President smith obtained a Search Warrant for evidence of criminal offenses. Galactic launches commercial spaceflight. Latest of space tourism. It will cost a cool 450,000 per rider. And michael has thrown the 14th no hitter in Philadelphia Phillies history. The bell never rang so beautifulfully. What a scene. Ashley we begin with a fox weather wildfire alert. At least 36 people are confirmed dead and 20 are injured as unprecedented wildfires devastate the Hawaiian Island of maui. Hurricane force winds spreading the fire across the island, destroying homes, business and forcing some people to jump into the ocean to avoid the raging flames. Officials sharing an update just a few hours ago. If anybody is still out here, the fire is on front street, its time to go. If anybody is still here the fire is on front street and its time go if anybody is still here the fire is on front street and its time to go. Former hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard joined Fox Friends First earlier. That comm
airport, 10 to 12 miles per hour. as we go through the day today, winds are going to kick up again to 20 to 30 miles per hour. certainly not the 50, 60, 80 mile-per-hour winds that we saw yesterday. still, any wind gusts are not going to be a friend to firefighters. i just want to show you the prescription. the only island that has a deficit is maui. so it was this perfect storm of dry conditions, hurricane force winds and, you know, very warm temperatures as well. and i just want to show you that decrease. we have got that high pressure but dora is moving away from the island. still very strong storm. but, again, the impact will be lessening as we go through the next day or. so he so we will continue to monitor that. this was not a direct impact of the storm. this was indirect. so just goes to show you it doesn t take a hurricane making landfall to cause incredible damage. so we ll continue to monitor that and pray, of course, for the island of maui. back to you guys. steve: indeed,
ocean to prevent burns. steve: right. a dozen people jumped into the pacific and had to be rescued by the coast guard. when you think of hawaii, because it s surrounded by water you never really think about fire. ainsley: so beautiful there. have you been to maui, brian? brian: yeah. ainsley: some of the prettiest property i have ever seen. brian: we will see what happens as it develops. steve: one of the reasons the fire spread so quickly, and i was just watching janice dean a couple minutes ago the hurricane skated just to the south. 70, 80 mile-per-hour winds, the islands are crisp. it s terrible. ainsley: pray for our friends there. steve: more on that coming up in about 25 minutes. meanwhile, president biden gave his first response to testimony from hunter biden s former business partner, devon archer. ainsley: his remarks come as house republicans release the bank records that appear to show big money, huge money payouts to hunter from these foreign power broker
mentioned there block after block burned to the ground. some people had to run into the ocean to escape the flames just terrible images from that town there lt. governor said it s going to take a long time for folks to recover. take a listen. i was the last one off the dock whenned when firestorm came through the ban i don t know tree and took everything with it. i ran to the beach and ran south and helped everybody i could along the way. got to know when you can t. just harrowing stories from folks trying to escape the fire any way that they can. tourists are being told to stay away from the island of maui at this time. and airlines have been cooperating with local officials trying to ferry people off of the island. so far 11,000 tourists have been evacuated out of maui and around 2,000 residences gone into shelter. four of which stood up here on
firefighters in california. they saw a lot of scenes like this and, unfortunately, this is now playing out here on the hawaiian island of maui. we are actually hanging out with firefighters, just keeping a watch over some hot spots here on this ridge luckily the fire activity has died down a little bit as we have moved onto the evening hours. the winds have died down and the relative humidity has gone up. but, really, this island was a tinder box on tuesday when a lot of these flames erupted. you know, we had winds up to 85 miles per hour whipped up by hurricane dora even though it was passing the hawaiian islands a few hundred miles to the south it was still fanning the flames and some fire fighting aircraft couldn t take off because the winds were so strong. the island was very, very dry. conditions were just ripe for a fire to spread still unclear why these fires did start. the town of lahaina you