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This morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. Officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. But they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. The search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and Officials Say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of the video, or independently verify the video, but the dense smoke and high winds created what you can imagine was incredibly chaotic and a terrifying situation. Take a listen to this next video. It is hard to hear but captures the terror as a resident tries to escape the flames in her car. We got to walk over there somewhere by the beach. Oh, [ bleep ]. No, no, no. Not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. The terror speaks for itself, doesnt it . This morning, we spoke with congresswoman from maury and lahaina in her district and she says her state has to learn from this disaster. It is not like Hurricane Force winds, dry brush, or red flag conditions. We saw this before, and we did not learn our lesson. That brush fire could erupt as a result of churning hurricane winds. And we underestimated the lethality, the quickness of fire. In this situation, we have got to make sure that we do better. Cnns gloria from honolulu, we are hearing so many traumatic stories of survival and the rescue and Recovery Efforts are conditioning as well. Yes, amara, rahel, just hearing that video, hearing those peoples voices and seeing the damage, in the video, and the images, it is really helping to bring everything into focus, just how much damage and loss this has in lahaina, 80 miles west of here from where we are. I want to go over the numbers that we have out this morning. Because now, we know at least a total of 2,207 structures were damaged or destroyed in the fire. More than 2,000 acres have been burned. And 86 of the structures that were exposed to fire are classified as residential buildings. So you can just imagine the loss. We have heard from witness accounts, and residents who have told us they were only able to get out with the clothes on their back. So we are talking about property loss. Loss of businesses. Loss of peoples livelihoods. And now, lahaina is going to take a long time to recover, and it will likely cost billions of dollars. Fema has put out a preliminary assessment, estimating the recovery to cost at least 5. 5 billion dollars. Now, trying to assess the damage is exactly what residents are trying to do. I want you to listen to a couple who spoke with my colleague yesterday, and they were trying to get back into the area, but were turned away. The police wont let us go to our home. We live in the same house, for 50 years. Since 1971. So i wanted to go down there. See if anything is left. You know. But they wont let us. I guess its dangerous or something. So well deal with it. We will wait a week or two, and we can go see whats left. And start from scratch. And rebuild. Reporter now, we are waiting to see if and when residents will be allowed back into the area today, for a couple of hours, yesterday, the one road that is currently leading in and out of lahaina was opened up but officials had to close it quickly after that because there were so many people and cars that were trying to get into an area that still remains unsafe. All right, gloria, thank you. And as we have been talking about all morning, there is obviously a lot of questions and some criticism over how authorities handled the early moments before the wildfires began to spread, just really quickly, across the island. Yes, hawaiis Attorney General will lead a review safetys response leading up to the fires. And as you said, the questions are mounting, criticisms are mounting, about the states response, and why Warning Signs were not activated which critics say cost some people their lives and that is not the only concern about hawaiis wildfire preparedness. Cnns pam brown reports now. Reporter cnn is learning hawaii officials underestimated the risk of wildfires in a recent report. Even as other documents show officials knew they lacked resources to preebt and prev and fight fires. We had advanced notice coming into the summer, the winds, the low humidity, and the fuels, and any ignition would have sparked a pretty big fire and thats exactly what we saw. Reporter in a state report, out just last year, Ranking National disasters, hawaii officials classified the Wildfire Risk to human life as low. In this colorcoded chart. The assessment though coming years after Hurricane Lane fanned the flames of fires in hawaii, raving maui and ohahu in 2018 and it highlighted how unprepared officials in hawaii were dealing with a disaster. With a County Report in 2021, noting Hurricane Lane made small fires swell, and stretch Public Safety resources with strong winds grounding air support. That storm should have been a wakeup call. According to this Planning Document from hawaiis Emergency Management agency. Other state and local documents show hawaii lagged behind in preparedness for the devastating wildfires playing out now that have killed more than 50 people, left countless people missing, and triggered widespread evacuations. A cruel deja vu for some residents. About four years ago, we had another hurricane, and we lost the house in the fire. Rebuilt. And what happened yesterday is killing me right now. We just lost the house again. Twice. In four years. A 2021 report also makes the troubling point that despite the increasing number of wildfires, Fire Prevention was given, quote, Short Sh Rift in a Strategy Plan from the Maui Department of fire and safety. The plan also included, quote, nothing about what can and should be done to prevent fires, which it called a significant oversight. Given how catastrophic this event was, i think there will be a lot of pressure on the state and other organizations to improve the Fire Prevention action that theyre taking statewide. The increase in fires in hawaii comes as