here's what nbc news is projecting about virginia. the democrats will keep the senate seat held by tim kaine, hillary clinton's running mate in the election 2016. democrats will win five house seats, an nbc news projection, house gop will win 4. not exactly a blue wave there. two other house seats too close to call in the state of virginia. remember, we have so much on the line here, the razor thin margins. the democrats, if they pick up 23 seats in the house, perhaps then that is the blue wave. but if they are short of that, then the gop will keep control of the u.s. house tonight. we will see. lots of votes still left to count. back to you guys. >> we'll see you back in a few minutes, chris. >>> a fire in brisbane, it started more than 15 hours ago sending smoke billowing onto 101 and into neighboring cities. classes were actually canceled at a nearby school. this is the recology plant. let's bring in nbc bay area's marianne fachl marianne favro with the latest. >> reporter: even though the fire started at 1:00 this morning, you can

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kate snow, nbc news. >> it's cnn versus president trump today. a federal judge will hold a hearing for the network's lawsuit against the administration. cnn sued over the white house's decision to revoke reporter jim accosta's press credentials after a confrontation at a press conferce all down for us, nbc's tracie potts in d.c. they are calling it a violation of the first amendment dmiss i grandstanding. >> reporter: this was the contentious news conference, not just with accosta but the news media period. during that news conference, accosta was asking the president a question and refused to give up the microphone when the president told him to. as you over a staffer who grabbed at the microphone. accosta refused and then later, his credential to get into and cover the white house was revoked. cnn now filing lawsuit saying this was a last resort. >> did cnn try toor be restored. the white house has basically been ignoring these requests so we really had no choice but to sue. >> reporter: the white house in a statement says that the behavioras u

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latest nbc news marist poll puts democrat andrew gillum ahead of ron desantis by 4%. quinnipiac has gillum ahead by 7. is that enough toff pull the win today by gillum? >> that will be the big question. gillum's goal is to mobilize en vghers so he'll essentially expand the electorate, tnout a lot o first-time voters for this i didn't tell calle alexis here. sisantis folks are confident. president trump d this state twice in the last week. he was in the ft. myers area. onne way night i was there for that. he also was in pensacola a few nights as well up in thee. panhan so, you know, both sides have a lot riding on this and it's ally going to be a game of turnout and getting their most ardent supporters to head to the polls and encourage others to head to the polls on their behalf. >> gillum's rise here have any affect on the hotly contested senate race also going on in the state of florida? >> well, look, i think, you know,illum is running what i think is an obama-like campaign, right? he's trying to energize new voters and also bring disaffected democrats back into th

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joe friar, nbc news, mesa, arizona. >> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. kate snow is in tomorrow night in weddings that's becoming a highly viable thing. thank you for the privilege of your time and good night. thing. thank you for the privilege of your time and good night. . >> welcome to the us bank nbc sports report. >> three iconic venues. three tradition-rich programs. that is what stands between the irish and a chance for a championship. >> one play at a time. >> after nine games and nine wins over big names. >> touchdown, notre dame. >> with new heroes emerging almost every week,s now a sprint to the finish. >> 97 yards. >> tonight in south bend it is senior night. some players will take the famous walk for the final time and one last time they will come face

nbc news is not calling this one right now. let's head to georgia and a very contentious governor's race. republican brian kemp currently leading stacey abrams here, 59-43. 26% of the votes here in georgia. nbc news says this one is still too early to call. one of many that we will be watching. >> thank you very much, chris. here in california, the big race, the governor's race and the big question, who will lead the state next, gavin newsom or cox? strong ties goesreblican busine on fiscal responsibility. >> down in southern california, let's start with sam brock in l.a. where gavin newsom will soon arrive. sam? >> yeah, we are expecting his arrival, raj, in the next several hours, and watch party for gavin newsom, so instrictionably linked to san francisco. this is about symbolism, the biggest metro area in the state of california, people all over the golden state that he would be a governor for all. as you mentioned this race is drawing headlines, among other reasons, the fact that we are at a crossroads right now in califor

miguel almuer, nbc news. ou>> time could be runninfor julian assange whose group wikileaks is at the center of the russia investigation. th there is woru.s. indicted assange but as richard engel reports, that was supposed to be a secret. >> reporter: we now know tonight the justice departmentfias d undisclosed criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange, a fact accidently revealed in an embarrassing slipup when a prosecutor in virginia in an unrelated filing asked for documents to remain under seal quote until assange is arrested. assange has been hold up in the ecuador embassy. they are ordering him to improve hygiene and pay for meals. washington has been battling assange for nearly a decade over wikileaks release of classified documents and in 2016 walk ki -- wikileaks s published e-mail embarrassing to hillary clinton. i asked where he got the e-mails. ur three cybersy experts said the dnc e-mails were hacked by igence.n inte what do you say? >> well, there is no proof of that whatsoever. e

