Bret im bret baier. This is americas newsroom. 55 People Killed and expected to rise as Rescue Crews Comb through the rubble of neighborhoods. The sheer scale of the devastation there. They turned a tropical paradise into what is called an apocalypse. Officials are scrambling to find shelter for thousands left homeless. Dana putting more stress On Fire Crews who have been working around the clock, bret. This happened quickly. The devastation on day two here im afraid what people will end up finding. They have so many people still missing. Bret the most amazing thing. Some of the video that started coming out a couple days ago are the people jumping into the ocean to avoid the flames. The devastation is unbelievable. Now federal authorities are trying to get as much as they can to these people who have lost everything. Dana one more point on this. Will cain spent a lot of time there as a child and throughout his adult life and he has been giving us some information how close knit this c
Devon archer describes in great detail what he calls the biden brand and how it was used. Details on those 20 plus phone calls, Speaker Phone Calls now. President biden was on speakerphone four. And in the interview, republican congressman andy biggs asked archer, when you say biden family, you are talking about joe biden . Archer responds, yeah, that is fair to say. I dont think about it joe directly but that is fair. That routes the most value to the brand. Hunter biden used his data as defensive leverage for foreign Business Partners pure democratic santa missed the sayg he was talking about the weathes key, archer says they were to talk about the weather. And that was signaling them to be powerful. Goldman then asked, this was about to protecting the allusion to access to his father, is that right . Archer says, that is correct. I understand the democrats have to play defense and pretend they dont understand it. But to any normal person, this story is not complicated. You had a guy
i looked and i seen the sun this morning, bright red. oh, my god, what s going on? when you look high up the buildings, looks pretty rough. looks way different from now than yesterday, way different. completely agree. i feel i have a blocked nose as well. slightly irritated. a little concerned about my kids going outside, but so, for once i ll actually let them stay on their devices. sandra: begin with the smoky skies that have become an air quality emergency for millions of americans and officials are warning things may only get worse in the coming hours and days. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. john, hello. john: if you have some masks left over from covid, might want to dig them out. smoke is blanketing the eastern u.s. triggering air quality alerts in big cities like new york and philadelphia, and more than a dozen states. outdoor activities have been canceled at schools across the region and tens of millions of americans are advis
Meeting with japans prime minister. But theres an issue loming over the white house. The Mounting Fallout over bidens handling of classified documents during his post obama years. Thbz has learned one of the classified documents found at the d. C. Office was marked with the highest classification in the u. S. Government. Thats according to a senior u. S. Official and another person familiar. We got that development after attorney general Merrick Garland announced hes appointed a Veteran Prosecutor to serve as Special Counsel to review the documents. Ahead, what were learning about hur and how hes proceeding. Plus the tight rope both the white house and Justice Department are walking considering theres another Special Counsel investigating President Trump. Also this morning, devastation across the southeast. Search and rescue operations are underway after tornadoes in multiple states. By the grace of god, we all survived. We jumped out the car and we all got in the freezer. A lot of pra
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered