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ukraine. gabe gutierrez on a police standoff between police and the gunman who stalked an fbi office in ohio. >> "early today" starts right now. >> i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. vanessa bryant says she has gotten justice for her husband kobe and daughter gianna a jury has sided with the widow, awarding her $16 million after she sued l.a. county after alleged graphic photos first responders took and shared she says she suffered panic attacks, fearing they would be posted online. the co-plaintiff chris chester lost his wife and daughter in the crash and was awarded 50 million in damages last year, los angeles county approve add $2.5 million

settlement with the mauser and another family over a similar lawsuit. also developing overnight, school district police chief arredondo has been fired over the massacre at robb elementary. the city's school board voting unanimously to terminate his position he says he has gotten death threats and didn't think the meeting was safe there was enormous pressure for him to be fired but the greatest pleas came from families like this father. >> our babies are dead, our type offe teachers are dead. >> nearly 75 minutes passed between police entering the building and the gunman being

killed arredondo was criticized for failing to take command during the shooting 19 of the victims were children. a statement was released saying in part that chief arredondo is a leader and courageous officer who with all of the other officers who responded to the scene should be celebrated for the lives saved instead of vilified for those they couldn't reach in time and not for lack of effort. the perfect storm of circumstances had to culminate to cause such a tragedy. there was only one person that caused this, the shooter and a judge could fill in a major blank on the mar-a-lago search it's deadline day on whether to release the affidavit approving the warrants which would reveal probable cause for the search at former president trump's florida home brie jackson is in d.c. with the latest good morning the clock is ticking >> reporter: that's right. prosecutors have until noon today to give a judge suggested redactions to the warrant's affidavit. the document will likely shed

new light into why the judge okayed the search. the magistrate previously said he is inclined to unveil some of it fbi agents recovered a trove of top secret and highly classified material from mar-a-lago but it began well before that, according to the national archives and records administration officials contacted the trump team about missing documents in may of last year the agency retreieved some of th documents but not all of them. so they turned it over to the doj. mr. trump was subpoenaed in may of this year and when the documents were still not turned over they executed a search warrant, something president biden was it asked about yesterday. >> mr. president, how much advance notice did you have of the fbi's plan to search mar-a-lago >> i didn't have any advanced

notice none, zero, not one sungle bit thank you. >>. >> reporter: earl remier, mr. trump's legal team requested a special master to oversee the handling of the seized documents. the judge set a deadline for tomorrow for requests. >> thank you, brooef the white house is delivering relief to millions of americans saddled with student loans. president biden unveiled his plan to cancel $10,000 in federal loans for those earning less than $125,000 a year. and if you paid down debt during the pandemic you can request a refund nbc's hallie jackson take as closer look at what led to the explosive rise in student debt

>> reporter: delivering on a promise. >> hey, folks. >> reporter: president biden forgiving $10,000 of student loan debt for people who have federal loans and earn lass than $125,000 a year. >> 95% of the borrowers can benefit from these actions >> reporter: in total about 45 million americans have some type of student loan debt now but it wasn't always that way. the gi bill gave benefits to veteran, including grants for colleg college. in 1958, president eisenhower signed the national defense education act to boost cold war efforts. that became the first federal student loan program in 1965, congress passed the higher education bill. it was later revamped to let parents in 1980 and grad

students take out loans for up 100% by 2009/2010, it jumped to more than 20 million people more of the cost was shifted to families tuition on average doubling in the past 30 year and sure enough, debt grew, too >> america's student debt is approaching $880 billion >> student loan debt has reached $1 trillion. and this's a record. >> $1.7 trillion in student debt. that is a thumb number that is going to keep rising >> reporter: for some federal borrowers, help is now on the way. six months since launching its invasion, russia doubles down on attacks on ukraine, this time striking a train

administration at admistation. at least 22 people were killed >> reporter: six months after it launched its invasion russia showing no signs of letting up these images from a railroad station where ukraine says a russian strike killed at least 22 people. air raid sirens in kyiv, though no attack. the mayor telling us the city could once again be a russian target >> any second, any minute. the russians >> reporter: as ukraine marks its independence day, painful reminders of the cost of war a short drive from the capital we arrive in bucha, more than 450 ukrainian civilians were killed here in the early days of the war. russian soldiers accused of war crimes people come to cemeteries to remember those they lost but here in bucha where hundreds are marked, grave sites are marked by numbers only names will never be known. then there's mariupol now under

