Busy. The shot of the weekend has thrilled fans and went viral to thousands. Mother natures way of jamming up the east coast rivers. Early today starts right now. Good monday morning. Im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. It was a night of powerful performance ands statements at the 60th annual Grammy Awards in new york city with politics taking center stage. Beginning with performers and nominees sporting white roses in support of the times up movement on the red carpet before the show. And it continued with powerful performances like fivetime winner of the night Kendrick Lamarr who opened the show performing a fiery medley of songs from his current album tackling racism in the united states. To me too moment of the night. Becoming one of the most talked about moments as she performed her current single praying joined by cindy lopper, camila ka bello, julia day, and more with the resistance revival chorus. A cuban immigrant spoke about dreamers. Tonight in this room full of musics dreamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers, for dreamers, chasing the american dream. She went on to introduce u2 who performed an ode to immigrants on the hudson river with the statue of liberty as a backdrop. Politics brought some laughs when james core don held auditions to best seller fire and fury. Contenders like john legend, cardi b. And even former president ial candidate hillary clinton. The show took place in new york for the first time in 15 years. Fellow performances country artists to broadway legends and louise and danny brought down the house to their hit, de despocito. Snagging best new artist, and Carrie Fisher won her first grammy for best spoken word album, her memoir, the princess diaress. Star cohost mark ham he will celebrated the win on social media. The big hit was bruno mars surprising some when he took home six awards for album, record and song of the year along with best r b performance, r b song and r b album. As it stands this morning, donald trump is just hours away from delivering his first state of the union address. The speech centers on one central theme, building a safe, strong and proud america. There are sentiments the president echoed last night tweeting about the economic gains made under his presidency, saying the country is on, quote, the right track. While this wont be his first joint address before congress, it will be the mostwatched political event of the year and it will serve as the chance for mr. Trump to hit the reset button and forge ahead into the second year of his presidency. Or remain dead locked with democrats on a litany of issues. Nbcs Edward Lawrence has more on what we can expect. Edward, good morning. Reporter good morning, frances. The first big question he is will the president stick to the script. He is a different speaker on the teleprompter off the teleprompter. He is trying to use the speech to push past the russia probe touting the success of the economy, saying the unemployment is near record low. Youll hear this over and over again for the next two days. Were doing incredibly on an economic basis, financial, stock market just hit another new high. Weve had 84 since the election, 84 new market highs. What happened is we passed a tax bill, not easy to get. Many people have tried to do it, they werent able to do it. And this is the biggest one weve ever passed, bigger than the reagan bill and its had a bigger impact than anybody even thought. Reporter and the student will talk about the economy. Obviously the president will also take the time to try and push forward for a bipartisan solution. Now, these are some of the other themes here that the white house has said will be in the speech. Obviously economy, infrastructure, immigration, trade, and national security. The president believes that immigration and infrastructure are two areas where democrats can work with republicans and his administration to come up with a deal. Frances . All right, edward, thank you. And while the president is sure to tout wall streets success in recent economic gains, its the russia investigation that could overshadow the evening with the prospect of mr. Trumps testimony and Robert Muellers propofol expected to hang over the evening. As the administration fights back reports that the president sought to fire mr. Mueller in june. Im not aware the president ever intimating he ever wanted to fire robert mueller. Lets keep in mind a couple things. Robert mueller is still the special counsel. Don mcgahn is still head of white House Counsel office. Taxpayers have spent millions and millions of dollars on a investigation that has not proven any collusion thus far with russia. It all comes as some lawmakers urge Republican Leadership to take up legislation protecting mueller from being fired. But there seems to be some disagreement within the gop about whether thats even necessary. Ive got legislation protecting mr. Mueller and ill be glad to pass it tomorrow. It would certainly wouldnt hurt to put that extra safeguard in place given the latest stories. I dont think there is ray need for legislation right now to protect mueller. If there is an issue that arise, well take it up at that time. But right now there is not an issue. So why create one when there isnt a place for it . The white house made sure to point out that mueller remains at his job as special counsel and has no intention of removing him. Police have arrested a man suspected of pointing a laser at a california Highway Patrol helicopter in oakland. The helicopter was responding to a report of multiple illegal side shows in the city early sunday. Authorities say up to 200 vehicles were involved in the side show along with reports of fireworks and gunshots. The chopper monitored from a safe distance but police say it was struck by green laser light multiple times. The crew was able to find the suspect and ground units later arrested him. The 23yearold from pittsburgh faces 11,000 fine for each strike if convicted. The growls are growing as Delta Airlines tightens the leash on service and support animals allowed on flights. Citing an 84 increase in reported animal incidents like urinating, biting and attacks. Delta announced that passengers hoping to fly with animals must provide proof of the animals training and vaccinations 48 hours before traveling. That starts on march 1st. Tiger woods just capped off his first major tournament of the year and says he is very pleased with his performance. Woods finished final round of the