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
Hong kong and macao. this was long expected. china knew about it. but now we ve got the details. it will target semiconductors and micro electronics, quantum technologies and artificial intelligence. so they cannot help china develop its technologies that could undermine national security. the treasury department says the biden mistration is committed to keeping america sa and defending america s national security through appropriately protecting technologies that are critical to the next generation of military innovation. a u.s. official stressed that this was national security action, not an economic one. but china is not buying it. we had the very strong reaction from beijing.