On the response taking questions from the reporters and then secretary dick cheney and transportation secretary Samuel Skinner and epa administrator william riley. I have a brief statement and then i will defer to the experts. Nearly everybody is aware of the oil spill in alaska and the hardship for local citizens. We all share the sorrow and concern of alaskans and the determination to mount a sustained cleanup effort. Our ultimate goal must be the complete restoration of the ecology and the economy of Prince William sound including the fish, Marine Mammals and birds and other wildlife. The Exxon Corporation has acknowledged responsibility for this spill, and its liability for the damages. Exxon should remain responsible for those damages and for employing civilian personnel necessary to control further damage. However, exxons damages are not enough, and with mr. Stephens and others, i have decided to add additional federal resources to clean up the effort for additional equipment on
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is at camp david tonight. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. The leaders convened to show, give a show of force, rather, against threats from north korea and also from china. They announced a new Joint Commitment to consult with each other in times of crisis, increase their military exercises, jointly in the region. Step up intelligence sharing, and also a new plan to convene annually at a new summit. The leaders did Call Out North Korea by name. But they were careful not to oreillyrile china. Make clear this is not the beginning of a new formal alliance. The president s domestic problems loomed in the background, too. Get some lunch . President biden dodged the press for a full week after david weiss, the u. S. Attorney investigating his son, was elevated to special counsel. And today he ended up taking his first question about it shoulder to shoulder with two major u. S. Allies. I have no comment on any investigations going on thats up
The violence we need to work towards a credible peace where people are treated equally. President joe biden expected to land in tel aviv in just a matter of hours. Good evening, everyone. Im mike mibach. And im julie julie haener. The president s historic visit already seeing some diplomatic challenges right before takeoff. His meeting in jordan with arab leaders was canceled following a deadly airstrike of a gaza hospital. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama joins us now. And jenna, hundreds were killed in that strike. Yes and there is some discussion and some controversy over whether that was an israeli airstrike or, as israel says, a misfire by by an Islamic Jihad group that is competing with hamas in gaza. Meantime President Biden is on his way, as you said, to that area. The explosion today at a gaza City Hospital has dramatically changed his efforts to push Diplomatic Solutions forward. Aid. Palestinian civilians bleeding and desperately needing medical care were rushed to the alshifa hospital i