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tonight a temporary truce in the growing
0:02 0:04 trade War a one-month pause for
0:04 0:07 automakers has markets Rising again but
0:07 0:10 warning signs remain when and why the
0:10 0:12 price of some Staples at the grocery
0:12 0:14 store are going up as president Trump
0:14 0:16 acknowledges there could be quote a
0:16 0:18 little disturbance the cross country
0:18 0:21 severe storms from white out conditions
0:21 0:23 to the crash shutting down an interstate
0:23 0:26 three dead from severe storms as at
0:26 0:28 least 13 tornado spin up across the
0:28 0:31 Plains and South my knees and I've never
0:31 0:34 prayed so hard in 15 seconds in my life
0:34 0:36 plus a potential Tha with Ukraine new
0:36 0:38 signs progress after the major reversal
0:38 0:40 the Trump Administration pausing the
0:40 0:42 sharing of intelligence and halting
0:42 0:44 shipments of weapons and equipment
0:44 0:47 already in route The Fallout after the
0:47 0:49 longest presidential address to Congress
0:49 0:52 in history the divisive message digging
0:52 0:55 into culture wars the president touting
0:55 0:57 progress on illegal immigration and the
0:57 1:00 congressman poised to be censured after
1:00 1:02 being removed our investigation into the
1:02 1:05 toxic smoke and Ash left behind on homes
1:05 1:08 after wildfires and the owners now
1:08 1:11 battling insurance this is NBC Nightly
1:11 1:13 News with Lester
1:13 1:16 Hol good evening and welcome tonight
1:16 1:19 turmoil over tariffs in a notable policy
1:19 1:21 walk back president Trump granting us
1:21 1:24 automakers a one-month reprieve on new
1:24 1:28 25% tariffs imposed on Mexico and Canada
1:28 1:30 the announcement sending stocks higher
1:30 1:31 in the hopes that the trade War ignited
1:31 1:34 this week will cool but no thaw in the
1:34 1:36 ice with Canadian Prime Minister Justin
1:36 1:38 Trudeau who spoke with the president
1:38 1:41 today in his address to Congress last
1:41 1:43 night president Trump mostly holding
1:43 1:45 firm on the new tariffs imposed on
1:45 1:47 America's three biggest trading partners
1:47 1:49 and he made it clear there are more to
1:49 1:52 come retailers now warning of higher
1:52 1:55 prices on everyday grocery items from
1:55 1:57 avocados to fish senior business
1:57 2:00 correspondent Christine Roman starts us
2:00 2:02 off tonight with the Deep Impact so many
2:02 2:04 are expecting just days from
2:04 2:08 now a new protectionist era in America
2:08 2:10 and the president acknowledging
2:10 2:11 Americans will feel it in their
2:11 2:13 pocketbook tariffs are about making
2:13 2:16 America Rich again and making America
2:16 2:17 great again and it's happening and it
2:17 2:20 will happen rather quickly there'll be a
2:20 2:21 little
2:21 2:24 disturbance but we're okay with that it
2:24 2:27 won't be much that disturbance according
2:27 2:29 to one estimate will cost the average
2:29 2:32 American house hold $ 122 to $1,300 more
2:32 2:34 a year for the goods they're buying now
2:34 2:36 the White House announcing one change to
2:36 2:38 its policy after the president spoke
2:38 2:41 today with the big three us automakers a
2:41 2:43 one-month pause on tariffs on Auto
2:43 2:45 Imports that come in through the US
2:45 2:48 Canada Mexico trade agreement at the
2:48 2:50 request of the companies associated with
2:50 2:52 usmca the president is giving them an
2:52 2:55 exemption for 1 month so they are not at
2:55 2:57 an economic
2:57 2:59 disadvantage markets recovering some of
2:59 3:01 their two-day losses on hopes more
3:01 3:03 concessions would follow but after a
3:03 3:05 phone call with Canada's prime minister
3:05 3:08 Justin Trudeau president Trump merely
3:08 3:10 posting that it ended in a somewhat
3:10 3:12 friendly manner he gave no further
3:12 3:13 indication of changes to come on the
3:13 3:16 tariffs he imposed this week 20% on
3:16 3:20 China and 25% on both Canada and
3:20 3:22 Mexico and one of the first places
3:22 3:25 Americans will feel it the grocery store
3:25 3:26 this bunch of avocados will last how
3:26 3:29 long maybe a week this right here is
3:29 3:31 probably going to last like couple days
3:31 3:32 maybe two to three days couple days
3:32 3:34 grocery chain Stu Leonards currently
3:34 3:37 sells its avocados most from Mexico two
3:37 3:40 for $5 the company says it has about a
3:40 3:42 week's Supply left and after that it
3:42 3:44 will only sell avocados individually at
3:44 3:47 $2.99 a piece a 20% increase the grocer
3:47 3:49 saying it will absorb 10 cents per
3:49 3:51 avocado all of this is imported from
3:51 3:54 Mexico and the prices are about to go up
3:54 3:57 yes they are why I'm buying it now
3:57 3:58 you're buying it now cuz the prices are
3:58 4:00 going up shoers is facing the new
4:00 4:02 economic reality as president Trump says
4:02 4:04 the trade war is just beginning with the
4:04 4:06 potential for new tariffs on virtually
4:06 4:09 every us trading partner starting April
4:09 4:12 2nd whatever they tariff us other
4:12 4:15 countries we will tariff them that's
4:15 4:18 reciprocal back and forth whatever they
4:18 4:19 tax
