this is a life changing experience. >> reporter: matt bradley, nbc news, san francisco. >>> a clash of culture involving ancient lifelines in a need. it's playing out in remote corner of southwestern alaska where native people are fighting to preserve a way of life. it depends on the water, while others are fighting to win approval for a new mine. we sent out chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson to take a look. >> reporter: even winter starkness can't diminish alaska's vast natural wonders. waters that team with fish lap against land rich with minerals. wonders on a slow motion collision course at the head waters of the world's largest salmon run. in the winter, how many times would you eat salmon? >> three, maybe four. >> reporter: with her grandmother's blade she prepares the fish that fed her ancestors for centuries and her family today. is all this fish caught by your family? >> yeah. wouldn't have it any other way. >> reporter: the world needs copper from smart phones to solar panels. >> we only have two ways to get copper. we mine in the united states or mine it

matt bradley is there. >> reporter: a savage murder caught on came camera. james louis, a homeless man shot execution style. >> what did my dad do to you to deserve to die like that? >> reporter: she lost touch with her father, a vietnam veteran nee nearly two decades ago. >> that hurts. whoever is doing this has no regard for anybody's life. >> reporter: her father, the fourth victim in a five-day rampage. >> this man is arm and dangerous and he's targeting our homeless. >> reporter: the first shooting was just after midnight on january 29th at a grocery store. hours later, two more shootings. one fatal in downtown las vegas. four days after that her father was killed nearby. >> right now we believe this person to be a spree killer. he's committing the crimes without any cooling off period in between that you would normally see with a serial killer. >> reporter: las vegas was one of the largest homeless populations in the country. many are living in fear. she and others are standing guard. >> we take turns. we're all rotating. we get tired and cranky. we're

we sent matt bradley to aztec, new mexico where a school shooting happened last september to look athe impact and how students are trying to move ahead. >> reporter: at aztec high school, parkland's pain feels like a flashback. >> having over and over, like, it's been replayed. >> reporter: freshman evan hughs took this video when the former student opened fire. >> a gunshot comes through our classroom, through the wall, and you could hear it break the window. >> reporter: killing a senior and junior. after the shooting, there was hundreds of counselors, but the trauma lingers. >> reporter: how did the florida shooting affect this community? >> it's like being punched in the stomach. >> reporter: there's no textbook for school shootings, but survivors teach other other. aztec teens reach out to parkland students over social media offering sympathy and advice. this sophomore's cousin, casey, was killed, and his advice to students in florida? >> just come together. everybody talk to each other. talk to other people. >> reporter: school administrators also learning from past shootings.

this is a life-changing experience. >> reporter: matt bradley, nbc news, san francisco. >>> all rightst check of our forecast from nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> the week ahead, still looking very warm throughout much of the desert southwest and southern california. near record warmth throughout the day today. a little bit of snow in the middle of the country. fast forward and show you what we're dealing with into tuesday. still looking for temperatures around 80 in phoenix, 75 in los angeles, and, you know, still looking at very mild conditions. today's forecast isn't much different. things aren't really changing here. as far as the snow goes today, it's really ending in montana and slowly heading across the country. unfortunately, francis, it's been, you know, very dry in the west. it's been very warm. and then the wet season is supposed to end in another couple months if we don't get the rainfall only imagine what the summer will bring. >> hoping that will change. thank you. >>> thank you for being with us on a monday. i'm frances rivera. keep it right here. your news continues

nbc's matt bradley has more. >> a lot of the artwork coming from local artists. >> reporter: for arter rodney hampton, it means personal vindication. back in 1991 rodney spent just 22 hours in jail for selling weed. a misdemeanor mistake that's haunted him for decades. >> it's horrific and now that i'm able to change it, it's even better. >> reporter: now rodney's record and thousands of others in the state are about to be cleared or reduced. san francisco and san diego announcing marijuana misdemeanors after 1975 will be automatically wiped and felonies will be reevaluated. an effort to alter a decades-long drug war fought mostly in minority communities. >> we have taken large segments of our community and marginalized them over a policy that was wrong. >> reporter: here in san francisco's haight ash bury neighborhood, legalization was a no-brainer. but the idea of forgiven past crimes doesn't sit well with everybody. >> we're saying that it is, again, obnoxiously reckless and irresponsible to say, we don't care about the circumstances of any of these prior convictions. >> reporter:

matt bradley tells us more. >> a lot of art work coming from. >> reporter: back in 1991 rodney spent 22 hours in jail for selling weed. a misdemeanor mistake that's haunted him for decades. >> it's horrific. now that i'm able to change it, it's even better. >> reporter: rodney's record and thousands of others in the state are about to be cleared or reduced. this week san francisco and san diego announcing marijuana misdemeanors after1975 will be wiped and in communities. >> we have taken long segments of our community and margin marginallized them over a policy that's wrong. >> reporter: the idea for giving past crimes didn't sit well with everybody. >> we're saying that it is, again, look. >> reporter: even winter starkness can't diminish alaska's vast natural wonders. waters that teem with fish lap against land rich with minerals. wondse wonders on a slow motion collision course at the headquarters of the world's largest salmon run. >> in the winter how many times would you eat salmon? >> three, maybe>> reporter: wi grandmother's blade she prepares the fish that fed her an zecestor