maui has faced increasing Drought Conditions in recent years. Contributing to warnings like this. In a may webinar from the hawaii wildfire management organization. Hawaii has a big wildfire problem, we are on par with the most western prone states in the continental u. S. The impacts of the fire are broad and long lasts. Now residents are left to rebuild again, as the threat of the fure looms with no clear plan in the future in place. I know what i need to do. Weve done it before. This suck. Reporter it is unclear whether additional preparation and mitigation could have reduced the devastation, and all of the damage we have been seeing from the lahaina wildfires, given its intensity and speed. As the responsibility, the governor of hawaii tells cnn, the responsibility falls on all of us. Back to you. Pam brown, thank you for your report. And for more information on how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn. Com impact. Or you can text hawaii to 707070, to donate. Other news this morning, iowa is in the political spotlight this weekend, as more and more republican president ial hopefuls flock to the Iowa State Fair. It is a chance for the candidates to make their case straight to the voters from the des moines registers soapbox, or in a fairside chat with the popular governor. Cnn has more from des moines with this political privilege. It political pilgrimage. It is a busy day today. What can we expect . Reporter it is already picking up, we are seeing the president ial candidate from the republican side sitting down with a fairside chat with Iowa Governor kim reynolds, taking questions, talking about his various platforms, and his vision for the country moving ahead, should he be the nominee. We are expecting a total of seven candidates running for president , both on the gop and the democratic sides, although it is going to be dominated by the republicans, vying for that position to challenge president joe biden. The main event of course. And this is the big day of the Iowa State Fair politically. Donald trump and ron desantis, both of them will be here today. Not at the same exact event but they are going to be at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, at around the same time. Joining donald tmp will be the nine florida representatives, and you know, people here in iowa they dont exactly know who these folks are, but hes clearly sending a message to desantis who is closest to him, though behind in double digits, in most polls, and sending a message, to desantis, saying this is your home state and guess what i have. And amara and rahel, you can think of it as donald trump trolling the way he does on social media, bringing it here to the state fair in person. All right, lots to watch there, thank you. And for more now on the Iowa State Fair, lets bring in laura lopez, cnn political analyst and correspondent for the pbs news hour. Good morning. Lets talk about why this event is so significant. This event is really a key draw for all of the candidates, because it is a chance for them to press the voters and make a case for them, and along with other local iowa elected, that they are the ones that can take on president biden, come the general election. It is a chance for candidates to try to attempt, in the past, to break out behind who might be the favorite, and so weve seen that a lot of the candidates like Vice President mike pence, and ron desantis, Florida Governor ron desantis, senator tim scott, are all really trying to convince voters that theyre the better option than trump, but they are still very much in the shadow, and im a little skeptical but this time around, this fair will actually be a potential breakout for any of these candidates. That is certainly something a lot of people are watching. I will play for you, this is 30 minutes ago, what was said and we can discuss on the other side. These are great people running the primary, by the way. I love them all. Were colleagues, not competitors, were colleagues in a national revival, and i will not bash any of them, theyre great people. And the one credibility incremental reform and in case im probably not your guy, do you want reform or revolution . I stand on the side of revolution. Theyre taking the nice guy approach but also saying if elected we take some pretty big swings. I realize youre in washington right now, but what do we know about the reception from this type of message . So he is surprisingly in some national polls, he has been in third place, behind trump first, then ron desantis, then i will note that politico had an interesting analysis of the polls out this morning that said that he is doing better among online polls. So people who are polled online, who sometimes have a monetary incentive to answer those online polls, but on telephone polls, which is a different segment of the electorate, he is sometimes in seventh place, or in sixth place. So far behind a lot of the others in the pack. And iowa itself, it found that ron was behind trump, desantis, and senator tim scott, so not really leading that much in iowa, which of course, the reason that iowa is so key again is because it is the first s state, its a state where a candidate like ron can try to win and reset the narrative about whether or not the former President Trump can win the nomination. Speaking of resetting, one person who seems to be resetting his campaign is desantis, and you said youre skeptical that this, the Iowa State Fair will necessarily provide a break through, but you could argue perhaps, no one needs it more than desantis. Thats right. He definitely need it. His fam cain has been floundering his campaign has been floundering since essentially january when he was showing that he could be neck and neck with the former president , and since then, he has just gone steadily downhill. Now trailing the former president by double digits. And his campaign has spent, well, a pac that is associated with his campaign, a pac that is a separate independent pac that supports him, has