4:19 4:22 us we will tax them Christine these
4:22 4:25 retailers the grocy stores they see this
4:25 4:27 coming how are they making
4:27 4:29 adjustments so Stu Leonard is going to
4:29 4:31 to try to Source more vegetables from
4:31 4:33 Florida instead of Mexico and salmon
4:33 4:35 from Europe instead of Canada and many
4:35 4:37 companies have already tried to reduce
4:37 4:39 their dependence on goods from China but
4:39 4:41 the bottom line here is the reality is
4:41 4:44 that the higher costs any higher costs
4:44 4:45 eventually will make their way to
4:45 4:47 Shoppers Lester Christine Romans tonight
4:47 4:49 thank you we turn out of the deadly
4:49 4:51 storm spawning blizzards in the midwest
4:51 4:54 to thunderstorms and tornadoes across
4:54 4:57 the South NBC's Kathy Park joins us live
4:57 5:00 from Mississippi where an ef2 touch down
5:00 5:02 Kathy good
5:02 5:04 evening Lester good evening to you
5:04 5:06 residents tell us that the storm blew
5:06 5:08 through in a matter of seconds and in
5:08 5:09 that short amount of time you can see
5:09 5:11 the damage left behind this home
5:11 5:13 completely torn apart and part of this
5:13 5:16 home ended up right in the
5:16 5:19 pool tonight extreme weather striking
5:19 5:21 all corners of the
5:21 5:23 country a powerful line of storms
5:23 5:26 unleashing hurricane force winds in the
5:26 5:29 Carolinas this is insane and white out
5:29 5:30 conditions in the Midwest grounding
5:30 5:33 flights making a mess on the
5:33 5:35 roads even shutting down parts of the
5:35 5:37 interstate in
5:37 5:39 Nebraska the South recovering from
5:39 5:42 torrential downpours and ferocious flash
5:42 5:44 flooding the storms being blamed for at
5:44 5:46 least three deaths and several injuries
5:46 5:49 in Mississippi hard hit Wayne County was
5:49 5:51 still recovering from last month's ef3
5:51 5:53 tornado that damaged dozens of homes
5:53 5:56 today they're finding their way forward
5:56 5:58 after another likely tornado just kind
5:58 6:01 of came out of nowhere it was a really
6:01 6:04 scary 15 seconds supper turned into
6:04 6:06 survival mode for Lynn Smith and her
6:06 6:09 family I've never prayed so hard in 15
6:09 6:11 seconds in my life we walked from right
6:11 6:14 there to right here and just got on the
6:14 6:16 floor and put some pillows over our
6:16 6:20 heads and prayed for the best since
6:20 6:22 Monday at least 13 tornadoes have been
6:22 6:25 confirmed across five states and Peak
6:25 6:27 severe weather season is still weeks
6:27 6:30 away this is a preview of what's to come
6:30 6:32 um potentially just looking at the
6:32 6:34 overall um picture usually March April
6:34 6:37 is when it really starts to heat up as a
6:37 6:39 late winter storm now races East the
6:39 6:41 Mid-Atlantic in the bullseye for
6:41 6:43 damaging winds and
6:43 6:46 downpours Kathy Park NBC news we are
6:46 6:49 also covering the Fallout over president
6:49 6:51 Trump's address to Congress we've also
6:51 6:52 learned the Trump Administration is
6:52 6:54 pausing intelligence sharing with
6:54 6:57 Ukraine Gabe Gutierrez has late details
6:57 6:59 thank you very much tonight A potential
6:59 7:02 thaw in the face off between President
7:02 7:04 Trump and Ukraine's president zalinski
7:04 7:06 the White House revealing a pause in
7:06 7:08 intelligence sharing with a war torn
7:08 7:10 country to pressure Ukraine into peace
7:10 7:13 talks but indicating that pause could be
7:13 7:16 temporary I think we're going to see uh
7:16 7:18 uh movement in very short order
7:18 7:20 president zalinski now saying there's
7:20 7:22 forward momentum I'm also working
7:22 7:25 tirelessly to end the Savage conflict in
7:25 7:27 Ukraine in the longest presidential
7:27 7:29 address in modern history the president
7:29 7:32 t his administration's accomplishments
7:32 7:35 America is
7:35 7:38 back and leaning into the culture wars
7:38 7:42 there are only two genders male and
7:42 7:45 female also in the chamber Elon Musk but
7:45 7:47 today a legal blow to his efforts to
7:47 7:50 slash spending the Supreme Court
7:50 7:52 rejecting the administration's attempt
7:52 7:54 to freeze foreign aid funding at least
7:54 7:56 for now elsewhere this internal memo at
7:56 7:58 the Department of Veterans Affairs
7:58 8:01 saying up to 82,000 jobs added under the
8:01 8:04 Biden Administration could be cut we'll
8:04 8:06 be making major changes so get used to
8:06 8:08 it and president Trump announcing the
8:08 8:11 arrest of an Isis Terror suspect accused
8:11 8:13 of planning the Afghanistan bombing that
8:13 8:16 killed 13 US service members near the
8:16 8:17 beginning of the speech the president
8:17 8:19 heckled
8:19 8:22 repeatedly by Texas Democrat Al Green
8:22 8:24 who was then removed by the house
8:24 8:26 Speaker when he said that he had a
8:26 8:30 mandate it something it really
8:30 8:32 because he doesn't have a here other
8:32 8:34 Democrats held up signs of protests or
8:34 8:37 walked out Donald Trump delivered one of
8:37 8:40 the most
8:40 8:43 divisive speeches
8:43 8:46 made by a president in American history
8:46 8:48 last night was a very clarifying moment
