The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
Security concerns and not necessarily economic superiority. but chinese don t appear to be buying it. anna coren, thank you. let s turn to haiti now where an american nurse and her young daughter have been released after being kidnapped two weeks ago. kylie atwood has more from the state department in washington. we welcome reports of their release. we have no greater priority for the safety and security of u.s. citizens overseas. reporter: after nearly two weeks, confirmation that the american nurse and her young daughter were released. they invited me to come to the school to do some nursing for some of the kids. reporter: she works with an aid group run by her husband. she and her young daughter were taken from the group s campus almost two weeks ago. as gang violence overtakes the country. they were kidnapped on the same day the u.s. ordered the evacuation of all nonessential