mom. ♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. we continue to follow the breaking news out of indonesia. the death toll continuing to rise after a tsunami hit without warning. this breaking story has been dominating our coverage for some time now. here is the latest. indonesian authorities confirm now at least 168 people are dead after saturday's tsunami. it devastated parts of sumatra

and west java. officials say it may have been triggered, this is unusual, by a volcano on the island of anak krakatoa. some of the areas are popular beach sites about 90 kilometers from the capital jakarta. and as we mentioned the tsunami struck without warning. >> in that clip of video you can see the waves caught beach goers off guard and forced them to scramble to safety. and then there's also some disturbing footage we'll show you of this disaster when it hit. we do warn you what you're about to see is difficult to watch as it caught so many people by surprise, but take a look. video of a concert the moment that concert was cut short. the band keeps on stage.

keeps playing, but they're unaware of this killer wave that's about to strike. >> our ivan watson is following developments for us in hong kong and certainly the video of that band and the people just watching, not suspecting anything illustrates that this was a tsunami that struck without any warning. what else are you hearing, ivan? >> certainly. very frightening scenario, natalie. it was 9:37 p.m. on saturday night in western java on stretches of coastline when this deadly wave hit. it was a holiday weekend in indonesia for the christmas holiday. so, beaches and beach front hotels had a lot more indonesian tourists than usual when the waves struck. the footage that you've shown of that wave crashing through the stage of a concert there, the band that was playing there is an indonesian band popular with

some young people in indonesia called 17. and there were many people from the state power company that had been attending that concert, that celebratory evening. the following morning, the lead singer of the band published this pretty emotional statement on his instagram account. take a listen. >> translator: i just wanted to say that our bass player and our manager passed away. i also ask for prayers for my friend andy, herman and ujung who is still missing at this time. also my dear wife is still missing. the rest of us have broken bones, minor injuries, including me. but we are fine. please pray that we can find andy, herman and ujung and my

wife. >> so indonesian authorities say that this was one and a half meter high wave that rushed in to distances of about 500 meters inland, leaving behind death and destruction. the cause of it, they say, was not an earthquake as we saw as recently as last september with another earthquake that created a tsunami that killed some 2,000 people in another part of indonesia. this, they say, was caused by a volcano on a volcanic island called anak krakatoa in the sunda strait. now, some of our viewers may recognize the name krakatoa. that was the cataclysmic volcano in 1883 that killed more than 30,000 people and, according to some reports, may have driven down global temperatures by more than a degree celsius due to its enormous ash cloud. some 50 years after that cataclysmic eruption, this

island anak krakatoa which translates as the child of krakatoa grew up. and indonesian authorities say it was very active in recent months, erupting every month throughout the autumn and growing at a rate of about four meters a year. and that and a landslide underwater appears to sent this wall of water rushing towards the coastline. the indonesian president has issued a statement expressing his condolences, ordering the emergency teams to the area. there are some concerns as our sister network cnn indonesia has had a reporter on the ground. there are concerns there could be fears of other waves coming in and there have been some warnings for local police for people to go to high ground earlier in the day on sunday. some of the experts in indonesia say that perhaps this tsunami was worse, even though there was bigger volcanic activity in

recent months because of a high tide saturday night and also a full moon. natalie and george? >> such a very powerful volcano. it's a menace to people in that area, of course. but no one expected this. we're about to talk more about it. ivan, thank you. >> again, a tsunami sparked by a volcanic eruption. let's get the very latest now from our derek van dam. >> george, usually tsunamis are formed by the displacement of water, triggered by things like earthquakes, shifting tectonic plates, landslides. this time the tsunami was trigger rd by a volcano as ivan just mentioned. this is the krakatoa volcano. what you're seeing is the aboveground activity from the eruption of the volcano but was so interesting is that most of the activity underwater i should say is what set off this cataclysmic wave that impacted

western java and portions of sumatra. get to graphics. let's talk about the details, how this happened, what's the threats going forward. here is sumatra. here is java and the sunda straits. you can see on satellite, the eruption was so intense and the ash cloud lifted to high in the air that satellites picked up on it. that is the eruption plume from the krakatoa volcano. zoom into the area. this is a satellite perspective of the actual volcano. ivan talked about how in 1883 this volcano erupted and killed over 36,000 people with a similar type event, triggering a tsunami. and this is how this is so devastating for this part of the world because what happens is sediment that's dislodged underneath the surface of the ocean is all thanks to the cataclysmic eruption from the

