[chanting] free, free, free palestinian. Dana unfolding this Morning Police responding at Yale University where students are staging antiisrael protests. Thats not the only elite school with problems. Martha im martha maccallum. This is americas newsroom. Antiisrael protests intensifying at Columbia University once again. The situation so bad the Ivy League Schools president says that classes are going to be held virtually. Think about the ramifications of that and who is winning here. She also is calling for a reset not sure what that means, Safety Concerns are so high that a rabbi is urging jewish students to stay away from campus as passover begins today at su sundown. Dana how are things shaping up for today, alexis . No major action here at Columbia Universitys campus. Not the case at campuses across the country as far out as australia. We want to give you a live look what is happening at Yale University. Protests bringing out their near campus this morning. We heard there are doz
Dana youre looking at Yale University here where were paying close attention to these protests. Theyre basically propalestinian, prohamas and antiisrael protests happening at Yale University this morning. The police were there earlier. They are still there. Looks fairly peaceful right now. Were expecting more activity here and you can imagine how upset the students are. This is a big developing story today. Youll have updates from us all day long at yale and columbia. You see President Trump we saw him earlier walk into the courtroom. The space where he often stops and talk to the press before court begins. Opening statements are to get underway today and the first witness will be called. It is david pecker, the president s friend, formerly of the national enquirer. Were watching all that as we get ready for a big news day
with regard to the commute tomorrow, it looks like there s no way those tracks are going to be open for the hudson line commuters there with metro north, right? reporter: yeah, and i think the mta is still figuring that out. if you look down here, you can see there are two sets of tracks. it was on the outside, the southbound tracks. those look like they re damaged. obviously, the rest of the train is still blocking some of that. the northbound appears, at least in area, to be clear. so there s a possibility maybe that they would be able to work something out with north and southbound trains. again, they need to figure it out. for now, at least, it s closed. and it s going to be definitely a difficult commute with diminished service at least tomorrow. no doubt. okay. nbc s kristen dahlgren at the scene. thanks so much. the other big developing story today, the obama administration releasing its progress report on healthcare.gov following its self-imposed deadline to make that sit