allies tried to influence the january of committee star witness cassidy hutchinson. and as russia continues to fire at civilian targets in ukraine, russian forces are driven from key outposts like snake island. we re live in kyiv with the latest. plus ceremonies and speeches across hong kong as the city marks 25 years since it was handed back to china. we re live in hong kong, beijing and taipei. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, july 1, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting new insight into what the january 6 select committee believes is possible witness tampering by members of trump s orbit. sources tell cnn that custody hutchinson told the panel she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony before tuesday s hearing. the committee is considering making a criminal referral to the justice department. the committee has also subpoenaed trump s former white house counsel pat cipollone
texas is grappling with an uptick of migrant smuggling and deaths. there were three separate attempts within a 24 hour period leaving at least six dead. two of the cases involved fatal vehicle crashes. officials say another smuggling attempt was foiled when authorities found more than ten people inside a tractor trailer. this is just days after more than 50 migrants lost their lives inside a different tractor trailer in what official thes say was the worst smuggling event in the u.s. family members of some of the victims have been speaking out. translator: i told her don t leave, you will live well here. it is easy to find a place to live here, you can live anywhere. but one says i m going to go and look for a better life and you end up finding death. you are not looking for something else but death. because what else did she want but one wants something different, that s life. she sought death because there is nothing else. the alleged driver of that
tasked with protecting the maritime border between mexico and california. a smuggler looks at a kilo of cocaine and a baby the same way? it is all money, it is all a commodity. that s the unfortunate reality we face every day. reporter: the risk migrants are taking on the ocean are part of a growing trend happening all across the southern border. from children being dropped off a 14-foot barrier to migrants hiding on moving trains, squeezing into locked rail cars and wheel wells. custom and border agents tell nbc news they believe a reinforced and heightened border wall has forced smugglers to take extreme measures. in a remote village, she visits a grave side where her daughter is buried. her daughter was hoping to find work in the u.s. when she boarded the doomed ship that crashed in san diego. her mother telling us she wants the smuggler to be punished because looking for opportunity should not mean finding death.
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