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submersible. we've got the latest from the coast guard. triple digit temps bringing blackouts to the south people in the lonestar state are already turning off the lights on the clock confession. a california restaurant is under investigation for hiring a fake priest to talk to employees. we'll tell you exactly what the owners wanted workers to admit we're taking a look at a growing trend. if you build it, they will come whch come it's wednesday, june 21st. "early today" starts right now and good morning, i'm jessica layton >> glad you're with us, i'm frances rivera as we officially mark the changes of the seasons, severe conditions are continuing to pummel the united states a massive heat wave has led to triple digit temperatures and widespread power outages throughout the region.

some residents of mississippi were said to be without power and air conditioning for over four days as thermometers reached the 90 degree mark on tuesday. meanwhile, the often-strained texas electrical grid is facing new challenges posed by the relentless weather ercot asked the state's 30 million residents on tuesday to voluntary cut back on electricity use due to sweltering heat. we have breaking news on the search for the missing submersible touring the "titanic." the coast guard confirms that underwater noises were detected in the search area the update came after rolling sto stone first reported that they were hearing banging signs every 30 minutes nbc news has not verified. the clock is ticking to reach the missing sub which only has about a day's worth of oxygen left the youngest victim is suleiman

dawood on the sub with his father and ocean gate confirmed that their ceo stockton rush is on board a the pilot. a judge has ruled that minors in arkansas has access to gender-affirming medical care writing that evidence shows the medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients this ruling could have ripple effects across the country, as similar restrictions in other states are also facing legal challenges a federal judge has made the decision to reveal the identities of those who provided bail for indicted congressman george santos. judge joanna seibert ordered tuesday that the names behind the $500,000 bond be revealed by thursday at noon this comes after santos and his legal team argued against unsealing the names, warning it could lead to what they called unnecessary retaliation.

santos pleaded not guilty in may to 13 counts, including wire fraud and theft of public funds. a lawyer for the congressman did not respond to a request for comment from cnbc. after years of scrutiny and highly-publicized investigations, the president's son has accepted a plea deal on multiple misdemeanor charges as nbc's peter alexander explains, even the younger biden's harshest critics are not happy about the outcome. >> reporter: after a five-year investigation, the president's son hunter biden has reach add plea deal with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and likely avoid prison time they say he did not pay more than $100,000 on taxes of $1.5 million in income and the prosecutor will recommend probation. while also agreeing not to prosecute hunter biden for illegally possessing a firearm

even though biden knew he was bar barred from doing so because he was using drugs. he faced a maximum of 12 months behind bars for each tax charge and up to 10 years for owning the handgun. >> i think what is fair is my client gets on with his life >> reporter: still republicans are slamming the deal that comes days after a 37-count indictment against former president trump for handling of classified documents. mr. trump has pleaded not guilty the former president accusing the biden justice department of giving hunter biden quote, a mere traffic ticket, our system is broken. top republicans argue it's evidence of a doubling standard. >> it continues to show the two-tier system in america if you are the president's leading political opponent, dpoj doj literally tries to put new jail and give you prison time. if you are the president's son you get a sweetheart deal. >> reporter: the u.s. attorney

was appointed by former president trump and was kept in office to avoid conflicts of interest and attorney general merrick garland has said he's not interfering in the case. still, an irs aigent has request requested whistle-blower protection the investigation first focussed on hunter biden's foreign business dealings. he's been blasted by republicans, including for his high-paying job on the board of a ukrainian energy company while vice president was in charge of ukraine policy hunter was pressed in 2019 whether that company would have asked him to be on its board if his last name was not biden. >> i don't know. probably not i don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't biden >> reporter: and house republicans are vowing today's plea deal will not impact their ongoing investigation into biden family finances. >> this is an investigation of

whether or not joe biden is compromised because of the millions of dollars that his family has received from foreign nationals. >> reporter: president biden's repeatedly defended his son. >> first of all, my son's done nothing wrong. >> reporter: this reaction after hunter biden's agreement to plead guilty >> i'm very proud of my son. >> and our thanks to peter for that report. ukraine says it's secured the safe return of three prisoners of war from hungary, which is where russia sent them after they were captured on the battlefield. ukraine has accused victor orbin's government of denying them contact with pows in hungary. let's go to josh letterman what do we know about these pows >> reporter: well, good morning, these three released pows were part of a group of 1 1 ukrainia p.o.w.s about two weeks ago.

there's been some information released by the russian orthodox church indicating they may be of hungarian ethnicity and coming from an area where there's a large hungarian minority that may explain some of the connection there meanwhile, hungarians have said, look, they were released freely into the country, they came here of their own volition and are free to to whatever they want. they're not under surveillance, they're not under lock and key the ukrainians say that is false, that they have been trying for weeks to make can't with them. they were unable to do so. that the communications of these ukrainian p.o.w.s were being monitored in hungary ukraine working fever ishly to get the rest of that group of 11 released as soon as they can >> were ahy are they sending prisoners of war to hungary? >> reporter: there's not a clear answer other than the fact that hungarian prime minister viktor

orban has maintained close connections with putin, despite the fact that hungary is both a member of nay toto and eu. we have seen hungary be one of the most reluctant nations to really push back against president putin's war in ukraine. president biden has leaded china's leader xi jinping a dictator mr. biden maid the de the comme during a campaign fundraiser in california the president said quote, it's a great embarrassment for dictator when is they didn't know what happened, the remarks come on the heels of a successviful vis to beijing by antony blinken in france, authorities have raided the paris olympic headquarters as part of an investigation into suspected

corruption prosecutors announced two ongoing investigations into embezzlement of public funds and favoritism in awarding contracts. the organizing committee for next year's summer games say they are cooperating with investigators. it's the third summer olympics in a row embroiled in appoint corruption probes. both the rio games and tokyo games were tarred by allegations of vote buying, leading to the removal of several olympic committee members. severe weather is bringing rain to parts of the country angie lassman is tracking the developing storms in the forecast good morning >> we do have the rain we're watching for parts of the east and the potential for strong storms stretched through the plains, from wyoming to texas, the chance for strong winds, hail also possible up to two inches, and we can't rule out isolated tornados it does include from texas all the way nupe pup into parts of

wyoming. here's area that we're expecting for the hail we have the rain we talked about and watches are up for flooding concerns across parts of appalachia continuing to track tropical storm brett with winds at 50 miles per hour those have come up a little bit in the past 24 hours mo l no longer expecting it to bes oe digits from brownsville to san antonio and lubbock with a high of 102 today and that's a look at your forecast, ladies, we'll send it back to you. "early today" is back in 60 seconds, as senator sanders is takiking his f fight to amazon's

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