A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
things to know with this tuesday, march 14th. all eyes will stay on wall street where they have been locked as the race is on to avoid the collapse of other regional u.s. banks. several have been suffering steep stock drops on monday, even as the government came out, president biden himself, trying to calm nerves of financial support. all this turmoil is coming as the fed is awaiting a highly-anticipated inflation report that we re expected to get this morning. no relief. what is going on? dualing storms set to pound the east and the west coast, both coasts, nor easter forecast to bring heavy rain, wind, snow to millions in the northeast. california bracing for yet another round of severe flooding. also this, governor ron desantis breaking from many in his own party on the war in ukraine. likely presidential candidate told fox news that protecting ukraine is not vital to u.s. interests. instead, he called it is a distraction to bigger challenges here at home. also, sena
have additional funding, it would delay some of the recovery projects and push them into next year. reporter: now, other consequences include that money would or at least people and items could not get to places before a disaster happens. i spoke to a fema official who told me that often times these are funds used for prep or predeployment. if they know a hurricane is coming, for example, they can at least get people and assets there for what will happen on the back end and what that recovery will include. but without those funds, it just makes that all the more difficult. so certainly growing concern within fema as these funds run dry. and, as we were saying, the hurricane season just on its way. priscilla alvarez at the white house, thanks so much. right now, parts of southern california are under a tropical storm watch. speaking of weather events, for the first time in history, a category 4 hurricane, named hilary, is barrelling up the eastern pacific towards mexico
with more. wow, derek. good morning. quite a different scene than what we are seeing in new york. it s a little drizzly. you have a bit more. what is expected? what are you seeing on the ground? reporter: yeah. we ve got a cold, quite frankly miserable rain here in worchester. but that s the precision hairline precision of forecasting these nor easters. i want to see what s over my left hand shoulder here. and we re actually at a salt barn in worchester county. and this is the predeployment of the salt trucks and the brine trucks that are going to help treat the roads here in and around the higher elevations of interior massachusetts. now, this storm system is edged warmer. that s the problem because that s why we re receiving rain. but it s going to change later this afternoon and conditions on the roads are going to deteriorate very quickly. yesterday at this time, we were talking to the director of the weather prediction center, dr. david novak. he told us that his greatest
and facts are facts. i don t think there s any question but that the federal government was slow in their deployment. in situations like this, i used to work on disasters when i was in the federal government, when i was house secretary, if you get behind in the effort, you never catch up. and there s the concept of predeployment that i think was missed in this situation. i think it s a new team and i don t think they were ready for it. when they talk about the capacity of the puerto rican government is lacking, the nature of the situation is you have to factor in the capacity and the resources of the localality that you re going to serve. puerto rico needed help. they re basically insolvent.