steve patterson is in los angeles. what are you seeing out there?crowds here reincredibly massive. i want to show you thousands of protesters have come out here to this may day rally. you're looking at just one crowd. what will happen in a few minutes. this crowd will start marching, meeting up with another crowd. and like you said, this is usually a day for labor. a day for immigration. we're talking about black civil rights groups, women's groups, immigration groups, protesting president trump and the anti-immigration policies all combining for thousands of people joining together. the crowd estimates are about 100 to 200,000 people coming out here. more than 100 groups coming together. we'll be here all day bringing this to you. >> steve patterson in los angeles. thank you vex. we were talking about it earlier but guess who president trump has just invited to the white house? this guy. the controversial philippine president, rodrigo duterte who once preferred to president obama as the son of a w word. but now duterte is showing he is not afraid t

nbc's steve patterson has the story of one survivor who was having a housing crisis of her own. >> 36 lives lost when flames ripped through oakland's ghost ship warehouse, an illegal living space that became a death trap. >> i had maybe 30 seconds to grab a head lamp, grab my cat and make it to the door and get out. >> reporter: this former tenant survived and says people were living there because the bay area has no affordable housing. >> studios are $3,000. it's insanity to think that that's what it costs live in the bay area. >> reporter: nikki found a room for rent in san francisco hundreds of dollars a month for a space no bigger than a walk-in closet. >> we're at the heist housing crisis where housing costs and rents are going through the roof. >> reporter: new data from hud finds that in the san francisco area housing costs so much that a family of four making $105,000 a year is considered low income. compared to other major u.s. cities like los angeles, chicago and new york, it's a staggering number. open resident roxanne keller makes more than $80,000 and had to move in with

nbc's steve patterson shines our sunday spotlight on a trend that troubles many who says the college campus is on strike. >> reporter: college protests. nothing new. the civil rights movement, vietnam, apartheid. but these days, it's not issues that are being raised up, it's speakers being shouted down. just this past week, students at cookman university jeering and turning their backs. betsy devos during a commencement address. >> while we will undoubtedly disagree at times, i hope we can do so respectfully. >> reporter: texas senator john cornyn disinvited on saturday. this is a rapid growing list. protests turned violent when charles murray was drowned out by hecklers. at rutgers university, former secretary of state condoleezza rice pulling out from a planned speech amid protests and conservative commentary a ann coulture pushed out. the incidents sending shock waves across conservative cable news. leading to the question, is free speech dying on college campuses? >> would it matter if i was the most hateful, abusive, dreadful person in the world because these colleges are public

our own steve patterson is in los angeles. he's at one of those rallies. ve, it's may day, goes back a long ways. got some controversial roots, i guess you could say, but this is all about president trump today, huh? >> reporter: it all goes back to the labor unions of lore and those peoples are still here, believe me, labor unions, the labor organizations are alongside in this crowd, but you have also -- you have immigration advocates, you have lgbt community, you have the traditional black civil rights leaders, all out in force really galva rinized by donald trump's presidency. usually these groups always come out for may day protests, may day march, a way to take off work and show solidarity behind those labor unions, but this year, we have a new president and that's why people are joining forces, really with a very sizable crowd. the prediction is now about 100,000 people, 100,000 to 200,000 people expected to rally at some point today. we've been joining them with a march. we've been marching alongside them all day. apologies if it's loud, but i want t

nbc's steve patterson has the latest. [ sirens ] >> i got two victims. i got one gunshot victim, one shot to the left side. >> reporter: tonight, an alleged killer couple accused of being at the heart of a one-day wave of terror in the streets of los angeles. >> window shattered. male, female inside vehicle. vehicle last seen eastbound imperial. >> reporter: police say the cross-city shooting spree started saturday afternoon. >> unknown at this time whether or not they were random shootings, they were purpose shootings or whether they were in the car or out of the car. >> reporter: the suspects, a man and a woman considered armed and dangerous, started by carjacking this suv, shooting at cars and pedestrians across in several cities across l.a. counties, including a victim crossing the street in whittier, a car-to-car assault nearby, and an attack in la merida, where a man was killed. >> i just heard three shots and then i heard four shots after that. >> i just heard that loud pop outside my window. >> reporter: he says he was nearly killed when a bullet

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. >> i'm steve patterson in los angeles, where chris brown is performing.security profile. police in cars, on foot and with canine units patrolling the area. >> reporter: in cleveland, there was also stepped up security at last night's nba playoffs game between the cavaliers and celtics. despite the heavy police presence, some fans were concerned. >> watch for book bags, i watch for certain things, nervous when i see people doing things with phones. >> reporter: tense moments at the braves game. an equipment malfunction forced the scoreboard to show a fire alarm. sirens blared in the ballpark, leaving fans panicked at first. then fuming. one fan tweeting, you think it's funny to scare your fans? what was that? >> after the game, the team said that that alarm was likely triggered by a fight in one of the ballpark restaurants. ali, it shows you how on edge people are across the country. >> no kidding. thanks for that great reporting. stephanie gosk. >>> lawmakers from both sides are pushing back on president trump's budget blueprint. the proposed cuts would h

here is nbc's steve patterson with more. >> reporter: a hate fueled tirade ending with two brutal deaths> one was stabbed in the neck. >> reporter: portland police say three men were stabbed by a manueling ethnic and religious slurs. >> i was so scared. he was saying something about america. this is a free country. >> reporter: police say the suspect identified as 35-year-old jeremy christian harassed two girls, one wearing a hijab. >> two younger girls believed to be muslim. >> reporter: two people who came to the girls' defense were stabbed to death, ricky best and meshy's mother posted he will remain a hero on the other side of the veil. >> it's horrific. >> reporter: this video shows the confrontation with the police before the arrest. christian has an extensive criminal past including kidnapping, armed robbery and he has a history of hate speech. on the facebook page, he praises timothy mcveigh calling him a true patriot. just last month, christian was at a free speech rally armed with a baseball bat and apparently giving nazi salutes. >> i'm not here to join anyone. i'm here to be

