Maui coming into stark relief. So much property destroyed, including important historical and cultural sites. Today, the disaster is far from over. We will have a live report from hawaii, just ahead. And were learning more about a deadly encounter where fbi agents shot and killed a man they were trying to arrest after alarming and threatening posts. And in florida, we are live outside the courthouse where former President Trumps body man walt nauta pleaded guilty. Were covering they stories coming into Cnn News Central. Still we have dead bodies in the water, floating, and on the seawall. Theyve been sitting there since last night. Weve been pulling people out since last night, trying to save peoples lives. I feel like were not getting the help we need. Its a nationwide issues issue at this point. We need help, a lot of help. We have to get people down here. Just moments ago President Joe Biden responding to the pleas for help, speaking with hawaiis governor and approving a National De
zone they escaped from, and they found that here. it was quite moving to hear from emergency officials who spoke openly about the island values of compassion for not only the people who inhabit this wonderful place, but for the island itself. on that front, listen to what we heard. we talk a lot about aloha, right? as that value. we talk about the value to care for, to cherish, to nurture, right? it s one thing to talk about it. it s another thing to live it out. reporter: so, alex, living it out means from his point of view tourists and people vacationing respecting the island enough to heed the evacuation orders and leaving. the animating energy for today will be to try to get as many tourists and nonresidents out of maui, perhaps to here or back to the mainland and more and more
bodies and the loss, and the questions, no communication drives another thing a lot of people are worried to death about their loved ones, and they may not know they re okay or not. and for some people it takes hours and hours to touch base. so you need communications. that s certainly out there now. we need communications, fuel, food and most of our visitors, please cancel your trip. don t come out. maui is great. it s open for business, but for west maui, this is i think just like that, you know, we need to get as many people out as we can, to be able to try to accelerate the relief efforts. we hear what you are saying.
last night. we ve been pulling people out since last night, trying to save people s lives. i feel like we re not getting the help we need. it s a nationwide issues issue at this point. we need help, a lot of help. we have to get people down here. just moments ago president joe biden responding to the pleas for help, speaking with hawaii s governor and approving a national declaration of disaster for hawaii. at least 36 people are confirmed dead in hawaii, and there are major concerns that that death toll will rise even more. firefighters are gaining very little ground against the catastrophic wildfires sweeping all across maui. cnn mainp just obtained this heinous video, engulfing the historic town of lahaina.
first responders into maui. now that we have daylight, emergency crews will go airborne and try to get a better sense of containment figures to give more of a view of how much work has been done and how much work they have left to go, alex. mike valerio, thank you for all of your reporting through the court of the night. let s talk about this with angus mcilvie, and to note, he lost his home as well as other residents. we re so sorry what you have gone through. can you tell us about your experience? thank you for having me on. people are just shell-shocked in