Inspiring america. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening from our studios in los angeles tonight. We begin with breaking news. A short time ago a federal Appeals Court here in california ruled against the government refusing to reinstate President Trumps ban against travelers from seven predominantly muslim countries. A lower court just last week put a stay on the band ordering them to suspend the program. That ruling stands but the legal fight over all this is likely just beginning. Lets go right now to nbc justice correspondence Pete Williams with details. Youve been going over that written decision. What is it saying . This is it just 29 pages out tonight. Barely this hours after the court heard argument. The three judges conclude the executive order violates the Constitutional Rights of people who got visas and came here or traveled overseas and want to come back. Reporter the legal challenges have been rushing to the federal courts at remarkable speed launched in the hours after the executive order was signed january 27th. Despite todays order from the Nineth Circuit Court of appeals the courtroom wrangling the just beginning. Todays ruling comes with a lawsuit brought by washington and minnesota who claim the executive order harms their residents, stranding Foreign College students and faculty that need to travel. A dozen lawsuits have been filed in eight states. Many ask judges to keep the travel restrictions on hold. Tomorrow a federal judge hears arguments in one of those cases filed by the state of virginia asking to have the executive order permanently blocked. It a amou it amounts to ban on muslims. This is a principle that we all can never forget and we need to fight for. In tonights case the court did fot rule on the claim that the executive order discriminated on the basis of religion singling out muslims. The government is certain to go to the Supreme Court to turn this around so it can begin enforcing the travel restrictions. No comment tonight from the white house. Lester. Pete williams in washington. Thank you. Now to the fire storm surrounding k kel Kellyanne Conway who went on television and promoted ivanka trumps product enk encouraging viewers to buy them. Members of congress on both sides are asking for it to be looked into. We get the latest. Reporter from one of the president s top advisors, a high profile plug. Go buy iva flrnkas stuff. You can buy it online. Reporter those comments made from the white house not just a pitch but a potential violation of federal ethics law that bars Government Employees from using Public Office for private gain including the endorsement of any products. It comes less than 24 hours after President Trump attacked nordstrom in announcing it would no longer carry his daughters products. The company said it wasnt political but based on poor sales performance. Both raising red flags. I think the American People are fed up with the inability of the president and his staff to separate the interest of the trump Family Business from the interest of the united states. Reporter the independent office of government ethics flooded with calls and emails. The website crashing. The white house says senior staffers received an ethics briefing after being sworn in but today few details about possible consequences for conway. Shes been counselled and thats all were going to go with. Shes been counselled on that subject. Thats it. Reporter a source familiar with the discussion tells nbc news the White House Legal Team spoke to conway about where the line is adding she knew immediately she may have crossed it. Still criticism from congress, the white House Oversite Committee firing off a scathing bipartisan letter to the white house and ethics off demanding answers. Look, it was out of bounds. Theres no ifs ands or but buts about it. Were going to call it out and it needs to be dealt with. Reporter they could face additional training to firing but enforcement falls to the white house. President trump is still fully confident this Kellyanne Conway. Lester. Thank you. Theres a fa new war of words from the white house. Trump accusing a u. S. Senator of misinterpreting Neil Gorsuchs comments calling the president s attack on the judiciary demoralizing but multiple senators contradict the president saying the judge did make the comments about the president. Hallie jackson with details. Reporter supreme scrutiny for judge kneel gorsuch with the spotlight intensifying after several senators said he called Donald Trumps attitude disheartening and demoralizing. The president still standby his nomination . Absolutely. Reporter the president aiming his fire at the senator who first shared the private remarks. His comments were misrepresented. Reporter the white house now insist he was speaking generally and not specifically about the president s tweet lashing out at the quote, so called judge who put his controversial travel ban on hold. The judge was very clear that he was not commenting on any specific matter. Then he was asked about his general philosophy. You cant then take that and equate it back to the specific. Reporter thats not how republican senator ben sass recalls his comment. I asked him about the so called judge comment and this is the guy who kind of welled up with energy and said any attack on brothers or sisters of the robe is an attack on all judges. Reporter from a political perspective for gorsuch, running the gauntlet on capitol hill, its not a bad thing for his confirmation chances to be seen as independent. Thats why critics are calling the comments kor graphed and calcula calculated. They have not yet in three weeks been able to pull off a smooth operation when it comes to politics in washington, d. C. Its hard to believe that they could start now. Reporter todays avalanche of news nearly threatened to cover up a critical cabinet installment. The nation has a new top Law Enforcement official after senator Jeff Sessions was sworn in this morning as the attorney general. President trump saying a new era of justice has begun. Lester. A lot of news coming out of white house. Thank you. Now to the other big story tonight. The northeast in one of the busiest travel corridors in the country struggling in the