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Welcome to the lead, aim jake tapper. And we start with breaking news, violent and explosive wildfires in hawaii. Fueled by strong winds from a hurricane, 800 miles away. It is a situation so sudden and so catastrophic on maui, local Officials Say a dozen people ran into the ocean to try to escape the flames. And they went out so far they then had to be rescued. Hawaiis governor said hundreds of families have been displaced and some loss of life is expected, unquote. Cell towers and 911 are out of service on the the hardhit west side compounding the difficulty for many. Were expecting a Press Conference and well bring you that when it starts but Derek Van Damme looked at where this erratic disaster may be headed next. Reporter hellish scenes of wildfires engulfing normally picturesque maui. Powerful winds, associated with Hurricane Dora helping fuel the flames. Fact that we have wildfire in multiple areas as a result of indirectly from a hurricane is unprecedented. Reporter Lieutenant Governor silvia luke issued an Emergency Proclamation on tuesday. Governor josh green has been out of state but it returned tonight. It has turned very serious and very dire. Reporter she said the hospitals on the island are overwhelmed with Burn Patients and people suffering from smoke inhalation. And also 911 cell and Phone Services are down, complicating evacuations. The maui county has not been able to communicate with residents on the west side, so were dealing with because were an island state, in addition to dealing with the disaster, were dealing with major Transportation Issues as well. Reporter right now Emergency Response teams are working together to gain control of the island. The Disaster Wiping out power to around 14,000 homes and businesses. People sleeping everywhere. Reporter also Stopping Travel at the airport forcing several travellers to sleep on airport grounds. And according to maui county officials, the u. S. Coast guard has rescued at least 12 people from waters saying they jumped into the ocean to escape the smoke and fire conditions. Some residents comparing the scene to an apocalypse. People running for their lives. Reporter many now saying they are homeless. Our house is gone. Everything that we had ever known is gone. Everyone i know in law hina, theyre homes have been burnt down. Zprf reporter similarly to what Southern California residents experience with santa ana winds, the winds that rushed over maui in the terrain went through some basic thermo dynamic processes as they went up and over the mountains, they dry out, they warm up and they speed up. And as long as that hurricane continues to move away from hawaii, it will impact this area with wind. Derek van damme, thank you. Lets go to hawaii where officials are giving an update. As we monitor the situation and we have spoken to both mayors several times throughout the night and we have been working with not just the federal delegation, many of the state partners, many of the the industry leaders, thanks to general hara and hime. The point is a lot of residents in the tate of hawaii, when we are preparing for the hurricane, we expect rain, sometimes we expect floods. We never anticipated in this state that a hurricane, which did not make impact on our islands, will cause this type of wildfires. Wildfires that wiped out communities, wildfires that wiped out businesses, wildfires that destroyed homes. Were learning and gathering information more and more and we just feel so sad and just great sympathy and prayers out to the people of maui, the individuals who are impacted and josh and i want to send our deepest gratitude to the mayors, both on maui and the big island for working so hard. Theyre both their teams and at the same time all of us are working very closely to ensure the health and safety of our communities and members on all of the islands are protected. Today we signed another Emergency Proclamation which will discourage tourists from going to maui even as of this morning, planes were landing on maui with tourists. This is not a safe place to be on certain parts of maui and we have shelters that are over run and we have resources that are being taxed. We are doing whatever we can and the state is providing whatever support that we could to give support to both maui and to the big island. You know, governor green is cutting his trip short. He is en route. He will be back at midnight. He is cutting his trip by a week and that tells you the magnitude of how grave we think this situation is. And we have been working all night to make sure that the situation is contained. We are thankful to the mayors and we we are grateful to the federal delegation, we have already reached out to and they have generously provided support and so we are just thankful for many supports, but at the same time, please reach out to people, i mean, we any time there is a disaster, any time there is things like this that happen to our community that shake our community, it is our families and our people, it is our ohana, that help each other and this is a time we need help. We need to be standing together and we need to be brave for each other and at the same time, it is just with sadness and just we are just struck by the devastation felt in maui. Acting governor luke, at this time, i would like to bring up Major General hen hara, from the Hawaii State Department of defense. Aloha and good morning. So Lieutenant Governor green appointed me as the overall Incident Commander for the state for this incident. However, i just wanted to stress that in accordance with hawaii statute 127 alpha, we