. >>> good evening, i'm thomas roberts. lester has the night off. on this christmas eve, officials in the south confirm the death toll has risen to 11 after a series of spring-like tornados ravaged the region. the unusual december system hit mississippi the hardest with parts now under a state of emergency. tonight, search and rescue teams there continue to look for storm survivors, which through the christmas holiday. we begin with nbc's mark potter in clarksdale, mississippi. >> reporter: a devastating scene just before christmas after deadly storms and twisters curve through a midsection of the country. at least 11 killed and more than 40 injured. preliminary reports of at least two dozen tornados, including a possible ef-3, believed to have traveled more than 100 miles. >> a total loss, everything. >> reporter: mississippi was the hardest hit, seven lives lost including a 7-year-old boy, who died not far fro where these twin tornados were spotted. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: powerful winds flipped this semi. >> i already knew it was bad. i could te

i'm thomas roberts. lester has the night off. as most people around the country are safely celebrating the holiday tonight, christmas this year for people in mississippi, tennessee and arkansas is like no other. the death toll has risen to 14. ages 7 to 70. after a violent system of tornados devastating a swath of the country, making for catastrophic clean-up from the deep south extending north to michigan. and to add insult to of weather could hit the south this weekend as millions of holiday travellers are expected to return home on the roads or in the air. we begin tonight with nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: in holly springs, mississippi, families spent christmas day trying to salvage what they could. >> speak of the grinch that stole christmas. but spared our lives. >> reporter: the season of giving took on new meaning in this community. with donations pouring in. christmas toys along with food and d clothing. >> we came out with the clothes we had on our backs. >> when something happens like this, we all come together and m

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thomas roberts, we talked earlier about the vigils. you were at those vigils last night. >> reporter: i did attend that vigil. it was held at san manuel 66ers park, the minor league ball team here in san bernardino. basically the feeder team to the angels. it's a facility, a stadium, open air that holds roughly about 8,000 folks at full capacity. it was filled with people who came from multi-faiths, all walks of life, all shapes and sizes, all wanted to be together to comfort one another as they try to come to grips with what exactly happened. now a clearer picture is starting to emerge. but it was multi-faith and the mayor was there saying we might be down but we are not out. i just wanted to pass on, i know there has been a lot of conversation about the victims and their children. we saw so many kids that were there last night with their parents. but i was able to speak to a source in the governor's office to find out about the shooter's baby. so many questions remain about this 6 month old child who was dropped off at farook's mothe

i'm thomas roberts. "msnbc live," protestors gather outside an emergency council meeting in chicago. mayor rahm emanuel delivers an em passioned apology for the death of laquan mcdonald. >> no citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of chicago. >> but the mayor's apology, is it too little, too late? we'll take you live to chicago to see how it's playing out.

. >> thomas roberts remains with me here in new york. thomas? >> doing research again on what the inland regional center does and who it provides services for, looking at message boards, this is just one and i don't want to read the name but they say the inland regional medical center provided our son and others with programs, bus passes and more to help disabled people. we have the closest life possible. our son is 22, works and lives on his own, thanks to irc. and then there's a personal message here to someone who works there to let them know if they are okay. so lots of families are helped and serviced by what this facility does for certain members of that community. again, serving riverside county and san bernardino county. we also heard from the local affiliate there about the fact that the golf course has been a place where people from inside that facility have been able to congregate for safety purposes. across the street. it is the subl golf course and -- >> seeing pictures of this. >> yes. this is an hour inland from los angeles. 0 if

i'm thomas roberts reporting live in san bernardino, california. it is just after 10:00 here in the morning, less than 24 hours ago where we had the situation of a massacre just down the street at the inland regional center. we just have authorities now walking away. they will come right behind me after they wrapped up this news conference on where the investigation stands right now. we learned a lot. they were able to confirm certain things and then also talk about absolute myths that some have created after the investigation was launched. but let's get to the facts of what we know so far. they updated the casualty count to 21 injured in the shooting, 14 people were killed. they have not released the identities of those people. we just heard from the county sheriff about what that means. let me talk to the police chief. chief, we are live on the air on msnbc. can i ask you one question? when it comes to the motive, what do you say about what the motive is? >> we don't know enough about the motive at this point. >> reporter: what's your gut tell yo

