pulling out of the north american free trade agreement. hours after the administration said he was considering executive order to do just that. in a surprise announcement the white house said the president quote agreed not to terminate nafta at this time and the leaders agree to proceed swiftly. to enable their renegotiation of the nafta deal to the benefit of all three countries. the reactiontion from mexico came with the peso surging. >> the news comes as the white house unveil thard massive tax cut proposal, the white house calling it the largest tax cut in history. claiming it could offer many relief. what does the plan do? it reduces the number of individual income tax brackets from seven to three. 10%, 25% and 35%. the plan doubles the standard deduction for individuals and married couples and make filing easier. >> but it would slash the corporate rate down to 15%. personal real estate empires like president trump's. the goal is to stimulate the economy but the details are still a mystery. >> when we have an agreement we'll release the details. >> we will be back with firm details. >> again i think as we said we're working on details as to this. >> this morning the new york times editorial calls the proposal a quote laughable plan to cut his own taxes. while others caution the plan would blow a hole in the deficit. some estimates say the cost could approach up to $6 trillion. over the next decade. while the white house was busy, capitol hill was in a frenzy. republican house lawmakers got behind the administration's latest plan to repeal and replace obamacare. with a conservative freedom caucus now backing the revised plan. the group was instrumental in blocking the first attempt to do away with obamacare. their support could give paul ryno victory. conservatives are rallying behind an amendment to allow states to opt out of covering services like emergency room visits and maternity care and charge people with pre-existing conditions more with a goal of lowering premiums. for republicans the risk lies in alienating moderates. a vote has yet to be scheduled on the revised bill. as house republicans busy getting their ducks in a row all 100 senators made a rare trek to the white house, boarding buses to pennsylvania avenue for a secretive briefing on the threat posed by north korea, with a top admiral saying parts of the u.s. in striking distance. >> kim jong-un is in a position to threaten hawaii in my opinion. >> edward lawrence is in washington. it was a rare appearance to see those boarding the bus and going to the white house. what are we learning about what exactly they >> reporter: i can tell you it's an unusual step to have the senate in this type of briefing at the white house. now the secret service may have asked for that because the president and vice president were both in this meeting, and that alone shows the importance of the increasing escalation and tension with north korea, senior administration official saying that the country poses a quote grave threat. senator angus king on the intelligence committee was in the briefing. he says he learned that 90% of north korea's trade is with china. the administration wants to pressure china to show them that it's not in their best interest to have a nuclear armed north korea trying to get the chinese to get the north koreans to sort of back down. he also says the senator king also says that the administration wants to unveil plans to have economic and military pressure in order to pressure north korea's leader to back >> at the center of this entire controversy. thank you. just released after midnight united airlines internal review of what happened during that passenger dragging incident earlier this month. 69-year-old dr. david dao was dragged off a plane after passengers didn't volunteer to give up seats for crew members. united is proposing a few changes at assuring this never happens again. crew members will be booked on flights at least an hour before departure. united will offer up to $10,000 to customers who volunteer to take a different flight and will no longer involuntarily remove a customer from a flight unless safety or security is at risk. you can find more on united's policy on line at nbcnews.com. >> ann coulter says she will not be speaking at the university of california berkley. she insisted she would make a speech despite the universi concerns that violence could break out. katy beck has those details. >> reporter: it seems like this, violence, chaos and blood shed at a pro trump rally 10 days ago that uc-berkeley says made them cancel a speech this week by conservative fire brand ann coulter. the university forced to sacrifice its reputation as the cradle of the free speech movement for safety according to officials. coulter insisted she would go regardless until she lost the support of conservative groups. it's sickening she said when a radical thuggish institution like berkley can snuff out the right to free speech. groups from the far left and right have clashed in the city several times in recent months. in february, berkley canceled the speech when violent protests broke out. in a statement defending the cancellations berkley's chancellor said this is a university, not a for civil rights advocates the scenario raises concern. >> it's very important that the government not buckle down and not allow people to silence speaker of any point of view. >> reporter: the cancellation made some who normally criticize coulter come to her defense including bernie sanders who called it intellectual weakness. katy beck, nbc news, los angeles. i want to show you a police rescue in connecticut caught on body camera that officer is now being credited with saving a man's life. justin martin was responding to a call at an assisted living facility. martin chased the man up the stairs to the sixth floor, then out to a balcony. then this. >> hey, hey. >> you see there as the man tries to jump, martin grabs him his 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"news 4 today" starts now. it is 4:26. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilcrist. >> and i'm eun yang. we are working for you to get you up and out the door on this thursday morning. >> melissa mollet on the roads for us. chuck and sheena, and finally some decent weather around here. all right. >> welcome. >> kickback. >> i feel a little bad without my red. take my purse around with me. >> chuck got coffee on his red tie so he had to switch to the purple tie. >> i like that story. i support the team. i didn't get the memo. a nice dry start to the day today. all of your thursday plans will be uninterrupted by rain unless you have something to do late tonight. after about 9:00, 10:00 tonight there will be at least a chance for a few showers, but most of your day along today, nothing to worry about. nothing on storm team 4 radar any too close to us. the four things to know about the weather. a complete turn around. no more clouds and rain drops today. a chance of a shower tonight. still talking about getting near 90 degrees on saturday. more on all the good details for today. let's go to >> good morning, chuck. it is going to be a very nice day much very different than the last several days. the sunshine will make its appearance. 60 degrees currently. mostly clear skies out there. as we go through the day today, temperatures really going to be warming up. take a look at our hour-by-hour forecast. we're going to be rising by the mid 70s until lunchtime. this afternoon the mid to low 80s. even as we go through tonight, if you're heading to the caps game maybe, temperatures will still be mild when you walk outside. coming up in a bit we'll take a closer look at your forecast and check the roads. >> brand new crashes this morning southbound gw parkway. the left lane is getting by this morning. some construction that has slowed things down quite a bit here this morning. talking about westbound 66 before glebe. left lane only thing getting by. the milling and paving. we had constructio they switched it to westbound. inner loop at old georgetown road, road work there. same thing inner loop after university and after pennsylvania avenue. >> melissa, thank you. we're following breaking news that a trooper has been killed. the suspect still locked inside a home at this hour. >> we learned late last night that corporal stephen ballard was the trooper that died at a wawa in delaware. there is a big effort now to catch the killer. >> erika gonzalez has more on what's happening at the live desk. >> aaron, eun, good morning to you. happening right now, a barricade situation that started last night still going on in delaware. this after that trooper, trooper ballard, was shot and killed at a wawa. that happened in the town of baer. two suspects were involved. one of them taken into on scene. the other fled to a home. we understand that a s.w.a.t. team has that area surrounded now. this is an ongoing barricade situation going on for several hours now. meanwhile, flags will be flown at half staff today in honor of trooper ballard who was an eight-year veteran. from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> erika, thank you. here's a look at our other top stories this morning. 4:30. hagerstown police are investigating a fatal crash at the intersection of chestnut street and garrett street. that crash involved a motorcyclist and bicyclist. the bicyclist died. a woman is in custody after a woman caused a scare at a metro station. she started to argue with another passenger. it happened around 9:00. she was arrested at the white flint station about 30 minutes later. none of the passengers were