Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. Tornadoes slamming the northeast. And the major hurricane now bearing down on the u. S. , historic in size. First, the images coming in tonight, that rare tornado on the ground near providence, rhode island. The twister crossing Interstate 295. A driver telling authorities her car was lifted into the air. Two tornados in massachusetts. Homes damaged, trees down. Trevor ault standing by with late reporting. Also tonight, bracing for that rare monster hurricane in the west. The first ever Tropical Storm watch now issued for southern california. The storm, hilary, a powerful category4 hurricane as we come on tonight. Winds up to 130 miles per hour. Millions now bracing for heavy rain and flash flooding. Major American Cities in the bullseye from san diego to las vegas. Meteorologist lee goldberg timing this out. We are just back from maui tonight, and 24 hours after answering tough questions on why maui did not sound those sirens
- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? get t thbestst rult t poiblele. call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, everyone. i m rosemary church in atlanta and we are following a major development in breaking news out of the national football league. about an hour ago the buffalo bills confirmed it was a cardiac arrest that brought down player damar hamlin in monday night s game. the bills said his heartbeat was restored on the field and that he remains sedated and in critical condition at a cincinnati hospital, a closer look now at what happened. hamlin who plays safety collapsed after a hard tackle in the first quarter of the game against the cincinnati bengals which has since been postponed. hamlin is number 3 and wearing white. watch as he makes the tackle and you can see him stand up fairly quickly, but then he falls backwards. an ambula
the island s siren warning system was not deployed. overnight, after days of criticism, the head of maui s emergency management agency, herman andaya, resigning, citing health concerns. do you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. reporter: his story changing over the course of one news conference. the sirens, as i had mentioned earlier, is used primarily for tsunamis. the public is trained to seek higher ground in the event that the siren is sounded. if that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire. it s an outdoor siren, so a lot of people who are indoors, air-conditioning on, whatever the case may be, they re not going to hear the siren. reporter: the government s own website contradicting that account, saying the all-hazard siren system can be used for wildfires. 5 of maui s 80 sirens in lahaina alone. residents say they could have given them the chance to escape. we saw firsthand the devastation left behind, as those who call lahaina home saw what s left
flip media, eric mitchell. thank you so much for being with us as we cover this very difficult story, of course. very difficult story. what are your thoughts this hour as we wait to hear more on damar hamlin s condition? i guess the good news is we got that release from the bills about an hour or so ago giving us an update on damar because we hadn t had one. we d gone hours without one. the last all the viewers at home saw was him driving off in the ambulance and getting zero feedback. teams didn t give us anything. i think that s what most nfl football fans are used to. player goes down on the field. we saw it just a few weeks ago that same very field is where tua went down with his concussion that he was taken off in an ambulance and we received word probably 20 minutes afterwards that he was stable. we didn t get that last night. we literally all went to bed. everybody s on twitter or their social media checking over and over again going what is going on because when you hear
the continuum is an absolutely great chance in his name are the fantastic say there was so brazil the five times champions out of the world cup belgium heading to the semifinals so what what went wrong for brazil i think the problem with brazil was that they hadn t played a big team yet and they started off slowly and they just kind of muddle through getting costa rica they played pretty well against mexico but mexico are not a massive side and all of a sudden they came up against as very strong belgium side a lot of people had picked as dark horses for the title and you just can t build momentum out of nowhere i mean this is a big blow for brazil i mean the last time they won the will cope was two thousand and two so that s four world cups now they haven t won now for the record five times champion that is an absolute age and of course the whole point of this world cup was meant to be some sort of catharsis for the seven one drubbing against germany in the semifinal on home saw in two