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president biden visits storm-damaged parts of florida. that state's governor was not by the president's side. bearing down on taiwan, a powerful typhoon could be the first to make landfall there in four years. and war isn't keeping these kids from going back to school. students in ukraine face another year of books and bomb shelters. we begin this hour with extreme weather and those enduring the effects of what is more and more becoming inescapable events. in the wake of hurricane idalia, president biden visited florida saturday viewing damage by air and on the ground and met with those impacted by the storm. at the same time, a massive typhoon, equivalent of the category 3 hurricane, is barreling toward taiwan at this

hour. it's set to be the first typhoon to make landfall there in four years. at the same time in the state of nevada, extreme weather has stranded participants at the popular annual event called the burning man festival. left it looking like a mud-covered dystopian nightmare. we begin with the u.s. president's visit to florida recently hammered by hurricane idalia. governor ron desantis did not join mr. biden's tour but another key florida republican did. isabel rosales reports from florida. >> reporter: president biden giving remarks out of live oak, florida, a community just under 7,000 people. an area hard hit by this hurricane, swanny county. he was surrounded by first lady jill biden and also the fema administrator, deann cristobal. we heard from the president giving remarks, showing his commitment to supporting the

people in florida, those in need. he said whatever they need, the federal government will supply. he also spoke about the federal resources that have been helping out residents. those who have lost or have had damage to their homes or businesses. also talking about the national guard on the ground, helping folks out with millions of meals. and federal seventh team search teams that were on the ground after the storm hit. he surveyed the aftermath of this most powerful hurricane to hit the big bend area of florida in over 100 years. he saw that from an aerial tour. he saw thousands of homes that were damaged here in the big bend area. he also did a tour on the ground. he spoke with survivors and also met personnel and first responders who have been helping out with that recovery process, including in areas like this. like this point of distribution

where we see the florida state guard, a newly activated force by governor ron desantis, we're seeing them loading up these cars of people who need a little bit of help right now with food, with water, with ice, with tarps to help out in that recovery process. and the president also thanking republican senator rick scott for keeping his office informed as to what happened. here's what else the president had to say. >> these crises are affecting more than -- more and more americans. and every american rightly expects fema to show up when they are needed. to help in a disaster. so i'm calling on the united states congress, democrats and republicans, to ensure the funding is there to deal with the immediate crises, as well as our long-term commitments to the safety and security of the american people. >> reporter: the one person we didn't see next to the president is florida governor ron

desantis. there was a misstep here between the two potential rivals for the 2024 presidential race with a spokesperson to desantis saying there were no plans in place for the governor to join the president, a contradiction to earlier comments we heard from biden on friday. also, the spokesperson for desantis saying in these rural communities and so soon after impact, the security preparations alone that would go into setting up such a meeting would shut down ongoing recovery efforts. but fema administrator chris will, speaking to cnn, said there is, quote, tremendous coordination that happened in multiple conversations between the white house and desantis' office and they had mutually agreed on a place with minimal impacts to operations. as we saw no governor ron desantis next to the president. isabel rosales in live oak, florida, cnn. a powerful storm is bearing down on taiwan at this hour, and it will become the first typhoon

to make landfall there in four years. according to the joint typhoon warning did there, hiqui is lashing the island with sustained winds of 120-mile-per-hour, equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. it's also dumping heavy rain on the east coast, which could trigger flash floods and landslides. authorities have canceled flights, evacuated residents, mobilized troops, suspended work and school in vulnerable areas. at least two injured so far and 9,300 households have already lost power. we want to get the latest from journalist andy lee who joins us now live in taipei. andy, still looking relatively okay where you are right now. what kind of preparations have they made, given the grave threat this storm poses? >> reporter: yes, paula, from where i stand right now, the northern part of taiwan, taipei, we're feeling wind and rain. not as heavy as eastern taiwan where the storm is impacting taiwan right now.

