welcome back, everyone. i m alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. approaching 33 past the hour, here s what we re monitoring for you. it is game day in houston as the atlanta falcons get ready to take on the new england patriots. any moment anti-president trump protesters are expecteded to gather at a nearby park and march right there to nrg stadium and let s go to margaret radford. that s where she is in new york. good sunday morning to you. what s happening out there? reporter: happy sunday to you. we are standing in front of trump tower and you can see signs that say trump, we support you all of the way. i want to introduce you to philip from queens. why are you out here today? we re here to support trauchl
thanks for staying with us. kickoff in houston hours away. amid the excitement on the field there are political tensions with protests taking place near nrg stadium the last two days. fourth and final pulse question of the day, agree or disagree? a politically charged atmosphere will overshadow the super bowl. logon to puls pulse .msnbc.com/america. let s go to jacob rascon to houston inside and outside the excitement to come. a lot of questions circulating leading to the super bowl. is the political climate affecting the celebrations? what are you seeing? reporter: this is a lively protest that s been going on a couple of hours. they marched over here near the
was against that travel ban, people who were saying it is time to come together and say that we do not support president trump s policies. but again, at noon today we expect to see a very different type of rally, thomas. all right, morgan. again, that s happening at noon, coming up here in new york city. we will talk to you later today. thank you. in houston, that is the site of today s super bowl, everybody s getting ready for that. well, we ve got nearly 300 people marching to the heart of the game festivities in the downtown area. nbc s ron mott is there for us this morning. ron, explain what their purpose is, and do we expect more protests that may get close to the game? reporter: hey, thomas. good morning to you. yes, we do expect more protests today, probably early afternoon is the time frame a lot of these groups have given their people to gather in certain places. now, there is a pretty wide perimeter around nrg stadium, so we don t anticipate demonstrators will get very
we re just one day away from the biggest night in america, at least for television ratings. not debate night, not election night, we re talking about the super bowl. super bowl li. more than 100 million of you expected to watch the falcons take on the pats tomorrow. coy wire has the tough assignment of being in houston with a preview. hello, my friend. reporter: hi, miss poppy. a lot of celebrities like lady gaga and luke bryan. we found out vice president mike pence, the super bowl already tagged as a top tier national security event by the department of homeland security. federal officials planning for months to make sure houston s nrg stadium and surrounding
frump saving taxpayers millions and millions of dollars as the president accept as deal for lockheed martin 90 ff fighter jets. lowest cost saving taxpayers $728 million. congratulations. those are your headlines. i will see you real soon. brian: hurt. everyone watching the super bowl tomorrow at nrg stadium should feel extra safe because our air force pilots and norad will have the skies covered. how do we know that ainsley? ainsley: they have been preparing for this for a very long time for the game tomorrow. our own army veteran and fox news contributor pete hegseth he went to take part of the drills. you were in the army. are you always in the army? pete: always in the army. always happy to be on the ground. [laughter] steve: because two days ago you were up for about an hour and a half. yes.