Devastating outbreak of wildfires. With us today fema administrator dee ann griswald. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Donald trump is out fundraising this hour in nashville as his legal bills have mounted and he faces a deadline to surrender to the Fulton County jail in georgia before noon next friday, but his unrelenting attacks over prosecutors over his cases are troubling. On wednesday a texas woman was charged with transmitting a threat to injure a person by an interstate commerce after leaving expletiveladen racist email for d. C. District drug Tanya Chutkan. We are coming to kill you and that chutkan will be targeted personally, your family, all of it. Were leaving all of the expletives out. Nbc news has learned that the reported names of the Georgia Grand Jury who handed out the latest indictment have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric. Nbcs Garrett Haake in atlanta, grant kushner, robert james and New York Times White Hous
good afternoon. rail passengers are facing fresh disruption with the start of another wave of strikes in long running disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. today it s train drivers from the aslef union, taking strike action at 15 rail companies some of which won t be running any services at all. tomorrow an aslef overtime ban could mean more disruption. then, on friday, other rail workers, from the rmt union, will go on strike. before more action by aslef drivers on saturday, affecting travel to events such as the fa cup final. our correspondent ben king reports. busy rail hubs were unusually calm as train drivers at the aslef union walked out over pay and working conditions. here at manchester piccadilly, there were no trains from avanti piccadilly, there were no trains from ava nti west piccadilly, there were no trains from avanti west coast, no east midlands. great western, south coast and cross country are also affected as well. aslef has rejected a pay rise of 4% for
by russan forces, more than 19,000 children have been taken from occupied areas, according to ukrainian government officials. the bbc has not been able to verify that figure. russia says its motives are purely humanitarian, to protect children from danger. 0ur eastern europe correspondent rainsford has met some of the families, who have been fighting to get their children back. it is the most anxious journey of these mothers lives. dashing to reach the children they ve been separated from for six months. ukrainian children sent to summer camps run by russia and then never returned. alla tells me every minute now counts. the children have been told they ll be put in care if their mums don t come for them. that means a gruelling trip across thousands of miles from ukraine, deep into the country that s declared war on them. daniil went to the camp when his city was occupied. when it was liberated, the russians wouldn t send the children back. translation: i should never have i
translation: it s not only putin who should be put on trial. - it s all the main people, the commanders. all of them, for what they did to the children. what right did they have? so i called the woman in charge of the school where sasha was taken. deep inside russian occupied territory. i wanted to know about that z mark. the ukrainian children dressed as russian soldiers. so what if they were? the director shot back. what kind of question is that? soon after, the line cut out. for those who do make it back, the long road home ends here, on ukraine s northern border. the first group is
soon after the line cut out. for those who do make it back, the long road home ends here on ukraine s northern border. the first groups are just coming through, i can see some of the women and the children waving as they cross the border, finally. but six months apart, then six days of travel to be reunited. daniil had been scared he wouldn t see his mum again, but alla made it. the stories of their exhausting, traumatic trip spill out between the welcome hugs. but alla tells me it was all worth it to see her son again. daniiljust says the reunion was brilliant. this is a war that s created all sorts of victims, brought all sorts of pain.