i must say the typhoon hikui has picked up speed in the last hour. now its eye is making landfall as we speak right now in the eastern part of the island. the authorities in taiwan are asking people to stay away from mountainsides and beachsides. and they are evacuating people from the low-lying areas in case of flash floods and from mountain villages in case of landslides or mudslides. as far as transportation is concerned, the airports are closed, and therefore 226 domestic flights are canceled. 41 international flights are canceled. if our cnn viewers are going to asia, transiting in taipei or destination taipei, check with your travel agency. this area the airport is definitely affected and power is down in areas. >> as we were noting the effects of the storm, and the region has been dealing with a lot of storms. what do we know about injuries

and damage related to typhoon seola that hit hong kong and is continuing to hit parts of the region? >> typhoon seola veered off the southern tip of taiwan and impacted hong kong. the information i have now is that 86 people in hong kong are injured due to typhoon saela, down to a tropical storm right now. 1,500 fallen tree incidents were reported with 21 reports of floods and two reports of landslides within the vicinity of hong kong. this is actually the strongest typhoon ever to hit typhoon since the year 1962. as we know, typhoon seola is down to a tropical storm. before it was down to a tropical storm, it made landfall twice. a very eerie path. it is all due to this typhoon season and the existence of three typhoons at the same time in the pacific. typhoon hikui in taiwan, typhoon

seala, and typhoon kiriji still in the pacific. three typhoons affecting each other. now two remaining, and up north, more close to japan, typhoon kiwaji. we'll have to see how it goes. >> take care there as you continue to watch the effects of that typhoon there. >> thank you. >> appreciate your update from taiwan. conditions at the burning man festival in nevada have turned deadly. we don't have any details about the circumstances or the cause of death, but authorities say one person has died during the latest round of rainfall at that event. tens of thousands of people now stranded at the burning man festival are being told to conserve food and water. that's after the annual event in the nevada desert turned into a quagmire that can be seen from space. you see the there. ankle-deep mud is the result of

two to three months' worth of rain falling in just one day. more than 70,000 people normally attend the free-specialisted counterculture event. organizers are telling those who haven't arrived yet to turn around and go home. the gate to black rock city is closed, and there is no word on when it may reopen. joining me, andrew hyde. he is right now in black rock city, nevada. and wow, what a few hours it has been. we saw the alerts. it said shelter in place. conserve food and water. what happened? what is going on now? and how is everyone doing? >> yeah, we're out here in beautiful black rock desert in nevada. we're in a lakebed. it's dry in the summer so it's dusty and flat. but last night, it rained. it rained quite a bit for the desert. and created a very mucky, muddy,

terrible environment where you could barely walk. vehicles made it impassable. the whole festival and the 70,000 people here have to stay put. >> 70,000 people told to conserve food and water. and i just saw some pictures. we saw your pictures of that mud. so what's next here? how long were you guys supposed to stay? do you feel like you're safe there? >> oh, yeah, it's a very interesting feeling. in many ways, you really can't -- i mean, when it was really wet, you couldn't do anything, you just lived. this was no way to walk miles to get out of it. so that's a bit concerning. it's a survival event. you come out here to be in a harsh climate and you prepare for that. in many ways, everybody here made friends with neighbors, it's a community event, an event about art. just kind of went back to the roots. i think almost everybody enjoyed having it be extremely harsh. we don't know what's going to happen tonight. that's the big concern.

we might have as much rain tonight. coupled with last night's, then we have a pretty big story, a pretty hard time getting out of the city collectively. those 70,000 people have to go out on the same road. >> now i'm concerned again. what have they told you? i have seen on social media some people getting out. how do they expect to get you guys out of there at this point? is there a plan? >> yeah, definitely. burning man organization has plans and backup plans and backup plans for those plans. they're generally really good about communicating that to the general public through radio stations they set up here and a staff that's connected via radios and a ranger network. there's quite a lot of technology here even though there's not much. so if it rains again tonight, it's going to be a few days before people get out. if it doesn't rain, we're going to have our usual burning of the man, probably tomorrow night. supposed to be right now. the man was supposed to burn in an hour. right now, no burns tonight because there's no vehicle traffic and there's -- we're still pretty much sheltering in

place. although i think you can hear a lot of music has started back up, a lot of the city has returned back to life. >> glad to hear everyone is definitely keeping calm. you mentioned the burning man. can you -- you're experienced at this. explain to people what you're doing for the uninitiated. >> yeah, it's an odd event. i think it started by a bunch of pranksters and it grew out of san francisco and came to be this thing that is kind of like asking somebody, what is the grateful dead? you have to kind of see it to really understand what the community is about. but we come as a collective to this really barren wasteland. one of the harshest places in the world. and we create community and art together. so we have things like the man that burns on saturday night. generally tonight. that is a collection of 70,000 people and a lot of music and all these art cars and things people have created and sound, sound, sound. then sunday night is generally the -- where we burn the temple

