tracy: i'm tracy. lemonis: tracy, nice to meet you. i just spent a little bit of time with austin.cy: my husband's name is austin, yes. lemonis: oh, it's your husband. tracy: uh-huh. lemonis: okay. tracy: we've been married almost 13 years? something like that. lemonis: i like him, by the way. tracy: he's very passionate about what he does. lemonis: yeah. tracy: and his people out there. lemonis: so, could could you take me through the sales process? like, if i want to order a certain type of floor... tracy: so, you're basically asking for a customization on this? lemonis: yes, can that be done? tracy: if the production team says we can do it, i'm not walking away from the sale. lemonis: why? tracy: so, we get 20% of the cash up-front. lemonis: uh-huh. tracy: if i don't have a lot of cash customers for the month, those guys are struggling for materials. lemonis: so, better said -- you say "yes" to anything, especially if they're a cash buyer. tracy: yes. lemonis: okay. it's become clear to me that every single unit that is bought from this company has some nuance to it that is slow

-tracy: sure.the long-term growth will keep you way more engaged. does that work with you, that that includes the name and everything we talked about? -tracy: yeah. i think so. -giovanni: great. perfect. -tracy: awesome. -lisa: thanks. lemonis: thank you. it was really nice meeting you, by the way. tracy: it was nice meeting you, too. lemonis: what i'm noticing about lisa is that she truly is starting to get comfortable putting her stake in the ground that she's the president, and i feel like we got a good deal. this process, gio, that you did... -giovanni: i like it. -lemonis: ...was better. the other thing that i liked is that you went over this -with the staff. -giovanni: yeah. lemonis: so they understand it now, and you actually let lisa make the decision. -lisa: yes. -giovanni: i learned my lesson. lemonis: i love working with you guys. -lisa: [ chuckles ] -lemonis: thanks, lisa. ♪ things are going great at bentley's, and the schaumburg store is now open. wow. holy cow. after i visited schaumb

tracy morgan is here.nd david salmoni is here. [ cheers and applause ] which may be too much. but let's check in with dave who's got his animals backstage. oh, and tracy is with hey, guys, how are you doing? what's happening? who is this little guy? >> this is our pink flamingo. >> jimmy: tracy, what's wrong? >> the stupid goose ate owl the strips out of my sweet tower. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, no, i apologize. we will definitely find you some more shrimp, tracy. >> jumbo. >> jimmy: jumbo, for sure, of course, we'll get those to you very soon. >> i'm watching you this time, you pink bitch! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: all right, thanks, guys. dave and tracy. later on we might get to hear tracy say the word armadillo, so that will be fun. this is something i saw over the weekend. congratulations are in order for a truck driver in brooklyn who just won the second-largest jackpot in new york lottery history. >> david johnson did exactly what most people say they'd do if they were to win the powerball lottery. >>

tracy: i'm tracy alloway in hong kong. asian investors are hoping for better portions in 2019, less to say they might have to wait until the chinese new year starts in february. the hang seng index down more than 2% in hong kong, off the back of some very down factory numbers that with had out from across asia. fall sochina showing a confirming the contraction we saw in the official figure over the weekend, taiwan's pmi falling to 47.7 in december. we had malaysia's figure falling to 46.8, the worst figure since the series began. trade tensions clearly starting to factor into the real economy in asia and the question for investors is how far those effects are going to go. manus: and that double data, the distance between the rhetoric from the white house terms of doing a big deal and the reality of the data that you just mentioned. .6 percent.ets down the market is going to want to see the gap between rhetoric and reality close. as wellodity index is in focus. we dropped 12% last your. this is about global trade concerns,

