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than those in recent past. miami vice two caught on camera allegedly stealing thousands of dollars of items from bags. the college football rivalry heating up big time. we are breaking down the pregame beef a new jersey officer surprises a crowd when he hopped into a round of double dutch now his brothers in blue have dubbed him the double dutch king get ready to jump into friday. it's september 15. "early today" starts right now >> good friday morning to you. i'm jessica layton >> glad you could be with us, i'm frances rivera president biden's son has been indicted on gun charges. he will face charges in delaware federalcourt on three counts while joe biden is not mentioned in any of the charges, it's shaping up to be a major political headache for the president vying for reelection

ryan nobles starts us off this morning. >> reporter: hunter biden under criminal indictment and facing the possibility of prison time special counsel david weiss not commenting after handing down three federal felony gun charges against hunter biden for allegedly lying about his drug addiction when he purchase add firearm. two of those carrying maximum time in prison weiss had negotiated an agreement for the president's son to avoid any prison time by going through a pre-trial diversion program on the gun charge and pleading guilty to tax charges. the republicans had slammed it as a sweetheart deal and blasted merrick garland for choosing weiss as special counsel to investigate biden. the top republican told us the gun charges are not enough >> if i ranked them one through

12, i would rank it a distant 12 and this is the one crime you can't tieback to the president >> reporter: house republicans have opened an impeachment inquiry on whether the president benefitted from the businesses of hunter biden. though they've presented no evidence against the president yet. >> that's what they've spent all year doing, and have turned one no evidence. none that he did anything wrong >> reporter: one of the two irs whistle-blowers to testify to congress that hunter biden was given preferential treatment during the tax investigation is speaking out to nbc news >> i'm a 38-year-old gay man i'm, my politics are simple. i'm, i am a democrat >> reporter: joe ziegler telling tom winter at that weiss was not the right choice for special counsel. >> did there come a point at that there were witnesses at that you wanted to intervoo you

that prosecutors said we don't think that's a good idea >> yes, tare were multiple witnesses that we wanted to go interview, and we were shot down >> should the american people have confidence in the outcome of this case >> there were leads that we didn't follow. there was evidence that we didn't follow. tw there were things at that we didn't do had thin those five y that were essentially halted from the prosecutors >> they say the charges are not warranted and maga republicans are interferes in the process. as for the whistle-blowers, wooil weiss, who is a trump appointee, says he was acting independently. on sunday, kristen welker makes her debut as host of "meet the press", taking over from chuck todd and on her first broadcast she sits down with former president

donald trump and an interview was also sought with current president biden in her exclusive interview, she asked from trump directly what we do if he took executive office with criminal charges still hanging over him take a listen. >> mr. president, if are you reelected, would you pardon yourself >> i could have pardoned myself. you know what? i was given an option to pardon myself, i could have pardoned myself when i left people said, would you like to pardon yourself? i had a couple of attorneys who said you can do it if you want. i had some people who said it would look bad if you do, because i think it would terrible here's the story these people are thugs, horrible people fascists, marxists sick people. they've been after me from the day i came down the escalator with melania, and i did a great job as president people are, great job, great this, great that, we built the military, space force, everything, i could go on

forever. let me just tell you i said the last thing i'd ever do is give myself a pardon >> turning now to the first time in the union's 88-year history some 13,000 members of the united auto workers union are officially on strike against all three of the big companies members walked out in missouri, a stellantis company in ohio and a factory in ma factory in micht we michigan >> we didn't want to be here we want fair economic and social justice for our members. that's what this is all about. it's a shame they drug it out, waited till the last week, so here we are. we got to do what we got to do >> leaders allege that their counterparts across the table weren't taking talks seriously turning to libya now where the death toll from the catastrophic flooding has soared to more than 11,000 in the city

of derna search and rescue efforts continue with more than 10,000 people still missing claudio, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jessica. the mayor of the town of derna warned the death toll may rise to as many as 20,000 people, and that will be astonishingly 20% of the whole population of 100,000. the town is completely destroyed. it looks like hiroshima after the atomic bomb. nbc news managed to speak to four survivors who are being treated in the hospital about a couple hours drive from the town of derna they all said the situation is catastrophic, and one of them told us that the town was destroyed within half an hour of the dam's collapse now this is a disaster that the united nations weather and climate agency said could have been prevented if theres with a

better warning system in place, but fingers are also being pointed at the level of maintenance of the dams, with the public prosecutor of libya opening an investigation, saying that anyone who is found, whose mistake or negligence is found to be responsible for the collapse of the dams will be held responsible this is after a calamity of epic proportion, saying 35,000 people at least have been rendered displaced and homeless >> so devastating, and it keeps getting worse of claudio, thank you. earlier this year, the east spl palestine derailment forced rez residents to evacuate. but now a final safety report is released about how the objection to ix accident happened and how another one could be prevented >> reporter: more than seven months after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in

east palestine, the select committee on rail safety provided its final report. >> my hope is that the outcome will be that everything that we do, we're creating a safer environment for the people in the state of ohio. >> reporter: the ten-member committee, including minority leader nikki antonio, were tasked with learning more about the fiery crash in the county. >> what we're trying to do is look at what happened and do everything that we can to prevent an incident like this from happening again >> reporter: the result of their month-long hearings are nine recommendations, including encouraging the passage of the railway safety act of 2023 in congress, funding a report on agriculture in the region and improving communication. >> we have to make sure first responders have a better idea of what is on a train, and that they can quickly access that

information. that's part of our recommendation >> and our thanks to neil fisher for that report. all eyes right now in the northeast on hurricane lee for more on where that hurricane is heading and thousahow it migt impact your weekend, here is angie lassman. >> this system has been something that has been somewhat of a slow mover, but this, as we get into the next 24 hours is finally going to start to impact folks in the united states. right now category 1 we have seen weakening, maybe becoming an extratropical system but either way we've got potential for tropical storm conditions to work interest way into parts of new england by later today. we have tropical storm warnings and hurricane warnings up. as the system continues to track to the north, again, remaining a category 1, the impacts to the southeast aren't changing. we're still dealing with high surf, rip current risk, all that is something we'll see through

the weekend. tass as it comes onshore, likely nova scotia, we'll see strong winds well from the center, gusts 30, 40, even as high as 50eigh to charlotte in the low 80s dealing with showers and thunderstorms from texas to mobile and that's a look at your forecast, ladies >> angie, thank you. in 60 seconds, tsa workers accused of stealing from passengers >> how they pulled off the heist that was worth thousands of dollars. at was worth thousands dollars. start your day with nature made.

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he was at an event on the 2nd. he had been working security at the mall when he took a break to take a check on a fellow female officer on a hot day >> trying to go about my duties, and sure enough, they called it out, want to seat oe the office double dutch you've never done double dutch if my life can you see part of my gear fell off my vest and i caught it halfway in the air t was someair. it was something i didn't flow i could do >> reporter: he's always been a fan of jumping rope for cardio >> it's harder than a lot of people think it went on longer than i expected i was like, all right, i think i got the hang of this i kept jumping >> reporter: he wasn't just

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