joining me throughout the hour, peter alexander in washington. peter, you're following the big news from georgia. take it away. >> that is right, no bells chiming here so we'll try to get through this hour a little more silently if possible. there are three portions over nine pages in total that we are learning new details now, including this special grand jury receiving testimony from a total of 75 witnesses. they also received information through investigator testimony and various forms of digital and physical media, according to this new report we have received. that information coming throughout the year that they were impanelled. andrea will stay with us. joining us is blayne alexander in atlanta, garrett haake who is near former president trump's mar-a-lago estate in west palm beach, and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. blayne, i want to get to you right away. you have those excerpts from that report. it's limited, but there are two significant takeaways. >> reporter: peter, very limited of course. we're talking about just a handful of page

i want to bring in nbc news chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. both sides are going to agree that something has to get done. is this about charting what that path forward looks like in both chambers of commerce? >> the question is what can they get done. there's a lot of frustration about what happened in 2021 when the senate did not allow the george floyd justice in policing act to go forward. and so they're going to give it another go in some form this way. the question is what exactly that looks like. the cbs, the congressional black caucus calling for the meeting to meet with president biden today, following the death of tyre nichols, the nevada democrat who was the chair of the cbc saying that he's bringing with him the message from the nichols family after his conversation with tyre nichols mom and stepfather saying they want to see action take place now. it does feel in a lot of ways like a deja vu moment here, and here's what we heard from karine jean-pierre about what exactly the president's view is on this issue, he clearly supports act

later, the president in an exclusive interview with peter alexander suggesting the episode should not fundamentally change u.s. relations with china. here is peter's report >> reporter: facing growing bipartisan criticism for not telling americans more about those aerial objects the u.s. fighter jets shot down, president biden tonight is defending his response >> make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. >> reporter: the president says there is nothing to suggest the three objects shot down over lake huron, alaska and canada were connected to china's spy balloon program or were surveillance vehicles from any other country. instead indicating fighter jets may have been scrambled to take out what could have been weather balloons. >> the intelligence community's current assessment is these three object were likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research >> reporter: and regarding the chinese spy balloon, the president toni

they're not working together >> reporter: all issues that won't be resolved in a single speech peter alexander, nbc news, charlotte. >>> in 60 seconds, the future of artificial intelligence in the classroom. is it a cheat code or a learning tool? >>> google announced today it is rolling out a competitor to chatgpt, the ai software that can write everything from poems to jokes to college-level essays well, some teachers want to ban chatgpt. as jake ward reports, some are embracing it. >> reporter: in rural rogue river, oregon -- >> it's not going to go away. >> reporter: -- kelly gibson's a.p. literature students are discussing artificial intelligence >> what i would like to see you guys do in this discussion is really be able to kind of vet how you feel about this >> reporter: she's talking about chatgpt, the new bot that can spit out college-level essays in seconds and has passed graduate-level medical, legal, and business exams school districts like new york city's are banning it what was your reaction when you first encountered chatgpt? >> my first reaction was absolutely panic >> reporter:

peter alexander reporting now from the white house under the microscope over its level of transparencyeporter: fbi agents today spending nearly four hours combing through president biden's delaware beach home. their latest search for mishandled classified documents the president's lawyer later saying no documents with classified markings were found, that the search was done with the president's full support and cooperation, and that the agents took some materials and handwritten notes for review it comes after the revelation the fbi searched mr. biden's former private office back in november two senior law enforcement source tell nbc news, but the white house did not share that with the public the president today ignoring shouted questions. >> mr. president, are you confident today is the final search for classified documents >> reporter: tonight, president biden's aides argue unlike former president trump they handed back all classified documents immediately, but the white house won't say why they did not tell the public about the fbi's november search and whether others have not been