i'm thomas roberts.we want to focus our attention and remember and honor those who lost their lives in wednesday's attack, one of those people being daniel kaufman. he was one of the 14 people senselessly killed in the inland regional center behind me. he was 42 years old and ran the coffee shop there. he also trained the developmentally disabled clients for jobs in the outside world. joining me now is ryan reyes. ryan was daniel's partner of almost three years. they were going to be celebrating their anniversary i believe coming up in january. >> january. >> so explain for everybody because you were given some false hope after you initially heard what happened here that daniel was okay, that he was only shot and at a hospital and being worked on. >> correct. correct. >> so explain that time period for you. >> that time period for me, we obviously had a lot of hope at that point. it initially had started as rumor that we had heard so we tried to get confirmation by going to, you know, the mayor's office

i'm thomas roberts. two major political stories breaking in this hour.ding his final news conference of 2015, this being a meet the press moment where homeland security and the threat of isis is expected to dominate the conversation. we expect to hear from the president within this hour and when that begins, we will take you to the president live. >>> meanwhile, expected any moment from now, the presidential campaign of bernie sanders expected to hold a news conference after a major revelation which resulted in a staffing shakeup and drew the ire of the dnc. the problem involves a software glitch in the democratic national committee data base which allowed the sanders team to improperly access the hillary clinton campaign's voter data. the dnc has barred the sanders camp from accessing its data base and last hour, senator sanders spoke exclusively to our nbc news team on capitol hill. >> reporter: senator sanders, do you have any response?

i'm thomas roberts.d the republican candidates spanning out across the country and the airwaves today trying to frame their performance in tuesday's debate as a win. and beating on the candidate they see as their biggest threat to their nomination. none more so than marco rubio focusing his eye on ted cruz. some of cruz's own lines were thrown back at him at a rally in iowa. >> everyone on that stage talks tough. it's easy. i can stand here this morning and say we're going to utterly destroy isis, we're going to blow them up and make the sand glow. that's easy to say. what are you going to do it with? >>> jeb bush also hitting his favorite target, donald trump. and hear what he said about donald trump during an interview on "morning joe." take a look. >> it was a commander-in-chief debate in many ways. and i don't know if the front running candidate fared that well. >> chris matthews speaking with donald trump after the big debate and discovered the one question trump won't answer. is he still a birther?

i'm thomas roberts.l to ban muslims coming into america. today, donald trump spoke with msnbc's "morning joe" by phone, explaining why he thinks a drastic move is necessary. >> i think it's something that has to be done. i think it's a temporary move. it's not unconstitutional keeping people out, frankly, and until we get a hold of what's going on, joe. >> you aren't proposing int interment camps. >> no. i'm not proposing that. joe, take a look back at roosevelt and take a look at alien germans, they called them alien germans, alien italians, alien japanese, because we were at war. the muslim community has to help us make it, they're not helping us. when you say you're afraid, you should be afraid of the other side, not my side. >> is plan was announced in a statement last night which trump read during a rally in south

"msnbc live" with the great thomas roberts is next. >>> i'm thomas roberts.as become a very personal, public feud between donald trump and hillary clinton. trump upping the rhetoric last night, again going after the former secretary of state. this time using a vulgar comment alluding to the male anatomy in reference to her loss of the nomination to then senator barack obama in 2008. he also made crude references to clinton's bathroom break during saturday night's debate. >> what happened to her? i'm watching the debate and she disappeared. where did she go? i know where she went. it's disgusting. i don't want to talk about it. no, it's too disgusting. >> clinton is expected to speak at an event in iowa in roughly 15 minutes. don't expect her to respond to trump's latest barbs. this morning her communications director tweeted quote, we are not responding to trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should hash tag i'm with her. we have our reporters fanning out across this story. our political team about t

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. >>> thomas roberts is in for lester holt tonight joining us to see what's ahead on nbc nightly tonight. >> we have a lot to talk about. millions are safely celebrating the holiday at home. it's a different story with the christmas chaos in the tri-state area for mississippi, arkansas an tennessee. the death toll rising to 14 as the series of massive tornadoes swept through. there could be some wild weather headed that way this weekend. impact it could have for the people traveling home. america. many folks may have received one under the tree today. the faa scrambling to get those registered. we're going to show you how it's happening. >>> plus the rockettes, we love the rockettes and they have been delighting audiences for the past 90 years. we have a behind the scenes look at why those high flying kicks keep packed houses coming back year after year and keep us from getting home from work at night when they let the show out. close. >> i saw people outside today. anybody selling tickets? >> they've become synonymous for so many. we have a fantastic look at why everyone loves them and