8:48 8:51 for our country the Democrats exposed
8:51 8:53 themselves as the party of insanity and
8:53 8:56 hate some of the most poignant moments I
8:56 8:59 am asking our new Secret Service
8:59 9:02 director Sean Curran to officially make
9:02 9:09 you an agent of the United States Secret
9:09 9:11 Service the president celebrating
9:11 9:14 13-year-old brain cancer survivor DJ
9:14 9:16 Daniel who today visited the Oval Office
9:16 9:18 also honored the family of Leake and
9:18 9:20 Riley the Georgia nursing student killed
9:20 9:23 by an undocumented immigrant last year
9:23 9:25 the president highlighting the record
9:25 9:27 low number of illegal border crossings
9:27 9:29 since he took office the media and our
9:29 9:32 friends in the Democrat Party kept
9:32 9:35 saying we needed new legislation we must
9:35 9:37 have legislation to secure the Border
9:37 9:39 but it turned out that all we really
9:39 9:44 needed was a new
9:44 9:47 president a lot of moving pieces tonight
9:47 9:48 Gabe we've just learned now the
9:48 9:50 administration is negotiating directly
9:50 9:52 with Hamas what can you tell us yes
9:52 9:53 Lester the White House confirm those
9:53 9:56 direct talks with Hamas which usually
9:56 9:58 happen through intermediaries because
9:58 10:00 it's a terrorist organization late today
10:00 10:02 president Trump demanded Hamas release
10:02 10:05 its hostages now saying this was his
10:05 10:08 last warning L all right Gabe thanks the
10:08 10:10 impacts of the president's budget cuts
10:10 10:13 reach far beyond Washington Stephanie GS
10:13 10:15 reports some local officials are
10:15 10:17 concerned about losing funding for
10:17 10:18 programs that help people with
10:18 10:22 Necessities like food and
10:22 10:24 housing outside the Department of
10:24 10:26 Housing and Urban Development if we are
10:26 10:30 not here you will not be housed an alarm
10:30 10:31 was sounded this week over Doge's
10:31 10:34 Staffing Purge and looming budget cuts
10:34 10:36 1,000 miles away in Kansas City the
10:36 10:38 Bentley's and their son with special
10:38 10:41 needs do have housing finally we were in
10:41 10:43 hotels yeah and we don't have to talk
10:43 10:45 about the sketchiness of hotels we spend
10:45 10:47 many nights
10:47 10:51 crying praying did it feel helpless I
10:51 10:52 felt completely helpless I felt like I
10:52 10:55 failed we felt like we failed as parents
10:55 10:57 but then they were accepted into a
10:57 10:58 rental assistance program and now live
10:58 11:01 in a housing project almost entirely
11:01 11:04 funded by federal money from HUD it
11:04 11:08 literally shows that there are programs
11:08 11:11 to help people who just need just a
11:11 11:15 little leg up just need help they're
11:15 11:18 they're is is Hope Edwin Lis is the
11:18 11:20 director of the local Housing Authority
11:20 11:22 that found the Bentley's their house do
11:22 11:25 you think there are inefficiencies in
11:25 11:28 the system oh absolutely um just do you
11:28 11:30 want to fix them
11:30 11:31 they need to be fixed but he has
11:31 11:35 concerns about Doge someone's just you
11:35 11:37 know they're waving their hand over
11:37 11:39 these people have to go that's not
11:39 11:42 efficiency his office assists nearly
11:42 11:44 8,000 families with rent in Kansas City
11:44 11:48 there are 25,000 on the wait list to
11:48 11:50 operate his program Lis relies on
11:50 11:52 federal Partners two sources at HUD tell
11:52 11:54 NBC News the rental assistance
11:54 11:56 division's staff could be cut in half by
11:56 11:59 Doge which he worries might lead to
11:59 12:02 disruptions to their program here in a
12:02 12:03 statement HUD says it is taking
12:03 12:06 inventory of personnel and programs
12:06 12:07 adding that it serves our most
12:07 12:09 vulnerable and will continue to do so in
12:09 12:11 the most efficient and effective way
12:11 12:13 possible broadly speaking if the
12:13 12:16 families you work with don't get this
12:16 12:19 assistance wow what happens to them
12:19 12:21 we're going to have a problem if the
12:21 12:22 program's not in existance then you're
12:22 12:25 going to have more people under under uh
12:25 12:27 Bridges Lis and his team say they are
12:27 12:29 hopeful leaders in Washington won't let
12:29 12:31 that happen that their message will be
12:31 12:34 heard so are the Bentley's why should
12:34 12:36 the federal government fund a program
12:36 12:38 like this I would say because it's
12:38 12:42 needed please tell me you don't know one
12:42 12:45 person in your life
12:45 12:48 that didn't any help Stephanie gos NBC
12:48 12:51 news Kansas City Missouri a short break
12:51 12:53 here then in 60 seconds the hidden
12:53 12:55 crisis from the LA wildfires our
12:55 12:57 investigation into why smoke damage
12:57 12:59 might be more of a problem for some
12:59 13:02 residents trying to
13:02 13:05 recover it has been nearly 2 months
13:05 13:07 since fire scorched parts of Los Angeles
13:07 13:10 now growing frustration over insurance
13:10 13:12 claims for residents whose homes survive
13:12 13:15 the blaze but are unsafe to return to
13:15 13:18 NBC News is Liz CZ
