i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. it is saturday, june 4th. we appreciate you starting your weekend with us. we begin with a possible blow to the january 6th committee and efforts to interview witnesses. it will not indict two former trump officials found in contempt by the panel. the committee calls the decision not to prosecute mark meadows and dan scavino puzzling. this is ahead of the first public hearing on thursday. that s where new evidence and witness testimony is expected to be unveiled. let s bring in national reporter zach cohen with details. zach, walk us through the decision against prosecuting scavino and meadows. boris and christi, the committee is frustrated by the department of justice not to pursue inprosecute meadows and scavino. the committee put out a message in response to the news that the doj would not pursue criminal contempt charges. quote, we find the decision to reward mark meadows and dan scavino for the attack on the rule of law puzzli
But the Biden Administration is receiving a lot of criticism for the deal that brought them home. Well go through all of that in just a moment. Also ahead wellbri you a preview of President Bidens busy day at the United Nations General Assembly here in new york where hes expected to push for continued support for ukraine. Plus the latest on capitol hill to avoid a shutdown as House Republicans are struggling to get all their members onboard with even a shortterm funding deal. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, september 19th. Im jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. Later on this morning President Joe Biden is set to address the United Nations General Assembly for the third time. A Senior Administration official tells nbc news that the president will lay out for the world the steps that he and his administration challenges. Those challenges range from the Largest Armed conflict in europe since world war ii to escalating tensions with global
on. here we go with mask mandates and president biden is facing criticism for pushing the mask mandate. never put our kid back in masks. a man seen beating a woman in the subway for over two minutes. incarceration movement. we will never see alex murdaugh on the street again, never worry about that. his lawyers say they have evidence of jury tampering. duty calls, larry did everything. army helicopter pilot army taylor awarded medal of honor for his service in the vietnam war. brian: we begin with this, today is deadline for david weiss to submit updated version of diversion agreement that would settle a gun charge and keep the president s son out of jail. the house oversight committee issue six new subpoenas over claim that the agency tipped secret service and biden team in 2020 ahead of the tax probe interview. steve: committee chairman james comer is asking for document from homeland securityland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and testimony from
the storm. in their wallets, as essentially there is now a hurricane tax for living in the state. the risks are so great now that the last insurer is asking for a big rate hike. those are worries for these folks who live in these areas for another day. but i ll tell you, you hear it again and again, i didn t know water could rise that fast, and we are seeing it happen, play out in real time here. phil. all right, bill weir. again, for context, where bill was at the start of this morning versus where he is now. you look at the structures that his photojournalist is showing. this is moving very, very fast, rising very, very quickly in an area that doesn t have lot of history of storms of this scale. we will check back with bill throughout the course of the morning. i want to toss it back over to sara sidner. what are you seeing at this point? reporter: we are getting another one of those gusts.
welcome to the top of the hour. our special breaking news coverage this morning throughout the course of this morning, hurricane idalia. the category 3 storm that is rapidly intensified throughout the course of the morning before decelerating slightly made landfall near keaton beach in florida s big bend region. it is a category 3 storm. this what you are looking at now is less than 20 miles from keaton beach. the water levels have been rising throughout the morning. to give you context, particularly in this big bend region, this hurricane, hurricane idalia, is now most powerful storm to make landfall in that region in the past 1 20 25 years. sara sidner has been standing by all morning live in crystal river, florida. we have full team coverage all over florida s gulf coast.