are in support of the counties and they are the lead. It is very difficult because of the conditions last night, the high winds and the fire, we really dont have all of the details on exactly how many structures are damaged, but we do know power is out and having problems with water and ill let the county share the details of each each effects by island. We did get support from the active duty military providing helicopters to Hawaii County and then i sent two helicopters over to maui to do water bucket Fire Suppression missions. And in addition, guardsman to assist with Search And Rescue and Traffic Control and security and were standing by as the Lieutenant Governor mentioned close coordination with fema for additional federal resources. Based on the request for our visitors, to leave maui, we worked with the department of Business Economic Development Tourism and the Hawaii Convention center, so if there is anyone that is traveling off of maui to oahu and do not have and was not able to get a hotel room, they could get lodging at the Convention Center. We dont have any transportation laid out. Were working that logistics now. But if you could find your way to Convention Center, we could provide you shelter until you get follow on transportation out of the state of hawaii. If you need information, on the website, so ready. Hawaii. Gov and that is hawaii spelled out and ready. Hawaii. Gov is Hawaii Emergency Management Agency website and you could get the current information and that is the core site for you to get accurate information. And the phone number is 8087334300. And again, 8087334300. We are in coordination working with our Airline Partners to try to get more flights so they could get room and if any of the visitors would like to stay in a hotel as opposed to the Convention Center, then as a last resort, the Convention Center. Thank you. Major general hara, at it time i would like to turn your attention to the screen electronically. And joining us today is mayor Richard Bessen with maui county. I would like to first thank the Lieutenant Governor as well as the attorney the Acting General for arranging this joint Press Conference. We know there is a lot of interest in what is going on in our county and i would like to update everyone. As a result of three fires that have occurred, that are continuing here on our island, we have had 13 evacuations from different neighborhoods and towns, weve had 16 road closures. Weve opened five shelters. And weve, as a result of that, our west side of our Island Law Hina Area was cut off. Only one road was able to be traveled in and out. Power was out to 2,628 customers. There is no power at our hotels. Or even at the shelters that we opened up. Im sad to report that just before coming on this, it was confirmed weve had six fatalities. That we were able to confirm. And we are still in a Search And Rescue mode. And, so, i dont know what will happen to that number. Weve had many dwellings, businesses, structures, that have been burned, maybe to the ground. Mostly in alina neighborhoods and that area. Weve also should have added multiple School Closures to were grateful to the doe to allow us to use the iffacilitie and over 2100 people in shelters and within those shelters, i mentioned to you, several that are unaccounted for in the sense that they are in their cars an do not come into the actual shelter. We are grateful again tfor the assets that have been sent over to us by the state. Our federal partners and county and allies, were grateful for the outpouring of assistance. At this time we are battling and continuing to battle the fire. We now have helicopters that were unable to get up in the air yesterday that are now using water drops to help suppress the fire. That is the latest information from maui county. Thank you again for allowing us to address you. Mayor bison, at this time i would like to turn your attention to mayor mitch roth virtually from Hawaii County. Aloha. I would like to thank the Lieutenant Governor as well as the Acting General for having this Press Conference today. Hawaii islands, we had three to five fires depending on how you count them. Right now we are still battling three of those fires, pretty much well contained the fire, we have some containment on there, however we do still have firefighters out there who still im hesitant to say we have it completely under control. The highway is still closed from mile markler 6 to 17. As far as resort fire, that is still being actively fought right now. I have just got word before going on that the that they opened the highway that was closed. So, were still going and in that area. So, still under a Red Flag Warning and we see that the winds coming up is very possible for planes to get sent out. We think we almost have things put out. But right now, firefighters are out there working. We have our chokers open, so i believe at this time, those are we appreciate the support that people have given to us. Especially appreciate the team work that weve received from our firefighters, federal partners, our military, our National Guard, a lot of our private contractors who have been out there, and others who have just reached out to help. Were so thankful for that. But at this time, our thoughts and our prayers are with maui and were not out of woods yet. But i think the situation in maui right now should take precedent over this. Well answer any questions. Thank you. At this time, id like to bring up director ed sniffen with the Hawaii State Department of transportation. Hello, everybody. Absolutely horrific situation that were trying to work through right now. And really hard