volcano. and that sediment eventually gives way. it propagates a wave in all directions and unfortunately the closest land away from that volcano is sumatra and western java and that's where they felt the brunt of this tsunami leaving devastating scenes just like this. now the issue going forward is obviously the potential for more tsunami waves. because as far as we know the volcano is still active, so who is to say this couldn't happen again. the other aspect of this, george and natalie, is the search and rescue aspect because there is a significant amount of rain. as i said, this is the rainy season. that is only going to hamper those efforts. >> yeah. derek, we understand they're just getting the equipment, the teams on the ground to really get into that search and rescue work really in the beginning stages of this. thank you for the insight. we'll talk more about that right now with the program director of the organization's local group now preparing to

deploy an emergency response team to the affected area. we are joined on the phone from jakarta. we thank you so much for talking with us. we know you're very busy. talk with us about the affected areas. how widespread is it and what reports are you getting? >> hi. i do think that this will be an impact that is going to be very massive, especially because the location is well known, local tourist destination. although it has been reported that 168 people are deceased, 745 people injured and at least 558 houses and buildings were reported damaged, but i do think that in a few hours the situation will evolve and probably a bigger number will be

revealed. >> that's usually how these things unfold. you get the initial reports and then oftentimes it gets worse. what about reaching these areas? we said that your organization is headed there. what do you know about the road conditions? will it be difficult to get in there? >> our reports said that although part of the roads are cut off due to the damage, but it has already been reopened. and i do think that a lot of our organizations have been also deploying to do the assessment. although it's not a very crucial problem, logistic wise because the location is quite near to the capital city of jakarta and it can be reached quite easily, but i do think that there will be congestion due to people also

going back. many tourists that have been visiting the location probably will go back to jakarta. and so we expect that problems on the road. >> we know this had been a holiday, a loft tourists on the hotels. many of the hotels were damaged. there's even video that tourists are taking that are watching the water come into the building. let's talk about the fact that the belief is this was caused by a volcanic eruption. that means none of these people had any idea that a wave was coming. what are you hearing about that fact? and the fears that people dealt with from being surprised by this. >> yeah. although it has been i think -- i do think that the national disaster board has already issued a warning couple months

ago about the increase of fire from the ocean. but, yes, you are right. the volcanic eruption is less likely to to be warned. it was quite sudden. although it is not being clarified whether it is due to the volcanic eruption or some other movement from the ocean or ocean floor and all that but, yes. it is quite sudden. people are really -- it's a holiday season. a lot of young people flock to the beach. they have a music concert there. families are having vacation. again, it is quite sudden. >> thank you so much for your information. we know your group is headed there. let's talk again when you get there and you can give us a first-hand account of what they're dealing with. thank you again. >> you're welcome, natalie. again, for our viewers in the u.s. and around the world, we're following the developments

out of indonesia, 168 people at this point who have been killed in this tsunami and this is the early stages, of course. we'll continue to bring you developments as we learn them. but other news we're following this day, the u.s. government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of u.s. federal workers, they are out on the job without pay at least for now. others are staying home on furlough and no one knows when they'll be back. the latest details ahead. not much ho ho ho in their holiday for sure. >> not really. also the sudden departure of president trump's point man on isis. how will the region react to a second high-profile resignation. ♪ si passione. the new fragrance. giorgio armani. - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces

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♪ welcome back. we're following the breaking news this hour out of indonesia. here is the latest as we know it. authorities say saturday's tsunami that killed at least 168 people when it slammed into parts of java and indonesia. more than 740 others have been injured and hundreds of homes, as you see, have been damaged. >> and what caused it, that is the unbelievable part here. the volcano may have triggered this disaster, not an earthquake, volcano, by setting off underwater landslides after it erupted. one official says the disaster for that reason struck without warning. no one had any idea this wave was coming. he said that indonesia lacks the equipment to warn of an underwater tsunami threat. we turn now to the united

states' top story we're following, the lights are on at the u.s. capitol this morning, that is live picture there. but, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are home on furlough. others are working without pay for now. a partial government shutdown is entering its second full day with no end in sight. at least not until after christmas. >> the senate adjourned on saturday with no deal on a spending deal to fund the government. president trump and democrats are fighting over money for his border wall that he wants. vice president mike pence offered to democrats, come up with $2.5 billion, democrats response, no. more from sarah westwood. >> reporter: president trump is still not signaling what he would consider in terms of a deal that could get 10 senate democrats on board and start the process of reopening the government. the white house officials say the president is not budging from his demand for $5 billion for the border wall. and they say that money has to

