoggi's life had reportedly been threatened ae year before walked into a deadly trap in october. entering the saudi consulate in turkey where he would be murdered, his fiancee left waiting outside. that's according to a "new york times" report that says in september 2017, saudi arabia's leader, the crowned prince, tolt aide he would use a bullet if mr. khoshoggi did not return to t saudi kingdom. in another 2017 exchange, "the new york times t says crowned prince bitterly complained about mr. khoshoggind declared he did not like half measures. just over 12 months later, jamal khoshoggi was dead. the time's reportre citing c and former officials has not been indepenntly con frmdy nbc news. saudi arabia denying the crowned prince wasd invol i

. >>> nbc's keir simmons reports. >> reporter: on the heels of his historic trip to the majority muslim nation, the united arab emirates, stunning acknowledgement, admitting sexual abuse against nunns at t the hands of predator priests and other clergy. it's true, he says, it's a problem. the pope, admitting the scandal, goes back years. speaking about one french order, investigated by his predecessor, pope benedict, he said some of the nuns were subject to sexual slavery. pope benedict this the courage to dissolve a female congregation because this slavery of women had entered it. slavery, even to the point of sexual slavery, on the part of the clerics or the founder. the founder of that congregation died before any action could be taken against him. in another shocking accusation last week, the vatican magazine women church world claimed some nuns impregnated by priests were forced to have abortions, a major sin in the catholic church. this is the first time pope francis has publicly addressed the issue. the allegations are hardly new. echoing the #me too, #nunstoo has begun. >> not m

our senior international rrespondent keir simmon is checking it out.race their family histories. welcome to naples. naples, florida. here steve and his 82-year-old dad are discovering their italian dna. >> thedna test shows that 39% italian sicilian re. >> together they're about to make the trip of a lifetime. the ancient mediterranean island of sicily in search of their ancestry. >> i don't think you know who you are unless you know where you came from. >> reporter: dna tests are dely available from companies like ancestry, 23andme and my herita heritage. they tell people broadly where they're from. now travel company go aad and ancestry offer unique dna tours to disco >> people who are getting a dna kit want to go and feel a part of that heritage and learn the stories ofheir past to bring back to their families. >> reporter: first stop the fishing drvillage, hs of years the family made their living from the sea. >> the economy really went bad during the 1870s and '80s. >> expert jean olts has research the family history. >> this is the church your an

here's nbc's keir simmons. >> reporter: as this former isis wife and alabama mother pleads to return to america, a dramatic citizenship from this ent. british isis mother, effectively banning her from britain. despite joining isis in 2015, she had claimed she was not a threat. >> i'm a 19-year-old girl with a newborn baby. i don't have any weapons. >> reporter: now the u.s. must decide how to respond to this woman's request to come home. she went to syria and joined isis in 2014. even allegedly threatening america with terrorism in tweets she claims she didn't write. but her family representative says she was brainwashed by online propaganda. she is pleading for a second chance. >> i know i ruined my future and my son's future, and i'm deeply, deeply regret it. >> reporter: the state department leaving not commenti specific case. >> repatriating these foreign terrorist fighters to their countriesre o prosecuted and detained. that's the best alled on european countries to take back isis fighters, but the uk appears to be ignoring that request with the fate of many dangerous former isi

. >> keir simmons, thank you. >> thank you, keir. >>> now to a disturbing murder mystery, the body of a young woman discovered inside a suitcase on the side of a road in connecticut. stephanie gosk is following this investigation. good morning. >> good morning, guys. the residents in wealthy greenwich, connecticut, are rattled this morning. it didn't take long for detectives to officially declare this a homicide investigation, and now police are asking for help identifying the young woman and looking for any information that may lead to her killer. >> reporter: the gruesome discovery shut down this busy road in one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. highway workers finding the body of a young woman fully clothed, stuffed in a suitcase. her hands and feet bound. >> our focus right now is obtaining that identification of the victim, so that a proper notification can be done to the next of kin. >> reporter: police believe the victim is between 18 and 30 years old. >> we have received some leads on some i would say possible identifications of the victim, but at this point nothin