spent a substantial amount of money in the last month or so, really trying to make voter contact, and so far, desantis doesnt have much to show for it. It seems that the republican consultants that i talked to say that this tactic, by a lot of the candidates, cannot go after the former president , to not go after trump, to not talk about what he did on january 6th, and it is not necessarily helping them. Candidates like desantis have actually floated pardons for trump. Saying that, you know, accusing the justice department, baselessly, of weaponizing themselves, and running a conspiracy and being corrupt. So how they try then to take down the former president when they arent will being to attack them, that consultants ive talked to say it is not helping them in their bid to come out from behind. Thanks for being with us today. Still ahead, a u. S. Attorney leading Hunter Bidens criminal probe is now a Special Counsel. After talks break down. The latest on the leebl troubles. Also the judge overseeing trumps criminal 2020 election case, saying inflammatory remarks could lead to a quicker trial. Its not just designed to look good. Its built to command attention. Its not just a comfortable interior. Its a quiet refuge. Theyre not just headlights. They light the way forward. The new fully electric audi q8 etron models. Heres how tommy lost 30 lbs on noom weight. Im tom. Noom helped him use psychology to lose weight. The mindful aspect made me feel more conscious about what i was eating and why i was eating it. Its actually working. Lose weight and make it last with noom weight. A man, his tractor and his family. These are the upshaws. Though, he goes by shaw. Which stands for skilled hands at work. From cutting hair, and mowing grass, to roasting marshmallows, hes got a grasp on what matters most. 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And on friday, Court Documents revealed that the deal had completely fallen apart. We want to bring in cnns marshall cohen. What does this mean now for the investigation, this elevation to Special Counsel status . Well, good morning, guys. What this means is that the investigation that seemed to be over just a few weeks ago might only be starting with a possible trial looming in the future. As you mentioned, the huge announcement yesterday, from the Attorney General Merrick Garland, that in the past two days, david weiss, the prosecutor in delaware, had requested Special Counsel status, and that the Attorney General decided to grant him that status. Why . Why did this happen . Why now . What appears to be the most reasonable explanation is what you mentioned, the plea talks, between these two parties, completely breaking down in the last few days, and prosecutors describing in a court filing, literally, while Merrick Garland was speaking yesterday, prosecutors said in a court filing that the talks had reached an impasse, and that a trial was likely necessary. Guys . And i mean it really is a twist in event, right . Because hunter biden was potentially facing just probation as a result of the plea deal, and now, a Potential Trial as you say, is Hunter Bidens Team Responding . What are they saying . Where do we go from here . Yes, they have been pretty cautious, i would say, with their response. They have not been attacking the prosecutors. And they have been pointing out that while this case is all about taxes and things like that, he eventually did pay his full tax bill of about 2 million. But i want to play for you what one of the lead attorneys for hunter biden, abbey lowell, what he told our colleague Kaitlan Collins last night. Take a listen. It should not change the outcome. Who could say that they have been the subject of such a painstaking investigation, looking at every nook and cranny, in which a conclusion was two Officials Say<\/a> that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of the video, or independently verify the video, but the dense smoke and high winds created what you can imagine was incredibly chaotic and a terrifying situation. Take a listen to this next video. It is hard to hear but captures the terror as a resident tries to escape the flames in her car. We got to walk over there somewhere by the beach. Oh, [ bleep ]. No, no, no. Not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. The terror speaks for itself, doesnt it . This morning, we spoke with congresswoman from maury and lahaina in her district and she says her state has to learn from this disaster. It is not like Hurricane Force<\/a> winds, dry brush, or red flag conditions. We saw this before, and we did not learn our lesson. That brush fire could erupt as a result of churning hurricane winds. And we underestimated the lethality, the quickness of fire. In this situation, we have got to make sure that we do better. Cnns gloria from honolulu, we are hearing so many traumatic stories of survival and the rescue and Recovery Efforts<\/a> are conditioning as well. Yes, amara, rahel, just hearing that video, hearing those peoples voices and seeing the damage, in the video, and the images, it is really helping to bring everything into focus, just how much damage and loss this has in lahaina, 80 miles west of here from where we are. I want to go over the numbers that we have out this morning. Because now, we know at least a total of 2,207 structures were damaged or destroyed in the fire. More than 2,000 acres have been burned. And 86 of the structures that were exposed to fire are classified as residential buildings. So you can just imagine the loss. We have heard from witness accounts, and residents who have told us they were only able to get out with the clothes on their back. So we are talking about property loss. Loss of businesses. Loss of peoples livelihoods. And now, lahaina is going to take a long time to recover, and it will likely cost billions of dollars. Fema has put out a preliminary assessment, estimating the recovery to cost at least 5. 