Garage. Saying goodbye to two fan favorites. Actor bill paxton gone at just 61. The judge who helped give reality tv its start, the Peoples Court judge wapner. Early today starts now. Im francis riviera. A night of glitz, glamor and emotional moments at the 89th academy awards. Its being overshadowed by a major screwup. It happened in the final moments of the ceremony when the oscar for best picture was mistakenly given to la la land instead of moonlight. Were live outside the theater in hollywood with those details. Jennifer, how could all this happen . Reporter well, it was just a mixup of the envelope. Thats what Price Waterhouse cooper said in a statement they just released. It was the best argument though for watching all the way to the very end. It was a twist that nobody saw coming and its all anybodys talking about. La la land. Reporter for several minutes it appeared a best picture win had capped a magical seven oscar night for la la land. Only it didnt. Theres a mistake. Moonlight. You won best picture. Reporter during acceptance speeches show producers realized presenters faye dunaway and Warren Beatty had read from the wrong card. The audience was stunned. So was the moonlight team. Clearly, even in my dreams this could not be true. To hell with dreams, because this is true. Reporter the win was moonlights third of the night, including best shoorting actor from herschel ali, the first muslim actor to win an oscar. Thank you, really appreciate it. Peace and blessings. Reporter december entitlement the disappointment la la land came away with six awards including best director and best actress for emma stone. I realize a moment like this is a hug opportunity. Casey affleck, manchester by the sea. Reporter joining the ranks of best actor winners, Casey Affleck for manchester by the sea. Im just dumb founded that im included. Reporter supporting actress to viola davis for fences that also earned her a tony on broadway. I became an artist and thank god i did. Reporter in between the awards Host Jimmy Kimmel welcomed unsuspecting tourists to the ceremony. He sent a live tweet to president trump. Is that okay to say . Reporter the moment that trump the them all . We didnt do this, you guys chose us. Thank you for the choice. Reporter was the mixup that gave moonlight a best picture win. And i have to add that Kevin Oconnell won for sound mixing. He won after 21 nominations finally took home the trophy last night. So good for him. Im jennifer jennifer, thank you for that report. The country is watching president trumps performance after his first month in office. A new poll from nbc news wall street journal shows the president with a job Approval Rating of 44 , aed. Low for a newly inaugurated commander in chief. If you break down Favorability Ratings 84 of democrats hold a negative view of the president. 85 of republicans view him positively. Politico is reporting White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer has begun random checks of staffers phones in an effort to crack down on leaks to the media which the president criticized for using unnamed sources within his administration. There is growing debate over whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate possible ties between Trump Campaign officials and russia after one prominent republican in Congress Called for an outside investigation. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell reports now from the white white house, one word is an instant flash point. Russia. Russia is fake news. This is fake news put out by the media. Reporter the president lamented again, russia talk is fake news, put out by the dems and played up by the media in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks. At issue the Intelligence Community already determined Russian Hackers did interfere with the 2016 campaign. But still under investigation, did Trump Campaign associates have improper contacts with figures in russia . The white house said no. I think the real easy answer here is that the fbi has already said this story is b. S. , those are their words. Reporter ratcheting up the tension, friday California Republican congressman darrell issa suggested that a special counsel, not the attorney general, should oversee the russia investigation. You cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, jeff sessions, who was on the campaign, and who is an appointee. Youre going to need to use the office. Reporter other republicans disagreed and said a special prosecutor is a step too far. The Justice Department over the course of time has shown itself with the professionals that are there to have the ability to investigate these type of thins. Briefed by fbi director comey, senator tom cotton says the bureaus work on this is counterintelligence, not a criminal probe. Theres no allegations of any crime occurring, theres not even indication theres criminal investigations under way bit fbi. Reporter after the white house acknowledged it urged the fbi to discredit news reports and chairman of the intelligence committees said they were asked to help as well democrats insist that crosses a line. You have seen a flurry of activities that are completely inappropriate. Lets have the investigation and find out the truth. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell reporting. Theres new information on the suspected drunk driver whose pickup truck plowed through a mardi gras crowd in new Orleans Rizzuto hit 32 people and multiple vehicles before crashing into a dump truck and he blew three times the blood are legal blood alcohol level. A First Responder said it was a miracle no one was killed. Rizzuto was held on 125,000 bond after being arrested for several charges including two counts of first degree negligent and vehicular injuring. Those both carry a maximum sentence of five years in jail. Hes not yet entered a plea. Movie fans this morning are mourning the death of 61yearold actor bill paxton. He died this weekend following complications of surgery. Paxton played so many memorable roles including a storm chaser in the movie twister which inspired a generation of storm chasers. Some of those fans in Tornado Alley paid tribute sunday by spelling out his initials using gps coordinates. Nbcs jacob rascon takes a look back. Reporter whether he was the lead role, bill paxton left an indelible mark on hollywood. In the 1980s playing characters killed by a terminator. And an alien. Rising to fame in the 90s as the passionate storm chaser in the film twister. I think were going in reporter and the greedy fortune hunter in titanic. Its payday, boys. Reporter paxton also had memorable tv roles including preliminary mist Bill Henderson in the hbo series big love. I just went to see her. You had no right to do that. Reporter the texas native witnessed history watching president kennedy giving a speech in ft. Worth, the day before the president was assassinated. His family revealed the 61yearold actor died after an operation saying, it is with heavy hearts we share the news that bill paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery. Just two weeks ago, paxton was full of energy on nbcs call with carson daly, calling himself a working actor. You see big stars who work all the time. Ive never had that one movie that really put it all together for me. Reporter paxton leaves behind two children and louise, his wife of 30 years. Jacob rascon, nbc news, dallas. Meanwhile, another star in his own right has passed. Judge joseph wapner, who presided over the Peoples Court for the shows first 12 years, has died. You may recall he was mustsee tv for Dustin Hoffmans rain man. Thats it, you blew it, you together to see your program, its finished. Four minutes to was that wapner. Judge wapner spent 20 years on the bench in los angeles before the Peoples Court. He was 97 years old. Now to the daytona motor speedway. We have here, watch this. Drivers start your engines who got them going. The crashfilled daytona 500 featured nine cautions and had over three dozen lead changes throughout the 200lap race. But in the final turn of the race it was kurt busch who passed an out of gas kyle larson to take the 500mile race. It was buschs first win at daytona in some 16 attempts, so congrats to him and his team. Severe thunderstorms and possible tornados are in store this week. Nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with your forecast. What are we looking at now . Nothing today, frances. It looks pretty quiet. Tuesday and wednesday could be very active Severe Weather days. Ending february with a bang. Right now steady rains over arkansas and areas near memphis. The worst of the storms will be throughout tuesday afternoon, tuesday evening. This is tomorrow. 25 Million People are at risk of severe storms, damage from wind, hail, all the ingredients possible even for tornados too. In this area from little rock to jonesboro to paducah is most at risk. These will continue tuesday night through the overnight through early wednesday morning. 62 million the middle of the ohio valley all the way to the east coast come wednesday afternoon. Thats a look at the big weather story of the day. Heres a closer look at your day ahead. So again, today will be isolated severe storms. Maybe a few in southern mississippi, southern portions of alabama. Late tonight missouri and arkansas will see storms popping up. February warmth continues through the northern half of the country today, near 50degree temps. In case you missed it over the weekend, this was during a timeout at saturdays warriors nets game. A fan was playing skeeball. Steph curry under the towel grabs the ball, left the huddle. Thats a 5,000 win for her. 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A white house spokesperson said the president would support such an investigation. Theres controversy in texas after a transgender teenager won the state title for girls wrestling even though the wrestler identifies as a boy. 17yearold mac beggs is taking testosterone to traio female to male. He wanted to wrestle with the boys but state policy forced him to wrestle according to the gender listed on his birth certificate. One parent argued the testosterone gave him an unfair advantage. The suit failed because the state allows wrestlers to use december treason for valid medical reasons. One teen is covering after surviving a sevenstory fall in his car. The teenaged driver plummeted from a parking garage and landed upside down on the roof of a Hardware Store below. Firefighters arrived on the scene to find the boy inside the closed car sitting in complete shock, just a few cuts and wounds. Its still unclear why the teen drove off the building. 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