novative voice solutions for a low price when you get fast, reliable internet. comcast business. beyond fast. the death toll from california's deadliest wildfires keeps rising. >> there are more than 1,000 names on a list of missing persons. >> it was a raging inferno. it was 50 mile-per-hour winds and blizzard of embers. >> i couldn't breathe. i couldn't see. it was black and red, and i really thought that's how i was going to die. >> it hurt a lot to see that i had no house anymore. >> paradise, we'll always be paradise. when we rebuild it will be paradise down. mohammad bin salman personally ordered the killing

of jamal khashoggi. >> the asummit is that mohammad bin salman directed, ordered, this assassination. president trump announced today he's finally done writing out answers for the special counsel. >> president trump's legal team balking, taking issue with some of the questions. >> i right twrite the answers, lawyers don't write answers. >> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> got saturday morning. for the second day the number of those unaccounted for in the camp fire burning in northern california has skyrocketed. as of last night, more than 1,000 people are missing. >> thousands of firefighters, too, are still just performing this grueling work trying to stop the rapidly growing wildfire. three southern california deaths brings the total number of dead across the state to 74. the arkansas fire is now the

deadliest, most destructive wildfire in california's history. paul vacanan joining us from chico, california. >> reporter: good morning. let me try to give you perspective on that alarming number of the 1,100 missing. as you can see behind me, i'm in a makeshift camp. there are hundreds who have pitched tents in and around this walmart in nearby chico. of those missing, the way the sheriff coroner explained it, it's not so much that they're missing, it's that they're unaccounted for or haven't been matched with any sort of calling into the -- sort of call into the sheriff's office since the beginning of the answer, which he said is a rare thing to hear. he wanted reporters to provide context. he didn't mean they are missing and presumed dead. by context, he meant they are checking every name that came up in any form of communication to the sheriff's office.

so that includes emails, that includes people walking in off the street. that includes 911 calls. in some instances, it could be that you have names that are the same person but they were misspelled or mispronounced. they're running all of that down. as for the fire itself, it is now 50% contained. it has burned 146,000 acres. it's displayed 9,700 homes, 12,000 structures. one official said they think they've lost one-tenth of the housing stock in butte county. >> good heavens. thank you very much. we appreciate the update. if you have a moment, i don't know what you're doing this morning, but look at your screen here. before and after images of what paradise used to be. and what it has become.

that house there, the only recognizable things are two trees in the front yard now. >> look at this. this is one of the march churches in paradise. and now just the walls and the chimney is left. the rest of it a memory for the people who worshipped there. a do-it-yourself car wash destroyed. cal fire posted pictures of the destruction. we matched them one google street view images. it gives everybody an idea of all that's been lost and all the work that has to be done now and, you know, we've spoken with the mayor of paradise on this show who has lost her own home. her husband lost his business. their relatives lost their home. and they're living in a camper in a parking lot. >> they vow to rebuild the up

to, but the work is extraordinary. it's unfuture what -- unsure what the future is. people are happy to be alive, but they don't know what the future holds. >> reporter: the smoke from the arkansas fire li camp fire lingers, and survivors face a bleak picture. this makeshift campground is near the remnants of paradise. many have lost everything. these survivors are just trying to catch their breath in the smoky air, looking for answers to the question what's next. >> did it burn down or didn't it burn down, we don't know. it's hard to try to figure out your game plan when you don't know your game plan. >> reporter: anna goodnight and her husband rushed out of their home. they were only able to grab medication and documents. >> we saw everything burning as we were leaving. that was scary enough. >> reporter: they have no idea if their home is still standing.

they're just glad they made it out alive. >> i hope there is some closure for families that have lost family because we've been hearing so many horror stories. i'm sure it's going to get worse before it gets better. >> reporter: crystal sturep survived fires and were planning to make paradise the next chapter of their new home. this is where you were going to put down a home in paradise. >> we were happy, excited. they had called and told us to come next week. we were supposed to be coming. everything's gone, and i don't know the next step. i'm winging it. >> reporter: despite facing her own long road to recovery, crystal's been visiting people at the camp, offering to help however she can. >> i can't do anything but one day at a home. you know, it's out of my hands.

stay praying. stay -- asking the lord to cover us or just cover them. make sure they have a safe place to land in all of the situations. >> reporter: the number of missing persons continues to fluctuate. authorities say it is so difficult to pinpoint the exact number because so many people have been displaced. paradise, california, is a town with a population of more than 25,000. authorities say that some people could have evacuated to areas where cell phone service is unreliable. others could have evacuated and not reached out to family members and may not know someone some are looking for them. anna goodnight is afraid to look at that list because she's afraid she'll see names that she knows. authorities say if you see someone's name on the list who is safe, let them know. otherwise, they will continue to try to account for everyone who they believe to be missing.