. >> 40 years after the massacre that killed 900 americans including beloved members of our nbc news family, congresswoman jackie speier tells andrea mitchell how she made it out alive. >>> as millions get set to fly, an effort to crackdown on sexual assault happening on planes. >> this is a crime. it's a felony and it shouldn't be treated as if it's lost luggage. >> what the feds are now doing to protect passengers. >>> a week before black friday, what most poem plan to buy, and it's not what you might think. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone. weather. an angry backlash tonight leaving officials in the northeast to explain why they were caught unprepared for a snowstorm last evening that turned streets and highways into parking lots. it left hundreds of thousands stuck in a nightmare commute for the ages. cars spinning off roads, bridges closed, mass transit snarled after officials failed to adjust in time to a changing forecast leaving key travel routes virtually impassible. all of this despite the fact the snow amounts were below

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in is is "nbc nightly news" with kate snow. >>> good eving. they are wildfires for california's history books in size and n sadly in the number of lives lost. days after the flames nbegan, more t a dozen bodies were found in cars and n northern california this weekend. people unable to escape in time. in tal, the california fires have now killed at least 25. 100 others rorted missing. more than 190,000 acres have burned. the fires so big the smoke from southern and northerca fornia is visible from space. the strongest wildfire, the so-called camp fire in the north, the mos destructive in california's history, home to a town called paradise which has been all but wiped off the map, and that's where nbc's steve patterson is tonight. steve, good evening. >> reporter: kate this, community now filled with grim scenes like this, cars gutted by walls of fire. in some cases they became tombs for residents and as we also know about this town no one is giving up on paradise. tonight at the front line of california's most destructive wildfire an aggressi

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the nbc news decision desk, where alraces will be called. nbc's cynthia mcfadden takes us behind the velvet rope, where our team projects the winners. >> reporter: i'm going to take you somewhere at 30 rock. without this i.d. i e an't get in, whve never been to go before. this is nbc's decision desk, the beating heart of our election coverage. hey, john. >> welcome to th decision desk. thank you for coming. >> explain to folks at home what >> we project elections across all of the races. e the main thingnt to do here is make sure that we're always right. >> reporter: he says being right matters more than being first. and it's complicated. c'it s nbls pex ck10 t0,ol000. >> we have mountains of data, hand we're running all of t data through literally thousands of models. >> reporter: how sure do you have to be, 90% good enough? >> absol enough.good our standards are 99.5%. >> if you're not 99.5% certain, the election doesn't get call on television? >> we use that standard across all of the races. itlw it's more so now than ever. >> reporter: i

nbc news capitol hill producer and off air reporter. communications director for house speaker paul ryan. enrique santos, our master of ceremonies tonight. and on my left, from abc, chair of the executive committee and next year's dinner chair. senator jeff flake of arizona and his wife cheryl flake. paul orgel from c-span, vice chair of the executive committee and the 2019 chair of the association. capitol hill correspondent for christian broadcasting network. capitol hill journalist sinclair broadcasting group. and director of the senate radio and television correspondents gallery. thank you all for being here tonight and for your support. each year we have olga and mike at the head table, buts the -- but it is also their staff that deserves to be recognized tonight. on the senate side, joining them. [applause] >> and the house staff joining olga. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for everything you do in advocating for our coverage on capitol hill. we really appreciate your hard work. also, thank you to bruce collins, c-span's vice pre

we were backed up by the full of nbc news. the news division president gave us a story and had our backs from the very beginning. the news leadership team were available around the clock and with guidance and encouragement. the producers at nbc nightly news and the today show and they devoted airtime. that worked with us day in and day out with her interviews, we could not have done any of this without you. thank you to msnbc president executiveg the producer of that segment you just saw outlining that process. [applause] >> we also want to give a person whonks to the helped with the herculean task to call every single congressional office if they have ever settled one. it couldn't pressure on these offices to release data about complaints that had been kept secret, literally for decades. and to the women who told their stories and trusted we would protect them, thank you for your courage. it will help the future generations of women. [applause] and also since she is here tonight, thank you to my mom, who has always been in my

well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. this has been an eventful day, 627 of the trump administration. tonight we begin with breaking news, the first of which from the "new york times." michael schmidt is standing by

. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 678 of the trump administration. and we have new reporting from the "wall street journal" tonight. the story outlines what may have led to the collapse of the plea agreement between the ex-trump campaign chairman paul manafort and robert mueller. manafort now stands accused of lying to the feds. he is facing years in a federal penitentiary. the "journal" reports manafort's alleged lies have to do with his personal business ties and his work pre-2016. "manafort allegedly made inaccurate statements about his communications with konstantin kilimnik said people familiar with the matter. mr. kilimnik, who mr. mueller charged earlier this year along with mr. manafort, was trying to influence the testimony of two witnesses against mr. manafort. this worked for mr. manafort's lobbying firm in ukraine. manafort also allegedly misrepresented information about payments he received related to his lobbying work." we may find out more about what's next for manafort at the end of this week when

new reporting from nbc news say kelly's time in the west wing is marred by controversy and disagreements with several people, including the first lady, melania trump, disagreements that reportedly escalated to the president. the timing of kelly's departure comes as more struggles engulf the white house. cnn is suing, saying they violated the constitutional rights of the network and correspondent jim acosta and trump's pick to temporarily leave the justice department is facing a lawsuit. maryland suing saying the president is bypassing the constitutional and statutory requirements for appointing someone to fill that office. all of that would be enough to mount for a tough day for the white house but there's more. special counsel mueller is indicting his investigation. let's start with kristen welker, who is here with me in studio. what a great. >> great to be here in person. >> what's bubbling to the top in the west wing? >> we spoke to seven officials, team of reporters, myself, carrie lee, ali jackson, and they all said there's an increasing sense in the administration chief of staff ke

. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 663 of this trump administration, and talk of a power struggle amid an imminent white house shakeup is getting louder and more frequent now. now we're hearing about a new force behind the push for personnel changes and that would be her. first lady melania trump. today her office publicly called for the firing of deputy national security adviser mira ricardel seen here at the white house as recently as this afternoon at an event. stephanie grisham, first lady's communications director issued this statement about ricardel. "it is the position of the office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house" grisham said. nbc news has detailed reporting tonight about this latest development and other rifts within the white house. "ricardel has gotten into several disputes with the east wing." also over the first lady's trip to africa in october. more on that later. tonight the white house told our colleague, hallie jackson, that ricardel has never

here's nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. >> reporter: after dr. mark polner suffered a heart attack nearly 20 years ago, preventing another became a priority. >> it's the key to life. i mean, if you don't have a good heart, you know, it limits your whole lifestyle. >> reporter: now, a new study presented at the american heart association's annual meeting and published in the new england journal of medicine is finding that a prescription drug made of pure fish oil could significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack. >> i think it's the biggest development in cardiovascular prevention since statins were introduced. >> reporter: researchers looked at more than 8,000 patients who had elevated levels of fat in the blood called triglycerides, and were taken a statin to lower cholesterol. they found those who also took the daily prescription fish oil drug called vascepa, lowered the risk of having a cardiovascular event by 25%. the risk of death dropped 20%. >> i think that this trial and its findings, hopefully, will be immediately practice-changing a

and the latest nbc news marist poll democrat, kyrsten narrow l mcsally. our own nbc's vaughn hillyard is watching that race closely in a morning. vaughn, good morning. it is going to be a close one today.ter: yeah, good morning, phillip. it is going to be a close one. it was interesting to hear leigh ann mention the notes across the country. the suburban areas, congressional districts, in a lot of the senate races, particularly here in arizona, it's going to be those types of suburban areas, those voters, those more moderate republicans, those independent voters that could switch over to democrat and particularly here in arizona, that would be democratic kyrsten sinema who is trying to play more bipartisan independent mavericky sort of candidate here over the last year on the campaign trail. i want to play you a little bit of sound. asct, arizona. these are the steps behind us of the county courthouse where republicans, including martha mcsally held her last campaign event last night. before martha mcsally spoke, though, cindy mccain was actually here on-

