The new questions tonight about what happened and the threat is is not over. Here are tonights headlines. You can just see how much of the landscape has been charred. The town just totally wiped out. Our visit to historic lahaina now in ruins. Nothing but ashes. Its like an ashen moonscape, every single house. Every single tree. And it goes on like this for a block after block after block. We speak with survivors as a Community Waits for news about their loved ones. I do expect the numbers to rise. Heads up, the line is live on the ground right there. Norah tonight the new video about what may have caused the fire and the stories of desperation to get out alive. The sirens did not go off and even Fire Hydrants did not have water. How did so much go so wrong . One of the islands most famous longtime residents Oprah Winfrey spent the last several days doing what she could to provide emotional comfort and physical aid to one of the hardest hit areas. Former President Donald Trump could fa
bottom. when it comes to steering the economy, we ll tell you how beijing is being penned in by china s soaring pork prices. stock markets are up, but after the collapse of confidence that s hammered equities over the past few sessions, investors are wondering whether the panic is really over. tuesday s federal reserve meeting appears to have been the trigger for the rally in europe. the gains there partially reversing the spectacular falls of recent days. european indices are heading higher. a asia followed that swing. the dow posted its biggest gain this year. here in hong kong the stock exchange has just closed. the hang seng recovered some of that but still has quite a way to go. it lost almost 12% of its value over the past three sessions of decline. nina? andrew, none of these markets are down in the double digits. let s see how they re doing just an hour into the trading session. we ve got, for instance, the dax up in excess of 1.75%. and the ftse 100 and the zur
china s economy cools slightly, but still hot enough to beat the forecast. uk lawmakers close ranks to try and block news corp s bid for bskyb. first up though here in the italian capital, the government is preparing to speak to parliament for a marathon debate over the next couple days, designed to gain the necessary approval for painful austerity measures. these are ones designed to prevent this country from becoming the fourth eurozone nature to go cap in hand to the imf, the eu and the ecb. pauline. european stock market investors are watching italy s debt crisis very closely. here is where they stand at the moment. let s take a look at the moment. the london ftse making some gains, so is the xetra dax t. zurich smi is pretty much flat at the moment on this wednesday morning. nina? pauline, of course, the effects of italy s debt crisis are being next right across the board. let s have a look at where the ftse is. the milanese has lost about 4,000 points in the last