investigation. among them, senator lindsey graham why didn't the d.a. pursue them? how graham is reacting. and just in, the judge's ruling on mark meadows' request to move his case to federal court. just breaking, the significant drop in the number of missing after the maui fires the race to rescue an american trapped more than 3,000 feet down a cave. why the mission could take days. and chaos at the u.s. open. protesters disrupting play one gluing his feet down the charges they face as coco gauff advances to her first u.s. open final. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening if you live along the east coast, you may already have an eye open for that monster hurricane lee. its explosive growth from a category 1 to a major category 5 hurricane in just 12 hours yesterday has forecasters in awe now, back down to a category 4, lee is the most powerful storm so far in the atlantic hurricane season at one point driving wind gusts of 165 miles per hour, but it's lee's potential path that has some folks on edge expected to swing well past the u.s. mainland but ready to deliver a calling card of dangerous surf conditions up and down the coast this coming week, but tonight for 50 million in the northeast and mid-atlantic from d.c. to boston, the more immediate threat comes from severe thunderstorms and heavy downpours. bill karins is here with the very latest what are you seeing, bill? >> well, good evening to you, lester, and this is going to be a major hurricane for at least the next five days, and then it will slow down. the big question, what happens the middle of next week? now the storm is at 13 miles per hour, and it will miss all land areas over the next five days, just sending large waves to the caribbean an eventually florida sometime on wednesday it will take the turn to the north if it's an earlier turn, our friends in bermuda will have to deal with le if it's later, possibly for the canadian maritimes a late turn, maybe even heading somewhere near the northeast, possibly maine or maybe cape cod that's kind of the big question as we head through the weekend. we've also been dealing with a lot of severe weather, 150,000 people without power. we've had damaging winds. we've had two-inch large hail throughout the northeast, and airport delays have been widespread from d.c. to boston. some are averaging one to two-hour delays at the current time these thunderstorms have peaked and high humidity and will cool things off but paid a price for it this evening. >> bill, thanks for that now to philadelphia where a police officer involved in a fatal near point-blank shooting of a man in his car last month has now been charged with murder as police body cam video of the encounter was released today. ron allen has more >> reporter: philadelphia prosecutors say the newly released body camera videos show the fatal encounter happened within seconds of officers pulling up to eddie irizarry's car. >> they are crucial evidence in the case, and in many ways they speak for themselves. >> reporter: officer mark dial now faces murder and other charges for allegedly shooting to death the 27-year-old man, who his family says loved music, cars, and had only a pocket knife in his hand >> i just want him to be remembered that he was a good kid and never was in trouble and loved his family >> reporter: dial turned himself in this morning, a five-year veteran who nbc news rode along with last summer for a story of gun violence in the same neighborhood where he allegedly killed irizarry. in a statement dial's attorney saying, the facts will unmistakableably show officer mark dial was legally justified in discharging his weapon while fearing for his life prosecutors say the body camera video of the august 14th incident contradicts the original police account, which said irizarry was driving erratically, got out of his car, and lunged at the officers with a knife. police later changed the details of that account. this video from a security camera obtained and released by lawyers for irizarry's family also appear to show dial quickly exiting the vehicle and opening fire his family said they wanted every frame of video released, some too graphic to show here, to prove police gunned down an innocent man. >> it appears he committed the cardinal sin of driving erratically. a death sentence is not called for for erratic driving. >> reporter: tonight officer dial already is suspended the chief has said she intends to dismiss him. he has not yet entered a plea in court. lester >> all right, ron allen, thank you also in pennsylvania, there's breaking news on the manhunt for that convicted killer who escaped from the chester county prison last thursday. the officer who failed to notice the escape has been fired george solis is there for us tonight >> reporter: tonight the prison officer who was on duty in the observation tower at the time of danelo cavalcante's escape has been fired a chester county spokesperson confirming to nbc news the officer, whose name last not been released, was an 18-year veteran of the chester county prison and was terminated yesterday. at issue according to the spokesperson, the officer had a cell phone in the tower, a violation of the prison's policy, and earlier this wee officials detailed how the officer did not observe or report his escape from the prison, which went undetected for nearly a full hour. >> my best estimate is he was within the perimeter. >> reporter: the area for the search shifting yet again after two more sightings, one wednesday night, one yesterday around noon, both around longwood gardens. >> many of our operations are taking place inside that area right now. >> reporter: this map inside the command center showing the eight square miles where a massive mobilization of law enforcement is tracking the five-foot escaped inmate believed to be hiding in this densely wooded area, the same area where he was captured on a trail camera earlier this week. it's a tactic cavalcante has used before following a murder in brazil that he's still wanted for. pennsylvania authorities saying after that crime, he hid out in the jungle in his native country before fleeing to the u.s. >> after the crime that he committed down there, he did something very similar to this in the jungle down there, so it's not surprising to me that he's able to last out there for a little while. >> reporter: among the multiple agencies attempting to flush cavalcante out into the open, the u.s. marshals confident they will capture him. >> we're essentially playing a game of tactical hide and go seek we're looking for a very dangerous individual. >> george, authorities are saying they're adding even more resources in response to these latest sightings. >> reporter: