weather extremes millions brace for one to three inches of rain per hour. that's how much water is expected in the south and along the gulf coast into saturday and more flash flooding is in the forecast this morning the irs is on alert as a grow willing number of threats being realized over president biden'sen into hire over 80,000 new agents a nuclear power plant disconnected from the power plant. lester holt with exclusive

access to nasa's training ground and here's something you don't see in tsa lines every day. turns out even bald eagles get a pat down before boarding their flight it's friday, and "early today" is ready for takeoff morning, i'm phillip mena. >> glad to be with you to end your wyeek, i'm frances rivera. we could learn by noon what sparked the search of mar-a-lago agents recovered at least 11 sets of classified documents during the search earlier this month. the judge's decision came hours after the justice department submitted its proposal for extensive redactions to the document which established probable cause in the case meanwhile, mr. trump also has a deadline today his legal team needs to better

explain his lawsuit against the justice department his team asked for a special master to review the documents seized at mar-a-lago the irs commissioner has announced a comprehensive review of safety at irs locations across the country after threats against personnel appeared on social media the tax chief blaming misinformation nourishing after the inflation reduction act added billions to the budget gabe gutierrez breaks it down. >> reporter: in a letter, the commissioner is order ing a comprehensive review in recent days there has been an abundance of misinformation some with threats directed at the irs and employees. >> we are a target >> reporter: the worker in chicago is told to leave badges at the office.

the inflation reduction act inclu has $ $80 billion funding. some conservatives have falsely claimed that the agency plans to hire 87,000 mostly-armed agents >> those irs agents are designed to come after you. >> it's joe biden's new army >> are they going to have a strike force that goes in with ak-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small business person in iowa? >> reporter: in reality, only a fraction of irs employees work on criminal investigations and care eye firearms. >> words have power and consequences and you're putting federal employees, your fellow americans, in danger by saying this >> reporter: john kofx nen says

they received repeated threats this is the first wide-ranging security review since the oklahoma city in 1995. back to you. >> all right, gabe, thank you. in ukraine, there have been new alarming developments at the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. ukrainian officials say the plant has suffered a complete disconnection from the country's energy grid for the first time in the plant's 40-year history disruptions to the electricity supply could compromise the schooling systems vital to the facility the head of the international atomic energy agency hopes to send a mission to the site within days. now to breaking news four people including a law enforcement officer and suspect are dead after a shooting at an

apartment complex in tucson, arizona. the officer has been identified and according to officials, shots were fired after the constable and complex employee tried to serve an eviction notice the suspect and other two victims have not been identified and an investigation is under way. a texas state university student has raised nearly $150,000 towards the adoption of a child he found in the trash while i he was visiting his home country of hate eye. haiti. he asked a judge if he could adopt the child and the judge said yes the boy lives with his mother in haiti. the average adoption costs $30,000. he has raised nearly five times that on gofundme the southeast and gulf region are on high alert as more storms are set to dump three

inches of rain per hour. mississippi already flooded bracing for more kerry sanders has the latest >> reporter: 5 million people under flood watch as torrential rains move across the gulf this as flash floods pounded mississippi, derailing trains, washing out roads and forcing nursing home residents to flee to higher ground >> if we instruct you that you are in a high-risk area, please heed that advice >> reporter: while water has receded outside jackson, the mayor warning of more to come. >> i think it important that our residents prepare in advance >> reporter: a big concern, the pearl river already three feet above flood stage and could soon impact homes and businesses. that's only six feet less than the floods that ripped through the same area in 2020, damaging more than 500 homes.

just this week in florence, more than 100 children and employees had to be rescued intefrom a day care in a nearby town, bear creek is the concern, this man and his wife are house-bound will you have to evacuate? where will you go? >> wherever. >> reporter: this is far from over the pearl river is expected to crest eight feet aboved into stflood stage. next in the path, the florida panhandle. >> our thanks to kerry for that report historic drought conditions are still impacting the west water cuts to change the face of the las vegas strip. measures are under investigation that would stop new resort hotels from including water features in their design plans

this comes as nevada must cut its consumption by 8% next year. jamie foxx is reminding everyone that he can do anything, including his spot-on impression of donald trump check it out >> i love snoop. >> you love death row records. >> i love, excuse me, excuse me. excuse me. fake news. i love -- >> what's your favorite death row record, mr. trump? >> all of them i love death row records, don't try to pin me down excuse me, excuse me fake news. they tried to give me the virus. i beat the virus >> oh, foxx was on the rap radar pod p podcast promoting his new movie "day shift."

and i casually pulled off that impression i want to go back and list en t it a little more >> i'm shocked, it's the first time i'm hearing jamie foxx doing trump. he's been tucking that away for so long. >> he can sing he can dance, he can make us laugh. incredible let's get a read on the heavy rain expected in the south and the gulf states with michelle grossmann hi, michelle >> happy friday to you both. we're looking at the chance for showers once again scattered showers across the southeast not only today but saturday and sunday. the frontal boundary bringing the chance of storms we've been watching it we're going to see locally high rainfall amounts it's like a sponge that gets wrung out and we see a deluge of water. by tomorrow, popup storms in the

afternoon, especially in florida. can you see heavy rain where you're seeing the brighter colors, the reds, oranges, yellows. into sunday anely, this extends your picture perfect forecast in the midwest. 70s and 80s. all right, a soggy southeast once again today, soggy in parts of the northeast today, could see strong storms. we'll talk about that coming up. a bald eagle got some special tweetment at a north carolina airport, after deciding to give his wings a break and fly commercial instead, the tsa rolled out the red carpet for clark at a security checkpoint he was flying on southwestern

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maybe the grass isn't always greener when it comes to a career new research shows millions of workers regret quitting their job during the great resignation. gadi schwartz has the story. >> reporter: call it the great resignation regret more than 40 million americans left their job last year in hopes of finding a career with bert- be better paying hours. many say the switch has not met their expectations

>> it was just kind of a slow burn of oh, this is taking a lot out of me. i miss my old life >> reporter: for years, 39-year-old skylar masten worked as a server at one of l.a.'s hottest restaurants, but when the pandemic hit he started thinking about jumping ship. >> waiting tables can be difficult, and with the added parts of covid with masking it was staggering >> reporter: he quit and took a job teaching high school english where the pay was lower but fulfillment higher, so he assumed. was teaching what you thought it would be >> it was not necessarily what i expected oh, i'm making less money but probably working 80 to 90 hours a week, grading papers there was this great sense of is this really what i want? >> reporter: many other workers have shared that disappointment.

>> many will leave their jobs thinking the grass is greener, but grass is grass >> reporter: a lot of job jumpers moved to new careers that may pay more but are less satisfying >> work life balance and company culture is not aligning with their personal goals and priorities >> reporter: and just when skylar thought he was stuck his former restaurant called offering him a management job with higher benefits and less stress, so he took it. it's a national trend known as boomerang. some companies wooing back the former employ weisees with bett positions and perks. perhaps both learning lessons from the great resignation chaos. >> it makes sense. there are a lot of lessons the pandemic taught us when it comes to work-life balance and priorities >> you want to reset the priorities, but then you forget

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right now at 4:30, behind bars. the arrests made in separate highway shootings and the technology that could help catch future suspects sooner. plus a rally for geese. community activists protesting the removal of 100 canadian geese. the alternatives the city says it's exploring. a live look outside, meteorologist kari hall is tracking your weekend forecast, as we make those plans. what do you have in store? well, this is "today in the bay" right now, streaming live for you on roku, amazon fire, apple tv, and online. >> what do you have