Volcano eruption in new zealand as were learning american tourists are among the missing and injured. This morning, the possible criminal investigation into why they were allowed on that island in the first place. Breaking overnight, a plane carrying 38 people on a Scientific Mission to antarctica suddenly disappears in the sky. A frantic search and rescue mission now underway. Were live with the very latest. Those stories plus bundle up, the blast of cold air and thousand mile swath of snow and ice taking aim at millions from the south up to new england. Girl power. The state of young women here at some point determines the fate of all of us. Jennas moving trip to vietnam with former first Lady Michelle obama, what shes saying about her post White House Mission and life as an empty nester. And her turn, after spinning letters for nearly 40 years, vanna white finally hosts wheel of fortune how shes stepping up to help pat sajak, today, tuesday, november 10th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today, thank you for joining us on this tuesday morning. Were talking about that cold air thats coming here. It aint here yet. No. 58 degrees here in new york city. Check out our crowd, you all. This is like. In shirt sleeves. They dont even need coats, its a Beautiful Day but that is going to change. Right now bundle down but then bundle up in a little bit. Lets get to our top story, a historic day about to unfold in washington. Democrats will announce two articles of impeachment, official charges against the president accusing him of using the power of the presidency to shake down a Foreign Government to help him in his next election. At the same time, a long awaited department of justice watchdog report on the russia investigation is finally out and it found the investigation was not politically motivated and the fbi had legitimate reason to open it, but there were also findings of troubling misconduct within the fbi ranks and this morning, the president and his attorney general are seizing on that. Weve got two reports, well start with nbcs White House CorrespondentKristen Welker, good morning. Reporter savannah, good morning to you. Today is the day democrats have now introduced two articles of impeachment against President Trump accusing him of violating his oath of office and abusing his power. It comes after 18 witnesses have provided roughly 50 hours of public testimony and now another historymaking moment here in washington. This morning, House Democrats making it official, introducing articles of impeachment against President Trump. Today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country, the House Committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the president of the united states, donald j. Trump, with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. Reporter the two articles, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The president s misconduct goes to the heart of whether we can conduct a free and Fair Election in 2020. Reporter it comes after a marathon hearing monday, with both sides delivering their closing arguments. No matter his party or his politics, if the president places his own interests above those of the country, he betrays his oath of office. They cant get over the fact donald trump is president of the united states, and they dont have a candidate that they think can beat him. Reporter the proceedings lasted about nine hours, filled with tense partisan bickering and fiery exchanges. The gentleman will suspend. Bang it harder, it doesnt make it better that your not doing it right. As you did, mr. Goldman. Reporter democrats say President Trump abused his power, betrayed the National Interests and tried to corrupt the 2020 election by withholding military aid to ukraine while asking for an investigation into the 2016 election and his political rival, joe biden. President trumps persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger. Reporter republicans reject that, arguing the president s actions were not impeachable. They point to the fact that aid was eventually given to ukraine although that didnt happen until after the controversy erupted. Still, republicans are lashing out at the entire process. Impeach a president who 63 Million People voted for over eight lines in a call transcript is baloney. Its outrageous that were trying to remove a president with a Kangaroo Court like this. I yield back. Reporter President Trump this morning taking sharp aim, tweeting to impeach a president who has proven through results who has done nothing wrong is sheer political madness. Overnight House Speaker nancy pelosi was asked if she has the votes to impeach the president. On an issue like this, we dont count the votes. People will just make their voices known on it. I havent counted votes nor will i. Reporter and the president tweeted moments ago, witch hunt. So what happens next . Well, democrats could vote on impeachment by next week before they break for their winter recess. As for the president , white house Officials Say expect mr. Trump to give a fullthroated response at his rally tonight in hershey, pennsylvania. The president relishes the campaign trail and is using impeachment as a way to energize his base ahead of a tough reelection campaign. Now, before the president leaves today, hell meet with the Russian Foreign minister. Its the first visit by that official since 2017. Savannah. All right, kristen, thank you. We will have live coverage of this mornings impeachment announcement on most of these nbc stations. Now to the other big headline out of washington concerning the russia investigation. The president has often claimed that the fbis investigation into his 2016 campaign was an attempt to overthrow the government of but a new report from the justice departments internal watchdog, the Inspector General, has found that there was no political bias in the starting of the probe and that the fbi was justified to look into it. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams joins us with more on that pete, good morning. Reporter savannah, the other part of this is that the report is harshly critical of how the fbi conducted one aspect of the case, and the fbi now says its taking steps to make sure those mistakes dont happen again, but it did find no sign of political bias in how the fbi opened the investigation of the Trump Campaign the justice departments Inspector General said the fbi followed the rules in july 2016 when it secretly opened an investigation into possible russian influence of the Trump Campaign. The phoney witch hunt, phoney witch hunt just a total witch hunt. Z this is the witch hunt. Reporter the report says there was no evidence of political bias and said the fbi had a legitimate purpose in looking at whether there was a threat to national security. But it was harshly critical of how the fbi handled an application for Court Permission to conduct surveillance on carter page, a former Trump Campaign adviser the fbi relied heavily on an unverified antitrump dossier assembled by christopher steele, a former british spy the report says the fbis Court Application made statements about steele that were, quote, inaccurate, incomplete and unsupported, overstating his value as a source and glossing over the fact that many claims he made were not checking out. President trump says the report confirms his worst suspicion that the fbis investigation of his campaign was an attempted government takeover. This was something that we can never allow to happen again. The report actually, and especially when you look into it in the details of the report are far worse than anything i would have imagined. Reporter james comey who was in charge of the fbi at the time said the report is largely good news for the fbi. There was no treason, there was no conspiracy, there was no tapping of trumps wires, there was no putting informants in the campaign, it was all nonsense. Reporter even so, the current fbi director, chris wray, is ordering changes in how the fbi applies for Surveillance Court orders attorney general william barr appointed a u. S. Attorney in connecticut, john durham, to conduct a separate review months ago. And in a highly unusual Statement Given that his investigation isnt done, durham says that he does not agree with the Inspector General about how the fbis investigation was opened in the first place. Attorney general barr says the report makes clear that the fbi launched an intrusive investigation of a u. S. President ial campaign on what he called the thinnest of suspicions that did not justify the steps the fbi took or in keeping the investigation going after donald trump became president. Savannah. Disagreement with the Inspector General, pete, thank you. Also this morning, were learning about the victims of that tragic volcano eruption in new zealand including americans, and questions are growing about just why those tourists were allowed on that island in the first place. Nbcs Janis Mackey Frayer joins us now from new zealand. Hey, good morning. Reporter good morning, hoda. Six people are confirmed dead this morning, eight are still missing. We now know there were nine americans on white island just 30 miles off the coast here. What isnt clear is how many made it back trapped by the erupting volcano, americans matthew and lauren urey were just married in october, on their dream honeymoon to new zealand then a latenight voice message to his mother, janet, in pennsylvania, that they had been on the island and were badly burned terrified, any horrible emotion you can imagine. I didnt even listen to the full message, i quickly called him back, and at least got to hear his voice that he was at the hospital but his hands were severely burned, he really couldnt use the phone. Reporter and he couldnt find lauren. She was air lifted to auckland, both of them needing surgery all of the wounded now at burn units around the country. Covered in ash, looking quite badly burned, obviously requiring transport by helicopter they were very sick anyway. Reporter rescue teams cant get near the island because its so unstable and theres a small strong chance the volcano could erupt again. I would strongly suggest that theres no one that has survived on the island. Reporter among the dead a local tour guide, haden marshal inman. To those who have lost or are missing family and friends, we share in your grief and sorrow, and we are devastated. Reporter white island lies about 30 miles offshore from here, a popular spot with tourists. The agency that manages the alert system had warned the island was unstable. The question now, why were tourists able to get on boats and go there this Tour Operator wasnt saying much today is this your boat, sir . Skipper of the day. Reporter he took his boat back to rescue people stranded at the island, now smothered in 2 feet of ash. Police here are hinting at a criminal investigation for now, janet urey just wants her family home. There have been warnings for weeks that the volcano was restless so why tourists, including children and retirees were even allowed to go there is now forming a bigger part of the investigation here although authorities cant even mount a Recovery Mission right now. Tomorrow theyll try to fly drones over the island to test the gas levels there, and while police say they can never be 100 sure, there are no illusions theyre going to find any survivors. Hoda. Janis Mackey Frayer for us in new zealand. Thank you. We have craig here now joining us with another story breaking overnight. Savannah, hoda, good morning to you in new zealand to the urgent search underway off south america for a military plane that disappeared on a flight to antarctica, with 38 people on board. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us. Tom, what do we know at this point . Reporter eight planes, four ships are taking part in the search in a vast area of ocean called the Drake Passage between south america and antarctica, this plane was transporting personnel going on to a fuel pipeline, but lost radio contact shortly after 6 00 p. M disaster in the skies off chile after a military transport plane carrying 38 people disappeared overnight while headed from chile to antarctica, the aircraft now presumed to have crashed. Officials say the chilean plane, a c130 hercules, similar to this one, was flying to a base in antarctica, transferring perpendicular el to inspect a floating fuel supply pipeline. The aircraft taking off shortly before 5 00 p. M. From the Southern City of punta arenas, more than 18 miles from the capital of santiago, losing contact and the ocean between the tip of south america and antarctica the Chilean Air Force said the plane had not been heard from in more than seven hours and likely would have run out of fuel around 12 40 a. M a spokesman telling local media a search was under way and a rescue ship was in the general area where the plane should have been when contact was lost we were talking with the vessel commander via Satellite Phone and he said that there were big waves, hard to sail, 17 crew members and 21 other passengers were on board on their way to perform Logistical Support tasks such as repairing the floating oil pipeline that provides fuel for the base this morning, as the search continues, the mystery grows about a plane that seems to have vanished from the sky. Anytime Something Like this happens one of the first questions is what was the weather like what do we know about the weather conditions when the plane went missing. The chilean military says the weather was good at the time search coordinators believe this plane was a little more than halfway through its 770mile journey when it disappeared. By the way, the c130 is a fourengine work horse of the military and u. S. Around the world. Its been used since 1956 as anybody in the military knows, it transports troops and equipment and cargo, pretty good Safety Record overall. Tom costello in washington. Thank you. We have a lot to get to including new tributes this morning to a man who inspired the world. Pete frates, and the founder of the ice bucket challenge that went viral in 2014 passed away yesterday. Nbcs Senior National correspondent kate snow looks back at his remarkable life and legacy a moment of silence for former Boston College athlete pete frates. Reporter at the Boston Celtics game last night, a moment of silence for the extraordinary man whose battle with als inspired millions of us to raise millions of dollars strong and agile, pete frates was a gifted athlete, playing hockey, football and baseball. In college he soared as captain of the Boston College screaming eagles his coach mike gambino devastated that he is gone but thankful for all he did. He looked at his diagnosis as an opportunity. My name is pete frates. Im 27 and i was recently diagnosed with als. Reporter inspect 2012, frates was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease. He just started dating his now wife julie his parents nancy and john said they immediately called everyone for a family meeting what did he say he said im going to get this disease in front of philanthropists such as bill gates. And when he saw somebody dumped an ice bucket over a golfers head. You have 24 hours to respond, going to donate 100 to the Als Foundation reporter pete told his family and friends to take the challenge and challenge three others it went viral. I want to accept this challenge. I want to do it better than its been done. Thats the only one i cried at you see bill gates he did it. Hes a kid that is very determined and very goal oriented, and all those qualities brought this to bill gates. Reporter the challenge brought 220 million to als causes trials are now underway for more than a hundred potential therapies. When i met pete two years ago, he could only move his eyes. But that didnt matter to his daughter, lucy hes just a dad reporter this morning, his family calling him a noble fighter who inspired us all to use our talents and strengths in the service of others. For today, kate snow, nbc news. You look at somebody who had so much impact and was so young. How many people, its so extraordinary to have such a devastating diagnosis and say no, im going to find a way to fight it as long as i can. He had a vision, im going to get bill gates involved, and it happened its amazing. He said a couple of years ago that it represented all thats right about this country, friends, family, fun family is more than 200 million for a cause. Amazing our thoughts and prayers with his family this morning. Let us take a turn dylan is over there for al checking a dangerous winter storm. Good morning. Good morning, guys, we are going to see mostly rain, especially today, up and down the east coast and extending back into texas but look on the Northern Edge of the storm thats where the colder air is located, and creeping closer and c