two nations pointing fingers after an attack on a prison holding prisoner of war. we re live in kyiv with the latest. how russia is getting around sanctions by plundering sudan s gold. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5:00 a.m. in eastern kentucky where a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding and will likely get worse. president joe biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including 6 children and that death toll is expected to rise. raging waters decimated entire neighborhoods, scores of people are still missing. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to know how many. he explains why here. listen. there are 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 in to some hollers and see who is there. there are people out there all across kentucky and america that are scared bec
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
and they should be. did that horrible thing to our city to our country to the world. so nobody has really been there, but i can tell you there are a lot of really great people out here today and we re going to have a lot of fun and we re going to celebrate. reporter: the effort by 9/11 families to stop this tournament from happening is the latest in their long, hard, fought effort to try to bring more information out to light. in fact, it was just last year the fbi released documents showing that the saudi hijackers involved in the attacks 21 years ago allegedly received support from saudi officials, and that is what is fueling the frustrations for so many family members including sandra felt, whose husband was aboard united flight 93 that crashed into an empty field in shanksville, pennsylvania, the day of the attacks. this is what she had to say on friday. no, there can t be no happy ending. what we want is accountability. i want my grandson to learn the truth about how his grand
that interview mentioned in which the former commander-in-chief basically suggests nobody has gotten to the bottom of the 911 attacks. what you re hearing from those families that came together, united their voices yet again here in the township of bedminster, new jersey, just a few miles from where that tournament goes on at this hour, what you heard is basically this collective call for donald trump to acknowledge what they say was the saudi role in the attacks and also the long running list of human rights violations allegedly committed by the saudis. six years later they feel that they have not been helped by the former commander-in-chief. instead, holding this large golf tournament here at his golf club. i want you to hear directly from sandra felt whose husband was aboard flight 93 the flight flown into a field in shanksville, pennsylvania on september 11 when those passengers basically revolted and tried to regain control of the aircraft. when you hear sandra you can hear the fr
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