Help now and officials working to identify the victims. Among the dead, a 68yearold man, who died shielding a Golden Retriever. Our team in the fire zone north koreas new claims about detained u. S. Soldier travis king. What he supposedly said about his reason for crossing into the country. Severe thunderstorm watches on the east coast, on the heels of Flash Flooding in the midatlantic were tracking it all. The mother of a 6yearold virginia student who shot his teacher. What she pleaded guilty to today. And the Superstar Surfer who jumped onto his jet ski to help after the fires that devastated his native maui announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Already facing a Dizzying Crossroads of nearly unprecedented legal and political challenges, Donald Trumps trail of criminal indictments has grown longer the newest handed up late last evening by a Fulton County, georgia, grand jury. Mr. Trump hit with 13 charges, accusing him of being part of a consp
Conspiracy charges. The Fulton County d. A. Accusing of him leading a criminal enterprise to overturn his loss in georgia. 18 codefendants also charged including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows. Mr. Trump blasting the case as another witchhunt. Tonight, the deadline for him to surrender, and what does it mean for 2024 . Also tonight, the mounting questions about the response to hawaiis deadly wildfire. Many asking, where then, and where is the help now . And officials working to identify the victims. Among the dead, a 68yearold man who died shielding a Golden Retriever. Our team in the fire zone. North koreas new claims about travis king. What he supposedly said about his reason for crossing into the country. Severe thunderstorm watches on the east coast on the heels of Flash Flooding in the midatlantic. Were tracking it all. The mother of a 6yearold Virginia Student, who shot his teacher, what she pleaded guilty to today. And the Superstar Surfer who jumped onto his jet ski to help aft
Guilty to today. And the superstar surfer who jumped onto his jet ski to help after the fires that devastated his native maui announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Already facing a dizzying crossroads of nearly unprecedented legal and political challenges, Donald Trumps trail of criminal indictments has grown longer the newest handed up late last evening by a Fulton County, georgia, grand jury. Mr. Trump hit with 13 charges, accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to unlawfully overturn the georgia 2020 president ial Election Results after his loss mr. Trump is not facing the music alone. The sweeping indictment names 18 alleged coconspirators, including trump lawyer and former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani the georgia case marking the fourth indictment of the expresident since the end of march. Two federal cases and two state prosecutions mr. Trump denying the latest accusations and blasting District Attorney fani willis, who has given trump
Officials. kayla tausche is standing by. bill weir is joining us live on maui. tell us more about what president biden is seeing and hearing from officials and survivors for that matter on this visit, bill. well, he s probably meeting with archie, hall of fame water man, life guard, surfer, who has led one of the surviving communities. tiana lawrence. these are people well respected within the family around lahaina. the questions that i m seeing locals posting on social media are about housing. this is a tourism dependent island but people need rooms to stay in. so how will you balance that out? insurance, yes. they were curious about that. tension and mistrust between people given the early response to this disaster. how do you build trust?
reporter: tiana lawrence is one of the lucky ones. her home is still standing. with true aloha spirit she s hosting families displaced including her aunt whose lahaina home of four generations was reduced to ash. is there still hope for the missing, or is that is that fading every single day? i personally don t have any hope left that the missing, that any of them are going to be alive. failure. complete and utter failure. reporter: amid so much heartbreak, we re learning more on the victims. like franklin trejos who tried driving to safety. his remains were found draped protectively over sam, the golden retriever he loved. alabama native carole hartley was last seen in the backyard of her lahaina home. her family says a search party found her remains over the weekend. the wildfires may now be contained, but as more of the dead are identified, they are still finding a way to torment this community. tom llamas, nbc news, maui. also tonight, the threat of severe storms, 22 mill