>> bill neely in london, thanks. >>> a judge in new york today ruled the sexual assault case against harvey weinstein can go forward. his lawyers argue that the indictment should be thrown out. marissa tomey and actresses appear to support weinstein's accusers. he denies the charges. >>> also tonight, caught on camera, a stray bullet strikes and kills a father at a holiday party. >>> then, new video of a massive explosion that left a firefighter dead. >>> and the miracle on 34th street but not the one in new york. >>> police in florida are searching for the gunman that fired a bullet that struck and killed a husband at a holiday party. gabe gutierrez has the story. we want to warn you the video video is disturbing. >> reporter: the music was blaring at this holiday party in miami-dade county, florida. the 40-year-old man had just walked in and sat down to hear karaoke when all of a sudden he slumps down and desperately reaches for the man next to him. the music continues to play and fellow party goers seem to have no idea what happened but quickly realize something is horribly wrong,

we get late details now from nbc's bill neely. >> reporter: panic, screams, people fleeing, a deadly terror attack tonight near a christmas market. one victim on the street, another shot nearby. further away, two more. the gunman struck around 8:00 in the evening. the victims apparently random. witnesses report a dozen shots fired in bursts.o th christmas market. i heard some shots, six or seven shots. and then i saw two people on the ground and many people, of course, screaming and starting to run. >> reporter: armed police poured in, but the gunman was on the loose. the historic strasburg market is visited by millions every year and heavily guarded. the attack was just 400 yards away. authorities placed the city center on lockdown, warning people to stay indoors. soon, they knew who he was. he had a criminal record, but not where he was. stores and restaurants were ordered closed, customers inside. at the nearby european parliament, lawmakers were locked in. >> the whole parliament has been locked. >> reporter: also locked in a restaurant, this euro news correspondent. >> they cann

nbc's bill neely was in the middle of it all in paris. >> reporter: mayhem in the heart of paris. tear gas and running battles along the famed champs-elysees. 8,000 riot police confronting protesters, furious at high taxes. they've been firing tear gas and stun grenades for a couple hours now. they can contain this crowd, but they can't stop their anger. the protesters also furious at their president. >> emmanuel macron is the president of the rich. >> he's the president of the rich? >> he's the president of the rich. >> reporter: they burned cars, attacked banks, and hundreds were arrested by the police. dozens more injured. >> [ speaking french ]. >> reporter: it's the start of the revolution? >> yes. >> reporter: the government stopped the hated fuel tanks, but that hasn't ended the anger here. >> it's the end of his government, i am sure. >> reporter: tonight armored vehicles are on the streets. most people say they support the aim of the protests, but not the violence that has shaken france to its core. bill neely, nbc news, paris. >>> in italy overnight, a concert in a crowd

e bill neely was i middle of it all in paris. >> reporter: may hem asn the heartf paris. tear along the famed champs-elysees. 8,000 riot pole confronting protesters, furious at high taxes. >> they've been firing tear gas and stun grenades for a hours now. they can contain this, but they can't stop their anger. >> the protesters also new furious at the president. >> emmanuel macron is the president of the rich. >> they burned cars, attacked banks. hundreds were arrested. dozensore injured. >> the start of the revolution? >> yes. >> tonight armored vehicles are on streets, most people say they support the aim of pre otests, but not violence that has shaken france to its core. bill neely, nbc news, paris. >>> in italy overnight, a concert in a crowded nightclub turned deadly. six people died, five of them teenagers betwee 14 and 16 years old, in a stampede toward the ex . they were trampled after something was sprayed into the triggering widespread panic. >>> back in the united states, a remarkable recovery from last we 's major earthquake in alaska. take a look at these sha