13:18 13:20 reports we built the house we put every
13:20 13:23 dollar we had into it Ian Hard Castle
13:23 13:25 seems like one of the lucky ones I was
13:25 13:27 shocked that it's still here his Pacific
13:27 13:29 Palisades home survived the devastating
13:29 13:33 La fires this is the plaque the tree he
13:33 13:35 and his wife Veronica planted in memory
13:35 13:37 of their late baby girl Charlie
13:37 13:39 remarkably Still Standing uh we like to
13:39 13:40 think that she was kind of looking over
13:40 13:42 our house in the neighborhood and that's
13:42 13:43 the reason why it's still here but their
13:43 13:47 home far from habitable inside black ash
13:47 13:49 covering nearly every surface okay so
13:49 13:51 these hygienists have been testing for
13:51 13:54 fire emissions in the Air cinogen Gases
13:54 13:57 because it's not just about this visible
13:57 13:58 Ash that we see here around the home
13:58 14:00 it's it's also about the toxins that we
14:00 14:03 can't see toxic debris expert Don bolad
14:03 14:06 Johnson says anything porous is likely
14:06 14:08 tainted we're in the nursery what are
14:08 14:10 the concerns though so the concerns that
14:10 14:12 I have is we finding hydrogen cyanide
14:12 14:14 gas in here do you suggest someone move
14:14 14:16 back into this home as it is right now
14:16 14:17 no not not with what I'm seeing right
14:17 14:20 now no but the hard castles who are now
14:20 14:22 in a rental with their one-year-old and
14:22 14:24 another on the way say their insurance
14:24 14:26 the California fair plan doesn't appear
14:26 14:28 to see it that way they sent us a
14:28 14:29 document unprovoked
14:29 14:31 that basically pointed to language
14:31 14:33 saying that smoke damage will only be
14:33 14:36 covered if something is ruined and
14:36 14:39 destroyed visible to the eye what that
14:39 14:41 could mean hundreds of thousands and out
14:41 14:43 of pocket expenses replacing everything
14:43 14:45 from the drywall to Furniture even your
14:45 14:47 clothes but the insurance company kind
14:47 14:48 of treats you like the the Forgotten
14:48 14:51 stepchild they just say it looks okay
14:51 14:53 yeah it's just dirty dirty clean it
14:53 14:56 clean and the hard castles are not alone
14:56 14:58 thousands of other fire victims also
14:58 15:00 rely on the fair plan the state's insur
15:00 15:02 of Last Resort a plan that in 2022 was
15:02 15:03 found by the State's Department of
15:03 15:05 Insurance to have been illegally
15:05 15:07 underpaying or denying smoke damage
15:07 15:10 claims findings the fair plan disputes
15:10 15:11 attorney Dylan Schaffer has litigated
15:11 15:13 against the fair plan for years and
15:13 15:16 California FAIR Plan takes the position
15:16 15:18 that the family which includes very very
15:18 15:20 young children should move back into
15:20 15:22 this house and clean it themselves so
15:22 15:24 his that options are essentially accept
15:24 15:26 the loss of hundreds of thousands of
15:26 15:28 dollars or hire me and file a lawsuit
15:28 15:30 which nobody nobody wants to do or the
15:30 15:32 other option move back into a home that
15:32 15:35 could make you or your family sick will
15:35 15:37 make him sick Ian is hoping the test
15:37 15:39 results from inside his home will sway
15:39 15:41 his insurer but just this week he
15:41 15:42 received this initial estimate for
15:42 15:44 remediation roughly
15:44 15:47 $1,800 money he won't get because it's
15:47 15:48 within his deductible we don't want to
15:48 15:50 live in a house that poisons us the
15:50 15:52 California FAIR Plan declined a comment
15:52 15:54 on the hard Castle's case but in a
15:54 15:55 statement said the fair plan pays all
15:55 15:57 covered claims including smoke claims
15:57 15:59 consistent with California law and that
15:59 16:01 our policy and approach to direct
16:01 16:03 physical loss is consistent with other
16:03 16:05 insurers FAIR Plan is an outlier by a
16:05 16:07 very very big distance they believe that
16:07 16:10 these homes are not damaged State Farm
16:10 16:13 and Liberty Mutual and USAA they will
16:13 16:15 acknowledge that the homes are damaged
16:15 16:17 and then the question becomes what they
16:17 16:19 pay for now the hard Castle's left in
16:19 16:21 limbo questioning how they'll be able to
16:21 16:24 get back to the home that means so much
16:24 16:25 and we want to come back when it's safe
16:25 16:26 to come back yeah we don't know when
16:26 16:30 that will be Liz CS NBC News Los Angeles
16:30 16:31 there is more to tell you about tonight
16:31 16:33 still ahead woolly mammoths are extinct
16:33 16:36 but scientists brought a smaller version
16:36 16:37 of them
16:37 16:40 back all right watch closely we're back
16:40 16:42 with a possible scientific breakthrough
16:42 16:44 these extra furry rodents are called
16:44 16:47 woolly mice a Dallas company that works
16:47 16:50 on De Extinction genetically modified
16:50 16:52 them with hair to resemble the traits of
16:52 16:54 a woolly mammoth the company says it
16:54 16:56 plans to revive the actual woolly
16:56 16:59 mammoth to walk the earth again at as
16:59 17:02 soon as 2028 and that is Nightly News
