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offensive, hoping to push russia further east while there's still time hard times at the l.a. times. team cu deep cuts at the newspaper. and previewing the tonys it's almost the weekend. friday june 9, "early today" starts right now >> i'm frances rivera. >> i'm phillip mena. >> former president trump has found himself at the forefront of history he revealed via post on truth social that his attorneys were informed that he's being indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with special counsel jack smith's probe into classified documents after leaving the white house. sources confirm to nbc news that the indictment includes seven charges, including one related to a section of the espionage

act. this marks the second indictment for trump in just over a two-month period the former president pleaded not guilty in april to 34 counts of falsifying business records in new york in a case connected to alleged hush money payments to stormy daniels in further posts to truth social, trump proclaimed that he is an innocent man and compared this to previous investigations, called it a hoax trump is expected to surrender at a federal courthouse in miami on tuesday in a major coup for voting rights in the u.s., the supreme court on thursday handed down a ruling that could shift the electoral makeups of several states for moreon this, we go to brie jackson in washington. explain why this surprising ruling matters now, and you've got 2024 still a ways. >> reporter: it's been ten years since the supreme court's ruling in shelby v holder, a decision which struck a key provision from the 1965 voting rights act

and enabled a number of restrictions this case was brought against the state of alabama by individual voters, and the stae conference of the naacp, accusing the state's legislature of violating section two of the voting rights act and discriminating against black voters while it was feared that the conservative-leaning court might further weaken the act, they ruled in a 5-4 vote against alabama. the state will now have to redraw its congressional map to include two majority black districts. conservatives brett kavanaugh and chief justice john roberts joined with the court's liberals in the majority. the naacp applauded the court's decision, calling it a victory for black america and that a proper democracy can not function without theck vote.

the federal government also commended the ruling with president biden reaffirming his administration's continued fight to restore or strengthen voting rights legislation frances? >> what immediate and long-term impact is expected to have. >> reporter: alabama will have an impact on the 2024 election louisiana is expected to redraw its congressional map due to the precedent set by this case democratic governor john bel edwards last year called for the state legislature to create new maps that include a second majority black district. this along with challenges to section two in georgia and texas could result in new majority mcand heavily democratic congressional districts and have a major influence on future elections. >> 2024 already has a lot of intriguing moving parts. this only adds to it brie, thank you. now to a nbc news exclusive.

an fbi official testified that an agent who house republicans presented as a whistle-blower has been suspended for leaking sensitive information. in a new letter, democrats are accusing garrett o'boyle who's allegedly suspended for providing information to the right wing group project veritas of lying to the committee about the issue and referring the matter to the attorney general merrick garland. o'boyle was a witness at a hearing held by house republicans in may on the weaponization of government along with two other self-proclaimed fbi whistle-blowers that the bureau warned had their security clearances revoked he denies any claim that he lied to the committee or leaked sensitive information to any outlet the dhs inspector general i facing fresh to resign he said he didn't consider texts on his government-issued phone to be federal records. >> are you using your federal

phone for personal purposes then >> no, sir >> all right, then what's the purpose for using your government-issued phone? >> to conduct business >> in a etter, be bennie thom n calling on him to step down immediately. his office has not responded the white house covid response coordinator will be leaving his post this month. dr. asheesh jaw will be returning to brown university to lead their school of public health he says he looks forward to working to correct the weaknesses in our health care system that were exposed by covid. president biden praised him for helping to save and improve the lives of americans can ai help people struggling with eating disorders? one national organization implemented the technology, but the ai chat bot was abruptly stopped after it began giving out information that may have been harmful

scott budman from nbc bay area has the details. >> reporter: the plan, to have the human staff at the national eating disorder association's hotline having an artificial chat bot using artificial intelligence things didn't go according to plan in people, i think they want a human voice. >> reporter: janice, executive director of san jose's eating disorder resource center said she was skeptical of the idea to replace an empathetic human with a bot. >> when people talk to me on the line, they always say, gosh, i feel that you understand you know, and they'll just be relieved >> reporter: earlier this week, researchers on the project say a bug lid bug led to the bot straying from the rules. the ais with able to generate

its own responses, some of which were inappropriate >> some of these screen shots that have gone out there about the chat bot recommending dieting or restricting a certain number of calories of course were never part of the chat bot that we developed or evaluated >> reporter: so the bot program has been pulled for now. but both sides agree that with funding hard to come by, the program to help those with eating disorders needs help. >> i do think that we've shown that we can develop this tool with guardrails to have really helpful conversations with people >> reporter: and both agree, in time, technology can be part of the solution >> you can't judge, because they're trying something new and that's always a good thing to experiment. that's what health and science is all about >> our thanks to scott budman from our nbc san francisco station. in israel, five people were killed in a shooting at a car wash outside nazareth in the country's north. one of the deadliest shootings

in modern history and the latest incident of violence plaguing the region the perpetrators have mainly been palestinian citizens of israel and police have been accused of not taking organized gang violence seriously. benjamin netanyahu issued a ststatement sasaying h his govo is deterermined to stop ththe c of murdersrs ukraine's long-awaited counter offensive against russia has begun. the region of sam zaporizhzhia is seeing increased fighting >> we've also discussed our unwavering support for the people of ukraine. in ukraine's military is declining to comment in line with the policy of not publicly announcing an offensive. ukraine has now started a significant new assault to push russia back to the east.

observers say it may be the country's last chance to make significant gains on the battlefield. the big story this week, the smoke. will it be sticking around this weekend? angie lassman has been tracking air quality alerts >> it's been quite the week when it comes to air quality. we're still dealing with beam unpeople under alerts 84 million people under this, dealing with this unhealthy air. but most of the focus toward the mid atlantic, and we have seen major improvements in new york, points west. as we go a little farther to the south, the mid atlantic, that's where the worst of the air quality is numbers coming in, in the unhealthy range richmond at 155 at this hour improvement is on the way. the heaviest and worst of the air quality is already out of the picture. but that doesn't mean hazy conditions are going to lift

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