Live at the Federal Courthouse in fort pierce, florida, former President Donald Trump and his lawyers are fighting to get his documents classified documents case tossed out. And if trump speaks when he leaves, of course well bring you that live. On the right of your screen, a Georgia Courthouse at any moment we could get the judges decision on fani willis. Will she be disqualified . She is the infamous District Attorney in trumps Georgia Election case. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. We begin in florida. The judge there considering two motions to dismiss, one on what trumps team says is special counsel jack smiths vagus of the Espionage Act and the other how he used the president ial record acts. Smith claims the motions are trump thinking he is above the law. The hearing comes after special counsel robert hur defended bringing 0 charges against President Biden live the this week. Biden, of course, illegally retained classified documents. Former federal prosecutor
We only go as fast as we can go. More than 2000 billings have been completely destroyed. Nearly all those destroyed buildings residential. And now about 4500 people are in need of shelter bred survivors sharing the moment he and his family rushed for safety. We and our five kids all got in the ocean. We found a floating barge we hung onto. We were out there floating in the ocean we stuck together, we held on so we are not going to die. Rachel deadliest wildfire in the United States over the past 100 years up in the states Attorney General has opened a probe into the Wildfire Response and critical decisions have happened before, during and after that fire. Will can you imagine can you just imagine . He said five kids and how my senate will walk past that seawall he dove over. In that water hanging onto your kids the sky is black, flames bearing down on you. That is a view from the water there. And then of course the sea and youre just fighting to keep everyone together alive. Joey we co
Oh, my god oh my god. Jesse the Hawaiian Island of maui has burned beyond recognition, devastating wildfires roaring across the islands and residents are comparing it to the apocalypse. The death toll is expected to increase. Significantly. Dozens more are missing as the island resembles a war zone. Oh, my gosh, look at the harbor. Oh, my gosh this looks like baghdad or something. Jesse the historic vacation town is almost unrecognizable. Thousands evacuated behind charcoaled cars and homes. Joe biden is asking for aid from fema. It is affecting everyone from surfers, workers, to retirees. Even Oprah Winfrey owns a home there. We have Trace Gallagher with the latest. Thats right, we should begin by saying the damage is widespread, the images as you saw there were astonishing. But right now, that is the second biggest concern because there are still hundreds of people missing at this time, families and neighbors using google documents to try to locate loved ones. Although we should note
As the hunter biden special counsel, but weiss has gone weak on the case already, lawmakers say, in order to protect joe biden. And now what could counteract all of that . Congressman greg steube today files inpeachment charges to launch a probe and inquiry there, and trump hammers special counsel jack smith for scheduling the trial on 2020 before the Iowa Caucuses, calling it election interference. This backlash too, reports that special counsel smith stopped twitter are from telling trump that smith was secretly probing trumps twitter account, and twitter didnt like it either. Also biden undercuts bidenomics, admits the Inflation Reduction Act wont cut inflation at all. Im liz mac donald, the evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth okay, lets go right at it from house judiciary and house oversight, congressman russell fry and former federal president andrew ya cow key. Congressman fry, what is the fighting going on right now in your committees . Is weiss being brought in to stop the
Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily