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Good morning, everyone. Glad youre with is pup five things to know for this thursday august 17th. Devastating news again this morning out of hawaii. We have learned children are among the 111 victims killed in the wildfires and the police chief on maui said that number will go up. Only 38 of the area has been searched ed so far and more tha 1,000 people are missing this morning. And a Fulton County circled one day before primary voters head to the polls in more than a dozen states. New overnight...

lets speak to professor nick maynard who is the lead clinician at medical aid for palestinians one of the aid groups told to withdraw and cease activities at hospital in gaza. tell us what your colleagues in gaza are saying. we tell us what your colleagues in gaza are sa inc. ~ tell us what your colleagues in gaza aresa in. , , tell us what your colleagues in gaza aresa in. ,, ., , are saying. we left because of this mornin: , are saying. we left because of this morning. we _ are sayin...

temperatures in the midlands at the minute only around 11 degrees so it is chilly but in the sunshine for west scotland and northern ireland temperatures soaring to around 2a or 25 degrees. so a massive contrast in the weather and in temperature even though we are underneath the same high pressure. overnight the cloud comes back in and as temperatures drop below 10 degrees we start to get some drizzle falling from that cloud sheet. across parts of east scotland and eastern central part...

will protect us. >> that he wont let anything bad happen to you. >> so when the strangers arrive, a father takes matters into his own hands. >> you hear crack, crack, crack. >> the terror, the bullets. this is like -- >> glass is exploding. >> the crime scene, caught on camera. >> anybody in the vehicle in bc are. hands >> it was bad, worse than anything id ever seen in my life. >> i cried for my dad. >> was this a murder? >> every day i think of that. >> all i could think of was my ki...

ten people are now confirmed to have died, after a huge explosion at a petrol station in county donegal in ireland. a search operation is continuing as some people are still thought to be missing, eight people were also taken to hospital. police say the cause remains under investigation — but are describing what happened as "a tragic accident". the explosion happened at an applegreen service station in the village of creeslough. from there, our ireland correspondent chris page report...

of this hurricane. it could make landfall the next several hours and then work its way up the peninsula slowly, very slowly, bringing hurricane force winds here to tampa, to orlando before it heads out over the atlantic on the other side maybe sometime later tomorrow. obviously millions of people feeling the impact of this, a life threatening storm in some ways a near worst case scenario for some of the people south of here. there was an 8 a.m. update just in from the national hurrican...

how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. >> rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. >> todays newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the governm...

whirlwind visit to taiwan, meeting earlier today with the islands democratically elected president, in defiance of provocative live fire drills from chinas military. and also this hour well talk to kentucky governor andy beshear about the search and rescue efforts as the death count rises from this weeks historic floods. ill speak to senator kirsten gillibrand about the passage of new medical benefits for burn pit victims finally. and we are on sinema watch, waiting for that 50th democ...

air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. its too big to do it any other way than what theyre going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. theyll begin to slowdown. theyll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but no...