25yearold man into custody charging him in connection with a Deadly Police shooting in kansas. Investigators believe the man called 911 as a prank that ended with deadly consequences. All that plus lottery fever. Last nights Mega Millions jackpot goes unclaimed again as tonights power ball soars to nearly 400 million. Ringo starr is set to receive a knight hood from the yee queen. Ohio state buckeyes but its the coin toss that people are talking about before the game. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreyer. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us. This is it. This is the last saturday today of 2017. There are 31 days in december. Weve got one more day. Let me tell you, it is so cold outside it almost hurts. It does. And your skin is so extra dry, everything that goes along. The meteorologist on the Weather Channel yesterday had the omost apt description. It is stupid cold. Well get to it. The temperatures dipping even l lower this weekend and its not good for the new years eve celebration. Nbc ann thompson is in times square this morning. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. Revelers have one more day to get ready to ring in 2018. Forget the party hats, the horn and the champagne. This year theyoi parka and scarves and hot chocolate for whats going to be one of the coldest new years on record the mercury will drop along with the famous ball high above times square giving a frigid welcome to 2018. As the clock strikes midnight the temperature could sink to 11 above. It is crucial to make smart choices. Please, if you have a prior medical condition or have young kids, this is not the year to be out here. But if youre a healthy adult and youre going to come out, dress for it. No skinny jeans. No mini skirts. Reporter to endure the hours long wait officials urge you to dress in layers, wear heavy boots, cover your head and hands and dont drink alcohol. When the bodys temperature drops low, the symptoms include shivering, dizziness and difficulty speaking. I hope they b reporter new york has plenty of company. Im freezing over here. Reporter this morning the northern section of the country is stuck in winters brutal grip. The arctic blast adding insult to injury in erie, pennsylvania. More snow overnight adding to the 5 feet that already fell. Im running out of places to throw the snow. Reporter the coast guard coming to the rescue on st. Marys river on michigan to free two stuck freighters. Spin outs and collisions in minnesota and one driver killed in wisconsin. Sioux falls covered by heavy snow and Niagara Falls came to a halt in plunging temperatures. Back here in times square emts will be patrolling look for signs of ann, thank you. Dylan, i have a feeling youre going to say we havent seen the worst of it. Unfortunately that is true. At midnight sunday into early morning, thats the coldest yits going to get in new york city. 79 million are at risk for dangerous wind chills. The actual air temperatures are reflective of just that arctic cold pouring in from the north. 18 below is what is currently is in duluth. St. Louis feels like 7. Columbus feels like 5. As we go through the end of the year and into the start of 2018, were looking at temperatures to begin below zero. Kansas city 6 below. Wind chills will be running 20 to 40 degrees below zero. It will be brutally cold for most of the country. Here in new york city we are looking at a temperature of 11 degrees. The initially thought. Now weve dropped the wind chill to 5 below. You need to stay covered up. Protect your skin. It could be the second coldest new years eve on record. Wow. All right. Thanks. President trump is spending the last few days of his holiday vacation at his maralago estate in florida. On friday he invited coast guard members to a day of golf. This morning were learning about how the interview came to be. Kelly oconnedonnell is traveli with the president. Good morning. Reporter good morning, sheinelle. As you point out, the president spending the final few days of this year in a cooler than normal florida and he opened up about some of the hot button issues of the day. While weve seen the president take lots of criticism for how much time he spends at his golf courses, at least for one day he tried to make that game a sign of good on his own golf course, friday the president played host to about 75 members of the u. S. Coast guard providing lunch and a tee time. You can have a little tournament and determine who the best player is. Maybe its the boss. Reporter an outing inspired during a thanksgiving day visit with florida based guardsmen. The president had already come out swinging in an interview with the New York Times. While he cried the russia investigation as phoney and made him look bad, i think i will be treated fairly adding ive stayed uninvolved. An opinion on mueller explained by trump friend chris ruddy. This is a man that led the fbi after 9 11, did a remarkable job. I think hes been upset with the investigations. Ruddy was dining at maralago with the New York Times reporter near the president who agreed to an improm impromptu interview. Mr. Trump lashed out at chinese officials for defying north korean sanctions saying oil is going in to north korea. The president admitted ive been soft on china, on trade seeking their help. Using his social media fire hose, the president also linked extending Legal Protection for young people brought to the u. S. As children with his own wish list. There can be no daca without the separately needed wall and ending chain migration. And in that wide ranging interview with the New York Times the president also talked about the media and said he would predict his own reelection in 2020 saying they would let m requires his presence for rating and subscriptions. Ill leave it there. As we mentioned, it is rare for a president to give an unexpected interview to any reporter without aids knowing or present. How did it happen . Ashley parker is a reporter for