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and joining me is peter alexander, chief white house correspondent. ter, it's not every day you get a call from the president. i expect. what did he have to tell you? >> reporter: you know, during the remarks when they concluded, i tried to shout a question to the president that he was interested in answering about whether this was an overreaction to shoot down those three latest balloons, as critics have suggested, and whether he was responding to political pressure because there was other shouting from others, he couldn't answer. he said to me, you can come by my office and ask me that later when there are more polite people around. i followed up with the white house and said just say when and received a call from the president saying, go ahead, ask your question. i asked whether it was an overreaction and he said the political pressure would have been not to act. he said that would have been easier. he said it was a recommendation from the military, and that's why he did what he did now, explaining why he had waited this long to speak in more detail

nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander was there for the president's comments today. i know you tried to ask a question of the president. you were interrupted. i thought i heard the president say i'll give you a call, and in fact he did. >> reporter: the president in fact said he couldn't hear me because others in the room were in his words being i think disrespectful, he said. i was welcome to ask my question later in his office. i didn't get invited to the oval office, but president biden did call my cell phone soon after that set of remarks concluded. i want to share with you part of what they said, they are the first real questions from journalists since the downing of these four objects. one, the chinese surveillance balloon, those three other aerial objects that remain unknown because their debris hasn't been found or collected just yet. i asked the president whether this was an overreaction, the shooting down of those most recent three objects. and whether he was responding to political pressure as some of the president's critics both republicans and democrats

. >> he said come to my office to nbc's peter alexander. >> he called peter alexander on the phone. the last meeting, xi wants to do is rip the relationship with the united states and with me. as for the other three objects shot down, we don't know uncertainty of where they came from or what they were trace. >> david is live for us in d.c. thank you, let's bring in our fox news contributor, lesley marshal and pete peterson. welcome to you both. i think dan crenshaw kind of had this right. he said the following putting up on the screen. it took president biden two weeks to address the american people of violating u.s. aerospace and didn't take a single question. i kind of thought the same thing. this could have been given us a press release. i mean the president when he goes out, he's expected to answer questions on these and not one. your thoughts. >> a couple of things. but, rather it deviated and back to him and his family and business dealings. secondly, you know the president, whether it is the democratic or republican, they are commander in chief but they heavily advised by the

>> all right, peter alexander at the white house.for the people still trapped beneath the rubble in turkey and syria, it is a race against time, the death toll from monday's powerful earthquake at more than 11,000. nbc's kelly cobiella is in turkey. >> reporter: we are in one of the hardest-hit areas in turkey, 25 miles from the epicenter, and what we found here is tragically familiar. block after block of badly-damaged or completely destroyed homes, like this one, with a kitchen just crumpled down on to the street below, leaving dangerous debris for searchers to dig through. but they are still hopeful os today.ro s especially after a family of six were found alive in the rubble in syria overnight, along with a newborn baby girl, all of them rescued. today, the u.s. search and rescue teams join in this effort.ip idthey're expected to land todau along with search dogs and heavy equipment. but all of this, as you mentioned, hoda, as that death toll continues to go up, now above 11,200, with hundreds of thousands of people either sleepi

nbc's peter alexander is at the white house for us. peter, this trip has been largely lauded as a success for the president, but what's the perspective of folks there. are they worried about this vocal minority, and what are the other challenges he's facing as the white house looks at the strategy going forward? >> chris, i think the white house feels good that the president was able in effect to take the bully pulpit with him overseas traveling not just to poland but of course into kyiv there. a message sent around the world that this is about something bigger than just what we're witnessing on the ground. it's about this fight that the president has really focused on from the very start, the idea of autocracy, and democracy, saying it is democracy itself in many ways that's on the line here. but white house aids, they do recognize the unique challenges they're facing with 41% of americans according to our latest poll, americans are split in terms of whether there should be the continuation of aid being sent to ukraine in the months ah

. >> joining me now is peter alexander, the co-author of "weekend today" and courtney kubie and peterd robert gibbs. peter, i think we are reassured from the white house now -- i think i started covering the white house in the 1970s. the first time that we were reassured there's no aliens out there. >> a lot of people asking a lot of good questions. the white house is trying to give as many answers as they can. they are doing it in a vacuum. they haven't recovered the three most recent objects discovered in the sky. we heard from the national security council spokesperson saying it's very possible that these are harmless objects that have been operated by private companies or research institutes. it could be commercial or research efforts taking place. in his words, it could be that these are, quote, benign. they say there's not any evidence to this point that these were being operated as part of the chinese balloon surveillance program. there's nothing to indicate that these were being operated by any foreign country right now. he again reiterated the fact that these objects were not

