night, 9:00 live from milwaukee, wisconsin. that will be a battleground state yet again. martha and bret kick it off at 9:00. dana and i have the pre-game at 8:30. before that we have america s newsroom on wednesday morning and also thursday morning for the post-game show live from milwaukee. so a big week next week stay tuned. all right. dana: set your dvrs. also this now. maui s emergency services chief has resigned. this amid heavy criticism after he decided not to activate warning sirens across the island during last week s wildfires. robert ray joins us from maui this hour. hi, robert. hi, yeah, good morning. the 3:00 a.m. hour here in hawaii and indeed breaking news. yesterday evening the emergency management chief resigned citing health reasons as criticism has been mounting. the attorney general of hawaii putting out an independent investigation into the way that everything was handled here a
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he was facing criticism as the inferno closed in on lahaina. he defended the decision to not sound the alarms. hawaii s water management agency is coming under scrutiny. a state official may have delayed giving permission to use extra water to fight the fire as the disaster unfolded. and also the atf announced it is sending a team of investigators to find out where and how the wildfires started. maui s mayor cetells cnn over 4 cadaver dogs are scouring the scorched ruins. randi kaye, you have been driging into the many questions about what happened and in particular why the warning sirens did not sound. what are you finding? reporter: absolutely, phil. we wanted to know what happened and we think the people of hawaii certainly deserve answers. as we were digging into this, we found a lot of changing stories, a lot of explanations that continued to change and, quite frankly, a lot of excuses, and
we re back with breaking news out of canada. wildfires there are prompting evacuations in the capital of the northwest territories. take a look at just how high the flames are. this is near the city of yellow knife and the absolutely massive evacuation lines you can see here as people are trying to flee. and then close to the u.s. border, more flames are nearly engulfing this town of killona. that city has declared a state of emergency. in hawaii now, the chief of the maui emergency management agency has resigned effective immediately after growing scrutiny of his decision not to activate warning sirens as the fires ignited. here s how he initially defended that decision. do you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. the public is trained to seek higher ground in the event that