And an agonizing wait for news of their loved ones. And a new twist in the hunter biden program. U. S. Attorney general announcing its Special Counsel to investigate president bidens son. History taking shape at the womans world cup stage, now set for a first time winner, after japan was knocked out in the quarterfinals. Live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we begin in hawaii, and wouldve another evacuation on maui. The Police Department just posted that there is a fire in west maui, and residents in the area are currently being evacuated. That comes as a whites Attorney General says she will lead a comprehensive review of the decisions officials made, as Deadly Wildfires broke out earlier on maui. More criticism is now growing over how authorities handled things in the early stages. As flames quickly spread and destroyed the iconic area. Hawaii Emergency Management says mauis Warning Sirens were not turned on after the fires broke out. But many people were unaware of just how b
severe storm. for days we were forewarned that hurricane dora was going to pass the islands to the south. packing winds up to 80 miles an hour. so, even myself and my family we sort of battened down the hatches, knowing that we needed to prepare for this severe weather. so, i think, people need to understand that we all were advised about this oncoming storm, and when it hit, it was well beyond anybody s expectations. we lost power, we lost the use of our cell phones , not in central maui, but in west maui. people lost the use of water,
will ask you as the whitehall editor how essential government deals with nonpolitical crises like theirs. in the last half hour you ask me about this thing and now i can. i m going to do that for one moment before we go on to disaster planning within the british state. this is why the storm is going to be particularly problematic, due to a very intense gust of wind that happens very rarely come it s about 30 miles in its length and only last for a couple of hours. the last time this was seen was from the great storm of 1987. that is of course why this is being described as many of the big just tomorrow as they were storm within 30 years. all the hatches are being battened down at the moment. red alert for wales in the southwest of england and amber alerts for the rest of the country. you asked me about disaster planning in whitehall and the prime minister called a meeting of cobra which is nothing to do with snakes but is the cabinet office briefing room. and it s a
have what you need to ride it out for a few days? i assume you ve lost power? oh, yeah, we lost power about 10:00. yeah, we got prepared. we have lots of food and we have lots of water and my parents who live up the street have an airstream so we can cook food if necessary if it stays out for a while. we ve been watching panama city all day of how many people stayed and how many people left? did most of your neighbors stick around or did they leave? most of my neighbors stuck around. it s, you know, a lot of my neighbors are sick and don t have a lot of money so they couldn t really afford to get out. battened down as much as we could. this is what i ve heard from a few people. it s something we discuss with every one of these hurricanes. it seems so obvious. why didn t you just leave your house. i had a woman tell me, i don t have money. i pay my bills on the first of the month and live paycheck to paycheck. the extra gas, the
key west, yet we are still here in the metro broward county, fort lauderdale, miami area feeling the impact. the beads and the size of the store is aweing. mike: is your best advice to sit tight and ride it out? we are tonight. the whole county declared curfew at 3:00 p.m. the roads are completely deserted. everybody is following the orders from law enforcement and public safety personnel. everybody is board up or in a shelter. we have 35,000 people in shelters in broward county. everybody acted responsibly. it s been a few days we have been getting ready here. we are as battened down as we