5 billion dollars. Now, trying to assess the damage is exactly what residents are trying to do. I want you to listen to a couple who spoke with my colleague yesterday, and they were trying to get back into the area, but were turned away. The police wont let us go to our home. We live in the same house, for 50 years. Since 1971. So i wanted to go down there. See if anything is left. You know. But they wont let us. I guess its dangerous or something. So well deal with it. We will wait a week or two, and we can go see whats left. And start from scratch. And rebuild. Reporter now, we are waiting to see if and when residents will be allowed back into the area today, for a couple of hours, yesterday, the one road that is currently leading in and out of lahaina was opened up but officials had to close it quickly after that because there were so many people and cars that were trying to get into an area that still remains unsafe. All right, gloria, thank you. And as we have been talking about all morning, there is obviously a lot of questions and some criticism over how authorities handled the early moments before the wildfires began to spread, just really quickly, across the island. Yes, hawaiis Attorney General<\/a> will lead a review safetys response leading up to the fires. And as you said, the questions are mounting, criticisms are mounting, about the states response, and why Warning Signs<\/a> were not activated which critics say cost some people their lives and that is not the only concern about hawaiis wildfire preparedness. Cnns pam brown reports now. Reporter cnn is learning hawaii officials underestimated the risk of wildfires in a recent report. Even as other documents show officials knew they lacked resources to preebt and prev and fight fires. We had advanced notice coming into the summer, the winds, the low humidity, and the fuels, and any ignition would have sparked a pretty big fire and thats exactly what we saw. Reporter in a state report, out just last year, Ranking National<\/a> disasters, hawaii officials classified the Wildfire Risk<\/a> to human life as low. In this colorcoded chart. The assessment though coming years after Hurricane Lane<\/a> fanned the flames of fires in hawaii, raving maui and ohahu in 2018 and it highlighted how unprepared officials in hawaii were dealing with a disaster. With a County Report<\/a> in 2021, noting Hurricane Lane<\/a> made small fires swell, and stretch Public Safety<\/a> resources with strong winds grounding air support. That storm should have been a wakeup call. According to this Planning Document<\/a> from hawaiis Emergency Management<\/a> agency. Other state and local documents show hawaii lagged behind in preparedness for the devastating wildfires playing out now that have killed more than 50 people, left countless people missing, and triggered widespread evacuations. A cruel deja vu for some residents. About four years ago, we had another hurricane, and we lost the house in the fire. Rebuilt. And what happened yesterday is killing me right now. We just lost the house again. Twice. In four years. A 2021 report also makes the troubling point that despite the increasing number of wildfires, Fire Prevention<\/a> was given, quote, Short Sh Rift<\/a> in a Strategy Plan<\/a> from the Maui Department<\/a> of fire and safety. The plan also included, quote, nothing about what can and should be done to prevent fires, which it called a significant oversight. Given how catastrophic this event was, i think there will be a lot of pressure on the state and other organizations to improve the Fire Prevention<\/a> action that theyre taking statewide. The increase in fires in hawaii comes as maui has faced increasing Drought Conditions<\/a> in recent years. Contributing to warnings like this. In a may webinar from the hawaii wildfire management organization. Hawaii has a big wildfire problem, we are on par with the most western prone states in the continental u. S. The impacts of the fire are broad and long lasts. Now residents are left to rebuild again, as the threat of the fure looms with no clear plan in the future in place. I know what i need to do. Weve done it before. This suck. Reporter it is unclear whether additional preparation and mitigation could have reduced the devastation, and all of the damage we have been seeing from the lahaina wildfires, given its intensity and speed. As the responsibility, the governor of hawaii tells cnn, the responsibility falls on all of us. Back to you. Pam brown, thank you for your report. And for more information on how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn. Com impact. Or you can text hawaii to 707070, to donate. Other news this morning, iowa is in the political spotlight this weekend, as more and more republican president ial hopefuls flock to the Iowa State Fair<\/a>. It is a chance for the candidates to make their case straight to the voters from the des moines registers soapbox, or in a fairside chat with the popular governor. Cnn has more from des moines with this political privilege. It political pilgrimage. It is a busy day today. What can we expect . Reporter it is already picking up, we are seeing the president ial candidate from the republican side sitting down with a fairside chat with Iowa Governor<\/a> kim reynolds, taking questions, talking about his various platforms, and his vision for the country moving ahead, should he be the nominee. We are expecting a total of seven candidates running for president , both on the gop and the democratic sides, although it is going to be dominated by the republicans, vying for that position to challenge president joe biden. The main event of course. And this is the big day of the Iowa State Fair<\/a> politically. Donald trump and ron desantis, both of them will be here today. Not at the same exact event but they are going to be at the Iowa State Fair<\/a>grounds, at around the same time. Joining donald tmp will be the nine florida representatives, and you know, people here in iowa they dont exactly know who these folks are, but hes clearly sending a message to desantis who is