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nbc news is projecting ted cruz eon over beto o'rourke. now let's m to florida. boy, is it close in the senate rate down there. a take look at these numbers. rick scott and bill nelson neck and neck. rick scott with a lead of less than a percentage point. we're d talking aference of about 50,000 votes in that state. 99% of the vote is in and still ing counted. we'll keep an eye on this raceu for right now it is too close to call. back over to you. >> leon, thank you. >> doug, more about our weather. kind of rainy, nasty weather for an election day and still we had record turnout. >> absolutely. you saw the lines and everybody had the umbrellas out when it was still coming down this morningut still got out to the polls. as far as our weather is concerned, great ws. tomorrow's great. that's about it. tomorrow we have some really nice weather. right n beautiful night, current temperatures still very mild for this time of year, 56, degrinds out of the south miles an hour. tomorrow a lot different. we'll see a few clouds b a lot of sunshine, too. 52 degrees in the ty.

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sorts. >> nbc news obtained her talking points of the meeting. most of the document is criticism of the magnitsky act. there's only one mention of hillary clinton in passing in regarding donations to the dnc. >> translator: it was maybe, for me, a completely insignificant part. at no point was there ever compromising material about hillary clinton. not from my mouth, not from my documents. >> an attorney for the agalarovs tells nbc news that no one in the russian government asked them to arrange the meeting. >> jared kushner's attorney said his client went into the meeting not knowing what it was about, didn't participate, and left before it was over. >> jared was told about a meeting with his brother-in-law. no topic was mentioned. when jared got into the room the conversation was about russian adoption. he was probably in the room for 10 or 12 minutes. what happened before he came in and what happened afterwards, he wasn't there to see. >> when the meeting ended, goldstone said he was worried he had annoyed don junior. >> i said it was the most

harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> he is beautiful. well, music is set to dominate the box office this weekend. ♪ ♪ >> bohemian rhapsody star's queen frontman freddy mercury and fans of the nut cracker, disney's adaptation starring keira knightley, helen mirren and kinzler i floyd. tyler perry's nobody fool, also starring whoopi goldberg. that one looks really funny. >> yes, it does. thank you for watching "early today." i'm melissa rehberger. >> and i'm marlie hall. don't forget to follow us on instagram for throughout the morning. the news continues right here. have a great weekend. ad lib livn francisco and the autos. >>> xwoork to you. taking a live look outside in san francisco right there and you can see the transamerica pyramid. beautiful way to start your friday morning. thank you for starting your day with us on "today in the bay." i'm marcus washington. >> i'm laura garcia. let's get straight to the forecast with kari. >> it's another warm day. we start out with clear skies. sunshine at noon. as you make your way out the

nbc news has not yet made that call. unnamed white house staffers and other republican sources are telling anyone and everyone with a notebook that the election results and the mueller investigation have driven donald trump absolutely nuts. quotes to that affect have been appearing everywhere from the los angeles times to "the new york times" to "the washington post," politico. so, of course, the president had to begin his twitter day today by accusing someone else of going absolutely nuts. in his first attack tweet of the day the president said the inner workings of the mueller investigation are a total mess. they have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. on tuesday night at this hour we reported that the president and his lawyers were working on written answers to some questions from robert mueller. they've actually had these written questions for months, but they are cramming to do their homework at the last minute. and that means that we had every right to expect a crazed twitter attack on robert mueller

also with us, nbc news investigation reporter, tom winter. ron, let's start with you and the latest from the scene. >> hi, there, ali. good afternoon to you. this is the second mass shooting i've covered here in the past 12 days, 23 people have lost their lives in just unspeakable horror. and what happened here last night is just unbelievable. this community is reeling. as you mentioned, one of the safest cities in america, but was not safe last night in the 11:00 hour, when that gunman walked into that bar and just started shooting indiscriminately at people. we can tell you here at this hospital, they took in 11 patients, and remarkably, we always look for the bit of good news, the silver lining in these horrible stories is that 10 of the 11 people, some of whom came in with gunshot wounds and lacerations have been released. they were able to go home to their families. the 11th, unfortunately, is the ventura county sheriff's sergeant ron helus who lost his life last night. the first officer in there. and as we understand it from the sheriff