russian control. ukrainian soldiers held out for weeks in a steel plant marina schumaker's husband was one of them. a mother of two young boys she spoke to kelly cobiella in april. they all want to live, she said. we followed up with marina she says her husband was captured by the russians but hasn't heard from him since. i don't know how to live without him, she said, we were together 27 years are you scared yes, shooe says, i'm scared president zelenskyy warns the city could come under attack in the coming days. a new york judge has granted an appeal to harvey weinstein. he was convicted in february of 2020 in rape and sexual abuse

charges. he is thousannow in los angeles awaiting a separate trial on similar charges. during a campaign stop, ron desantis condemned dr. fauci >> you have people like fauci saying that his lockdowns didn't cause any permanent damage to any young kids i got news for you, it d id we are going to reap those reward force years and years and years. someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the potomac. >> fauci did not immediately respond to a request for comment. the president's chief medical advisor says he will retire in december in the november midterms, governor deeesantis will face charlie crist. in mississippi, some 5 million people in the southeast

are under a flash flood watch. here's blayne alexander. >> reporter: in parts of central mississippi the scenes are dire. a desperate evacuation dozens of elderly residents rushed from a nursing home as floodwaters rush in. >> we do have full saturation of the ground so we knew we might have flash flooding >> reporter: so far more than 100 res accuse across parts of central mississippi, including this day care, where kids and emplo employees were rushed to safety. entire neighborhoods under water. >> it's really bad >> reporter: the water so powerful it forced part of a train off the tracks it is the latest city under flash floods some places seeing as much as 12 inches with much of it falling

in 12 hours and more on the way. it is the same deadly system that has made its way across the country, picking up steam as it moves to the east first flooding parts of arizona, then dallas, claiming at least one life in the process. blayne alexander, nbc news >> let's turn to michelle grossmann who's been tracking the drenching weather all week >> we've been tracking it since monday where it dumped all that rain in texas and moving so slowly to the east now we're seeing it in portions of the southeast. this is what it look like on radar right now. we do have heavy downpours in louisiana and mississippi. but most of the activity is through the state of georgia and the carolinas. we're seeing lightning, hearing thunder as well. we do have a flood watch where we see the green through parts of eastern texas into louisiana, portions of mississippi and alabama, the panhandle of florida, too

we could siemee them expanding throughout the day, also looking at the chance for more scattered showers and storms in portions of the southeast. your thursday forecast coming up in a bit >> sounds good, see you in a bit, michelle, thank you ndsand we're back in 60 secon withew video taking you inside the fbi standoff in cincinnati not okay. all...the...symptoms. need to deal with this. so your doctor tells you about trintellix, a prescription medicine for adults with depression. okay, feeling relief from overall symptoms. hmm. and trintellix had no significant impact on weight in clinical trials.

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here's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: the barrage of gunfire came during a standoff after a man tried to breach an fbi office earlier this month. a high-speed chase followed the attempted break-in the suspect stopping next to the cornfield. the gunfire starts troopers take cover. this video proecvided by wlwt by the warren county sheriff's office, just one of the agencies involved more officers arrive, including an aviation unit watching from above. >> he is back up on his knees, back on his knees. >> reporter: it is a rare look at officers assessing the threat in real time >> got a rifle

want to make sure we get heavy equipment there, and i think we come one a better game plan. >> reporter: the standoff lasts nearly six hours >> it appears he might have grabbed another firearm. >> reporter: eventually, law enforcement closes in. the suspect shot and killed. authorities have not confirmed the motive, but the suspect posted on social media about his desire to kill fbi agents after former president trump's mar-a-lago residence was searched back to you. >> all right, gabe, thank you. still to come, a touching tribute to charlie watt, one year after his death and the nfl says good-bye to a true ground breaker. what's next for shaquem griffin. so, skin looks firmer over time. with olay body, i feel fearless in my skin. pre-rinsing your dishes? you could be using the wrong detergent.

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