closest to him, though behind in double digits, in most polls, and sending a message, to desantis, saying this is your home state and guess what i have. And amara and rahel, you can think of it as donald trump trolling the way he does on social media, bringing it here to the state fair in person. All right, lots to watch there, thank you. And for more now on the Iowa State Fair<\/a>, lets bring in laura lopez, cnn political analyst and correspondent for the pbs news hour. Good morning. Lets talk about why this event is so significant. This event is really a key draw for all of the candidates, because it is a chance for them to press the voters and make a case for them, and along with other local iowa elected, that they are the ones that can take on president biden, come the general election. It is a chance for candidates to try to attempt, in the past, to break out behind who might be the favorite, and so weve seen that a lot of the candidates like Vice President<\/a> mike pence, and ron desantis, Florida Governor<\/a> ron desantis, senator tim scott, are all really trying to convince voters that theyre the better option than trump, but they are still very much in the shadow, and im a little skeptical but this time around, this fair will actually be a potential breakout for any of these candidates. That is certainly something a lot of people are watching. I will play for you, this is 30 minutes ago, what was said and we can discuss on the other side. These are great people running the primary, by the way. I love them all. Were colleagues, not competitors, were colleagues in a national revival, and i will not bash any of them, theyre great people. And the one credibility incremental reform and in case im probably not your guy, do you want reform or revolution . I stand on the side of revolution. Theyre taking the nice guy approach but also saying if elected we take some pretty big swings. I realize youre in washington right now, but what do we know about the reception from this type of message . So he is surprisingly in some national polls, he has been in third place, behind trump first, then ron desantis, then i will note that politico had an interesting analysis of the polls out this morning that said that he is doing better among online polls. So people who are polled online, who sometimes have a monetary incentive to answer those online polls, but on telephone polls, which is a different segment of the electorate, he is sometimes in seventh place, or in sixth place. So far behind a lot of the others in the pack. And iowa itself, it found that ron was behind trump, desantis, and senator tim scott, so not really leading that much in iowa, which of course, the reason that iowa is so key again is because it is the first s state, its a state where a candidate like ron can try to win and reset the narrative about whether or not the former President Trump<\/a> can win the nomination. Speaking of resetting, one person who seems to be resetting his campaign is desantis, and you said youre skeptical that this, the Iowa State Fair<\/a> will necessarily provide a break through, but you could argue perhaps, no one needs it more than desantis. Thats right. He definitely need it. His fam cain has been floundering his campaign has been floundering since essentially january when he was showing that he could be neck and neck with the former president , and since then, he has just gone steadily downhill. Now trailing the former president by double digits. And his campaign has spent, well, a pac that is associated with his campaign, a pac that is a separate independent pac that supports him, has spent a substantial amount of money in the last month or so, really trying to make voter contact, and so far, desantis doesnt have much to show for it. It seems that the republican consultants that i talked to say that this tactic, by a lot of the candidates, cannot go after the former president , to not go after trump, to not talk about what he did on january 6th, and it is not necessarily helping them. Candidates like desantis have actually floated pardons for trump. Saying that, you know, accusing the justice department, baselessly, of weaponizing themselves, and running a conspiracy and being corrupt. So how they try then to take down the former president when they arent will being to attack them, that consultants ive talked to say it is not helping them in their bid to come out from behind. Thanks for being with us today. Still ahead, a u. S. Attorney leading Hunter Bidens<\/a> criminal probe is now a Special Counsel<\/a>. After talks break down. The latest on the leebl troubles. Also the judge overseeing trumps criminal 2020 election case, saying inflammatory remarks could lead to a quicker trial. Its not just designed to look good. Its built to command attention. Its not just a comfortable interior. Its a quiet refuge. Theyre not just headlights. They light the way forward. The new fully electric audi q8 etron models. Heres how tommy lost 30 lbs on noom weight. Im tom. Noom helped him use psychology to lose weight. The mindful aspect made me feel more conscious about what i was eating and why i was eating it. Its actually working. Lose weight and make it last with noom weight. A man, his tractor and his family. These are the upshaws. Though, he goes by shaw. Which stands for skilled hands at work. From cutting hair, and mowing grass, to roasting marshmallows, hes got a grasp on what matters most. Theres a story in every piece of land, run with us on a john deere tractor and start telling yours. Get 1,000 off a 1025r tractor and 0 apr fixed rate for 60 months. With 30 grams of protein. Those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks uuuhhhh. Here, ill take that woohoo ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar. Enter the 10,000 powered by protein max challenge. He snores like an angry rhino. Youve never heard an angry rhino. Baby i hear one every night. Every night. Okay. Ill work on that. Save 50 on the sleep Number Limited Edition<\/a> smart