to to maui county. We are strongly discouraging nonessential travel to maui. But the airports are still oper operating efficiently. Last night we had 2,000 people staying at the airport that got stuck because they couldnt get on the red eye or waiting for other flights to come in. We made sure that we processed them through this morning and working with our Airline Partners on all of that. There is another 4,000 visitors that we are expecting to want to leave the island. From the west side. So the highway is open on the back road to make sure that you could come from la hina to get into kalui and the bypass are closed for operational or Emergency Responders only at this time. There is just a lot of poles down and fires in different spots an it is dangerous to utilize that roadway. But caw healy is open. We expect everybody to use that to get into the airport. Our Airport Partners are amazing. Theyve dropped fares an offered waivers to help everybody get off of maui, so to make sure that we could move people to oahu or get them home to use the resources to recover and focus on the residents of maui in that area. Well keep updated on our website pages, the accessibility of our highways and if any impacts occur at the airports. I would recommend to everybody, any time we have travel like this, that is that is impacted on one iexd island, it will impact others. Make sure you check in with your airlines and status of your flight to make sure it is on time. Thank you very much. Finally, id like to bring up jimmy toka with the state Department Business development and tourism. Good morning. As everyone has said, it is just incredibly sad day today. Weve seen the devastation, we could compare it coming from myself coming from kawai to inki. But you could see the hurricane comes so i want to ask that as the administration, were communicating with all of the people involved, from the federal government to the State Government to the counties. But to the visitors who are watching this, and looking for answers, were going to ask for your patience, were preparing very well for this and general hara is at the command. So we have the confidence that hes handled these situations before. In my role, we are preparing the Convention Center. And early this morning, even prior to the proclamation for support at the Convention Center, we set it up to potentially accommodate 4,000 people. Theyre cooking food. The prepgsarations are there an the red cross is setting all of that up. But it is a tall task. The city buses will be transporting people from the airport to the Convention Center and were working right now with the airport and the city to accommodate those, that transportation for the visitors that are coming. But i also want to say, it is not only for the visitors. Local people have lost everything. Theyve lost their house, theyve lost their animals and it is devastating. So were we are also reaching out to local people that the shelters on maui may be full but you do have an option here onna wahoo at the Convention Center so i wanted to make sure that you knew that. I particularly want to thank at the Convention Center, cal annie and daniel and terry orten for accommodating us. I dont think theyve slept since we got the calls last night. And we want to thank jerry gibson from the hotel association. Well have booths set up there that will tell and inform guests that are coming what the hotel status is, what the rate is and the hotels that have occupancy. So on behalf of hawaii tourism authority, once again, it is a sad day but we thank everyone for the cooperation, aloha and mahalo. At this time, well open up for a live q a with the media and im going to repeat the question. Im inviting acting governor silvia luca, but either she or i will repeat the question so everybody could understand. So the first question is going to go to star advertiser dan macaso. Do you have an estimate of the fatalities. Were they drowning or were they fire related . Before you answer, mayor, the question is around do we have an update on fatalities and injuries on maui county . You know, i dont have the specifics for those six confirmed fatalities because you got that number just the minute before we came on to this Press Conference. Weve been trying to get that update this morning was first time that we were able to assess oshs du obviousliy during daylight hours. As far as injuries, weve had a few injuries. We sent folks to straub and im trying to think about six or so, not all were burn related. Three of them were. And we also had a firefighter that suffered smoke inhalation, that firefighter was also treated and i believe transported ore to a hospital over on oahu. But is in stable condition. So we did have some injuries as well. Governor, the next question comes from if you could repeat your question. Do you have an estimate on the number of businesses and homes impacted. The question im sorry. You want to repeat the question. The question is how many businesses have been impacted . We dont have that exact number just yet. Again, were still in the Assessment Phase this morning. Now that we have light, so i dont want to take a guess at the number. But it is quite, it is going to be a high number. Power is still out in that part of the island. There were 29 or 30 poles that were down. 29 in lahaina itself. So we have not been able to restore that to get a better idea and the fire is still going on. Our next question is from weve been listening to an update from officials in hawaii as maui deals with devastating wildfires. The mayor of maui county announced that six people have been killed in the wildfires and Search And