The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
We will have a special programme in 30 minutes. Hello, im nicky schiller. We start in the United States where President Biden has delivered his last state of the Union Address before the president ial election in november. In a fiery speech he warned that the us is facing a greater threat to its freedom and democracy than at any time since the presidency of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s. He repeatedly took swipes at donald trump, using the term, My Predecessor 13 times. He described mr trumps recent remarks about nato as unacceptable. Mr biden said he had inherited an economy on the brink after the turmoil of covid pandemic, but it was now the envy of the world. But it was his repeated attacks on mr trump which drew the biggest cheers on capitol hill. Nomia iqbal has the story from washington. Cheering. This was President Biden s make or break moment to show americans why he should be re elected. No pressure. Good evening. If i were smart, id go home now. Laughter. It was a more fiery s
State of the union, Hitting Reset on his reelection campaign, and taking his message on the road to voters in battle around states. Plus as the president touts his record, the new february jobs report beating expectations, we break down the numbers and what they mean for you. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central this hour, President Biden will arrive in the critical 2024 battleground of pennsylvania. This is part of a new campaign, push to amplify the message we first heard in a confrontational and somewhat unconventional state of the Union Address last night at times, it sounded more like a stump speech. To be fair, he was contending with some heckling republicans no surprise, things were politically charged because of that looming election rematch with former President Donald Trump lets get you out to the Campaign Trail with cnn senior white house correspondent, mj lee, whos in pennsylvania for us. Mj. What do we kno
Airline says theyre investigating them individually, but nonetheless, as its concerning for a lot of the passengers especially the ones on these slides, you mentioned the latest one that was yesterday. It was a flight from San Francisco to mexico city and and the airline saying, you know, there are three hydraulic systems and one of them had the issues, so they diverted that flight landed here at lax at around 430 local fulltime. And eventually these passengers were put on another plane and went off to mexico city. But there was another incident also yesterday that was a plane from memphis to houston and then they said that part of it was because of the rain. So this plane is landing its taxing and its skids off the runway and goes into a grassy areas. So passengers had a very three different deplaneing experience here. This was a boeing 737 with 160 passengers, six crew members, but again, it wasnt the only one this week, there was another incident that happened on thursday and that w