Was. And the numbers only sort of do it justice. You had more than 1,000 africanamerican homes and businesses were looted and burned to the ground. 10,000 people were made homeless. To this day, we do not know how many people died in the massacre. But its not just a question of numbers as well too. You know, its not just this many businesses died, you know, what was destroyed were two movie theaters, the dixie and the dreamland. They sat 1,000 people and 750. Two africanamerican newspapers. A dozen churches were burned to the ground. 30 restaurants. 30 grocery stores and meat markets. A hospital. A public school. A library branch. A Post Office Substation was burned as well too. Dress shops, cigar stores, hardware stores, automobiles, on and on and on. And the amount of wealth that was lost, let me give you one other number to think about when we deal with this wealth. So some of you may have seen this, but this week the June Issue of national geographic is arriving in peoples mailboxe
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in mykolaiv. accusing russian military of disguising russian tanks with ukrainian flags and then opening fire on civilians. nbc news though, is not yet able to independently confirm this. russian military officials, meanwhile, claim they struck 26 military facilities just in the last few hours. destroying warehouses, destroying resources and to ukraine by western countries. nbc news, again, not able to independently confirm that. also this hour, some advice from a former president on how to handle putin s frequent references to nuclear weapons. i would say we have far more than you do, far more powerful than you. and you can t use that word ever again. you cannot use the nuclear word ever again. joining us now, nbc s kelly cook from ukraine and from the white house. kelly, we ll start with you here. what are you hearing from people there in odessa after this latest round of missile attacks? well, alex, once again, odessa, after being somewhat quiet of the past three w
offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. the investigation you may recall centers on $130,000 that one time fixer michael cohen paid to buy the silence of stormy daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. cohen was later reimbursed by the former president. according to the times he s yet to testify but is expected to. joining us now with more cnn s kara skinell. what are the details you ve learned? the new york times is reporting donald trump was offered to appear before the new york grand jury investigating on this hush money payment scheme. that is required under the law when there s a criminal investigation. that step certainly indicates and tells us this investigation is wrapping up. and that s also evident by the parade of witnesses met with prosecutors and appeared before the grand jury. we reported yesterday kelly anne conway met with manhattan prosecutors, hope hicks had also been in as well as executives at the trump organization. michael cohen had