Rescue efforts are still underway. They have trouble getting helicopters up yesterday but they are up today. Officials also say hospitals are overwhelmed with Burn Patients and those suffering from smoke inhalation. These violent and explosive wildfires are not under con troelg on maui, which is the second largest of the 137 islands. The fires are being fueled by strong winds from a hurricane 800 miles away. Lets bring in bill weir and chad myers. Bill, how unprecedented is this kind of situation in hawaii . You know, jake, you could hear it in the voice of the Lieutenant Governor who was talking about the fact that we are prepared as hawaiians out there vulnerable in the middle of the pacific when it comes to hurricanes, they know what to do. But it comes to volcano eruptions, they know what to do. But the fire moved so quickly and the pikes from the air harken back to paradise, california, which was almost completely incinerated by fast walling moving wildfires. There is usually a ring road and there is not a whole lot of place to get out and they have been just suffering, weeks of very dry windy conditions and the leeward side of the island is much drier than anybody had anticipated and people just werent ready for this and it is heart braking. Lahaina has a massive tree in the center of town and it looks like all of it was burned away. First season of the white lotus was filmed athe four seasons and there is a fire near there and another third fire closer to the middle of maui. And you could tell theyre just really just coming to grips with it now. So much wind and smoke that they dont have a full assessment yet. Chad, were told that the fires are made much worse by this these Hurricane Winds from 800 miles away. How soon might the strong winds die down . I think tonight. Down to around 40. Now that is still a very gusty storm. Especially when you have so many fires out there. And it wasnt only the hurricane itself that was well south of there. But also this High Pressure that was north of there. And this funneling effect right through the Hawaiian Islands and i dont know if you were watching any pictures at home when they had that fly over, it was still very smokey, but you could see all of the homes that were just no longer there. In the overnight pictures that i watched earlier today, you could see just hot spots in the dark. And we were all hoping that those were just trees. But in fact, in those night time pictures, those hot spots from the fly over on the drone video, those were homes and they are now completely gone. The videos that we were just looking at were almost unfathomable and the one little lieutenant there, i think he was, said this reminded him of asneaky. And way on kawai when it hit about three weeks after and that was absolute devastation. So if hes looking at this like poipu, that is how devastating it is. It is still windy and very dry. There will still be more threats of fires again tonight. Fire lines are so large right now, it is going to be very difficult to get every single one of the fires out quickly. And we are, of course, as bill will tell you, in drought there in hawaii. Cnn chad myers and bill weir, thank you. Mahina martin joins us now. And thank you for joining us. We just heard six people have unfortunately been confirmed dead. A horrible number. Do you expect that number to get even bigger . I think these are early numbers. The daylight, as you heard, mayor said this is a pretty sad day with six fatalities. Were going to keep our thoughts on the families and it is important now that our efforts are geared up for understanding what else may be happening in those areas that were effected and as well as yesterday. Crews are still in Search And Rescue mode, we were just told. How is that efforts going on as the wildfires continue to rage . Well, these are still active fires. Search and rescue efforts will come in areas that are being safe and accessible for those crews. So, these are completely active fires. I think it is important to keep that in mind and it is going to be a case by case and area by area neighborhood by neighborhood situation. 911 service and cell service has been out in west maui. What is the current status of Emergency Communications on the western part of the island . On the western part of maui, yes, 911 Services Remain very limited. You could use it on this side of the island but in lahaina, the lines could call a direct number to the fire station and cell towers have been up and that is very problematic. And this fire seemed to move extremely quickly. Some Evacuation Orders came in the middle of the night. Did the fires come as a complete shock to maui officials . The size and how catastrophic they seem . Yes. The winds alone in one area on the mountainside of hula, we have reports of wind gusts up to 80 Miles Per Hour and they rapidly spread the fire in the west maui area in the mix of commercial shops as you saw some of the footage, are circulating as well as the residential areas it is very, very important that we have three separate fires going on, three separate areas of the island. We deployed and it is been all hands on deck throughout the island for first responders. Mahina martin, thank you so much. And our thoughts and prayers are going to people of maui. Well have much more ahead. Were following some major developments in the consequences facing those who try to overturn the 2020 election. Sources tell cnn that more than a dozen people could soon be indicted in the Fulton County, georgia investigation. Plus in a federal case, newly unsealed Court Documents show that the Special Counsel secured a Search Warrant for Donald Trumps twitter at. We have a busy afternoon here on the lead. Stay with us. On that. Save 50 on the sleep Number Limited Edition smart bed. Plus, 36 month financing on select smart beds. Shop now onlnly at sleep number. If you struggle. D struggle. And ruggle with cpap. You should check out inspire. No mask. No hose. Just sleep. Inspire. Sleep apnea innovation. Learn more and view Important Safety Information at inspiresleep. Com being middle class right now, its tough making ends meet for sure. Republicans in congress say if we just cut taxes even more for the biggest corporations the money will eventually someday trickle trickle down to you. 