conference from texas governor greg abbott, top of the hour. he is calling on the biden administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. he said this is a crisis of the president s own making. we have the latest from the dhs secretary testimony to the senate homeland security committee this morning. we ll go to the border in just a moment. john: we kick off hour one of america reports with former acting ice director tom holman. i wanted to play from yesterday, there s a little bit of sound from the dhs secretary and get you respond to it. let s listen. borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. john: he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. what do you say to that based on what we have seen in del rio texas in the last couple of weeks? it s a lie. it s a lie. the borders are wide open. i have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. thousands of being released every day into the united states, many with
development linking trump s legal team to a voting system breach in a rural georgia county. zach, what can you tell us? reporter: fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70% of the vote there. but after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a voting system there and ultimately were successful in that. and these new text messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trump s attorneys like sydney powell, rudy giuliani to this planning process and effort to get access to voting systems. it lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a top-down effort to get access from machines rather than just a sporadic random one-off. trump s attorneys now more connected to this breach than we knew previously. so how are spinks e
the hurricane strength winds. rain coming down. the first effects from hurricane matthew a storm the likes of which we have not seen in more than a decade. we ve already seen heartbreaking images of what this storm can do and the carribbean officials blamed it for hundreds of deaths. and the false scope of the damage is impossible to know at this point as the storm continues to churn at this hour. it continues to change. leaving millions of people wondering what s next? good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. it will be a long night for a lot of people. so far more than 280 deaths in the carribbean blamed on hurricane matthew. the storm is packing winds at 130 miles an hour forcing about 2 million people to leave. first in the storm s path florida where history was made in orlando earlier today. disneyworld did something it s only done four times before. it closed. airports are closed. thousands of flights canceled. amtrak has suspended service between miami and
raised and who they became over the years, what happened to them. . new england and america as a whole underestimate the size and importance of human enslavement during their early period of this country. and the story of slave ships in connecticut has never been told. i was led to the lawbooks and given access to them and time to study and explore them because there was a purpose in it. the purpose was for me to tell their story and share it. when i first came upon the lawbooks, i was then a reporter at the hartford current on special assignment to work on a book about new england slavery. and how big and important and profitable it had been. to discover these logbooks an additional land extraordinary piece of the story, i didn t know at any time there would be connecticut mariners, and provisioning the caribbean which was also a slave based and horrific form of agriculture growing sugar but to discover these logbooks was so important and mine in newspaper backed me up 100%.
you hear that, george? don t pay em. don t pay em. so who will be trump s target ant tonight s debate? and all that glitters, the oscar nominations just out this morning. the revenant leading the way with 12, including best actor for leonardo decaprio. the surprises and snubs, today, thursday, january 14. 2016. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everybody. welcome to today, 7:00 a.m. on a thursday morning. big morning out on the west coast. if you re an actor in who willy wood hollywood, would you rather be waking up with an ticket? i m going to say lottery ticket. i m with you. chino hills, here are the winning numbers. now the waiting game for the winners begins. miguel almaguer is at that lucky store in suburban l.a. one of those winning tickets came from the store behind me. overnight there was clear joy and celebration inside that 7-eleven. why not? it appears so