Good evening, I'm Jeff Fennett. I'm the Navas as a way. On the news hour tonight, former

President Donald Trump faces additional charges for allegedly trying to delete security camera

footage in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. A prominent Hong Kong dissident and pro-democracy

activist in exile describes the Chinese government's crackdown on dissent.

They never had to support the people. And in fact, they've hijacked all the human rights

and democracy from the Chinese people and the Hong Kong people.

And the complex and opaque supply chain for prescription drugs puts increasing pressure

on local pharmacies.

Welcome to the news hour. Nearly 200 million Americans have spent another day under a long

list of heat advisories and severe weather warnings. Opressive temperatures that scorched

the southwest for weeks have moved into much of the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic.

Forecasts for Philadelphia's heat index topped out at 108 degrees today, and other cities

reached the 100-degree mark as well. Beyond that, severe thunderstorms were expected in

the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley. New economic numbers today are the latest to show

that inflation in the U.S. is easing. A government gauge that's closely watched by the federal

reserve finds consumer prices rose 3 percent in June from a year earlier. That's the smallest

annual increase in more than two years. In Niger, soldiers declared an army general

to be the new head of state today after ousting the democratically elected president this

week. That came hours after the general addressed the nation, saying the civilian government

failed to defend the country against Islamist insurgents.

The current security approach has failed to secure our country. We can no longer continue

with the same approaches proposed to date, at the risk of witnessing the gradual and inevitable

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