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
police fired tear gas at these protesters, who threw projectiles at them and set bins on fire. people also are not stopping this situation. we ll monitor it, bring it to you, in a live report. so none of that is keeping them out of the streets. the police are trying their best to corral them. pretty peaceful in this picture that we see right now. some of the video that we ve seen come in has been kind of back and forth between how rowdy the situation gets. this is a battle over what can france afford to pay for anymore, and people who say they deserve to have what they ve worked for all their lives. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a bipartisan congressional delegation just touched down in taiwan today, one day after house speaker kevin mccarthy defied china s threats and met with taiwan s president in california. china still claims sovereignty over taiwan, something the united states does not recognize. in response to that meeting, china threatened they
already closed last month. critics say that is by design, a slow motion strategy playing out little by little until it s too far and too late to stop it. sandra: shannon bream will be here what s at stake and cases at the supreme court, including the abortion pill. but first this. suspect accused of leaking our nation s secrets in court for the first time. 21-year-old national guardsman jack teixeira seen wearing hands cuffs and a khaki prison jump suit as he stood before a federal judge. bill: facing two federal charges for removing and sharing classified information. cameras captured his dad leaving the courtroom just moments after his son was formally charged under the espionage act. sandra: questions grow how a low level employee had access to top secret information. darrell issa slamming the system last hour. secure facilities should not trust everyone that goes in walks out with the briefcase and not looked at. and the system obviously failed at several levels.
is still close to a ao year high. ukraine s interior minister is among 18 people killed when a helicopter crashed near a children s nursery, in a suburb of the capital. a major incident is declared by the environment agency after flooding in somerset. and out, down under defending men s champion rafa nadal and britain s emma raducanu are both beaten in the australian open. and coming up on the bbc news channel. snooker in crisis. masters champion yan bingtao is among ten chinese players facing match fixing charges as the sport investigates its biggest corruption scandal. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. there is widespread disruption to nhs services again today after nurses in england began two more days of strikes about pay. around a quarter of hospitals and community health services are affected, though emergency care will be provided. the union the royal college of nursing has been calling for wages to increase by 5% above inflation. but the health secr
things economically, there is always huge scope to cut or raise taxes, or spending, and then there is what his room for manoeuvre is within his self imposed targets. we must be clear on this. a government s finances are completely unlike a household finance. we live in a currency where the government issues currency, we cannot do that, ferns cannot do that, whereas the government issues a currency and has a lot more freedom than us. not many of us have a money printing press in our front rooms. of us have a money printing press in ourfront rooms. but of us have a money printing press in our front rooms. but the chancellor must calculate his own self imposed targets so wriggle room is against those, and those are a political judgment. they are based on what the government thinks the markets will wear. just like in the mini budget wear. just like in the mini budget we had last year, there seemed to be no constraints on what the government will blow on tax cuts, for example, so