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
That call for help. Lets get right to newscenter 5s mary saladna, who is live on the scene, mary . Mary. I have bane lot worse. At one point, we all thought that two firefighters were trapped in that attic. It could be the worst air of your life. Mary as fire swept through, boston firefighters swarmed the upper floor, neighbors held their breath. On the roof, the flames are pouring out. Water with is shooting everywhere. Debris flying everywhere. You know, pretty intense. Mary. That is when the mayday call went out. A firefighter who heard the piercing alarm who signaled the colleague may be trapped. May day. May day. Our breathing apparatus has a builtin alarm system. Heard a couple of alarms went off. He dids was trained because time is of the he is sense. Mary. Firefighters went to rescue mode but found no firefighter actual lynn distress. Sound as the firefighters standstill for more than 30 seconds. The device assuming the firefighter maybe in some kind of a trouble. That this is
now, they would tell you, that rudy giuliani is expert on rico cases, and yet, he talked about the rico statute and fani willis s decision to use it, i think this is yesterday or the day before, take a listen. this is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute. there s probably no one that knows it better than i do. probably some that know it as well. i was the first one to use it in white collar cases but in major cases like the bosky case and milkin case, this is not meant for election disputes. i mean, this is ridiculous what she s doing. also, i don t know if she realizes it because she seems like a pretty incompetent sloppy prosecutor. jay thom, what do you make of that? karma, chris. when mr. giuliani started his career as a really very well known federal prosecutor i was starting my career as a state
kind fell into a depression that i write about in my book, but also the two of them needed each other by 2016. trump needed giuliani because he didn t have any political friends, and giuliani needed trump because no one was knocking at giuliani s door anymore to endorse them. they each had a lot of reason to bond together. they like each other. they like each other a lot. they respect each other. enough to go to jail? well, it goes back to what i said about giuliani and morality. everything in giuliani s mind is about right and wrong. and that s one of the fascinating things about giuliani to me is that he preaches right and wrong, even when what he does is deeply immoral. and so i think that, you know, that s what drives him. jay thom, i think if you asked anyone in the 80s and