be used for the construction of a fiscal barrier along the southern border. they say it can't just be used for border security in general, which is one of several potential options that had been floating around capitol hill amid the shutdown talks. but make no mistake, despite that current hard line stance the president has been all over the map when it comes to the funding fight. first, saying that he would be proud to accept responsibility for a shutdown if it was over money for his border wall. then through aides signaling that he might be willing to entertain a temporary spending deal passed by the senate that would have kept the government open through february 8th. and finally, by thursday, rallying house republicans to pass a funding mechanism that did contain $5 billion for the wall, buckling under pressure from conservative allies on capitol hill and in the media to avoid what they described as a surrender on the border wall. now, the president held a lunch here at the white house on saturday with republican lawmakers.

no democrats were in attendance. and those who did attend were mostly conservative allies like congressman mark meadows, jim jordan, senator lindsey graham, allies of the president who already agree with him when it comes to the strategy behind the shutdown. and as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said earlier saturday, the log jam will persist until the president huddles with senate democrats to talk about a potential compromise. the lack of clarity surrounding what exactly the president might be willing to entertain has caused headaches for some lawmakers who really have no idea what kind of deal the president might support beyond that hardline stance for $5 billion. vice president mike pence is leading negotiations for the white house side, but earlier this week pence told lawmakers that the president might be inclined to sign that temporary spending deal, something that turned out not to be true. but heading into christmas, both sides appear very entrenched. washington appears poised to enter what could be a lengthy shutdown. the president canceling his plans to travel to west palm

beach, florida, over the holiday amid the legislative log jam. sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. >> sarah, thank you. now another high-ranking official in the trump administration calling it quits over the president's decision to pull troops out of syria. >> his name brett mcgurk. he was a senior dip mat serving as the president's own representative to the international coalition battling isis, a big job. >> but here is the thing, on twitter, mr. trump claimed that he did not know his own envoy. then he belittled mcgurk as an obama holdover on his way out. more now. >> reporter: u.s. envoy in charge of the fight against isis has resigned. brett measuring gurk told secretary pompeo on friday night that he would be leaving his post on december 31st. mcgurk was expected to leave in february to take up a post at

stanford university, but his decision to leave early came on the heels of president trump's sudden announcement that he would be withdrawing all troops from syria. now, mcgurk just days earlier was talking to reporters about the new u.s. policy to stay in syria, not only to defeat the remnants of isis but also to counter iran. in fact, mcgurk was in the region meeting with coalition partners to discuss this policy and was sitting with iraqi leaders talking about the u.s. commitment to stay in syria when president trump tweeted that the u.s. would be withdrawing from syria. people familiar with mcgurk's thinking say that not only did he feel his credibility was on the line but also he didn't feel he would be able to defend let alone execute that policy. mcgurk has been the envoy dealing with the 70-plus member

coalition to fight isis since 2013, first serving as the deputy to john allen and then taking over as envoy himself clearly has done a lot to reduce the presence of isis, but as he said, there is still remnants. he said it would be reckless for the u.s. to withdraw precipitously. i'm also told that the decision by james mattis, who he was very close to, affected his decision. mcgurk saying that he could no longer serve the president in this policy against syria. let's talk more about this. always a pleasure. >> good morning. thank you. >> let's start with the special envoy in charge of fighting isis resigning his post in protest of president trump pulling out of

syria with brett mcgurk following the lead of general james mattis. what does it mean to this president to see another domino fall of minds that helped manage some degree when it comes to foreign policy. >> president trump has come into power on a campaign promise of america first and basically opposition to globalism. and so, his disruptiveness is disruptiveness aimed at the kind of post 1945 order, which basically you could call liberal hedge money and he's opposed to it. so to some extent the way in which he has carried out his decision and the kind of unpredictable way he goes about in general making policy on the hoof it would appear is backed by a kind of underlying instinct. president trump is not very good at coherently articulating a strategy but those who support him in some respects do call it

strategic restraint. i don't think president trump would see it in that way. that it has overstretched american power and i think his own instinct is to pull back from it. we know quite interesting studies by bob woodward, for example, big riles about afghanistan and syria within the white house around this kind of question. >> what's also interesting the tweet from the president claiming that he does not know mcgurk, does not know this person who is so integral in policy with regards to foreign policy. let's also talk about the big story that is obviously in play, this partial government shutdown. it remains in effect. president trump remains entrenched, demanding funding for his border wall. congress has gone home for christmas and will not reconvene until later in the week. neither side seems willing to budge. listen. >> no further votes will occur until the president and senate democrats have reached an

agreement to resolve this. let me say that again. we push the pause button until the president from whom we will need his signature and senate democrats from whom we will need votes reach an agreement. >> president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. plain and simple. >> and we know that there is no give here. we know that even half of what the president is asking, $2.5 billion for this wall, it is being denied. so, where do you see things going from here? >> well, president trump is basically in a lot of political trouble a lot of political difficulties. he suffered quite a significant defeat in november. he's got investigations galore all around his administration. his entire life, if you like, is under the microscope by someone. his appointees are resigning or being dismissed for corruption.

