The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
in the western regions. and because of the scale of it, i don t know if we can show you the video of him standing in front of a big blaze, but some 45 rescuers had to be involved in putting it out. and the oil depot fully destroyed. this comes as russia is also saying that it was the victim of some attempted drone attacks, it is accusing ukraine of perpetrating. two shot down en route to moscow and another two shot down heading for the black seaport city. and it also managed to thwart another nine drones which apparently crashed into the black sea. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for these latest attacks, but they are happening with increasing regularity. they are not particularly destructive, we re not hearing any reports of damage or injuries this morning, but i think given the comments that we ve heard, they are designed to send a message to the russian
friend and her child who were held hostage in port-au-prince. kylie atwood, cnn, the state department. and a massive drone attack overnight in western ukraine. and an oil depot was destroyed. but so far no word on casualties. officials also say at least three people were killed and nine others injured in a russian attack on a residential area in the city of zaporizhzhia. clare sebastian is joining us live from london. what more can you tell us about the drone attacks overnight sf. reporter: so the attack in western ukraine being described by the regional chief as a massive drone attack. obviously we know the drone attacks on infrastructure are a pretty familiar russian strategy in this war, but this is notable because this is some 1,000 kilometers or so from from the frontlines. we have not seen as many attacks
overnight in russia, two they approached moscow according to the city s mayor. he says it is the second type of attack like this in as many days. russia officials also investigating an industrial plant explosion saying at least 60 people were injured and eight are still missing. matthew chance reports. reporter: the explosion shook the russian city sending a dark mushroom cloud blowing into the skies. closer to the blast, you could see the windows falling from the buildings above. leaving residents shocked at the
most vicious right now, the siege laid on the city is significant and that s what we expect to see around the capital if the convoy ever gets moving. john: thanks for your help with the analysis. see you soon. sandra. sandra: see you both for that. oil prices surging, prices at the highest since 2011. in response, president biden has authorized the release of 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserves. but, the market is saying that s just a drop in the bucket, prices keep going higher. jeff is joining us from a pipeline by a refinery, jeff. what s going on there. yeah, you know, we have about 2.6 million miles of pipeline in the u.s., the people that run these pipelines and make the oil and gas that run through them say yeah, that is not going to have much impact, the release. you take a look at the numbers on the s.p.r., we have been running this down the past six