>> thank you very much. president trump will be leaving for california to see the wildfire damage firsthand. >> sarah westwood joins us from the white house. the president, he's been critical of california's handling of the wildfire response. his press secretary, sarah sanders, says he's going to be there to comfort. >> reporter: that's right, the president has repeatedly blamed california forest management for the fires. he's claimed that neglect created the conditions that's allowed the fires to spread so quickly. in a tweet last week the president even threatened to cut federal funding to forest management if officials didn't fix what he perceived as the underlying problems causing these fires, that was the reaction that at the time drew criticism given the climbing death toll and the amount of resources that have already been dedicated to fighting these fires. and in an interview with fox news' chris wallace conducted yesterday, the president seemingly suggested that poor land management is more to blame for the fires than climate change. take a listen.

>> i was watching the firemen the other day and they were raking areas where the fire was there, and they're raking little trees like this -- not trees, little bushes, that i could see, are totally dry. weeds. and they're raking them, they're on fire. that should have been all raked out. >> what about the argument it's climate change? it's drier, hotter, and that's contributing to it? >> maybe it contributes a little bit. the big problem we have is management. >> reporter: in a little less than an hour, the president will leave the white house here. hoe amy head to california where he'll be meeting with california governor -- he'll head to california where he'll be meeting with california's governor and will get an update on the response to this fire. victor and christie? >> thank you. visit safeandwell.org and

register on their list. people can check for folks that you love if you don't know where they are. you can let others know that you are safe. for fathother ways to help, go cnn.com/impact. that's got to be the hardest thing is not knowing where somebody is. >> and not wanting to look at the list to see a name you know. >> i don't want to see it, yeah. new developments in the murder of jamal khashoggi that points directly to the crown prince mohammad bin salman, next. and president trump has finished answering robert mueller's questions on the russia probe. he said he candid it himself without his lawyer's help. and george conway, husband of white house conselor kellyanne conway is now talking about the white house in a new interview. >> i'm watching this thing and, you know, it's like the administration is like a

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according to a senior u.s. official the cia has concluded that the saudi mohammed bin salman -- saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman personally ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi last month. >> vice president mike pence quickly responded to the report saying the u.s. the hold his murderers accountable. >> the murder of jamal khashoggi was an atrocity. it was also an affront to a free and independent press, and the united states is determined to hold all those accountable who are responsible for that murder. >> senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in

bay roueiru beirut. how did the cia reach this conclusion? >> reporter: they based this conclusion upon a variety of intelligence sources. but one of them significantly was a telephone call intercepted between the saudi ambassador in washington who happens to be the brother of crown prince mohammed bin salman and jamal khashoggi in which the saudi ambassador reassured the "washington post" columnist that to get that paper he needed to remarry he could go to the saudi consulate in istanbul and do so safely. apparently according to this report, this was a phone conversation that was prompted by the crown prince himself. in addition to that, there is other information provided by

turkish intelligence remembering, of course, that gina haspel, director of the cia, went to turkey last month and apparently was given those audio recordings that documented the torture, murder, and dismemberment of the "washington post" columnist. beyond that, it's circumstantial. saudi arabia is an absolute monarchy, and the belief is that you cannot send a 15-man hit team to -- from saudi arabia to turkey to murder a prominent saudi citizen without the knowledge and approval of the de facto ruler of saudi arabia, crown prince mohammed bin salman. >> ben wedeman for us in beirut. thank you. shane harris, one of the reporters who broke the story for the "washington post" talked to cnn about the report and suggested the president already

knew about the information. >> this is not news to him. he understands this information. he probably knows more about what the cia has than we even know about what they have at this point. and it has been made clear to him that the assessment is that mohammed bin salman directed, ordered, this assassination. >> ben rose, former deputy national security advisor for president obama is calling for an investigation. he slammed the administration on twitter claiming that they covered up the whole thing. he said this -- when faced with the real possibility -- we're faced with the real possibility that trump has had metro station from the intelligence community that mohammed bin salman was responsible for the murder of the reporter from the "washington post" and lie good it -- lied about it ato get pas it. must have investigation. accusations against former