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that was a report by matt bradley and new sanctions there. let's go back to the story about the growing humanitarian crisis in syria. >> reporter: hell on earth is how the u.n. describes east ghouta. it's barrelled the regime for seven days. more than 500 lives lost according to people in the war zone. many women and children. a desperate plea by 10-year-old nora and her 8-year-old sister injured just two days ago. >> by rockets and my sister has been injured. >> reporter: their homes and numerous others destroyed in air raids. residents of the besieged city forced to live in underground shelters. ghouta was once the bread basket of damasc damascus, now the place of hunger and malnutrition. today after weeks of waivering, the u.n. approved a cease-fire resoluti resolution. >> russia has decided to join the international consensus and accept the need to call for a cease-fire but only after trying every possible way to avoid it. >> reporter: too late for the hundreds of ghoutas dead but a possible respite from the violence from the 400,000 stil

for "today," matt bradley, nbc news, los angeles. >>> dylan has a check on the forecast. >> look at whatck through minneapolis and duluth. we could have 6 inches or more of snow. that is the cold side of the storm system. when you have snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour and winds up near 30 miles per hour. visibility could be reduced quickly. it will be dangerous on the roads in that area because of the winds. we have the possibility of storms in arkansas today and back into northeastern texas. heavy rain is producing the potential for flooding because we had a week straight of that rain. tomorrow the rain moves into the southeast. stormy along the gulf coast. we could see snow mixing in with the rain. we have more snow in the pacific >>> good morning. today we're looking at temperatures a little warmer than average into the 50s. that comes with a lot of gray, rainy conditions. 53 in center city. 52 in lands dale. allentown makes it into the low 50s. the rain chances pick up into noon and later and it's on and off rain. chances aren't as high for new jersey, the shore or delaware.

for "today," matt bradley, nbc news, los angeles. >>> dylan has a check on the forecast. >> look at whatck through minneapolis and duluth. we could have 6 inches or more of snow. that is the cold side of the storm system. when you have snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour and winds up near 30 miles per hour. visibility could be reduced quickly. it will be dangerous on the roads in that area because of the winds. we have the possibility of storms in arkansas today and back into northeastern texas. heavy rain is producing the potential for flooding because we had a week straight of that rain. tomorrow the rain moves into the southeast. stormy along the gulf coast. we could see snow mixing in with the rain. we have more snow >>> we're waking up to freezing temperatures in some spots literally. we've got 20s on the map this morning. for santa rosa, 28 degrees. napa, 26. and down near the south bay and even in the east bay, we're in the 30s. 37 degrees for oakland. 36 degrees for san jose right now. 29 degrees for morgan hill. san benefit eto and near the monterey county area, we can see

of utah where i would major in sociology and be mentored by many individuals, most pointedly, matt bradley, rest in peace 20, 12. davidn cahill, ph.d., and sereser. my work showed me the contribution and insights of undocumented people are porn. my mentors showed me how important. i truly owe them for showing me i matter for being who i am. i graduate -- graduated with an honors bachelor of science in sociology and i'm dreamer program coordinator for the university of utah which is the first center for dreamers in the state of utah. god bless you, utah. i would like to pursue a ph.d. in sociology with a focus on immigration an loy boar studies. this is important because once again as has been consistent in these theme the dreamers are grateful for the mentoring they have received from people in our country. some of whom may share their heritage, most of whom did not. and that's the beautiful thing about the dreamers, they know their dream, they have a dream, but somebody else had a plan for their own dream that inspired the dreamers to have their plan. when yuri hernandez was only 2 years

matt owens on issues around higher education, emily around health care and neil bradley with deep experience working with congressional leadership and now the business community on just about any issue you can name. they highlight the breadth of substantive interest among our group members as well as the depth of their hill experience. and they, like the rest of the group here, are deeply committed to building a better budget process. so just to give you a little bit of background, matt will walk you through the principles that we developed and reached consensus on and then as we develop the proposals, emily will walk you through the proposals and then neil will round out the conversation to give you a feel for the conversations we had about the political viability of our ideas as they coalesced. now i'll turn it over to the people you probably really want to hear about because they're going to talk about the results of the dialogue, but i want to thank you for your attention and look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you, susan and rob and mike and the entire team at convergenc