hurricane raging on maui and the big island. at least six dead. the flames burning homes and forcing hundreds to evacuate. much of a popular tourist town destroyed. the coast guard rescuing people after they fled into the water. our team in hawaii. also tonight, just hours before president biden's visit to utah, the fbi fatally shooting a man there while serving a warrant after he allegedly threatened to kill the president. the images he posted online of guns and himself in a sniper suit holding a rifle. just revealed, the special counsel's secret search warrant for donald trump's twitter account. what were they looking for? the american nurse and her daughter kidnapped in haiti released after two weeks nearly. was there a ransom? the billion dollar mystery. who won the record mega millions jackpot? our r nbc news exclusive, the mother/d/daughter duo o set to make e history as virgin galactic takes a big leap in space tourism. and he was famous or his work with the band. , bob dylan, and martin scorsese. remembering robbie robertson. ♪ take a load off, fanny ♪ >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. good evening. it was paradise in flames in hawaii where incredibly fast-moving wildfires on the island of maui have claimed at least six lives overnight framing parts of the picturesque tourist destination against a hellish backdrop. homes, businesses, and the historic town of lahaina destroyed. power and communications crippled. residents and visitors urgently evacuated. others running for their lives in desperate sprints to the ocean to escape the heat and smoke. many of the injured treated for burns. the fire sweeping across the western part of maui driven by strong winds fueled by a hurricane hundreds of miles away that initially kept firefighting helicopters on the ground. miguel almaguer has made his way to maui and has this late report. >> reporter: the apocalyptic scene in maui unfolded before sunrise. an island wildfire so explosive, flames poured into the desperate to plunge the ocean escape inferno. >> careful here. >> reporter: the coast guard quickly plucking roughly a dozen from the water as witnesses say the unstoppable blaze ripped across homes and took at least six lives. >> the smoke was just so thick, people were running around looking for refuge. it was -- the heat was unbearable. >> reporter: during the chaotic evacuation -- >> oh, my god. >> reporter: -- hospitals treating at least 20 burn victims quickly became overwhelmed. 911 service went down. cell coverage is out, and the national guard was ordered in to help. >> it really took us by surprise. >> reporter: as 70-mile-an-hour winds fanned the flames, the air attack was grounded. quickly multiple fires erupted. historic sections of lahaina were swallowed by flames and engulfed in smoke. >> this is not a safe place to be on certain parts of maui. we have shelters that are overrun. >> reporter: calling the unfolding catastrophe unprecedented, state officials say some of maui is without power. roads are blocked. hotels are closing, and thousands of tourists and locals are trying to flee. >> our stuff is still at our hotel, so we are here at the airport at nigh no stuff. >> the firestorm came through and took everythiith it. >> reporter: but for those with nowhere to go or no way out, the extent of the damage is still unclear. >> local people have lost everything. they've lost their house, they've lost their animals, and it's devastating. >> reporter: tonight this is the misery in maui as a wildfire turns this tropical paradise into a hellish nightmare. here at the airport acro islan so,000 peoare trying to leave maui, which is still under a state of emergency. airlines are sold out and hotels are evacuating. many have nowhere to turn. lester. >>uel almaguer in hawaii starting us joining me ns hawaii's governor sylvia luke. acting governor luke, as we just reported, there has sadly been loss of life in maui. based on the extent of the destruction you know about so far, do you anticipate there will be more casualties? >> you know, this is the beginning of some of our findings and assessment. it is really a sad day for maui and for the state of hawaii. you know, we never anticipated that we would have this type of brush fires. >> do you have any sense of what you're seeing in terms of people displaced? visitors and locals alike? >> you know, as of this morning, we see reports from the maui county that about 2,000 -- over 2,000 people are at the shelters. that's not including the 2,00ople at the airport. these are mostly visitors waiting to fly back to their final destination and because they were evacuated early, they ended up spending the night at the airport. >> and maui obviously an attractive destination in good times. what is your message to travelers to the island right now? >> i issued an emergency proclamation a few hours ago encouraging people not to travel to maui, you know, whether it's visitors or residents, it's not a safe place for you to be. we have wildfires that are not completely contained. we have travel plans to maui, we ask that you postpone it or cancel it at this time. >> acting governor luke, thank you for taking time out during this very busy period. we do appreciate it. >> thank you, lester. also developing tonight, fbi agents shot and killed a man in utah while serving a warrant to him for allegedly making death threats against president biden ahead of his visit to that state. peter alexander has late details. >> reporter: tonight, president biden out west heading to salt lake citst hours after fbi says i agents had a deadly man who had threatened to kill him. the fbi says it happened at 6:15 this morning in nearby provo, utah, where they were serving an arrest warrant on suspect, craig robertson who they say was approximate ly 70 to 75 years old. >> there was a big boom then another one and another one. >> reporter: in court documents, the fbi says robertson posted on social media i hear biden is coming to utah and that he was cleaning the dust off his sniper rifle. this robertson post according to the fbi shows a picture of his weapons, along with threats ahead of the 2024 election cycle. the documents also say robertson posted threats to kill vice president kamala harris and the democratic d.a. in bragg, who is now prosecuting former president trump. during surveillance in march, the fbi says it observed robertson wearing a hat bearing the word "trump," and when agents attempted to speak with him, robertson replied, i said it was a dream adding, don't return without a warrant. >> he was nice to me. it just goes to show, you never know who your neighbors are. >> reporter: it comes amid growing concerns over threats to public officials and their families. capitol police saying the number of investigations is historically high. major incidents include the violent attack on nancy pelosi husband paul and an attempted assassination of brett kavanaugh. the fbi has not released details about what sparked today's deadly confrontation. no fbi agents were injured. lester. >> peter, thank you. now to the secret search warrant on former president trump's twitter account. tonight we've learned it's part of the federal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. garrett haake joins us. garrett, this was a move by special counsel jack smith. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, lester. in court documents unsealed today reveal the special counsel obtained a warrant to seize his twitter data earlier this year with the judge okaying a search of the account for evidence of criminal offenses. now, the documents also show the judge slapped twitter now called x with a $350,000 fine for delaying handing over this material as the company fought a nondisclosure order about not informing trump. trump posted, the doj secretly attacked my twitter account calling the warrant a major hit on his civil rights. tonight nbc news has also learned that fulton county, georgia, d.a. fani willis is supposed to introduce her evidence to a grand jury next week and a fourth indictment could soon follow. >> thank you. now to mr. trump's top republican rival, florida governor ron desantis, who made headlines today when he suspended an elected state democratic state prosecutor calling her soft on crime, and tonight she is firing back. gabe gutierrez has that story. >> reporter: tonight, state attorney monique worrell is off the job suspended by florida governor ron desantis. she's now firing back calling him a weak dictator, who's targeting her to prop up his presidential campaign. >> this is absolutely a political hit job. i think that the governor's campaign is failing and that he needed something to put him in the national spotlight. report worrell is a progressive prosecutor in orlando who campaigned on criminal justice reform and was backed by a committee that got money from liberal megadonor george soros. desantis accuses her of refusing to enforce law. >> monique worrell's administration of criminal justice in the ninth circuit has been clearly and fundamentally derelict so as to constitute both neglect of duty and incompetence. >> reporter: the police union criticized worrell for being soft on crime, and today a local sheriff praised desantis' move. >> this governor has always put the victims, has always put the law-abiding citizens ahead of the criminals. >> reporter: her performance slammed. two orlando officers were shot and wounded by a suspect who had been released on bail. worrell tells us she had no say over his release. governor desantis is saying that you're just not enforcing the law, that you're abusing prosecutorial discretion. your response? >> it's not true. crime is down in orange and oseola counties, not up, and that decrease has happened since i took office 2 1/2 years ago. >> reporter: this is the second time desantis has suspended a democratic prosecutor. tonight worrell tells us she's reviewing her legal options. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. an american nurse and her daughter are free tonight in haiti almost two weeks after they were kidnapped at the clinic where the mother works. kristen dahlgren has more for us tonight. >> reporter: for two weeks there had been non ofyear-old nurse alorsainvi or her young daughte nahaven but el roi haiti confirmed their safe release saying, we are praising god for answered prayers. >> we express our deepest appreciation to our haitian and u.s. interagency partners for their assistance in facilitating for their safe release. >> reporter: tonight el roi asking for privacy. it's unclear if they will stay in haiti. a country alix considered her adopted home. >> my name is alix. i'm a nurse from new hampshire, but now i live in haiti. >> reporter: in a video posted on the organization's website before the kidnapping, alix speaks glowingly of the people and her work caring for children at el roi's school with her haitian-born husband. >> i'm so blessed to be able to know so many haitians. >> reporter: but on july 30th, the organization reported she and the couple's child were taken from the port-au-prince campus. it was the same day the state department issued its highest level travel advisory for haiti ordering nonessential personnel to leave. unicef reporting a sharp uptick in the kidnapping of women and children, nearly 300 in the first half of the year. >> these are groups over the past few months who have actually expanded their territory and are extremely more aggressive. >> kristen joining me in the studio. do we know if a ransom was paid in this case? >> reporter: right, lester. these gangs commonly ask for up to a million dollars. in this case we just don't know and may never know. it's unlikely anyone including the state department would want that advertised since it could put other americans in danger, lester. >> good to know they are safe. thanks for that report. to the mystery now in one small florida town where someone woke up a billionaire after winning last night's record-setting mega millions jackpot. sam brock reports from neptune beach. >> reporter: in the city of neptune beach, florida, population, 7,045, a gigan question, who bought at ticket? do you know who won the lottery? >> no, it wasn't me. >> definitely not me. >> reporter: a record $1.58 billion jackpot with a nood publix pro to be lucky location. >> this is so exciting for this a i only buy one ticket. i always say, it just takes $2 and a dream. >> reporter: it's not just the talk of the town, but the nation. >> i woke up this morning to a bunch of text messages. >> reporter: where were necessary text messages coming from? >> vermont. >> reporter: this group thought they played their cards right. >> i bought a ticket and there were no winners because everybody is here. >> reporter: as speculation bubbles, the florida lottery rules are clear, the winner needs to claim the prize within 180 days 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