Resident about what life on the island has become. Donald trumps legal troubles in the State Of Georgia could be coming to a head. Well tell you the message from the prosecutor to certain witnesses. And how the white house is responding after a special counsel is appointed to look into president bidens son, hunter, and why some republicans say theyre still not satisfied with the investigation. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. We begin in hawaii where days after wildfires decimated maui, the death toll is rising. Authorities have confirmed 89 deaths making the fires the deadliest in the United States in more than a century and that number is expected to climb even more in the coming days as crews sift through the devastation caused by the fires. Governor josh green says the area has suffered some 6 billion in losses with some 2200 structures damaged or destroyed, vast majority of them residential. This is the largest Natural Disaster weve ever expe
Suspect in a string of car thefts. They had a witness as describing the suspect as wearing neon shorts and a white shirt. Thats when they saw the boy deshawn and detained him since he was wearing similar clothing and was in the same Apartment Complex as where witnesses saw that Suspect Running off to. The chief here has issued an apology. Heres part of the statement he put out, saying, as the chief of police, i want to apologize this incident had such an effect on this young man and his family. Im asking the community to consider all of the facts of the situation before making a judgment. The relationship with our community has been and will continue to be a top priority for the Lansing Police department. Meanwhile, the Bernard Family Have retains an attorney. The attorney claims the boy was wearing a gray shirt, not a white shirt and that the police should have also seen there was a noticeable Age Difference between the boy, 12 years old, and their suspect. They are considering legal
This morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. Officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. But they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. The search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and Officials Say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of t
white house with more on this, hi, lucas. lucas: it adds trillions to the national debt with $31 trillion and interest payments on the debt next year could one day approach the size of the defense budget. let that sink in. now here is house speaker kevin mccarthy adding more c conte. we ve only paid $9 trillion in interest. so he s going took us 80 some years to happen in less than ten years. lucas: let s take a look at biden tax proposals which would add more to the national debt. 25% minimum tax on people with 10 100 million plus dollars. 39.6 capital gains tax for people making over 400 grand. 28% corporate income tax, 4% stock buyback tax and 3. 8% surtax on investment income. late yesterday reports circulated that the white house will approve drilling in alaska. no final decisions have been made and anyone who says otherwise is wrong. now 3 years ago as presidential candidate as president he said he would never approve any drilling projects. no more subsidies f
3 to 500 people we re looking for room for, places for. we can t open up sites. you ll see this is the layout here. reporter: he offered cnn a rare look inside one of the city s nearly 200 sites being used to house about 60,000 migrants and counting. this particular site serves as a so-called respite center originally designed to meet short term and basic housing needs. not anymore warns the commissioner. we modeled this after the emergency storm shelters we ve set up for coastal storms. those are designed just to house people for generally 48 to 72 hours. we have folks staying in these facilities for much longer, upwards of a month, month and a half. reporter: he admits the facility is not ideal for long term housing but with options running out, residents are making due. some skip the laundromat and then there s a make shift barber shop. none of this is sustainable according to iscol and other