and housing crisis. what is pushing the cost of rentals so high, and how the lack of affordable housing could soon lead many lower-income renters without a place to live. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead and a homecoming nearly three years in the making. right now, u.s. citizen and former marine trevor reed is on his way back to the united states after 985 days of detainment in russia. reed s release is part of a prisoner swap authorized by president biden that sends a convicted russian drug smuggler back to his home country. russian tv releasing this video earlier, which they say shows reed being escorted to a plane at an airport outside moscow. one driving factor for president biden in these negotiations, we re told, was his fear over trevor s deteriorating health. his family has been raising concerns for months now about trevor s possible exposure to tuberculosis and the lingering effects from his bout with covid. his mother paula conf
latest piece of exclusive evidence from cnn. ukrainian authorities today acknowledged the loss of several towns in the east part of the country. how significant are those losses? yeah, i think when you re listening to what the ukrainians are saying, they are admitting they have lost these towns, but it s certainly not the significance of losing a major city like mariupol, for example, which still hasn t fallen or kharkiv, which is constantly under russian shelling in the second largest city in ukraine. but it is significant in the sense that it does show incremental progress on the part of the russians. remember what the russian army is trying to do here. they re trying to capture the eastern part of the country by moving from the south up, from the north down, and from the east inward. they re trying to capture that entire region. by capturing these three towns they get that much closer to not only doing that but also encircling the ukrainian troops in that part of the c
national committee. welcome to the programme. we begin in france, where emmanuel macron has won the first round of the french election. but he still faces a tough battle to win a second term as president. mr macron secured 27.6% of the vote while the far right marine le pen secured 23%. the far left candidate, jean luc melenchon, got nearly 22% of votes. combined they commanded close to three quarters of the vote. but when voters return to the polls in two weeks time for the second round they will be faced with the same choice they had in 2017 emmanuel macron or marine le pen. le duel the papers called it. though this time the race could be much tighter. this is the latest polling mr macron leading his challenger by just two points 51 19. the focus for both will now be on convincing those who voted for other candidates, to pick them on their ballot paper this time around. and it s the far left voters of mr melenchon that could have the biggest sway. he has already b
funeral, and who might be join being president biden in scotland, and mary alice parks. ukraine fights back, taking back territory seized by the russians. the ukrainian flag raised once again in the northeast. russian forces appearing to be stepping back. and the fate of the nuclear power plant. the dangerous weather threat. fires in the west leading to dangerous air quality and new evacuations as flash flooding threatens those in the east. rob marciano times it all out. 21 years after the attacks on new york and washington, 9/11 is still claiming lives. and we remember the victims who died that day. some wounds still too deep to hale. and queen elizabeth. quotes from the queen you may not have heard. from abc news, this is world news tonight. reporting from edinburgh, scotland. good evening, everyone. i m linsey davis. the dreary weather matches the mood as the uk honors the queen. america pauses to honor the victims of 9/11, and the major developments in ukraine
records. what the judge is now saying. our pierre thomas at the courthouse in florida. new video of a midair scare over the orlando airport. a small plane suddenly flying in the path of a passenger jet. two planes just hundreds of feet apart. the quick move to avert a disaster. as millions of americans head out for labor day weekend, the pilot protests at airports around the country. what does it mean for your travel plans? the record heat wave in the west. eight states under heat and fire alerts. california tonight in a state of emergency. and firefighters treated for heat-related injuries. rob marciano standing by. late today, the cdc recommending two new boosters from pfizer and moderna. the vaccines revised to target the omicron strain and subvariants. how long before the new boosters are available? and how to make sure you get the new vaccine. overseas tonight, alarming news as u.n. inspectors reach the nuclear power plant caught in the crossfire between ukrain