and we know that therefore there is a kind of big problem. we also know one other thing, which is that president trump has got a very large extra parliamentary mass movement, quite extreme right wing mass movement. i think that's what he's responding to. i suspect he sees a future in that particular movement and he has a very, very strong relationship with those radio commentators and others that have kind of a very cohesive relationship with him. i think that's what he's trying to do. he's trying to go back to that base and galvanize it and try to show that he's fighting against those who would open america's borders to criminals and so on. so i think that's what he's doing. he's ramping up that particular aspect on the wall, which he was elected on as well. >> and you point out those pundits who have indicated that if the president does not score, for lack of better word, on this wall that it could undermine his when it comes to trying to seek

re-election with his base. thank you so much for the insight. we'll stay in touch with you. >> thank you. we continue to track saturday's deadly tsunami in indonesia. we'll hear from a member of the canadian red cross on the ground there in indonesia coming up here. plus, president trump has been making some dubious claims act his border wall. let's get to the facts first. we'll check it all out. but mania, such as unusualrder can rchanges in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by asking your healthcare provider about vraylar. vraylar treats acute mania of bipolar i disorder.

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saturday night. >> here is what we know. this disaster hit popular beach areas in sumatra and java. officials say at least 168 people are dead. hundreds more have been injured. a volcano may have triggered this tsunami, which is unusual here, by setting off underwater landslides. at least one official says the disaster hit without warning. >> because they don't have a system of warning for a volcano that could trigger it. earlier i spoke with kathy mueller of the canadian red cross. she is in an area that had been recovering from an earthquake that hit in september. >> it's a wide swath of land. perhaps one kilometers long that has been impacted by this tsunami. the main access roads to this very popular beach resort area as was mentioned by for local tourists, the main access road is also damaged, so that is hampering efforts to actually

get to the area that is impacted. and then it's not just going to be the highly populated areas that also need attention, but any of the remote areas where people may be impacted and we have to make sure that we get to those communities as well. >> i'm sure communications are impacted. we do know people are missing, 168 confirmed dead right now. any idea how many people may be missing from this. >> that's always so hard to say. especially we're still in the very early hours of the response. what the indonesian red cross has done in the past, for example, with the earthquake in tsunami which i'm here responding to, they set up this restoring family links program. they work at reuniting families who may be missing or separated during a disaster such as this.

so, the days to come, things will become much clearer as to what the impact is, how many people are affected, what kind of support they're going to need in the weeks and months ahead. >> of course they had a devastating earthquake few months ago, more than 2,000 people died there. this is a region that sees a lot of this activity, but it must be traumatizing. what are you hearing? >> oh, it is. these people, i wouldn't say they're used to earthquakes, but they sit on the ring of fire, so the country is prone to getting them. back in late july and early august, lumbak experienced a series of devastating earthquakes and the earthquake and tsunami at the end of september and this one towards the end of december in the western part of java. from what i'm seeing in silowasi

i'm sure will be the same in java, people are terrified. they would rather stay in a tent than move into any kind of a solid structure because any time there is an aftershock they're afraid that that structure is going to come down on top of them. it takes a long time to help people, especially the adults, to work through -- that they're experiencing. we find children tend to rebound a lot quicker. we know kids are very resilient, so the teams of the red cross volunteers go in and play with the children, get them to try to see kids again and laugh and play. we find that they respond really well to that. >> right. is there any danger, kathy, that you're aware that this could happen again since this volcanic eruption -- and i'm sure what's adding to people's anxiety is the fact that this seemingly

came out of nowhere. >> well, yeah. and i am no expert on volcanic activity, from what i understand, this is an extremely rare event. so, you know, the chances of it happening again, who's to know. but what our priority now to make sure that we're going in, we're providing people with the basic necessities they need. things like clean water. it's the rainy season right now, it's bad enough that people have already lost their homes, we want to make sure that they're at least somewhat protected from the elements. and by doing that, then hopefully we can keep disease at bay which, of course, is always at risk once the infrastructure and everything collapses after a disaster. again, kathy mueller from the canadian red cross. we'll talk more with her as we learn more. back here in the united states, the other major story in play, the u.s. government remains partially shut down, likely until after the christmas holiday. >> some christmas gift, huh, for