we have two days to go, and we have a brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll completed early this morning. among likely voters, democrats have a seven-point lead, 50-43, in their pick for congress. that's a slight improvement for the republicans compared to two weeks ago when the democrats led 50-41 nationally. like so much about this midterm election, how people vote reflects how they feel about president trump. among likely voters the president's job rating is basically unchanged from two weeks ago. it's 46% approve, 56% disapprove. in previous terms a 46% approval rating for a sitting president would mean his party was headed for a big defeat, that they would be throttled. but is it possible that president trump has changed the rules or that the geography of our political divide has changed the rules? by the way, even though election day is tuesday, some 33 million people have already voted. it's a record for the early vote for midterms. we could be on our way to our first ever midterm with 100 million voters, a mini presidential, if you will. we have correspondents across the

as you can see, nbc news still has this race too close to call. just 12,500 votes separate rick scott and bill nelson. scott's lead in this race has dwindled over the last week, and on thursday at noon, when the machine recount is over, if it's over by then, and if the margin is still this close or closer, there will be a hand recount of all the votes. i spoke with nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki earlier today. he told me earlier the hand recount is where things may get really interesting. >> in the issue in broward county is you had this extraordinary number of what they call undervotes, votes that were cast -- whoa -- votes that were cast for governor but were not cast for senate. there were about 26,000 ballots that left that senate contest blank. and the question is why in a county that bill nelson is getting 70% of the vote. in the nelson campaign says it's a machine issue. they were feeding them into machines. it was for some reason missing all the seats from the senate. well, if there is a manual recount. that will

let everybody get in. >> a new nbc news report looks into why some democrats are sending all sorts of signals they're running but won't say it out loud. we're back now with our panel, kate and alex. author of that piece we were talking about. alex, you talk about a list of two dozen presidential candidates and would-be trump challengers who have yet to utter the words i'm running. why are they hedging? >> once you utter those word, you officially become a candidate according to the federal election commission. once you officially become a candidate there are all kinds of legal and political ramifications. you have to start accounting for every dollar you raise and spend. you have to disclose all of that to the federal elections commission every month and politicallies the first quarter of fundraising support, you have to show a strong number to show strength. people are deliberate about when they launch these things, their presidential campaign to raise enough money as possible to show the world how strong and how much they're appreciated. they play the legal game, they say i'm lookin

joining me now, nbc news national of security courtney kubie. what's going on in north korea and the president said they're inaccurate. are they inaccurate? >> this is based on a report by a washington, d.c.-based think tank and no, they have satellites that seem to be military bases where north korea's still developing, working on actively pursuing some sort of missile technology. we don't know exactly what that means, of course. we don't know if that means they're continuing to build more icbms. the reality is they were already an icbm nation when they stopped testing in 2017. and the agreement that president trump and kim jong-un came to was specifically about nukes, their nuclear testing, not about their missiles. so while in fact they actually -- it seems all intelligence analysts, people we talk to say both of their programs are continuing -- >> the nuclear program as well? >> yes, but the reality is they didn't make an agreement on the missing testing. >> even though there was this big dog-and dog pony show in singapore and agreement and

the results of a major medical investigation on nbc news. details between the link of some breast implants and some forms of cancer. >> your day will be effected by gusty winds. there's already some wind restrictions on the bay bridg >>> if you took advantage of cyber monday sales you were not sho alone. pers were on track to spend $8 billion online shopping yesterday. that would me today the biggest online shopping day in the u. ever. many retailers have extending online savings thrgh the week. >> i don't even think i looked for anything. >> there was too mu. >> it was deleting e-mails. >> exactly. as big as cyber monday and black friday sales were, some people decided to go shopping, but not spend any money. >> policerrested four women accused of stealing $6,000 worth ofan merse from the mall on friday. police say two women ran out of stores with bags full of merchandise. a third wom hopped in a car driven by another woman. a brief chase ended on route 7. >> the suspect's vehicle tried wto make its between vehicles that were stopped for re

