relatives jack collier and kit thompson learned the military was using dna sampling to put names and faces to the unknown following his identification, frank junie nicoles has finally been returned. he gave his life for his country. i don t know what greater sacrifice there is. reporter: receiving full military honors at the arrival of his casket in san antonio, texas, where many family members now reside a young sailor s journey now complete do you feel like you ve welcomed someone home yes he now has his own place. reporter: known now not only to god but to those who never had the chance to meet him. kevin tibbles, nbc news and his country welcomes him home. that s nightly news for this wednesday. thank you for watching i m lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night
summer months but a significant drop in those numbers. let s listen from the briefing yesterday on how dhs plans to expand dna sampling. the dna pilot is just establishing paternal connection. it is not necessarily just determining a paternal connection. some critics argue it will take a lot of time and money and work those agents. will it take away from their other work? they are overwhelmed as it is at the border. let s not forget everything that happened in the last few months that we talked about continues to happen at the border and dna tests are an additional tool especially for family units coming in. it will debunk a lot of claims where adult males are bringing in children who are next of kin
a 26-year-old woman from cincinnati, a deck hand. those stories are going to come out as more autopsy results are released to the families. but it s obviously a tragic situation. but, indeed, it brought in this fast dna sampling that can basically look at individuals remains and within about 90 minutes give a result. that s going to be critical, obviously, to the families. back to you. dana: absolutely. thank you. after months of protests, hong kong s leader finally has withdrawn a controversial extradition bill broached by beijing. it comes in protest to to extra diet suspects for prosecution in china. many taking to the streets until their five demands are met including that lamb step down and the government initiate an independent commission on police violence. the nra exists to spread disinformation and knowingly puts weapons in the hands of those who would harm and
portion of the report on lack of dna sampling by customs and border patrol and it is, quote, the year 2017 ice took dna samples from approximately 3% of apprehended individuals while cvp took samples from fewer than 100 out of approximately 330,000 individuals they arrested or apprehended. that is essentially nothing. it borders on malfeasance. you have these people in custody, find out who you re dealing with. we had this happen in the 80s with an individual named ramirez who became known as the railway killer who was arrested and deported multiple times by border patrol and each time he came back he committed more murders, killed 15 people and we used to mail fingerprint cards on the pony express and when i testified before congress we