County record. The papers copublisher, 98yearold joan meyer, died a day after officers searched the her home. We will go to kansas for the latest. Democratic lawmakers for Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas to resign after propublica published another bombshell investigation showing that a group of conservative billionaires have showered thomas with 38 luxury vacations, 26 private jet flights, and 12 vip passes to sporting events. All work millions. And then to montana, where a judge has ruled in favor of youth plaintiffs who sued the state over Climate Change. This ruling is so important. Montana, for outside its borders, this is huge. For the judge to say montana is significantly contributing to Global Climate change, gave me the feeling our actions do matter. Amy we will speak with one of the youth plaintiffs and the head of our Childrens Trust, which has been involved in a string of groundbreaking climate lawsuits. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democra
And officials fear the actual death toll may be far higher. We will go to maui for the latest and then speak to the climate scientist michael mann. We simply would not be seeing this in the absence of human caused warming, in the absence of the Climate Crisis, the warming of the planet from the burning of fossil fuels. Amy and then to ecuador, where the country is still in shock after the assassination of president ial hopeful Fernando Villavicencio. This is a political crime, the character of terrorism. Amy we will speak to the ecuadoran economist andres arauz who is running for Vice President of ecuador in sundays elections, which are scheduled to proceed as planned. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In hawaii, the death toll from the maui wildfire has reached 96 and continues to rise, making it the deadliest u. S. Wildfire in a century. Family Resource Centers have been set up to help survivors despe
Playing the quarterfinals, so to get to the final is just amazing. The players. To the final is just amazing. The players, we know how good we are, and we players, we know how good we are, and we have players, we know how good we are, and we have to keep pushing. Wednesay s 2nd semi final is expected to be a sell out at the 81,000 capacity Stadium Australia and ttheres Fighting Talk from both camps and as austraia and england renew their Sporting Rivalry once again. Being knocked out by anyone is kind of unthinkable. Theres probably a lot of english people that would love to see us knocked out by england, but i think theres more australians that would love to see england knocked out by us. So in terms of the rivalry, again we have such big rivalries with so many different countries, so itsjust another game for us. Obviously, england are such a top team, like tony has been talking about, but we have been taking one game at a time and it seems to be working for us so far, and that will b
A century and there is growing anger on maui over both the lack of warning about the fires, and the response by officials to the thousands left without homes and in some cases, without adequate food and water. Sophie long reports from the island. This is what remains of lahaina. Cars abandoned as people ran and jumped into the sea to escape the flames. Homes and businesses reduced to charred remains. President biden promised immediate help and said every available asset should be used to provide it, but, days later, people here say its not yet reaching those most in need and people like felicia are desperately trying to get supplies into lahaina themselves. Im frustrated. People are. Were all together. Were one family, we need to take care of each other. No one s feeding everyone. Theyre traumatised. Theyre upset. No one s giving hugs. They need mental help. What do you need for me . To hear people in the same pads since the fire on thursday. Kids in the same diapers since thursday. Pe
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thanks for joining the panel on us rok travel corporation. I am the Deputy Director and senior fellow. In the previous session we discussed ways for us rok japan to expand their trilateral cooperation in the face of growing security challenges from north korea. The second panel, moving beyond the Korean Peninsula moving beyond escalating tensions between china and taiwan and ways for the us rok japan to Work Together to maintain peace and stability in the region. I am joined its my pleasure to introduce each of them. On my left is sunghan kim from the asiapacific center for Security Studies at the institute of the Us Department of state defense based in hawaii. His area of expertise covers korea, korea, china, china, Korean Peninsula relations, north korea simply a program, us alliance in east asia. Next is the director of contemporary chinese studies and professor of the graduate school of asiapacific studie