behind one of the most iconic movie themes of all time announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening ancient history is facing an immediate and uncertain future tonight in one of the most cherished slices of america a wildfire roaring through parts of california s yosemite park, threatening hundreds of giant sequoias some more than 2,000 years old. tonight crews literally using a network of sprinklers to create humidity around the towering trees to give them a fighting chance. remarkable imagery revealing the spread and intensity of the fire, which doubled in size over the weekend. the fire fueled by the severe drought now affecting over 97% of california, along with extreme heat which is not just making things difficult in the west, but extending all the way to the gulf coast, leaving 36 million under heat alerts. miguel almaguer is in the fire zone tonight with late details. reporter: exploding in size again overnight, yosemite s washburn fire i
whom may be holding the party back. e holding th good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the next hearing into the january 6 attack is this afternoon at 1:00. with a focus on the violent mob. the committee says it will examine how former president trump summoned his supporters to the capitol to threaten the certification of the election when he tweeted, big protest in dc on january 6th. be there, will be wild. the committee says that tweet was the quote siren call for extremist groups such as the proud boys and the oathkeepers whose top members have been charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy for their roles in the riot. an aide on the committee says it will also present evidence of ties between these groups and trump associates like roger stone and michael flynn. as far as witnesses, a source close to the investigation says we will hear from former oathkeeper spokesman jason
primaries. the republican contest is a free for all between a surgeon, a tycoon, and a big lie believerer. we begin with the horror in buffalo and a law enforcement consensus it could have been worse. more could have been killed. investigators have evidence the shooter planned to continue his rampage at a nearby super store. buffalo s mayor says the shooter s motive is hauntingly clear. he, quote, came here with the expressed purpose of taking as many black lives as he could. the authorities this hour are now paging through a racist creed allegedly written by the shooter. a document filled with great replacement theory conspiracies, careful attack planning, and idol like worship of other mass shooters. ten were killed. more soon on the victims. 11 of the 13 shot were african american. in buffalo today, a mixture of brief, disbelief, and pleading that racism is very real and very dangerous. this is just clear to the rest of the country that racism, white supremacy, still e
to disband the wagner. - on 23june, we went out on a justice march. within a day, we were just 200 kilometres away from moscow. during that time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of ourfighters. now, the moment has come when the blood can be spilt. therefore, understanding all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be spilt on one of the sides, we re turning our columns back and leaving in the opposite direction, to the field camps, according to the plan. in the last hour our colleagues at bbc russian have also reported on an explosion heard in the southeast ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia. that s according to the public broadcaster in ukraine. an air raid alert has apparently been declared in the region. zaporizhzhia is the site of the largest nuclear power plant in europe that was captured by the russians last may. this news comes after ukraine s president zelenskyy accused russia of plotting a terror attack on the plant.
word on their loved ones this man is looking for his sister and nephew he says he is waiting for a miracle. for some, miracles have come. rescuers pulled nine people from the rubble, injured but alive. ukraine s president zelenskyy accused russia of targeting civilians as russia now gains ground in eastern ukraine. attacks like these have forced some ukrainians to spend their weekend learning first aid. pressure released reporter: and how to spot unexploded munitions. come look here this is just one example of things that people have to now look out for across ukraine. this is an unexploded ordinance. this one is fake, but they can be real and very, very dangerous irinia took the class. unfortunately, we have to live in this reality. you see this? reporter: a reality with no end in sight russia continues to claim they do not target civilians meanwhile, turkey s president spoke with president putin on the phone today trying to convince russia to end its blockade of