Is it alabama or is it florida . A new report is raising questions. Our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with Steve Patterson who has the latest on the ground in hawaii. Steve, whats the latest from there. I know theres still just so many people who cant get home or who dont have a home to go to. Reporter or who are missing Family Members, chris. The death toll has increased overnight. It is now 55. Everything we have heard from the mayor to the governor to Emergency Officials on this island and looking at the devastation and looking at the damage, that toll will almost certainly increase over the next few hours and days. The governor has just told some families that they may be able to go back to their homes soon, but youre right, in a lot of cases, they will find nothing there. Lahaina has been almost entirely reduced to rubble. Thousands of structures raised. Were expecting millions, if not over A Billion Dollars in damage. Federal help is on t
with the white house. what can you tell us? reporter: exactly, chris, and he was the prominent guest last year, about a year ago, from next week at the signing of this bill. he was behind president biden. president biden handed him the pen, and this is a bill that manchin touted as one that he coauthored. you see the picture on the screen, one he wrote, he named, defending the naming of it yesterday, even though hours later president biden said he regretted calling it the inflation act. if he were to run again for senate in west virginia, the independent switch doesn t really make as much sense to me, right, because this isn t arizona. this is a state where it is ruby red. manchin is pretty much the only democrat that can be elected there again. he s the only statewide democrat still elected in the state. but when it comes to the relationship between the two joes, they go way back. they have been close a number of years. obviously in the last few years, especially since manchin has b
we have people on the ground, collecting information from ukrainians. we are trying to get information from firsthand sources. so, i probably couldn t tell you exactly with they differ. so, this time, and with previous conflicts. this is a solid coverage, and is doing the best they can. go back to the point they were talking about, for some of the stories, or anecdotes, you are hearing from russian family members being told about inside of ukraine, and ukrainian family members. how do you de-program the trunk of the russian population that, fully, believes that state tv tells them? how can we, and your news organization, combat that level of misinformation? this looks like an insurmountable problem. these, is simply, in a coma of scale. dozens of millions of people are tuned into russian tv. it was access to independent media, like our, switch doesn t mean that we aren t ceasing to do our jobs. but, if not for now, it is for
is doing the best they can. go back to the point they were talking about, for some of the stories, or anecdotes, you are hearing from russian family members being told about inside of ukraine, and ukrainian family members. how do you de-program the trunk of the russian population that, fully, believes that state tv tells them? how can we, and your news organization, combat that level of misinformation? this looks like an insurmountable problem. these, is simply, in a coma of scale. dozens of millions of people are tuned into russian tv. it was access to independent media, like our, switch doesn t mean that we aren t ceasing to do our jobs.