or the space that's created to kind of process and grieve and talk about the things that we lost this last year. so usually we have this big night saturday night, then sunday night we have this solemn night. we don't know if we're going to do both tomorrow night, if we're going to burn anything. sometimes with the wet, we might not burn anything. just have to say, screw it, new plan. weather kind of makes it a survival event. come and participate in a great music event. >> i want to be clear. in terms of medical attention if anyone needed it, i mean, you guys say it's well organized. are you clear that if someone did need medical attention, they could get it? there's no panic there or anything? >> oh, no panic. there's definitely medical on-site. there's ways to get you out of here. the only vehicles allowed on the roads right now are ambulances. there's a lot of people with very -- they have vehicles meant for this. no panic. i think the concern is if we

have another rain, people really need to get out. people need to go back to their jobs or back to their responsibilities back home. if they're delayed another four days, two days, whatever it ends up being, that's pretty concerning. but right now, everybody's kind of planning on being here through monday. at least. we'll see. we'll see how it goes from there. >> andrew, hate to tell you, speaking from experience, being late for work is the least of my worries right now. i am hoping all the 70,000 continue to stay safe. we'll continue to check in with everyone there. obviously hope that the forecast improves. andrew hyde, we'll continue to check in, thanks so much. >> hey, thanks so much, enjoy it out there. everybody should come out to this lovely event one time in their life. bill richardson, the diplomat who devoted himself to freeing wrongfully detained americans, has died. richardson served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations during the clinton

administration and was elected governor of new mexico for two terms. after a failed run for president, he started the richardson center for global engagement. that organization offered aid to families of american hostages and detainees abroad. richardson personally negotiated the release of many americans from who is style nations from iraq to north korea, most recently traveling to russia working to free britney greener and paul whelan. richardson died in his sleep at his summer home. joining me, david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst, white house and national security correspondent for "the new york times." such sad news to digest for so many. this man's resume was long, and yet it really doesn't begin to reflect, i think, the profound depth of his career and, more importantly, the character of the man. how and why was bill richardson such a singular politician and such a diplomat?

>> i think what was remarkable about bill richardson is two things. first, he held a variety, a remarkable variety of positions in government. of course, he was governor of new mexico. he was ambassador to the united nations. he was energy secretary. he was briefly and somewhat disastrously a candidate for president of the united states and dropped out. but he's really remembered for something that he did outside of all of those appointments, and that was his brilliance at hostage negotiating. and he did it with this real sense of humor, of a willingness to go anywhere and do anything. journalists loved him, not only for his storytelling, but because one group of people he got released from a lot of awful

situations around the world were arrested journalists. >> he definitely hewed to that concept that these people have been unjustly held and he worked around the globe tirelessly to try and get them released up until, from what we understand, the weeks before his death. former president bill clinton and secretary hillary clinton said in a statement that "he was a masterful and persistent negotiator who helped make our world more secure." what do you think it was, david about his approach to geopolitics and crisis that made him such an honest broker? one that could go to russia and talk to them about getting people released? >> one thing was merely his reputation for doing it. so presidents called on him to do so. the second was, he was clearly

somebody willing to go out and find a way to make a deal. and it's interesting you mentioned president clinton. because i think one of my favorite bill richardson stories, i think one of many people's favorite bill richardson stories, had to do with the time he went to the sudan during the clinton presidency. and helped negotiate the release of some americans. initially there had been a big monetary ransom, and he ended up bringing this down to some rice, some jeeps, a few other things. he came back, he described everybody, including to president clinton, how he had been surrounded during these negotiations by teenaged boys who had rifles, who were standing around barefoot, he was worried about whether or not they would get trigger happy. how there was a goat being roasted by the side as he was

conducting the negotiations. clinton looked at him and said, "did you eat the goat?" and he said, "well, yes, mr. president, i ate the goat." clint said, "great, how'd you like to be ambassador to the united nations?" so these are not the usual qualifications one would think that you would have for ambassador to the united nations. yet that was actually a job he enjoyed more than almost any of the others. >> yeah, and certainly when you talk about people taken too soon, his own memoir, the banner was "between worlds." he proved he could find common ground. something so many countries, including the united states, could use a lot more of. why do you think he was respected also in the united states? >> well, i think for that. and it was interesting. he was not native to new mexico. but moved there thinking with his hispanic background, he might actually be a more viable political candidate there.

