87 of the vote. But there was defiance in the form of large queues at some Polling Stations in russia heeding the call of allies of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, who urged people to turn out to spoil their ballots or to vote for any other candidate. Mr navalny died suddenly in a penal colony in russia last month. At least 80 protesters were arrested. Mr navalny s widow, yulia navalnya, cast her vote at Russias Embassy in berlin. There were also protests held and voting queues in a number of other countries. In london, there was a line a mile long outside the russian embassy. From moscow, heres our russia editor steve rosenberg. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Al
Hearing with special counsel jack smiths team. Theyre trying to determine what evidence trump may discuss publicly in the Election Interference Case. Plus, we have two Nbc News Exclusives today. New reporting about the special counsels investigation into classified documents found at President Bidens office and home. And democratic senator joe manchin skipping a major white house event as he considers running against President Biden. And celebrations are being held around the world today. The 50th Anniversary of hiphop. We begin this morning with Breaking News for the Third Straight day. Catastrophic wildfires are tearing through hawaii with six active blazes. Six still burning. It is now the second deadliest wildfire in u. S. History. 55 people died. The death toll is expected to rise as the fire is just 80 contained as of right now. With over 1,000 structures burned, thousands of acres of land scorched, the governor says it looks like a bomb went off and thats the likely the Largest
Here are some of the key conversations you might have missed. The house took a major step toward potentially banning tiktok over concerns. Reporter for Social Media Giant ticktock, announce calling to split from its Parent Company or be shut down. He now heads to the senate. The u. S. House on wednesday, in a rare and overwhelmingly bipartisan vote passing the major that requires tiktoks Parent Company byte dance to sell the company within months. Would you say to people who cant understand that people watching silly dance videos is a National Security threat . We cant allow one of our foremost adversaries to have control over what is quickly becoming the dominant music and. Reporter many believe can and does store data from american users, partly because of a National Security law that requires Chinese Companies to share data and other information with the government. It begins to allow them to know how to influence americans. Reporter the annual Intelligence Committee says china used
More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
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