hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with a grim discovery in oklahoma. last night four bodies were pulled from a river in a town about 35 miles south of tulsa. this comes after four men, all close friends, went missing in that town sunday evening after reportedly going for a bike ride. police are not saying whether the bodies pulled from the river last night are these missing men. cnn s camilla bernal joins me. reporter: hey, fred. we are waiting for the medical examiner s office to identify the bodies. we are told by authorities it is a difficult process because these bodies were in the water for a long period of time. now we know the autopsies gone at 8:30 in the morning. it is unclear if they are going to get to all four bodies by the end of day because of how difficult this process is going to be. now, we do know that someone was near the river, saw something suspicious, and called police. when police officers went out there
saying just within the last hour, a vote won t happen until after the midterms. so what is the holdup. new reaction coming in. and developing news for the white house, with officials tally confirming president biden will meet with the families of britty griner and paul whelan, the two dedaned in russia. a lot to get to on this thursday afternoon. i m hallie jackson. glad to be with you in washington. we start with the new developments in the january 6th investigations, plural. the capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, ryan riley and former u.s. attorney and nbc legal analyst before bra mcquade. let me start with you, and chair benny compton was kind of chatty today. he was chatty toops today and what i was asking about is the reporting in the last few hours that the january 6th committee at least for now will not be cooperating, sends can its transcripts and its findings to the department of justice, at least until they re done with the public phase of their hearings. when
with ukraine s president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. leeds university has expressed dismay after one of its phd students was jailed for 3h years after tweets criticising the regime. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their firm or insurance choice university. the proportion of students in england, wales and northern ireland getting top a level grades has fallen since the record high of last year, but is higher than 2019. around 36.4% of pupils have achieved a star and a grades. and for the new t level exams where students split time between classroom learning and industry placements the overall pass rate is 92%. our education corres