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A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the Fulton County courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. Democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens nex...

Suffering. >> kaitlyn collins is in surfside, walk us through the president's agenda. >> reporter: well, i think this meeting that is going to get underway in a few minutes with the families of the victims and the families of those who have not yet been recovered from the accident are still -- it got harder essentially with the news this morning that the rescue and search and rescue operations have been paused as they can establishing what's happening on the ground, whether or not it's safe for the teams to be on the ground sifting through that rubble. and so the president is going to be behin...

About what caused the crash? what do we know about the victims? >> reporter: ntsb investigators are on the ground sifting through the wreckage. that's the hangar the small plane slammed into. you can see the melted siding from all that heat. eight passengers were killed and we're learning a little bit of information about the victims. the authorities have not publicly identified them but a local school in plano, texas just sent out a letter to its community saying that there were four members of one family that were among the victims, two of them were teenagers. and we expect to get more infor...

The families and all concerned. >> richard quest, live from london and ian lee live from cairo. ian, what are you hearing about recovery efforts this morning? >> reporter: victor, we are hearing right now from the prime minister's office. we heard earlier that earn on board from the russians, saying everybody on board had been killed in this accident. now, from the egyptian prime minister's office saying 15 bodies have been recovered from the scene of the accident. rescue crews on ground sifting through the wreckage, trying to find other bodies. also, trying to find those black boxes to really...

The u.s. hopes to settle that once and for all. today president obama paid his respects at the netherlands embassy in washington. the dutch, of course, are now leading the investigation after losing 192 citizens, the most of any nation. >> this is an opportunity for me to extend on behalf of all the american people our deepest condolences over the loss of family and friends and to assure the dutch people that we will work with them to make sure that loved ones are recovered, that a proper investigation is conducted, and that ultimately justice is done. >> the rebels have handed over flight 17'...