Almost entirely to the ground. Because of the wildfires, fires are continuing to burn. Helicopters continue to douse the flames. Many people, forced to flee at a moments notice, had to leave everything behind. Hawaiis Attorney General has announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about power, and why the power should have been cut to the island. Meantime, the police chief for maui county said he expects the death toll to rise. Realise this. When we find these. Ourfamily and our friends, the remains we are finding is through a fire that melted metal. We have to do rapid dna to identify them. Every one of these 89 arejohn and jane does. And when you are asking us, and we know we have to get. And i love the way our house of representatives, how she said it, we are so eloquent, we have to go quick and we have to do it right. So when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, and so when you have
morning following a major computer outage at the faa. john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today s confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don t know if hackers were to blame. sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it s scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we ll get to it. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i m john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden s former office. we ll dip into the briefing for any news. sandra: we ll watch for that. but fir
of hurricane ian, what residents are finding when they return home. plus vladimir putin s brazen move, how the rest of the world is reacting to the russian president s plan to annex part of ukraine. and how south korea is reacting to the latest missile launches from pyongyang. relief and recovery efforts are ongoing in florida after parts of the state with utterly devastated by hurricane ian. this is some of the damage left behind in ft. myers, a town once brimming with life is now a flattened field littered with debris. residents say much of what they own has been washed away and lost forever. lost everything last night. everything. family is okay, dogs are okay, parents are okay. lost everything we had. pictures, memories. gone. and we re seeing similar trails of destruction in other parts of florida where some residents are still trapped and waiting for help. my grandparents are still at the house. we have animals there. they didn t want to leave the animals. s
i m john berman in ft. myers, florida, and the storm has intensified again. 85-mile-per-hour winds, heading towards the carolinas. this after tearing the destructive path across florida. it is expected to make landfall in south carolina around midday, somewhere between charleston and myrtle beach. it could produce life-threatening floods there in the carolinas. this is already liskely the largest natural disaster in florida s history. i m standing in the middle of some of the damage, in a marina where the boats have been washed up on to the shore here. parts of florida have been seriously damaged. as of this morning, 19 storm-related deaths. that number will almost certainly rise. in ft. myers beach, some of the destruction is breathtaking. i had a chance to have an aerial view of it, take a helicopter ride over, and there were sections that were just washed away. the pier, the large pier there, you can see it almost better from air. that s just been completely washed away. a
on the ground and from choppers overhead. a nursing home evacuated in orlando. first responders with children in their arms, carrying them to safety. tonight, president biden warning of what could be a horrific death toll here. we have just learned the storm is now a hurricane again, regaining strength for its run up the east coast. tonight, nearly 2 million customers here in florida are without power. and tonight, we re with the families, those who sought shelter and who are still unable to get back to their homes. some who lost everything in the blink of an eye. georgia and the carolinas bracing in the coming hours. now the storm surge threatening charleston. chief meteorologist ginger zee, senior meteorologist rob marciano, both here in florida with me tonight. and our team spread out across the storm zone. the other major news this thursday night, the stunning turn in the war in ukraine. just days after those alarming images showing pro-russian soldiers armed with assau