The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
rescuing again. i ll ask one of the people who was at the center of the storm the last time around, the former ceo of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein about whether the system is stable, and is your bank account safe? also, how did it come to this? did we learn the wrong lessons the last time? i ll talk to julian tet of the financial times. then don t mess with the french people s retirement plans. that s the lesson from weeks of strikes and protests and then chaos in parliament as the government pushed through their policy anyway. [ speaking non-english ] which brought the outrage right back to the streets. we ll tell you what you need to know. but first, here s my take. on his trip to saudi arabia last year president biden made an emphatic declaration about u.s. policy in the middle east. he said we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia or iran. last week s reproachment between saudi arabia and iran brokered by china suggests that th
we ll have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this breaking news just coming in. the man who led pakistan at the start of america s declared war on terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. he died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistan s military. he was in dubai where he lived for several years in self-imposed exile. musharraf was 79 years old. you re now about to see and hear i think we re going to you re now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. here it is. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew of
Accused killing 18 people and injuring 13 others. In maine has stretched into a second day. The father of one of the victims becoming emotional talking about his late child who was the manager at the bar, which was one of the two shooting locations. I go to church i believe in the law and i believe in. But why do we have to go through these kind of miserable, miserable times . This has never happened in our two cities, never is the worst thing thats ever happened. These two cities where it just really hit you hard watching the victims and the families, those who are suffering tonight as the manhunt continues. Welcome back, everybody. Im kevin corke in denver. Jenkins kevin, great to be with you on this busy friday morning of Breaking News. Its 3 a. M. On the east coast, 10 a. M. In israel. And thats where we turn now to the middle east. U. S. Fighter jets striking iran linked sites. Syria a short while ago in retaliation for attacks on american troops in the middle east. The strikes fo
Hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im paula newton. Ahead here on cnn newsroom, Vladimir Putin and kim jongun ref up talks in Eastern Russia. What the two are expected to discuss. Plus, the presumed death toll from the catastrophic flooding in libya has more than double and as many as 10,000 are still missing. And the u. S. Takes a key step in a deal to free five americans being detained in iran. What critics are saying about that agreement. And we go straight to our breaking news. Kim jongun is heaping praise on russias Vladimir Putin as the two sit down for their first facetoface talks in more than four years. The meeting in russias far east follows days of warnings from the United States about these two leaders possibly sealing a deal on weapons. But theyre not talking about that publicly, at least not yet, any way. Instead, the russian president spoke of cooperation on humanitarian and economic issues. And in a veiled s