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0:02 0:04 trade War a one-month pause for
0:04 0:07 automakers has markets Rising again but
0:07 0:10 warning signs remain when and why the
0:10 0:12 price of some Staples at the grocery
0:12 0:14 store are going up as president Trump
0:14 0:16 acknowledges there could be quote a
0:16 0:18 little disturbance the cross country
0:18 0:21 severe storms from white out conditions
0:21 0:23 to the crash shutting down an interstate
0:23 0:26 three dead from severe storms as at
0:26 0:28 least 13 tornado spin up across the
0:28 0:31 Plains and South my knees and I've never
0:31 0:34 prayed so hard in 15 seconds in my life
0:34 0:36 plus a potential Tha with Ukraine new
0:36 0:38 signs progress after the major reversal
0:38 0:40 the Trump Administration pausing the
0:40 0:42 sharing of intelligence and halting
0:42 0:44 shipments of weapons and equipment
0:44 0:47 already in route The Fallout after the
0:47 0:49 longest presidential address to Congress
0:49 0:52 in history the divisive message digging
0:52 0:55 into culture wars the president touting
0:55 0:57 progress on illegal immigration and the
0:57 1:00 congressman poised to be censured after
1:00 1:02 being removed our investigation into the
1:02 1:05 toxic smoke and Ash left behind on homes
1:05 1:08 after wildfires and the owners now
1:08 1:11 battling insurance this is NBC Nightly
1:11 1:13 News with Lester
1:13 1:16 Hol good evening and welcome tonight
1:16 1:19 turmoil over tariffs in a notable policy
1:19 1:21 walk back president Trump granting us
1:21 1:24 automakers a one-month reprieve on new
1:24 1:28 25% tariffs imposed on Mexico and Canada
1:28 1:30 the announcement sending stocks higher
1:30 1:31 in the hopes that the trade War ignited
1:31 1:34 this week will cool but no thaw in the
1:34 1:36 ice with Canadian Prime Minister Justin
1:36 1:38 Trudeau who spoke with the president
1:38 1:41 today in his address to Congress last
1:41 1:43 night president Trump mostly holding
1:43 1:45 firm on the new tariffs imposed on
1:45 1:47 America's three biggest trading partners
1:47 1:49 and he made it clear there are more to
1:49 1:52 come retailers now warning of higher
1:52 1:55 prices on everyday grocery items from
1:55 1:57 avocados to fish senior business
1:57 2:00 correspondent Christine Roman starts us
2:00 2:02 off tonight with the Deep Impact so many
2:02 2:04 are expecting just days from
2:04 2:08 now a new protectionist era in America
2:08 2:10 and the president acknowledging
2:10 2:11 Americans will feel it in their
2:11 2:13 pocketbook tariffs are about making
2:13 2:16 America Rich again and making America
2:16 2:17 great again and it's happening and it
2:17 2:20 will happen rather quickly there'll be a
2:20 2:21 little
2:21 2:24 disturbance but we're okay with that it
2:24 2:27 won't be much that disturbance according
2:27 2:29 to one estimate will cost the average
2:29 2:32 American house hold $ 122 to $1,300 more
2:32 2:34 a year for the goods they're buying now
2:34 2:36 the White House announcing one change to
2:36 2:38 its policy after the president spoke
2:38 2:41 today with the big three us automakers a
2:41 2:43 one-month pause on tariffs on Auto
2:43 2:45 Imports that come in through the US
2:45 2:48 Canada Mexico trade agreement at the
2:48 2:50 request of the companies associated with
2:50 2:52 usmca the president is giving them an
2:52 2:55 exemption for 1 month so they are not at
2:55 2:57 an economic
2:57 2:59 disadvantage markets recovering some of
2:59 3:01 their two-day losses on hopes more
3:01 3:03 concessions would follow but after a
3:03 3:05 phone call with Canada's prime minister
3:05 3:08 Justin Trudeau president Trump merely
3:08 3:10 posting that it ended in a somewhat
3:10 3:12 friendly manner he gave no further
3:12 3:13 indication of changes to come on the
3:13 3:16 tariffs he imposed this week 20% on
3:16 3:20 China and 25% on both Canada and
3:20 3:22 Mexico and one of the first places
3:22 3:25 Americans will feel it the grocery store
3:25 3:26 this bunch of avocados will last how
3:26 3:29 long maybe a week this right here is
3:29 3:31 probably going to last like couple days
3:31 3:32 maybe two to three days couple days
3:32 3:34 grocery chain Stu Leonards currently
3:34 3:37 sells its avocados most from Mexico two
3:37 3:40 for $5 the company says it has about a
3:40 3:42 week's Supply left and after that it
3:42 3:44 will only sell avocados individually at
3:44 3:47 $2.99 a piece a 20% increase the grocer
3:47 3:49 saying it will absorb 10 cents per
3:49 3:51 avocado all of this is imported from
3:51 3:54 Mexico and the prices are about to go up
3:54 3:57 yes they are why I'm buying it now
3:57 3:58 you're buying it now cuz the prices are
3:58 4:00 going up shoers is facing the new
4:00 4:02 economic reality as president Trump says
4:02 4:04 the trade war is just beginning with the
4:04 4:06 potential for new tariffs on virtually
4:06 4:09 every us trading partner starting April
4:09 4:12 2nd whatever they tariff us other
4:12 4:15 countries we will tariff them that's
4:15 4:18 reciprocal back and forth whatever they
4:18 4:19 tax
4:19 4:22 us we will tax them Christine these
