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it's been unofficial. there's no public list of the missing. according to the mayor, it was over 2,000. they've been widdled down to 850. you can hope some of those are just miscommunication at this point. but there are plenty of folks coming to grips with the idea that their loved ones are now sort of part of the landscape here in this place. and forensic anthropologists say that in scene this is tragic, it can take years to sort out the missing. >> bill weir, i appreciate it. thank you. just ahead, remnants of tropical storm hilary continue to have an impact in the west. we'll have a live report from southern california, where life threatening flooding and record breaking rain wreaked havoc across the region.
is just miss, people are not sure where people actually were? obviously as time passes it becomes more and more stark. >> the exactly, our producer norment was in the hotel this, morning and met a couple who asked, they were asking how we can get the names off of the missing? list they did not know the proper procedures to do that. it's been unofficial. there is no public lists of the miss -- according to the mayor, it was over 2000, and it's been whittled down to 8:50, so you can hope that some of those are just miscommunication at this point. there are still plenty of folks who are coming to grips with the idea that their loved ones are now sort of part of the landscape here in this place. forensic anthropologists say that instance this tragic, they
their interests as well. the president promises that that won't happen. it remains to be seen. there are a lot of forces at play here right now. he did serve as empathizer in chief. the government said he was working behind the scenes to assure first responders that the feds had their back on this. he shared the stories we're familiar with, of losing his daughter and wife and wondering if his sons had survived a car accident. and that is what so many people are going through thousand. the list of the missing according to the mayor of maui was whittled from over 2,000 by the fbi and authorities down to around 850 now. that still seems impossibly high almost two weeks now after the fire broke out. forensic anthropologists say this could take months or even years to sort out the missing. there is still confusion as to who is on that list, but the real heartbreak is to think
have been horrible to witness and that the folk there is on maui are dealing with so much. can you give us a sense of what forensic teams are going through to try to identify people? >> hi, briana. yes, they've got very large kings over there. a very wide array of forensic specialists so we're over there right now with anywhere from ten to 13 forensic anthropologists. o dontologists, forensic dentists, radiologists, dna specialists. i think what they're continuing to do is we've got two ends of the spectrum here. the scene where the wildfire was and so that's going to be the recovery area and then we have the identification process. so we've got teams that are out doing the recoveries and searching, recovering as much they can. everything they find will go back to the morgue to the forensic facility and that's where the teams and identification specialists such as i are working together to
capitol grounds trespassing, that's another way they could put pressure on him to cooperate. >> we don't know if he actually went into the building. if he were to mount some kind of defense, i was just providing legal advice to clients, i was doing this, would this video that kfile has uncovered undercut that? >> well, it's part of the story, but i think prosecutors would probably have to draw a line there. i think the evidence of what he did with the fake elector scheme would probably be treated independent than what happened on the sixth. i think in a courtroom that evidence might be slightly distinct. >> thank you for breaking all that down. >> thank you so much. and also tonight, we are keeping a close eye on what is happening in hawaii. we have now learned that the military has deployed forensic anthropologists to gather and identify human remains after the horrific wildfire on maui. cnn has obtained letters this evening that allege a hawaiian state agency may have delayed
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possibly allowing former u.s. president donald trump back onto the platform. one expert told us earlier content moderation is a challenge for other social media companies as well. >> when we're talking about issues of content moderation, hate speech, this is something every social media platform struggles with when you are dealing with cultures, language, politics from all over the world on your platform and you're trying to figure out how to make that work, how to deal with it legally, how to deal with it morally and contextually. that's something that legal scholars and technologists and anthropologists still have not figured out fully how to deal with. the challenges twitter deals with are in many ways one for the entire sector. no one has figured it out. i don't think it is necessarily likely that a new ceo is going to magically solve that either. >> on thursday musk tried to
relationship trying to do justice the right way. jose alba won't face charges. >> dana: woke activists dead set on erasing race and gender are taking it a step further. right into the graveyard. now they are calling on anthropologists to stop classifying human remains by gender and race because we don't know how the deceased person identified while they were living. kat timpf is co-host on gutfeld. come on, what's happening here? >> one sense they're right. we don't know how they identified because we can't really talk to them. but i think that's not really relevant when you consider there are certainly benefits to classifying based on biological sex as well. which we do have ways of finding out what those things are. i don't know, when i think about when i die and what i'm afraid of when it comes to death being misgend erd doesn't make the list. i don't know how you -- of all
and what did they find in terms of the dna? they only got one whole genome, so basically the entire genetic code, set of instructions that made this person. they also managed to get non—human dna. they found dna in his skeleton that was from a tuberculosis—causing bacterium, suggesting he might have had the disease before he died. and actually, some of the archaeologists and anthropologists involved in the study think that perhaps that's why he wasn't running away. maybe he was sick, maybe he was suffering from disease. there were also signs in the woman's skeleton that she was older and may have had arthritis in her bones. from his own genome, they've seen pinpoints of his ancestry and of his family connections. and some of those are largely unsurprising. it looks like he was a local person, it looks like he waas local to the italian peninsula. but he had some markers in his genetic code that appeared to be common to sardinia. and that's interesting, because it suggests a lot of diversity on the italian peninsula at that time, which again paints a genetic