the washington post. She has been covering the Trump White House all year. She is also down in West Palm Beach florida this morning. Good to see you. Reporter good to see you. Lets pick up reporter the way it happened go ahead, ashley. Reporter the way it happened basically was chris ruddy, this conservative media mogul invited a New York Times reporter to trumps private golf club. He strategically steeated the t of them near the president s table. When the president walked in, he sort of introduced the New York Times reporter to the president and sort of enabled this 30 minute sit down with no aids that happened. So in the past few days as you know the president has reform, the post office, amazon, climb change, his own approval ratings. Based on those tweets, can we get a sense of what the president might focus on in 2018 . Reporter absolutely. Its a window in two ways. Some of the issues like immigration, finding a solution for d. R. E. A. M. Ers is one of the key issues that the president and members of congress will be facing. In another sense the fact that the president s tweeting tells us hes going to continue that. Hes going to sort of tell readers and voters exactly whats on his mind, when hes thinking it, whats bothering him and thats not going to stop. Lets pull back. Youve been closely reporting on the president for a while. The white house is a steep learning curve. Do you have a sense of what hes learned over the past year and maybe if hell do anything different moving forward . Reporter thats a great question. The president came in to office thinking that role might be dictator, that what he said would happen. Hes learned he has to work with members of congress. At the same time he came into office a 70yearold man set in his ways, his beliefs and i think in many ways hes going to stay exactly the same. I caught your piece in the post this morning. Tell us more about some of the staff reshuffling that we can come to expect out of this white house. Reporter absolutely. Heading into 2018 its going to be a tough landscape for congressional republicans. One real concern that people close to the president have is his political shop. You have them working to try to bring in a political heavyweight who can kind of help the president oversee 2018. Ashley bringing in the new year there in west palm. Thank you. If you bought a Mega Millions ticket and havent checked us, allow us to be the first to tell you you lost. No one won the mega that jackpot will grow even bigger. D you do have another shot at becoming a millionaire tonight. Tammy leitner is in miami. Good morning. Good morning, sheinelle. That mega million and power ball jackpot, theyre up over 700 million total. What that means is someone still has a shot at starting this new year as a multi millionaire. Heres what you need to know. The mega million, that drawing is on tuesday night. The jackpot is up to 343 million. On to the power ball. One more shot before this year is up. That drawing is tonight and the jackpot is 384 million. If you happen to be that lucky person that cashes in, a little advice from experts on what you should do. Sign that ticket immediately. Also some states allow you to remain anonymous. Definitely get some tax advice before cashing in that ticket and this is a everyone, but avoid any sudden lifestyle changes. And finally, you want to payoff your debt. So there is still some time for you to buy a ticket before tonights drawing but i do need to point out the odds of winning tonight are one in 292 million. Theres still that one. Tammy, thank you. Some other headlines on this saturday morning. There are new details on the deadly Apartment Fire here in new york city. Officials say the blaze that killed a dozen people was started by a 3yearold who was p playing with a stove. His mother escaped but did not manage to close the door behind her. Flames raced through the stairwell. The building was supposed to have selfclosing doors. A vigil was held overnight in memory of the victims. Police in california are looking for what motivated a man to open fire in a long beach law firm friday killing one person beforeur himself. Police responded to reports of an active shooter when a gunman shot two of his colleagues at a holiday luncheon. Two mean died at the scene including the shooter. The second victim managed to drive himself to a hospital where he is in stable condition. It appears to be Workplace Violence with a Homicide Investigation now under way. President trump is condemning fridays attack on Coptic Christians on egypts capital. The president spoke with egypts president after a gunman killed at least nine people including a Police Officer outside a kyrie church and a christian owned shop. The ministry say a man opened fire at the entrance and tried to throw an explosive device. The attacker was wounded by Security Forces and taken into custody. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack but have provided no evidence so far. At the cotton bowl it was the Ohio State Buckeyes with a 247 win over the usc trojans but the highlight came before the game even a texas woman kicked off the festivities with this attempt at a coin toss. Watch this. As you see the coin didnt appear to flip at all. Instead it kind of glided through the air and twitter reacted calling it one of the worst coin tosses. Excitement growing over the pond in london after a big announcement that ringo starr is going to be nighted by king e lit be elizabeth. With more on that, matt, good morning. Reporter good morning, craig. For mere mortals like you and i well have to get used to calling him sir ringo starr. Theyre not here because of this knight hood. They just come every day. It says something about how popular the beatles still are. For them it will always be plain old ringo. Today a rock hero taking his place in history. The palace announcing former beatles drummer ringo starr will be knighted in a ceremoniy next year. Generations of fans say is long overdue. I