Getting a better look at the scale of the damage. The Catastrophe Modelling Firm karen clark and Company Estimates the total area burned at about 2,200 acres. Roughly 1,000 buildings have destroyed. Attempts to flee the devasting and fast moving fires were hampered as flames were fanned by winds coming from hurricane dora. The devastating and fast moving fires. We are now learning the harrowing stories of survival like this familys, who was forced to flee into the ocean. The ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. But, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. I said, were not going to die, and were here, were alive. Some residents are now being allowed into destroyed areas. These pictures show residents and tourists waiting in traffic to return to the Historic Town of lahaina. For many, this will be the first time theyve been able to go home to see the damage for themselves. But a curfew is in place for the worst hit areas, and some remain closed entirely. 0ur correspondent John Sud
harold by them. in the south, temperatures rising even faster. 120 degrees in some parts of texas. now not just texas. get ready, this could get worse. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. fox on top of more nature getting over the top. to rick reichmuth. what are we looking at, rick? not only is it abnormal to be the c-named storms, it s where they are that is abnormal. they ve been forming in the open atlantic. the waves that came off the coast of africa. that generally happens to mid september, we get into that type of tropical development. so getting there, we ve never had two that formed to the east of the lesser antilles. all forming in a time that we might be looking at a lower than average season. currently, we have bret, cindy. there s no real threat to land for this. we ve had some strong wind gusts. if you throw up weather max 16 behind me, i can show you what s going on here. wind gusts of 69 miles an hour in st. lucia. bret, down across parts
states, and all around the, world i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, back from the, brink the u.s. congress passed as a compromise deal to spending the federal governments that ceiling for two years. a song speaks on the ground outside a collapsed building, waiting for inspectors day before the accident. and, a sure pose submitting mount everest to a missing climber, we will show you this uptick rescue. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. and so president biden s knee only thing needed now to suspend the debt ceiling, and avoid an economic meltdown that could have impacted the entire world after weeks of talks that run hot and cold, mostly hot in the u.s. senate on thursday, more than 63 to 36 to pass the critical legislation after cleared the u.s. house the day before. now that was following the vote to the president issued a statement thanking lawmakers, saying tonight, senators from both parties of voting to protect the heart of cu
they were covered, water over the mailboxes. i need you to get up in there, and i m going to hand her to you, and and you ve got to hold her. [background sounds] i m surrounded here by stress is els that were in this marina, tossed around really like tinker toys. that was my house. my house is gone. a lot of people can say that today here, lost everything. neil: an incredible week, and it s not over. just some of the incredible images we ve seen throughout this week brought on by a pretty ruthless hurricane ian. many southwest florida homes leveled and communities destroyed. more than three dozen lives lost and now warnings of a potential levee break that could cause a 15-foot surge. in the carolinas, some similar scenes. hundreds of thousands still in the dark there as they try to assess the havoc caused by ian. we re following it all with nate foy in myrtle beach, south carolina, alexandria hoff in hard-hit fort myers, florida, and ache rick reich newt reichmuth
harbors a dark history, we will take you to oasis villa, a painful reminder of the fragility of taiwan s democracy. announcer: live from the cnn center, it is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where for the second time in days the city of zaporizhzhia is taking a deadly pounding from russian rockets. have a look here, these are scenes of chaos after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday reportedly killing at least 17 people, while further south moscow is scrambling to get the bridge drinking crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now, russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed, but drivers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can still support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened, but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feeling sorry ab