bill neely has details. >> reporter: going nowhere, more than ge 100,000 pass with flights cancelled, delayed by at least one rogue drone deliberately and repeatedly flown near the runway at london gatwick, one of europe's busiest airports. police snipers deployed to take it down. troops called in to r.hunt for the operato ed>> this crime impa ersuch a huge numb of people. >> reporter: passengers stuck for hours. >> they have taken control of the airport by now, i think. >> reporter: the drone danger is clear globally. last week an aero mexico flight was hit by a possible drown as it landed damaging the nose and r in the u.s., more than 2,000 drone sightings were reported by pilots this year. >> if it were ose to the ground, it could result in loss of the airport. the drone threat is very, very real. >> reporter: the is police say thit terror related though that risk from drones as very real, too. thisport will be a mess for days, the drone problem, though, will be with us all for much longer. lester>> bill neely in london, thanks. >>> a judge inew york today ruled the sexual assault

bill neely, nbc news. >>> back home tonight, there are a lot of questions over videos showing police arresting a mother and ripping her child from her arms at a government office. nbc's stephanie gosk has more on the uproar. >> you're hurting my son! you're hurting my son! >> reporter: the mother's screams filled the social services office in brooklyn. multiple new york city police officers tried to pull jasmine hadley's 1-year-old son out of her arms. the more aggressive they became, the more shocked the crowd grew. >> oh my god! what are they doing to her? >> reporter: witnesses say it all started because the office was crowded. >> there was nowhere to sit so the lady, she sat on the floor. >> reporter: officers asked her to leave but she refused and created a disturbance. the video posted online does not show what took place before the confrontation turned physical. hadley faces four criminal charges including resisting arrest and endangering a child. while she remains in jail held on a separate arrest warrant issued in new jersey, her son is with his grandmother. >> i honestly wa

we get late details now from nbc's bill neely. >> reporter: panic, screams, peoplefl ing, a deadly terror attack tonight near a christmas market. one victim on t street, another st nearby. further away, two more. the gunman struck around 8:00 in the evening. the victims apparently random. witnesses report a dozen sho fired in bursts. >> i wasalking to the christmas market. i heard some shots, six or seven shots. and then i saw two people on the ground and many people, of course, screaming and startirun. >> reporter: armed police pured in, but the gasman on the loose. the historic strasburg market is heavily guarded. the attack was just 400 yards away.ho auities placed the city center on lockdown, warning people to stay indoors. soon, they knew who he was. he had a cinal record, but not where he was. stores and restaurants were ordered closed, customers inside. but the nearbyeu opean parliament, lawmakers were locked in. >> the whole parliament has been locked. >> reporter: also locked in a es rurant, this euro news correspondent. >> it could be ten minutes that which should stay indoors.

s, protests in pa shouting matches in london and bill neely has the latest. >> rorter: two leaders, two crisis, tonight, their future at stake. for france's president macron, the threat from the street. thousands protesting running bales with riot police. revolution the cry. tonight he responded. promising the minimum le too lioo late and they will be back next weekend. in britain, protests against prime minister may over her controversial brexit deal taking europe out heur tea eunopn n io today facing a huge defeat over it, she >> if we went ahead and held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be rejected by a significant margin. >> this shambolic government. >> reporter: bill neely, nbc news. >>> back home tonight, therare a lot of questions over videos showing police arresting a mother and omripping her child fr her arms at a e. government off nbc's stephanigosk has more on the uproar. >> you'rrting my son! >> reporter: the mo er screams filled the social services fi ofce in brooklyn. multiple new york city police officers tried to pull jasmine's 1-year-old son out of her arms. the more

bill neely reports. >> reporter: angry and humiliated, prime minister theresa may confronting european leaders after failing to win a deal she can sell at home. a brexit deal to take britain out of europe. the deal-breaker is here in ireland, what will be the new land border between the uk and european union. once it was a battleground until peace in northern ireland made it open and free. the violence here claimed 3,500 lives, and there is a real fear here that a chaotic british exit from the european union could rekindle conflict. they're afraid here of a so-called hard border, militarized by britain with checkpoints. >> you put a physical infrastructure that people can protest at or god forbid somebody can attack, the genie gets out of the bottle very quick. >> reporter: the border here is invisible. i'm now crossing from ireland into the uk. easy. and that's the way people here want it to stay. >> today already i was across the border maybe five times. >> reporter: you've been across five times today? >> yeah. >> reporter: and that's perfectly normal? >> perfectly normal. >> report