Farmers Insurance open sunday at an even 72 par, tying for 23rd Place Overall in the tournament. It is his first pga competition since having spinal fusion last april. Erratic performance, he said he was very pleased fighting hard for every hole. One High School Freshman made a name for himself in illinois. They were taking on maine south friday night when a maine player misses a freethrow. He grabs the rebound and launches the ball full court and that miraculous shot went in. The crowd goes crazy, everybody storms the floor. They won by one point, 4544. Video of this remarkable buzzer beater is now going viral with over 111,000 views on youtube. What a shot. Temperatures rise, so do concerns about ice jamb flooding in pennsylvania. The susquehanna a river that runs through Lancaster County has frozen over and the National Weather service has issued a flood advisory as rising water levels threaten to flood neighboring towns. The flood alert was labeled as a level 4 on a five level system. Rescue crews are standing by in case residents are forced to evacuate. Lets bring in meteorologist bill karins. Good morning, bill. Were still dealing with a lot of rain exiting the southeast. There is a little snow in the area of the great lakes. The next 24 to 48 hours, a snow will clip areas from boston to the cape possibility of an inch or two. As our clipper comes through the great lakes, areas from Northern Ohio through pennsylvania, especially near lake erie and ontario getty little enhancement there. Not a big ordeal but a change from the warm weather we have been having. A cold outbreak has begun in the northern plains. Well see the snow showers monday. Wednesday quiet weather across the country. By the end of the week well watch rain and snow poon. May linger a little bit longer for coastal areas of virginia. And as we start getting closer to super bowl, the temperature looks frigid. Its indoor game. For the fans activities, too. Leading up to that. Bill, thanks. 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Something you want to watch out for when it it comes to health, it looks like the flu, acts like the flu, but excuse me, might not actually be the flu. There is another virus out there that could be adding to the seasonal misery. The virus is called adeno virus and it can often look like the common cold or flu with severe symptoms like fever, headache, body ache and sometimes cough and breathing problems. Its so risky the u. S. Military vaccinates recruits against two major strains but most clinics dont test for it unless people are hospitalized with severe illness that isnt helped by immediate treatment. A shaky community in Small Town Community four people were gunned down at a car wash. Gunman Timothy Smith killed the victims in two separate car shootings. A 5th person survived by hiding in the back of one of those vehicles. Police say smith also suffered a gunshot wound to the head possibly selfinflicted. Right now he is on life support but he is not expected to survive. 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Chances are you have gotten rid of your christmas tree. If you ever thought about where it goes after you put it out on the curb . For many its just the landfill. But nbcs Kerry Sanders discovered a place where they found a creative way to give dead Christmas Trees new life while helping to rescue the coast line. Reporter in louisiana, a race against time. The tide comes up and it would flood much easier now. Those things scare me. Reporter the coast slipping away with erosion claiming new ground every minute. For homeowners, growing concern. Originally this house was probably at this elevation. Reporter but in a slow motion crisis, Christmas Trees here have come to the rescue. Giving a second life to holiday treasures that in the rest of the country are trashed each year. This is like a mountain of trees. Its a mountain of trees. Reporter for the last three decades, every january thousands of discarded Christmas Trees are dropped or ferried off the coast, all placed inside socalled cribs. Were saving Coastal Louisiana right now but putting trees out on the marsh. Reporter the trees create a line of defense, a break against waves and below the surface branches capture sediment building something akin to an under water protective sand bar. 100 years ago, right where im standing, this was land. Ranchers actually had cattle pinned here. Erosion began over the decades turning this into a marsh land filled with birds and foliage. Now as you can see its become a lake. The wetlands are still disappearing at an alarming rate. A football field gone every hour. A snapshot of the success, goose bayou for the last 20 years with Christmas Trees, only three acres lost, where there were none 23 acres gone. Statewide, 25 miles of coast disappear every year. If a foreign country came here and occupied 25 square miles of land anywhere in the united states, the country would declare war on that country. Reporter the louisiana coast line now protected, at least here under the christmas tree. Kerry sanders, nbc news, louisiana. Incredible ingenuity there. Yes. I thought bring your tree to get it cut and chipped. Come pofted, too, was the biggest thing. Even better. You walk by the street and still see the dead Christmas Trees. I wonder if there is Something Better they can do with them. Here they are. If they can do it in louisiana, who knows what other places it could be use. May just catch on. Hope so. Thanks for watching. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Your news continues on nbc and our nbc stations. Have a great monday. Breaking net 4 30. A deadly accident blocking several lanes of highway 101 this morning in redwood city. News right now atv÷yf 4 30 on y monday morning. A deadly accident blocking several lanes of highway 101 this morning in redwood city. We have Team Coverage on the impact this is already having on the monday morning commute. Good morning. Thanks for joining us, im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We want to get right to mike inouye for that update on that breaking news. Mike . We have right here video of northbound 101 not too long ago, we see the impact and the debris left over. That was a motorcycle, i believe, the one involved in a deadly crash that closed 101 northbound for a period of time. Investigation continues there. You see some of that here. We will show you the map, what the effect is. Whipple avenue a bit to the north of the crash here now has two lanes open,