heartbreakingly real. cnn seven morrison has that. and the flash flood came to this part of kentucky, locals watched houses, cars, their lives get submerged by water. wonder what kind of damage would be done. now that those waters have receded, they are getting a chance to see it. a huge swath of destruction across many counties in this area. crews are still going out to find people who may be trapped. those who may have perished when the waters came through. one local, here, described the impact on this area, of these floods. thinking about all the devastation i ve seen all over the county, there are some things that can be revealed. water had gotten into homes that had never been concerned with water issues. now, their homes are gone. where are all these people going to go? were they going to live? if they don t have a family member that they can go to? here, in jackson, crews are staging from this shopping center parking lot. going out and trying to find people among
good morning. it s saturday, july 30th. i m sara sidner. and i m boris sanchez. do not adjust your screen, that is the sara sidner, joining us this weekend in the cnn newsroom. sara, a pleasure to be with you. thanks, boris. of course. the scene of devastating flooding, 16 people are dead including six kids and authorities warn the death toll is certain to rise. kentucky governor andy beshear says it s hard to assess the exact number of missing or deceased. rushing waters wiped out roads across eastern kentucky, forcing a whole lot of people to evacuate. the storms caught many people by surprise because it happened in the middle of the night. listener to this heartbreaking story out of knots county. four kids are dead because they and their parents were forced to climb to the roof of their home to escape rising floodwater. neighbors say the parents tried to hold onto the little ones but the children were swept away. it s hard to put into words the amount of de
because the first census we did in 1996, we counted 320. and right now, we counted about a59 mountain gorillas. and since that was 2019 and since then, we have been recording some newborn babies, as you have seen today. it is a dramatic turnaround. there is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal i know. when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 1970s, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness. we see the world in the same way as they do. because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population. and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of the congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. so, how were the fortunes of the world s last mountain gorillas turned around and what can it tell us about conservation elsewhere? the first step was ensuring legal protections were in place. the bwind
earlier to discuss the findings before releasing the report. we will bring it to you when it begins. i m eric shawn. arthel: i m arthel neville. today s report comes days after the release of surveillance video from inside rob elementary school on the day of the shooting. we want to warn you that you may find this video disturbing. the video was obtained by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] tv and was edited into a shorter clip with some of the audio removed. it shows several officers standing in one of the school s hallways with while the shooter was still inside the building. it took 73 minutes to finally confront the shooter. today s report finds that nearly 400 officers were at the school. most of them state and federal law enforcement. senior correspondent casey steagall is live in uvalde with more. casey? yeah, arthel, as we speak, the victims families are still in that meeting with the state investigative committee here in uvalde. they are going over e
there is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal i know when sir david attenborough made his famous visit to a mountain gorilla family back in the 19705, it was, in his words, tinged with sadness. we see the world in the same way as they do. because he feared he might be seeing the last of their kind. poachers preyed on the mountain gorilla population. and the civil wars in rwanda and the democratic republic of the congo made conservation in those countries very difficult. so, how were the fortunes of the world s last mountain gorillas turned around and what can it tell us about conservation elsewhere? the first step was ensuring legal protections were in place. the bwindi impenetrable forest was made a national park in 1991. next, says the warden in charge, they needed to get the local people on side. the communities are critical in conserving the gorillas because, you know, these communities live next to the park