This morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. Officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. But they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. The search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and Officials Say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of t
Plan . Who has the will and who is winning . The criminal cartels. Bill in a moment well go to a House Border Hearing tackling the mess. Bill melugin is in texas with a brandnew hour. Good morning. Weve seen migrants tried to rush bridges like this several times before. This latest incident happened just after midnight yesterday in brownsville. Well get right to the images. This was the scene early yesterday morning at the Gateway International bridge in brownsville. A mass of several hundred migrants showed up hoping to get into the United States after rumors were spreading that the border would be opened up. Cbp responded and deployed razor wire and personnel in the middle of the bridge to block it. Were told nobody ended up getting through. Texas dps points out that when the federal government deploys razor wire to repel crossings there is no outrage. When texas does it there is accusations of cruelty and ba barberism. This video this morning out of the Rio Grande Valley. La jolla a
Today on inside politics, law and disorder. Donald trump faces a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to fight a Justice Department request. The former president claims its an attempt to shut him up. Prosecutors say its to stop the defense from Bullying Witnesses into silence. Plus, seeing is believing. Joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. Its part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. And a woke up call . New polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a looming legal deadline, the Trump Legal Team has until the close of Business Today to respond to a Justice Department demand for a protective order. The order would restrict what mr. Trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. Lets start with cnns katelyn polantz. What are you hearing . Dana, this is a typical provis
Americans were moved from tehrans Notorious Eivin Prison to a hotel guarded by iranian officials earlier today. Cnns Christiane Amanpour was first to break the story. She also spoke with one of the Iranian American detainees in an unprecedented interview from the prison back in march. She joins us now. Christiane, Siamak Namazi took a huge risk talking to you, but it does seem his message has been heard. Reporter well, lets hope so because he was desperate. And youre absolutely right. He told me desperate times, you know, mean you have to take desperate measures. And it was an extraordinary thing for somebody to be able to take a phone call out of eivin. He had been in nearly eight years, so he had some privileges like the ability to use a phone. But never had this been allowed to the press, and he didnt get permission. He just did it. But it just goes to show how desperate they were and how they absolutely wanted to get their message in front and center of the Biden Administration to
More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in