tracy still suffers from inexplicably symptoms eyesight has deteriorated she has de justice problems and sometimes feels like she's suffocating and yet she has also come out stronger tracy has learned to love herself again and also song new love she and her boyfriend together in this fight so that tracy can finally put this chapter of her life behind her. and our final report comes from thailand the country's cabinet is backing a bill to legalize same sex unions the first in southeast asia but some believe the draft does not go far enough. these two want to be in perfect union not only in their workout routine would email into chinda and. more than just training bodies the pair for their love twelve years ago and have been together ever since. three times a week they start their day with a workout they say it helps their bodies and their relationships stay in shape all here with me and my partner are always on the go all the time working getting tasks done i could be only time that we actually get to spend together no one of quality time is during morning workouts like like today. or

tracy is a survivor her fighting spirit has pulled the amateur bodybuilder through the most difficult time in our life six years ago caused by breast implants she had gotten to correct on natural asymmetry my chest was collapsing my breast implants had ruptured and leaked i could hardly breathe i thought if i can't even hold my newborn baby. what's wrong with me i couldn't even make myself a glass of water i was bed bound and when your stark completely helpless in your youth when you should be the strongest in the most confident you know i felt like a pensioner her implants were produced by french company p.h.p. she didn't know they were filled with highly toxic industrial great silicone instead of the medical variety for days after the implants were taken out and replaced by safer ones her fiancee left her he couldn't take hold weakness she went into depression you know i waited and i waited several months and till i could actually stop crying over into i could stop morning that i can eat i went through then she decided to fight back and she discovered she wasn't alone tracy joined o

they need a dozen moro make it happen. >>> tracie potts for us this morning. tracie, thankeou. >>> sf you who are furloughed are turning to your church for lp. one norjs county church offered more than just a warm meal yesterday. chris gordon explains what it meant to some of the workers who attended an appreciation brunch. >> the city of praise in landover started with a service to raise the spirits of these furloughed federal workers. ♪ >> the church asked who needs help paying for utilities or housing. more than 30 people got up. sme received check for $500, including march kit a payne who fears eviction if shes mis her next rent. >> february rent is due and they're not being understanding. >> the church served a buffet filling their bodies andhe souls. >> i don't know if i'm going to get a check. bill collectors calling my phone. >> reporter: some of the these federal workers leave uplifted with a renewed hope and faith that thi federalshutdown will end soon. reporting from prince george's county, chris gordon, news 4. >>> now, the help for federal workers

trac tracie. >> reporter: this year's state of the union address is off. i will do the address when it is over. president trump tweeted overpass, i'm not looking for an alternative venue. nanny pelosi said lawmakers will not authorize his visit until government is open. >> she doesn't want it hear the truth. she doesn't want the american public to hear what's going on. she's afraid of the truth. >> the shutdown must end, and it must end now. >> the senate will try today with two votes. one offering immigrant protections in exchange for funding president trump's border wall. >> he shouldn't cave in to liberal democrat demands. >> the other opening government temporarily to negotiate border security. >> if we can get government open for 15 days, we can be around the clock and find a solution to this. >> neither is expected to pass. pressure to reopen government is mounting. >> it can be done but not while the president holds hostage all americans including hundreds of thousands of federal workers. >> air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants say

and he can what you want to take staying on these test strips and of course we saw yours there also tracy our audience in our viewers say that they are barry how all this is due scott mcdonald a former stream gas and a doctor who says test strips help can be purchased at some dollar stores locally low cost tools to help consumers make informed choices reduce the amount used if it's an all for example but there is push back online from people who aren't so sure and scott i'll give this to you as i've never used heroin before but i find it hard to believe that anyone would discard a street drug because it failed purity tass scott when you make about. sure and that and that might be true people with substance use disorder might not discard the troops if they're testing positive for football but we know that some have and from research on and rhode island and north carolina we know that in the presence of positive drugs the drug users are taking steps to mitigate risk we know that people are using more slowly using less of a particular drug or taking a smaller dose not using alone and using o