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Richie, you flew over the devastation today, tell us what you saw . Well, we wanted to see what kind of damage there was because we just saw bits and pieces on news last night from our homes. And so we thought we would fly over there and see if there was some kind of aid that our company could give to people on that side. But we were not prepared for what we saw. It was heartbreaking, it looks like an air that had been bombed in the war. The entire area burned to the ground, the historic area burned to the ground, the harbor burned to the water. It is just destroyed. These Historic Buildings that cant be replaced. People that out of their homes, hundreds of people with no place to stay. Just i had two other pilots with me and a couple of mechanics and when we landed were were just in tears. Our hearts going out to the people of lahaina and what they went through last night. They must have been terrorized as the flames swept through the town and they escaped to whenever they went to, the shelters. It was devastating. It was in my 52 years of flying on maui, ive never seen anything like that in my life. And, like i said, we werent prepared to see that kind of destruction. And i mean are there hopes that the winds will our chad myers, our weather guy told us that the hope is that the winds will die down this evening. Im just wondering if there is any sort of hope in sight here beyond that . Yeah, we were there is a family praying for that to happen last night and right now here at the airport it is not as windy as it was yesterday and the day before. So the winds have died down a little bit. Were hoping that theyre not going to pick up super strong again this afternoon and this evening. And when we were returning from viewing the fire, Wind Ward Aviation was on the way out there with helicopters with buckets to try to extinguish the remaining small fires in the fields above the town. Richie, thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right. Turning now to our Law And Justice lead, more legal trouble could be brewing for donald trump and not only donald trump, but his allies. Cnn is reporting that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis is expected to indict more than a dozen people as soon as next week. Willis has been investigating actions taken by trump and his allies to try to overturn the results in georgia in the 2020 election. In a state that joe biden won, including efforts to pressure election officials, a plot to put forward fake electors and a Voting Systems breach in one county. Cnns sara murray joins us now. Indictments against more than a dozen people. So who might that include . Well she has a wight scope so there are familiar nakes. Rudy giuliani. Trumps former attorney watold he is a target and same with david schaefer, the head of the Republican Party in georgia who served as a fake elector and donald trump is at the center of the investigation. Hi team believes that he is fourth time. Indicted for a but again, there are people would were involved in the Coffee County Voting Systems that are worried theyre on list of people who could be charged and people who pressured election hofficials and well se what happens when she goes before a grand jury next week seeking the indictments. And this is the first time georgia charges are brought. Weve had federal charges. Youre also learning that fani willis, the District Attorney, has been eyeing conspiracy and racketeering charges. What might that indicate about the breadth of this case. So, it allows her to charge multiple defendants an craft this narrative that it was part of a criminal enterprise and if she decided to charge donald trump that he was at head of it and it allows to you weve together a narrative of what happened around the 2020 election and also when youre looking at racketeering charges, they come with much steeper penalties than some of the underlying crimesch, so if you want to pressure a defendant to flip or take a plea deal, this gives more leverage to the prosecutor. Sara murray, thank you so much. And we have federal charges against donald trump in our law and just justice lead. A newly obtained Court Filing Show that jack smiths team secured a Search Warrant for Donald Trumps twitter account. This is part of the investigation into over turn the election on a federal level. It was so secret twitter was barred from telling trump it was even happening. Twitter has changed its name to x. It was fined 350,000 for delaying handing over its records to the Special Counsel. But the company, run by elon musk, ultimately did comply. Cnns paula reid is here with us now. Break down the story for us. What kind of information were prosecutors hoping to gain from twitter, from Donald Trumps twitter account . I mean the public posts are there. They wanted something that was not public. But this opinion is clearly written to obscure what the specific request was beyond just data and records. It is