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but the answers have not been submitted to special counsel robert mueller yet. >> the president huddled with his legal team for at least three days. he says that he answered the questions himself, though. >> i write the answers, my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i've answered them very easily, very easily. i'm sure they're tricked up because they like to catch people, gee, was the weather sunny or rainy? he said it may have been a good day. it was rainy, therefore he told a lie, he perjured himself. you have to be careful when you answer questions by people that probably have bad intentions. no, the questions were very routinely answered by me. >> sources say the president was not happy with some of those questions. cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown has details. >> reporter: we've learned president donald trump and his legal team have taken issue with some of the questions from

special counsel robert mueller which covers a transition period of time between the 2016 election. they believe it could be off limits under executive privilege as they pertain to the presidency, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. the source would not explicitly say whether the president answered those questions other than to see there are, quote, responses to all of the questions that were asked. trump's lawyers previously made the case to mueller's team that the president would only answer questions related to collusion about events that took place before the 2016 location. in an interview with the "washington post," rudy giuliani said there are questions that create more questions for us legally than others. the list of questions provided to trump's legal team in the spring by robert mueller's team included questions about efforts during the transition to establish a back channel line of communication to russia and a 2017 meeting in the seychelles

involving a representative of blackwater. the president and his team are finalizing answers and could return the responses as early as next week. pamela brown, cnn, washington. joining me, errol lewis, political commentator and anchor for spectrum news, and joey jackson, legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> joey, let me start with the assertion to the president that says, i write the answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions, i answered them very easily. how does that correspondent with how this process would typically work with questions to the president of the united states? >> put it this way -- good morning victor, errol. i think that's a good admission by the president because he's taking ownership. we won't hear moving forward that it was a lawyer who crafted it.

don't know what he was talking b. certainly that didn't come -- talking about. certainly didn't come from me. this president is engaged in the process. saying he specifically reviewed the questions presented to him. he specifically answered the questions that were posed to him. as a result of that, the process is to your question that you get a list of questions from the pounds if you're the president -- most people testify before a grand jury, i might hasten to add. but the process is is that you're responsive to those questions. now responsive, of course, is a lawyer's word. doesn't mean that you've answered the questions. it means you responded in some way. there could be objections to questions as beyond the scope. objections as to relevance, objections as to privilege. and this won't be the end of it. when you submit the questions, you don't submit it, and then that's it, i'm sure they will be reviewed. there will be followup questions. even before the president's submission i'm sure his lawyers will be delving into them with a fine-tooth comb to make sure

they're answered prom. >> errol, the president's characterization that he answered them easily seems to be in conflict at least with what his attorney, rudy giuliani, told the post in saying that some questions create more issues than others calling them issue, unnecessary, possible traps. what do you make about the discrepancy? >> yeah. it's real interesting. when the president says he answered them easily, as joey suggests, he probably submitted the questions to his lawyers who will take days if not weeks to figure out who wh-- figure out they can safely send to the special prosecutor. there's answering questions and submitting them. there's an important difference there. it's also important to point out that the questions have been asked months ago. if it was very easy to answer them, if it was a simple matter of answering them, it would have been done a long time ago. finally, you always have to make note that when the president says that and his lawyer says

that there are possible traps, they're trying to trip us up, trying to trick us with questions and so forth, those are not the words of people who have nothing to hide. clearly they think that there's something that they could be tripped up on. most of the people watching right now is asked a straightforward question about what they did, who they talked to, and why in 2016 could just give you an answer and wouldn't have to go through all these contortions about traps and tricks and whether or not you can actually just answer the question. >> yeah. errol, let me stay with you on another topic. cnn sources saying that republican chair of house judiciary congressman bob goodlatte is preparing subpoenas for the former fbi director, james comey, former attorney general, loretta lynch, to testify as part of their investigation into the fbi's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail server investigation. they got just really a few working days left in the 115th

congress. is this a slap on the way out the door? where does in go beyond december? >> it's interesting, you always wonder if people believe some of the stuff that they're saying. these are sort of talk radio talking points. you know, that this was always only about hillary clinton and james comey and loretta lynch and the meeting at the airport and so forth. it has been exhaustively litigated literally and politically. i guess they wanted to sort of go out on this same note and -- to take one more slap at something that simply hasn't worked. i mean, look, this -- it didn't work. it lost them control of the house of representatives. it's why they are about to become ex-members of congress. but i guess they want to stockton this one more time -- to stick to this one more time. to his credit, james comey and loretta lynch, my understanding is both said we'll answer your questions if you want to go through one more round, let's do it. >> and comey tweeted, house republicans can ask me anything they want, but i want the american people to watch. let's have a public hearing.

