it s seven in the morning in singapore, and 4:30am in odisha in india, where the country s worst train disaster in decades happened. there s a growing sense of shock as the scale of the crash becomes more apparent. the rescue operation has been called off, with more than 275 people known to have been killed. a major investigation is under way. officials have confirmed that signal failure may have been a factor, but there are broader concerns, too. our correspondent archana shukla has been at the scene, we ll hear from there shortly, but first, let s show you this report. a painful search. sifting through photos. from hospital to hospital, and now morgue to morgue. inconsolable and traumatised. 22 year old himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. can i see my brother, just once? he keeps repeating. at this makeshift morgue, he is just one of the many families in the desperate search to find those missing. but not everyone has answers yet. ten mem
united states, and all around the world. i m little rock. a dam breach in ukraine happening right now, severe flooding underway, fears it could lead to major disruption and threatened thousands of lives. who is behind it? we will have a live report. how the pool guy at mar-a-lago is factoring into the special counsel s investigation of donald trump, and his handling of classified documents. plus, apple hoping reality will bite, the company s new virtual reality headset revealed, but what will people use it for? and who will be able to fork over thousands of dollars for it? live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with leyla heroic. we begin in eastern ukraine where a major dam in the kherson region was just destroyed and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the situation. as you can see water pouring out from the breach, threatening the lives of thousands of people. ukrainian officials planning evacuations telling residents n
still not found their family members and relatives who were travelling in the train. not sure whether they are dead or alive even. since train services on the tracks in this region were affected, many families from far off places like in behind the state of bihar or in chennai could not reach balasore in time. they re only coming in to the morning and trying to find their relatives. we are here in this hospital in balasore, just 25 minutes away from the accident site, which is where most of the injured and dead bodies were brought in yesterday morning in the initial few hours of the train accident. but now we understand from government sources and health officials that most of the dead bodies are now being transported to the bigger capital city of bhubaneshwar, which has better morgue facilities, better resources and capacity to store dead bodies till the time family members come and identify them. so while most families are coming here and it s adding to their distress, they
i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in