Response. And Hurrican Hilary is getting stronger. And timing is everything for team trump. His lawyers proposing new trial dates and negotiating when he will sur render in georgia. We begin with the maui official who defended the decision not to activate the Warning Sirens. He is now stepping down. He cited Health Reasons for his resignation. It comes with the death toll at 111 people and more than 1,000 still unaccounted for. Randi kaye has more on the fallout. So many of the residents felt like we had no warning. Reporter hawaii has one of the largest Public Safety outdoor siren Warning Systems in the world. Sirens that were silent as wildfires raged. The question is, why. First it was this it would not have saved those people on the mountain side. Do you regret not sounding the sirens . I do not. Sirens as i mentioned earlier is used primarily for tsunamis. Reporter that is what the head of mauis Emergency Management agency said wednesday. But even before that Press Conference ende
Hes now proposing his own date that just happens to be three years away. Plus the fbi involved the in a new investigation. The grand jurors who indicted the former president in georgia are being threatened and having their personal information exposed. And new warnings tonight for hawaii for victims of the wildfires, beware of scams. As if they werent dealing with enough, this new warning after so many have lost everything already. Im Kaitlan Collins and this is the source. Tonight. Donald trumps Delay Tactics seem to have gone into overdrive. His new ask, for an extraordinary delay. They now want the judge to set a trial date for the special counsels Election Interference case nearly three years from when he was indicted just a few weeks ago. They are looking for april 2026. That is nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. It is obviously long past january 2024, which is when jack smiths team wants that trial to start. And papers that were filed just a few moments ago, trumps
Addresses posted on a far right website. Growing concerns about what might happen next. Also he promised a Big Press Conference two days ago claiming hed finally blow the lid off 2020 Election Fraud. More signs tonight he was, no surprise, just blowing smoke. And hawaii with a thousand people still unaccounted for a cnn investigation into why mauis Emergency Sirens stayed deadly silent. Good evening and thanks so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News. The former president s attorneys have weighed in with what they want the trial date to be in the federal election sub version case. It is a long way off. The Justice Department had proposed january of 2024. The former president s attorneys now say the trial should not start until april, 2026. That is more than 2 1 2 years from now. If mr. Trump is elected president again, it is effectively never. The lawyers in their filings saying the Justice Departments proposed date denies them the ability to prepare for trial. Joining us no
investigating that. reporter: yet that doesn t all track with the county s own web page maui sirens.com. which clearly states how the siren system is capable of alerting residents to multiple disasters, including wildfires. emergency alert. reporter: we also found this explainer about the sirens uses on hawaii s emergency management agency web page. we also use sirens for hurricanes, flash fires, flooding, lava, hazmat conditions, or even a terrorist event. reporter: this map also from the county page shows where the warning sirens are located. according to the state there are about 400 sirens statewide including 80 on maui. in the historic town of lahaina where more than 100 people were killed in the flames, there are five sirens. five sirens that were not used to warn those in grave danger. instead, officials say they chose to send alerts by text message to cell phones as well as alerts on land lines and
time the governor suggested at least some of the sirens were broken. the sirens were essentially immobilized we believe, we believe, by the extreme heat that came through. some were broken. and we re investigating that. reporter: yet that doesn t all track with the county s own web page, maui sirens.com, which clearly states how the siren system is capable of alerting residents to multiple disasters including wildfires. and we also found this explainer about the siren s uses on hawaii s emergency management agency s web page. we also use sirens for hurricanes, brush fires, flooding, lava, hazmat conditions or even a terrorist event. reporter: this map shows where the warning sirens are located. according to the state, there are about 400 sirens statewide including 80 on maui. and in the historic town of lahaina where more than 100