welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. we start with apocalyptic scenes in hawaii. us soldiers have joined search and recovery efforts. at least 36 people are known to have died in wildfires others are still unaccounted for. large parts of the tourist town of la highna on the island of maui have been burned to the ground. this is what it looke like overnight when flames spread rapidly forcing some people to jump into the sea to escape. multiple areas have been burnt to the ground and the western side of the island is almost cut off. officials say, the hospital system is overwhelmed, with many people suffering burns and smoke inhalation. our correspondent richard galpin has this report. is anybody still out here? it s time to go! these are the desperate calls for people still in the historic city of lahaina on the island of maui, as the flames on the marina gets closer and closer. many neighbourhoods were bu
rides this afternoon. hello and welcome to the programme. we re live until iiam. throughout the morning, the latest breaking news and developing stories. a little later, we ll bring you the latest on the tainted blood scandal which saw thousands of haemophiliac patients being infected with hiv by the nhs in the 1970s and 1980s. as always, do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning. use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today president trump has fired the head of the fbi, james comey, in a move that has shocked us politics. he d been leading an investigation into alleged links between the trump administration and russia. the white house says mr comey has been terminated and removed from office . aleem maqbool reports. absolutely explosive news out of washington tonight. this is a fox news alert, fbi director, james comey, has been fired by the president of the united states. am
reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. it is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our younger generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents. this election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have in america today. [cheering] it is not moral, not acceptable and it is not sustainable that now own1/10 of 1% almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. boo! or that the top 1% in recent years has earned 85% of all new income. that is unacceptable. that must change. boo! abouts election is remembering where we were 7 1/2 years ago when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickle-down economics. [cheering] the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression. that is where we were. some 800,000 people a
looks like yet another wet day on tap. it s already raining in many places in the viewing area. erica grow is tracking the stormy weather and under yet another yellow alert. erica over to you. that s right mike and it s the third yellow alert in a row. we have the showers already moving through the metro. you can see them here on live doppler 9000 hd. this is a three hour loop. everything is continuing to push off to the south and east at about 25 miles per hour. zooming in first to a pocket of showers moving right into the town of leesburg at this moment into aldi along route 50. we re going to see some pretty heavy showers along 29 as well. and then in southern maryland, especially in southern portions of prince george s county where it is raining steadily right now in upper marlboro. in clinton. along 381 and route 4. down through calvert county and dunkirk where we have pretty heavy rain right now. but the heavier rain is still on the approach. and you can see that here