Monday. John roberts, great to be back after a few days not being able to talk. Gillian and glad to be back with you on the new set, its awesome. This is america reports, the desperate search for survivors is continuing across maui. John Recovery Teams with cadaver dogs going building to building with the 1,000 that remain unaccounted for. Gillian survivors reporting Warning Sirens never went off and crews say hydrants had no water pressure. No idea what was going on, no siren, nothing. My son was like oh, mom, is this it . What do you tell your kids . Right now the government is letting us down, so its really important that all the people of maui stick together, Come Together And Support One another at this crazy time. Some of my friends are saying you know who is missing, so and so, so and so, so and so, and thats when it clicks in my head a bit. We will build back together, find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life. John max gordon live on the scene, are official
Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing part of your morning with us. As the grim reality sets in for survivors in hawaii, some are questioning the states response beforehand and how much was done to try to warn residents to get out. Plus Hunter Bidens legal troubles heat pup the Justice Department elevates the attorney to Special Counsel after plea talks fall apart. And donald trump and his legal team get a stern warning from the judge. Well have the latest on the contentious hearing. New data Shows Americans are pulling out of their 401 k and relying on credit cards. Well have a financial expert to weigh in with her advice. We begin with really grim news from hawaii, where those devastating wildfires have claimed at least 80 lives so far. The death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and its unclear how many people are unaccounted for. Video shows the horror of the fire as people tried t
Vaping products will come in october 2026 and the existing tax on tobacco will increase. The chancellor says thats in order to maintain the financial incentive to choose over smoking. Windfall tax on the profits of energy firms draw will be extended into 2029 even that was previously scheduled to end in 2028. Increase in flight duty for Business Class tickets, non dom tax free dream on People Living overseas and didnt that it will be replaced with new rules from april 2025. Bigger picture the uk economy now. The obr, office of budget responsibility predicts the economy is going to grow and add 1. 9 we are currently on a technical recession. Inflation rate forecast to fall below 2 target this year but the underlying debt. But the underlying debt, excluding Bank Of England debt, is forecast to be 91. 7 of gdp this year, rising to 92. 8 next year. The government also kept a freeze on alcohol duty, there is a lot to chew over and we have tried to bring up to date on the main headlines but
involving everything from military strikes to cyber attacks. so why hasn t it happened yet? . and we re learning more about a potential israeli hostage deal just one day after the families of american hostages brought their questions and concerns to the white house. i ll talk to one of the women who was there about the possibility of a new deal and what the u.s. is doing to force the issue. but i want to begin with that contentious hearing on capitol hill, demanding answers from the ceos of the world s biggest social media companies, focusing largely on child sexual exploitation on their platforms. the heads of facebook and instagram, snap, tiktok, discord and x, formerly known as twitter, facing intense pressure from senators on both sides of the aisle. when a boeing plane lost a door in mid flight several weeks ago, nobody questioned the decision to ground a fleet of over 700 planes. so why aren t we taking the same type of decisive action on the danger of these platfo
a delay or cancellation. it happens quite often. they are too many flights in and out. newark is terrible. i agree. charles watson is live from atlanta at the airport. you aren t in newark. look on the bright side. that s true, julie. hopefully today is the day that flyers can avoid the chaos and the nightmares that they ve experienced for days now here in atlanta things seem to be moving along pretty smoothly. we see a lot of people moving in and out of this airport pretty smoothly this morning. light crowds when you talk about one of the world s busiest airport. the folks here tell us that operations for the most part have been moving along smoothly. that has largely been the case despite all the disruptions for a record number of folks flying during the fourth of july travel period. aaa estimating more than 4.1 million holiday flyers. that seems to be in line with the massive tsa checkpoint numbers. the agency is averaging 2.6 million screenings a day over the last f