tracie potts is live on capitol hill. tracie, what happened during that meeting? and what does the house plan to do today? >> reporter: the meeting tha took only about 20 minutes -- the president said they could wrap it up in 45, it was less than that. the white house said he walked in and was ready to work things out with democrats. but when he asked if they would pay for the wall and nancy pelosi said no, he walked out. and the president confirmed that on twitter. she said no and i said bye-bye. it looks like this is an absolute stalemate. today onhe capitol hill, democrats will try to reopen the government piece-by-piece. yesterday, they approved the irs. the senate won't look at that. today, they will look at the agriculture department, which affects farmers andeople who get food stamps. we're expecting demonstrations here in washington today. federal workerand others affected by this shutdown, who may get backpay when it's all er. but we don't know when that's go >> tracie potts on capitol hill. thank you. >>> today, the pnce george's county school board will

coming up, news 4's tracie potts will have more on the efforts to reopen the government sooner rather than later. >>> in th meantime, federal workers can get free food for theirets during the shutdown. the humane rescue alliance is offering federal workers access to pet pantry. >> it's meant to help in emergency situations and just really hope that people who are in that situation right now through the shutdown are welcome to stop by our adoptn center. >> i think this is the agency that's here in d.c. any pet owner who wishes to receive food for their animal through the pet pantry has to complete an enrollment form the first time they come to picp food. proof of d.c. residency is the only requirement. >>> as trash piles upti on the naonal mall because of the federal trashle colctors being furloughed, d.c. public works is stepping in. our ceras captured them on the job picking up garbage last night. news 4 is following every development in the government shutdown. keep it here for continuing coverage on air and in the nbc washington app. >>> 4:34 now. developing this morning, a man has

news4 tracie potts is live from capitohill with more tracie good morning. >> good morning, aaron andun. you know whahehappened after two bills failed. the two sides started talkingt sparking w could be a breakthrough here in the government shutdown. we're not there yet. but senate leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer sat down together to try to t workngs out. plus we heard from president trump at the white house that he is going to let the senate handle it. c and if thee up with a reasonable compromise he will sign off on it. what's reasonable we know. we're told that there is a group from artisan lawmakers both sides working on a bill that includes border security, so far does not canrou money he wall that republicans insist must be there. but it's a breakthroug because at least now they are talking. the idea is they might be able to get government workers back on the job temporarily for three weeks while they work t out rest. of course those workers are facing today without the second pa. >> tracie potts for us this morning thank you.e >> today pri george's coun

march 29, they need to tracy: leave the eu. tracy:-- they need to leave the eu.remy corbyn. what is the eu saying? they have been saying all along, this is the agreement, take it or leave it. , at thata big defeat point, they might be willing to extend some. it does not necessarily benefit them. the point they were making this is irelandt there backstop which will not hide them forever. that was some of the brexit supporters concerns that they would be tied to the eu forever. that will not be the case. they are waiting and watching as well to see what happens. unlikely that they will give a whole lot. waitingpoint, they are to see the size. we have uncertainty in the u.k., but also, the risk of early elections is rising. why and what is happening there that might have implications for stakeholders outside? >> this is all over a naming this you. it is causing the government to topple there. the fact that there will be new elections come september. now it looks like they could be much sooner, maybe this week because of this dispute over what you call macedonia. spo

nbc's tracie potts joining us from d.c. with the latest. tracie, good morning. so the president has threatened to resume the shutdown on february 15th if he does not get funding for the wall, correct? >> exactly, phillip. so we've got a three-week reprieve here for the president anemd he would not do. he reopened government without a promise to fund this wall. and the white house says even though he doesn't want to do it, a national emergency is still on the table for the pentagon to pay for it. democrats say they've always been for border security. they are willing to talk about some sort of barrier, but it's a lot more than that. how and when these negotiations resume, we don't know. but we do know that one of the president's closest allies, roger stone, an early campaign adviser, is now speaking out about his arrest last week. >> so that show of force which cost the american taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars was designed to pick me as public enemy number one, like the og. i'm not el chapo, but they sent more men after bin laden. it's a gestapo tactic

nbc's tracie potts joining us live from d.c. with the very latest on this. tracie, good morning. both sides more willing to compromise this time. >> reporter: not only willing, but planning to compromise. this conference committee as it's called is made up of 9 democrats, 8 republicans. these are not the people you see meeting with president trump at the white house or speaking about the wall before cameras. these are the rank and file members who have skills negotiating and have agreed to sit down and come up with some compromise that both parties and the president can support. it's going to have to have some semblance of a wall or barrier or something to that effect. but is there some sense that they will come up with a solution to keep the government open? here's what the senate's top republican is saying. >> i'd be open to anything that we can agree on on a bipartisan basis that would make them pretty hard to occur again. i think this is an example of government dysfunction, which is -- should be embarrassing to everyone on a bipartisan basis. >> reporter: so that conference

news 4 tracie potts joins us ive with details on these proposals. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: well, it's movement, eun and aaron. good morning, and good morning, everyone. the senate expecte vote on the republican plan and the democrat plan. of course, the republican plan following the president's offer ofry tempo protection for a million immigrants in exchange for money for the border wall. the democrats reopen the government temporarily for about two t weeks andn negotiate on border security. here is the thing, neither of them is expected to pass because they both need support from the other side to doo and right now it's not looking like that's going to happen. so we'll see t votes f first time in the senate to reopen the government since the shutdown started. but without support from the other side,th n is likely to reopen the government and get these folks back to work. >> tr i want to ask while we have you, the president looks like is going to go ahead with his plan for thetate of the union address next week. how will that impact shutdo

news 4 tracie potts joins us ve with tails on this. tracie, good morning. >> hey, guys.morning. a bit of a different approach here. these are the nancy pelosis or the mitch mcconnells we see all the time. they're politicians but they're rank and file members and their job is to come up with something that democrats will sign off on, republicans will sign off onth d president eventually, of course, will sign off on. some of them skilled negotiators. they've been involved in immigration issues before. their first publi meeting is happening today. meantime, the president says if th can't come up with a compromise on the border wall, he'll use the pentagon to pay for it by declaring a national emergency. but, this is reining, three of his top intelligence chiefs just told congress yesterday the biggest threat facing the u n. righ is north korea. they didn't mention the border. >> tracie potts live this morning. you, tracie. >>> 4:47 now. still no speehfic motived the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. ral investigators concluded in the 2017 massacre in las vegas. th fbi say

>> all right, tracie potts live for us in washington this morning. tracie thank you. long-time trump advisor roger stone is due back in court on friday after pleading not glty toharges stemming from the russia investigation. he is accused of a slew of crimes from lying to congress to witnes tampering. nbc's pete williams has more. >> reporter: roger stone was surprisingly low key at federal court in washington. pushing his way past or demonstratorsnd against him, his lawyer entered a not guilty plea to charges of lying to congres and intimidating a witness. radio interview, stone blasted mueller's case. >> they know they have to take me down in order to take donald trump down.te >> repr: meantime senate democrats qndstioned 's surprise comment from acting attorney general matt whitaker. >> right now the investigation is i thinklose to being completed. >> puts a cud over the investigation and, again, me yesterday's cnts were exactly the reason why he should have recusedel hims >> reporter: but even if mueller finishes, other investigations go on. >> there i still work

tracie potts live for us this morning.hank you. >> thank you, tracee. >>> minimum wage workers found that they failed to pass the bill. it wi remai at $7.25 per hour, the same awhat's mandated by federal law. wages in d.c., maryland, and elsewhere will remain the same. >>> they didn't have enough to the tolling.ase they'll have a distance-based tolling on the road. riht now it's the same no matter how far you trail. >>> new details following prince phil philip's crash last week. the woman who was injured in that car is speaking out for the first time. she's eebing the fact that she has not heard from the duke as, quote,e. highly insensit >> she was one of two women in the car, including a 9-month-old baby boy. she's calling for a period of reflection to seeohatd be done differentially, but already prince philip is showing tat he intends to do nothing differently. the 97-year-old was photographed over the weekend driving again, not on private roads but out in public,nd he wasn't even wearing a s there ost cory's mike for a

traci green is in epidemiology and a deputy director at boston medical center. doctor roger mitchell in the district of columbia who is an expert on the opioid crisis here in the district, regina labelle whose an attorney with public policy with the o'neill institute in georgetown. she's also chief of staff at the white house and tom simons who is the chief of police in newtown ohio. he is cofounder of the group that provides county leadership to address the heroin and opiate immediately and in the long term and it's a reminder you can tweet your questions please, let us know what you want to know using the hashtag post lie. so let's get started. you know this is a panel that being on the front lines of the opioid crisis so we obviously want to know what's happening. so tom what does this epidemic look like in hamilton county? would you see everyday on the ground, and what's happening to try to make things better? going 26 years but in my 21 years, i watched an entire family die of addiction. mother was abusing prescription pills and alcohol, youngest brother wa

we go now to tracy potts in washington, d.c. and tracy, it seems like the president -- he con stooed pelosi on the address. does that mean we might get a little closer toned the shutdown? >> not necessarily. this was sort of a power play on both sides. and while it seems to be a long war when it comes to the shutdown, nancy pelosi is clearly won this battle. the president conceded after she sent a follow-up letter making it clear that schett would not authorize his visit. in other words, she has that power on capitol hill to prevent him from appearing before the house chamber. so pelosi making it clear the president would not be welcome. there have been questions about whether the white house was looking for another venue so the president could still make his speech on the same day. but now president trump has tweeted not only would he not come to capitol hill, he couldn't without pelosi saying it was okay. but he also says he would not seek an alternate venue because as the president put it there is no venue that can compete wi

tracy, good morning. still nof signs compromise? >> no, no compromise here but we are goi to see phillip, the first senate votes since this shutdown began 33 days ago. we have two votes coming up hetomorrow, one on president's plan that would exchange protection for a million a dreame refugees for money for his border wall and then the democrats plan will also get a vote. that was not originally the plant but they w to reopen government temporarily for a couple of weeks until february 8th and then deal separately with border security. but here's the thing. both sides need supportrom the other side to get it passed and so the bottom line is both of these plans up for a vote fail. ow are expected to >> all that needs to happen is our democratic friends agree it's tim to puthe country ahead of politics andote to put the standoff behind us. >> the president had to make a proposal to try to shake things up it was not a good faith proposal. it was not intended to end the n shut >> there's still a lot of finger pointing going on with repub

>> tracie, thank you. you can catch congresswoman pelosi's full interview with savannah later this morning on "today." >>> nearly two weeks into the government shutdown, a deal seems further away than ever. president trump hosted democratic and republican congressional leaders at the white house for a briefing on border security, but neither side emerged any closer to an agreement. the president dug in his heels on twitter, saying overnight, sadly, there can be no real border security without the wall. caught in the middle of the impasse is hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers. nbc's hallie jackson has the latest. >> reporter: a situation room briefing on the border that went nowhere. >> the president asked us to come back on friday. >> reporter: neither side is budging. >> we would hope that they would reconsider. >> reporter: the president's reiterating he wants more than $5 billion for a wall. >> the $5.6 billion is such a small number. literally it's a month -- it's one month in afghanis

we have slow traffic outlet of terracee and a tracy to altamont. you're looking at 40 minute from tracy to dublinton. >>> thank you. we're dragging into day 32 of the government shutdown. hundreds of thousands of government workers without a paycheck. >> it's hard to believe. a plan is in the works at city hall to help furloughed workers. abc 7 news reporter -- who is it? amy hollyfield. sorry. that's what happens when the name isn't in the prompter. she's live with what the city is going to consider. amy. >> i'm not fog to take that personally, reggie, i know it's early in the morning. supervisor at city hall is disappointed the city of san francisco hasn't done anything to help furloughed employees. he's aiming to change that starting todakn f e faceofple ed a rally calling for an he said of the gey hen wked since christmas eve, haven't had a paycheck. they are starting to wonder how they are going to pay for groceries. this supervisor says city hall should be helping. >> we can make transportation free. we could waive payments or defer payments

