And it was it was also amazing that it was just it was so hard to hear her. You know, we could have very easily taken two more steps and wouldnt be able to hear her at all. Joining us from montecito, california, Gadi Schwartz. Videos of images coming out of there, unbelievable to see and see that girl pulled out as that guy said and so unscathed from it. What are you seeing on the ground there, gadi . Reporter yeah, such a remarkable rescue. That 14yearold girl thought she had died when they pulled her out. All of his hit around 3 45 in the morning. Most people were sleeping in houses like this. They wake up, their neighbors, alarms going off, theyre surrounded by what, they get in the car, try to hunker down in their home. And this was the type of debris
this is what happens. Well talk to bill karins about that in a little bit. Gadi schwartz, thank you. In a rare public event President Trump put in full display the bipartisan negotiation over a deal to protect thousand of undocumented immigrants. Reporters were in the room as the president promised to sign a bill to extend the daca program if congress was able to reach an agreement. Nbc news Peter Alexander has more. Reporter Inside The West Wing if you dont have the world, you cannot have security. Reporter for merely an hour. You have created an opportunity here, mr. President. And you need to close the deal. Reporter a remarkable televised negotiating session. What about a clean daca bill now . We dont want to be back here two years later. We have to have security. Reporter President Trump seemingly taking nearly over controversial position hes had on immigration, even giving democrats what they want, a bill he said exactly as he did in that room, lets work together. Our thanks to Peter Alexander. President trump promised to be a dealmaker president and he told the bipartisan gathering yesterday. Take a listen. Our system lends itself to not getting things done. I hear about earmarks, the old earmarks system how there was a great friendliness with earmarks. Maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks. Because this system this system no, then he should do it. And thats another big story thats playing out on capitol hill. Senator dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the Judiciary Committee defied republicans when she decided to release the august testimony of fusion gps
chairman simpson. We know the firm hired Christopher Steele to do research on trump which became the infamous steele dossier. Among the takeaways from the testimony, simpson said he was interested in finding out information about trumps business activities. Testifying that trump had, quote, made a number of trips to russia and talked about doing a number of Business Deals but never actually did one and that struck me as a little bit odd in calling for an explanation. So in june or may of 2006, simpson said he hired steele who he described as, quote, a lead russianist for the British Secret service. According to simpsons testimony in september 2016, steele told an fbi contact that he believed donald trump was enthralled with russian intelligence. And that he believed russian intelligence was cooperating with the campaign. Steele passed the information on to the fbi more than a year ago. And according toe simpson, the bureau said it had already heard something along those lines. We now know the information that the fbi heard came from an australian diplomat who according to the the New York Times told the fbi that he had drinks with Trump Campaign aide George Papadopoulos and that papadopoulos had emails that would of course hillary clinton. Now, to the process of how this information became public, a spokesman for Chairman Grassley told totally confounding would release the testimony unilaterally, claiming it would jeopardize the Judiciary Committee. Heres Senator Feinstein defending her actions. Reporter why did you decide to that . Because, i think people are entitled to know what was said. And the lawyers also, i snee problem with releasing it. But Senator Feinstein,
senator grassley said you jeopardized getting certain witnesses like kushner. Your reaction . I dont think so. Thats been difficult. Why do you think they referred steele to the justice department, potential investigation . To my view, to my knowledge, there has not been a single fact in that report that has been proven to be incorrect. That its really the muddying of waters that create a problem. You know, steele brought this information out to the fbi. And its quite amazing that we get punished for providing information. That sounding very forthcoming there. Yeah. While grassley is blasting the decision, there are republicans on the committee who support finesteins moves. Senator john cornyn said he thinks its a good idea, adding,
quote, i respect senator grassley. But i think its important. What i do want is for the public to see. Meanwhile the president s lawyer michael kohn is now using buzzfeed over that. Well have more on that. Breitbart announced that bannon would step down. In the controversy that sparked backlash from the president. The New York Times reports that bannon was and bannons position at breitbart grew untenable as associates described him as unable to grasp the severity of the fallout at the white house. Over the weekend, bannon had backtracked on his reported comments telling his Radio Show Listeners that he expected to
stay on at the news site. And that he supports the trump agenda. Now, bannon is leaving breitbart, but not expected to leave politics. Citing a Washington Post report, bannon has told associates that he plans on creating a 2018 political operation. And a source close to bannon tells nbc news that bannon believes President Trump is transactional, and that they will have a relationship once again. Joining us is Deputy News Editor for axios, dave waller. Give us what you think is there do progress, with the sticking points with the president saying ill take the heat for it, if we want to make changes here. What are your takeaways . Two big takeaways, first, President Trump is in a really good place in terms of his rhetoric. He said he wants a bill of love. Thats not something youd expect from a president who ran on a hard line immigration policy. He also wants to have a deal on daca. You take that aside, you think, okay, maybe were in a position to get a deal. The problem is theres four big issues outstanding on immigration alone in terms of border security. Chain migration, visas and then daca. Were not really any closer on those four issues and were coming up on a deadline january 19th for a government shutdown. Democrats say we can get deals by then. That seems like a long way to go in just a short period of time. Dave, let me ask you something that came up yesterday in the meeting because the president that actually brought this up and kind of struck people. The idea of bringing back ear marx or pork barrel spending as its pejoratively known. What are the pros and cons of bringing this type back into legislation, or dealmaking . Yeah, this is something that was being discussed in kind of hushed voices, right. President trump, thats not his