4:22 4:25 retailers the grocy stores they see this
4:25 4:27 coming how are they making
4:27 4:29 adjustments so Stu Leonard is going to
4:29 4:31 to try to Source more vegetables from
4:31 4:33 Florida instead of Mexico and salmon
4:33 4:35 from Europe instead of Canada and many
4:35 4:37 companies have already tried to reduce
4:37 4:39 their dependence on goods from China but
4:39 4:41 the bottom line here is the reality is
4:41 4:44 that the higher costs any higher costs
4:44 4:45 eventually will make their way to
4:45 4:47 Shoppers Lester Christine Romans tonight
4:47 4:49 thank you we turn out of the deadly
4:49 4:51 storm spawning blizzards in the midwest
4:51 4:54 to thunderstorms and tornadoes across
4:54 4:57 the South NBC's Kathy Park joins us live
4:57 5:00 from Mississippi where an ef2 touch down
5:00 5:02 Kathy good
5:02 5:04 evening Lester good evening to you
5:04 5:06 residents tell us that the storm blew
5:06 5:08 through in a matter of seconds and in
5:08 5:09 that short amount of time you can see
5:09 5:11 the damage left behind this home
5:11 5:13 completely torn apart and part of this
5:13 5:16 home ended up right in the
5:16 5:19 pool tonight extreme weather striking
5:19 5:21 all corners of the
5:21 5:23 country a powerful line of storms
5:23 5:26 unleashing hurricane force winds in the
5:26 5:29 Carolinas this is insane and white out
5:29 5:30 conditions in the Midwest grounding
5:30 5:33 flights making a mess on the
5:33 5:35 roads even shutting down parts of the
5:35 5:37 interstate in
5:37 5:39 Nebraska the South recovering from
5:39 5:42 torrential downpours and ferocious flash
5:42 5:44 flooding the storms being blamed for at
5:44 5:46 least three deaths and several injuries
5:46 5:49 in Mississippi hard hit Wayne County was
5:49 5:51 still recovering from last month's ef3
5:51 5:53 tornado that damaged dozens of homes
5:53 5:56 today they're finding their way forward
5:56 5:58 after another likely tornado just kind
5:58 6:01 of came out of nowhere it was a really
6:01 6:04 scary 15 seconds supper turned into
6:04 6:06 survival mode for Lynn Smith and her
6:06 6:09 family I've never prayed so hard in 15
6:09 6:11 seconds in my life we walked from right
6:11 6:14 there to right here and just got on the
6:14 6:16 floor and put some pillows over our
6:16 6:20 heads and prayed for the best since
6:20 6:22 Monday at least 13 tornadoes have been
6:22 6:25 confirmed across five states and Peak
6:25 6:27 severe weather season is still weeks
6:27 6:30 away this is a preview of what's to come
6:30 6:32 um potentially just looking at the
6:32 6:34 overall um picture usually March April
6:34 6:37 is when it really starts to heat up as a
6:37 6:39 late winter storm now races East the
6:39 6:41 Mid-Atlantic in the bullseye for
6:41 6:43 damaging winds and
6:43 6:46 downpours Kathy Park NBC news we are
6:46 6:49 also covering the Fallout over president
6:49 6:51 Trump's address to Congress we've also
6:51 6:52 learned the Trump Administration is
6:52 6:54 pausing intelligence sharing with
6:54 6:57 Ukraine Gabe Gutierrez has late details
6:57 6:59 thank you very much tonight A potential
6:59 7:02 thaw in the face off between President
7:02 7:04 Trump and Ukraine's president zalinski
7:04 7:06 the White House revealing a pause in
7:06 7:08 intelligence sharing with a war torn
7:08 7:10 country to pressure Ukraine into peace
7:10 7:13 talks but indicating that pause could be
7:13 7:16 temporary I think we're going to see uh
7:16 7:18 uh movement in very short order
7:18 7:20 president zalinski now saying there's
7:20 7:22 forward momentum I'm also working
7:22 7:25 tirelessly to end the Savage conflict in
7:25 7:27 Ukraine in the longest presidential
7:27 7:29 address in modern history the president
7:29 7:32 t his administration's accomplishments
7:32 7:35 America is
7:35 7:38 back and leaning into the culture wars
7:38 7:42 there are only two genders male and
7:42 7:45 female also in the chamber Elon Musk but
7:45 7:47 today a legal blow to his efforts to
7:47 7:50 slash spending the Supreme Court
7:50 7:52 rejecting the administration's attempt
7:52 7:54 to freeze foreign aid funding at least
7:54 7:56 for now elsewhere this internal memo at
7:56 7:58 the Department of Veterans Affairs
7:58 8:01 saying up to 82,000 jobs added under the
8:01 8:04 Biden Administration could be cut we'll
8:04 8:06 be making major changes so get used to
8:06 8:08 it and president Trump announcing the
8:08 8:11 arrest of an Isis Terror suspect accused
8:11 8:13 of planning the Afghanistan bombing that
8:13 8:16 killed 13 US service members near the
8:16 8:17 beginning of the speech the president
8:17 8:19 heckled
8:19 8:22 repeatedly by Texas Democrat Al Green
8:22 8:24 who was then removed by the house
8:24 8:26 Speaker when he said that he had a
8:26 8:30 mandate it something it really
8:30 8:32 because he doesn't have a here other
8:32 8:34 Democrats held up signs of protests or
8:34 8:37 walked out Donald Trump delivered one of
8:37 8:40 the most
8:40 8:43 divisive speeches
8:43 8:46 made by a president in American history
8:46 8:48 last night was a very clarifying moment
8:48 8:51 for our country the Democrats exposed
