In north korea, the regime confirming for the first time it has custody of an american soldier who bolted into its territory last month. What the north is claiming he said. And back at home, Soccer Superstar lionel messi propels his miami team to new heights. We begin this morning with a Wildfire Devastation in hawaii. This morning, the white house announced President Biden and the first lady will travel to maui on monday to meet with First Responders and survivors. And as the death toll climbs to 106, were starting to learn the identities of some of the victims. They include 74yearold robert vickman, 79yearold buddy jantoc, franklin teros, who was trying to save a friends dog, Carol Hartley who lived on lahaina for 36 years and a family of four that was trying to escape. And as news crews with Cadaver Dogs Scour the area, a growing number of families are facing a grim reality, one man spoke with our affiliate khnl outside a morgue, saying he was waiting to identify his stepfathers rem
People missing. yeah. incredible to think about and you have to imagine that over the course of the last few days, when those people of course the hope is that these people are in shelters, these people are staying with families, these people have been sleeping in their cars and they just haven t had the right resources to make those calls to let their families know that they re okay. so, over time, every day that goes by that that number, beyond a thousand people, doesn t drop down, it is getting more likely that at least a large percentage of that is counted among the dead. and then you factor in the fact they only combed over with cadaver dogs and search crews looking for people in that wreckage, only about 30% of it. i mean, it could get just really, really tragic here, jose. yeah. steve patterson, thank you so very much. appreciate you being with us. joining us now is dr. reza danesh, a physician in maui who runs an urgent care and
Application of the racketeering statute. there is probably no one that knows it better than i do, probably some that know it as well. the first one to use it. joining us now nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard outside the fulton county jail and catherine christian, former assistant district attorney from the manhattan d.a. s office. she is also an msnbc legal analyst. so, vaughn, you re outside the jail there. what have you seen and what is the process going to be like going forward? reporter: right, rudy giuliani would call this a misapplication of justice, but that is an argument that he and his own counselor have to make in most likely a fulton county courtroom. in the next nine days, rudy giuliani, donald trump, and 17 other defendants, are going to have to show up here at the fulton county jail, just down that road from the courthouse, where ultimately the indictment was handed down, just about 36 hours ago. and they re going to have to surrender to the sheriff s