Ahead on cnn newsroom. It looks like a war zone out there, really looks like somebody came along and bombed the town. Billions of dollars and losses, dozens dead, the scope of the fires in hawaii is becoming clear. Gop president ial hopeful campaign at the Iowa State Fair ahead of their first debate, front runner donald trump refuses to comply with one requirement to qualify for the event. And Five Americans have been released from irans most notorious prison, what it will take to bring them the rest of the way home. Live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. The catastrophic wildfires scorching the Hawaiian Island of maui have killed at least 53 people, it is feared the death toll will keep rising as emergency crews reach more areas turn to ash. Power and cell service are still out in western maui, and the main Tourist District of lahaina which is making it difficult to determine how many people are still missing. The white government up 1700 buildings there were de
Maui coming into stark relief. So much property destroyed, including important historical and cultural sites. Today, the disaster is far from over. We will have a live report from hawaii, just ahead. And were learning more about a deadly encounter where fbi agents shot and killed a man they were trying to arrest after alarming and threatening posts. And in florida, we are live outside the courthouse where former President Trumps body man walt nauta pleaded guilty. Were covering they stories coming into Cnn News Central. Still we have dead bodies in the water, floating, and on the seawall. Theyve been sitting there since last night. Weve been pulling people out since last night, trying to save peoples lives. I feel like were not getting the help we need. Its a nationwide issues issue at this point. We need help, a lot of help. We have to get people down here. Just moments ago President Joe Biden responding to the pleas for help, speaking with hawaiis governor and approving a National De
was happening it defied me. all i wanted was what was best for my child at that time. reporter: and you saw those mothers travel all the way into occupied crimea with emotional unions with their children. they managed to get most of them back, but, many still remain, jake, in captivity, the arrest warrant will put the pressure onto russia, the russians say they have no jurisdiction over the president. the international criminal court does not hold trials in absentia, that means putin would have to be arrested before standing trial there, what does that mean for putin? what it means is that he is hemmed into russia, should the president of russia travel now to countries which are party to the international criminal court treaty, now, that does not include the united states, he would be expected to be arrested by that country. but, the track record on this is not great. previous heads of state, like omar al masider of sudan traveled. the russian authorities and the kremli
for seven and a half days. more than 7000 people are now known to have died and that number is expected to rise and not focuses on getting aid to the thousands who have survived. also in the programme, the new family of the victim was legally stabbed says that her death is of the massive hole in their lives. officials have been explaining more about the series of objects that have been shot down from their airspace. three were shut down this past week and we have just been hearing from the white house sink have not been able to identify with these objects are. but they maintain that this balloon which was shot on the 4th of february was a suspected spy the 4th of february was a suspected spy balloon from china. his national security spokesperson speaking in the last few moments stability were able to determine that china does have a boon for this intelligence collection that is connected to the people s liberation army. it was operating during the previous administration but
high interest rates are real bad for people who are buying stuff they don t pay for right away. that s my ba-humbug. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. it s friday. friday. we love our jobs but it is friday. i think i love friday. tgif. we made it guys. we made it. we made it. good morning, everyone. don lemon here. poppy harlow, kaitlan collins and it is friday and we are happy to be here but we re happy that it s friday and we get a couple days off, because next week is going to be a marathon. we have a lot going on next week. wait until you see how long we re on television. we have cots behind us we re going to be sleeping on. it s going to be a busy week. it is. and leading into next week there is an oprah size endorsement we have to talk about. it s in pennsylvania s senate race. will it make a difference? big one. hours from now thousands of twitter employees will learn if they are fired through email. wha