that's right, lester. there is nearly 400 officers here across multiple branches of law enforcement, the most they've had since this manhunt began lester. >> george solis covering it for us thank you. in turkey that ailing american who became trapped in a cave several thousand feet below the surface could soon see the light of day once again. matt bradley is in turkey with late details. an american explorer trapped in one of the world's deepest caves could be hours away from beginning his long journey to the surface. >> i'm doing well, thank you. >> reporter: it's been nearly a week since a frightening illness left mark dickey stranded 4,500 feet below the surface. >> and as you can see, i'm up, i'm alert, i'm talking, but i'm not healed on the inside yet, so i'm going to need a lot of help to get out of here. >> reporter: he suffered severe gastrointestinal bleeding while on an expedition to mark the cave, turkey's third deepest. this is the mouth of the cave you can see how steep it is, so rescuers have to rappel down and climb up multiple times a day, but they tell me, this is the easy part. the turkish rescue team says they're waiting for the all-clear from doctors and rescue teams who are using small explosives to widen parts of the tunnel. this rescue will rank among just a handful of cave rescues ever attempted at this depth, and this man was on the same expedition with dickey when he fell ill >> what makes it so uniquely difficult >> being deep and also being very cold, and it's long. it's so muddy. it eats up the equipment so quickly. >> reporter: he says the american explorer is made of tough enough stuff to endure this ordeal. >> he is a perfectionist, so that what makes him unique. >> reporter: but now mark's vast experience and resilience will face their greatest test. matt bradley, nbc news, southern turkey. tonight, president biden is in new delhi where he met with india's prime minister ahead of tomorrow's high-stakes g20 summit two key focal points are likely to be differences over the war in ukraine and china's growing influence. both russia's president putin and china's leader xi jinping are skipping the summit. now to that newly released report of a special grand jury in georgia that initially investigated alleged interference in the 2020 election. the panel recommended far more indictments of trump allies than those eventually charged, including republican senators. here's garrett haake >> reporter: former president trump and his allies firing back tonight at a newly released special grand jury report, which recommended prosecutors file charges against 39 people in the georgia election interference case among them, three republican senators. mr. trump saying, the report reveals what he called partisan motives by fulton county's democratic d.a. fani willis they wanted to indict anybody who happened to be breathing at the time, mr. trump wrote, saying, the report has, quote, zero credibility and badly taints willis and this whole political witch-hunt among those the special grand jury recommended charging with crimes, south carolina senator lindsey graham, who made calls to investigate claims of voter fraud in georgia in november 2020 graham was not charged. >> we can't criminalize senators doing their job when they have a constitutional requirement to fulfill. we're opening up pandora's box. i think the system in this country is getting off the rails. >> reporter: the special grand jury, which did not have the power to indict, also recommending the prosecution of former trump national security adviser michael flynn, who publicly advocated for seizing voting machines and declaring martial law after the election he also was not charged. flynn's attorney writing, the report revealed a, quote, politically motivated prosecutor last month a separate georgia grand jury indicted 19 individuals in a sprawling racketeering and conspiracy case to overturn the election results, which led to mr. trump's historic mug shot all 19 including the former president have pled not guilty. >> garrett, there is a late headline involving former trump chief of staff mark meadows. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, lester meadows is one of mr. trump's co-defendants in georgia, and a federal judge has just rejected his request to move his case to federal court. mr. trump's attorneys have suggested they too may soon try to move his case to federal court. lester >> all right garrett, thank you in a new interview on "meet the press," california governor gavin newsom joins chuck todd with a warning about the stakes of the 2024 election >> do you think another four years of donald trump will break us >> i don't -- i hope we don't have to experience that, but i worry about democracy. i worry about the fetishness for autocracy that we're seeing, not just from trump, but around the world, and notably across this country. i've made the point about desantis, that i think he's functionally authoritarian. i'm worried more in many respect about trumpism, what transcends beyond his term and tenure. >> chuck joins me ahead of the final weekend as moderator of "meet the press." chuck, quite a statement from the governor, who has political ambitions of his own. >> and you know what's fascinating, for what it's worth, i followed up with him on this. if he's elected, will you work with him, trump, and he said, you have to. so, on one hand, he's not sure if the country can handle another four years, in fact, he thinks trump is a greater threat than anybody else and thinks the retribution threat that donald trump has made to his political opponents means he is a more near-term threat, but at the same time, if you recall, he would work with president trump when they were dealing with wildfires, he would bring that up, and he says, in a democracy, you have to figure out how to work with them, but, of course, the real fear is how democratic would a new trump administration be. >> and, chuck, you and i have covered a significant amount of history, in fact, some stories that we never imagined we'd be covering any reflections on the eve of your last show? >> you know, it's one of those where i feel like you and i have been on a roller coaster together as you note here. it's really sort of one of these things that i don't know if we'll ever get -- it's going to take years, maybe even decades, to get proper perspective. when i think about -- and you and i really sort of took over these programs around the same time. we have been through an era that it may take decades to understand and fully appreciate, and i look forward, lester, frankly, to taking a step back and looking at this from a different way, talking to voters in a different way, trying to get out of the daily news grind to make sure we're not missing something. >> all right, well, chuck, thanks very much we'll be watching your farewell show this sunday >> thank you we'll be right back in 60 seconds with the fireworks at the u.s. open on the court and in the stands back now with wild moments at the u.s. open two protesters now facing charges after disrupting coco gauff's match for nearly an hour before she advanced to her first u.s. open final, but today heartbreak for fellow american ben shelton. here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: tennis great novak djokovic proved too much for rising u.s. star ben shelton. >> moves into his tenth u.s. open final. >> reporter: even with the 20-year-old's monstrous serve, djokovic is going to the finals, the men's match going off without a hitch following thursday night's drama on and off the court. 