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after disney mull pulls the plug on a $1 billion proonl a bold move against the commander in chief marjorie taylor green introducing impeachment articles against president biden. dozens of firefighters scramble to save employees and meet the globetrotter who embarked on a world trip in just six days. we'll tell you how he did it it's friday, may 19. "early today" starts right now >> good morning and welcome to friday, i'm frances rivera >> i'm phillip mena. the united states is less than two week's way from possibly defaulting on its dedebt some democrats are pushing president biden to go around

congress and use the 14th amendment. >> reporter: in japan, president biden ignored questions over the problem at home, the debt limit. but house speaker kevin mccarthy is now striking his most optimistic tone yet that a deal will get done before a looming deadline two weeks away. >> we're not there we haven't agreed to anything yet, but i can see the path that we can come to agreement >> reporter: the white house has vice president harris making its pitch to the american people >> congress must act to prevent default. >> reporter: economists warn without a deal default could cause interest rates to skyrocket on bonds, mortgages and potentially lead to millions of lost jobs republicans are pushing for budget cuts and work requirements on some welfare recipients, deal breakers for some progressives. >> you do not balance the budget on the backs of children and elderly. >> reporter: republicans are bashing the president for

attending the g-7. >> what does the president do after saying the sky is falling in he leaves town. >> reporter: several democrats are urging the president to egg nor republican demands all together and use the 14th amendment which would face legal challenges >> we are saying to the president examine this closely, we have your back. >> reporter: but at this point the white house appears reluctant to use that option chris pollone, nbc news. the fbi has pulled the security clearances and questioned the allegiance of three of its agent whose have been calling themselves whistle-blowers. the bureau sent a letter to congress ahead of the appearance of two of those agent at a republican sub committee hearing on thursday. we go to brie jackson in washington good morning talk about what was outlined in that letter. >> reporter: good morning, frances. the letter from the fbi to congress was originally reported by the "new york times" on wednesday evening. it details the revocation of the security clearance of three

agents whose conduct in cases related to the january 6 assault opt capitol brought into question their allegiance to the united states. the letter preceded the appearance of two of these agents, steven friend and marcus allen, before the republican-led house sub committee on the weaponization of the federal government according to the letter, friend told his management in florida that he would not work on the january 6 cases and espoused an alternative narrative of the day's events allen, similarly embraced alternative theories about january 6 and failed to provide relevant information to a special agent about a suspect who was discovered to have physically assaulted capitol police officers. allen previously revealed in a lawsuit against the bureau that he had been suspended without pay. >> all right, brie, want to can you, what did this republican-led sub committee expect to hear from these agents >> reporter: well, friend and allen appeared in a hearing

related to abuses seen at the bureau and how the fbi has retaliated against whistle-blowers. the panel, led by ohio republican jim jordan, was a major priority of the republican agenda when they took back the house last fall and is focussed on allegations that the government has unfairly targeted conservatives. here's what jordan himself had to say about the her from the bureau >> didn't surprise us. we actually expected it. we were surprised it took them this long to put out the letter about these guys but you'll hear from these individuals today, these brave americans. >> reporter: congressman jordan answ answered positively when asked if republican leadership would be be willing to withhold funding for the fbi. the feud between florida

governor desantis and disney may be causing problems for his state. disney is pulling the plug for an office development which would have brought 2,000 jobs to orlando. the executive said the decision was made because of quote changing business conditions and the return of bob iger he did not mention desantis. the governor's office says the decision was unsurprising and that the campus was announced nearly two years ago and nothing ever came of the project house republicans have filed the first articles of impeachment against president biden since assuming power last fall the measure was introduced thursday by congresswoman marjorie taylor green of georgia and accused biden of abusing his power by quote endangering the security of the united states and thwarting the will of congress it focussed on his actions at the border the article claims that biden is endangering the lives of every day americans with open boarder policies the gop does not have the votes

to impeach biden on thursday the white house condemn condemned green's actions. jack teixeira, the international guardsman charged with posting sensitive pentagon documents online says he had been warned at least three times that he was mishandling chfed mat classified material. teixeira has a detention hearing today. the fbi arrested the 21-year-old in massachusetts more than a month ago. he could face up to 25 years in prison if found guilty at least 13 people have died in severe flooding in northern italy. the agriculture sector has been hit especially hard. the region's president compared the devastation to an earthquake that struck in 2012 and the economic damage will likely be in the billions. let's go live to claudio lavanga who's following the story from rome what's latest on the rescue

efforts? >> reporter: good morning, frances. after a break from the rain yesterday, the water started receding and it left behind a trail of death and devastation with scenes that you're more used to in countries with tropical weather and climate, not italy, with entire towns under water, roads and bridges collapsed and cars washed away and people having to be rescued from the roofs of their holmes by helicopters by rescuers now the thousands of people were evacuated in the past few days have started to go back to their homes, to their businesses to clear up the mud, the rubble with the help of hundreds of young volunteers, but while they do so, theys had keep an eye at the sky because they know that more rain is expected throughout the weekend, frances >> hopefully they can get somewhat of a break. i want to ask you of the headline about the intruder at the vatican. >> reporter: yeah, last night at

8:00 in the evening, a 40-year-old driver who did not have authorization to enter the vatican drove or rather rushed through one of the main gates of the vatican with his car despite attempts of swiss guards to stop him and he sped up, driving at high speed inside the vatican. other vat sican security fired shots at him and they closed gates to the residence where the pope resides they arrested the guy and said the man, the vatican said he has psychiatric problems, meaning that probably this was an act by a disturbed man rather than a premeditated attack, frances >> and there were no injuries. chaud y claudio, thank you. two construction workers are missing after a massive five-alarm fire erupted in

charlotte, north carolina. the rapidly-growing flames started around 9:00 a.m. on thursday morning, engulfing an apartment building under construction >> it was very hot, and the smoke, the water in my eyes, it was insane i've never experienced anything like this. >> more than 90 firefighters responded, officials say, rescuing 15 workers from the construction site, including one pulled from a crane and taken to the hospital the blaze became so intense at times some firefighters needed help the charlotte fire department does not know how the fire started and said they cannot confirm any loss of life at this time and parts of the country gearing up for a wet start to the weekend. nbc meteorologist michelle grossmann is here with the severe weather risk developing right now. hi, michelle >> hi there, guys, great to see you. we're already seeing that rain falling. we're going to see the chance for strong to severe storms as we go through the later part of the day once we get the daytime

heatingradargradar showing shown texas, where you see the reds, oranges and yellows is where you see the heavier rain falling we're going to expect the chance for severe storms, winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour. that could cause damage. large hail, even the chance for a few tornados they will be brief the likeliest spots, fort smith, dallas, austin, abilene, where you see the yellow shading, that's where we're expecting the likelihood for storms later on today. we have a cold front moving through the middle of the nation showers and storms along the front and it stretches from texas to arkansas. the cold front moves off to the east and we're looking at the chance for soggy weather in portions of the northeast.n pla

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