Washington, d. C. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin this morning with the apocalyptic destruction in hawaii, the deadliest National Disaster in state history. At least 80 people are dead. And thousands more displaced from the wildfires. And now, rescue crews are bringing in cadaver dogs to help search what is left of burned buildings. Devastation from the lahaina fire, costing an estimated 5. 5 billion am in mountainy county. One lawmaker tells cnn the statement unestimated the possibility of wildfires and failed to plan for emergency issues with the government alert center. The governor has looked at a comprehensive review of the states response all of this developing as we are seeing more videos of harrowing escapes. We got to walk somewhere. Over there. By the beach. [ bleep ]. No, no, no not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. Oh, my gosh. I mean that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter, after taking refuge on rocks, by the ocean. Lets go now to cnns mike val
mainland. it has been under attack before in october and july and it appears it has happened again now and those who are there, with the smoke around the billion dollar infrastructure, this appears to be released by the russians deliberately to on cure the bridge and, to on cure the bridge, perhaps to change the drone trajectory. and it is two or three missiles aimed at the drudge. and look, in all of these things, it is hard to tell in the hours quite what the truth of the matter is. explosions were reported there. by some onlookers. hard to tell exactly what the damage was, if any indeed occurred. and as you say, traffic appeared to have resumed. it is another reminder of ukraine s increased reach, the ability to hit infrastructure, that is some ways quite dear to vladimir putin, he has visited that bridge on multiple occasions and it cost him an