whitaker twice in the last few weeks over the explosive revelations in the michael cohen case. sources say the president is frustrated. prosecutors overseeing whitaker saying they filed charges to make the president look bad. none of the sources say whitaker was ordered to stop the mueller probe. this is showing how the attorney general should serve as the president s personal protector. this is not the president just looking bad, but the president confronting the top law enforcement officer over a case where he has been implicated. rudy giuliani could not confirm the conversations with whitaker, but he says the president views the prosecutors in new york as out of control. 300 people, including beach side concert goers wiped away by a tsunami that hit indonesia without warning. overnig overnight, the government
out at sea and triggered by earthquakes and not volcanos which are closer to land. also much of the system, we are hearing, has not been operating since 2012. there was another deadly tsunami last september after an earthquake in another part of indonesia that killed at least 2,000 people. so the fears are compounding the rescue efforts and the efforts to remove the debris from this deadly natural disaster on what is supposed to be a holiday weekend. joe. thanks for that, ivan watson, in hong kong. watching global markets. in asia, mashltrkets are lower. frankfurt is up a bit. wall street futures are higher. the worst week in a decade for the dow.
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it is called krakatau. what surprised everybody on saturday night were no tsunami warnings. that is, in fact, because volcanic activity doesn t trigger the early warning systems that an earthquake would in other cases. there is a bigger problem here. christine, last september there was an earthquake and tsunami that killed about 2,000 people in another part of indonesia and the authorities then were saying, hey, our tsunami early warning system is not working. we ve got these buoys out in the ocean attached to the ocean floor and most are not functioning due to theft and vandalism. they are not being kept up to date. here we are some four months later and another deadly tsunami rips through. there are some major challenges here. indonesia is made up of 17,000
saying it was caused by volcanic eruption. a massive one called child of krakatoa. in the eruption on saturday, about 64 square hecatres, the island sloped and collapsed into the sea and helped drive the deadly wave. it was exacerbated by a full moon and high tide. the question of tsunami detection, if you have ever visited indonesia, there are signs around the area telling you to go for shelter in the event of a tsunami. we are learned the buoy system that is supposed to detect tsunamis has been defunct since 2012. there was another deadly tsunami last september, but that hasn t