The death toll for the wildfires numbers rising as we witness the scope of the disaster. Well look at the islands needs with a member from the red cross. Plus donald trump making an appearance at the Iowa State Fair but all eyes are on georgia as a District Attorney there prepares her case for the grand jury. And months after suffering Cardiac Arrest in the middle of an nfl game, damar hamlin is back in action. Cnn sports coy wire joins me live on his incredible road to recovery. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. Well begin in hawaii where days after wildfires decimated par parts of maui the death toll is rising. Moments ago authorities confirmed 93 deaths. The fires now the deadliest in the United States in more than a century. That number is expected to climb even more in the coming days as crews sift through the devastation caused by the fires. Governor josh green says the area has suffered some 6 billion in losses. Some 2200 structures damaged
even when we get to the stub stations substations, we find there is structural damage and it is frozen. those are the biggest challenges. what is happening on treacherous roads, trying to clear them, getting people that are stranded in vehicles, we recovered many of them. also what is happening inside the homes, we have vulnerable senior citizens we re trying to get to. we restored power to 300,000 people. i do want to point to the successes. ho however, there are still 23,000 people in buffalo. we ve been trying to plow the way to the stations, help them manage the restoration of power. so we don t have an estimate. we did have power back on in a large part of the city. it went out again because the infrastructure was not able to withstand the storms around it. so that has been the challenge. so i am hoping in the next day, but we can make no guarantees because just when you think the day is getting brighter, mother nature comes back and hits us once again. we have enough
quote, for weeks or months. there you see the calm waters now. that was nothing like that in the midst of the storm. in lee county officials try to defend their actions after facing hard questions over just how soon they ordered people to evacuate. critics asking why those mandatory evacuations were not issued there until one day before ian s land fall, surrounding counties have been told to evacuate. this morning the death toll from hurricane ian is climbing. boris sanchez has the latest. reporter: the death toll rising from hurricane ian. as people recall harrowing tragedies and those lost. storm surge came all the way up and they had the windows were sucked out. these guys pushed their wives out the windows to where a tree was and they were looking at them and the guys were holding on and they just looked at their wives and they said, we can t hold on any more. we love you, bye. and that was it. does they make it. no, they didn t make it. speaking to john sayin
good to have you along. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, november 25th. i m victor blackwell. i m isabel rosales. thank you for being with us this morning. we are waiting for the release of more hostages being held by hamas. meanwhile, we are seeing video of these family reunions. video here of 9-year-old o ohad munda, you see him running down the hall and jumping into his father s arms after seven weeks in captivity. he and his mother and grandmother were among the 24 hostages released yesterday. 13 israelis, ten thai citizens and one filipino were in that first group. this video was released by hamas. these hostages, they were immediately taken to hospitals near tel aviv for medical checkups. officials say they are in good condition, good physical condition. in return for the freed israeli hostages, israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. videos obtained show the crowd waiving palestinian and hamas flags and carrying the newly released prisoners through
So because they believe america brought the terror war on its own. The far left is very consistent. Its always americas fault. Therefore, anything that weakus. These people drive much of the debate about torture. The cia controversy is similar to the antipolice movement were seeing. That was ignited by the deaths of Michael Brown and eric garner. Over the weekend there were a few wellplanned demonstrations implying that American Police and prosecutors do not value the lives of black citizens. In New York City, a College Professor was arrested for attacking police. There is the attack. Two nypd officers were injured in the melee. The man, eric linsker, teaches at the City College Of New York and has been charged with assault on a Police Officer and insi inciting a riot among other
sing it out. Mr. Jackson is entitled to his opinion. And it would be interesting to see if he can defend it. But a far more serious question is, does New York City mayor Bill De Blasio distrust his own Police