hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year, it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now, this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from acting homeland security chief are mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now we ve got missing homeland security records along with deleted secret service text messages. just add it to the list. along with missing white house call logs and the presidential daily diary, all silent on a
say, but you really do. thank you, anderson cooper. this is don lemon tonight. i m laura coates in for don. deleted documents and the hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don t mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that s actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now this is on top of reporting from the washington post, the text from donald trump s acting homeland security chief chad wolf and his top deputy ken cuccinelli apparently are also mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we re learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that s before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now
already-devastating flooding. and, is taiwan on the itinerary? it s still a mystery as house speaker pelosi leaves for asia. putin makes his move. the kremlin s counter offer to bring brittney griner and paul whelan back home. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin with the humanitarian tragedy in the u.s. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state of kentucky, as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including six children. and that death toll is expected to rise. the raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods. scores of people are still missing. the kentucky governor andy beshear say it s hard to get a fix on the exact number since cell service is out this many areas, and he added that the state has never seen anything like this. here he is. there are still so many areas we still can t get to. the water hasn t crested in some parts of eastern kentucky. so we can t even get into some ho
around the clock to find families who still may be trapped, some residents losing everything. animals are without people. homes are destroyed. we need as much help, please, i m begging anyone who sees this, help my town, help my people. cnn s joe johns is live for us in hazard, kentucky. and the debris field is tremendous, joe, and we heard the governor there say they continue to look for people because so many remain unaccounted for. what are you finding? reporter: that s right, and they say it s possible this could go on for weeks, not days. so they say a picture is worth a thousand words, fred. and i just wanted to show you where we are. we are in hazard, kentucky. you look behind me here, there s the foundation of a house. believe it or not, before the flood there was a house there, a woman inside told us she started feeling the house moving around 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. she gets out, and then the rushing water essentially d demolishes the house and sends the de
kentucky showing some of the damage left behind by historic floods that killed at least 25 people. you can see floodwaters slammed this school bus into a building, just devastated there, wrecked cars and downed trees are everywhere. tomorrow eastern kentucky is expecting several more rounds of rain that could make this flooding worse. electricity is out in many places. state officials say 21 drinking water systems have been damaged by rushing waters. there have been more than 600 water rescues. among the dead are four young kids from one family, the youngest just two years old. the governor of that state said it s vast destruction in that area he s worried they ll find victims for weeks to come. this is still an emergency situation, we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up. we don t lose this many people in flooding. this is a real tough one. cnn s evan joins me now. just incredible footage of the devastation where you re at right