constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
they are vowing to get the job done saying, quote, our people will remain in east palestine respond to the situation and meet with residents. we are not going anywhere. cnn s jason carroll was at last night s meet being. jason, you can understand why people are frustrated here. they want answers. these are people who have been living in east palestine in this area so long and now they have major questions about how long they can continue to live there. reporter: kaitlin, you are absolutely right. . so questions that they have, who is going to be here a year from now, who will be here two years from now, five years from now? is someone going to be monitoring their health years from now? who is responsible for that? what about the cost of their homes, depreciation no home values. a lot of questions the residents had and quite frankly a lot of them felt they didn t get their questions answered. they feel like it will take more than one holocaust. one of the representatives the
top of the hour, this thursday, i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill, and any moment, officials in michigan are going to give an update of the investigation into the deadly mass shooting into michigan state university, and we will bring that to you when it happens, and share the disturbing details about the note that the gunman left inside of his backpack detailing other possible targets. at some point this morning, a georgia court is going to release special report of president trump s efforts to overturn the election. we will expect to learn more about that. and we will learn more about the mass shooting and one of several in the last few weeks. we will learn more adrian there in lansing, michigan, and what are we expecting to learn? it is expected to learn more at any moment, and now, i have learned from a university spokesperson dan olson, and he said that we will learn this morning the updates on the students who were physically injured. at last check we told you that t
the on the books to keep our borders secure. it s very frustrating. i mean, we are losing countless lives every single day. we have people out there that don t have access to resources don t have access to treatment. san francisco needs to start thinking not only about housing this legislation to help people. but also they need to start thinking about. ah! focusing on how to get people also into recovery and creating more facilities to do so. but i do believe the start of starting to combat are open air drug market would be to pass this legislation. it s a two pronged problem. obviously individuals like your son need the help, but there s a way you can cut it off at the source and at least san francisco the people that were speaking about in office. they are thinking about doing something. you really wish the biden administration would have done something at the start, so this wouldn t even be an issue. tanya tillman, we re praying for you. we re praying for your son. be
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren t playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical symptoms and fish dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in eastern ohio near the pennsylvania border spilling tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals. after a controlled burn meant to avert a catastrophic explosion, officials signaled it was safe for evacuated residents to return, but tonight there is worry, skepticism, and anger about what is really happening and about what people are being told ron allen is covering it for us tonight. reporter: tonight outrage growing less than two weeks after that massive train derailment and the controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent up a toxic plume of black smoke in east palestine, ohio. it doe