Studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a chilly tuesday morning. I saw the bank thermometer, had to do a double take this morning, 11 degrees here. 11 degrees and yet you have the feeling people waking up in st. Louis, oakland and oakland. Also feeling a bit of chill as their teams try to high tail it to los angeles. Maybe its the weather thats so alluring for l. A. Lets get right to our top story. Tens of millions waking up to the chilliest morning of the season, below freezing temps from the deep south all the way to maine, and al is feeling the chill out on our plaza. Hey, good morning. I got caught off guard. I didnt have my coat. Matt actually lent me this coat. The weather man didnt realize it was going to get cold this morning. Wow, the headline is i can wear your coat i never thought that would happen. Anyway, hey, lets look at some video. I mean, this is duxbury. They had thats route 3 and they got some oceaneffect snow came in. Cars off the roads. Big problems yesterday and the here. Why . Well, here it is. Big area of High Pressure now dominating bringing the winds out of the north. Look at these current temperatures. Its 7 in buffalo. Feels like 3 below and 5 below up in bangor. It feels like 6 below in boston, 16 in charleston and 13 in detroit. Now, heres what were looking at for today as far as high temperatures are concerned. Its going to feel like 16 in buffalo, 24 in new york city. 31 in charlotte. 33 in louisville. But heres the good news. This is the worst of it, all right. After tomorrow youll see, again, temperatures still today in those way below normal temperatures, but then temperatures start to mild up. 39 in portland, 47 in new york washington, d. C. And chicago looking at a temperature of 42, but lets not get cocky because even though its going to be nice and mild next week, i hate to use these two words, polar vortex. I knew it. Maybe by the end of next week, so well have the details coming up a little bit later. Get your polar vortex fashion collection ready. Cant wear matts coats. Im going to wear Dylan Dreyers coats. See you in a couple of minutes. Lets turn now to the president ial campaign and a new National Poll offering a glimpse of where things stand in both the republican and democratic races. Lets start with the gop and nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Hi, peter, good morning. Reporter hey, matt, good morning. For republicans, 2016 is starting out a lot the same way 2015 ended, Donald Trump Holding on to his significant lead. Here you go, just out this morning, the latest nbc new survey Monkey Online Poll shows trump nationally at 35 , 17 rubio you see there in third and perhaps as importantly Trump Supporters are more set on their pick than others. Better than half of them saying they are not going to change their mind. But as long as im number one, were talking about those polls. Another full house for donald trump in massachusetts, packing them in and kicking more protesters out. Get them out. Bye, sweetheart. Get them out, please. They remind me a little bit of hillary. They do. No energy, no stamina, no strength. Im donald trump, and i approve this message. Reporter hours after trumps first ad hit the airwaves a fact check of his footage. Politifact says thats not mexico, its morocco, Trumps Campaign manager saying the edit was intentional telling nbc news, no, expletive its not the Mexican Border but thats what our country is going to look like. The candidates on both sides picking up the pace, 60 stops in 48 hours across iowa and new ted cruz with nbcs hallie jackson. Republican candidate was attacking donald trump. Today, every republican candidate is attacking me. Reporter the contenders now on a collision course as accusations fly over who is the real serious candidate. This from cruzs superpac arguing marco rubio is not ready to lead. I know i have a debate but ive got to get this fantasy football thing right. Reporter rubio staffers mocking cruz with his impressions of the simpsons. Release the hounds. Excellent. Reporter and Rick Santorum highlighting cruzs dr. Zeus reading on the senate floor. You want someone to read one hell of a bedtime story, ted cruz is your guy. If you want to protect america and defeat isis, Rick Santorums your president. Reporter all right a mud pit of may he had with weeks to go. Thats not all. You have marco rubio and Chris Christie exchanging shots, john kasich and marco rubios fray, as well. And as one analyst told me the only top tier candidate not caught in the cross fire right now is donald trump who once again goes almost untouched. Matt and savannah . Peter alexander, thank you. Democratic side, Hillary Clinton trying something new to brush off attacks from donald trump as former president bill clinton hits the campaign trail on his behalf. Nbcs Kristen Welker is in sioux city this morning, good morning to you. Reporter savannah, good morning to you, and secretary clinton is in a strong position today, according to our nbc News Survey Monkey online pot. She now leads Bernie Sanders nationally by 17 points, but the race gets a lot tighter in the early voting states, and now with former president bill clinton back in the game, the clintons are hoping to solidify her support. Making his 2016 debut bill clinton is back on familiar turf, campaigning for his wife in New Hampshire. Clinton never mentioned donald trump by name but did take a not to ban all muslims. We dont want to run away from the place weve been. America is a place that welcomes all people. Reporter the former president brushed off a barrage of attacks from donald trump carefully responding when asked by nbcs Andrea Mitchell about trumps tactics attacking clintons own infidelity. The republicans will have to decide who they are going to nominate. Reporter for her part former secretary of state also now deflecting trumps