truth is best served by transparency. let me know when is convenient. this source says that this testimony would likely be behind closed doors. joey, does a witness have any influence over whether this is public or not? >> not at all. it seems to be, you know, sticking with the "p" word, political. the fact is is that this is as we know the president of sort of deflection. everything's a deflection. what is james comey having to deal with this, what is loretta lynch having to do with this. the fact is is they know and understand that they are no longer in control or will no longer be in control. i think to your earlier statement to errol it's a slap on the way out the door. generally it's up to the party in power. both people, james comey and loretta lynch, have indicated that they would move forward, you know, look, in a public transparent proceeding. that hasn't happened. they want closed door session

where subpoenas are going to be flying. ultimately it's a search for the truth. i don't see what the working chase are left, to your point, how this is going to -- working days that are left, to your point, how this is going to get done by the 3rd. >> there's a reporting by the "washington post" that president trump is questioning the vice president's loyalty. and it's happening so often now that it's alarming some of his advisers. this passage stood out in the reporting from the post. some trump advisers, primarily outside the white house, suggested that while mr. pence remants loyal he may -- remains loyal he may have used up his utili utility. these sources say that president trump might benefit more from a running mate who could help him with female voters who disapprove of him in large numbersme numbersme numbers. does that bring nikki haley back to the conversation? what do you make of the advice from outside advisors? >> it's an interesting possibility. the president has been doing

rallies for his 2020 election campaign. it's fair game to sort of pose this question. what's he going to do when he tries to run for re-election? and i don't think it's about loyalty and any deep or conspiratorial sense but as you suggest, a different kind of running mate might help him. he's got a problem with suburban women voters, period. they threw out his party, you know, district after district they made the difference. if he's going to find a way to get back to them, maybe a woman runningmate will do it -- running mate will do it, a change in his behavior will go further. we'll see. >> errol, joey, thank you both. >> thank you. there are alleged victims now of former dartmouth college professors accused of sexual assault. the alleged victims sharing their story in an interview with cnn and a lawsuit that says the professors treated a, quote, 21st century "animal house." that's next.

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female students at dartmouth college were subjected, they say, to rape and sexual harassment by their professors. this is according to a new federal lawsuit. >> seven victims are suing the ivy league university's trustees after they say three former professors coerced them into drinking and, in some cases, raped them. cnn's paolo sandoval has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the numbers could go up to 40 as part of this class-action lawsuit. reminder, this investigation was initially launched by the new hampshire attorney general last year. now this is more the civil location of things. the survivors filing the lawsuit, a 72-page detailed and

graphic description of what they say they experienced at dartmouth university. there are three professors identified, todd heatherton, william kelley, and paul whalen, kelly and whalen have not responded to cnn's request for comment. heatherton through his lawyer categorically denied playing a role in creating any toxic environment at dartmouth college and went on to say that none of his plaintiffs were even his students. the allegations including one professor that had alleged he forced one of the students to have sex with him. another one of the allegations that's mentioned in this lawsuit is an inappropriate photograph sent by one of the professors allegedly to the students. basically the women, according to the lawsuit, forced to not only have sex with some of the professors, but also essentially created an environment, a toxic environment, according to the lawsuit, in which several of the students felt obviously extremely uncomfortable. i want you to hear directly from one of the victims that cnn had

the opportunity to hear from as they described not only the traumatic experiences that they th say they've had but the experience after the filing of the lawsuit. >> the reactions they have had are probably the most meaningful for me right now because i have been ready and willing to tell my story in a small, contained environment for anonymity and to not be retraumatized in such a public fashion. but that opportunity has not been afforded to me. and the fact that these professors are grappling with these issues only as an aftermath of the lawsuit pains me. >> reporter: responding with a statement of their own, i'll put that on the screen so you can see how they have responded after the filing of the lawsuit thursday. the school saying, semiconductor and harassment have no -- sexual misconduct and harassment have no place at dartmouth. the board of trustees and senior leadership team are dedicated to maintaining a safe and inclusive campus for all members of our

community. we remain committed to improving our culture as we work to making the community the best it can be. school officials launched an inquiry and did culminate in the resignations of whalen and kelly this past june and july. heatherton had been on sabbatical and ultimately retired this past summer. back to you. >> thank you very much. a little more than 24 hours to go, and thousands of votes to count by hand. who will be florida's next senator? we'll go live to the sunshine state.

