For more information how you can help victims of Hawaii Wildfires go to cnn. Com impact or text hawaii to 707070 to donate. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. A brand new Special Counsel now focused on hunter biden. The lead starts right now. The Attorney Generals surprise announcement. The prosecutor who was overseeing The Hunter Case is now being elevated to a Special Counsel. What will this mean for the president s son . What will this mean for the president . And donald trump might be told to zip it. The judge in the 2020 Election Fraud case signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict sensitive evidence as she tells trumps attorneys the former president s right to free speech is not absolute. And hawaiis catastrophe sadly getting worse. Historic towns gone, homes burned to the ground, 55 lives confir confirmed lost, and that number is sadly expected to climb. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. And we start with our Law And Justice lead with a new Special Counsel
For now joe and his wife are safe at their house. They are still watching that fire burn across the valley. Joe told us his power is out but now he has fuel for at least eight hours. Lets hope he doesnt need another delivery tomorrow. Live west of winters, Wayne Freedman abc 7 news. Thank you. Abc 7 news was at the fire station in santa rosa as crews loaded up air tankers with fire retardant. The tankers made 45 stops yesterday, more than 50000 gallons of fire retardant. Today heavy smoke is hampering visibility. Half as many planes have been making drops. A lot of the terrain is inaccessible so aircraft are highly effective in helping that until we can gain access to this. One of two helping fight the wragg fire. Several bay area teams are on the fire lines. This left station 7 in San Francisco this morning to get to work on that fire. Southern marin firefighters expected to be deployed for up to 14 days. Firefighters from almeida county left from a staging area this morning. Crews ha
Useless . Congress back to work and a lot on the table tax refor, Harvey Relief and fast approaching debt ceiling. Will anything get done every building after Hurricane Harvey how much is it going to cost well ask a ceo of u. S. Concrete im Brian Sullivan power lunch begins right now welcome to power lunch, september is off to a shaky start. Stocks are at session lows, posting the biggest one day tumble since august. In the wake of the saber rattling, the dow plunging more than 200 points and oil soaring hitting the highest level in almost two weeks, gold hitting its highest level of the year as well United Technology down more than 3 , remember its a big yield deal news of the day agreed for 20 billion insmed, more than doubling, positive data on the experimental lung cancer drug. Tyler . Thank you very much good day, welcome. We are going to begin where all of the action is for us, and that is the markets. North koreas latest bomb test reverberating through the markets right now, tak
Geopolitical events, and i wanted to hear a bit more about the impact of politics here in the United States. This is an election year. What effect, what impact that will have on the economy . Because there was quite a lot of economics in the presentation. I understood most of it but, i mean, part of it not most of it. Im not an economist. But i wanted to understand the impact of the politics on the economy. So im now in my fifth year. Im one day, frankly, into my fifth day at the fed. So this will be my third election cycle and i can say that politics plays absolutely no role whatsoever in our deliberations or in our decision. So we you know, the focus inside the fed is very much not partisan politics or elections. Its very much economic fundamentals, so it can be very jarring to emerge from the fed and talk to people who think of politics think of economics in political terms, which i referred to earlier. Honestly, it has no effect. You know, we announced a quantitative use program in
Decade according to chp. Its disaster in there. Its chaotic. Its it was a very traumatic incident for the passengers on board. Most of the seats on the right side. We did have five fatalities minimum out of this collision that we know of. An employee confirmed that the Company Received word that one of their buses may be involved in a fatal accident this morning. The Los Angelesbased company had 26 federal safety violations in the past year. Seven of those violations are for this specific bus. Now chp identified the driver at mario david vasquez. He is alive but major injuries. Chp is looking to get a warntd a warrant for the cell phone. Several other people were transported to ambulances. Now back out here live you can see that the crew are trying to stabilize the sign. No other vehicles were involved. We know that the bus right now started at mexico. It had a stop in los angeles and was making its way up for another stop in sacramento. The final destination was in washington state. H