the panel is here, nbc news chief white house correspondent press peter alexander.he correspondent for "pbs newshour." tom friedman, danielle pletka, really good talk about china and ukraine. tom, let me start with you. this feels like we are at a moment we've never been with with china, are we? >> i think so, chuck, because if you go back to the start of the war president biden spoke with president xi and jake sullivan spoke with his chinese counterparts and they made one major point. you will not intervene militarily in this war on russia's side, and if you do it will affect your two largest export markets and the european union and the united states of america. the fact that a year later china is considering that according to the administration, i find harrowing -- >> you find it believable? why would china do this? >> it's interesting. i think -- china, first of all, they would like the war prolonged because it keeps us tied down and we're burning through all our weaponry and all of our military stocks. also, they like a weak russia that's forced to be economica

he told our peter alexander, this incident will not fundamentally change the chinese relationship. though he said it reenforces the need for direct communication. >> reporter: president biden said that he would be in contact with chinese president xi jinping to get to the bottom of this. and promised to keep allies and members of congress informed. in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >> thank you, alice. the japanese government has agreed to shoot down. three unidentified balloons crossing through its air space in the last several years. these are strongly suspected to have been chinese spy balloons as well. the new rule allows defense weapons to bring down any object to protect air travel and the lives of people on the ground. >>> switching gears here. we're going to have new choices for travel in san jose. starting june 7th. spirit airlines will be offering nonstop routes out of san jose international. that means two flights each day. one to san diego and to dallas. mayor matt mayhem joined a spirit representative today at partnership at sjc. and lauded the affordable air travel

president biden actually spoke exclusively to our own peter alexander last night.. what did biden tell him? >> reporter: in his remarks, the president's remarks he said he made no apologies for shooting down that chinese balloon or the three objects that were subsequently shot down, all of which were under the orders of the president. when he spoke to peter, he also rejected that idea that he was somehow overreacting by taking out those objects that were taken out last weekend. now those are things that the president said that u.s. intelligence officials have determined are benign, meaning they were not being used for surveillance and as for the the rules of the sky, the president said that they will be implementing policies and processes in the coming days that will figure out how to track and deal with these objects in the sky going forward. he'll be submitting those classified parameters to congress in the coming days. as for the u.s.-china relationship, the president told peter alexander that he doesn't see that this incident with the chinese spy balloon is goi

peter alexander, you were there and asking questions. i want to play a mash up we put together here of all of, not all of the answers but a lot of the answers, and the similarities between how he answered each one of the questions. >> right. >> let's play it. >> this is consistent i think with the president from the very beginning of having total cooperation with the justice department. >> the president has been fully cooperative. i can say, you know, that we have cooperated fully. ensure that you guys have the ability to share with the american people sort of the information that is important for them to see, as the president's cooperating with this investigation. >> he basically had the same answer, same words in a different order for every single question. one of the things that he did not answer, peter, that julia and i perked up at, you asked, your question, were there any other biden properties, residences, offices, currently being searched or plan to be searched by the fbi? any more clarity on that today. >> reporter: i think to u

. >> reporter: it comes one day after president biden told nbc's peter alexander in another exclusive that, quote, i think the last thing that chinese president x xi jinping wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states and with me. meanwhile, ukraine's president volodymr zelenskyy urging allies at the munich conference to speed up military support ahead of russian president vladimir putin's expected spring offensive. >> he can still destroy many lives. many. that is why we need to hurry run u up. >> reporter: amid concerns over house republicans commitment to ukraine security spending, gop senator lindsey graham in munich offering this assurance. >> i am a republican. i promise you there will be bipartisan resolve to keep the assistance going. >> reporter: just today a bipartisan group of house members urging president biden to send f-16 fighter jets to give ukraine an upper hand against a sustained and brutal assault. president biden is preparing to travel to poland next week to mark the one-year anniversary of the war in ukraine. he is also said that he plan

joining me now is nbc news white house correspondent peter alexander in munich, nbc news correspondent courtney kube, and msnbc political analyst, peter baker. pentagon correspondent, courtney kube. peter, let's start with you, you were able to get some questions off camera. can you tell us a little bit about what you asked him and what more he said about this government effort led by the nsa to have a policy in place for what's in the skies above us? >> reporter: because there was shooting in the room, he couldn't hear my question. after he left, the president called me on my cell phone about 20 minutes ago so that i could ask those questions so i want to share with you what i asked him and what he told you, specifically i asked him, over reaction, of aerial objects and whether he was responding to political pressure. some of the president's critics have suggested. i'm going to read from my notes in that conversation. the political pressure would have been easier not to do it because i got a recommendation from the military that they should do it. it turns out, he said that now, we un