msnbc's thomas roberts met some of the people who just felt like they had to be together last night. >> every single person in there mattered, regardless of, you know, who they were, their status or they're very important, you know. some child doesn't have their mother today. it is just -- it is a big deal. >> even though we don't know at this point what happened, i don't think that that really makes a big difference in how people have been affected by the sadness, the overwhelming -- the feeling of being overwhelmed and the frustration. it is senseless. it makes no sense at all. >> there was also a vigil at the largest mosque in san bernardino county. mosque leaders released a statement yesterday saying in part they are paying -- they are praying for the swift recovery of the injured. the san bernardino county coroner released the names of all 14 victims of wednesday's massacre. 12 of them, 12 of the 14 were county employees. among the dead, 37-year-old michael wetzel. married father of six. 58-year-old damien meins, a married father of two. 27-year-old sierra clayborn, a recent add

let's go saight to thomas roberts in san bernardino watching it all. thomas? >> reporter: kate, a lot developed in the 48 hours since we began our coverage live on the air there live back in new york a stone's throw from where i stand now at the inland regional center so the developments and the clearer picture to get about this couple is that they are somehow radicalized. not sure if they are just completely isis inspired or somehow isis directed. it seems to be that the fbi would be leaning to the prior of just being inspired and wanting to connect themselves to isis. but also, trying to figure out which was the person more radical than the other. was it the wife who was pakistani born? met her husband in saudi arabia. and then came to the u.s. on that fiancee visa. or was it the chicago-born husband of syed farook who as i talked to people in his community and mosque, a quiet, young guy and never imagine this is something he was capable of but as you point out the big clarification from the assistant director of the fbi l.a. division is the fact that they a

on the thomas roberts show. let's have it out. let's have a real debate.show where i can't respond to you. i look forward to that. i've challenged you to that and all i hear is silence. >> you monique, you say you don't want don't want it in the court of public opinion and won't show at the same time as a gloria allred figure. why? >> here's the thing and loathe to even address what really should not be addressed in this fashion, but i show up at the same time and same place as ms. allred in a court of law in los angeles in the one case that she's been able to bring into court out of the however many number of women she claims she represents. so, when we show up for huff v. cosby, i'm there and she's there. and we as attorneys do what attorneys do. we're not in high school. we don't debate. we're not politicians running for office. what would we win? a trophy? no. we are attorneys with clients so when it's time to actually show up and address a judge or a jury, i am there to see ms. allred or whomever else represents women that brought false accusations ag

i'm frances rivera in for thomas roberts. we start this hour in new hampshire, waiting to hear from hillary clinton at a rally in portsmouth and whether she will hit back at donald trump's latest attacks on her husband, former president bill clinton. the democratic front-runner in a statement last night said she wouldn't be pushed around by trump who said bill clinton's past relationships with women will be quote, fair game. listen to what he told nbc news' savannah guthrie this morning. >> there was certainly a lot of abuse of women. you look at whether it's monica lewinsky or paula jones or many of them, and that certainly will be fair game. certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game. >> let's dive in with two reports for you now on the trump versus clinton dynamic. nbc is live in council bluffs, where trump will be speaking tonight. joining us now, there were other gop candidates will be campaigning as well. jacob? >> reporter: it would seem that donald trump knows that this will wor

kate snow with thanks to thomas roberts, we start continuing the coverage here on msnbc. important day in politics with a republican debate tonight and all public schools in los angeles closed, a zigs made early this morning because of an e-mail threat sent to the los angeles unified school board. parents told to keep their children home or to turn around and go back home. it's a decision that's impacting nearly three quarter of a million children and their family, also a decision that's come under criticism in the last few hours. at a press conference this afternoon, los angeles officials explained why they did what they did. >> they reviewed with me the information that had been shared with them. based on past circumstances, i could not take the chance. as it relates to one student or our staff. >> nbc's joe fryer is outside one of those evacuated schools and quite a morning out there, joe. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, kate. today was supposed to be the first day of finals for students in this high school

now it is time to welcome thomas roberts. thomas? >>> thank you very much. we will pick up where you left off, touching on exactly what this means, where president obama has now updated everybody on the strategy from his white house coming to us all from the pentagon briefing room. the optics of that and also the questions that so many people have. we will also be dipping in for josh earnest, who will field questions from the white house press briefing room. we'll have that. right now, joining me, general wesley clark, the former nato supreme allied commander. sir, i know you didn't hear all of that, but when it comes to the president speaking about coalition forces getting involved in this, he named them all with france, germany, the uk, australia, italy, how important are they to moving forward with a defined and united front about what it means to defeat isis? >> i think they are very important. i think we have got to have coalition partners in this. but there are different roles for different coalition partners. the most important coalition partners real