very clear that they did not want us to know. And it is also clear that there was some tension, the government being frustrated with twitter for dropping hints in some of the hearings about what the request was and in twitter then blasting the government for not being clear enough about exactly what it was they were seeking. Why did twitter run by elon musk, we should note, delay handing over records of trumps twitter account . So they did not appear to object to the warrant itself but they took issue with the secrecy, not being able to inform trump about this warren. They argued that was a violation of the First Amendment and the current laws that govern Electronic Communications an social media. Now one of the arguments that prosecutors made, if he knows about this warrant, he could try to destroy evidence, or even flee. But when judge made their decision on this case, they did not take into consideration him being a real flight risk. Why did prosecutors ultimately agree to allow twitter to tell trump about the Search Warrant . Eventually they felt enough was public about this investigation that it was okay to inform him about the warrant. But they were careful to try to protect theoi identity of investigates and that is what we sue eight months after the warrant was requested, there are concerns about former President Lashing out at the people running this investigation. Paula reid, thank you so much. With us now to discuss, cnn senior legal analyst elie honig. What would prosecutors be looking for on trumps twitter account that wasnt already public in his tweets . Yeah, jake, if it was just the public tweets, those are available and you could get them by subpoena. The fact that they went and got a Search Warrant tells me prosecutors were looking for something more. And that could include draft but unsent tweets and i base that on a couple of things. I know from my own experience prosecutors wan to look into draft emails because you could get some valuable insight and second if you look athe january 6 committee report, there are several mentions of draft memos and Draft Documents because again they could be really reve revealing as to a persons state of mind. And any dms or private messages. And trump reacted to the news of the Search Warrant of his twitter account, he wrote, quote, jusfound out that crooked joe bidens Department Of Justice secretly attacked my twitter account making it a thisajor hit, hit in quotes ut for some inexplicable reason. Hit on my rights. Nothing like that has happened before. Does the First Amendment still exist, unquote. As paul noted, there are concerns about possible violations of his First Amendment, right . Yeah. But i dont think the First Amendment is an issue here. Prosecutors use peoples statements, their public statements as evident of crimes against them all of the timement that is evidence 101. But the way prosecutors did that, they got a Search Warrant. The judge had to sign off on it and i should note if donald trump wants to challenge this Search Warrant, he absolutely can do that. He could argue prosecutors improperly obtained the Search Warrant and improperly executed it and it is not a First Amendment question, it is going to be an evidentiary question but hell have his chance to challenge this for sure. Turning to Fulton County, you heard sara murray just report that fani willis is expected to indict more than a dozen people, perhaps as soon as next week. Are you surprised . What does that tell you about her case . I am a little surprised. It tells many he that an iffy willis is getting ready to take a very broad aggressive swing here. And just for the sake of scale, jack smith has indicted one person, donald trump, and hes named six other coconspirators and that covers the entire nationwide efforts to steal this election and now we hear that fani willis is looking at indicting a dozen people and that could be consistent with sarahs reporting that some of the focus is on local officials who wouldnt be on jack smiths radar. But it is a very aggressive swing and indictment is the easy part for prosecutors. Hard part is whether she could back it up. Do you think that we will see next week assuming the indictments come down, that 12 people charged in the same indictment or will they be 12 separate indictments maybe . Very interesting strategic decision. That is entirely up to the d. A. On the one hand if you charge everyone together, you essentially eliminate any chance you have of trying donald trump quickly before the election because youre indictments is going to be so heavy, so over loaded with defendants. If you split them into 12 separate indictments, you have a better chance of getting donald trump to trial quicker but youre asking for 12 separate trials. Each of the people is entitled to their own trial. So tricky calculus to do here for the prosecutor. Might it be, for instance, donald trump in one indictment and the fake electors, im just making it up, i dont know, but all of the fake electors and then coconspirators in a third indictment. You could do donald trump by himself and group the others more than one at a time, sure. Willis said it will take two days for her to present her case before the grand jury. Shes expected to start next week. Monday theoretically. Could we see these indictments announced as soon as close of business on tuesday. And two days is not a lot of time to support a case. You are allowed to summarize. You dont have to call every witness advisely. You could call Law Enforcement who could summarize vast amounts of information and all signs are pointing to us getting word of this indictment quickly, if not