remember, he had grown up on the east coast. he went to a private school in concord, massachusetts. graduated from the tufts school of law and diplomacy. and then moved to new mexico. and makes his way up to becoming governor with sort of overwhelming re-election numbers. what is interesting is, it didn't really translate when he was running for president. and it somehow -- he wasn't able to turn that into a national political moment, which i found interesting and somewhat curious, because i thought he probably would have a very good chance of doing that. he was a great storyteller. frequently about himself. but he was really willing to go and do anything. and i think people sense that. that's why he's the first one

you called if you needed to send somebody into north korea. >> yes, such an extraordinary life, and of course we send our condolences to his entire family. david sanger, thanks so much, really appreciate it. more than 100 people, including nearly 50 police officers, are hurt in a clash in tel aviv. we'll take you live to israel to explain how a controversial foreign government's holiday celebration turned into a violent confrontation. hi, i'm jason. i've lost 228 pounds on golo.

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cnn's hadas gold has been following this from jerusalem. and hadas, good to have you on this story. israeli authorities seem to have been caught off guard as those protesters clashed. what's behind this turmoil? >> reporter: yeah, i don't think police were expecting the ferocity of these protesters. interesting because we're sort of used to seeing protests and sort of violent clashes taking place in this region. this story actually has very little to do with israel or the palestinian territories or the israeli government. it has to do with eritrea. there are thousands of eritrean immigrants in israel. many of them are asylum seekers. and what happened, many of the asylum seekers say they are fearful of the regime in eritrea. they say it's run for a dictator, and eritrea ranks low when it comes to human rights rankings and indexes. what happened saturday was the eritrean government was sponsoring a celebration of its independence day at its embassy

in tel aviv. anti-government community members had told the israeli police, called on the israeli government to cancel the event, saying it could lead to violence because they knew the protesters were going to try to break up the celebration, and that's what happened. we saw hundreds of eritreans, proand anti-government, clashing in the streets of southern tel aviv. extensive amounts of property damage. we know of at least 100 people who were injured, including dozens of police officers. as of this morning, this is according to israeli media, there are at least 15 people who remained hospitalized in serious condition, including two police officers. now, there was extensive property damage. when i was actually in tel aviv yesterday, i could see helicopters hovering watching as this unfolded. it does appear the israeli police were potentially not expecting such a violent outcome as to what happened. prime minister benjamin netanyahu yesterday announcing that he was arranging for, today, to have a special

ministerial meeting to look at the options, potentially even he said deporting some of these migrants who he said were documented, participating in the violence yesterday. remember, a lot of these are asylum seekers. eritreans asylum seekers seeking to stay in israel for protection. benjamin netanyahu saying because of the violence yesterday, he is going to look into the options potentially of deporting them. >> many have been in israel for many, many years, seeking that right to asylum. hadas gold, appreciate you bringing us up to date. ukraine's leaders say the counteroffensive against russia is gradually regaining territory, but russian defense is slowing that advance. a live update from london ahead. ukrainian children are beginning a new school year. the threat of russian attacks is never far away.

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a warm welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. you are watch watching "cnn newsroom." ukraine says it troops are continuing their slow advance in the south against russian forces now dug in along those front lines. russian-backed officials in the donetsk region was one was killed and nine wounded by ukrainian shelling of those villages. ukraine's leaders insist the 3-month-old counteroffensive is making progress even if it's not as quickly as some were expecting. even in places where russian forces have withdrawn, they reportedly leave behind land mines and that, of course, slows the ukrainian advance. cnn's katie bublaise is

monitoring from london. you've been listening to the back and forth for weeks, whether it's between u.s. officials or others and the ukrainian government saying the counteroffensive isn't getting far enough, fast enough. and yet it seems that now the ukrainian government and its president are pushing back? >> reporter: absolutely, paula. there's been a lot of back and forth and comments, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, on how to counteroffensive is progressing in its third month, as you mentioned. really, we're sensing some frustration, perhaps, some defensiveness from the ukrainian leadership as to all of these comments on how their counteroffensive is going. i think a tweet from the ukrainian president zelenskyy yesterday really sums up this frust frustration. he said on twitter, ukrainian forces are moving forward despite everything and no matter what anyone says, we are advancing and this is the most important thing. we are on the move. and i think this really speaks to the determination, the