bed. Plus, 36 month financing on select smart beds. Shop now only at sleep number. A prosecutor investigating hunter biden since 2018 has been given more authority. David weiss has just been elevated to Special Counsel<\/a> in the case. Earlier this summer, weiss had set up a deal with biden to plead guilty on tax offenses and also resolve a gun charge. But that didnt happen. And on friday, Court Documents<\/a> revealed that the deal had completely fallen apart. We want to bring in cnns marshall cohen. What does this mean now for the investigation, this elevation to Special Counsel<\/a> status . Well, good morning, guys. What this means is that the investigation that seemed to be over just a few weeks ago might only be starting with a possible trial looming in the future. As you mentioned, the huge announcement yesterday, from the Attorney General<\/a> Merrick Garland<\/a>, that in the past two days, david weiss, the prosecutor in delaware, had requested Special Counsel<\/a> status, and that the Attorney General<\/a> decided to grant him that status. Why . Why did this happen . Why now . What appears to be the most reasonable explanation is what you mentioned, the plea talks, between these two parties, completely breaking down in the last few days, and prosecutors describing in a court filing, literally, while Merrick Garland<\/a> was speaking yesterday, prosecutors said in a court filing that the talks had reached an impasse, and that a trial was likely necessary. Guys . And i mean it really is a twist in event, right . Because hunter biden was potentially facing just probation as a result of the plea deal, and now, a Potential Trial<\/a> as you say, is Hunter Bidens<\/a> Team Responding<\/a> . What are they saying . Where do we go from here . Yes, they have been pretty cautious, i would say, with their response. They have not been attacking the prosecutors. And they have been pointing out that while this case is all about taxes and things like that, he eventually did pay his full tax bill of about 2 million. But i want to play for you what one of the lead attorneys for hunter biden, abbey lowell, what he told our colleague Kaitlan Collins<\/a> last night. Take a listen. It should not change the outcome. Who could say that they have been the subject of such a painstaking investigation, looking at every nook and cranny, in which a conclusion was two Tax Misdemeanors<\/a> and a diverted gun case, to turn into anything else, theres been no evidence or fact that wasnt uncovered a week ago, that will be uncovered tomorrow. So hes basically saying that nothing changed but ill tell you something huge that changed. This case went from a likely plea deal to a possible trial, and they are adversaries now, more charges could be on the table, and everything is different. And here we go. If i remember correctly, you are in the courtroom the day this plea deal fell apart, and so this will be a lot to watch, and i know you will be watching it for us. Thank you very much. The judge presiding over Donald Trumps<\/a> election case is Setting Broupd Ris<\/a> when it comes to what he can and cannot talk about publicly. Yesterday, she issued a protective order, barring trump from publicly disclosing any Sensitive Information<\/a>. She also made it clear that if you violated that order, there would be consequences. Here is cnns jessica schneider. Reporter the case against donald trump in washington, d. C. Is moving rapidly. The judge in this case is really being firm on what trump and his legal team can and cannot disclose about the case to the public. So the judge issued a protective order, and it lays out that trump cannot disclose any Sensitive Information<\/a> that is given to him and his team during discovery. So that includes the material about the grand jury process, or information from it, or search warrants. And she also issued several warnings to trump. She noted that even though he is running a political campaign, he still, in her words, has to yield to the administration of justice, and she said that that means his political speech has to be somewhat limited, then thats the way it is going to be, and she said she is carefully scrutinizing any statements that trump and his team make and says anything that they say that can be interpreted to be intimidating to witnesses or prejudicial to potential jurors could really threaten this whole process. So under all of these terms, prosecutors are saying theyre prepared to begin handing over material immediately. This includes 11. 6 million pages of documents, and it includes hundreds of recordings of witness interviews, which trump of course will be prohibited from disclosing publicly. And well see how quickly this case will go to trial. The prosecution wants it to start january 2nd, and trumps legal team has to propose their start date sometime next week. 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I read a quote from you in the washington post, where you said the height of hypocrisy to wear the robes and live the lifestyle of a billionaire, that is the reaction, and tell us more, you know, regarding the thoughts on this report. Well, the scale of this whole thing, and the revelations in propublica is just breath taking. I worked in the Executive Branch<\/a> for 30 years, and i cannot imagine any Executive Branch<\/a> official or any executive Branch Ethics<\/a> adviser thinking that this was okay. And the same law, in terms of Financial Disclosure<\/a>, and it applies to members of the Executive Branch<\/a> applies to members of the judiciary. So i think the Hair Splitting<\/a> that has gone on with Justice Thomas<\/a>, justifying these gifts from socalled friends, is just hypocritical. Some of these itemized gifts and i guess favors that hes received allegedly, this is according to pro publica, 26 private jet flights, eight helicopter flights, dozen v. I. P. Passes to professional College Sporting<\/a> events and one of his funds, Welalthy Friends<\/a> sending the personal 737 to pick up the justice. Give us