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"nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with jose diaz-balart. good evening. it happened again, this time to president trump. late last night a man scaled the fence that surrounds the white house complex. the secret service intercepted him before he got into the building where the president was spending the night. according to court documents, the suspect was carrying two cans of mace in addition to a letter to the president. nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house with more tonight. >> reporter: 20 minutes before midnight friday, a frigid 33 degrees outside the white house and president trump was home. when officials say a backpack-wearing intruder scaled a security fence between the white house and the treasury building on pennsylvania avenue. but the suspect was not stopped until he reached the south grounds of the white house. according to the police report, the suspect identified as 26-year-old jonathan tran told a secret service officer, i am a friend of the president, i have an appointment. officials say he had no criminal history and was arrested without incident. today, at a working lunch with cabinet members, president trump talked about the incident as reporters were ushered out. >> secret service did a fantastic job. it was a troubled person. very sad. >> reporter: in january at a white house reception, the president praised then secret service director joe clancy who retired last week. >> what a job. from day one, i have felt safe. >> reporter: experts say the danger is real and persistent. >> it's going to happen again. this is going to happen again and the president right now is not safe in the white house. >> reporter: back in 2014, fence jumper omar gonzalez armed with a knife overpowered officers and ran around inside the white house. since then, temporary fencing keeps passersby away from the main fence. after years of debate, last month the federal agency approved plans for a taller, harder to climb fence that will top 13 feet. >> it's in the interest of the country for our executive to be protected. we need to fix this. >> reporter: and court documents tonight also reveal that the intruder was stopped close to the southport ako entrance. he did not get inside the white house. they also say the man had a book written by donald trump and a letter he wrote to the president in that he made claims about russian hacking. the man was also described as schizophrenic. joez. the firing of one of the prominent u.s. attorneys. >> that's right jose. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, manhattan, one of the most profile attorneys in the country says he was forced out today. this is part of a sweeping move to remove 46 u.s. attorneys appointed by the obama administration, political appointees. that in and of itself is not unusual. but the abruptness makes this stand out. another had been told by the transition the president would likely keep him on. adding to the surprise with this. at this point, he says he was fired. tonight officials say he is no longer a u.s. attorney. jose. >> kelly o'donnell thank you. the vice president and others were pushing the republican health care plan today. nbc's steve patterson from california tonight on the hard sell. >> reporter: 2700 miles from washing. >> hold on. >> congressman darrell issa faces angry constituents. >> you deserve good health care. >> he's just one of the republican leaders attempting to ease fears about changes that could affect millions. >> we want him to please protect the aca. >> vice president mike pence took the stage in louisville, kentucky, today to make a pitch pumping up the administration's plan by putting down obamacare. >> obamacare has failed the people of kentucky, it's failed the people of america and obamacare must go. >> pence is here to win over a state where the number of uninsured fell from 20% to just 7.5% in 2015 under obamacare. >> we need every republican in congress and we're counting on kentucky. >> it's a balancing act. pence as salesman in chief is also having to reassure conservative critics who say the plan is too similar to obamacare. >> there's enough conservatives that they can't pass obamacare-lite. what's going on is a charm care offensive. >> the gop wants to end additional medicaid funding before 2020 and repeal the mandate that people must have health coverage. the brookings institution estimates 15 million americans could lose coverage over the next decade. a back and forth battle now moving from capitol hill to main streets across the nation. steve patterson, nbc news. and for more on the republican health plan, tom price, the secretary of health and human services will join chuck todd tomorrow morning on "meet the press." we're ten days from spring but there's a lot of winter to go. bismarck, noert dakota were hit by frigid cold and snow today. millions are paying close attention on the east coast tonight. more from nbc meteorologist indris peter sons. >> millions could be effected. now we have blizzard watches issued. affecting portions of long island and rhode island and massachusetts. a major storm headed our way in just a few days. keep in mind, there are several models. this is still days away. uncertainty with how much snow we are expecting. the american model bring heavy amounts of snow through philadelphia. but now take a look at the european model. it's pushed a little farther off the coastline bringing the heaviest amounts of snow in through new england. we'll be monitoring this closely but easy enough to say there's potential for a foot of snow possible. >> indris petersons. a story in harrisburg, pennsylvania. a house fire was sparked when a recharging hoverboard exploded. a 3-year-old girl died of her injuries, two others in critical conditions. a firefighter was also critically injured when his vehicle was hit at an intersection. the issue of human trafficking a man in georgia charged withholding eight young women in a suburb of atlanta. this came to light after one of the women was able to call police. nbc's morgan radford with the details. >> reporter: a chilling 911 call. >> i'm in a very bad situation and i need to get out. >> the voice altered here to protect the woman. a 20-year-old who tells the operator she's being held captive and she isn't alone. >> wait. did you say you're in a house full of girls? >> uh-huh. >> and somebody threatened to kill you if you leave? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: when police arrived, they found eight women, ages 19 to 22, held inside this rented million dollar home just outside of atlanta. they also found this man. 33-year-old kendrick roberts charged friday with false i am prisonment and the trafficking of persons for labor. >> we believe he's been making promises to some of these ladies for modeling careers, financial assistance. >> reporter: here he is on instagram counting money, holding a gun and showing off tattoos. the 911 caller says he required the women to get. all while allegedly forcing them to work at strip clubs and threatening to hurt them if they left. the 91 caller told police she met the suspect on a website for mutually beneficial relationships. oftentimes sexual. >> you can raise your children up in the right setting, but they get in the hands with the wrong guy at the right time and they can be lured into this lifestyle. >> more than 20 million people around the world are victims of human trafficking. 55% women and girls. for one woman in atlanta, one phone call might have saved her life. >> i'm scared to leave. >> morgan, what happened to these young ladies. >> all eight of the women found inside have been brought to families or placed in safe houses. meanwhile, that man, the suspect, he's being held without bond with another hearing planned for later this month and he could even face federal charges. morgan radford, thank you very much. as president trump cracks down on illegal immigration, the future of thousand of asylum seekers hangs in the balance. a closer look at a court system that is drastically inconsistent. gabe gutierrez has a story of a syrian immigrant who is now in limbo. >> this is the moment this man broke down. >> how hard is it to look at that picture? >> too much. >> she's beautiful. >> the instant he saw a picture of his newborn niece for the first time. she and his sister live in california. but for the last nine months he has been here at the steward immigration detention center in georgia, the largest in the u.s. >> i don't know my future. i don't know. >> after being drafted into the syrian army, he and several of his friends fled to the u.s. paying a smuggler to sneak them into mexico. they turned themselves into immigration officers at the u.s. border in california. his friends were sent to detention centers in california but have since been released while a judge considers their asylum. one of them who asked us not to reveal his face showed us his ankle monitor. by chance, he was sent to georgia and is still locked up. >> i don't see the cases as different. i think they share the same basis for asylum. >> the system has dramatic disparities. in 2015, the immigration court at stewart granted asylum in 5% of cases. in new york city, 84% of the time it was grapted. in san francisco, 74%. nationwide, the average was 48%. >> the primary driver of asylum grant rates is whether or not someone has an attorney to help them represent. >> a spokesperson that oversooes immigration courts wouldn't comment on individual cases but says judges undergo training to assure unbiased decision-making. she said that immigration courts like stewart typically had lower grant rates because more of the detainees have criminal records. but his attorney says he has no criminal history and would be killed if he returned to syria. >> i would do nothing wrong. >> ee remains on lockdown in limbo and alone. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, lump kin, georgia. good economic news with 235,000 jobs added last month and unemployment down to 4.7%, we're taking a look tonight at how jobs of the future are changing. take long-haul trucking for example. we sent nbc's stephanie ruel on the road. >> trucks in america. it's more than a slogan. some 3.5 million americans drive big rigs and delivery trucks. long-haul truckdrivers earn an average of $40,000 a year for the hard work and long hours and it doesn't require a college degree. >> i always wanted to be a truck driver. >> going to pull up. >> students like these are learning the trade at a moment of change in the industry. revolutionary driverless technology means more than half of the country's truckdrivers could lose their jobs to automation. >> we think the autonomous trucks go on sale in 2020. i would be surprised in ten years, the largest truck carriers aren't significantly autonomous across their fleet. >> daimler showed off the technology in las vegas in 2015. their goal is to assist drivers as they plan to keep them at the helm. other companies are rolling out programs that could put technology in the driver's seat. >> is technology the future, the partner or the enemy to the trucker? >>. >> i mean, certainly it's the future. you're not going to stop the technology. >> what was once a low-skilled trade becoming a profession driven by code and computers. >> the truck driver will also kind of be a technical engineer. if there's a problem with the hardware or the software, they're going to have to figure it out. >> new jobs for everyone in society. the highly skilled, the highly educated. but the ones, the individuals that are not so educated or skilled, where are the jobs for them? that would be the downside. >> for some, there's no substitute for a human driver. >> there may be a computer that can drive a truck from a to b on a straight line. but there will never be a computer that will be able to navigate a truck in the heart of manhattan. never. >> but 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but is the mystery of jack's death so obvious? welcome to "access hollywood," the weekend edition. i'm liz hernandez. last tuesday we got more of a hint of what led to jack's death when he drove off appearing to be drunk. but what are we being led to a false conclusion? we asked the one person who would know, mandy moore. >> last might we were led to believe -- >> i know what you're going to say. >> it looks like jack might die. >> i don't know. >> mandy moore telling us only so much but proved we may not have seen the actual cause of jack's death. the creator says we will not learn exact think what happened in tuesday's season finale. we'll get more clues but the ultimate reveal is a ways off. mandy and milo seemed to verify this earlier this year. are we going to find out how jack died? >> eventually. >> i think people should be patient. >> yeah. >> i'll just let you know, i don't think it's coming any time soon. >> i'm the reason that he's dead. >> what we do know, kate blames 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