>> reporter: one of the things we learned in that conversation the president had with peter alexander is that from the president's perspective, this does not fundamentally change the u.s. relationship with china. he also said he doesn't think that president xi wants to rip up that relationship with the u.s. and with president biden himself. he said that we all know that relations have been really strained, arguably the worst in decades, but the president made no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon as well as those three objects that were later shot down. he said according to u.s. intelligence officials, those three objects were considered benign, meaning that they were not being used to conduct surveillance. take a listen. >> we don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to china's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from other -- any other country. >> reporter: the president also said that he will be sending classified new protocols that the government is developing for how to track and deal

our peter alexander spoke exclusively with the president after the speech >> reporter: facing growing bipartisan criticism for not telling americans more about those aerial objects that u.s. fighter jets shot down, president biden is defending his response >> make no mistake if any object presents a threat to the safety, security of the american people, i will take it down >> reporter: the president says there's nothing to suggest the three objects shot down over lake huron, alaska and canada were connected to china's spy balloon program or were surveillance vehicles from any other country. instead, indicating fighter jets may have been scrambled to take out what could have been weather balloons >> the intelligence committee's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institution, studying weather or conducting other scientific research. >> reporter: and regarding the chinese spy balloon, the president says he makes no apologies for taking it down, despite critics slamming him for not acting sooner, allow

that wasn't steve doocy or jacqui heinrich, that was peter alexander. and doesn't answer the question is very telling. what we are witnessing is least accessible, most protected president of our lifetime who doesn't like being asked tough questions or being held accountable for anything and being asked to be transparent about actions makes this commander-in-chiefagetated. don't expect anything to change after he announces he is running for reelection. jonathan swann, a former reporter i worked with at the hill, "new york times," one of the most objective journalists out there and he said in a tweet regarding repeated efforts to land an interview with president biden. i have tried to get a one-on-one with joe biden, he won't do it and no convening power on planet earth would compel him to do an interview his advisors deem unsafe. that is right, joe biden has not sat down for interviews, ran from fox news for the super bowl interview and he will try again in 2023 and 2024 when he seeks a second term. >> ashley: he ran from shannon bream for an interview,

joining me now, peter alexander and peter baker. the two peters. we are told he is expected to say, finish the job. what are you expecting to hear? what did you hear from north carolina voters? you were down there talking to them. >> reporter: i will tell you about my visit to north carolina, i will tell you about that in a moment. finish is what we will hear during the speech. re-emphasizing what he came to office with. the idea of rebuilding the backbone of the country, trying to unify the country. beyond that, trying to basically restore the soul of america. he will focus on the idea that now he needs to complete that job, finish that job. the bottom line for this president, one of his biggest challenges tonight is to bridge this gap between what are strong economic numbers, the lowest unemployment rate in more than 50 years, eaing inflation, though still too high for many americans, and the covid pandemic, which is not nearly as bad as it was, with the sense that most americans have right now, which is that they are not satisfied with president

but one thing he did not say and did not answer was peter alexander's question of whether the fbi has searched any other properties, did not answer that question. >> i was throwing up my hands on that one as well. peter hit the nail on the head. we just learned yesterday that there was a search in mid november of the penn biden center by fbi, and of course we're learning today that these cars showed up at the rehoboth beach home, and he didn't answer whether any other properties might have been searched. he said we don't want to get in the way of their investigation. we're telling you about these. the only reason they're telling us is because there were cameras that saw the cars approaching the house. there's a conflating of the narrative. we're being transparent. you know of this because of us. obviously the administration knew in november there was an issue with the handling of classified documents and we only found out in january. you asked me a good question that started as is this in violation of the presidential records act, and the answer is it could be depending on what they f

peter alexander getting down. >> ok so, and it did not stop with the environmental protection agency. want to be very clear. i don't have anything to share on the presidential visit. not at this time. but it does matter that the president put forth a multi agency reaction to this, taking it seriously. showing up is having the environmental protection agency on the ground. talking about what is the next step in the process. holding accountable the company that caused the spill. showing action is also seeing that hhs, cdc, fema. all these guys are on the ground. the president wasn't in poland, he took calls and reached out and got updates from his leadership and continued to make sure he was talking to governor -- the governors of pennsylvania and ohio. that's what matters. that's what leadership looks like. instead of political stunts that we are seeing from the other side. people have been talking about regulation and deregulation. we've been hearing from the other side. we've been hearing from the gop about how now there are interested. all of a sudden, they are interested in the saf

