Out front next, trumps legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the January 6th Case in court for the first time. This is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trumps trial january 2nd. And the death toll rising in maui as Search And Rescue operations are frantically underway. Im going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. Her incredible story. Plus, all the republican president ial candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. Were talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. For us, lets go out front. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfacetoface, trumps team set to meet judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is the judge overseeing the January 6th Case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. Trump now on notice to reply to jack smiths formal request for the trial January 6th Case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. That would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overturn the elec ahead of all
and then the winds just suddenly shifted. you could feel the heat. how close did the flames come? can you tell us about that just how fast this all happened? so my little neighborhood, i live about a block away from the heart of la zhaina, the famous banyan tree. we didn t have power all day, nobody was at work. we were all home. so my neighbors and i were kind of an alert, and we were standing and watching the fire in the middle of the town that kind of started, i don t even know what time it was. maybe around noon, maybe 1:00, something like that. and we were just watching it, and we were thinking, the smoke, the wind is making it worse than it is, you know, this looks more dramatic, but the smoke was getting darker and darker and thicker and thicker, and then we were saying like should we leave, and then we said, unless the winds shift, we don t need to and it was like the wind said, well, are you testing me? because then that second the wind shifted and came towards us. it didn t