immediately after it is informed. And Volodymyr Zelenskyy top met military commanders to discuss their Counter Offensive. He acknowledged that beating the russians back has not been easy. And is progressing much slower than some, including the u. S. Had hoped. Ukraine forces are tasked with breaking through russias multi layer defensive lines in the eastern an southern part of the country. Those lines are riddled with tens of thousands of mines and vast networks of trenches like you saw in world war i. Nick paton walsh is on the front where attacks are ramping up and a Brief Warning now, this viewer may be disturbing for some viewers. The brutal work here, the world hasnt seen but wants results. From the west, they have words and weapons of support. But out here, it is them alone. In searing heat cloaked in dust, in the southern Counter Offensive near oraheve, ukraine has the initiative. Yet, they have to shoot their way forward. Round by round. [ sound of gunfire ] the russians are just past the building on the horizon. Lets keep moving, guys. Theyre very anxious that we leave. Were the first journalists to reach this part of ukraines Counter Offensive push south towards robatina. We were shotted by the russias anow were moving fast out of here because their expected return fire. The lots from the early assaults evident. The bradley Armed Vehicle this thick dust and the tankers moving forward to fire at russian positions which they say are beginning to look in peril as ukraines southern Counter Offensive pushed forward. The 15th National Guard have lost many friends here. But also gained ground. It has been incredibly tough. But some faces we saw over the past week have brightened. It has gotten closer. Some of the tools given towards it grates here. Theyre being expected to do things no nato army would attempt with equipment they would scoff at. The humvee we travel in with tires so thread bare no american soldier would be expected to drive it. They have no time for assessments. [ speaking in nonenglish language ] and that underestimation is advise ebola vident here. The half ton bombs they drop. At any moment, it may not matter how much cover you have. In mockas warped world of targeting, it is these men, the milt medics who feel hunted. The underground world in which they live is hidden as the last two Triage Points have been bombed and then the three hours above ground, this is what happens. This is rare footage of their front line rescues. The painkillers clearly not enough. Treatments given at up to 100 miles an hour. Over bumpy shelled roads, it seems miraculous anyone makes it. Sometimes they dont all come back. On friday, fellow medic entree, age 33, was hit by artillery. They buried him monday. [ speaking in nonenglish language ] reporter down here, death is far too close and they seem to shut it out. [ speaking in a nonenglish language ] [ speaking in a nonenglish language ] reporter and they need the war to end in months though, not years, before nothing but dust is left. The medics use on that report, they were treating casualties this morning. It appears people caught in another russian minefield. In that time we spent a lot of time there over the past few months. A key center for humanitarian aid. That was hit in june and many lives were lost. The devastation there quite startling. Half ton bombs dropped by russians. One morning we were in there. 14 in one morning alone. The damage that is doing to that town. You are part of the only News Media Crew allowed in this part of the front lines. What did people tell you about this ongoing offensive . Reporter look, it is rare to get a view of this part of the counteroffensive, the main thrust of what ukraine is doing right here. Yes, they are pushing along the south but this is where the majority of the effort is, where all of the chips are being laid down. When you hear all this criticism of western analysts, this is and is going as fast as they would like, theyre not feeling the pace of change they wanted or expected, nato supplied arms would bring that, some of those arms are really as good as perhaps they said. You saw the Threadbare Tire on the humvee. Imagine giving that to someone in the 101st mounted. At the same time, they are dealing with extraordinary russian airpower here. They do not control the skies. Theyre vulnerable to drones, jets, missiles. We heard them ourselves. We saw the damage we can do. No nato army would try this without Air Superiority yet, somehow, there are those in nato and the west hoping the ukrainians can suddenly take on these new weapons and achieve the whole thing without controlling the skies. It is slow. They are dying. At times they wish people were more patient about the sacrifice. Thank you so much for the remarkable reporting. Also, an answered prayer. An american nurse and her daughter had just been released. Nearly two weeks after they were kidnapped in portau prince haiti. They released a statement confirming their return. Gangs in haiti frequently carry out kidnapping for profit. According to one report, their 1014 kidnap sing kidnappings hai from january to june fish ts year. Y people died in a Migrant Shipwreck Dear near the italian island. The migrant boat left several ds ago and 45 people, including children, were on board when the boat capsized after being hit by a big wave. Within an hour of departing tunisia, this is just the latest strategy amid a spike of people making the dangerous sea crossing from Northern Africa to europe. According to the italian government, 93,754 refugees have arrived in italy by boat this year. 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