To reach the upper floors because of intense heat and falling debris. This is a completely unprecedented fire. In my 29 years in the London Fire Brigade i have never seen a fire of this nature, and i have seen many high rise fires. Residents have been taking shelter in nearby community centres, some are still looking for missing relatives. She said we cant do it because the smoke is killing her, the smoke is coming. The smoke is coming through the doors, shes keep covering it but. Its everywhere. And that was the last time we heard from her. Theres no word yet on the cause of the blaze. Residents say they had raised concerns about fire safety in the block. Dozens of people are being treated in londons hospitals, 18 are said to be in a critical condition. The block had recently been refurbished. Ministers have ordered urgent checks on buildings where similar work has been carried out. Stay with bbc news throughout the evening for all the developments from our correspondents at the scene
Are always important, but never more so important than the time that were living in. We heard former president bill clinton use the words total class. And we heard former president barack obama, a democrat, say a gentleman. And i think civility, his graciousness, the way he handled himself is a role model we all will miss. Jamie, dana, thank you. This is cnn breaking news. Im don lemon. It is the top of the hour. Here is our breaking news. The 41st president of the United States, george h. W. Bush has died at the age of 94. The flag at the white house flying at halfstaff right now as flowers pile up outside the bush home in houston, texas. Tributes are pouring in from President Trump and former president S Barack Obama and bill clinton. As well as former Vice President al gore and condoleezza rice, james baker, and so many more. The nation mourning the man who devoted his life to service to his country and to his family. Cnns john king now with the story of george h. W. Bush, the polit
A crash of that plane into the alcoh capitol. President obama will observe a Moment Of Silence marking the moment the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. Bv moving to the Memorial Ceremony at the pentagon across the river where he will speak. Donald trump appeared alongside Rudy Giuliani at ground zero this morning. Hell visit a firehouse later today. Hillary clinton is also at the site of the attacks. She spoke to chris cuomo about visiting ground zero the day after the towers fell. I went the next day, Chuck Schumer and i. We were one of theery few planes in the sky that day. The 12th. And we landed at laguardia. We were on a fema plane. We took a helicopter. And we went over, circled the burning pile. And when we landed, we met up with the governor and the mayor and went walking toward ground zero. And as we moved further south and we saw this curtain of black smoke that was stretched across the island basically, occasionally it would be broken by a firefighte