face of the biggest snowstorm of the season. Just day after temperatures soared into the 60s. The fast moving storm packing powerful winds rolled in this morning dumping up to a foot of snow where blizzard warnings remain in effect in some parts and across the country a ripple impact of misery as thousands of flights in and out of region were cancelled. Blake mccoy leads off our coverage. Reporter a deadly blast of winter in the northeast. Nearly a dozen states slammed by a fast moving storm. Plows have trouble keeping up. Coming down, we cant keep up with it. Reporter which led to icy and treacherous conditions along roads and highways. The roads are really bad. White out conditions. Reporter even emergency crews responding to dozens of accidents had trouble getting around. Heavy e winds in virginia may be to blame for a truck veering off this bridge and into the Chesapeake Bay killing the driver. The weather complicating things to put out this house fire. A doorman killed while slipping and falling into a window while shoveling. Snow there falling at a rate of three inches per hour. New york governor stopping to help a stranded motorists. Across the region hundreds of Public Schools closed and more than 4,000 flights cancelled. Todays storm a far cry from yesterdays record high when philadelphia hit 66 degrees. Today, 48. 62 in new york city yesterday compared to 44 today. And 52 in boston. Todays high just 38 degrees. This will be the heaviest snow that weve gotten since 2015. Reporter typical snowstorms have low level clouds. The strengthening systems like this one have taller clouds that can develop a charge and sometimes result in thunder snow which many heard this morning. In massachusetts, winds and waves along the show. Good afternoon. Reporter as people brace for a cold and snowy evening as conditions likely to get worse. A blizzard warning remains in effect here in boston until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Already 10 inches of snow on the ground. School has been cancelled again tomorrow. Lester. Blake mccoy, thanks. Al roker has been tracking the storm all day. Hes in new york city central park tonight. How is it looking out there . Reporter it is just a sheet of ice out here. First time ever where weve had a record setting temperature and within 24 hours a sixinch snowfall in new york city. As you can see on the radar its pulling away but boston on the eastern side of massachusetts still in the middle of this. Right now as far as warnings, we have blizzard warnings and advisories. 12 Million People at risk. This evening it closes off quickly. We have one to three inches in boston. Maybe two to five more. The big story is going to be the temperatures. Look at this. Weve got teens and 20s. Wind chills in single digits. Whatever is on the ground is going to freeze solid and tomorrow morning its going to be brutally cold. Weve got one more day of this kind of weather and by the weekend things warm up. Lester. All right. Thank you. In arizona, an undocumented woman at the center of an immigration uproar has been deported after 21 years living in the u. S. , she was arrested yesterday and shipped back to mexico today. Now family she leaves behind is voicing their outrage and pointing their fingers at the president. We have details. Shame on you. Reporter emotions e ruprupting in front of a phoenix i. C. E. Office. Protesters trying to stop a van carrying 36yearold guadalupe who is being deported to mexico. This man over here that youre going to see, he wedged himself inside this wheel well. Reporter next to the window her two american born children struggling to stay strong for their mother. Her family says seven years ago she made up a Social Security unusual on a job application so she could work. She was charged with a felony and detained for six months before being released and told to check in with i. C. E. Regularly, which she does. On wednesdays check this she was taken into custody. It was the result of a 2013 deportation order and they could continue to focus on and removing those with felony convictions. The family believes its the result of trumps executive order. The mayor called this a travesty said i. C. E. Is spending its energy deporting a woman with two American Children who poses a threat to nobody. Today the family is speaking out. Im going to keep on fighting for my mom and the other families. Reporter behind them mothers with children. These women told us they are scared too but had to stand together. Nbc news, phoenix. Theres a lot more to tell you about as we continue this evening. Feds sounding the alarm over build your own gun kits. They arrive in the mail, totally untraceable. Anyone can buy one would you tell us a background check, and its all totally legal. Also passing the its the Little Things in life that make me smile. Spending the day with my niece. I dont use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. Before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. Even well fitting dentures let in food particles. Just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so youre more comfortable and confident while you eat. 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Reporter in a city caught in a spiral of violence, these young men are coming of age here. What steps have you taken to overcome these obstacles . Sacrifice. Reporter the becoming man program or bam throws a lifeline to male students before the games allure toe takes hold. Its really working. Cutting Violent Crime arrest by 50 and increasing High School Graduation rates by 19 for these kids. Its a safe place to come check in and to deal with everything thats happening out there. Reporter the weekly sessions part mentoring, part therapy are specifically designed to keep them in school. What has bam done for you . Bam has made me become more responsible, respectful and made me have more control of my actions and behavior. It made me become a better person. Stuff happens you cant really stop. You have to make sure the decision you make you own up to it. The most stressful thing about it is knowing the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. Are you becoming a man . Yes. 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