Overnight. Its wednesday december 18th early today starts right now good to be with you this morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. A monumental morning in washington, d. C. , where the house will likely vote to impeach President Trump by days end. For six hours lawmakers will debate the two articles charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of congress before casting their votes this evening if the house does impeach the president , his senate trial is expected to begin early next month. And mr. Trump will find himself in rarefied company. Only two president s have ever been impeached Andrew Johnson and bill clinton the senate acquitted both. Richard nixon did face the threat of removal, but he resigned before a full house vote expect today to closely mirror december 19th, 1998. Thats when the house voted mostly along party lines to impeach president clinton on two charges. Nbcs tracie potts joining us now with details from d. C. Tracie, weve got a historic day ahead of us. No question we have a bit of a rundown also, phillip, about how this historic day will play out, starting with a vote on the rules in the morning and then six hours of debate evenly divided between democrats and republicans. Many of the arguments that we have heard in the last several weeks and especially in the last week or so on these articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Now, there are some procedures that could drag that out, but the instructions to lawmakers at this point is to expect a vote sometime early this evening. President trump says he wont be watching he gave scathing comments both in person and in a letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi talking about impeachment as unprecedented, an election nullification scheme thats a war on democracy he claimed that more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials here was pelosis response your reaction to the president s letter no reaction its ridiculous. You have no reaction . Why not . I havent really fully read it weve been working ive seen the essence of it, though, and its really sick reporter so letter or not, objection or not, this vote is set to happen largely along party lines. Expected to impeach the president , who as you know has been looking forward toward a senate trial set to begin in january. And phillip, they are still back and forth on how that senate trial will be run. But we do know that Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has rejected democrats requests to call in some witnesses looks like tomorrow mornings going to be a save the newspaper kind of day. Tracie potts for us. Thank you. A group of President Trumps most vocal republican critics launched a new organization to stop his reelection the Group Includes george conway, the husband of mr. Trumps Senior AdviserKellyanne Conway also rick wilson, john weaver, and steve schmidt. They have formed a super pac called the Lincoln Project in a New York Times oped the group says they are dedicating the next 11 months to convincing conservatives and independents in swing states to tip the votes against the president. The group has already raised over a Million Dollars meanwhile, the president s former Deputy Campaign manager is facing jail time. Despite his extensive cooperation with special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. A judge sentenced rick gates to over a month behind bars nbcs Pete Williams has the details. Reporter the state and government both urged the judge to sentence him only to probation because he cooperated extensively with Robert Muellers prosecutors. And the judge was lenient but said gates has to serve 45 days in jail a weekend at a time. He pleaded guilty to hiding millions of dollars anyone come for Political Consulting from the pro russian government in ukrai ukraine. His former Business PartnerPaul Manafort is sevening seven years in prison for masterminding that scheme and his lawyers now say manafort has been sent to a prison hospital for treatment of heart problems michael flynn, the former Trump National security adviser, will be sentenced next month. Then the longtime trump friend roger stone is sentenced in february our thanks to Pete Williams for that report. Family, friends, and Police Officers gathered for an emot n emotional funeral in new jersey. Detective joseph seals was laid to rest after being killed in a shootout in jersey city. He is described as a devoted husband and adoring father of five one fz his sons could be seen saluting at the service while wearing his fathers uniform cap. Delivering a eulogy the police chief said detective seals hate hatebased violence. A suspected armed robber is dead after the two were involved in a shootout. Police say the 32yearold driver was making a delivery in philadelphia when he was approached by a suspected 5r78d robber who allegedly stole some items from his truck Authorities Say the robber opened fire shooting the driver in the stomach but the driver returned fire using his own weapon, shooting the robber several times both men were taken to a nearby hospitalar with the robber died. The fedex driver is currently in stable condition a florida family received a christmas miracle after a pair of missing siblings were found alive following an extensive Search Police say the young brother and sister disappeared early sond from their home in jacksonville. After searching 430 houses and 20 bodies