the scale and the scope and the extravagance, as you say, how does it compare to other Government Officials<\/a> . Other Supreme Court<\/a> justices like samuel alito and sonja sotomayor, they have been accused of bending or breaking ethical rules, but this is on a different level, right . On an exponentially different level. So pro publica im sure has more of reporting to do on the justices but there are justices about which we have seen nothing. And so clearly, there are different moral standards that these justices are applying in making these decisions. I dont know who is advising Justice Thomas<\/a>, that some of these things are okay. The really troubling thing to me is this is really about the super wealthy, the onetenth of one percent, buying access to an associate justice of the Supreme Court<\/a>. I mean we now know, i guess, what that access is worth and apparently it is worth a lot. So all Government Employees<\/a> have to abide by some kind of code of ethics, right . But the Supreme Court<\/a>, the justices there, who are appointed for life, theyre not bound to any ethical code, or regulations, is that correct . Not exactly correct. Public Financial Disclosure<\/a> law that applies to Justice Thomas<\/a> is the same one that applied to me when i was general counsel of the u. S. Office of government ethics. And the same standards in terms of being able to accept gifts. So you know, as it turns out, i have a couple of friends that i have known since high school who have been very successful, and actually own their own aircraft. Have i ever accepted a ride on these aircraft . No. Most hospitality we have exchangeed are homecooked meals. Thats what is contemplated in the law and the guidance for both executive and judicial officials. What the Supreme Court<\/a> lacks, and the lower courts actually do not, is the system of enforcement and accountability. Well, we will leave that conversation there, obviously, a strong call including from democrats from ethical reforms. We will see where it leads. Thank you. The department of homeland security, the chief is in new york to try to evaluate how to help the city deal with the overwhelming migrant crisis. The office of the mayor eric adams says over the next three years the issue is expected to cost new york over 12 billion. Right now 60,000 Asylum Seekers<\/a> are in the citys care. Cnns Polo Sandoval<\/a> was given rare access to a Migrant Shelter One<\/a> of the citys 200 sites being used to house Asylum Seekers<\/a>. As weve seen the numbers of Asylum Seekers<\/a> at the border go down, weve seen our numbers in new york city take the opposite direction and go up. Senior City Officials<\/a> faced a grilling this week from city council members, who were told that hundreds of adult Asylum Seekers<\/a> have been issued 60 days notice to leave City Shelters<\/a>. Part of a policy mayor eric adams recently announced. It requires migrants without children who have been in City Shelters<\/a> for a significant amount of time to find other means of housing. It is a road to help those who are needed to move out of shelters and take their next steps forward. I almost feel like were sacrificing one group of people, because we have a higher responsibility to children and, you know, families. New york City Officials<\/a> insist they are completely out of option and saying all you have to do is look inside and the citys nearly 200 shelters. Like this one in a building next to new yorks Jfk Air Cargo<\/a> terminals that normally serves as a postal facility. Now, it is serving as a temporary home for some 750 male Asylum Seekers<\/a>. The space typically dedicated to sorting mail during the holidays, now a massive dormitory. The parking lot, bathrooms and showers. And the loading dock, a makeshift trailer. Initially a lot of folks coming here from from venezuela and we have 12, 13, 15 different languages spoken here. The new york city City Management<\/a> commissioner every day we have 3 to 500 people looking for room for, looking for places for, and we cant open up sites fast enough. So you can see this as sort of the layout here. He offered cnn this rare look inside one of the citys nearly 200 sites currently being used to house about 60,000 migrants and counting. This particular site serves as a socalled respite center. Originally designed to be short term and meet basic Housing Needs<\/a> but not anymore, warns the commissioner. We modelled this after the Emergency Storm<\/a> shelters we set up with coastal storms and generally designed to house people from 48 to 72 hours and we have folks staying in these Facility Force<\/a> much longer, upwards of a month, month and a half. This is not equipped with long term housing but with options running out, residents are making do. Some dry their clothes in a laundromat and a makeshift bar borough shop, room for one client at a time. Finding migrant families private Shelter Place<\/a> is a whole other challenge, and the citys primary Intake Center<\/a> in manhattan, we met a woman who is waiting to be assigned longterm housing for her family. We dont know where they will place us, said the venezuelan mother. Like many of the nearly 100,000 Asylum Workers<\/a> who have arrived in new york since last spring, the only guarantee is uncertainty. We have seen so much of that uncertainty on the faces of migrants, that wait outside of the area here behind me, the first initial Intake Center<\/a> for most of the Asylum Seekers<\/a> after they arrive in new york. This is where, up to three, four, 500 that you just heard from the commissioner, they have to wait to be placed in the system. You also mentioned that the team, they have been on the ground since this week, assessing the situation, and dhs officials telling me it will be their job to report back to washington, to see what resources can be provided, in addition to the close to 140 million that have been offered to the city, but we will hear from City Officials<\/a>, they will tell you, that is just a drop in the bucket, in terms of the money theyve spent on this crisis. With an inside look, thanks for bringing it to us. Still ahead, thousands of people are trying to hack into Artificial Intelligence<\/a> programs. And the white house is behind this effort. We will explain. 