strategy. Its a politically toxic issue. The idea that members could have little giveaways for them, in order to get their votes on a bill. Its something that voters have kind of, obviously, turned on. It feels like the swamp, something that President Trump wouldnt necessarily support. Although it does make close votes a little bit easier to pass. And weve had a lot of close votes under trump. So, there is a case to be made that maybe you could pass more bills if youre able to give these little perks. There are certainly some audible reactions in the room when the president brought up the idea of bringing back earmarks, that is for sure. For sure. I think its a controversial issue, dave lawler, well check back in a bit. Le following the diplomatic talks between North And South Korea, and why President Trump is actually getting some of the credit. And arizona exsheriff joe
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seoul. And a earthquake struck the coast of honduras before 10 00 p. M. Eastern time. On the coasts of mexico and central america, but no tsunami actually materialized. There were also no reports of earlier reports of serious damages or casualties on land after the quake struck. Last nights earthquake was one of the largest, believe it or not to hit the caribbean in history. The 2010 earthquake, the magnitude of 7. 0. Lets get a check of weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, we had Gadi Schwartz on from california. He saw the power of the mudslides. Is there more rain on the way . Well, theyve dried out. Here the worst fire in history for total achae a acreages burne
only had one fate targllty. You saw trees just the inkrenn force of that water raging through that region. Again, recovery today. That was just tossed there in the middle of that wash. The storm itself has now moved into arizona. Its providing a little bit of rain. Its still a threat to the inner mountain west. Ski areas are getting snow at Higher Elevations. Its going to plague all of us, some areas getting rain, some snow and some ice. For today, tomorrow and tomorrow, Winter Storm Watches for minneapolis, omaha. So the Central Plains today into tonight that we get some of this snow. Not a huge ordeal. It looks to be 1 to 3 inches across the area. This area of blue, could be as
much as 6. Rochester, virginia, maybe ames gets more than that. A lot of snow in iowa, you will be plowing or shoveling come tomorrow morning at this time. As far as the Snowfall Forecast through thursday, and then as far as the ice goes, this is going to be thursday afternoon. Into friday. And this looks like the possibility of an ice storm, quarter inch to a half inch, all of the ohio valley, kentucky. Even portions of tennessee, back to pittsburgh, guys. A messy storm. Hey, california, its going to head all the way to the east coast as we go throughout the weekend. Bill, its not record rainfall, or abnormally high inches of rain thats falling, right . Its the combination, that youre saying, fire, and the mud and everything that was beforehand with that . Well, it was the combination of the late fire. That fire almost never do we get fires this huge in december. And then the vegetation had no time to reestablish itself. Reestablish the roots. Right. You know, someone was making
the comparison to like, you know, a late season or hurricane or even an early season hurricane. It just happened kind of out of season that fire. And then with the huge wet weather, big storm behind it. This was a big storm. San francisco had one of its top 20 rainiest days in history. Yeah, it was a big storm on the heels the fire. And that combination. Thanks for that, bill. Still ahead, with the College FootballNational Championships in the books, the focus turn to the hardwood. One of the stars breaking records before the games even starts. Sports is next. On, 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Today were bringing you americas number one shave at lower prices every day. Putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. As one of those workers, im proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. Gillette the best a man can get. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you heres the story of Green MountainCoffee Roasters sumatra reserve. Lets go to sumatra. The coffee here is amazing. Because the volcanic soil is amazing. So we give farmers like win more plants. To grow more delicious coffee. Which helps provide for wins family. All, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. Green mountain Coffee Roasters. Yes or no . Gin. Do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet . Do you want 4. 95 commissions for stocks, 0. 50 Options Contracts . 1. 50 Futures Contracts . What about a dedicated service team of Trading Specialists . Did you say yes . Good, then its time for power e trade. The platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. Looks like we have a couple seconds left. Lets do some card twirling twirling cards e trade. The original place to invest online. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. Thisreally passionate about i really want to help. I was on my way out of this life. There are patients out there that dont have a lot of time. Finally, it was like the sun rose again and i was going to start fighting back now. When those patients come to me and say, you saved my life. My life was saved by a two week old targeted therapy drug. Thats what really drives me to to save lives. Welcome back. Time now for sports. Last night, the College Football season ended. Now, lets focus on some college basketball, because March Maddingness is on our door step. Number 21 kentucky up by one with four seconds misses the free throw. Texas a m with a chance. But the ball is thrown out of bounds. A controversial no call with the kentucky hold. Kentucky escapes this one with the win. Moving to number five, purdue in danger of being upset by michigan. A missed free throw again. Michigan is unable to connect for deep three. Purdue hangs on 7069. Right now to 9112, kansas squaring off against iowa state. Kansas up by three. The jayhawks steal the ball. Malik newman with the slam. And an alleyoop kansas wins. Number two West Virginia up by three, baylor inbounds. The court there, open shot, no good. The mountaineers survive that one 5754. Seton hall was the only top25 team who played last night who did not escape. They lost handily 8464 to big east rival marquette, thanks to marquette senior andrew rousey. Lets switch gears going to the nfl and the head coaching carousel. The Oakland Raiders roll out the black carpet to the new and returning coach jon gruden. Gruden coached the raiders 1968 to 71. And then for the buccaneers. Gruden was Let Go By The Bucs in 2008. Hes not coached next. Hes worked as a broadcaster for
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