many of those workers. senators from both sides went home with no agreement all because president trump and the democrats are fighting over money for his border wall. mr. trump has also been making some claims about the wall that fly in the face of the facts. cnn's victor blackwell separates the falsehoods from the facts. >> well a lot of wall has been built. we don't talk about that. but, we might as well start because it's building -- it's being built right now, big sections of wall. and we will continue that. >> that was president trump during that contentious oval office meeting with democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. he's claiming that the border wall that he promised during the campaign and for the first two year of his administration is being built. now, this is not a new claim. here is the president just a few months ago at a rally in june. >> build that wall, build that

wall. >> oh, it's happening. it's not build that wall anymore. it's continue building that wall because we're building it. >> look at this. his supporters have traded in build the wall signs for finish the wall signs. so is this true? has congress approved funding for the border wall? well, here are the facts. the week president trump signed a major funding bill in march he tweeted, got 1.6 billion to start wall on southern border. he's referring to this section of that huge funding bill, nearly 1.6 billion for u.s. customs and border protection procurement obstruction and improvements paying for six projects along the border. not one of them is a border wall. look, fencing, fencing, fencing, fencing, planning and design and technology. no mention of a border wall. in fact, there's no mention of that phrase in the entire law. i checked. and aside from 14 miles of a secondary barrier near san diego, which is still not a

wall, the rest is fencing. now, if you think we're just playing a game of sa memantics here, consider this, the border wall prototypes. remember those? these were the finalists. one of them was presumably to become the great border wall that the president promised during the campaign. he first toured them in march, just days before he signed that funding bill into law. so, which one is being built? because the same funding bill that allocated 1.6 billion that the president brags about, also says that money can only be spent to build designs deployed the prior year. so, no money to build anything new. no new wall designs. not the concrete barrier that candidate trump promised, certainly not one of the prototypes. get this, he toured them in march. march 13th. and then ten days later he signed the bill that made it

illegal to build them. >> bottom line, as the president fights for billions of dollars to finish the concrete border wall that he promised during the campaign, remember, despite his claims he hasn't received a single dollar to start it. >> victor blackwell putting the facts first. thank you. a new study shows a daunting amount of abuse endured by women on twitter. ahead, we will speak with one of the study's authors about what they've learned. (chime) - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. one dock, two sharks. the shark ion robot cleaning system. around here, nobody evreally? it i didn't do it so when i heard they added ultra oxi to the cleaning power of tide, i knew it was just what we needed so now we can undo all the tough stains that nobody did dad? i didn't do it it's got to be tide

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parts of western java and sumatra. more than 740 others are injured. hundreds of homes and some hotels have been damaged as well. >> here is the thing, a volcano may have triggered this disaster by sitting off underwater landslides. one official says the disaster struck without warning. he said indonesia lacks the right equipment to warn of an underwater tsunami threat. a crowd source study has revealed the scale of abuse that women face on twitter, the so-called troll patrol project, was conducted by amnesty international and element a.i. it studied thousands of tweets sent last year to over 700 women in the uk and the u.s. >> and it found that at least 7% of the tweets were abusive or problematic. this amounted to more than 1 million abusive tweets across the year. women of color were 34% more likely to be mentioned in such

tweets than white women. and black women, in particular, were disproportionately targeted. they were 84% more likely to be mentioned in abusive tweets than white women. amnesty international went on to say that troll patrol means we have the data to back up what women have long been telling us that twitter is a place where racism, misogamy and homophobia are allowed to flourish basically unchecked. let's talk more about it amnesty international's milena marin joins us from london. thank you for joining us to talk more about it. it is highly disturbing and kind of cements what many have thought. and you've got data now to back it up. tell us about the key findings and if you can give us maybe just without getting too gross, some of the examples that you've

seen. >> thank you so much for having me, natalie. yes. the studies, as you mentioned, quite surprising shows us the true scale of abuse on twitter against women. yeah, some of the more -- the example of tweets are the problematic ones that are not qualifying as abusive but are still extremely hurtful and could be abusive if repeated to women multiple times are often calls for them to go back to where they belong to the kitchen to their country and they tend to be extremely sexist, misogynistic and racist. online abuse targets women's identity. the more intersecting identities women have, the more abusive tweets are and the more abuse they receive online. that's what we found. we found that women of color receive particularly more abuse than white women and black women are disproportionately targeted with online abuse. the more violent tweets include death threats, rape threats. there would be tweets such as i