nevertheless, corsi now tells nbc news that he is rejecting this plea offer. but the fact that we've got these draft documents gives us all sorts of new information about what the special counsel apparently knows, including now we've got the documented fact from them that after russian military intelligence hacked the democrats during the election to try to help trump win, roger stone, who is associated with the trump campaign directed this guy jerome corsi to go to wikileaks and find out what they had stolen. this guy jerome corsi dispatched a guy he knew in london to go do that. julian assange lives in a embassy in london. about a week after corsi forwarded this request from stone that someone should go meet with julian assange, corsi reported back to roger stone that wikileaks had lots of information that was going to be damaging to hillary clinton, and oh, by the way, it will all start to come out in october, which it did. and the special counsel's got all that dead to rights. so, again, this is not a document that has been filed in court as far as we know

nbc news has new reporting on her around-the-clock security detail. u.s. marshal protection for the secretary of education will cost $19.8 million through september of 2019. she is the only cabinet secretary with 24/7 marshal protection. nbc news reporter heidi przybyla broke this story. she joins me with more. walk us through the this. when was this protection ordered and why? >> the protection was ordered three days after secretary devos was heckled at a washington, d.c. internor city middle school. it was shortly after she took office. the question remains, though, who ordered this. i have spend a couple months looking into the story and we don't have clear answers. the department of education tells us it was not directly from devos herself. jeff sessions' signature is on the memorandum however the department of justice seemed unaware of the situation when they were contacted by nbc news so the question is why? let me tell you how unprecedented this is. we could find no other example of not only current cabinet officials but previous cabinet officials.

good night from our nbc news headquarters in new york. nbc nes headquarters in new york >>> is john kelly on his way out? there's new reporting the president's chief of staff may be exiting the white house. >>> plus a stunning move from the first lady. milania trump calls for the firing off a top security aid. said he no longer deserves the honor of serving in the white house. >>> and the death toll rising as teams continue to search for survivors. ♪ >>> it good morning everyone.

ron mott, nbc news. >> is there a six-month old baby not sleeping through the night? a new study suggests this is okay. research published by the american academy of pediatric finds a wide variation when it comes to -- when kids start getting their eight hours of uninterrupted shut eye. and it doesn't mean the baby isn't developing normally. researchers found 57% of babies weren't sleeping eight hours straight at six months old, and 43% still weren't at 12 months and 100% still aren't. >> well, the department of health and human services has updated its physical activity guidelines and it looks like most americans aren't up to its standards. officials say adults should aim for 150 to 300 minutes of moderate exercise a week, while children should get at least an hour of moderate to vigorous activity per day. it can be in small doses, though. still, hhs reveals nearly 80% of u.s. adults and teens fall drastically short of this level activity. i must admit so do i. >> we've seen the studies over and over again, right? when it comes to it just get out there, be active on

fish, i'm with nbc news. can i talk to you about the -- >> not right now. >> -- the position of the -- >> i'm going to call you later, okay? >> i've been trying to get in touch with you for quite some time. i know you said you were going to call me back. >> secretary carson declined to be interviewed, but a spokesperson said he has launched a review of the inspection process, and quote, the secretary believes very deeply that families should not be forced to live in housing that's unsafe, and taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing it. >> i feel like i'm stuck, stagnated, can't get out. i don't have any control at all over any of this. >> nbc's stephanie gosk reporting there. hud says the number of failed properties has gone up because they've been doing tougher inspections. it doesn't explain why these landlords are allowed it keep these multimillion dollars contracts. let's met bring in donna edwards, white house reporter for bloomberg news who's covered with me the ins and outs of this administration. we're sor

we have an awesome team at nbc news, and so there were out there repping nbc. i will say this, though, watching -- we were, sort of, on set doing the analysis piece for nbc news for our stations throughout the day. there were moments -- that was tense and uncomfortable. that's not a hot take. that's like a very lukewarm take. >> seth: yes. >> you know, press conference it is not normal for the east room, necessary. but the attacks on the media and the way that he has these sort of moments of interactions, that actually does well for him among his supporters, and that's something to remember. that that actually plays for him. >> seth: how do you -- obviously, i see you a lot at press conferences with sarah huckabee sanders. how, as a reporter, do you prepare to ask questions to a person that doesn't always give an answer to the question that you asked? >> so, it's about thinking about -- we do not these extensive discussions with our team. there's a lot that goes into it. right? you don't just show up with your notebook at like 2:30 in the briefing room. especia

