Good evening, and welcome, everyone. The demand for accountability is growing louder on the Hawaiian Island of maui tonight amid the search for something to explain how so many, how so much could be taken so quickly. No cause of the fire has been determined, but the local power company, Hawaiian Electric, is coming under increased scrutiny tonight over how it responded as live power lines toppled under 80mileperhour winds spewing showers of sparks, potential sources for ignition of the incredibly fastmoving fires. The utility acknowledging shutting off power as conditions worsened was not a simple solution, but no search for answers in all of this is more urgent than accounting for the missing. Over 100 have been found dead, and there is still so much ground to be searched. Tom llamas once again leads our coverage from maui. Reporter tonight, search teams in lahaina continue their heartbreaking work already more than 100 bodies found, and theyre still looking for the lost what was once
Wildfires. Hawaiian residents set their sights on the states Biggest Energy provider as Recovery Efforts continue in the deadliest whievildfire in moder American History what the trials and legal tribulations could mean for former President Trumps 2024 campaign the u. S. Soldier tee detaini north korea allege lid dly breag his silence for the first time why alec baldwin could face charges once again in the Fatal Shooting on set of the movie and why work from home when you can make the office your Home Developers find a blueprint to fill some empty buildings. Its wednesday, august 16th, early today starts right now good morning, im Jessica Layton and im frances rivera. We begin in hawaii where devastating confirmations are reaching desperate families. Officials have begun identifying the lost the death toll has climbed to 106. And the governor warned that teams could find as many as 20 bo bodies a day and while locals deal with this grief, some tell tom llamas that outsiders are now try
To achieve the American Dream today than it was a couple years ago . Of course not. Because the Inflation Reduction Act was never supposed to reduce inflation. It was a trojan horse for the Climate Change crowd. The only people that helped our biden ands donors who work in green energy. You see, it was all a lie. What do you do when you get caught in a lie . You live more. No one making less than 400,000 a year will pay a single penny more in federal taxes. Its a commitment i kept so far and as long as i am president i will keep it. Wrong. Workingclass families had their tax burden jacked up. Who do you think is paying for all the windmills . You. And biden proudly says he cut our National Debt. We actually cut the federal debt, the deficit, by 1. 7 trillion. You hear me . The first two years we cut the deficit 1. 7 trillion. Wrong again. Our National Debt went up almost 4 trillion and biden took office. At least your energy bill went down, right . This law is helping families save tho
Three averages but down 0. 4 and the nasdaq, that tech trade that is the laggard, down about 1 at this point and, of course, the russell has been struggling this week. We want to watch that one as well. When it comes to sectors, again, technology is the biggest laggard down more than 1. 3 , and energy is leading the way but up just 0. 3 . Its been an interesting week. Steve weiss, i will start with you, and i know mike and sara were ending the show talking about nvidia. Its up today. However, it is down about 10 from those meteoric highs but up about 80 year to date. What do you think . Have we seen the best of nvidia for a while . I dont know. Thats a great question. In the meeting coming up, who knows what theyll say at the meeting. Sure. Still the only game in town really. But its not really an nvidia issue. We havent seen the others down as much like meta or microsoft. Theyre barely off their highs. They look like theyre down move because of the dollar moves. On a percentage move,
Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that