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the under votes and over votes in the senate race. all of this is playing out as there are legal fights going on. yesterday senator bill nelson's campaign suffered another setback when there was a group called vote vet actions fund and other democratic organizations, they were trying to challenge a rule that requires all domestic mail-in ballot make it to election offices before election day. they were arguing that ballots that were postmarked by election day should still be included in the tally. yesterday a judge ruled against them saying that that florida law will stand. the nelson camp has been looking for more votes throughout this past week. right now, governor rick scott is leading bill nelson by roughly 12,000 vote. in the next few days, florida voters will be getting answers as to how the senate race will turn out. >> thank you very much. so the race to become georgia's next governor appears

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george conway, husband of white house conselor kellyanne conway is hitting back at the president with some, wait for it, trash talk. >> there's a reason we used that. the controversial critic of the white house is taking direct aim at the president. here's brian todd. >> reporter: the latest challengers of president trump coming from the most unlikely corner of the political spectrum. conservatives he once considered his friends and allies. called checks and balances, the group is made up of influential conservative lawyers who say they are fed one president trump and determined to be a thorn in his side on constitutional issues. >> the president's efforts to undermine the rule of law need to be called out. >> reporter: what may be more shocking is not that it was founded by conservatives but that the group's founder and the president most likely to be the biggest thorn in trump's side is married to someone who works within spitting dance of the white house rose garden. george con wark the husband of trump -- conway, the husband of

trump confidante kellyanne conway, founded the group after being called a critic on his own. he's hammered on trump on twitter claiming the country needs a quote, president capable of comprehending the law. and has called out the president including an op-ed in "the new york times" saying trump's, quote, installation of matthew whitaker as attorney general is unconstitutional. it's illegal. the white house hasn't commented on the formation of checks and balances, but president trump has lashed out at george conway. >> you mean mr. kellyanne conway? >> he wrote you're unconstitutionally appointing -- >> he's just trying to get publicity for himself. >> reporter: conway may have founded checks and balances, but the group includes 13 other prominent conservative lawyers such as former homeland security secretary tom ridge who says he's fed one trump's attacks on the -- fed up with trump's attacks on the media. >> there are countries that don't have freedom of the press, but i don't want to lead into china, russia, or iran.

>> reporter: and a member says trump is trying to misuse the department of justice. >> law enforcement should be nonpartisan, not politically motel straight. >> reporter: the group says it will fight back whenever trump attacks an institution if feels should be protected. at the top of the list, the group believes it was a dangerous move by the president to appoint an acting attorney general who once said special counsel robert mueller could be fired. and these lawyers are incensed that trump attacked the justice department for indicting two republican congressmen before the midterms. >> he has indicated an intent to influence prosecutions of individuals for political purpose. that is absolutely anathema to the way that law enforcement is supposed to take place. >> reporter: but will the group even with the help of the husband of one of trump's top aides move conservative politicians and voters away from donald trump? some say probably not. >> that seems like a real stretch. right now it's still trump's gop. and you can't change that in the short term. >> reporter: when discussing the

prospects for checks and balances to be a real counterweight to donald trump within the republican party, analysts point out the fate of others in the party who have tried to do that. many of them have turned and become his allies like some of his gop primary challengers, or they're leaving politics like senators bob corker and jeff flake. brian todd, cnn, washington. the death toll from california's deadliest wildfires keeps rising. >> there are more than 1,000 names on a list of missing persons. >> it was a raging inferno. it was 50 mile-per-hour winds and blizzard of embers. >> i couldn't breathe. i couldn't see. it was black and red, and i really thought that's how i was going to die. >> it hurt a lot to see that i had no house anymore. >> paradise, we'll always be paradise. when we rebuild it will be paradise again. the cia now concludes