we want to turn to peter alexander, our white house correspondent who has been talking to officials about what we can expect from this state of the union. hi, peter. >> savannah, good evening to you. we just heard from the president as he left the white house a matter of moments ago. he was asked by reporters what is the state of the youunion? he said it's in great shape and getting better he's going to try to bridge the gap between the lowest unemployment rate, inflation too high but easing right now and the dissatisfaction with the direction of the country for most americans right now who feel like the economy is not working for them the white house believes that its policies, the president's accomplishments are popular but that americans don't even know what they are. they are hoping he can communicate that directly to americans tonight with the takeaway being that joe biden has your back. he will say jobs are coming back and pride is coming back watch him use 2023 in the words of one white house official tonight as the year of implementation to try to put all of those efforts into eff

first of all, joe biden, the president, called peter alexander of nbc news after the press conference from yesterday and one of the quotes given and made public. i think the last thing the g wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states and me. he said that in misstatement on camera. what did you think? was that sufficient and was it worth the wait? >> you know, the idea that we would sit there and look to the sky and have a chinese spy balloon looking back at us is a national embarrassment. the problem is that we have to start treating china like they deserve to be treated and biden is asleep at the wheel. you can't have them buying up farmland that is near our military installations or have them putting money in our universities unless we will pull our money and take chinese money or ours. we can't have them stealing intellectual property. when it comes to the balloon flying over you have to start letting china know what we expect of them not worry about whether they want to keep a relationship or not. that's not what this is about. we have to start treating

. >> he called peter alexander right back afterwards. >> harris: he sat down with one he liked.you back. we're out of time. we had breaking news with ohio. you will come back. "outnumbered" is after the break. have a great weekend. aww. [ audience cheers ] maybe try switching your car insurance to progressive. you could save hundreds. [ audience laughter ] thanks, tv dad. we'll think about it, okay? look what i found. -a puppy! -a puppy! oh, no, no. i wish tv dad was always in charge. [ dog barks, audience laughter ] listen to your tv dad. drivers who switch and save with progressive save nearly $700 on average. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ for adults with generalized myasthenia gravis who are positive for acetylcholine receptor antibodies, it may feel like the world is moving without you. but the picture is changing, with vyvgart. in a clinical trial, participants achieved improved daily abilities with vyvgart added to their current treatment. and vyvgart helped clinical trial participants achieve reduced muscle weakness. vyvgart may increase the risk of infection. in a clinical study, the most c

balloon, and they were trying to ask the president in the free for all yesterday, but did call peter alexanderllowing. i think the last thing that chinese president xi wants to do is fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states and with me. nikki haley said about biden's approach to china, it's unbelievably embarrassing to see the chinese balloon looking at us, and this is a change in the relationship between china and the united states and china feels they are free to send a balloon over the united states and thumb their nose at us. >> this is really in your face, in the old, back in the day, and that's what the chinese have done and i cannot believe he says well, it's really no harm, no foul. of course it is. they flew over the most sensitive installations and as part of the triad, missile wings, looked at the missile fields, and b-2s, and really, and i think they are just avoiding the obvious, which is look, china is an adversary, better address it that way, not a friend of the united states, they are an economic threat, a military threat, diplomatic threat and educational thre

nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander spoke with voters in one state about how theytate of the union" address president biden seen prepping for his big moment. he'll speak before an audience of americans that polls show are dissatisfied with the state of our union. like shelly in north carolina selling her flower shop after 17 years. >> it's tough being a business owner. >> hagen says inflation has been devastating, costing her business and sleep. what frustrates you most these days? >> everything. the way the administration is now is not taking care of ourselves and our own people. >> but attorney lina lee credits president biden for returning what he calls a calmness to the country. >> he lets the haters just hate. he doesn't engage and he does his job. >> reporter: lee praises the president for the president leading the u.s. through the pandemic. still president biden is facing a tough sell. the latest nbc news poll shows just 45% of americans approve of his performance. that number sinks to 36% when it comes to the president's handling of the economy, and just 31

