Neighborhoods burned. The governor saying, it looks like a bomb went off. At least 59 people confirmed dead. Now, the frantic search. More than a thousand unaccounted for, and growing questions, why werent mauis Warning Sirens activated as the flames approached . Our team in the disaster zone. Also tonight, attorney general Merrick Garland granting Special Counsel status to the u. S. Prosecutor overseeing the hunter biden investigation, why now after a fiveyearlong probe and after his deal fell apart, is the president s son headed to trial . The judge in Donald Trumps Election Conspiracy case limiting what he can share publicly about the governments evidence. What she warned the former president not to do. Sam bankmanfried, the onetime crypto mogul, thrown in jail ahead of his fraud trial. Why the judge revoked his bail. New photos inside the home of the suspected gilgo beach Serial Killer. Why his family is threatening to sue police and also revealed his wifes health battle. Amid the
Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone. In maui tonight, residents and survivors of this weeks deadly firestorm are being allowed to return to the scorched neighborhoods they called home to see what is left, but warned by hawaiis governor to brace for the worst. Many residents of lahaina after making harrowing escapes from the advancing flames asking the tough questions tonight, why there were no warning sirens before flames consumed everything around them. Tonight, the lahaina fire is largely and service areower slowlying back to fe momeny interview iis governor about concerns over warnin but first our standing by in maui. Tom llamas leads off our coverage tonight. Tom joining us now with some breaking News Reporter we learned Emergency Management did not sound off those sirens, which could have let residents know danger was approaching. Alerts did go out via phones and on broadcast tv and radio, but we just got back from flying over la
Earned more than a billion dollars. Thank you for hanging out. Im omar jimenez. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning, phil. Good morning. There was a big game this morning. So i thought it was going to be awesome to wake up at 3 00 a. M. And have an amazing game on. And then it turned out to be the most stressful two hours of my life. And i dont like it anymore. Arent you supposed to be reading for the show. Im totally prepped with womens soccer. Well see how that goes. A lot happened overnight. From politics to gio politics to the womens world cup, of course. Lets get started with five things to know for this tuesday, august 1st. Today could be charging decision day for former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That grand jury will meet just hours from now. And new this morning, Donald Trumps Political Action committee is almost out of cash. It began last year with m
And was, in principle, doomed to failure ; they dont see this now. Only a lazy professor at the university of chicago, a merchmire, as well as anyone who understands even a little bit about tactics and strategy , believe that there were so many factors against isu that it was absolutely impossible to make progress, and the west encouraged and pushed zelensky to a suicidal maneuver on the battlefield. German girls report that in 60 days of contrast, all can boast of only losses, the horrors of death, what brought on ukraine zelensky forecast of the germans in 2024, the western elite and finally lose all interest in ukraine as they once did in afghanistan and the temporary successes of the kiev troops or even the terrorist attacks in russia in moscow are rather a palliative convulsion of the mind of the ukrainian clown, ukraine seemed to have begun to be buried. Now i will talk about this in detail, but lets start. Lets all the same, according to the words of the president s, putin hande
look at the polls in new hampshire, a stone throw from donald trump. she s not going to win new hampshire, they never went after donald trump, they tried to beat me and they failed in beating me. john: the stage is set for new hampshire as former president trump says it s time for republicans to come together after his decisive victory in iowa. husband two remaining challengers say not so fast. i m john roberts in washington, the day after. sandra: indeed, john, good to be with you. sandra smith in new york. this is report reports. history landslide victory in the hawkeye state last night saw the former president elect clips the 50% mark and win all but one of iowa s 99 counties. ron desantis barely beat out nikki haley for the silver. john: president biden called his predecessor the clear gop front-runner and saying this election will be you and me versus the extreme maga republicans. sandra: complete coverage for you now. david and richard are standing by, but f