proposition one will pass, the controversial measure to provide billions of dollars for mental tonight the whiplash at the border the fate of a controversial texas immigration law now in the hands of a federal appeals court. the three-judge panel hearing arguments over the law that they put on hold just hours after the supreme court allowed it to take effect. it would let texas authorities arrest and deport migrants, but the biden administration arguing the state doesn't have that authority what the judges signaled today. also tonight, the urgent manhunt police say an inmate was broken out of the hospital by a gunman who opened fire. three corrections officers wounded the car police are searching for. the deadly house explosion in utah. debris showered all over the neighborhood. what caused it the first full day of spring, but the snow spreading across the northeast. al roker is here.

the tense moments on capitol hill. former rudy giuliani associate lev parnas testifying in the gop's biden impeachment inquiry, and our nbc news exclusive, the allegation parnas made that republicans are acting as russia's accomplices. the new drama for the royals were princess kate's medical records breached at the clinic where she underwent surgery? and the l.a. dodgers' $700 million man making his debut as the new mlb season gets off to a historic start in south korea >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone, and welcome. things are back to square one at the texas/mexico border tonight at least for the moment with the federal government back to being the sole enforcer of immigration laws yesterday the u.s. supreme court gave texas the okay to proceed with its controversial new border enforcement law

that grants local authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants they suspect of entering the country illegally, but just hours after the supreme court spoke, an appeals court panel quickly put another pause on implementing the law while it heard the case today the legal back and forth leaving some local law enforcement uncertain about their roles and what comes next morgan chesky is at the border tonight >> reporter: tonight, a controversial immigration law still on hold 24 hours after the supreme court gave the green light for it to begin today a federal appeals court holding a hearing over the texas law known as sb-4, which allows state and local authorities to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the southern border illegally and allow state judges to deport them. the judges appearing skeptical of the law. >> this is the first time it seems to me that a state has claimed that they have the right to remove illegal aliens. >> reporter: governor

greg abbott standing by the law saying texas is taking action because president biden has not stopped a record number of migrants >> what's going on at the border is nothing short of catastrophic. >> reporter: texas had already placed razor wire and buoys to deter migrants from crossing illegally, moves challenged in court by the biden administration so far in 2024, most illegal crossings have been in arizona and california, a trend some border officials tell nbc news is due to those tougher policies in texas. zapata county sheriff raymundo del bosque is in favor of the new law. >> sb-4, i do support it what we're targeting is the violence, the cartel people that want -- violent offenders that want to come across. >> reporter: but in maverick county where crowds of migrants converged on eagle pass last fall, sheriff tom schmerber has reservations >> on its face, are you in favor of sb-4 >> not until i get

more information on how it's going to work >> do you know when that will be >> i don't. >> reporter: the sheriff concerned over where arrested migrants would go. his detention center already at capacity. >> we are here in the middle trying to see what will happen, but it's more like politics between the state and the federal government that's the way i see it. >> and where does that put you? >> in the middle, like, they're not concerned about us, concerned about them. >> so, morgan, where does this leave us the appeals court didn't rule on the texas law today. any idea when they will >> reporter: yeah, lester, right now that three-judge panel has given no indication, but given how fast they've acted within the last 24 hours, that decision could come soon, and keep in mind, there is a good chance that all of this ends up right back in the supreme court. lester >> morgan chesky, thank you. in idaho tonight, authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped with a gunman who helped him get away after the prisoner was treated and released from a hospital. here's dana griffin. >> reporter: tonight, the urgent manhunt under way for an escaped inmate and an

armed accomplice who ambushed officers at this idaho hospital. >> they are dangerous. they are armed, and they have shown a propensity for violence >> reporter: police say 31-year-old skylar meade shown here handcuffed and bloody was taken to st. alphonsus medical center for self-inflicted injuries then just after 2:00 a.m. this morning as meade was about to be transported back to prison, the accomplice, nicholas umphenour, opened fire shooting two officers, a third caught in the cross fire police say the suspect and inmate then fled in this gray honda civic. >> we believe that this was a coordinated attack, certainly a planned endeavor to free him from custody. >> reporter: all three officers expected to survive. >> they could be anywhere at this point. >> reporter: investigators releasing these photos of meade's tattoos and say he's a member of a white supremacist gang he had been in prison for eight years after shooting at a deputy during a high-speed chase. he was eligible for parole in 2026 police urge the public