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So in las vegas, at death con, the largest Hacking Conference<\/a> in the world, we are organizing something called the generative exercise, 3,000 people, over 2 1 2 days will get 50 minutes each to try to break every major large language model. So this is chat gpt, google smart, et cetera, and the goal of red teaming is to come in and have a challenge to break models and make it say and do things it is not supposed to say and do. So what are they going to be looking for . How are they going to be doing it . Whats the competitive element in this . Yes, so the Nonprofit Community<\/a> intelligence designed the challenge. The challenges are designed around hacking. So specifically getting the model to Say Something<\/a> that maybe it shouldnt be doing, tricking it, but also to get the kind of organic harms that people might see in every day interactions, and i call these imbedded harms. These are things like societal bias, and information integrity and misinformation, and political misinformation. You know, inaccurate information about citizens rights, or accidental defamation, but what were trying to do is gather information about all of the potentially bad things that could happen in these models and have the Companies Fix<\/a> them. I think i read in the washington post, where you pointed out some examples of what some of these hackers might be looking for, and the ways in which they might do it. Can you give us an example to really drive home how these hackers are trying to exploit some of these biases, for example . Yes, absolutely. So one example that has come up is defamation. These models accidentally hallucinate or make up lawsuits against people, for example. Open ai is currently being sued by somebody because the model had said that it had a Sexual Harassment<\/a> lawsuit when it actually didnt. And another example is political misinformation. We have an election in 2024, and any Media Platform<\/a> is concerned about malicious actors speaking political misinformation. Now we have to worry about these Large Language Models<\/a> accidentally producing political misinformation. So one of the challenges, for example, is around getting the model to Say Something<\/a> incorrect about your rights as a citizen. It is interesting, weve seen open ai, meta, google, all express support for this event, which i think maybe some would not have expected. Help me understand why the company is behind open ai and would support Something Like<\/a> this . Well, i think theres an understanding across everybody building these kinds of models, first of all how powerful they are, and second of all about, how hard it is to make sure theyre safe and secure. So challenges that we are tackling are things that these companies have been struggling with for years, and also the extent to other companies, social media companies, and constant moderation has been a big issue, the hope is that with a wide range of perspectives, we can bring in a diverse range of input. And now getting this kind of job traditionally in Silicon County<\/a> is the one person, these are the people who are extreme experts and ethics, cybersecurity, they get called to join the internal teams. What were doing with this, were creating an independent body and opening it up to basically anybody in america who wants to come to death con, and were saying the public should have something to say and the Companies Agree<\/a> with us. Because the idea being that if you have a more Diverse Group<\/a> of people who are actually doing some of these tests, they might actually have a broader sense of what theyre looking for, rather than a very select group of, as you say, the 1 . 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Pushing into the Pacific Northwest<\/a>. It includes seattle. Compared to a few hours ago. We will start with the south. Look at this. Temperatures hitting 108 in dallas. 107 tomorrow. Temperatures finally drop a little bit by monday. Houston, staying in the triple digits. New orleans, hitting 100. And were looking at temperatures hitting close to 100 degrees across north florida. The feels like temperature, which is so important, it is going to be 115 in baton rouge today. 108 in san antonio. 117 in corpus christi. This is going to be just a muggy dangerously hot day across the south. Across the Pacific Northwest<\/a>, here we go, portland hitting 106 on monday, and portland could break records on sunday, as well as monday. Seattle, getting close to 90 degrees. Temperatures normally 78. Quite a difference there. Spokane hitting the triple digits. Medford, oregon, as well. Dangerous heat. Portland should be at 83 degrees this time of the year. In the triple digits. Hitting 106 by monday. Not falling into the 80s again until friday. Also, we have a pretty active severe setup for today. We will see storms all across portions of the midsection of the country as well as the northeast. We will see showers and storms overnight, across the northeast, along the i95 corridor. And across the midwest and the mid south, and were going to see the possibility of storms today, and tomorrow. The biggest threat is going to be across the Southern Plains<\/a> and extending on into the north east, damaging winds, large hail, a possibility of isolated tornadoes today. So we will be on the lookout for the potential for these dangerous storms later today. Yes, it is surprising to see the Triple Digit Temperatures<\/a> out in the northwest, right . And here, it is like im sure when you step outside, it is a storm warning. Atlanta, 93. So brace yourself. Brace yourself. We shouldnt complain with 93 compared to triple digits. Yes. There is humidity, too. 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