8:51 8:53 themselves as the party of insanity and
8:53 8:56 hate some of the most poignant moments I
8:56 8:59 am asking our new Secret Service
8:59 9:02 director Sean Curran to officially make
9:02 9:09 you an agent of the United States Secret
9:09 9:11 Service the president celebrating
9:11 9:14 13-year-old brain cancer survivor DJ
9:14 9:16 Daniel who today visited the Oval Office
9:16 9:18 also honored the family of Leake and
9:18 9:20 Riley the Georgia nursing student killed
9:20 9:23 by an undocumented immigrant last year
9:23 9:25 the president highlighting the record
9:25 9:27 low number of illegal border crossings
9:27 9:29 since he took office the media and our
9:29 9:32 friends in the Democrat Party kept
9:32 9:35 saying we needed new legislation we must
9:35 9:37 have legislation to secure the Border
9:37 9:39 but it turned out that all we really
9:39 9:44 needed was a new
9:44 9:47 president a lot of moving pieces tonight
9:47 9:48 Gabe we've just learned now the
9:48 9:50 administration is negotiating directly
9:50 9:52 with Hamas what can you tell us yes
9:52 9:53 Lester the White House confirm those
9:53 9:56 direct talks with Hamas which usually
9:56 9:58 happen through intermediaries because
9:58 10:00 it's a terrorist organization late today
10:00 10:02 president Trump demanded Hamas release
10:02 10:05 its hostages now saying this was his
10:05 10:08 last warning L all right Gabe thanks the
10:08 10:10 impacts of the president's budget cuts
10:10 10:13 reach far beyond Washington Stephanie GS
10:13 10:15 reports some local officials are
10:15 10:17 concerned about losing funding for
10:17 10:18 programs that help people with
10:18 10:22 Necessities like food and
10:22 10:24 housing outside the Department of
10:24 10:26 Housing and Urban Development if we are
10:26 10:30 not here you will not be housed an alarm
10:30 10:31 was sounded this week over Doge's
10:31 10:34 Staffing Purge and looming budget cuts
10:34 10:36 1,000 miles away in Kansas City the
10:36 10:38 Bentley's and their son with special
10:38 10:41 needs do have housing finally we were in
10:41 10:43 hotels yeah and we don't have to talk
10:43 10:45 about the sketchiness of hotels we spend
10:45 10:47 many nights
10:47 10:51 crying praying did it feel helpless I
10:51 10:52 felt completely helpless I felt like I
10:52 10:55 failed we felt like we failed as parents
10:55 10:57 but then they were accepted into a
10:57 10:58 rental assistance program and now live
10:58 11:01 in a housing project almost entirely
11:01 11:04 funded by federal money from HUD it
11:04 11:08 literally shows that there are programs
11:08 11:11 to help people who just need just a
11:11 11:15 little leg up just need help they're
11:15 11:18 they're is is Hope Edwin Lis is the
11:18 11:20 director of the local Housing Authority
11:20 11:22 that found the Bentley's their house do
11:22 11:25 you think there are inefficiencies in
11:25 11:28 the system oh absolutely um just do you
11:28 11:30 want to fix them
11:30 11:31 they need to be fixed but he has
11:31 11:35 concerns about Doge someone's just you
11:35 11:37 know they're waving their hand over
11:37 11:39 these people have to go that's not
11:39 11:42 efficiency his office assists nearly
11:42 11:44 8,000 families with rent in Kansas City
11:44 11:48 there are 25,000 on the wait list to
11:48 11:50 operate his program Lis relies on
11:50 11:52 federal Partners two sources at HUD tell
11:52 11:54 NBC News the rental assistance
11:54 11:56 division's staff could be cut in half by
11:56 11:59 Doge which he worries might lead to
11:59 12:02 disruptions to their program here in a
12:02 12:03 statement HUD says it is taking
12:03 12:06 inventory of personnel and programs
12:06 12:07 adding that it serves our most
12:07 12:09 vulnerable and will continue to do so in
12:09 12:11 the most efficient and effective way
12:11 12:13 possible broadly speaking if the
12:13 12:16 families you work with don't get this
12:16 12:19 assistance wow what happens to them
12:19 12:21 we're going to have a problem if the
12:21 12:22 program's not in existance then you're
12:22 12:25 going to have more people under under uh
12:25 12:27 Bridges Lis and his team say they are
12:27 12:29 hopeful leaders in Washington won't let
12:29 12:31 that happen that their message will be
12:31 12:34 heard so are the Bentley's why should
12:34 12:36 the federal government fund a program
12:36 12:38 like this I would say because it's
12:38 12:42 needed please tell me you don't know one
12:42 12:45 person in your life
12:45 12:48 that didn't any help Stephanie gos NBC
12:48 12:51 news Kansas City Missouri a short break
12:51 12:53 here then in 60 seconds the hidden
12:53 12:55 crisis from the LA wildfires our
12:55 12:57 investigation into why smoke damage
12:57 12:59 might be more of a problem for some
12:59 13:02 residents trying to
13:02 13:05 recover it has been nearly 2 months
13:05 13:07 since fire scorched parts of Los Angeles
13:07 13:10 now growing frustration over insurance
13:10 13:12 claims for residents whose homes survive
13:12 13:15 the blaze but are unsafe to return to
13:15 13:18 NBC News is Liz CZ
13:18 13:20 reports we built the house we put every