ever water detectives discovered 6yearold Braxton Williams and 5yearold Briyah Williams a short distance from their home, lost in a densely wooded area. Rescuers say they heard the childrens voices and zeroed in. Police treated the children for dehydration and minor injuries they have since been reunited with their parents meanwhile, a search continues in texas for a missing mother and her newborn the fbi has joined the investigation and the police are confirming that the Texas Rangers have been asked to help as well. Heres nbcs sam brock reporter nearly a week into the search for heidi bruise sxrd her baby margo Authorities Say their disappearance remains a mystery. Its possible heidi and margo have left of their own accord. Its also possible there may be something nefarious. Reporter canvassing the apartment complex where broussard lived with her boyfriend shane carey and their baby daughter and 6yearold son. Zblefrg hurts and i dont know what to do reporter we found carey walking his dog. If she loved everythings here is shane carey a person of interest we dont have a person of interest right now were exploring every avenue we have Reporter Police reveal the new timeline for the day she disappeared saying broussard was last seen at her apartment late thursday morning rather than an Early Morning school dropoff. Was there any reason heidi would have left . A disagreement or anything no. No disagreement. Reporter Heidi Broussards parents holding on to each other and to hope. Something happened. She would not just leave oh, no, she wouldnt do that. And shed never leave her son. We love you and we miss you and we need you home reporter and heidis parents last spoke to her on tuesday, two days before her disappearance. They said she was in good spirits, no signs of anything being wrong. Now theyre hoping a massive search and rescue effort turns up some answers soon phillip . All right, sam, thank you lets turn now to that doublesided storm that has carved paths of destruction. As many as 14 deaths across the country are being blamed on this massive system including 11 deaths linked to dangerous Road Conditions from the midwest to the northeast. And several people were killed as tornadoes ripped across the deep south Nbcs Jay Gray has this report reporter snow covers much of the northeast right now while across the south its debris that litters the ground, remnants from a string of tornadoes, close to two dozen, that ripped across alabama, louisiana, and mississippi it was just total chaos we had to make do the best we could. Reporter at this school in alexandria, Louisiana Students and faculty survived by scrambling into a Church Next Door as i atwister splintered their classrooms. The destruction it causes reporter at least three lives were lost during the december tornadoes while the massive winter storm brings snow and ice to communities from the midwest through the eastern seaboard mangled cars lining roadways after hundreds of wrecks and at least nine traffic deaths across the region ice just very quickly turns the roads over into a dangerous situation. Reporter a situation thats expected to continue as the storm moves to the northeast bringing with it more rain, snow, and ice. And winter doesnt officially begin until this weekend jay gray, nbc news hows today looking . Lets check in with meteorologist bill karins. Good morning well, good morning. The snow storm is gone but ice and snow remain. Wind chill in minneapolis is negative 12 with a temperature of zero. Lake effect snow and then tomorrow morning thats when the coldest of the air will move in through upstate new york negative 12 wind chill in vermont even new york city could have a wind chill of 3 boston negative 5. Thats tomorrow morning. Then it will start to warm up through the 2k3wr5e9 lakes as we go through tomorrow afternoon. Even friday morning pretty chilly wind chill in the Single Digits and teens all the way down to philadelphia as far as the snow goes we do have some though squalls that are already moving through michigan theres a few breaking out in western new york and thats where we could have some issues the new york state thruway especially some of today. Dallas, luft all the way through san antonio and new orleans. 55 and sunny sounds pretty good to me. Warmup coming this weekend and stormfree too its about time ready for it thank you, bill good news there. 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Reporter there is no audio in the images are grainy, but the terror of the moment is unmistakable two men jump out of a car in the bronx and grab a 16yearold as she walked down the sidewalk next to her mother the video, released by police, shows the latenight struggle. Her mother tried to fight off the men, according to police, but was pushed to the ground the car racing off with the young girl inside. A turn few saw coming, Police Sources tell nbc news they are investigating the possibility it was all staged the 16yearold may have orchestrated her own kidnapping. But there were still fears she was abducted an amber alert issued. The neighborhood shaken. I walk here all the time. And the fact she got taken away right in front of her mother is something thats like oh, my god, so scary. And i was getting messages from my family. They found the girl reporter but then someone spotted the teenager walking down the street. She was by herself. 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