if you see the suspects, do not approach them. but call 911 lester >> dana griffin, thank you. in utah, a predawn explosion destroyed a duplex early today it happened in the town of american fork south of salt lake city officials said the body of a woman was found in the fiery rubble while another person was safely evacuated. the cause is under investigation. it is spring, but tonight parts of upstate new york and connecticut are still getting a taste of snow while more is on the way in the midwest. al roker joins me. al, what's in store? >> lester, already we have got winter weather advisories stretching from montana all the way into the northeast tomorrow snow will spread from montana into north dakota. this southern system is going to bring heavy rain to texas and the gulf then we move into friday, steady snow in the upper midwest and the great lakes. heavy, soaking rains through the southeast. we move into saturday. we're looking at systems merging along the east coast, heavy rain along i-95. heavy snow up into new england with snow/rainfall amounts

anywhere from one to three inches from florida all the way into the northeast, heavy snow from new england all the way into montana, and a second storm, lester, sunday to monday bringing heavy snow to the northern plains, so winter not quite done yet. >> happy spring. all right, al. thanks very much alabama today became the latest state to target diversity programs at public colleges and other state agencies senior legal correspondent laura jarrett has late details for us >> reporter: tonight the governor of alabama signing a new law banning all diversity programs across the state's public universities and government agencies >> sb-129 has passed. >> reporter: it passed with overwhelming republican support, but likely to face legal headwinds soon for its broad sweep. as of october 1st, any program that involves a, quote, divisive concept cannot receive state funding. republican governor kay ivey saying today, i refuse to allow a few bad actors on college campuses or wherever else, for

that matter, to go under the acronym of dei using taxpayer funds to push their liberal political movement the law coming after days of debate in the state legislature. >> everybody in this room is created equal, and so i thank you for bringing this now that we can no longer taxpayer money can go to programs to teach us we are different. >> reporter: civil rights advocates arguing it tramples on the constitutional rights of students and faculty. >> when you have a bill like this, and it's incredibly vague, folks get scared this is going to have a direct impact on dei offices across the state. >> reporter: alabama only the latest in a line of states taking sharp aim at diversity programs florida's stop woke act preventing companies from requiring diversity trainings, now tied up in legal challenges. [ crowd chanting ] but back in montgomery, students have been making their voices heard all month. >> dei has never made

me feel threatened, hurt >> reporter: alabama schools tonight now trying to sort through the implications of how to comply with this new law and still teach. laura jarrett, nbc news fireworks today at a house hearing in the impeachment inquiry into president biden republicans pressing former hunter biden business associates, but one witness accusing them of peddling russian propaganda ryan nobles has late details for us from the capitol. >> reporter: tonight, a fiery inflection point in the impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. >> excuse me, sir. excuse me, sir this is -- mr. bobulinski, this is my time. >> reporter: house republicans holding a hearing designed to feature hunter biden who had asked to give public testimony but declined to appear instead the committee heard from a pair of former hunter biden business associates, who testified despite president biden's denials, he was involved in his son's

businesses >> he was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business. >> reporter: they say joe biden participated in person and on speakerphone in meetings and dinners with hunter's foreign business partners. hunter's former business associate, jason galanis, testifying from prison. >> the vice president said, hello, some pleasantries and then safe travels and then said, okay, you be good to my boy. >> reporter: but democrats firing back saying, there was no evidence of a crime. >> with any luck today marks the end of perhaps the most spectacular failure in the history of congressional investigations, the effort to find a high crime or misdemeanor committed by joe biden and then to impeach him for it. >> reporter: democrats invited lev parnas, a one-time associate of former president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani, who testified that he was tasked with digging up dirt on biden business ventures in ukraine. >> i found precisely

zero evidence of the bidens' corruption in ukraine. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview, parnas accused republicans of being willing accomplices of the kremlin. >> they're not getting down to the truth. all they're doing is pushing the same russian narrative of propaganda. >> reporter: and tonight the oversigh committee chairman, james comer, saying he will invite president biden to testify at an upcoming hearing lester >> ryan nobles, thanks a big announcement today from president biden in battleground arizona. billions in tech grants that will bring tens of thousands of new jobs at a time when many voters say the state needs an economic jump-start. christine romans is there. ♪ >> reporter: president biden today in the critical swing county of maricopa, arizona, with a multibillion dollar delivery. >> we will enable advanced semiconductor manufacturing to make a comeback here in america after 40 years. >> reporter: mr. biden announcing $8.5 billion in grants and 11 billion more in loans to semiconductor manufacturer intel,

money from the bipartisan c.h.i.p.s. act passed in 2022 the money going toward the construction and expansion of intel facilities in arizona, ohio, new mexico, and oregon >> combined it will create nearly 20,000, 20,000 construction jobs. >> reporter: here in chandler, arizona, 6,000 construction workers are building two c.h.i.p.s. plants known as fabs projected to host 3,000 manufacturing jobs intel's ceo, pat gelsinger, says the government investment is essential to competing with china >> it isn't just a question of our national security. it's every aspect of our economy, as well, and these are great jobs >> reporter: the owner of chandler restaurant gadzook's, aaron poole, welcomes the investment and the foot traffic it could mean after people were working from home for years. >> in a fab shop, you actually have to go in to work. >> reporter: and he hopes out for lunch. poole says business owners like him are in a paradox. >> well, now we're at a point where you can't raise prices anymore. the consumer won't

allow it. >> reporter: but he says he has no choice but to raise wages 19-year-old cashier talia brings home $1,300 every two weeks. >> it's good that you get paid more, i guess, but then at the end of the day, it's like everything is so expensive, it's like you're not really getting much out of it. >> reporter: affordability top of mind here in maricopa county over the past four years, home prices up 53%, rents have surged 37%. people left to figure out how to make it all add up >> we said people are paid more, but everything costs more. >> right, and we just have to do more with less >> reporter: with so many struggling with high housing costs and lingering inflation, president biden has low approval ratings on his handling of the economy. one of the reasons why he's highlighting bills like the bipartisan c.h.i.p.s. act as he seeks a second term. lester. >> christine romans in arizona, thank you. in 60 seconds, princess kate's health mystery. did someone gain access to her medical records at the

hospital where she had surgery? the new investigation next

there is new drama for britain's royals as questions swirl about princess kate's health an investigation now under way into whether kate's medical records were breached at the hospital where she underwent surgery. molly hunter is in london >> reporter: tonight, a serious allegation of a data breach at the london hospital where the princess of wales had surgery back in january multiple uk news outlets reporting three staff members at the london clinic are being investigated for allegedly trying to access kate's personal medical information, which nbc news has not confirmed. the uk government privacy watchdog confirmed to nbc news they received a breach report but didn't share whether it included one or more allegations. kensington palace not confirming whether or not kate has been notified referring questions to the london clinic, which

in a statement said, in the case of any breach, all appropriate investigatory, regulatory, and disciplinary steps will be taken. >> even if it is someone who was just feeling a little bit nosy, they should not have been able to access her records. >> reporter: king charles was there in january for his prostate procedure tonight, buckingham palace wouldn't comment on whether or not the king's medical data was affected. the allegation of a data breach comes amid continued scrutiny as photo agencies review past handout photos from the royal family. the getty photo agency and reuters now calling into question numerous digital inconsistencies in this photo taken by kate in august of 2022, all signs that unless kensington palace fills the void, the headlines will keep coming. data breach is a serious violation of british law. the health minister spoke about the hefty implications, which could include prosecution or fines lester. >> all right molly hunter in london, thanks. up next, the small

town divided over migrants with more arriving to fill so many open jobs our report is next