and obviously, as the chief white house correspondent for nbc news, it is good to see nbc news represented on that screen. i will say that i think one of the most important and notable outlets that has come out now, filing an amicus brief is fox news. why? well, obviously, steph, this is a news organization that has been traditionally extremely friendly to president trump. we know he watches it, because he talks about it, he tweets about it, sometimes live tweeting about it. two people who work for fox in the prime-time hours, which is different from the daytime news shows, came out and campaigned for donald trump during the midterms. so that fox news is coming out and filing this amicus brief, this friend of the court brief is significant, steph, in a symbolic way. it sends a message to the court and frankly to the white house, because you know that the white house, of course, is paying attention to this. >> what's the department of justice saying? because it appears that the justice department is defending the white house in this? >> reporter: so let me read you a statement here. the jus

i want to bring in my panel, "the new york times" washington correspondent charlie savage, nbc news national political reporter, josh leaderman and former assistant director of counter intelligence for the fbi and msnbc security analyst, frank figliuzzi. what kind of get what corsi be for the special counsel here? >> aaron, this is potential significant because what it appears mueller is doing, if reporting is accurate, is he's closing that loop, the collusion loop, i call it, between the russia connection, the campaign, and wikileaks, so what we've got so far is over 2 dozen russians indicted for meddling in the campaign. we've got julien assange reportedly secretly indicted. we don't know yet what for, but it very well could be for the hacking and release of the hacked e-mails at the dnc, and hillary clinton's e-mails, that last remaining trouble is trump, what did he know, when did he know it, about the release and the hack. that is coming to us in the form of corsi. corsi, if corsi flips, he rolls up on roger stone, if roger stone is indicted, we can hear the story of whether or not trum

nbc news national political reporter, carol lee. and nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. also joining us, anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. and jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the a.p. all right. what's going on? melania versus kelly. i think my money's on melania. >> well, it's stunning. i mean, we've spoken to seven different sources inside and outside the white house. >> seven? i know you've been reporting this story for a little while. >> seven. yaerk yeah. who say, look, first of all, john kelly has been clashing with a range of top officials including john bolton, the national security adviser, but he's also been clashing with the first lady's staff over travel and over staffing and one white house official describes it this way. "there have been instances where the east wing staff were not treated as equals to the male-dominated decisionmakers in chief kelly's office. promotions were denied then finally granted after months of requests." what a striking way to describe the ten

jeff rossen, nbc news, new york. >> wow, that's brilliant. i love the gibberish they put on. >> it has a sense of humor. >>> for halloween, count on celebrities to do it up big. beyonce paid homage to toni braxton. the kardashians dressed as victor dwra's secret models. ciara channeled her inner warrior. heidi klum never disappoints. she and her boyfriend dressed as shrek and fiona. real deal. >> that is so cool. she is unrecognizable. >> always, year after year. thanks for watching "early today." i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm marlie hall. don't forget to check us out on instagram for news updates throughout the morning. the news continues right here on nbc. you could save energy by living off the grid. completely. or... just set the washing machine to cold. do your thing. with energy upgrade california. side shows take over the south bay. several arrests on halloween night after drivers stop >>> right now at 4:30, sideshows take over the south bay. several arrests on halloween night after drivers stop traffic and perform dangerous stunts. >

sarah harmon, nbc news, london. >> wow. she has a message to send, for sure. i can't believe she's swimming in those cold waters. lauren rickets, talk about our cold weather. my goodness! >> it's chilly out there. ve got goose bumps right now, just thinking about how chilly shd must be. listen, it's going to be cold and wet when you walk outside today. but the good news is, a lot ofn this rai is ending. look at this right here. we're starting to dry out a pittle bit. i'm going to k a chance of a shower around. look at this, we may even get some ftsunshine, even i just said, probably not going to see nunshine out there today. i wouldn't bet it, but we've got the clouds. look at this view out here. plenty of clouds, plenty of fog. the rain should be all out of here. even any light shower activity by 4:00 or 5:00. 50 degrees right now, continue to stay in theow 40s, upper 50s today, turning windy as we continue throughout the tuternoon. very windy, day, wednesday, thursday, windchills over the next couple of days will be in the 20s and0s. more rain possible satur