breaking overnight we now know of at least two articles of impeachment that will be revealed at 9:00 a.m. eastern today against president trump. late details ahead. >> and then we are live in new zealand where tourists describe a hellish scene after a volcano erupted, taking a number of lives and causing multiple injuries. the boeing whistle-blower going public this morning speaking only to nbc news. what he says he warned the company about months before two deadly 737 max crashes. britain prime minister boris johnson taking a page out of a hollywood romcom "love actually" to help gather support ahead of a hugely important election. and "the thtg observation on monday's impeachment hearings. >> before the impeachment

hearing began, lawyers for the republicans made quite an entrance look what he brought with him. yeah meanwhile, his wife is at the whole foods checkout with a brief case full of depositions like -- >> "early today" starts right now. good tuesday morning i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. in just hours, house lawmakers will present their case against president trump in full. multiple sources tell nbc news democrats plan to announce at least two articles of impeachment this morning abuse of power and obstruction of congress. the sources caution that the plans aren't final untilnnnceme. meanwhile, the president and republicans in congress continue to deride the investigation as a scam nbc's tracie potts join us with the latest from d.c. all right. tracie, at 9:00 a.m. eastern, we're going to learn what it's

about, is that right >> reporter: that's right. before that, the democrats in the house judiciary committee meeting one last time to make impeachment, at least the democrats agree on these two articles of impeachment. five sources telling nbc overnight that they are likely to be abuse of power and obstruction of congress. not some of the other charges that we had heard described but, again, it's not final until they are announced. this all comes after a nine-hour-long hearing where both democrats and republicans through their attorneys made their final case >> to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger. >> there is simply no clear evidence that president trump acted with malicious intent. >> donald j. trump, the president of the united states, has put himself before his country. >> they can't get over the fact that donald trump is president of the united states

>> reporter: president trump continues to cthd it's not final after the judiciary committee approves these charges. they still have to come up for a full vote, which as we've been k phillip? >> moving right along. thank you so much. let's turn to breaking news from new zealand officials have released the nationalities of 37 people on white island during this volcanic eruption that killed five people and left eight unaccounted for. nine americans were on the island and at least one american is among the missing nbc's sara james joins us from new zealand. sara, there are growing questions why these tourists were allowed to go near that island to begin with >> reporter: that's right, frances. because, of course, there had been some activity over the last couple of weeks. and there had been a slightly elevated level for the volcanos. so there are those questions

i was at a news conference, however, just a couple of hours ago and the mayor here in the town right near that, only on 18 miles from white island said that she's taken the tour and that this was a company that operated safely for 30 years she also said that families have begun flying in to new zealand from all over the world here to make sure that they can be with loved ones who are undergoing some really horrific times those who survived the burn units in hospitals across new zealand are filled to capacity the prime minister jacinda ardern spoke earlier today and credited the rescues who risked their lives to fly on to the island after two eruptions happened in short succession to bring the victims back to the mainland and she credited them with saving many lives meantime, of course, authorities here want to know more about

what happened and they want to get those who are still on white island off they are hoping that that recovery effort can go on tomorrow it was deemed too dangerous today. frances? >> all right hopefully they'll have better luck with that progress in the days to come sara, thank you. breaking news this morning out of chile a search and rescue mission is under way for 38 missing people. they were on board a chilean air force plan the plane was about six hours into the flight when officials lost contact it disappeared somewhere near the drake passage. there were 21 passengers and 17 crew members on board. no emergency signals were activated. they were headed to inspect a floating pipeline. chile has four bases in antarctica used for climate change research. peter frates has died at the

age of 34. his battle with als pushed people around the globe to dump buckets of ice water over their head to raise awareness and donate to the cause. nbc's kate snow has more. >> reporter: pete frates was an athlete. >> home run for peter frates. >> reporter: then at 27 devastating news. >> i was recently deciding with als. >> his parents said he never complained he wanted to raise awareness while having some fun, and so the ice bucket challenge >> this thing catches fire. >> yeah, the local tv to the national tv and then it goes to the entertainment world and then it went international. >> reporter: pete's dream was to reach bill gates. >> he did it and he's a kid that is very determined and very goal oriented. >> reporter: $220 million raised for als, trials under way for more than 100 potential therapies. none of it soon enough for pete. with his daughter and his wife,

two years ago he could only use his eyes to communicate. >> the thing i always tell people is to google three little letters, "als. learn how much it can devastate the mind, body and soul. >> he was a noble fighter, his family said, who inspired us all. kate snow, nbc news. switching gears now to "monday night football." a pair of nfc rivals going at it eli manning was back in the saddle for the giants trying to break an eight-game skid against the eagles early on it looked like eli had that mojo back, but things would fall apart for the giants in the fourth quarter philly managed to tie it up late and the eagles keep their playoff hopes alive on this touchdown here in overtime when eli never got the chance in overtime eagles win 23-17. some ups and downs weather wise here is nbc's janessa webb talking about some of the temperatures, too. >> right pretty good sleeping weather people saying with all the rain they're seeing across the northeast and midwest, right now we're going to see kind of a lull in the weather pattern then

the rain stars to pick up once again. also, the big headline today is we have a narrow band of snow that's starting to develop around dallas to little rock it will cause little to accumulation this morning into your afternoon could pick up significant accumulation for parts of the south going in later tonight so accumulation for rain, once again, that will start to rev out throughout your afternoon. to up to an inch more out to th el paso, high of 57 with the cloud cover in place for texas we'll talk about this snow forecast coming up when the 60s will start to fade away. >> that's what's up. >> yeah, right snow and bye-bye to 60s. >> can't wait for that thanks, janessa. today's quick hits

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weekend after weekend as there weren't enough engineers and electricians and some of them ended up doing jobs for a perfecstay he sent this email to the head of the 737 team in june of 2018 expressing his concern that workers were inadvertently imbedding safety hazards into our airplanes. i know how dangerous even a small defect can be to the safety of an airplane. he says he urged the boeing manager to shut down the factory for a few weeks to straighten things out. >> and what was his reaction to that >> he said, you know, we can't shut down. i kind of got mad and said i've seen military operations shut down for a lot less. >> what was he rly i'll never f military is not a profit making organization >> what words would you use to describe the factory at that point? >> dangerous unnecessary. taking unnecessary risk. chaotic.

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