asked by peter alexander in a telephone interview yesterday whether he was overreacting. the president said he wasn't. that the overreaction would have been to not take out those additional objects that the u.s. had found since it discovered that spy balloon. relations in a tense place and have been for some time. the president intends to speak with president xi of china however white house officials say there is no planned call to have that phone conversation. >> thank you so much. >>> we are learning new information today about the health of freshman democratic senator john fetterman. the pennsylvania senator announced thursday he checked himself into walter reed medical center to receive treatment for depression, a week after fetterman was hospitalized feeling light-headed during a senate retreat. joining me now from capitol hill, we all remember the stroke fetterman had during the campaign last year. is his campaign saying there's any sort of connection between the stroke and his depression now? >> reporter: yeah. ellison, fetterman's team tells us he struggled with d

all about strategic competition but the president said in his own exclusive phone call with our peter alexander just a couple of days ago that he doesn't think that president xi wants to tear this relationship. there is another issue now complicating that matter. that is that secretary blinken said that he believes china is considering providing lethal aid to russia in its war against ukraine. the reason that that is significant is because we learn from our own courtney kube yesterday that u.s. officials already believe china is supplying nominally filet aid to russia from in that battle against ukraine. that is another big part of the conversation. as president biden heads to poland tomorrow to mark the one year anniversary of russia's war in ukraine. where he will be emphasizing the strategic alliance with our european allies and talking about this and the role again the china potentially could play in this war and conflict as well. >> definitely gonna be a dominant part of this week's conversation. thank you so much, monica alba. on the heels of that, let's bring in peter baker, msnbc politi

. >> thank you very much, peter alexander, ali vitali, ambassador gary locke, we appreciate it. the little box on the corner of the screen, waiting for secretary blinken to take to the microphone. he will be peppered with questions from reporters in the room. we'll bring that live the second that news conference begins. >>> we're watching a number of other events. wall street at the closing bell, a gang buster jobs report wharks what it means for our economy. and president biden ready to speak as he gets ready for his potential 2024 reelection campaign. you see it there, we're live in philly in just 60 seconds. we're philly in just 60 seconds. every day, millions of things need to get to where they're going. and at chevron, we're working to help reduce the carbon intensity of the fuels that keep things moving. today, we're producing renewable diesel that can be used in existing diesel tanks. and we're committed to increasing our renewable fuels production. because as we work toward a lower carbon future, it's only human to keep moving forward. hi, i'm debra. i'm from colorado. i

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander and kristen welker. >>> welcome to "today." thank you for joining us on saturday morning. we are headed into the holiday weekend. temperatures are getting chilly. >> it was a cold start heading into the office. things will warm up for the day. we will have the forecast in a few minutes. >>> a lot to get to on saturday morning. the beginning of the three-day weekend for many of you. today's weather may have you wanting sky inside because temperatures are as much as 20 degrees lower than the past few days. we will get you the presidents day forecast in a bit. >>> we will head overseas where vice president kamala harris just delivered a key speech at the crucial global security conference reiterating the u.s. commit to support ukraine nearly one year after russia's invasion. >>> let's start with the top story. the clean up from the train derailment in ohio two weeks after the fact. residents concerned for their health learning that fema will be sending help did. we have nbc's george solis in east palestine, ohio. >> repor

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander and kristen welker. >>> welcome to "today." thank you for joining us on saturday morning. you don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate 351 points scored in a single game. 176-175 is the final. that's a fun one. >> a lot of points. russell westbrook, former mvp, showing he has it on the court. >> look who did her homework. >>> we have a lot to get to, including the start of the second year of the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy said they will emerge victorious. we will have the latest. >>> we are on the ground in east palestine, ohio who erin brochvich visited with families. >>> and the snowy weather out west and some out in california seeing 3 feet of snow. >> these are not special effects. the l.a. area dealing with snow. now bracing for flash flooding. we will get the forecast in just a moment. nbc's dana griffin is outside l.a. this morning. dana, still coming down as we speak. >> reporter: yeah, peter, there is still a flash flood warning here. at l.a.x., planes are not taking off or landing because of t

