is a pretty crucial question at the heart of this which is was the government taking concerns about this concrete seriously enough? and what we found out this morning which i think will be really tricky for the government is that ministers were told some years ago that more money was needed to deal with some of these building defects. considerable increases in can in funding was needed, in fact the opposite happened and funding was reduced and rishi sunak was the chancellor at the time so undoubtedly prime minister will be asked whether he took these very seriously enough, whether one of the problem is that is now being faced is that there was not enough funding in the first place. i suppose there is a broader political question at this going to be asked which is has the government austerity drive which of course was quite a long time ago now but also some of the ramifications of that, the of that, how is that i had an impact as well? there will be many opposition politicians
person has died the cause is under investigation. it could be several days before the ground dries up enough for people to leave. and while many party goers are making the best of it, some say the conditions are a disaster. here s seven year veteran of burning man david date. hundreds of vehicles that are completely stuck in the mud. there are people walking on foot to the nearest city and there are camps, a lot of european camps that fly in and do burning man that have left everything, their trash, their tents, their infrastructure so this is a disaster like never been seen at burning man. 0ur david willis, is there amid the mud. this was supposed to be the day the people attending this festival headed home instead tens of thousands of them are stranded here, mired in mud which has thickened over the course of the last few hours, following renewed downpours of rain. as you can see behind me, some people are packing up in readiness for their departure but a driving ban rema
going to be able to see the moon s shadow block the sun in parts of mexico through the united states and canada, the event is expected to not only be super cooled, to also be a huge boost for tourism in that line of what s being called the line of totality. texas has already projecting that they could see a boost of nearly 1.4 billion as people could be flocking to see this solar lunar event. and cnn hasn t covered for you, cnn special live coverage of the eclipse begins monday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. and you can also catch it streaming on macs and new our of cnn news central starts now minutes ago, president donald trump responding for the first times the expanded gag order put on him, the judge saying trump s rhetoric poses a very real threat. what really say it is rallies later today, plus florida supreme court clears the way for one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation. the biden campaign thinks that could mobilize voters and possibly help him win floor
israel apologizes for a strike that killed aid workers delivering food in gaza. the lead starts right now unintentional targets. that s how israel describes the drone strike that killed seven aid workers from all over the world working for a celebrity chef, jose hey, on drafts and his world central kitchen organization. we are today learning the identity identities of those innocent victims and the circumstances that put down the line of fire plus the new republican attempt to rename an international airport after one donald j. trump democrats are responding today with anemia the idea of their own and what could be a last chance to write in some small way, a major wrong more than 100 years for the horrific tulsa race massacre welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper and we start today with our world-leading and international outrage over the deaths of seven aid workers, including a dual canadian american citizen in central gaza, killed is they were attempting to deliver food to
morning as authorities warn residents to stay inside. just 48 hours left for donald trump s co-defendants to enter their pleas or get ready to appear in court in georgia s election interference case. we start in the remote nevada deserts where tons of thousands of trapped concern growers are trying to organizer plan to reopen roads in about two hours after sudden storms turned the annual gathering into miles of mud. so thick that some are comparing it to quicksand. others are starting to hike out after being warned to shelter in place and to conserve food and water. the situation so concerning, even the president has been briefed. the festival ceo told my colleague chloe melas, there s no cause for panic. we ve made it really clear that we do not see this as an evacuation situation and that the community is patient and the water is drying up. i want to give right to nbc s liz kroits, and michelle grossman standing by with the forecast. thank you very much. liz, the an