Protests in israel demanding a ceasefire as President Biden holds a White House meeting this hour with Hostage Rescue teams. Also ahead, a Labor Day double header for Vice President harris. Her two Stops Today including one with President Biden as she looks to shore up the Blue Wall for november. Plus now controversy for Donald Trump. The plans for a fundraiser for January 6th defendants at a trump golf resort. And later, On Strike. Why Hotel Workers for Hilton And Hyatt are on the Picket Lines this Labor Day. Good morning. It is 9 00 a. M. Eastern, 6 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. We have breaking news out of israel where outrage continues to grow today after the deaths of six hostages shot pointblank by hamas as idf forces were nearing their location in gaza. This morning, the largest general strike since the start of the israel hamas war took place, cross. This as prime Minister Netanyahu faces new and growing pressures to reach a ceasefire. Meanwhile at the White House, this
Sirens on this i island. And why that wasnt activated, because it clearly would have given people more time to escape the flames and get out of town. And, of course, the number of fatalities would probably not be the number that it currently is. Another big challenge here, mike, is housing. Why . Theres not much of it. Its expensive to rent or own. And unlike, say, the mainland there are not any towns that can simply absorb 4,500 people right now that need shelter. Lahaina was really small, nice historical place, and its gone. All the kind of, like, precious memories of my kids and kind of generational stuff. Reporter so eva adams, she lost her home. It was in this new 89unit, Affordable Housing complex that is now, of course, as you see, just ashes. There are about 2,700 buildings here that were destroyed in lahaina, 86 of those were homes. And the community of lahaina is a very working class, a lot of Native Hawaiians who serve the resorts, and right now those people who are now home
town, and it s completely gone, you know? it breaks your heart to also realize that while so many thousands fled and are now in shelters trying to figure out what to do next with their life, so many still remain. right there. and we have a responsibility, an obligation and a duty to collect those remains, to find all of our loved ones, to bring everyone home this one way or another. and it was a very surreal, painful moment to walk through those streets yesterday. mike: hawaii has warning sirens in the maui area. did the system not work properly, or was it more a matter of how quickly the fire spread? you know are, when you go in there and then when you see these videos, you realize just how past that fire spread. and i talked to survivors who said it was just whipping and coming so quickly, and it was burning hot. we do have those warning sirens up, everyone knows them the, we test them once a month. we really know them as tsunami
is really going to be the key for us to keep the city safe. and new york is tacking it even one step further. the head of counterterrorism is taking very aggressive tactics. they are training upwards of 500 tactical officers, they are going to be heavily armed and armored. they are going to be wearing a lot of protective gear and they are also going to be highly trained. a hundred of those officers hit the streets yesterday. and as we saw with paris it is very easy to hit soft targets. you know they are very difficult to protect. so the question is what do you protect? even here in new york it is going to be a reactive measure. not necessarily proactive. proactive comes with real hard intelligence you can look at it. paris didn t get that warning even though there were certain signs. in retrospect, you can connect. but it is a new paradigm. america, we check bags going out of malls. in israel, they check bags going
they re rallying to hang on to their bargaining rights. there are proposals that would change the time teachers take to ent earn tenure. well, thousands of mardi gras partiers hit the streets yesterday and the party s only going to get bigger today. the big bash ends at midnight on fat tuesday. they know how to party in san francisco, as well. lived out in this area for a few years. i saw some things i couldn t tell my mother about, but this is one of the latest things they do out there. this is what they call their snuggie pub crawl. you heard me right. their second annual snuggie pub crawl. you get the idea, you get to go bar hop if you come with a snuggie on, you get a discount on your drinks. some people weren t that creative with their snuggies. they just put on a robe backwards, covered up in something to get the discount, but they ve been doing this a couple years now.