As martyrs. Meantime, there is a second standoff, this is happening at a Kosher Grocery market in paris. It appears the person responsible for this is linked in some way to the brothers responsible for the wednesday attack. Five people are reportedly being held hostage by the gun moon inside that score who as we said appears to know the brothers accused in wednesdays massacre. A lot of moving pieces this morning. In a moment were going to Richard Engel. He has some on the situation with the brothers north of paris near the airport. But well start in paris with lester holt and the scene at that Grocery Store. Good morning. Bring us up to date. Reporter savannah, a lot going on. A few hours after we heard of the hostage taking outside this city that word came of this hostage taking and shooting at a Kosher Grocery store on the eastern edge of paris itself. There are some unconfirmed reports of casualties. The person who is believed to have taken these hostages is a man identified as ahea
Welcome to today on a friday morning. Its a busy one. Matt has the day off. Carson daly is here. 48 hours after that terror attack in paris, there is a massive operation under way to capture the brothers involved in that massacre. In a small town northeast of paris, very near charles de gualle airport as well. We have two reports to get to Nbcs Lester Holt in paris. We want to start with nbcs bill neely at the scene. Bill what can you tell us . Reporter good morning, savannah. After the massacre and the manhunt now, the siege about five hours ago, the two suspects in that massacre the kouachi brothers were chased to an Industrial Area a few hundred yards from here. They are holding one hostage and totally surrounded by literally hundreds of french antiterrorist police and s. W. A. T. Teams who are moving closer and closer to that building. There is a Hostage Negotiator who has made contact with the two brothers and a french lawmaker says they told police we want to Police Moving around
Yesterday. We want to remind viewers as we peel away the layers of this law from march of 2010 when then speaker of the house nancy pelosi said this about obamacare. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. Now were finding millions of americans could have their insurance dropped as a result. Steve, want to p put you on pause in a moment. When we come back well talk about the politics. 10 any hoyer said yesterday the law should have been more precise. You wonder how many more democrats are falling into that way of thinking, but, steve, standby. There is sebelius in the room. Martha has more. Martha shaking hand to say hello to everybody as she gets ready to go here. A lot of smiles and friendliness on way in. Well she as she sits at table. The lead contractor on healthcare. Gov, warned her, warned hhs, the holt and Human Services website was not ready to go. So what under after that is one of the Big Questions that we exp
Intensifies his own attacks against his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Support among republicans for the a. G. Is growing and fast, so we have those comments for you. But first, lets talk about the u. S. Senate set to vote on whether to move forward on debate for this Republican Health care bill. It is safe to say this is one of those votes we have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. Full disclosure. Several senators, theyre still undecided. Is the plan to repeal and replace . Is it to repeal only now and replace later . Whatever the procedural vote is, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell could only afford to lose two senators, and the president is pushing members not to be the vote that shuts this whole thing down. So, lets go to dana bash, our cnn chief Political Correspondent there on capitol hill. First things first, do we even know what they are voting on . Reporter well, in the shortterm, the answer is yes. Theyre voting on, as you said, at the beginning of this show, they
President trump is going to unveil his latest plan today aimed attack ling the crisis at our southern border regarding immigration. Brian is he going to talk about Immigration Reform. Outlined a proposal in the rose garpsd. He has already called on to fix the problem. We will find out if they listen. If they do they will hear a plan with two pillars, one border security. The other will be overhauling the nationS Immigration system shifting it from a family based to a merit based. Skills, education and employment. It will increase the skills based immigration system which only accounts for 12 now up to 57 . It will reduce existing family based system at 66 down to 33 . And it would favor recruiting people under a build america visa who have extraordinary talent, professional and specialized skills and exceptional students. President trump says he is optimistic it will have congressional support. We are fighting the democrats. The democrats want open border. That means crime. It will go