tracie potts has more on the president's visit to the border to drum up support for his wall. good mor:ing. >> reporhe president went down to texas to try to use the border as a backdrop for support for this wall that democrats refuse to build. now, he's looking at a national emergency declaration, possibly within days, to get that money to go around congress and get that money from the pentagon. in d.c., the president said there is still room for compromise with democrats. but he may consider this declaration within days. last night on fox, he saido thee is backing off. there's no compromise here because we need to build the wall. it's not clear where he's going with that. in texas, he was at the border,w he talkedh border agents and he tried to make the case that the focus here should be on crime. an it should be on the levels of immigration, the levels of immigrants coming in this country. however, democrats here, we've seen this around the country with demonstrations, are focusing on the people affected because they're caught up in the shutdown in this showdown over the bo

tracie, good morning. >> aaron and n, good morning.cy pelosi wins the battle over the state of the union address. she doubled down and said that they would not authorize his visit to capitol hill tuesday for the state of the union. the president backing off ovt night tweeting tt only will he not do the state of the union here, but he won't look for another place because nowhere wil match t significance of the house chamb chamber. the state of the union is offer. but the shutdown is still on. thousands of federal workers getting that paycheck again tomorrow. sniefrmts tracie, canou explain the two competing bills up for votes today? >> sure. the senate is looking at the president's plan which would exchange protections for immigrants for 5.7 billion for his border wall and the hidemocrats' plan would temporarily and quickly reopen governmentor twoeeks to give them april couple of weeks to negotiate border security. at least one senate republican, susan collins, confirmed she'll cross over and vote with democrats today to end the shutdow

news 4s tracie pos live on capitol hill now with reaction. good mornin >> reportey, good morning.ood morning, everyone. a wall that he now calls a stee' barrier and ts significant that's something that democrats have supported before and as he put it asked for i theyan come to some agreement on some sort of barrier on parts of the border. alled ather or not it's wall, if democrats are willing to fund it. then we could get to someof sor resolution to end this shutdown. the president calls a humanitarian crisis what's happening at the border and he's focussed on immigrants committing crimes in this country, drugs comingnto this country, some of that not supported by the numbers. on the oth hand, democrats they considerat crisis right here, 800,000 government workersay who not get paid two days from now. they will hold a news conference ter this morning talking to some of those workers. >> obviously te know democratic response was given by the leadership in congress last night to the president's address. talktl a l bit about what they had to say. >> sure. so the democrats, the really

slow and go out of tracy. into livermore, typical for the early morning commuters and ace train number 1 is on time. >>> thank you, sue. sunshine, skating and the sharks. fans get the ultimate nhl experience ahead of the all-star game this weekend. >>> two men slipped and fell while hiking in the north bay. sky 7 is there for their dramatic rescue. >>> >>> let's take a look at the fog in the san joaquin valley. visibility, as well as 200 to 800 feet. it takes most cars going 70, 70 miles per hour on average about 200 feet to stop. it gives you an idea of how you should commute through that area. here we're looking at low to mid-60s in the afternoon. 66 in monterey. low to mid-70s, breezy in southern california. 58 in yosemite today. let's look at tahoe. here we are in heavenly. they're making a little bit of snow this morning. there's none in the forecast until there's a hint of it next thursday. >>> thanks, mike. two hikers have the chp to thank for saving them in marin county at muir beach. sky 7 was there w