bill neely reports. >> rorter: angry and humiliated. prime minister frame confronng european leaders after failing to win a deal she can sell at home, a brexit deal to take britain out of europe. the deal breakers here in ireland, what will be the but in land border between the uk and european union. once it was a battleground, until peace in northern ireland made it open and free. the violence leer claimed 3,500 lives and there is a fear that a chaotic exit from the euron an unuld rekindle conflict. they're afraid of a so-called hard board, militarized by britain with checkpoints. >> you put up physical infrastructure that people can protest at or god forbid somebody can attack, the genie gets out of the bottle very quic >> reporter: the genie of violence? >> yes. >> reporter: the border here is invisible. i'm now crossing from ireland into the uk. easy. and that's the way people here want it to stay. >> oday i've been across the border five times. y >> reporte've been across five times snowed >> yes. >> reporter: and that's perfectly

nbc's bill neely reports from london. >> reporter: chaos and confusion in two countries. two leaders struggling to respond. france's president macron has just caved into his challenge from the street. paris still counting the cost of saturday's violence. thousands protesting, running battles with police. their target? high taxes and macron. [ speaking in foreign language ] last night, he said their anger was legitimate and raised the minimum wage by more than $100 a month. most people support the protests and are watching their president's power drain away. the protesters say they'll be back on the street saturday. britain's prime minister has been humiliated. theresa may this morning looking for a helping hand from other european leaders. she is clinging to power over her controversial brexit deal, taking britain out of the european union. in parliament, facing a huge defeat over it, she killed a vote. >> we went ahead and held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be rejected. >> reporter: her opponents red-faced with fury. >> every time she comes back here with her tail be

bill thank you for your expert analysis. bill neely in northern ireland for us. for more on this i am joined by an admiral commander, our chief international security analyst and a columnist for the intercept and the host of the intercept's podcast, deconstructed. welcome to both of you. admiral, let me start with you. you, nato is a military, a mutual defence alliance. but ultimately, there is a lot of overlap between nato and trade alliances. the idea that you are less likely to go to war with people with whom you trade. but for 60 or 70 years now, we have seen prosperity come out of these alliances and really for the last few years the last ten years or 15 years, we have seen globalization turn against some workers. we are starting to see stalwarts of liberal democracy in the west. i use that as a small l, coming apart at the seams. tell me how you evaluate this. >> well, let's start in europe, which so often historically, as you all knwell know, has been t canary in the coal mine of politics. it's where democracy started, the enlightened emerged. that kind of

bill neely, nbc news, paris. >>> san francisco remembers one of its modern-day leaders. wednesday marks one year since the death of mayor ed lee. he suffered a fatal heart attack at his neighborhood grocery store. tomorrow afternoon, the asian pacific islander council will hold a ceremony for lee at portsmouth square. just last week, lee was among those inducted into the california hall of fame. >>> an emotional 49ers win for the team's biggest fan. that's how head coach kyle shanahan described yesterday's upset victory over the denver broncos. says the team dedicated its 20 to 14 win to tony york who died suddenly on friday at the age of 35. no cause of death has been given. tony was the younger brother of niners' ceo jed york. he was not directly involved with the team's operations, but players and coaches say that he is still a huge presence. >>> making news around the world, china raising the press to on u.s. a communist party newspaper called canada's treatment of chief financial officer ming wanzu inhumane. >> alleging she used a hong kong shell company to evade u.

nbc's chief global correspondent is bill neely. he's in paris for us this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peter. good morning everyone from the center of paris. the ark detriumph war memorial behind me, thousands of protesters in those detectivive yellow jackets. tear gas has been fired at them this morning. in fact, just a few moments ago there was the first stun grenades fired by riot police who have detained around 500 protesters. there is the whiff of tear gas still in the air. these are protests that have shaken france. >> protesters ready to march, paris braced for trouble. tear gas already in the air, police out in force. 8,000 on the streets to confront the yellow vest movement, the biggest challenge to french authorities in decades. at any time in any city this would be extraordinary, this is the main straet eet of paris, at is sealed off by hundreds of police officers, behind them row upon row of police advance and just in the distance, an armored vehicle. >> they're here to prevent a repeat of this violence last saturday that stunn