steve patterson, nbc news. >> we want to remember as zbig new brzezinski dead, mika brzezinski's father. >> he fled hitler's europe as a boy and went on to become one of the most important figures of his time, ultimately shaping america's relationship with the world. >> it will be a time which will demand the very best from us. >> a towering figure in american foreign policy. he served as president jimmy carter's national security adviser for carter's entire term. >> that land over there is yours. you'll go back to it one day. >> the diplomat, who fled his homeland as a child, he faced some of the biggest foreign policy challenges of our era, the taking of american hostages in tehran, the failed rescue mission and the taking of afghanistan. he worked tireless to hold back the soviet tide and brokered peace deals between the egyptians and u.s. at cam many david. >> we have a view covering many issues of kmn concercommon conc. his death was announced by our colleague, mika brzezinski. i just knew him as the most aspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could ever have. >> what a beaut

nbc's steve patterson has more on that. teve, good morning. >> reporter: chansheinelle, you see behind me it was 80 feet drop. thankfully towards the bottom of the ride he slid off. as you can see from the video he was moving fast when he hit the pavement. a trip to a brand-new water park this weekend takes a horrifying turn and the whole thing is caught on camera. a 10-year-old sliding off the end of a three-story water slide in california's the wave water park and slamming into the ground at high speed. >> i thought he was dead at first. he hit the ground pretty hard. >> reporter: incredibly the boy gets right back up escaping the spill with only minor injuries treated at the hospital. >> he did have scraping on his back. once again, we checked him out fully. he was talking to us and smiling and was in good spirits. >> reporter: this is the latest in a series of recent accidents at water parks across the country. last summer, a 10-year-old kansas boy, caleb schwab, was killed going down the world's tallest water slide at s

i'm steve patterson in los angeles, where chris brown is performing. and behind me, there's a high-security profile. police in cars, on foot. and with canine units patrolling the area. >> reporter: in cleveland, there was stepped-up security at last night's nba playoffs game between the cavaliers and celtics. despite the heavy police presence, some fans were concerned. >> watch for book bags. watch for certain things. i'm nervous when i see them doing this with phones, yes. >> reporter: and in atlanta overnight, tense moments at the braves game. an equipment malfunction caused a scoreboard to flash a huge evacuation order. >> fire alarm has started ringing at sun trust park. >> reporter: sirens blared in the ballpark. leaving fans panicked at first. then, fuming. one fan tweeting, you think it's funny to scare your fans? what was that? after the game, the team said that alarm was probably triggered by a fight in the ballpark restaurant. but you know, securing soft targets like outside that ballpark or here in times square is incredibly difficult becaus

steve: wow. >> jimmy: this is pretty big. i saw that bill clinton is working on a new book with james patterson called "the president is missingaughter ] i heard that bill actually suggested a bunch of other titles before they landed on that one. >> steve: really? >> jimmy: i'll show you what i mean, yeah. first he wanted, "are you there, hillary? it's me, bill, i'll be home late, don't wait up." [ laughter and applause ] long. >> steve: wow, that's a long title. >> jimmy: then he suggested, "cheat, pray, love." and you go, well i don't know if that's -- [ audience ohs ] [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: hey-oh! >> jimmy: and finally he suggested, "fifty shades of heeey." [ laughter and applause ] president obama is over in italy right now, and today he talked about what it was like to live and work in the white house. check out how he described it. >> it is unique in its isolation. and it is a very nice -- uh -- prison. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he called the e then hillary started chanting, "lock me up! lock me up! lock me up!" [ laughter and applause ] no, no, he's saying -- it's a a metaphor. get this, you guys. one of our

event on pg&e, mayor patterson says that the new safety ordinance might include requiring the refinery to provide its own backup power. in benicia, charles clifford, kron 4 news. (steve new at 8. police arrest two men in gilroy on suspicion of invading a home and robbing the victims. authorities say just before midnight friday officers went to check out some alleged suspicious activity on curry drive. and found these two men... jon kovacs and james hall... loading stolen items from a home into a parked car. officers say hall was in possesion of a gun and hoister. and an investigation showed kovacs was an estranged relative to a victim inside the home...and had showed up uninvited. a small child was inside when the robbery took place. no one was injured. the duo was arrested on suspicion of robbery and conspiracy. (vicki) bart police arrested a man... after they say he attacked a train operator. the incident happened around 6:30 saturday night... when the man allegedly punched a train operator at the pittsburg/bay point station. a bart officer was able to arrest the man - who's now been booked in the contra costa county jail on suspicion of battery. (vicki) and in con

rebecca patterson is a cnbc contributor, managing director and christina hooper with invesco. good to have you here. rebecca, was steve right in what he was saying in terms of the fed looking past the soft data and focused on a june rate hike? >> i rarely disagree with steve. the market as of this morning is pricing in about a 71% chance that we get a june rate hike and barring some major shock, a le pen victory from france this weekend or something that rattled the markets in a big enough way that they might pause, i think we are likely to get a hike. >> chris tea he intinchristina, of jeff gundlach? >> i understand his perspective. i would say what makes stocks more vulnerable than a rate hike would be news leaked about balance sheet normalization. i think that really is going to be critical. understanding what the fed's plan is for that because, arguably, qe had a bigger impact on stocks than it had on bonds. and so the unwind of had, we're in uncharted territory, could be more impactful for stocks and bonds and make them more vulnerable. >> do you think so, too? >> i think the fed will do everything it can to make