know where you live. i'm going to wait for you in front of your house at 9:00 p.m. be ready to be raped. so this is incredible level of threats that should not exist on a platform like twitter. >> right. i remember a female reporter who first reported on some issues about donald trump during the campaign same thing, death threats, rape threats for doing her job. it it so vile and it is so sick and we just said it goes unchecked for the most part on twitter. have you revealed your findings to twitter? have they responded? >> yes, of course. we've been engaged with twitter for over three years now. we've been looking into this issue. what we found is that abuse is silencing for women. we frame it as a human rights issue. their rights to freely express themselves on platforms such as twitter and the violence and the constant barrage of negativity is silencing women. so we've been talking to them for a long time now. we're asking for them to be more transparent to release meaningful data about online abuse so that they can engage

meaningfully with a broad spectrum of stake holders such as amnesty international, tech companies and so on. so far they haven't released information we've been requiring, so that's why we had to do this study. we engage 6,500 digital volunteers. we worked with a tech company and it took us one year to do something that twitter could do very easily. release information, meaningful information that engages stake holders in this conversation. >> i know you're hoping to expect more from twitter. so we'll have to see how that evolves. what about reaction from women around the world once they've been learning about what you've been uncovering and how women, especially women of color, are being targeted by these hateful people? >> i think women found it unsurprising. so although we are reliving this incredible scale of abuse, women

didn't find it a new issue. obviously they've been talking about that for a very long time now and twitter has failed to listen to them, but what this study gives them the data to back up their claims. to back up the information that they have been putting out there for a long time. many women have called this study validating. they tend sometimes to normalize this abuse, to kind of think it's a part of the job, it's a part of their careers. if they want to engage audiences on twitter, they almost have to bear this online abuse. and what we're saying that's not true. they don't have to bear this abuse. twitter has to take action and has to improve the conversations and has to improve the platform and how women experience it. so, yeah, it's been incredible the response we had from women. this report has been widely shared on social media and on media. we're grateful for them for having this voice. >> we wish you well as you continue trying to do something about this. we appreciate your work and your time for talking with us melana.

thank you. >> thank you so much. update you on breaking news we're following out of indonesia. we now know 222 people are confirmed dead. the death toll has risen here in the hour. it will likely continue to rise. this the aftermath of that tsunami that hit parts of sumatra and java. it struck saturday night without any warning, believed to have been triggered by a volcanic eruption set off by underwater landslides. some 30 people are said to still be missing. >> the disaster hit beach areas places like south lampung. some of those areas just 55 miles or 90 kilometers from jakarta, the capital, more than 500 homes, that's the number we have currently, were severely damaged along with at least 9 hotels. this was a holiday when this tsunami hit there in tsunami and dozens of restaurants damaged as well. >> we will continue, of course, follow developments out of indonesia for you. ahead for you, military families in the united states are getting special gifts just

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>> reporter: surprised him at school with a big hug after five months apart. the soldier then marched down the hall to his other sister and brother. >> it made me feel warm inside. >> reporter: in this viral video a little boy presented with a large christmas gift. >> what do you think it is? >> i don't know. i don't even have an idea yet. >> i think you're going to like it. >> reporter: inside the box, a loved one in military fatigues. >> oh my gosh! >> oh! >> reporter: the person who posted this wrote -- my nephew got to unwrap the only christmas gift he asked for a few days early. >> what! >> reporter: a small army of family members kept this airman from even getting through the door in sacramento. >> what the heck. >> surprise! >> reporter: and finally, at a christmas choir concert in indianapolis, an unexpected interruption. >> led to a mother serving in

the navy embracing her daughter just in time for christmas. >> it's been a really long year. so many things have happened. i just missed her so much. and it just makes this christmas extra special for surprising me. >> reporter: for some of these service members another deployment could be next, but for now the current marching orders include being home for the holidays. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> ah, yes, more of those stories. >> yeah. wonderful to see. we do want to update you on the breaking news we're following out of indonesia. the death toll is rising, 222 people now confirmed dead. this after a tsunami hit parts of sumatra and java. we'll continue to bring you updates as we learn more here on cnn, of course, but those are the images of what's happening there. >> thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. >> i'm george howell. the news continues here on cnn right after the break. ♪ sometimes bipolar i disorder

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