a search for answers. the atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. and in the aftermath of the disaster, a top emergency management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. plus, delay, delay, delay. donald trump s legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. will the judge buy their reasons for the setback? and serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraine s current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. right now, the atf s national response team is joining the investigation. the death toll remains a
Already burned more than 400,000 acres. could reach the outskirts of yellowknife this weekend. cnn s paula newton joins us now from ottawa with more details. this is quite an evacuation underway here, an entire city, the capital of the northwest territories. how is it going? reporter: so, canadian officials just wrapped, in fact, a press conference. they said that thankfully the evacuation is going well so far. it has been calm. traffic on that one highway, as you mentioned. traffic has calmed there. the route out is so far safe. and i want to point out, jim, how harrowing this canni be. smoke has been thick there for several weeks. and that is another reason why officials weren t taking any chances. we just saw what happened in maui. and they did not want this community, this large but again isolated community, to actually be left at the mercy of a
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