19-year-old american coco gauff won her semifinal in straight sets >> first u.s. open final. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: despite environmental activists bringing the action to a halt, a nearly 50-minute delay. >> i've never seen a situation like this. >> reporter: why was it taking so long to clear the protesters out of the stadium >> well, the number one thing for us was to remove that one particular protester safely, and that protester had literally glued their feet to the stadium floor. >> reporter: two men from new york have been charged with criminal trespassing, one facing a count of disorderly conduct today tighter security. >> there will be a heightened uniformed presence not only on the grounds but in the stadium. >> reporter: after her victory, gauff struck an understanding tone. >> i always speak about preaching about what you feel and what you believe in, and it was done in a peaceful way, so i can't get too mad at it. >> reporter: the teenager showing off her impressive poise during this u.s. open. >> in a way it's pressure, but it's not. there's people struggling to see their families. there's people who don't know where their next meal will come from there's people who have to pay their bills, and that's real pressure, that's real hardship that's real life >> reporter: on saturday she will face number one aryna sabalenka in the finals she'll need that steady hand and her very best game stephanie gosk, nbc news, queens and up next, inside the year-long critical shortage of adhd medicines and what parents need to know a health alert tonight and the shortage of critical drugs used by millions of children just as students head back to school anne thompson now on the desperate measures many parents are taking to find adhd medications. >> reporter: the morning rush, organized chaos at the didier home in kansas. getting 17-year-old isaac and 9-year-old joshua off to school, 2 of the more than 6 million children on adhd medicines caught in an ongoing shortage of the drug. >> did you take your meds >> yes. >> reporter: turning parents like jeremy into medical detectives >> it says it is not serviced and not available from the manufacturer >> do you guys have any 20s in stock can we drop her down to 20? >> reporter: frustrating parents and physicians just as the school year begins >> how bad is it >> simply put, this is the worst i've had in my career in terms of the extent and of duration, and i've been in practice for over 30 years. >> reporter: what started as a shortage of adderal has created a domino effect, says dr. max wisnitzer as physicians prescribe alternatives. >> to develop secondary shortages of other products. >> reporter: medicines that help four of jeremy didier's children focus in school and life. >> i can't think of anything worse as a parent than knowing that you're letting your kids down by not being able to get them what they need to be successful. >> reporter: most of these drugs are considered controlled substances by the dea with limits on how much can be produced in a joint letter last month, the fda and dea pointed to record high prescription rates and blame manufacturers for not producing the full amounts allowed, but several major manufacturers told nbc news, they plan to produce the maximum they're allowed and have asked the government for permission to produce more, so children and adults can keep their focus. >> anne is here, and what guidance is there for parents who are having difficulty finding these drugs? >> lester, they say, first of all, expand your search beyond your pharmacy chains call independent, hospital and by mail pharmacies, and always, always use behavioral management including structure, routine and consistency, and those two things will help you get through this crisis. >> all right, anne thompson, thank you. and next, the emotional day of remembrance in maui, one month after the devastating fires there. there is breaking news tonight on maui the governor reporting a significant drop in the number of missing as the community marks one month since the deadly fires here's sam brock >> reporter: in a traditional hawaiian paddle out, the sounding of the shell is a call to ancestors and to spiritual cleanse. >> we just want to come together as a community and have the time for us, like, to heal and have a moment in the ocean >> reporter: hundreds of participants paddling by board and in boats >> i feel like the hawaiian spirit was alive with us. >> reporter: today mourning the loss of life in lahaina, hawaii's historic capital touched by historic flames. >> this is about everybody. >> reporter: robert cotter escaped with his wife and just the clothes on their backs. his son saw someone pass away before his eyes >> every -- you know, the sound of a siren, the sound of wind, hearing a fire truck go by, it's -- you're on full alert. >> reporter: the significance of one month since the fires is hard to overstate officially 115 lives have been lost, and according to the governor, more than 60 people remain unaccounted for. >> we still are comforted that at least our uncle was verified and that we know that he was found. unfortunately, not everybody has that. >> reporter: several weeks ago we met pakalana phillips, who lost her uncle leroy today she knows more than ten people who haven't been located but draws strength from the sea of support. >> there are so many people that are not just praying for us, but grieving with us. >> reporter: hawaii's residents see water as a source of vitality, life. >> we're going to keep loving and taking care of each other. >> reporter: and right now it's also the backdrop for a deeper connection sam brock, nbc news. that's "nightly news" for this friday. thank you for watching i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night

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