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 of witnesses. We begin with the grim news from hawaii, where those devastating wildfires have now claimed at least 80 lives. Officials warn the death toll will likely rise
response leading up to the fires. no warning sirens were activated, which critics say cost untold lives. that s not the only tconcern about the wildfire preparedness. cnn s pam brown has more. even as other documents show officials knew they lack ed resources to prevent and fight fires. we had advanced notice coming into the summer. the winds, low humidity, any ignition would have sparked a big fire, and that s exactly what we saw. reporter: in a state report ranking national disasters, officials classified the wildfire risk to human life as low in this color-coded chart. the assessment coming years after hurricane lane fanned the flames of fires in hawaii ravaging maui in 2018. that perfect storm of conditions highlighted the threat and how
which was his entire mind-set obviously. some might argue still is in many ways but we know he talks about the campaign a lot but back in that moment, receiving that information according to sean spicer today. here is my predecessor who is no fan of michael flynn and they fired them. so of course he will say i should, but we know that donald trump emerged from that meeting with president trump actually saying, i learned thing about health care that i now understand are important and maybe there are ways to keep pieces of president obama s law that won t hurt too many people. some national security matters. he paid keen attention to that but did not pay attention even though he had very little experience in national security matters to hearing there was a real kesh to tconcern to the si president about and i m not sure that it was that he was digesting it through partisan lens as the white house is saying now. because you re right, when he walked out of that meeting or when he was s
situation room starts now. thanks very much, brooke. happening now, republicans pouncing on president obama and a horrible new unemployment report. this hour, the numbers and the politics and what it all means for millions of americans who need a job now. plus, i ll talk to a republican congressman who plans to boycott the president s big jobs speech before a joint session of congress next week. also, a new worldwide travel alert as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11. national security insiders tell us what they know about the risk of a terror attack. revenge, as far as al qaeda is concerned on that momentous day. and a statue honoring one of the most important figures in american history, made in china. controversy surrounding the dr. martin luther king memorial. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. it s a big fat zero, and it s a bright red circle around the unemployment mess in this country right now. the government reports today that no new jobs we