Just one day. Thats how many online sales alibaba racked up, setting a new world record. Wow. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts right now. At 3 01 on the u. S. East coast, we start in the state of california. Entire communities there have been burned to the ground. Take a look at this map. It shows the fires affecting both the northern and southern parts of the state. Many people will still unaccounted for. The death toll continues to rise. At least 31 people have died in the camp and woolsey fires so far. Take a look at this. Terrifying scenes when the campfire first sparked up in Northern California thursday. At least 29 people have died as a result of that fire, tying it for the deadliest fire in the states history. Its already taking the record for the states most destructive. In Southern California, the woolsey fire forced more than 200,000 people
The air, the chilling messages posted as that massacre was unfolding. What the gunman, a marine veteran, allegedly wrote about what he was doing. Tonight, the terror attack overseas. A pickup truck going up in flames, and the rampage that followed. President trump facing outrage tonight, over his pick for acting attorney general. The president now saying he doesnt know Matt Whitaker. But what the president said just a month ago. Robin roberts with Michelle Obama tonight. The former first lady and what she now reveals. Saying she wishes she had revealed it sooner, that it could have helped millions of women. And the storm system this friday night, bringing snow, blinding rain, and freezing temperatures into the northeast. And good evening on this friday night from california. Where they have just declared a state of emergency here, and its unimaginable. They woke up to a massacre thursday, and now a wildfire burning out of control. You can see this home behind me, incinerated. They beli
I want you to make some predictions. Do we expect any drama . Im assuming the drama begins as soon as they take the gavel but can the drama begin with this president and what are the chances anything gets done . What are the key issues . I think, mika, the likelihood anything will get done of substance in the lame duck session will be small. The president will do what the president will do. I know well talk later about the special counsel and the drama there. I think right now you got a situation where the president has in the course of his two years in office accomplished almost nothing on the legislative front. So i dont see any great urgency. One of the things the president said we would have is another tax cut. That was one of the things he promised at the end of the campaign. One they were going to work on that while congress was out of session. Now that congress is back in session theres no appetite to do that. One thing the president looked like he was going to put pressure on i
wildfire is as vital to a forest as rainfall but human fear of it has shaped and reshaped entire ecosystems, often for the worse. but by shifting the way they think about nature, shelter, and community paradise is not to prove to the rest of the overheating world how to live with fire because there s no other choice and bill weird joins us now. so bill, what s the latest on this insurance crisis well, gavin newsom recently slipped some new provisions into some language around legislation really calling for emergency law making around this insurance crisis, giving more clarity to insurers about rate hi ics also giving incentives to homeowners like the folks who met their who hardened against wildfire living in these wildland interfaces right now it s hugely problematic. and the same thing, it s also playing out in florida and
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