>> all right, tracie potts for us. tracie, thank you. >> more ratifications of the shutdown showdown are being felt across the country. during thisudget standoff, lawmakers faile t reauthorize the a violencgainst women act. adds thera shutdown on, nonprofits that serve women impacted by violence could see their funding dry up. this stalemate is also holding up breweries in the u.s.. the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau says, due to the lapse infu ing, they will not be reviewing applications for labels and licenses for new beers, wines, or spirits until over.hutdown is this means beer lovers may have to wait for the release ofis summer b this year. >> new developments in houston overnight, authorities have released a sketch of a suspected gunman wanted for killing a 7-year-old girl. along with new surveillance video, and they're not ring out the possibility this was at ha crime. nbc's gabe gutierrez has more from houston. >> he's going to tn himse in. er reporter: jazmine barnes's family believes death is racial

tracie potts leading us off on this wednesday. thank you. >>> as the fight over the wall rages on in d.c., furloughed federal workers along the southern border are feeling the pain of the partialdsf employee families launched gofundme as the days tick by without a deal. gabe gutierrez is in el paso, texas with the latest. gabe, good morning. >> good morning. the president in his first prime time oval office address making the case for his long promised border wall and for increased security here at the southwest border. democrats, meanwhile, firing back as this government shutdown drags on. the president insisting once again that drugs are pouring across the border, but the drug enforcement agency has said the vast majority of illegal drugs come through legal ports of entry. drug smugglers using vehicles getting the drugs over the border. and critics say the wall wouldn't really do much to help any of that. apprehensions at the up around 400,000 last fiscal year. not nearly as much year 2000, were there were more than 1.5 million

. >> nbc's tracie potts joining us itnow from d.c. the very latest on this. tracie, good morning. this shutdown now the second longest in history. >> right, fellowshp.phil we're in day 19. two more days it will become the longest shutdown that we've ever seen, andan y, we didn't hear a lot different last night from either the president ors democrats they sit down again today to try to come up with some sort of compromise on this wall or barrier, as the president put it last night. the fact checkers wer busy last night with some of the facts the president thring throughout. some of them were true, some of some of of context, and them seemed to have no basis. one thing he honed inn are crimes by immigrants in this country. >> how much more americanlood must we shed before congress does its job, pass a bill that ends this crisis. >> the symbol of america should be the statue ofrt li not a 30-foot wall. so our suggestion is a simple one. mr. president, reopen the government and we can work to resolve our differences over border security, but ehis shutdown now.r: >> reporheir next oppo

>> tracie potts for us. thanks. >>> the government showdown is delivering another blow to the tourism industry on capitol hill today. after remaining open between christmas and new year's despite the shutdown, the national zoo as well as the smithsonian are now closed indefinitely. the national gallery of art is also expected to close tomorrow. and with many park rangers on furlough, some of america's greatest natural wonders are overflowing with trash. nbc's morgan chesky has more. >> reporter: at joshua tree national park, the desert views rand abbott fell in love with now compete with a nasty reality. >> cigar wrappers, tin foil. i mean i could stay here for about three hours and clean this thing up. >> reporter: with park staff on furlough, rand, a disabled vet, volunteers up to six hours a day pulling ranger duty, trying to save a place that saved him. >> then i came out here and started climbing, and it opened my mind up to everything i can do in life. >> reporter: his best efforts no match for visitor

nbc's tracie potts joining us now from d.c. with the very latest on this. tracie, good morning. it looks like this compromise is going to hit a wall with democrats? >> reporter: well, it seems like the compromise to nowhere, phillip. the senate will vote on it tomorrow. but house democrats have already said they are not giving any money to the wall. and they think what the president is offering for immigrants is simply not enough. it's temporary. president trump's offer to reopen the government goes up for a vote in the senate tomorrow foreperson. >> this bill would reopen the government. >> reporter: he's offering temporary protection for 1 million immigrants, refugees and dreamers, those brought here illegally as children in exchange for $5.7 billion for the border wall. >> straightforward, fair, reasonable, and common sense with lots of compromise. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi and other democrats call it a non-starter. >> it's outrageous. he is just playing politics. this is a bad deal. >> it was i think an effort to prop up the president's sagging poll numbers. >>

