The Hawaii Governor josh green joins us this hour with an update on the crisis, and urgent evacuation. Also a proposed january 2nd trial date. The Special Counsels team hoping to start the trial just ahead of the January 6th Anniversary and first republican president ial contest. And americans released from a notorious prison in iran. Five wrongfully held u. S. Citizens now under house arrest in a potential step toward freedom. Were learning more about why they were moved and how it could wind up helping iran. Welcome to our viewer here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Lets get right to the Wildfire Disasters in hawaii right now. Its now killed at least 36 people. The death toll expected to keep climbing as prime Tourist Havens become charred ruins. Lets go to derek van dam, who just filed this report. Reporter tonight fires on the Island Of Maui continuing to burn out of control, as new federal help is now being goods patched ami
totals will meet that. i want to follow up on that point, governor. i know you re going to announce formally, but what is the latest number you have now that you can share with us? well, out of respect to the mayor, it s about 20% higher already. i m cautious, because they are right now making sure we don t duplicate any casualties. one of things we always learn as an emergency room figures, we don t want to say anything that makes more panic, but as we get into more houses that were overwhelmed, we have great concerns that we ll find people that weren t able to escape. our teams are working diligently. it is a challenging place, because we don t have a lot of resources in some cases, whether it s health care or mortuary resources. we re careful about that. i ll tell you, by the time this