international correspondent keir simmons is here with more on that. good morning to you. >> good morning, guys. ever since jamal khashoggi was murdered the question has been who was behind it, even who ordered it. mr. khashoggi wrote critically about saudi arabia for "the washington post." now there are more reports that the killing goes to the top of saudi society. >> unknown to him, the journalist's life had been threatened a year before he walked into a deadly trap in october. entering the saudi consulate in turkey where he would be murdered, his fiancee left waiting outside. that's according to a "new york times" report that says in september 2017 saudi arabia's leader, the crown prince, told a top aide he would use a bullet if mr. khashoggi did not return to the saudi kingdom. in another 2017 exchange, the "new york times" says the crown prince bitterly complained about mr. khashoggi and declared he did not like half measures. just over 12 months later, jamal khashoggi was dead. the "times" report citing current and former american officials cann

keir simmons, nbc london. >> that visual is. they smell? i'm jus saying they might smell bad, too. why are you looking at me like that? >> you're worried about howhey smell? >> one times i smelled a bunch of sealsn a shoot and it was terrible. i was thinking there was an odor as well. >> we love polar bears. >> i love polar bears. >>> coming up, our interview with a man who t spentwo decades in pliz on for a crime he didn't commit. he's not angry. that's after your local news >>> good morning everybody. 8:26 on this tuesday, february th. i'm aaron gilchrist. it is a storm team 4 weay.er alert offices closed today. let's get to meteorologist chuck bell with a look at traffic. >>> a look at 70 before 440, snow on theun gdro in some sp s spots. skaggsville at 95, lanes blocked, a crash on theas ove because of icy conditions andll rock southbound 270, local lanes after west montgomery, crash ane blocked by a there. >> melissa, thank you. a look at our forecast when we come back. stay with us. >>> still c for freezing rain across the

as nbc's keir simmons explains, she says she's sorry for her actions. >> reporter: now the u.s. how to respond to her request to come home. she went to syria and joined isis in 2014, even allegedly threatening america in tweets she claims she didn't write. her family representative says she was brainwashed by progress gra propaganda. she is pleading for a second chance. >> let's bring in nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel now. richard, where does this woman's case stand? >> what's unique about this woman is there are many women in the same position. her story represents a very interesting slice of time here. a couple of years ago isis controlled an area that was bigger than the united kingdom, twice the size of new york state. it controlled millions of people. but isis is now in a state of catastrophic collapse. so it has been shrinking, as u.s. forces, primarily u.s.-backed kurdish forces are advancing on them. as they're advancing, they're killing or capturing isis fighters. the men who are caught on the battlefield are caught trying to leave the battlefield, b

nbc's keir simmons is following that f us. goodmorning. >> good morning. this is an important development in the case we've covered many times. this decision to investigate touches on the me too movement, the trump administration and most importantly, the women who ca forward. jeffrey epstein ran in powerful circles and counted people like bill clinton and prince andrew as his friends. now a federal investigation is under way as to whether justice department attorneys may have conductedna profess misconduct. serving over just a year in jail after being accused of having sex with underage girls. c the moveomes after "the miami herald" tracked down many alleged victims. >> i was 16. >> i was 16. >> i started going to him when14 was >> reporter: the original report from the palm beach police department alleged the girls dre promi money in exchange for massages. >> he just laid down in his towel on his stomach. en he flipped over, that's when he said, okay, you can go ahead and take off your shirt and pants. >> reporter: the accounts included accusations from

today's senior enter national correspondent keir simmons has the latest o this. keir, good morning. >> the tweets this alabama mother allegedly sent from syria and which you're about to see, will make you sick. this message speaks of deep regrets. the questio this morning, should she be allowed to return to america? she i a mother and american. she was a committed member of isis. now hoda mathana is begging to come home. w she speakh "the guardian" newspaper. things ught i was doing correctly for the sake of god. and when i came here and i saw evything with my own eyes, i realized i made a big mistake and i know i ruined my and my son's future. >> reporter: while isis' rain of terror, she traveled to join the so-calledat cali even allegedly calling for terroriste attacks in u.s. americans, wake up, go on dri drive-bys and spill their glad or rent a big truck and drive all over them. kill them. now her family's lawyer questioning whether she wrote that tweet, and in a handwritten note he passed to nbc news, she says i left to syria, i was a naivrr angry andant youn