attacks, this time charging her and president obama with creating isis. Ive adopted a new years resolution. Im going to let him live in his alternative reality, and im not going to respond. Reporter the clintons are looking to divide and conquer, campaigning in separate swing states as she faces a tight battle with vermont senator Bernie Sanders and betting on president bill clintons star power. Despite missteps while changing for his wife in 2008 later emerging at Barack Obamas explainer in chief in 2012 and trying to help his wife lock up i do not believe in my lifetime anybody has run for this job at a moment of great importance who was better qualified. Reporter 42nd president admits he doesnt recognize the gop of 2016. I watch the other guys debating, and i think, you know, i dont fit anymore. First of all, im a happy grandfather, and im not mad at anybody. Reporter now the former president also said on monday that he doesnt know what he would want to be called if Hillary Clinton does win the white house. He said the voting hasnt started yet, and hes superstitious. He will be campaigning here in iowa on thursday. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton caps off a twoday swing here today. Savannah, matt, back to you. All right, Kristen Welker on the trail for us, thank you. Mark halperin is the managing editor of bloomberg politics. Happy new year. Does seem like a new phase in the campaign where a lot of the candidates are taking the gloves off. Got at tack ads. Except not for donald trump, the frontrunner. Why does no one want to go after the frontrunner in the race. Hes so far ahead that the strategy they have all adopted is im going to be the last guy standing, the only one left against trump and oneonone i can beat trump. Its a big risk but bigger risk is trying to take on trump in part because hes such an effective fighter. When you talk about strategy, mark, Donald Trumps strategy seems to be target Hillary Clinton and bill clinton. A lot of people as bill clinton hit the campaign trail wondering would he take the bait or hold his fire against trump and some of trumps comments. He didnt take the bait. Do you think its smart . He didnt take the beat and Hillary Clinton took the bail. I think clintons were surprised how quickly the discussion turned to bill clintons life with donald trump saying things on any topic that no one else will say and i dont think clintons want this january as shes focused on beating bernie iowa, they dont want this to be about clintons past, they want it to be about the future and i think mr. Trump learned a lesson to his advantage. If its a clintontrump general election that the clintons can be intimidated a little bit by donald trump as others have been. On the republican side we still have 12 candidates. I kind of break it into two races, the conservative race going on in the republican primary and the establishment race. Who will emerge as the candidates in each of those lanes. Who is looking good and who has momentum and who are we not talking about that we should be . Donald trump has momentum. New Television Commercial we saw in Peter Alexanders piece, an aggressive events scheduled around the country and going after the clintons i think hes in good shape starting to spend his own money. Ted cruz who we saw also there. Ted cruz is aggressively out there. A state he can win iowa. Get the calendar, you got to say where are you going to win . You cant be the nominee without winning. Cruz has iowa. Trump has basically the other 49. Those two guys have momentum. The other guys momentum is Chris Christie. A contest thats a road race where the cars occasionally bump into each other to a demolition derby. In a demolition derby, Chris Christie, new jersey guy has a big, monster truck. And hes hitting people hard. Other candidates are coming after him. Well let you go on the monster truck analogy and hang hon because theres another big political story to talk about. President obama expected to deliver remarks this morning on the steps his administration is taking to curb gun violence. Among them, the president hopes to expand the number of gun sales subject to background checks at gun shows and flea markets, sellers are often able to skirt the requirement. New federal guidelines would clarify the rules that apply to anyone in the business of selling firearms. President obama said the measures would be consistent with the Second Amendment and peoples lawful right to bear arms. All right. Mark, come on back. On one side you hear democrats saying these are bold new steps you have donald trump out there saying watch out, soon you wont be able to get guns, but i want you to read something that a lobbyist, Jennifer Baker with the nra had to say. She said this is it, really . This is what they have been hyping for how long now . This is the proposal they spend seven years putting together . They are not really doing anything. Two big issues here for the American Public to think about. What can a president do on his own . Hes not proposing legislation, using the kind of executive action hes used on immigration and others and a big debate the other is guns. Will this be effective . Some critics of what the president is doing is saying this is nothing, a waste of time. The nra lobbyist said that. Donald trump and others saying this is too much and even the president , the attorney general says, you know what, we dont even really know how many people this will affect. The president wants to try to do something on this issue before he leaves office. He feels this is the best he can do with republicans in control of congress. Its admittedly modest, but then you can ask him the question what took him so long because he has the power with this pen for the last seven years . Hes been wait, made a big effort for legislation after the after what happened late last year and has tried again. This is what his administration has come up. Hes a constitutional lawyer and thinks this passes constitutional muster. It will be challenged and even he knows it wont do as much as he would like to do and many people in this country will be opposed to these limited measures. Thark thank you very much. Nbc will have live coverage of the president s remarks later this morning on many of these stations. Also this morning, the occupation of a federal wildlife refu in oregon by armed antigovernment protesters. Its now in its fourth day, and the group is laying out new demands even as authorities look for a peaceful end to this standoff. Nbcs joe fryer is in princeton, oregon this morning for us. Joe, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. The sheriff says this community will see more squad cars on the streets throughout the entire county after extra patrols were called in from across the state. About what Law Enforcement plans to do next when it comes to dealing with the occupation. The siege now entering day four. Those occupying a wildlife refuge in oregon received a strong message from the sheriff. Its time for to you leave our community. Go home to your families and end this peacefully. Reporter the armed antigovernment protesters are controlling buildings on the ground while keeping an eye on the land from a watch tower above. They call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom and feel the has too much control over western land. Ive spoken to many ranchers in utah, in nevada, in arizona, and they are all feeling the same thing. They are all feeling this impression is coming down on them. Reporter they point to the case of ranchers dwight and Steven Hammond who reported to a california prison monday surrounded by family. The circumstances that were in now are just unfathomable, and its certainly an american tragedy. Reporter father and son were convicted of starting fires on Eastern Oregon and already served time, but a judge ruled it wasnt enough so they are returning to prison. The hammonds are angry. They say they are not connected to whats happening at the wildlife refuge in oregon, an occupation that has closed schools for a week impacting much of this community. Ive grown up here all my life, and i really cant believe its happening. Reporter the leaders of the occupation say this wont end until the federal government gives up control of this land. We have learned they are planning to hold in other News Conference coming up this morning at 11 00. Matt and savannah . All right, joe fryer, thank you. A lot of eyes on the stock market this morning after a rough start to the year on wall street. The dow dropping 470 points at one point on monday. One point on monday. It was part of a massive global selloff. Jim cramer is the host of cnbcs mad money. Happy new year. Good to see you. Happy new year. 276 at the end. Were you watching this unfold throughout the day it could have been a lot worse. What happened . Very ugly, almost entirely related to china which fell 7 , the chinese shanghai market is a very big market and then it just stopped. The government shut it down, that scared everyone, including our own investors. Chinas been having manufacturing problems for a while this. Isnt exactly shocking. Why on this particular day does it is suddenly drop . The chinese changed some rules. Its a communist country and dictatorship. Change rules like that. Not really any sort of give or take with investors there so they put the rules through. They failed. The government pulled back. Last night they were buying furiously to keep the market up. Again, its a dictatorship. They will buy to keep the stocks higher. Jim, how many times have you told me as january goes, so goes the year. No, im kidding, you havent said that to me, but its a very common expression when people look at the stock market. Is it true . Historically there is evidence that indeed if the first day is really bad the rest will be bad, but i can tell you because if the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates it will be a bad year. If the Chinese Market really collapses it will be a bad year. We just do nothing which i think is probably what happens it wont be a bad year so lets not make one 24hour period the reason for what we do. You squirmed out of that really well. Nice job. Well done. Jim, thank you very much. Big news from the nfl overnight. Three teams officially filed for relocation to the los angeles area. In an attempt to return pro football to the countrys second largest market, the san diego chargers, the Oakland Raiders and the st. Louis rams are all looking to make the move. The applications will be reviewed by league staff and three committees of owners that will meet here in new york a little later this week. After that all 32 owners will meet in houston next week and are expected to vote on whether to allow any of the teams to move. There are two stadium proposals in the works in the l. A. Area. So lets get this right. Youre one of these three teams. Yeah. L. A. Youve got to go back to your fans. Go back home. We didnt mean it. We love it here. Fantastic. Maybe they should have a playoff. Yes, exactly. Wow. Crazy. Whats going on is that matts undershirt . My long johns. Close, very close. Anyway, lets show you what weve got happening has far as your weather around the country. We are looking at at least clear skies here in the northeast. Look for some rip currents along the southeast and atlantic coasts. Big el nino getting itself together, the strongest on record and were going to look at a mess out west coming up in your next half hour. Well get to your local forecast seconds. And thats your latest weather. Matt . All right. Thank you very much. Coming cup the attorney for the socalled affluenza teen speaks out as ethan couchs mother heads to court today. Plus, an exclusive announce