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
but people in lahaina, this is how strong they are connected to the land, to the people. they want to stay. they will stay until the end. that is lahaina. and we re hoping that the people of lahaina and hawaii get everything that they need to rebuild as quickly as possible. but we so appreciate your time today. we know it wasn t easy to talk about but we re plaid glad that and your family are safe. we appreciate you being with us this morning. thank you. thank you. in other news this morning, federal prosecutors and lawyers for donald trump will appear before a judge in the special counsel case of election sub version against the former president. both sides will argue about restrictions that prosecutors want to impose on what trump can say publicly about sensitive evidence in the case. trump is not expected to be in court for today s hearing. meantime on thursday prosecutors filed their proposed trial schedule for the case and their ambitious calendar would have the trial begin
who is running for president. not only is january and february going to bring about the beginning of voting in the 2024 primaries for president, he will be running there, iowa caucuses will be on the calendar, but also there are other things that he needs to do at the beginning of the year including prepare for other trials both lawsuits that are taking him to trial, there is already one scheduled in mid-january. e. jean carroll taking him to trial on a defamation case for the second time and other criminal trials he is preparing for now that he s been indicted multiple times in multiple courts. so it won t get hashed out right away. on friday morning there will be a court hearing in this case, the federal criminal case against donald trump related to the 2020 election. and in that hearing, it will be the first before federal judge tanya chutkan in the d.c. district court. she will be talking to the lawyers about how evidence
should be handled in this case. there have been disputes over that, how much donald trump will actually be able to share publicly as he learns information that the justice department gathered and they hand it over to him so his team can prepare for trial. she will be determining that. and she also may be responding to some of the things both trump s lawyers and the justice department has said in court filings so far about his social media posts, that he has been quite aggressive on social media talking about mike pence, talking about the judge, talking about the prosecutors. and so a lot to watch for. exactly how the judge responds and what the tone will be in this very first hearing before the federal judge who will oversee the trial of donald trump related to the 2020 election. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. and in the last few hours in kyiv, officials say missile fragments fell in the area of a children s hospital and in the southern city of zaporizhzhia.
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