Disaster in state history. Confirmed deaths at 55. Were told that number will likely grow. None of the fires right now is fully contained. Not one. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Those fires have left a wasteland of obliterated neighborhoods and landmarks and think about the economy there with the businesses knocked down. They dont know when they can get in there and when tourism will be an option again. The historic city of lahaina, once hawaiis royal capital, is charred ruins now. Survivors stunned at just how fast Hurricane Doras winds helped the flames to spread. People are found in houses in a huddle. There was nowhere to go. Beyond any other tropical storms, 100 times, covid, everything for our small town. People lost everything, homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. There are still people missing. I have never seen something ravaged so fast. Harris take a look at the video. Look at the sheer scale of damage. Rescue crews now combing through the rubble
Lawyers for donald trump approaching a 5 00 p. M. Deadline as prosecutors push to limit what the former president can say about the federal case against him. And after years of dodging the question, Governor Ron Desantis bluntly said, of course trump lost the 2020 election, as the former president s rival tried to reset his campaign. Plus pink is in the new green. Barbie and taylor twist and beyonce proving to be big business for the u. S. Economy. Welcome to the lead. Im Bianna Golodryga in for jake tapper. We start today with our Law And Justice lead. Donald trump is on the clock. His lawyers have just minutes to let a judge know what they think about a request that would block trump from sharing some of the evidence in the january 6 case. Prosecutors say if trump were to start publicly talking about or posting about evidence in the case, it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses and they point to this post trump shared on truth social on friday. Where he wrote, quote, if you go a
More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in
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Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe