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Good morning, welcome to cnn this morning. Great to be with you. So glad youre here. Thank you for being here. Im amara walker. Thank you for waking up with us at 7 00 this morning. We do begin with some very tragic news and the devastation in hawaii. Officials now say at least 80 people are dead. That number is expected to rise. The search teams continue to comb through the destruction. Now hawaiis Attorney General is ordering a review of the states response. And today more republican president ial contenders get ready to make their case to voters at the Iowa State Fair. Well have the latest as the candidates kick their campaigns into high gear. Plus lays down the law to President Trump during a contentious hearing. Shes putting the former president on notice about any fu future inflammatory language or intimidation ....
and the consequences for the rest of the world. kremlin spokesperson says, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, will not face charges for actions russian president vladimir putin described as treason just hours ago. spokesperson also saying, prigozhin will head to neighboring belarus, with wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. this comes after prigozhin ordered his forces to turn back, return to their bases, abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading toward moscow. we are looking at new video into us taken from the city of rostov near the ukrainian border. as all these new developments come in and we get these new images, the question remains, how do we get here this fast? the wagner group was what russia calls a, quote, private military company. over the u.s. calls the group a proxy force that had been fighting on russia s behalf in ukraine. on friday, prigozhin accused russia s defense minister, ordering a rocket strike on wagner s ....
it all comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles towards ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. tonight, at this hour, the military action from the u.s. and the uk now. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the $370 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now for trump? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barrels ....
this comes 24 hours after militants fired off 18 drones and three missiles toward ships in the red sea, their largest attack yet. american and british forces shooting them down. at this hour, the new signals tonight that significant military action could be coming. the white house tonight saying the u.s. will, quote, counter and defeat these mounting attacks from the iranian-backed houthi rebels. mary bruce standing by live with what she s learning right now. in new york city, donald trump lashing out during closing arguments in the 37 $0 million civil fraud trial against him. trump blasting the judge in court. the judge telling the defense, control your client. what comes next now? aaron katersky outside the courthouse. in the northeast, rivers dangerously high, with this new storm now set to sweep across the country, and right into the northeast. the tornado threat right now in the south. how much snow will chicago get? and the east set to get hit again as it barr ....