Almost entirely to the ground. Because of the wildfires, fires are continuing to burn. Helicopters continue to douse the flames. Many people, forced to flee at a moments notice, had to leave everything behind. Hawaiis Attorney General has announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about power, and why the power should have been cut to the island. Meantime, the police chief for maui county said he expects the death toll to rise. Realise this. When we find these. Ourfamily and our friends, the remains we are finding is through a fire that melted metal. We have to do rapid dna to identify them. Every one of these 89 arejohn and jane does. And when you are asking us, and we know we have to get. And i love the way our house of representatives, how she said it, we are so eloquent, we have to go quick and we have to do it right. So when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, and so when you have
To the mercy of the flames. On saturday hawaiis Attorney General announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about if power to the island should have been cut. Earlier i spoke to our reporter Helena Humphrey, who is on the ground in maui. Well, karl, we know the situation right now is that more search and recovery teams are coming onto the island of maui, and that is because there are just so many people who continue to be unaccounted for. And what you see here at that shelter is that people come here preparing for the worst but with some hope, hoping that potentially they could find loved ones here. Just over my shoulder over there is a Missing Persons tent. Thats currently being run by volunteers who know the community on the island, and they give People Police forms so that they can fill them in, which are handed to the sheriff, and then people can scan a qr code to try and get some informat
About 50 people were rescued. By by british and french vessels. Some were taken to hospital in a serious condition. A number of people were seen being carried off the lifeboat on stretchers when the vessel docked in dover. French Officials Say six people have died. The mp for calais gave us this update. Around 65 to 70 people were on these boats, 50 people were rescued by the french authorities, five people were found dead at sea, one died at the calais hospital. And we are still missing ten people. The Home Secretary Suella Braverman posted this message on social media, saying her thoughts and prayers were with those affected by the tragic loss of life. She is expected to chair a meeting with Border Force Officials later today. On thursday, 755 people crossed the channel, the largest daily figure so far this year. And more than 100,000 have made the journey since the crossings began in earnest in 2018. Once again, the channel one of the most dangerous and busiest Shipping Lanes in the
In the last few minutes, we have been told that the search has been called off by the french authorities. Simonjones reports from dover. The sea has claimed several more lives. The french lifeboat had the grim task of bringing five bodies back to shore, a sixth person airlifted to hospital didnt survive. Some of those rescued were taken to dover after lifeboats from the uk joined the search operation. Many of the survivors had been in the sea, screaming for help. Others had been trying to bail out their sinking boat using their shoes. Translation they were in trouble. Some were suffering from seasickness and the boats are quite simply overloaded. They overload the boats and so the boats can no longer move forwards. The last boat was too full. These pictures taken earlier in the week showed just how many people can be crammed into flimsy boats in the worlds busiest shipping lane. The french Authorities Say they will only intervene at sea if a boat gets into difficulty. The mp for dover
prices are rising faster than they have done for a0 years in the uk. the bank of england says the recent increases in energy hills, which are set to be three times more than they were a year ago, will drive inflation the rate at which prices rise even higher, to 13%. uk inflation hit that a0 year high injune, reaching 9.a%. july s figures are released in a few hours and there is a real chance that headline uk inflation could hit double figures. joining me now is liz martins, uk economist, hsbc welcome and it is good to have you on the programme. what do you on the programme. what do you think? do you think we will hit double digits today and if so how significant is that? that is our forecast that we get to exactly 10% year on year injuly and some of our fellow economists don t think it is quite that bad they say nine point 8% perhaps but 9.8, ten, these are incredible figures that even a few months ago we would have found hard to believe. yesterday we had the labour mark