confidence that the ukrainians have, but also that sense of frustration of having everyone else's input on how this counteroffensive is going. and that confidence may come from the success they have started to have in the recent weeks. we've seen them recapture a small village in the zaporizhzhia region, really only six streets wide, but it is significant because it was heavily fortified, heavily defended by the russians. but the ukrainians recapture the it, and they have held on to it, and they've continued progressing south and east along that southern front line towards what's next, tokmak, eventually the sea. the goal to break through russia's land bridge between the occupied crimea in the south and the ear areas such as donetsk that russia controls as well. that is the ukrainian goal here. but it's worth bearing in mind that while ukraine have put in more troops on the southern front line, on this counteroffensive, and that strategy seems to be working, they seem to have had some

progress -- this is a very long front line. and there are other areas as well that need to be defended and are getting a lot of attacks from the russians as well. just at the beginning of this week we saw a large number of civilians being evacuated from areas further up on the front lines. so while this offensive is continuing, there's clearly a long way to go. >> absolutely. the clock ticking there as we enter the fall and colder weather approaches. katie poklaise in london, thanks so much. the threat of missiles and bombs hasn't stopped ukrainian children from returning to school. the danger is real. authorities and parents have taken dramatic steps to make students as safe as they possibly can be at school. >> reporter: back to school in kyiv. there are the usual jitters before any new beginning. but with mom leading the way and a backpack full of supplies,

8-year-old alexei says he's happy to return to class. ♪ his mother, maria, says she too is excited despite the dangers from the ongoing war with russia. since russia's invasion of ukraine in 2022, missile strikes and artillery attacks on residential areas have become a part of daily life in ukraine. but ukraine says 84% of its schools now have operation albom shelters. alexi's is one of them. >> translator: my child has been studying online for a year, and i realized it was very difficult for him. he felt lonely. he could communicate with other children screen to screen, but it's different. there's a proper bomb shelter in our school. i think he will be safe there. >> reporter: being safe is something that weighs heavily on parents in ukraine.

unicef says more than 1,300 schools have now been destroyed across the country, and because of frequent attacks, only one-third of school-aged children attend class full-time and in person. that's something that was just too dangerous for many students in kharkiv in eastern ukraine. the russian border not far away. recently, some children did go back to classrooms built in underground metro stations that can accommodate about 1,000 students. many parents say it's just in time, as they're worried children are forgetting some of the basics. >> translator: my daughter used to go to kindergarten before the war. then she attended classes via zoom for a long period of time. we decided to attend classes in the underground because we want our child to know what the school is, what a desk is. >> reporter: in kyiv, alexi shows his mother a drawing he made of a different type of

basic necessity. it shows a medical kit, thermal blankets, clothes, torch, candies. all things packed in an emergency backpack used by alexi and his mother when he took shelter during an air raid. tough life lessons all around for ukraine's children, whether it's just getting to school or learning how to live in a time of war. >> joining us live from kyiv is anna novosad, cofounder of the education foundation s.a.v.e.d., a former minister of education and science. i'm really happy to have you here to talk about the challenges. it is heartbreaking to look at that video and think all that these students are facing, and of course you can see the anxiety on the parents' faces. what is the biggest challenge ahead, do you think this year? because i can see so many are determined to make sure their

kids go back to school. >> hello, paula. greetings from kyiv. it's been -- it's a fourth academic year where ukrainian kids cannot go normally to school. first covid, then the second september of war of russia against us. russia has destroyed every tenth school in our country, more than 1,500 schools in ukraine destroyed. that's not only in the east or south that are closer to the front lines, but basically all over the country. because the missiles, unfortunately, reach the territory from east to west. so outside of the biggest challenge, access to education, according to official data this year, we'll have around 1 million schoolchildren who will only attend schools online. so it's a fourth year of online learning, which means basically no learning at all. and that's so because they have no schools or it's too dangerous

to attend them or they do not have bomb shelters even if they have schools. there are a number of reasons why that happens. the second concern is, of course, the learning loss. the four years of this situation, no access to better education, will not go without consequences. and i see a -- i travel a lot through the liberated areas, trying to see how we can help. i see kids of primary school age who cannot talk, who cannot speak with adults, who cannot communicate, who cannot count, who cannot read because they haven't been to school for quite a long time. >> so much learning loss there. and obviously parents must be concerned about their early childhood development. you were saying that you travel around the country. it's vastly different, right? what is the situation in the west compared to those families dealing with the challenges so close to the front line?

