A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
that would hurt millions of americans. and there s a reason world leaders were worried about this. this would have impacted the global economy. something that did rally wall street though today was the chip maker nvidia. for about 5 minutes it was part of the elite club of us companies worth a trillion dollars. the company s share price shot past $412 on tuesday, having risen by more than 30% since last week. other companies part of the trillion dollar club are apple, amazon and alphabet. the bbc s north america business correspondent samira hussain reports from new york. for a brief few moments nvidia was able to call itself a chilling dollar firm the search came up to the chip maker shocked analyst by forecasting a surge in demand for its products because of advances in artificial intelligence or ai. artificial intelligence or al. the hardware made by nvidia underpins most ai applications today with one report suggesting it has cornered 95% of the market for machine learnin
Good morning. It is sunday, april 7 with the president ial race in full swing between the two nominees. Both campaigns are focusing on raising as much money as they can. A couple of weeks ago, joe biden was joined by barack obama and bill clinton to headline a star studded Campaign Fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. And brought in a Record Setting 26 million, the most money ever raised for a single political event until apparently last night. Just 11 days after setting the record. Donald trump needed to smash it. And the fundraiser in florida last night, that they took in more than 50 million. And that they are a study in contract. And that it featured musical performances from lizzo and it featured a conversation. And the low end, what as high as 500,000, which included access to the exclusive gathering. And that it is sold out at more than 5,000 people to sell out. Donald trumps event last night was more exclusive affair. And that they were hosted by john paulson a
to head towards the fire uphill. those who i spoke to who survived said they knew exactly which direction to go, they wanted that to be activated to wake up others who might not be aware of the situation. it was away from the black cloud of smoke hovering over lahaina town and delivering its imminent destruction. back to you. a controversial potentially costly decision not to activate those sirens. jeremy, i m curious to get a reflection from you, what you ve heard from residents because we ve heard a back and forth about whether tourists should be visiting maui. what have residents and officials told you about whether they support the idea of tourists visiting? reporter: early on, officials came forward and said we do not want to put an end to all tourism to maui. that would be disastrous. on the other side of the island,
geopolitical poker game that is going on between the us and china and japan caught in the middle and investors are reading right now that the bark is worse than the bite but clearly this is what i would call the black cloud of the background. i call the black cloud of the background. call the black cloud of the background. i have to ask, nvidia are background. i have to ask, nvidia are we background. i have to ask, nvidia are we going - background. i have to ask, nvidia are we going to - background. i have to ask, nvidia are we going to see| background. i have to ask, i nvidia are we going to see it in the trillion dollar club? i think they will because i think it is the biggest transformative thing we have seenin transformative thing we have seen in 30 years covered in terms of ai, nvidia are the only game in town. i think they will be giving that pass to that trillion dollar club. a free trade deal between australia and uk comes into force today the first the uk negotiated from