First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
There is no way you could look at this and say, this is a person who ran away. The mystery had this sinister side to it. Oh my god, this is really happening. It is happening right now. In the dark waters off miami, miles out to sea, a federal agent hunting for Drug Smugglers spots a suspicious boat. I noticed the Passenger Role a large duffel bag off the side of the boat. Drugs . The agents never found any, and back on shore, no one could find a missing young mother, either. Was there a connection . Lynne was just months away from her wedding when she vanished, leaving behind a young son and mystery. Any sign that someone had broken and ended up abducted her . No. The search continued on land and at sea. No bag, nobody, no case. I did not have anything that would show she was actually dead. Decades go by and the mystery is almost forgotten, but not by everyone. They knew he was the bad guy. They just could not put him in jail. All they needed was a miracle, or a witness. Hello, and wel
A federal judge threatened, and specifically Contact Information for Georgia Grand jurors plastered throughout rightwing web sites. How Donald Trumps legal troubles are leading to further Security Issues, fear of violence. And heartbreaking accounts from hawaii, as Wildfire Victims are starting to find the remains of their family members. What he had seen was not just a body, but the body of a 15yearold kid who had way more life ahead of him. Plus new warnings on north korea possibly testing a missile capable of reaching the united states. I will ask john kirby about those plans, as most leaders most concerned from south korea and japan. Welcome to the lead. Were going to start with the justice lead, and the high price being paid for some individuals doing their civic duty. Police are trying to figure out hout Best To Protection The Grand jurors who earlier this week voted to indict donald trump and 18 other codefendants. Indictments in Fulton County georgia, including the names of all
Welcome to prime time weekend. I am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to top stories. In a Perfect World we would not actually start the show where we are going to start it today, opening our broadcast with the results of what amounts to a legal circus, a spectacle and diversion. The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court judge scott macv was actually a victory for rule of law in the matter of the d. A. S relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Either leave wade behind her help the prosecution of this case altogether. Turned out to be an easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those who believe that results of an election are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictme
A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people