nbc's keir simmons joins us with more on hey, keir. >> hey, craig. good morning.t to say this morning, i am a little concerned. it seems to be getting nastier, more bitter. this morning georgeglooney be criticized for comparing her treatment diana. i think it is a stretch t compare it diana, but without reading his mind, i think whata he w trying to say was can weow just turnn the heat a little. a picture of elegance, the duke an duchess of sussex as george clooney whoir attended the wedding, joined the increasingly heated debate involving meghan and the media, defending her. they're just chasing meg had markle evre, he reportedly said at an event in l.a. she's a woman who i seven months pregnant and she's being rsued and vilified and chased in the same way that diana was and it's history repeating itself adding, we've seen how that ends. harry's mom, princess diana was famously hounded by the paparazzi, she died in a 1997 paris car crash chased by otographers. at the time george clooney angrily attacked the media. >>ictures of a dying princess trapped in her ca i

pop start correspondent keir simmons has more o >> this is unprecedented.n this kind ofway. they spoke exclusively to cover ," this week's story about the woman they know and love to set the record straight. five women from her inner circle, a long-time friend, former co-star, friend from a. a close confidant speaking up for the first time. "the truth about meghan." the headlines say, five friends speaking out about what they call global llying. >> meghan's friends have seen her depicted in the uk press negatively, labeled as ducss fficult. they're worried about her and worried about the baby and it's time for themo speak out on her behalf. >> reporter: meghan's dad has claimed she won't answer his messages. t before the wedding, one long-time friend says he wouldn't take her calls. after the wedding meghan wrote a remembers,e friend saying dad, i'm so heartbroken. i love you. i have one father. please stop victimizing me through the media so we canre ir our relationship. the friend says thomas markle replayed to his daughter with a long note that ended by

keir simmons, nbc news, london. >> that very marketablremarkabl. >> they are not cuddly. >> do they smellyou looking at me like that? >> you are worried about how they smell. >> i smelled seals on a shoot. i was thinking maybe there's an owe dar. >> we love polar bears. >> i love polar bears. >> going off the rails. >>> a remarkablei )m ... antioch firefighters are investigating an early morning fire that left one man scrambling to safety. it started a little after >>> a very good morning. it is 8:26. a early morning fire sending a man struggling to find safety. rescue workers treated one person at the scene. the fire destroyed a where hoar and second structure. there were no nearby fire hi hydra hydrants. they broughttanker trucks. no word on how it started. now a look at the commute. i almost said monday morning but it's tuesday. >> that's right. this is westbound 80, approaching redwood street, coming down through vallejo. this is just a short section with this traffic alert. as you head over highway 37 and highway 29, keep that in mind. breezing through the area down past. recovering

"today"'s senior international correspondent keir simmons has the latest on this, good morning. >> the tweets this alabama mo >> good morning mother sent from syria and will leave you sick. the message she has now handwritten passed to nbc news speaks of deep regret. the question is, should she be allowed to return to america? >> she is a mother and american. she was a committed member of isis. now she is begging to come home. you can hear her child in her arms as she speaks in an audio interview from syria with the guardian newspaper. >> i thought i was doing things correctly for the sake of my son. when i came here and i saw everything with my own eyes, i realized i'm going to be mistaken and i know i ruined my future and my son's future. >> her father confirms the voice is hers. while isis reign of terror horrified the world, hoda left her family in alabama in 2014 and traveled to join the so-called group. even allegedly taking to twitter and call for terrorist attacks in the u.s. americans wake up. go on drive byes and spill their blood or rent a big truck and drive all over them.

time for my colleague, keir simmons. >> thank you. i'm in for ayman mohyeldin. a lot to get to.view. the president hits hard. >> she's costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars, because what's happening is when you have a porous border and trugs pouring in and people dieing all over the country because of people like nancy pelosi, who don't want to give proper border security for political reasons, she's doing a terrible disservice to our country. >> with less than two weeks to find a solution to the gridlock in washington over border security, will he ultimately have another government shutdown? the fallout and battle with virginia governor ralph northam from apology to public denial about his future in question. >> when my staff showed me the photo in question yesterday, i was seeing it for the first time. when i was confronted with the images yesterday i was appalled that they appeared on my page, but i believe then and now that i am not either of the people in that photo. >> could his refusal to back down damage the democrats? executive time. we'll dive into brand