for the latest on the debate, let's go to nbc's tracie potts in d.c. tracie, some republicans are starting to break rank here. >> reporter: well, they are, and it's telling about where this situation may be headed. take a look. there were eight house republicans who voted with every single democrat to reopen the irs on wednesday. here they are. keep in mind that republicans and democrats in the house are up for re-election every two years, so some of them may be looking at 2020. perhaps even more telling, five senate republicans are now saying that they want to see this shutdown end. but will it? talks have completely fallen apart. at the white house on wednesday, democrats say president trump simply walked out when they refused to fund the border wall. their focus now, the 800,000 federal workers who may not be getting paychecks tomorrow. >> many federal workers will not be receiving their paychecks. the president seems to be insensitive to that. he thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money, but they can't. >> i know there will be m

by tracy brown, who was also part of our team and my office. tracy brown. [applause] >> by the way, natalie g., who is our chief of staff, and percy who is also one of our aids. that is an amazing team that we take to city hall. but this is a true story. a little over a decade ago now when i first got here, and i met tracy and i interviewed her on a panel as a community member for her job at the department of children and youth and families. i came over and we were having a conversation, this is about 11 years ago. she said, you will be the district ten supervisor. i'm not making this up. this is not a joke. she had no idea that i had written an essay that was public in high school. i said i wanted to effect change and be an elected official. she had no idea that i was already ready to come and plan to get together for my community and make sure we can be in a can in a position to make sure we could do what we could to represent us. she made that epiphany. she made that statement over 11 years ago, and she worked with me on both of my runs for the board of

tracie potts in washington, thank you, tracie. >> it is 6:03 right now. >>> more breaking news, tsa agents will soon get a partial paycheck. this comes amid day 35 of the government shutdown. the agency's administrator just tweeted out the news saying "tsa employee. s who worked in an exempted status during pay period 26 will get a check." >>> some hawaiian airlines passengers bound for new york got an unexpected stop at san francisco international, this after a medical emergency in the air. it's a story that happened while you were sleeping. >> "today in the bay's" kris sanchez joins us live from sfo with more on what happened. kris? >> reporter: well, good morning to you, laura and marcus. hawaiian airlines is confirming it was a flight attendant who died on that flight from honolulu to jfk, but that's what sources are telling our nbc affiliate in honolulu this morning. we were here as that plane that was diverted, hawaiian airlines flight 50 finally took off again from sfo bound for jfk in new york, just before 5:00 this morning. that plane left honolulu at 4:20 yesterday afternoon, and

so that is extremely important. >> just to be really specific and following up on tracy's thread about who we should get more information from, we do not have good surveillance on incarcerated populations nor for the homeless populations both of whom tends to have a lot of people with substance use disorders so those are very specific areas that we should be looking at. it just seems it affects the way law enforcement works as well. more talking with people who are using and that sort of thing. >> i became this expert because i talk to people who are using on the street and we find out the drug trends from them. it is a very important segment of society and to us, i value their opinions because they tell me what is on the street. tell me the trends. they tell me what to expect. you are seeing a shift from law- enforcement not only with that help side but there was a time when i've been stuck twice by needles and now my officers go out there, they have had someone that luckily the cap was on and that person was so apologetic and said i know there is fentanyl on the street, i don't hepat

i want to take you out to the tracy area. it's not too bad. but things are heavy 205 to 580, 25 on 205. 21 once you make it to earlier collision on the shoulder near grant line road has cleared. and here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. no metering lights yet. of course that typically happens closer to 5:30. if you're leaving highway 4 to get to this point at the maze, it is in the green and should take you 18 minutes. >>> thank you, alexis. the man accused of shooting and killing a central valley police officer will undergo a mental health evaluation burg the day against him continues. palo mendoza appeared in court yesterday. he was formerly known by an alias. he is charged in the shooting death of corporal ronil singh last week. he was shot and killed hours after christmas, around 1:00 a.m. last wednesday morning. authorities located the suspect's truck a little more than 12 hours later. the next day they served a search warrant in merced county. on friday morning, they were able to capture him south of bakersfield. corporal sing