Survived a fall from an aircraft plus a year in the wilderness. And meet the teacher who went above and beyond the call to include all of his students on a class hiking trip. Early today starts right now good thursday morning. Im phillip mena good to be with you im Frances Rivera an explosive new phasee impeachment inquiry into President Trump gets underway this morning nbc news learned overnight the whistleblower complaint that set all of this in motion is now declassified and is expected to go public this morning with minimal redactions and in just hours, the acting director of National Intelligence, Joseph Mcguire, will appear before congress. He will testify at an open hearing before the House Intel Committee at 9 00 a. M. Eastern and then speak to the senate Intel Committee behind closed doors this afternoon well have more on what to expect from capitol hill in a few minutes. But first, nbcs susan mcinhe is has new details on the call between the president and ukraines leader repo
18 weeks. for six months now and it s can be 18 weeks. a jury has been told that lucy letby, the nurse accused of murdering babies, wrote i killed them on purpose because i m not good enough on a post it note. the metropolitan police is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse claims against its own staff. britain s most prestigious architectural award good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. liz truss is coming under more pressure from some of her own mps to rethink her tax cutting plans following last month s mini budget. it comes after the goverment last week abandoned its plan to abolish the a5p tax rate for top earners. but senior conservatives have continued to voice grave concerns at liz truss s tax cutting measures without explaining how she will balance the books. this afternoon, the chancellor kwasi kwarteng said he s totally focused on delivering the growth plan, in response to speculation about a u turn on the measures. let s listen to what he had
In the sport this morning, Nottingham Forest still seem to think the worlds against them and now want the audio of the contentious refereeing decisions released. Leeds united back in the automatic promotion. Places to head back to the premier league and a four time World Champion in him, considers retirement morning. Whilst it is the middle of spring, its not necessarily going to feel it with a bit of a cool feel for some of us and a bit of rain at times. Two ill have more details coming up. So after five months of deadlock, the rwanda bill has finally passed through parliament. Its poised to become law after peers ended their standoff over the controversial policy. While the showdown comes after the Prime Minister declared that enough is enough and said mps and peers will sit through the night to get the bill passed. So it now designates rwanda as a safe country and will allow the government to deport Asylum Seekers to there. Lets get some analysis this morning from the political comm
Heres why. The system bearing down on us expected to bring our first significant rainfall since. We have Live Team Coverage for you. Jeff ranieri has been tracking the storm for days now. Lets talk when well see it. Over the next two to three hours well begin to see the rainfall develop into the north bay. Right now the storm system itself is off to the north with the heavier pockets of rainfall. But it is beginning to spread cloud cover from San Francisco down san jose. We have moved storm ranger into the south bay. Its located at mt. Allison. Well be able to pick up this rainfall as it moves into the north bay. San francisco and the east way through tomorrow morning. Speak of which, i want to get you a sneak peek at the timeline. You can see by 12 30, spotty showers here, middletown to cal stowga, down to pain reyes. This is what were worried at 8 00 a. M. Anyone. Marin, napa, Sonoma County dealing with heavier rainfall. A slow push to the south though. Still may be only the north ba
Team coverage of this storm since 4 30. This mid day we have even more angles covered. Man of the hour is our meteorologist who has been using our newest piece of Weather Technology to track that storm. Yeah in fact were showing you all morning the storm ranger how it is scanning the skies and showing those rain droplets on our lens. Look at the rain fall. In San Francisco we didnt have as impressive amounts still a little more than a quarter inch and near soma about a quarter inch there. And near sfsu a little bit more than a quarter as well. Down the peninsula not as much Half Moon Bay less than a quarter of inch. There it is, tracking the rain making its way to the inner bay and will pull south into the south bay as we make our way home for the rush hour commute. This is just the first system of a series of two headed our ways over the next couple days. Lets talk now about our Newest Technology storm ranger. There it is sitting a top mt. Allison looking all good in its glory. You se