But breaking tonight, we first told you about this last night. But now at least 36 people are dead and thousands are fleeing their homes as i will wildfires sweep across the Hawaiian Island of maui. The flames have forced some adults and children to literally run into the ocean to avoid blaze. This is a disaster of historic proportions for the island state. President biden is promising immediately help for those affected. And the u. S. Military is assisting in the response. Some historic areas have been totally destroyed. National correspondent William La Jeunesse joins us now from outside a shelter on maui. Good evening, william. Good evening, bret. You know, the fires are still burning. So this remains a Search And Rescue operation. In fact, were told a number of individuals are still up in lahaina. They survived the fire but they dont want to leave because they wont get back. In the video i want to show you is from lahaina. Thats the commercial heart of this island and it was litera
go. could be fireworks. welcome to our broadcast today. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. what i like about when republicans run the committees, they re on time. allegations the f.b.i. bias will be front and center. the judiciary committee chairman will question durham on his report. he concluded the bureau had no business investigating the trump campaign. republicans are touting that be in their push to reform the justice department. committee chairman jim jordan. i think today for mr. durham you will hear why it s necessary. he will give detail and add more color to what we already knew, this whole trump/russia thing was a lie. dossier was garbage. they used it anyway to sfie on four american citizens. bill: right now jim jordan is sitting in his seat and could get rolling any moment. one of the democrats is adam schiff. the house could vote to censure him today for pushing the debunked claims of the trump-russia collusion. dan
i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. permanently disbanded. a major change at the memphis police department after the beating death of tyre nichols as the country sees another night of protests. ukrainian officials say, quote, fast-paced negotiations are underway with western allies to supply the country with long-range missiles amid days of russian attacks. how vital the weapons could be to ukraine in its fight against russia. i do fear for the future and what it may hold. you think there could be another january 6th in this country? yes. plus, a former twitter employee blowing the whistle about what she says were the company s failures leading up to the insurrection. why she is not satisfied with the january 6th committee and concerned this could all happen again. also, artificial intelligence with some very real world impacts. more on that viral tool chatgpt and why it s raising concern among america s teachers on cnn this morning. sunday, january 29th. we
potentially swindle more than $5 billion, almost $6 billion in taxpayer money. marc thiessen and ari fleischer in moments. first to david spunt who is investigating this. good afternoon, david. good afternoon. this came as an urgent alert from the pandemic response account ability committee better known as praac, this is a watch damage made up of government officials and government organizations. march will be three years since the government went into a lock down. many businesses survived but in not the same as from before. praac uncovered 69,000 questionable social security numbers that received 5.4 billion and that s just from studying more than 33 million applicants. there were many more. in many cases, the name did not match the correct name and birthday or the number was bogus, not even from the government. still the money went out in many cases. last spring i sat down with michael horowitz, chair of the pandemic response accountability committee and inspector general
close up shop over the holidays, you are practically inundated with releases a material. there was the committee s final report which clocked in at over 800 pages. then there were just thousands of deposition peaches and transcripts, court documents and exhibits from the committees. hearings dozens of videos. it is hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today, we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo. prepared by a team of committee staffers and focusing on social media and extremism. they were known as teen purple. the team apparently hoped that there 100 plus-page memo would be adapted into a chapter investigations final report. but the committee decided to leave most of it on the cutting room floor. among team purples most damning findings was that in the run up to january 6th, social media platforms like twitter and facebook bent over backwards, that their own rules to, allow donald trump