bill neely is in land within that story. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. there's three big leaders in europe, may, macron and merkel. two are iubay is trying to avoid disaster over brexit. and fran's president macron has future. chaos and confusion in two countries. two leaders struggling to respond. france's president macron has just caved into his challenge from the street. paris, still counting the cost of saturday's violence. thousands protesting, running battles with police. their targets, high taxesst nig was legitimate and raised the minimum wage by more than $100 a month. most people support the protest and are watching their president's power drain away. the protesters say they will be back on the streets saturday. britain's prime minister has been looking for a helping hand other european leaders. she's clinging to power oversl taking britain out of the european union. in parliament, facing a huge defeat over it, she held a vote. >> if we head a vote, it would be rejected by a significant margin. >> reporter: her opponents, red-faced with fury. >

neely, gatwick airport. >> i would like to bring in a tech correspondent to help us understand what this means firstly, why is it so hard for people to track down the drone >> the uk authority said every time they would be getting close the drone disappeared and when they were ready to reopen, the drone appeared again a lot of difficulty in tracking down these drones. here's what the uk law actually allows when it comes to flying drones you cannot go above 400 feet or within one kilometer of an airport. of course, this would be violating that specific qualification. you must, as of next year, register your drone with authorities and that's one of the crucial issues here is that drones aren't currently offered registered so it is hard to track down who is flying them. this new law implemented over the summer is up to five years over the summer and unlimited fines. there are some efforts to try to put some teeth into how to enforce drone regulation it is very fragmented. not a lot of eu wide qualifications the faa has their own restrictions the question is how they can actually track

bill neely, with the champs-elysees. thank you verymuch. >> let's get a check of the rest of the country's forecast. dylan. >> the rest of th >>> the sun i justcoming up. it's a beautiful morning but a cold morning. the temperatures right now i the 2 and teens across the area. we are headed into the upper 30s to right around 40 degrees today. plenty of sunshine out there. it's going to be quiet and co. no snow, no rain out there right now. that's how it's going to be out there today. we do have thisisture that dylan was talking about. high pressure will suppress this south. maybe aew snow flakes tomorrow but that's all it will amount to. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> still to come, kevin hart back doing sndup days after he stepped down from the oscars. will the controversy hurt his standup and movie career? we'll talk about it. >>> a popular holiday song now under fire. why some radio stations hav >>> it has been quite the week. we're back only saturday morning with the weekly download and a look back at the wee

guys, back to you. >> bill neely for us in paris. thank you. >>> we move to this year's heisman winner, university of oklahoma quarterback, kyler murray. sarday night, it was tarnished when comments he made as a teenager resurfaced. >> reporter: it was supposed to be the perfect night for kyler murray. but hours after being votede collfootball's best player, he was forced to apologize, after old tweets came back to haunt him. owstar quarterback is playing defense. hours after etching his name into college football lore. >> the 20an heism trophy is award toyler murray. >> reporter: oteahoma quarrback kyler murray's saturday to remember quickly turned sour, after tweets he posted as a teenager, containing offensive language, resurfaced. according to multiple reports, some of murray's posts contained homophobic slurs. the tweets were deleted after he hoisted the awd. and the 21-year-old responded online, writing, i apologize for the tweetshathat come to light tonight when i was 14 and 15. i used a poof choice o words. i did notntend to

nbc's chief global correspondenl bill neely idon with that story. bill, good morning. >> good morning. there are three big leaders in europe. may, macron, and merkel. this morning the first two of them are in deep trouble and the other is leaving anyway. britain's theresa may is trying to avoid disaster or brexit and france's president macron has just made concessions to violent protesters. both are gambling with their orfuture. >> rr: chaos and confusion in two countries. two leaders struggling to respond. france's president macron has just caved in to his challenge from the strllt. paris sti counting the cost of saturday's violence. thousands protesting, running battles with police, their target high taxes and macron. last night heaid their anger was legitimate and raised the minimum wage by more than $100 a month. most people support the protesters and are watching their president's powerrain away. the protesters say they will be back on the streetsda sat britain's prime minister has been humiliated. theresa may this morning looking for a helping