13:20 13:23 dollar we had into it Ian Hard Castle
13:23 13:25 seems like one of the lucky ones I was
13:25 13:27 shocked that it's still here his Pacific
13:27 13:29 Palisades home survived the devastating
13:29 13:33 La fires this is the plaque the tree he
13:33 13:35 and his wife Veronica planted in memory
13:35 13:37 of their late baby girl Charlie
13:37 13:39 remarkably Still Standing uh we like to
13:39 13:40 think that she was kind of looking over
13:40 13:42 our house in the neighborhood and that's
13:42 13:43 the reason why it's still here but their
13:43 13:47 home far from habitable inside black ash
13:47 13:49 covering nearly every surface okay so
13:49 13:51 these hygienists have been testing for
13:51 13:54 fire emissions in the Air cinogen Gases
13:54 13:57 because it's not just about this visible
13:57 13:58 Ash that we see here around the home
13:58 14:00 it's it's also about the toxins that we
14:00 14:03 can't see toxic debris expert Don bolad
14:03 14:06 Johnson says anything porous is likely
14:06 14:08 tainted we're in the nursery what are
14:08 14:10 the concerns though so the concerns that
14:10 14:12 I have is we finding hydrogen cyanide
14:12 14:14 gas in here do you suggest someone move
14:14 14:16 back into this home as it is right now
14:16 14:17 no not not with what I'm seeing right
14:17 14:20 now no but the hard castles who are now
14:20 14:22 in a rental with their one-year-old and
14:22 14:24 another on the way say their insurance
14:24 14:26 the California fair plan doesn't appear
14:26 14:28 to see it that way they sent us a
14:28 14:29 document unprovoked
14:29 14:31 that basically pointed to language
14:31 14:33 saying that smoke damage will only be
14:33 14:36 covered if something is ruined and
14:36 14:39 destroyed visible to the eye what that
14:39 14:41 could mean hundreds of thousands and out
14:41 14:43 of pocket expenses replacing everything
14:43 14:45 from the drywall to Furniture even your
14:45 14:47 clothes but the insurance company kind
14:47 14:48 of treats you like the the Forgotten
14:48 14:51 stepchild they just say it looks okay
14:51 14:53 yeah it's just dirty dirty clean it
14:53 14:56 clean and the hard castles are not alone
14:56 14:58 thousands of other fire victims also
14:58 15:00 rely on the fair plan the state's insur
15:00 15:02 of Last Resort a plan that in 2022 was
15:02 15:03 found by the State's Department of
15:03 15:05 Insurance to have been illegally
15:05 15:07 underpaying or denying smoke damage
15:07 15:10 claims findings the fair plan disputes
15:10 15:11 attorney Dylan Schaffer has litigated
15:11 15:13 against the fair plan for years and
15:13 15:16 California FAIR Plan takes the position
15:16 15:18 that the family which includes very very
15:18 15:20 young children should move back into
15:20 15:22 this house and clean it themselves so
15:22 15:24 his that options are essentially accept
15:24 15:26 the loss of hundreds of thousands of
15:26 15:28 dollars or hire me and file a lawsuit
15:28 15:30 which nobody nobody wants to do or the
15:30 15:32 other option move back into a home that
15:32 15:35 could make you or your family sick will
15:35 15:37 make him sick Ian is hoping the test
15:37 15:39 results from inside his home will sway
15:39 15:41 his insurer but just this week he
15:41 15:42 received this initial estimate for
15:42 15:44 remediation roughly
15:44 15:47 $1,800 money he won't get because it's
15:47 15:48 within his deductible we don't want to
15:48 15:50 live in a house that poisons us the
15:50 15:52 California FAIR Plan declined a comment
15:52 15:54 on the hard Castle's case but in a
15:54 15:55 statement said the fair plan pays all
15:55 15:57 covered claims including smoke claims
15:57 15:59 consistent with California law and that
15:59 16:01 our policy and approach to direct
16:01 16:03 physical loss is consistent with other
16:03 16:05 insurers FAIR Plan is an outlier by a
16:05 16:07 very very big distance they believe that
16:07 16:10 these homes are not damaged State Farm
16:10 16:13 and Liberty Mutual and USAA they will
16:13 16:15 acknowledge that the homes are damaged
16:15 16:17 and then the question becomes what they
16:17 16:19 pay for now the hard Castle's left in
16:19 16:21 limbo questioning how they'll be able to
16:21 16:24 get back to the home that means so much
16:24 16:25 and we want to come back when it's safe
16:25 16:26 to come back yeah we don't know when
16:26 16:30 that will be Liz CS NBC News Los Angeles
16:30 16:31 there is more to tell you about tonight
16:31 16:33 still ahead woolly mammoths are extinct
16:33 16:36 but scientists brought a smaller version
16:36 16:37 of them
16:37 16:40 back all right watch closely we're back
16:40 16:42 with a possible scientific breakthrough
16:42 16:44 these extra furry rodents are called
16:44 16:47 woolly mice a Dallas company that works
16:47 16:50 on De Extinction genetically modified
16:50 16:52 them with hair to resemble the traits of
16:52 16:54 a woolly mammoth the company says it
16:54 16:56 plans to revive the actual woolly
16:56 16:59 mammoth to walk the earth again at as
16:59 17:02 soon as 2028 and that is Nightly News
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