Love, its what makes subaru subaru. Tonight on 306, 360, so much for lazy summer days. The first big moment of the election case, the judge warns donald trump to watch what he says and says to her he is just another defendant. And a Special Counsel appointed to investigate hunter biden and others. Who are those others . Plus, we are live in maui where the Death Toll Rose sharply. Some especially powerful new video is coming in which we will bring to you along with exclusive reporting on how hawaiian officials may have underestimated the risk of a tragedy like this and missed key opportunity to prevent it. Good evening everyone. John burrman here for anderson. And how the judge will be handling the most important trial this country has ever seen and the most singular Criminal Defendant ever. Someone who is running to reclaim the highest offense in the land. On top of that, he is donald trump. The venue outside a hearing on how he may have handled evidence that prosecutors will be turnin
Good morning, welcome to cnn this morning. Great to be with you. So glad youre here. Thank you for being here. Im amara walker. Thank you for waking up with us at 7 00 this morning. We do begin with some very tragic news and the devastation in hawaii. Officials now say at least 80 people are dead. That number is expected to rise. The search teams continue to comb through the destruction. Now hawaiis Attorney General is ordering a review of the states response. And today more republican president ial contenders get ready to make their case to voters at the Iowa State Fair. Well have the latest as the candidates kick their campaigns into high gear. Plus lays down the law to President Trump during a contentious hearing. Shes putting the former president on notice about any fu future inflammatory language or intimidation of witnesses. We begin with the grim news from hawaii, where those devastating wildfires have now claimed at least 80 lives. Officials warn the death toll will likely rise
them were quote inadequate. here is cnn s chief investigative correspondent pamela brown with more. reporter: cnn is learning hawaii officials underestimated the risk of wild fires in a recent report. even as other documents show officials knew they lacked resources to prevent and fight fires. we had advance notice coming into this summer, this week, the winds, the low humidity, and the fuels. any ignition would have sparked a pretty big fire. that is exactly what we saw. reporter: in a state report out just last year, ranking natural disasters, hawaii officials classified the wild fire risk to human life as low. in this color coded chart. the assessment, though, coming years after hurricane lane fanned the flames of fires in hawaii ravaging maui and owahu in 2018. the storm of conditions highlighted the threat and how unprepared officials in hawaii
makes the troubling point that despite the increasing number of wildfires, fire prevention was given, quote, short shift in the department of fire and safety. the plan also included, quote, nothing about what can and should be done to prevent fires, which is called a significant oversight. given how catastrophic this event was, i think there will be a lot of pressure on the state and other organizations to improve their fire prevention actions that they are taking at the statewide level. reporter: the fires come as maui has faced increasing drought conditions in recent years contributing to warnings like this in a webinar from the hawaii wildfire management organization. hawaii has a big wildfire problem. we are on par with the most fire-prone states in the western u.s. the impacts of fire are broad and long lasting. reporter: now residents are
response leading up to the fires. no warning sirens were activated, which critics say cost untold lives. that s not the only tconcern about the wildfire preparedness. cnn s pam brown has more. even as other documents show officials knew they lack ed resources to prevent and fight fires. we had advanced notice coming into the summer. the winds, low humidity, any ignition would have sparked a big fire, and that s exactly what we saw. reporter: in a state report ranking national disasters, officials classified the wildfire risk to human life as low in this color-coded chart. the assessment coming years after hurricane lane fanned the flames of fires in hawaii ravaging maui in 2018. that perfect storm of conditions highlighted the threat and how