Killing her daughter. Im still not even certain as i stand here today about what happened. Nine years after kay cialys death, how casey feels about that shes responsible. Casey anthony in her own words for the first time, today, tuesday, march 7th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im savannah guthrie, with willie geist, who has padded the crowd. The mascots tournament. March madness begins. Our top story, the grueling battle shaping up in washington, as House Republicans roll out their plan to repeal and replace obamacare. This, as the white house is dealing with questions over its new travel ban just unveiled. And the president s claim over the weekend, without evidence, that trump tower was wiretapped by president obama during the campaign. We have complete coverage of all of this. And were going to talk to the white houses budget director in a moment. First, lets start with nbcs hallie jackson. Hallie, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. That longawaited bill from House Republicans is finally here. That means the real fight finally begins. While the white house calls this bill an important step, democrats argue it doesnt protect the people who need it most. And even some more conservative republicans arent totally thrilled with at least one. Already calling this obamacare 2. 0. It will be congress highest profile battle. Wane the Health Coverage of americans in the balbalance, so of the highest stakes. Today starts the big sell. House republicans looking to convince the public and some of their own party to back the new bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Whats gone, the mandate or requirement that people get covered or else pay a fine. Who stays . Coverage for people with preexisting conditions. And for children remaining on their parents insurance until age 26. Whats changed . The new bill keeps Medicaid Expansion in place for lowincome americans. But only until 2020. It promotes continuous coverage by implementing a 30 premium on people who let their insurance lapse. And it allows for a system of tax credits to help people pay for insurance, based on age, not income. Credits that would be limited to exclude the wealthy. The price tag still isnt clear without an official cost estimate. Republican leaders say theyll pay for their plan, at least partly, with savings from repealing obamacare. Its important we make these changes. The programs arent sustainable the way they are. We have to restore power to the states. And the ability to take care of peopl people. Reporter whats next . The work to win over skeptical republicans. Like stripping federal funds from planned parenthood. A few gop deflections could mean trouble. Thats why rand paul is getting a personal pitch from the president. He didnt really tell me, its got to be this way or not. I think hes open to kidiscussi. He didnt say take it or leave it. Reporter with republicans in control of congress and the white house, its their best shot yet to make good on a years long promise to undo the Affordable Care act. But democrats, aiming to protect former president obamas signature policy, arent going down easily. We will fight tooth and the nail to make sure that people who have insurance under the Affordable Care act will maintain that insurance. Reporter a Senior Administration official tells me this morning, the white house is working on a plan to put some public pressure on the more hesitant republicans to try to get their support. As for timeline, the gop wants to move fast, aiming to have obamacare repealed and replaced by easter break. Hallie, thank you so much. Mick mulvaneny is the officer of director and budget. Good to have you with us, sir. Thank you for having me. Before we get too wonky and into the nitty gr ttygritty of policy, people are going whats the bottom line . How many fewer or more people will be covered under the new Health Care Plan youve unveiled . We started to get that question a lot. And the real answer is, compared to what . Compared to right now. Well, you cant even compare oba obamacare to right now. What everyone seems to want to ignore is the fact that obamacare is an unmitigated disaster. I live in one of the states, for example, South Carolina, where were down to unprovider under obamacare. If that provider leaves, my entire state loses coverage. Everyone wants to call it a death spiral. Democrats admit that the program is not working. I dont think its fair to want to compare what were proposing today to what obamacare might have been. You have to compare it to what oba obamacare is. And its a failure. Fair enough. Let me play for you something that the president himself said on 60 minutes about whether people will be covered. Take a look. Everybodys got to be covered. This is an unrepublican thing for me to say. A lot of things will say, the lower 25 cant afford private. Universal health care. Im going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. Ton insured person will be taken care of, how . I would make deals with existing hospitals. Who pays for it . The government is going to pay for it. Director, can you say this plan keeps that promise of the president to cover everybody . Universal health care. Sure. What people are getting here, is access to coverage of what they have knew. Were comparing it to obamacare. Obamacare made insurance affordable but care to actually impossible to afford. The deductibles were too high. Folks say they have coverage. But they couldnt get the medical care they needed when they get sick. We solve that by giving everyone access to health care they can actually afford. Can we just pause you right there . A lot of people said thats washington speak. Access to health care is not the same as health care. Are you saying definitively that what the president promised, universal health care, will be available to anybody under the new plan . Under obamacare, we forced people to have insurance. Thats easy when you put a mandate on it and they dont participate in the process. You take government and put them between people and their care. The program that we talked about today that the house rolled out last night, is a program that puts people in charge of their own courage. They can go out and get that access through the safety nets and the other things we are providing. I think its a dramatic increase and improvement over the system. The Congressional Budget Office has hnot had time to scoe this to tell us how much it will cost. Would you as a member of congress from South Carolina, cast a vote on something when you dont know what it costs . We will know what it costs before they vote on it. I dont think they can vote on it without the cbo number coming in. I think everybody thats looked at it knows this is going to save a dramatic amount of money. Once you remeal the mandate, you repeal the faxes and you repeal the penalties. The cbo score is going to be positive and helpful long term. White house budget director, mick mulvaneny. Thank you for your time on a busy morning. President trump is out with a new message about jobs and the economy, as he faces growing firestorms over the administrations new travel ban and the claim that thenpresident obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the campaign. Peter alexander is at the white house for us. Reporter good morning to you. The white house appears to have learned some lessons from its failed rollout of the original traveled ban. The new ban being signed with less chaos or confusion. As for the president s claims of wiretapping by president obama, white house aides are refusing to reveal the source of the information. Even as republicans are insisting the president shares the information he claims to know. Overnight, President Trump releasing his first oncamera statement in four days, touting the economy. Were bringing back jobs. Reporter but ignoring his explosive claim that former president obama ordered the wiretapping of mr. Trumps phones, a charge made without proof. Senator john mccain demanding an explanation. The president of the United States should provide any evidence that he might have that would corroborate a charge of this seriousness. Reporter president obamas spokesman denies the allegation. Sean spicer is backing up his boss. Does the president believe that former president barack obama committed a felony . I think the tweets speak for themselves. Reporter but the white house has yet to identify the president s source. Reporte what is his source of this information . The explosive allegation against the past president . The president made it clear he wants the house and Senate Intelligence committees to look into the allegations. Reporter President Trumps claim bubbling up on conservative radio, with host mark levin. I assume obama knew something. Reporter the charges overshadowing the revamped travel ban. Protesters gathering outside of the White House Monday night, as democrats argue the latest executive order is new but far from improved. Its still a travel ban. Its still a refugee ban. It still makes us less safe. Reporter six weeks after President Trump signed his First Executive order in public, touting his travel ban as extreme vetting, mr. Trump signed the new order behind closed doors. Dispatching his cabinet secretaries to make his case. The American People can have high confidence were identifying ways to improve the vetting process. And thus, keep terrorists from entering our country. Reporter the new guidelines impose a 90day ban on travelers from six muslim countries. Removed from the original list, iraq. Green cardholders now exempt. Deleted a preference for religious minorities. It bars all refugees from entering for 120 days. But no longer singles out people from syria, formerly banned indefinitely. Despite the president s initial claim that during any delay, quote, the bad would rush into our country. Meanwhile, the secretary of housing and urban development, ben carson, is fending off criticism. After saying slaves were immigrants, in his first remarks to agency employees. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave hips and worked harder for less. Reporter last night, ben carson tried to clarify his comments on facebook. Writing in part, the slave narrative and immigrant narrative are two entirely different experiences. The slaves were sold into slavery by slave traders. The immigrants made the choice to come to america. The two experiences should never be intertwined nor forgotten. Savannah and willie . Peter alexander in the Briefing Room in the white house. Now, we move to Severe Weather hammering the midwest and the south overnight. Large hail and heavy rain. More strong storms are expected today. And al is on it. Good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Right now, we are tracking 300 tornadoes so far for the beginning of this year. Thats the most since we saw 2008s very rapid rate. This is trimble, kansas. You can see all of the damage thats been done. It has been very difficult. And theres been a lot of vivid lightning. Take a look, just north of kansas city. I mean, literally, cloudtoground lightning. Thats impressive stuff. And today, we have more of the same. In fact, we have severe thunderstorm watches, now, from louisiana on into arkansas. Parts of mississippi. And on into tennessee, where were watching this risk of Severe Weather today that continues. The squall line continues this morning. The main threat for damaging winds, but we cant rule out an isolated tornado or two. You see this line pushes from western new york and pennsylvania, all the way down to new orleans by late this afternoon, into tomorrow morning. And as it pushes through, well see the strong storms, a lot of rain, pushing in. Anywhere from one to three inches of rain with it. Sorry, didnt want to pardon. Hello. Thats a little too much of me that you want to see this early in the morning. The good news is, its a fast mover. Were watching the possibility of a little noreaster toward the end of the week. Oh, come on. Rollercoaster ride here. Well see you in a minute with the rest of the forecast. Also this morning, the u. S. Has started to delay an antimissile system in south korea in the wake of a provocative missile test by north korea. Youre looking at new video of that launch just released overnight. Nbcs Janis Mackey Frayer is in beijing for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. The tension continues to escalate here, with north korea touting its latest missile test, massive joint u. S. south korea military drills under way. And the u. S. Deploying forces to the region, against the threat of kim jongun. The first parts of a controversial u. S. Made Missile Defense system arrived in south korea. The terminal High AltitudeAerial Defense system, better known as t. H. A. A. D. Put in place to counter to threat by north korea. This video released from the state news agency overnight, claiming to thousand the latest missile test, the second since President Trump took office. Watching it and smiling, simiki jongun, who has warned of missiles capable of reaching the United States. North korea is the biggest security challenge facing President Trump. North korea says the latest barrage was practice to strike u. S. Military bases in japan. In a phone call, japans Prime Minister says President Trump told him the u. S. Was with japan 100 . But the t. H. A. A. D. System is opposed by china, with officials prepared to take what they call powerful measures, against any boost of u. S. Influence in asia. This will put strain on u. S. china relations. But the Trump Administration in reviewing north korea, its policy and the rising threat level, appears willing to accept a degree of friction in that relationship in order to satisfy its allies in the region. And of course, mitigate the threat. Willie and savannah, back to you. Now, disturbing video that led to the arrest and firing of a day care worker in pennsylvania. It shows a woman pushing a 4yearold girl down a flight of stairs. The incident was caught by a surveillance camera. And point of fact, that camera was installed just a half an hour before this incident took place on friday. Now, 52yearold sarah gable has been charged with assault, harassment, endangering the welfare of a child. The girl suffered a knee injury. She returned to the day care an monday and gable has been fired. A dramatic river rescue in arizona. You can see the man grabbing on to the landing skids of a helicopter. The man became stranded after heavy rain forced officials to release batter from upstream dams. The helicopter lifted the man to safety and put him down on the river bank. Believe it or not, he was not seriously injured. Lets turn back to al. You tell us about the noreaster . No. Thats a little ways away. When you say noreaster, our ears perk up. Were noreaster. Thats true. Before we get to that, lets look at whats going on around the country. You can see we have the risk of strong storms especially in the Lower Mississippi river valley. We continue to have the high fire danger in the central part of the country. Well look at that. And another big storm moving into the Pacific Northwest and the cascades with more snow for the sierra, as why do so many businesses rely on the u. S. Postal service . Because when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. Thats why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. Here, there, everywhere. United States Postal Service priority you. Good morning. Im meteorologist krystal klei. Morning showers move out. And temperatures of low 60s in philadelphia. Upper 50s to low 60s in suburbs and mostly mid upper 50s as well in the Lehigh Valley and berks county. 52 for voorhees. Mid 50 along the shore. Smyrna up to 65 degrees. We will see winds crank up late day into the night. Another round of rain expected by the evening. And thats your latest late weather. Thanks, al. Coming up, Casey Anthonys first interview. 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