We begin this morning in hawaii where authorities have increased the death toll caused by the wildfires there, at least 55 people now confirmed dead from the raging inferno that swept through the town of lahaina. The community there is just devastated from the loss. We are going to try our very best to identify those that have perished so that the families can have their closure and can have that understanding. When the mayor said it is all gone, it is all gone. It is all gone. It is gone. The governor estimated thursday that about 80 of the overall lahaina area was destroyed. County officials in maui say the fire there is mostly contained. The federal government also swinging into action with President Biden issuing a Disaster Declaration for maui and parts of the big island. And sfeefema oig administrator traveling there today. And i want to bring in a woman who is safe but also separated from her family. Her parents home has burnedsis firefighter there. First of all, how are you doi
washington. reporter: the justice department now has their hopes for a trial schedule out lined in a new filing in federal court on thursday for donald trump. what the justice department and prosecutors want to do, they want to take donald trump to trial in this january 6 criminal case in federal court by january. they would like to have jury selection in december and then the case deckick off with evide being presented beginning onnian 2 of 2024. that is a date that donald trump and his lawyers are almost certainly going to be pushing back on quite harshly. they won t have to respond this court to this until next week. but when they come, they have already signaled that they are very likely going to want to claim that they have a lot of legal arguments to make that are not going to allow for a trial that quickly in four to five months. things about presidential immunity, things about the first amendment. and also they have argued in other cases and here that donald trump is quite a