Attorne Attorney General Merrick Garland announcing he will give david weiss Special Counsel status to investigate the president s son. Hello and welcome everyone, im sandra smith. Gillian, great to have you back. Gillian this is America Reports. Garland says weiss told him he wanted to be given Special Counsel status to continue his probe into hunter biden. This after insisting for months that step was not necessary. Sandra the timing of this announcement is certainly being highlighted at this hour, and raising Big Questions about how the probe will intersect with a separate congressional investigation. And a Draft Plea Deal between hunters attorneys and weiss thats currently being reworked. Gillian Lindsey Graham as well as house ways and Means Committee chair jason smith are both here to react. Sandra mark meredith, live at the Justice Department at this hour for us. Why did the attorney yes decide to do this and decide to do this now, mark . Sandra, good afternoon to you. The u. S.
Is it alabama or is it florida . A new report is raising questions. Our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments and we begin with Steve Patterson who has the latest on the ground in hawaii. Steve, whats the latest from there. I know theres still just so many people who cant get home or who dont have a home to go to. Reporter or who are missing Family Members, chris. The death toll has increased overnight. It is now 55. Everything we have heard from the mayor to the governor to Emergency Officials on this island and looking at the devastation and looking at the damage, that toll will almost certainly increase over the next few hours and days. The governor has just told some families that they may be able to go back to their homes soon, but youre right, in a lot of cases, they will find nothing there. Lahaina has been almost entirely reduced to rubble. Thousands of structures raised. Were expecting millions, if not over A Billion Dollars in damage. Federal help is on t
Washington, d. C. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin this morning with the apocalyptic destruction in hawaii, the deadliest National Disaster in state history. At least 80 people are dead. And thousands more displaced from the wildfires. And now, rescue crews are bringing in cadaver dogs to help search what is left of burned buildings. Devastation from the lahaina fire, costing an estimated 5. 5 billion am in mountainy county. One lawmaker tells cnn the statement unestimated the possibility of wildfires and failed to plan for emergency issues with the government alert center. The governor has looked at a comprehensive review of the states response all of this developing as we are seeing more videos of harrowing escapes. We got to walk somewhere. Over there. By the beach. [ bleep ]. No, no, no not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. Oh, my gosh. I mean that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter, after taking refuge on rocks, by the ocean. Lets go now to cnns mike val
Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
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