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander and kristen welker. >>> welcome to "today." thank you for joining us on saturday morning. the start of super bowl weekend. kristen said it is cute they have a football game around the rihanna convert. >> i'm fired up. i have my green on. the count yount is on. the excitement is building not at just my house, but everything you need to know about the big game. also, we are excited about this. i'll share my conversation with the mom of the moment. donna kelce. her sons are playing against each other. the first time that's ever happened during a super bowl. >> imagine trying to feed those boys in high school. if you are not into football, there are commercials to enjoy. we will show you a few favorites. that is all ahead this morning. >>> let's begin with the top story. the unidentified object shutdown off the coast of alaska on friday. nbc's allie raffa is at the white house. >> reporter: peter, good morning. the search is under way for the debris of the object. the object shot down at the direction of president biden of

. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with peter alexander and kristen welker. >>> welcome to "today." thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. if you are a fan of the grammys, it is a good weekend to stay inside and watch because it is so cold, it hurts to be outside. >> what did mom and dad say? layers is the best way to go this weekend. it is punishingly cold across the country. >> all of your layers. if you haven't been outside, it is freezing. take a look at the cold places in the northeast. boston feeling like it's 35 below. portland, maine at negative 39. new york, negative 10. detroit is the warmest coming in at zero degrees. >> that is nothing like what it feels like this morning in mount washington in new hampshire. look at that. from another planet. windchill there is an incredible 107 degrees below zero. that is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the u.s. >> it does look like it is out of a movie. let's get to it in the full forecast in a moment, but first, emilie ikeda is in boston. she drew the short straw. emilie, good morning. >> reporter: guys,

two reports on what you can expect to hear starting with nbc's chief white house correspondent peter alexanderpeter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning. white house officials say president biden will lay out a hopeful and optimistic vision for the country while touting his achievements since taking office his challenge tonight, whether he can bridge the gap between strong economic news including the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, and most americans believe that the economy is not working for them president biden just hours away from his first state of the union in this new era of divided government these photos showing his final preparations for what's likely to be his largest tv audience of the year and despite polls that show most americans are pessimistic about the direction of the country, the president is expected to say the state of our economy is strong >> jobs are up, inflation is up, covid no longer controls our lives. >> reporter: the president, aides say, will cast his response reasonable in contrast to what he calls extreme and reckless republicans with a

he turned to peter alexander and wanted him to ask a question. post who kept shouting questions non-germane. i'll just note that the white house correspondent's association put out a statement saying this sort of behavior isn't acceptable. there is a decorum. sometimes you have to raise your voice to be heard. the president understands that. this is a moment where he was trying to take questions and frankly was rudely interrupted and it cost the entire press corps the ability to get answers. >> the "wall street journal" reports a small circle of intelligence officials at the pentagon during the trump administration monitored a series of mysterious objects, now suspected to be balloons, but the incidents were never reported to the white house because it wasn't clear what they were, a former u.s. official said. that seems like exactly why you would report it, but okay. pentagon intelligence analysts reached their assessment about the objects in the summer of 2020, the former official said. >>> vice president kamala harris just sat down with andrea

we want to turn to peter alexander, our white house correspondent, who as we're talking to officials about what we can expect from this state of the union, peter? >>. >> reporter: we just heard from the president. he left the white house moments ago. he was asked by reporters, what is the state of the union? he said, it's in great shape and getting better. but fundamentally, that is his challenge tonight, to try to bridge the gap between what has been strong economic news -- the lowest unemployment rate, the more than 50-year inflation still too high but certainly easing right now. and the dissatisfaction in the direction of the country for most americans right now. they feel like the economy is not working for them. the white house believes that its policies, its president's accomplishments are popular but americans don't know exactly what they are. they hope to communicate that directly to americans tonight with the takeaway being, joe biden has your back. he will say, jobs are coming back and pride is coming back. watch him use 2023, in the words of one white house official tonight

in an exclusive phone interview with nbc news, peter alexander pressed the president, whether it wasoverreaction to shoot down those three objects the president responding, it would have been easier not to shoot them down, in the face of political pressure, adding, i got a recommendation from the military with tensions rising between the u.s. and china, the president unapologetic for shooting down that suspected spy balloon earlier this month, despite criticism he waited too long >> we waited until it was safely over water, which would not only protect civilians, but also, nable us to recover substantial components for further analytics and then we shot it down, sending a clear message. >> reporter: insisting that the u.s. is seeking competition with china, not conflict. mr. biden also telling peter, he plans to speak with chinese president xi jingping saying, i think the last thing that xi wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the united states and with me now, the president is also directing his team to develop what he is calling sharper rules for handling future unid

how many of peter's children are alexander really?hink the elder seryozhka is a bear, this is the third and second svetlana the fourth may turn out to be from my brother, may turn out to be from dima, this may be deposited there in a week, it’s just that there were three different men, that’s why i’m here, everything is here, to find out if this is my nephew or what, really looks like your brother, well there i have this special resemblance. eh, let's say there's nothing . and who does olga look like in your opinion? and here he is on his lie. here he is sitting. here he is. horned, yes, yes, you have often said for a while that my first children, and your children heard it, you said it to them. well, it happened a couple of times, and you love your children. and how they reacted in any way they did not react to it. right now they don’t even react in any way, because here she is, she set me up against me. alexander yes, they don’t call me. dad, i sent myself. let's start with what papa they now call her love too. yes, you understand,

nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander sets the scene. >> reporter: president biden his final preparations for what's likely to be his largest tv audience of the year. despite polls showing most americans are pessimistic about the direction of the country, the president is expected to say the state of our economy is strong. >> jobs are up, wages are up, inflation is down and covid no longer controls our lives. >> reporter: the president, aides say, will cast his efforts as possible in contrast to what he calls extreme and reckless republicans. also national security concerns raised by the discovery of that chinese balloon shot down over the weekend. >> china is infiltrating our culture, our farmland and our skies, because they see us as weak. >> reporter: with president biden expected to announce a 2024 run soon, his speech is likely to give americans a glimpse of the reelection message he may run on. two-thirds of voters say they have reservations or very uncomfortable about the president running again. including a single working mother of four in charlotte who is s

nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander reports on the president's address last nightccarthy, before confronting republican heckling head on. tangling over the fate of social security and medicaid. the president taking aim at an idea floated by just a few republicans. >> instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some republicans, some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i'm not saying it's a majority. >> reporter: the comment drawing outrage and boos, including from gop fire brand marjorie taylor greene. but then with a smile, the president turning the tables. appearing to get republicans on board with his position to protect the popular programs. >> stand up and show them we will not cut social security. we will not cut medicare. so folks, as we all apparently agree, social security, medicare is off the books now, right? we're not going to cut? >> reporter: at several points when things got spicy, mccarthy was seen trying to shush his boisterous members, like this moment about the drug crisis. where the president mourned 70,000 americans

hockey player’s father mikhail ovechkin is ill, the head coach of washington, peter lavellet, said the day before that alexander club’s location, at least until the end of this week he has already missed today’s game against carolina , and captain washington will not play saturday’s match in the open air against the same carolina in an eighteen-year career in the nhl , ovechkin, for various reasons, missed only 48 games. russian tennis player former first racket of the world danila medvedev played the first match after a failed performance at the australian open, let me remind you that in melbourne, daniil medvedev flew out already in the third round at the atp500 series tournament in rotterdam, medvedev beat an opponent from spain in three sets on alejandro davidovich fakino 4:6262 russian victory in 1 hour in 55 minutes medvedev went to 1/8 and more one russian on the san korans flew out in rotterdam at the 1/16 stage, and the fifth racket of the world andrey rublev will lead his match of the same stage tonight, the semi-finalist of the australian open karen khachanov withdrew from the second tournament in a

suffice it to recall alexander menshinsky's childhood friend of our great peter who stole with four handsy repeatedly, but still in difficult moments. he sacrificed what he earned and stole cast cannons and made muskets. he himself fought this is the desire and the need for a person with the ability to come to the aid of the country in difficult times. we were talking about it. it was called the singer cavalry and weapons, that is, to come in transport with people and with weapons. we have a lot of rich people. i want to believe that most of what is acquired is honestly done. i am convinced that the vast majority of our officials, deputies of governors, in general, the leadership both locally and in the center clean and before the authorities before the law before the people, and on the other hand, we see the reverse side of this coin, when , in order to avoid unnecessary questions, acquired is rewritten with a knife. reliably children on relatives, distant relatives, and so on and so forth, so it reminds me of an excerpt from one very famous cartoon. goodbye now. then it will not be, and