Im amara walker. Im rahel solomon. Great to be with you, amara. Thanks for coming back. Its been fun. Thank you for spending part of your morning was us. Heres what were watching for you this morning. This is the largest Natural Disaster we have ever experienced. Its going to also be a Natural Disaster thats going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. The death toll from the maui wildfires jumps to 93, making it the deadliest wildfire in the past century. We are live in maui as federal help pours in. Also hearing from residents frustrated with the governments response. The Fulton County District Attorney investigating donald trump and his attempts to interfere in georgias election expected to present her case to a grand jury this week. What we are learning about some of the key witnesses ordered totive. A viral Triple Threat adds the new Covid Variant emerges. Concerns heading into cold and flu season and what we should be doing to prepare. What caused a United Airlines
Welcome to the lead, aim jake tapper. And we start with breaking news, violent and explosive wildfires in hawaii. Fueled by strong winds from a hurricane, 800 miles away. It is a situation so sudden and so catastrophic on maui, local Officials Say a dozen people ran into the ocean to try to escape the flames. And they went out so far they then had to be rescued. Hawaiis governor said hundreds of families have been displaced and some loss of life is expected, unquote. Cell towers and 911 are out of service on the the hardhit west side compounding the difficulty for many. Were expecting a Press Conference and well bring you that when it starts but Derek Van Damme looked at where this erratic disaster may be headed next. Reporter hellish scenes of wildfires engulfing normally picturesque maui. Powerful winds, associated with Hurricane Dora helping fuel the flames. Fact that we have wildfire in multiple areas as a result of indirectly from a hurricane is unprecedented. Reporter Lieutenant
latino. a texas lawmaker says ramos legally purchased the two rifles used in the shooting from a federally authorized dealer on his 18th birthday. just three days earlier a photo of two ar-15-style rifles was posted on an instagram account linked to the gunman. the massacre is the deadliest at a u.s. elementary school since 20 children and six adults were killed in the 2012 sandy hook shooting in newtown, connecticut. u.s. president joe biden says it is time for americans and lawmakers to stand up to the gun lobby and pass common sense regulations. why are we willing to live with this carnage? why do we keep letting this happen? where in god s name is our backbone? the president is just back from a trip to asia. he ordered flags at the white house and other public buildings lowered to half staff. well, parents waited late into the night at a civic center on tuesday hoping to be reunited with their children. cnn s ed lavandera in texas with more. reporter: late into the
Security correspondent nick paton walsh is live from dnipro, ukraine. you had a rare opportunity to travel to the front lines in southern ukraine. give us a sense of what ukrainian forces are up against. reporter: yeah, look, it is a slow fight. a difficult grind, certainly. it is one which ukrainian soldiers say they are making progress in when you put to them the idea from western analysts that they are not moving as fast as they could be. we saw ourselves the first journalists to get access to the front lines exactly how that fight looks. the brutal work here, the world hasn t seen, but wants its results. from the west, they have words and weapons of support, but out here it s them alone. in searing heat, cloaked in dust, in the southern counteroffensive, ukraine has the initiative.
Witness advisely. you could call law enforcement who could summarize vast amounts of information and all signs are pointing to us getting word of this indictment quickly, if not immediately after it is informed. and volodymyr zelenskyy top met military commanders to discuss their counter offensive. he acknowledged that beating the russians back has not been easy. and is progressing much slower than some, including the u.s. had hoped. ukraine forces are tasked with breaking through russia s multi layer defensive lines in the eastern an southern part of the country. those lines are riddled with tens of thousands of mines and vast networks of trenches like you saw in world war i. nick paton walsh is on the front where attacks are ramping up and a brief warning now, this viewer may be disturbing for some viewers. the brutal work here, the