Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, President Trump visits communities recovering from floods and wildfires and suggests a complete overhaul of how the federal government responds to natural disasters.

The indigenous Lombie tribe of North Carolina gets a presidential endorsement for its long-awaited

federal recognition.

We speak with the group's tribal chairman.

Right now, we are pretty much treated as second-class natives, and with our full federal

recognition, we will no longer be sacred-class natives.

And the family of Holocaust survivors search for answers 80 years after the liberation

of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

This place has dominated my whole life.

This place destroyed my family and the echoes of this place continue to destroy my family.

Welcome to the news hour.

President Donald Trump set off for the first trip of his second administration today touring multiple disaster zones.

The president is in California tonight where he'll survey damage from the wildfires that are ravaging the Los Angeles area.

But first, he stopped in North Carolina, four months after Hurricane Helene and threatened the future of FEMA. Laura Barone-Lopez

begins our coverage. This morning, President Donald Trump touching down in Western North Carolina.

Stop number one of a cross-country disaster tour. Hurricane Helene brought historic catastrophic floods

to the state last September. Four months

later, Trump again made the recovery political. On the tarmac in Asheville, Trump questioned

the need for a federal response. To have a group of people come in from an area that don't even

know where they're going in order to solve immediately a problem

is something that never worked for me. I'd like to see the states take care of disasters.

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