i'm joined now by my colleague, thomas roberts, who attended the vigil at san manuel stadium in san bernardinod morning. >> jose, good morning to you. this is the 66ers stadium, the feeder league for the angels, so it's the minor league team. it holds about 8,000 people at capacity. so, they were saying that roughly there were about 4,000 people that showed up. this is the largest vigil they've had in the community so far, and it happened parallel to the time that governor jerry brown identified who most of the victims, the people that were lost inside the inland regional center. but jose, this was a multifaith, diverse service. and there were people of all shapes and sizes and walks of life who showed up. and it was heavily guarded by police, patrolled by those at gates and throughout the service itself. but folks that came in, they were given snacks and water. they were also each given a single candle to hold throughout, whether it was song or prayer, a message from the mayor about how san bernardino might be down, but it's not out. but this is a community that is determined to support one a

i'm thomas roberts. on msnbc live, fast and furious reaction to donald trump's call to ban muslims coming into america. today, donald trump spoke with msnbc's "morning joe" by phone, explaining why he thinks a drastic move is necessary. >> i think it's something that has to be done. i think it's a temporary move. it's not unconstitutional keeping people out, frankly, and until we get a hold of what's going on, joe. >> you aren't proposing int interment camps. >> no. i'm not proposing that. joe, take a look back at roosevelt and take a look at alien germans, they called them alien germans, alien italians, alien japanese, because we were at war. the muslim community has to help us make it, they're not helping us. when you say you're afraid, you should be afraid of the other side, not my side. >> is plan was announced in a statement last night which trump read during a rally in south carolina. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our cou

i'm craig melvin in for thomas roberts. the audio recordings argument at the supreme court this week was just released. it is the first chance to hear precisely what justice anton scalia said that caused such an uproar. the team is covering every angle of the story and getting to ari melber in a moment and beginning with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who listened to the audio of wednesday's proceedings. pete, what do you have? >> well, a couple of things, craig. first of all, we should say this is the customary pattern of the supreme court. the audio of the week's oral argument comes out on friday afternoon. secondly, this is the affirmative action case challenging the program at the university of texas at austin. now, it is somewhat unusual situation because the university basically allows admission to any student who graduates in roughly the top 10% academically of any high school in the state. the university argues to achieve necessary diversity on campus it has to use race as a factor in deciding what to

i'm thomas roberts. we begin with developing news right now in chicago.s are outside of city hall, calling for mayor rahm emmanuanual to meet the fate of ousted top cop. the mayor says he's staying put. >> people voted, made the decision and i'll execute the responsibilities of being the mayor and being accountable for the decisions i make. >> the mayor's response one day after announcing a new task force on policing in the wake of the laquan mcdonald shooting video. one member of that new force just spoke to my colleague, tamron hall, a couple hours ago. >> we're very independent. we're certainly not lackeys of the mayors or any other group. we intend to take this task on very seriously. we have, i think, some real value that we can bring to the debate, to the discussion, and strong recommendations i'm sure we'll come up with by the time the work is completed. >> we have a series of reports covering all angles of this developing story. we begin with nbc's john yang, who has been covering this story in chicago from the beginning. john, bring us up to spee

i'm thomas roberts at msnbc world headquarters in new york. we have been listening to president obama flanked by his national security team along with the vice president give an updating of what we has learned about any threats against our country, domestic and foreign, when it comes to isis, as everyone is on edge about what has taken place in paris and here at home in san bernardino which remains an active investigation. we have updates on that for you this afternoon. this was the president circling the wagons and showing the american people as he said, it is natural to be anxious but also trying to reassure everybody that we are not going to be afraid, we are not going to live our lives in fear of terror. this is an interesting week because we had the president at the pentagon give a briefing to all of us roughly the same time on monday. but we have with us right now andrea mitchell, richard engel and kristen welker. i want to start with andrea mitchell. this started in your hour with the president coming out. i know you had guests very int

i'm thomas roberts. we begin with breaking news from chicago, a major fall from grace for chicago's top cop after a deadly police shooting scandal that has rocked that city. the mayor rahm emanuel revealing just last hour he asked police superintendent gary mccarthy to resign. >> he has become an issue rather than dealing with the issue. and a distraction. i have a lot of loyalty to what he's done and him, but i have a bigger loyalty to the city of chicago, its future and the strength of that future, and no one person trumps my commitment and my responsibility to the city of chicago and its future. >> the city up in arms and in protest after the disturbing police dash-cam video of the shooting death of laquan mcdonald surfaced. here's more from mayor emanuel. >> the use of excessive force and misuse of authority is not new in chicago or isolated only to chicago. there's a history of it. for whatever progress we have made, the killing of laquan mcdonald is a vivid reminder that we have much more work to d