>> exactly. that's one of the things to understand about the current situation in ukraine. that it's a huge country, and the situation in different regions is very different, including with access to education. it is a bit calmer in the west and the central ukraine. it's i would say only missiles that reach those territories, not artillery, for instance. however, eastern territories, north, south, they are shelled frequently, including from artillery that is being fired by the occupied territories. there is much more danger. however, they are still kids and families and those who return to liberated towns. in territories like that, it is crucial to help them with temporary solution like temporary schools in repurposed buildings that have remained or modular schools that could be assembled quickly. or for instance, what we do at foundation, we do basically

underground schools during the bomb shelters, turning them into complete learning centers where kids can not onlysi sit during the air raid sirens and get suffocated because there is no air, but have access to normal air, where it's safe, connection to internet, good furniture, learning materials, and teachers working with them. so this is hour reality, and unfortunately it will remain with us for a very long time. for us it's crucial to be creative with regard to how we return to access to education given the conditions. >> i don't have a lot of time left. parents around the world can relate to this online learning which has been a problem for so many. we can in no way, shape or form relate to the fear and the anxiety that parents have now. what is your fear given what you've seen from so many students right now that are falling behind? >> well, my fear is that the situation will remain like that. and my fear is that the world will be normalized with this war

and its consequences and there won't be enough support to restore access to learning and restore access to basic services, which education is also. so i'm just worried that this approximately 1 million kids who are living around those territories that are damaged the most will remain neglected just because there are not enough resources to help them. and this is why we are at the foundation trying to target those. >> we can certainly appreciate the adversity that everyone faces there. anna novosad, thanks so much, really appreciate it. there's much more to come on "cnn newsroom," including the latest on pope francis' trip to mongolia and what he will do to minister to the nation's tiny catholic community.

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pope francis visits mongolia. you're looking at live pictures there. earlier the pontiff met with secular and religious leaders, was greeted by a small but enthusiastic crowd. he praised mongolia's tradition of religious harmony. mongolia, which is sandwiched between russia and china, has a relatively small number of catholics, only about 1,500 in a population of 3.5 million. cnn's senior vat ran analyst john allen has more now on the pope's visit to mongolia. >> reporter: pope francis today continues a remarkable four-day trip to mongolia. the first-ever visit by a pontiff to this sparsely populated nation of around 3 million in which the entire catholic community numbers fewer than 1,500 people. in that sense, the trip is emblematic of this pope's passion for the peripheries. his drive to reach out to often

neglected and forgotten about corners of the globe. at the same time, mongolia is also nestled against two superpower neighbors, china and russia, and the trip therefore affords the pope a platform to address those two nations. we heard him on saturday praying aloud that the clouds of war will be dispelled, a clear if indirect reference to the russian war in ukraine. he continued that kind of subtle messaging on sunday in an interfaith meeting with buddhists, monks, shamans, and christian clergy. the pope insisted the catholic church is no threat to any government or secular institution, that a reference to the troubled history the church has sometimes had in both china and russia. also, the pope said that the catholic church wants to contribute to social harmony. that's a particularly important concept in chinese discourse. so the effort to smooth things over and to patch up relations

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irelton john, sir paul mccartney, and many giants of the music industry have been sending their respects. mccartney called buffett one of the kindest and generous people. we get more from cnn's polo sandoval. >> reporter: jimmy buffett was 76 years old. his representatives saying he died peacefully surrounded by family, friends, music, even his dogs, saying that buffet lived his life like a song to the very last breath. those representatives did not elaborate on a potential cause of death. what has been clear this weekend is the fans have been reacting. many of them with heartbreak here as they have followed the singer's career. it goes beyond just that famous "margaritaville" song that the world has come to know, in many cases love here. he really used that as a foundation beyond just his dozens of albums and certainly his grammy nods as he eventually blossomed into a billion-dollar

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