winds. dangerous rip currents, when we can expect them along the east coast. also, severe storms in the northeast. we're tracking it all. also tonight, dramatic body cam of a philadelphia officer fatally shooting a man sitting in his car. police initially said the man lunged at them with a knife outside the car. that officer now charged with murder. what his attorney is saying. nine days after that convicted killer escaped from a pennsylvania prison, word tonight the guard on duty has been fired and the new possible sightings. the report just out from a special grand jury recommending charges for an additional 20 people in the georgia election 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 mainland but ready to deliver a calling card of dangerous surf conditions up and down the coast this 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. we've been tracking it for seven days and will track it for another seven days without hitting land. maybe nova scotia or eastern new england and friends in bermuda. 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 it. if it's later, possibly for the canadian maritimes. late turn maybe even heading somewhere near the northeast, possibly maine or maybe cape cod. that's kind of the big queson as we head through the weekend. we've been dealing with a lot of severe weather, 150,000 people without power. we've had damaging winds and had two-inch large hail throughout the northeast and airport delays from d.c. to boston. some are averaging one to two-hour delays. these thunderstorms have peaked and high humidity 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 has been charged with murder. as a police body cam video of the encounter is released. ron allen has more. >> reporter: philadelphia prosecutor say the newly released body camera video shows 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 only had a pocket knife in his hand. >> he will be remembered as a good kid and never was any trouble and loved his family. >> reporter: dial turned himself in, a five-year veteran who nbc news rode along with about a story of gun violence. 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 said she intends to dismiss him. he has not yet entered a plea in court. >> ron, thank you. also in pennsylvania, there's breaking news on the manhunt for that convicted killer who escaped 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 at the time of danelo cavalcante's escape has been fired. a chester county spokesperson confirmed that the officer whose name last not been released was an 18-year veteran of the chester county prison terminated yesterday. at issue according to the spokesperson, the officer had a cell phone in his tower, a violation of the prison's policy, and officials detailed how the officer did not observe or report his escape, 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 sightings, one wednesday night, and one yesterday around noon 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 and 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, thank you. in turkey that ailing american who became trapped in a cave 7,000 feet below the surface could soon see the light of day once again. matt bradley is in turk which with late details. >> reporter: tonight an american explorer trapped in one of the 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 him stranded 4,500 feet below the surface. >> as you can see, i'm up, i'm alert, i'm talking, but i'm not healed on the inside yet and will need a lot of help to get out of here. >> reporter: he suffered severe gastrointestinal bleeding and this is the mouth of the cave. you can see how steep it is. 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 will rank among just a handful of cave rescues ever attempted at this depth, and this man was on the same expedition with him when he fell ill. >> being deep and being 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 perfectional, 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 the g-6 summit. two key focal points 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. the new 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 they 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. 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. >> i 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 and made the point about desantis, that i think he's functionally authoritarian and am worried about trumpism. >> 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. >> what's fascinating, i follow 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 he 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 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. >> chuck, you and i have covered a significant amount of history, in fact, some stories 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 took over these programs at the same time. we have been through an era that it may take decades to understand and fully appreciate, and i look forward, lester, favrely, 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 fireworks at the u.s. open on the court and in the stands. . with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. it can stop joint damage. and in psa, can leave 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