First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
Maui, the death toll is soaring as we get new reports from the devastation. And back in court. Donald trumps legal team is about to appear before the judge in the 2020 election case for the first time, as prosecutors are now asking to start the trial in january. What is the judge going to say . Five americans wrongly detained in iran on the verge of freedom after the u. S. Strikes a deal with tehran. Im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. This morning the scenes in parts of maui are apocalyptic as Rescue Crews Reach new areas. The death toll rose sharply overnight to 55. The governor estimates some 80 of lahaina were destroyed. When the mayor said its all gone, its all gone. Its all gone. Its gone. Im telling you, none of its there. Its all burned to the ground. The mayor says the death toll is likely to rise. They have only been able to count bodies found outside structures and many people are still unaccounted for. Today Search And Rescue teams from california an
abortion access to minimum wage, there is a lot more to vote than just the candidates. and republicans radical attempts to overhaul education systems, they are targeting local school board races and being funded by conservative packs. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. started. new tonight, tim ryan the democratic senate candidate in ohio has just invoked a brutal attack on speaker pelosi s husband, urging voters to reject political extremism and threats of violence. he said, quote, in part, we go to the polls fearlessly, we govern fearlessly, because they want to try to scare you. they want to try to scare us, right? we see this level of political violence happening now against a third ranking constitutional officer in the country. and that new urging is where we begin our second hour tonight. on friday, speaker pelosi spoke publicly for the first time about the assault on her husband. thank you, thank you for your kind words your prayers and her good wishes
Our concerns are that we as a local nonprofit are not able to even access anything west of west maui is completely cut off from communication and power. our local facebook groups which are really important to a really tight-knit community here on maui, we re seeing a list of 1,400 names missing. that s very fluid, but that s sort of what we re seeing at a hyper local level. we re sending materials, churches, nonprofits are sending materials via boat to west maui and via air because the two ways to access the west side of maui are closed off to everyone except emergency personnel right now. you can t even get in by road unless you are the emergency personnel, is that correct? that s right. and to orient your viewers a bit, if you don t understand the geography of maui it s going to be hard to understand the scope
An agenda that targets lgbtq students and discussions on race in gender. what if they continue to wield the power at this hyper local level. i think it s the value of a broad base you heard from the teachers, earlier in that spot, when i talk to teachers, they re concerned about what they do in the classroom. they barely have time to focus on the core activities in the classroom. let alone these other subjects that become the hotbed. so imagine an educator wondering to choose a book for a classroom but not being able to choose the book because the book has been banned by a small group of parents that got themselves onto a school board, that s what we re facing is a public education for our students as well to teach them the critical