It to. Us hello, im alicia menendez. As we come on the air tonight we are closely monitoring the second deadliest wildfire in u. S. History in hawaii on the island of maui. 80 people are now confirmed dead. Sadly, the kit mayor tonight wanting the death toll could go up as more damages are assessed. From the air, the toll of these fires, well, look at it, it is hard to take in. Homes reduced to rubble. This as half a dozen fires are still burning in maui and on the big island. Officials say fire in the Historic Town of a hyena is now 85 contained the governor saying he believes these fires could be the largest Natural Disaster in the states history. , tonight residents either working to evacuate maui, if they can returning home or in cases they are finding nothing. There are also air quality concerns to talk. About we will over the next two hours with live updates from maui we will also speak to a 911 First Responder who is there on the ground working to help fellow americans displace.
Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
a delay or cancellation. it happens quite often. they are too many flights in and out. newark is terrible. i agree. charles watson is live from atlanta at the airport. you aren t in newark. look on the bright side. that s true, julie. hopefully today is the day that flyers can avoid the chaos and the nightmares that they ve experienced for days now here in atlanta things seem to be moving along pretty smoothly. we see a lot of people moving in and out of this airport pretty smoothly this morning. light crowds when you talk about one of the world s busiest airport. the folks here tell us that operations for the most part have been moving along smoothly. that has largely been the case despite all the disruptions for a record number of folks flying during the fourth of july travel period. aaa estimating more than 4.1 million holiday flyers. that seems to be in line with the massive tsa checkpoint numbers. the agency is averaging 2.6 million screenings a day over the last f
president already threatening to veto it, are we all just racing towards disaster? and she just told a jury that donald trump raped her. she s taking the stand in her defamation and sexual battery case against the former president. why she says she waited 27 years to bring these charges. the world health organization is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in sudan. hospitals at only 16% capacity and that laboratory seized by militants is now entirely without power. diseases such as measles, polio, cholera and worst case scenario could be leaked. we are following these major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. we begin this hour on capitol hill where overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy made a series of concessions on the republican debt ceiling bill to appease far right members of the house. he is hoping to pass that legislation as early as today. president biden says he s willing to meet with mccarthy but with one condition. here i
the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] it went into the rafters, we were away up in it. it started pushing on us and, long story short, it [inaudible] took over serious water. the bone next to me, they got me going [inaudible] i didn t know if the building was gonna hold up or not. i went in hard, just seven [inaudible] my seventh hurricane. this is mature seventh? hurricane yes. [inaudible] now ian. and this is by far the worst. why? what was the worst of it? the wind, the tide. the tide surge! harvey, we had a tight surge, but