Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
lahaina. reporter: good morning. at this early hour of the toidday, we re standing at the check point to get into the lahaina disaster zone. no other way in but right here. and whenever you are standing here talking to people, families, people who have lived here for decades, it s an extremely emotional juncture for anybody who crosses through here. a few hours ago, we met a woman named susan who told us just what it is like to experience the dramatic change from this landscape to the moon skap of ash and streets, debris and explain to us in quite moving terms everything that she has seen. listen to what she told us. when i drove through on friday, i had no clue what i was going through. i got everything is gone. i lost friends in there. they have gone back to get animals and she died. it s really sad because people come over here. i heard there was a snorkeling boat looking at lahaina town.
today. first, what do you make of the prediction we heard from iraqi officials that they predict that ramadi was going to be cleared by the end of the week. the iraqi government made predictions that never pan out for pretty much the bulk of this. ramadi was going to fall within days or hours for the last three months. it is true they have made a concerted push. my concern is two-fold. what isis has done to the city. the entire thing is a geographical coffin. this fresh video, you can t even tell it s a city any longer. a moon skap essentially. it looks like the worst carnage we have seen in syria. similar to when the u.s. was at war in iraq. cities were completely levelled. the second concern i have, and we have been talking a lot on air about who is doing the fighting on behalf of baghdad. it s mostly iraqi security forces. there are incredible units.
joplin. reporter: in joplin, the new day reveals what looks like a moon skap as traumatized residents see the remains of their worldly possessions. many of the new homeless are in a red cross shelter at the sufrt. a friend spotted this woman on tv and came to offer shelter. i m taking her home with me since she lost her home and everything. reporter: some of the injured treated in the teaching wing of the university medical facility. now it is a clinic filled with volunteers. we had iowa, arkansas, kansas, oklahoma, as far away as california come in. reporter: patients like marsha mccullough have the same message for loved ones searching for them. i want to let my sister and daughter know i am alive and well and only in minor pain. reporter: mary was in her apartment when it collapsed. she fell two floors. if you re alive and you got out of it, you had a miracle.