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Over 24 hours. i spent all night all through the morning scrolling through my phone looking for family members trying to get in touch with my mom. i know that she s safe, i know where she is. but, like i said to another interviewer earlier, my voice was broadcast to you before i got to speak to my mom and let her know i was safe. the infrastructure here is not capable of handling this kind of tragedy. dustin, we re looking at images of lahaina that we ve just received just from the harbor. and it looks like a war zone. it looks like it s been bombed out. it is like an apocalypse. i know you just heard there people talking about just the shock of how fast it moved. these are shopping centers just completely destroyed. tell me about the moment you realized the fire was spreading towards you, were you also just shocked by the speed? um, i wasn t home when the ....
Fires. dustin, thank you very much. thank you so much. thank you. and we continue to cover that, as we said, bill weir is en route right now. next, president biden is heading to salt lake city tonight. but fbi agents shot and killed a utah man accused of threatening his life earlier today. and whiplash. dozens of arson attacks throughout russia now leaving russians on edge. the kremlin blames ukraine. but our matthew chance is actually in moscow with the story that you will see first outfront. ....
Bicycles just screaming at people to leave. reporter: with hundreds of homes and businesses feared destroyed, the extent of the damage won t be known for days. but images from the sky give a glimpse of the destruction. overnight more than a thousand travelers had no choice but to sleep on airport grounds after several flights were canceled. officials in hawaii now discouraging nonessential travel to the aloha state. even as of this morning, planes were landing on maui with tourists. this is not a safe place to be. reporter: bill weir, cnn en route to maui. outfront now, the person who had to evacuate from the wildfire in maui and lost his home. dustin, i am so sorry for such a loss. i know your family has lived in that home for generations. i just can t imagine what you re going through right now. i know you ve got family members who you haven t even been able to get in contact with. how are you even managing right now? honestly, i ve not slept in ....
bert said i threw mason, i don t remember throwing her. i don t remember. but at some point she was out of my arms, and she was in the room. you were trying to get in there with your children? yeah. and. i was pulled out. that s when one of the man, she said. had started to strangle her with some pantyhose that had been left drying on the banister. i was having trouble breathing, and i couldn t get away. and i, i was having trouble even twisting out of it. tracy says that she must ve passed out, because the next thing that she remembered was waking up on the floor. she could hear bert cursing at the intruders. this was the moment that she knew she had to act to protect her children. she ran for a gun safe next to the bed in the master bedroom. i dove into the room. and i just, i went for the safe. she could feel dustin and the other man grabbing, her as she tried to open the safe. even so, she managed to punch ....
Both administrations just didn t have enough senior level consideration of worst case scenarios for this. this is something the president has repeatedly defended his decision-making on saying he didn t want to extend what was already america s longest war. lindsey? right, monica alba, thank you. and for more on the supreme court s landmark decisions, i want to bring in nbc news supreme court reporter, lawrence hurly. so lawrence, thanks for being with us today. you know, instructing down affirmative action, dustin clarence thomas defended what he called the colour-blind constitution, seeking quote, to clarify that all forms of discrimination based on race, including so-called affirmative action, are prohibited under the constitution. meanwhile, justice ketanji brown jackson wrote in her dissent, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. how does each side characterize their position? yeah, this just shows the huge stock differences that exist in the law and probab ....