back to thomas roberts i was going to say in a moment.e of the federal reserve and the decision that may be coming down here in about 60 seconds. and watching for this possible rate hike with us, olivia sterns who covers business and tech here at msnbc and sue herera at cnbc global news. when's about to happen? >> we think the fed is finally taking the training wheels off the economy. this is a critical step. consider it a vote of confidence in the economy. the 0% interest rates in place since the depths of the crisis meant to help stoking and it worked and this is the final step of taking the foot off the pedal and saying that the economy can support itself without the crutch. things are going better. the economy growing slowly but steadily about a 2.5% clip and unemployment at 5% and the fed thinks they waited this long and finally we can handle it. >> sue, your turn. as we watch this, two constituencies here, the folks at home watching, perhaps, who have never fully recovered from '08. >> absolutely. >> and the folks on wall street who

i'm frances rivera in for thomas roberts.egin with break news out of the southwest and midwest where the death toll from weather disasters has climbed to 24. in texas, 11 people are dead and more than 50,000 without power in a state torn apart by tornadoes. in some parts, scenes of total devastation and heartbreak. >> it looks like godzilla came through and ripped everything apart. yesterday everything was fine, nothing out of place. today nothing looks the same. >> everybody was checking on everybody. people going up and down the streets checking, everybody is checking houses. the camaraderie with that was just amazing. >>> in the suburb of dallas, crews this morning fought to save a man trapped on the roof of his car in flood waters. they were able to rescue him safely. elsewhere in the southwest, extreme cold, snow in new mexico and wind gusts up to 82 miles an hour. this picture of an iced-over windmill speaks volumes. the national guard activated,

i'm ayman mohyeldin in for thomas roberts. a high-rise is on fire in dubai. is an area downtown known as the address. it is a building that's a luxury hotel, five-star hotel in the heart of dubai's tourism zone. we can see that there's a massive fire that is breaking out right now. you are seeing some of those images there on your screen. we are about two hours away from when dubai was expected to hold large fireworks display. that was actually supposed to be centered around an area not too far from that. that is the highest building in the world. we are joined by msnbc's cal perry who has been monitoring this situation. tell us more about this location, what's going on there right now. >> this is a both residential and hotel building called the address hotel. the address hotel actually has two locations in dubai. we are looking at the downtown location right now. these are live pictures we are showing our

i'm francis rivera in for thomas roberts. we begin with major breaking news.sby charged with aggravated indecent assault. the first criminal charge for him after 50-plus allegations. the iconic comedian expected in court this afternoon. prosecutors say the charges stem from a 2004 incident with the alleged victim a former temple university employee. >> mr. cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. the effect of which rendered her unable to move, to spawn to her advances and he committed aggravated indecent assault upon her. >> attorneys for the alleged victim said, quote, in that this matter is now being pursued in the criminal justice system, we will not comment further. cosby repeats all allegations

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i'm frances rivera in for thomas roberts.s hour in new hampshire, waiting to hear from hillary clinton at a rally in portsmouth and whether she will hit back at donald trump's latest attacks on her husband, former president bill clinton. the democratic front-runner in a statement last night said she wouldn't be pushed around by trump who said bill clinton's past relationships with women will be quote, fair game. listen to what he told nbc news' savannah guthrie this morning. >> there was certainly a lot of abuse of women. you look at whether it's monica lewinsky or paula jones or many of them, and that certainly will be fair game. certainly if they play the woman's card with respect to me, that will be fair game. >> let's dive in with two reports for you now on the trump versus clinton dynamic. nbc is live in council bluffs, where trump will b

i'm thomas roberts.in with breaking news from chicago, a major fall from grace for chicago's top cop after a deadly police shooting scandal that has rocked that city. the mayor rahm emanuel revealing just last hour he asked police superintendent gary mccarthy to resign. >> he has become an issue rather than dealing with the issue. and a distraction. i have a lot of loyalty to what he's done and him, but i have a bigger loyalty to the city of chicago, its future and the strength of that future, and no one person trumps my commitment and my responsibility to the city of chicago and its future. >> the city up in arms and in protest after the disturbing police dash-cam video of the shooting death of laquan mcdonald surfaced. here's more from mayor emanuel.