think he obviously deserved it. He did his fair share of work and everyone in america knows about him. The queens honor has become a custom for britains top talent. Beegees singer barry gibbs will be honored too. For ringo its been a long and winding road to knighthood. The queen made singer Paul Mccartney into sir paul 20 years ago and ringo given up hope. The atmosphere is peace and love. What could be wrong with that . He was known for his wit more than his writing and he lived his fame in the background and endearing every man. He clearly was not the musical genius that the other three were. He was a human being. We rellated to him. These american cheerleaders came to london for a competition, a trip not complete without a visit to abby road. A lot of people say he was the least talented of the beatles. What do you think of that . Do you agree . Hes still a beatle. The least tal enltented is m talented than the aver ringo. Other politicians and actresses are all going to be hon hored b the queen. Hugh lorey will be upgraded to commander of an empire. Why dont we get titles around here . You do. Meteorologist. Lets take a look at whats going on across the country right nownr taking a look a the satellite radar, we have snho still to come, an arrest in a Deadly Police shooting that could have been the result of a prank gone horribly wrong. Why Police Arrested a los angeles man in connection with the kansas death. Also an incredible view as the snow piles up off one of the great lakes. Take a look at that. First, this is today on nbc. Rin. Its time for the download, our look back at the week that was. We heard what happens prince harry interviewed president obama. A flight had to turn around midair and we started with christmas celebrations all over the world. Christmas magic, the holiday was celebrated far and wide this week with celebrities like kate hudson. And kevin hart bringing some christmas cheer. Christmas music. One Flight Attendant made Holiday Travel a little more festive and our weekend today family, myself, sheinelle and dylan shared our holiday photos too. An arctic blast swept the country with record snow and extreme cold. This morning much of the country has frozen over. This is what fell. All of this. From n through maine and into icy Kansas City Missouri the snow is creating headaches for anyone trying to travel. Highway 4. Four ohio teenagers charged with murder after throwing an object into traffic. A sandbag flying in without warning from this i75 overpass in toledo, ohio, last week killing 22yearold father of detroit. Four teens, 13 and 14 years old are charged with murder in birds death. Flight to nowhere. A passenger plane headed to tokyo turned around mid flight and returned to los angeles because of an unauthorized passenger. This morning frustrated fliers are looking for answers. Among those chrissy prince harry took to the airways featuring an interview with a special guest. Prince harry back at work as guest editor with a president ial interview. When you wake up now as barack obama, former president of the united states, whats different about your mornings . I wake up later. And, you know, its wonderful to be able to control your day in a way that you just cant as president. Some extraordinary moments caught on camera this week including a holiday fire works accident in cuba injuring dozens. It happened at a festival where rival neighborhoods hold a fire works competition. A time lapse video captured lake effect snow forming off lake superior. You have that warm air over the water rising up into the clouds and thats what produces the lake effect snow. And a Marriage Proposal to remember at the rink at rockefeller center. He got down on listened to the big question. She said yes and then leaned down to give him a kiss. When she tried to give him the second kiss, there it happened. She lost her footing. Dont they call it fighting in love. And one boys reaction to an unusual christmas gift. Banana. It makes me so happy. I love that it looks like it was wrapped a few days earlier. Its getting a little brown. Hes so happy with the banana. Its all he needs. I love that the uncle knew thats what he wanted. Still to come, we have an important warning as we get deep into winter. Jeff rossen shows us how to stop our pipes from bursting. And its so cold water freezes in good morning, it is 7 26 on your saturday. I am blayne alexander. Lets take a look at your top stories this morning. One person was seriously injured after a fire broke out. The person was inside the Apartment Building when the fire started. It happened just before 11 30 last night on Southern Hills drive and cape st. Clair. At least seven people are left without a home this morning. No word on what started the fire. Loved ones will stay goodbye to the couple gunned down inside their home. Memorial Service Starting at 10 00 a. M. This morning. Investigators killed the pair and shot and injured himself last week. The family believes he had neo nazi views an most of us waking up to a little bit of a Winter Wonderland out there. Steady snow and light flurries and a few light showers. We are going to dry this out as we head throughout the day. Plows do linger mostly cloudy throughout the afternoon. Now, as we head through the over night hours, we are driving very cold. Temperatures dropping in the teens. Highs are only in the low to mid20s. Make sure you are warm if you are ready to head out. Thats a look at blayne. Somara. Thank you very much. Well have more news and weather for you in 25 minutes. For we are back on this saturday morning, december 30th, 2017. Lets begin this half hour with a check of the headlines and the dangerous cold affecting tens of millions of people. Dangerous cold. Please, if you have a prior medical condition or have young kids, this is not the year to be out here. As a deep freeze settles in across the country, a warning from officials on this new years eve. Time squares prepares for one of the coldest cele