Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
welcome to a special edition of fox news live. problems piling up for president biden at home and overseas. peace looking as el useive as ever in the middle east while the crisis at the southern border spirals further out of control. despite all that merry christmas, everyone. i m rich edson. i m claudia cowen. the president is facing growing pressure to respond to houthi attacks in the red sea. the white house confirming iran has been providing weapons and intelligence on ship locations fueling a crisis in global shipping and raising tensions in the middle east. exiled iranian leader says when it comes to proxy wars, iran wrote the book. this regime has mastered proxy wars particularly emboldened and encouraged when apiecement becomes an element more reason to push the envelope. we shouldn t be surprised to see these are the kind of acts that the regime will take advantage of to try to get as much credit as possible but at the same time not bearing the consequences and
Foreign power. The growing calls for him to resign even in his own party. Also tonight, Tropical Storm ophelia taking aim. The path from North Carolina up the east coast. The United Autoworkers expanding their strike across 20 states. How it could impact you if you need a car repair. And the invitation to President Biden. Will he join the picket line . New images of the surge at the border. Were inside a shelter talking to migrants. Why they say they converged on one small texas town. News on that f35 fighter jet that went missing. The 911 call after the pilot ejected and landed in a backyard. Youll hear what he and the stunned homeowner told the dispatcher. The deadly bus crash involving a high school band. The band director and a retired teacher killed. The investigation. And ukraines stolen children. One mothers 3,000mile journey to bring her son home. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. A highranking democratic u. S. Senator, who is no st
at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corroborated by video on the ground, we ve built up a picture of what happened and how a desperate situation was made worse still by mistakes from authorities. and we ve obtained new recordings that indicate a breakdown in communication around where the fallen power lines were live or turned off that led to roadblocks that may have been unnecessary. it s the morning of august 8th, and winds in lahaina are already high. and i started seeing all the cyclones and stuff like that out over the water and i ve never seen that in person. so i thought it was kind of cool, and i started videoing to show her, and the windsjust. itjust started getting worse and worse and worse. by this point i started noticing debris down in the roads. parts of roofs had started blowing off, all kinds of stuff. you could hear it hitting the side of your car. clunk ok, that one hit the top of the car. - every exitjonathan tries is blocked. som
roadblocks and debris created a burning maze of trafficjams. traffic is completely stuck and people are going to die here and there s no reason why. trapped in lahaina as it burned to the ground. it s criminal, what happened. people lost their lives that wouldn t have lost their lives. and then why they did close the road, i think that s something a lot of people want to know. you know, better preparation, right? i mean, that s what everybody is pointing to. and who should take responsibility for that? lahaina is the gem of the hawaiian island of maui, a tourist hot spot with huge cultural importance. this is the first kingdom of hawaii. this is the gathering place. it s unfathomable. you can t even imagine a reality of lahaina burning. we could have focused on any number of things that went wrong on the day of the fire. but we ve chosen to look at how people did and didn t escape from lahaina as it burnt. at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corrobo