we're back now with the divide over the migrant crisis while many big cities are feeling the strain, some smaller towns are torn over whether to welcome migrants as they look to fill thousands of jobs julia ainsley has our report >> reporter: in major cities across america, officials say they've reached a breaking

point, struggling to handle the record number of arriving migrants, but here in small town fremont, nebraska, where there are just 39 workers for every 100 job openings, some are encouraging even more legal migrants to come. >> we need these people we need this work done. this is what feeds the nation and the world >> reporter: many of the openings are at this half billion dollar chicken plant opened in 2019 young locals often move away leaving those slaughterhouse jobs to migrants like vicente hernandez. "with hispanic migrants, although it is hard, although it is heavy, they endure," he says "the difference with an american citizen is that every time he finds a job, when he sees that it's hard, he leaves it," he says hernandez and his wife are also pastors to the growing guatemalan community. ♪ once this town of 27,000 was nearly all white. now, one out of six are latino since 2018, the school district added almost 800 non-english

speaking students. meatpacking is the biggest industry here in fremont. the state's chamber of commerce says nebraska needs to welcome more migrants to fill jobs like these, but some residents here are resistant to that change voters backed a town ordinance twice, which says locals must tell the city that they are here legally before they can rent housing. the city cannot always verify the information, but people say the law remains on the book to send a message councilman paul van baron supports it. >> why was it brought up >> citizens had asked the city council to do something, because it was pretty obvious that we were becoming a haven for illegals >> reporter: he argues slaughterhouses paying low wages to migrants lowers incomes for citizens and criticizes increased costs for migrant children at local schools. >> the sheer pressure of bringing in numbers of people has resulted in a considerable burden to the taxpayers. >> reporter: but city councilman mark jenson who's lived in the area since he was 10 years old is against that ordinance. >> it's a bad look for our city.

>> reporter: and he says, fremont needs to embrace change. >> immigration is crucial. a lot of people who lived and grew up here don't stay they move out. it's critical for us to have the people that we've got here. >> reporter: back at the church, vicente tells us he regularly gets about three hours of sleep a night, but still he and his wife maria say they found their new hometown "now i live the american dream, as they call it i'm happy, because i have everything," she tells us >> reporter: state officials say they often have problems with undocumented workers using fake i.d.s. just this month four migrants were charged with using them to get slaughterhouse jobs. lester >> all right julia, thank you coming up, baseball's opening day half a world away.

finally, baseball is back. the mlb's historic season opener played today in seoul, south korea, as the sport's new highest paid player made his dodgers debut. here's janis mackey frayer. >> reporter: the opening pitch in major league baseball this year was thrown thousands of miles from home. >> today it's the dodgers and the padres. >> reporter: in south korea where tickets for the two-game seoul series between the padres and dodgers sold out within minutes. >> we're here to see the dodgers and support our team we traveled from l.a >> reporter: "i tried for three hours to get a ticket online," says this fan "every ounce of effort was worth it."

inside the stadium looked and sounded more like a concert. >> here he is, shohei ohtani. >> reporter: the main draw, shohei ohtani, the japanese superstar making his dodgers debut with his family in the stands. "it was so fun," says this fan "for me it was all about ohtani." >> we have more talented players coming from japan, korea, so no better place to start the season and lean into this globalization of the sport than starting it in seoul >> reporter: back in southern california, the 16-hour time difference was a curveball for these bleary-eyed fans up early to watch at a bar. >> when are you going to get the opportunity to wake up, watch a game at 3:00 a.m. with a bunch of crazy people? >> reporter: south korean players enjoyed a sort of homecoming too. >> i think the energy, the enthusiasm from the korean fans is great. >> reporter: the final score, 5-2, dodgers, but fans here very much the winner. janis mackey frayer, nbc news, beijing.

and that is "nightly news. join us tomorrow for an inside look at a first of its kind monument shining a light on a deeply personal side of american history for so many. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >> here comes ohtani

i'm raj mathai. next on nbc bay area news tonight, would you believe one vote, one of the most high profile and expensive races in the state is down to a single vote, and they're still counting. this is to replace congresswoman anna eshoo. also, license plate readers are coming to san fr