The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
In the western regions. and because of the scale of it, i don t know if we can show you the video of him standing in front of a big blaze, but some 45 rescuers had to be involved in putting it out. and the oil depot fully destroyed. this comes as russia is also saying that it was the victim of some attempted drone attacks, it is accusing ukraine of perpetrating. two shot down en route to moscow and another two shot down heading for the black seaport city. and it also managed to thwart another nine drones which apparently crashed into the black sea. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for these latest attacks, but they are happening with increasing regularity. they are not particularly destructive, we re not hearing any reports of damage or injuries this morning, but i think given the comments that we ve heard, they are designed to send a message to the russian
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Safe here. well, that s right. you know, i m not implying that there s any fault in terms of the american people, but most people weren t paying much attention to what was going on in iraq and syria until first paris and then san bernardino, and then it became evident hey, you know, we could be vulnerable here. and that s when the president ramped up his public appearances and campaign to sell the war against isis to the american people. jim miklaszewski, let us know when you need to bolt down the hallway to get into the very same briefing room we are watching here. we will come back to you. andrea mitchell, our chief foreign affairs correspondent, whose time slot of course we are trampling all over waiting for the president here, andrea, you heard richard haas. the question, is this making allies out of enemies, brought up russia. a very tricky part of this. i know a man you usually cover, john kerry, secretary of state, is en route to moscow?
as we speak. en route to moscow, trying to enlist vladimir putin during meetings tomorrow to try to coordinate this policy in syria. so far, it is not working. as you know, there was no warning to the president or the secretary of state by putin when they were all at the united nations that the very next day, he was going to launch air strikes in syria and they tried to put the best face on it, saying he s getting into an afghanistan style quagmire, that moscow is underestimating. that said, it has made things a whole lot more complicated. i have been told by some of our reporting from the ground that it has made it much harder to get humanitarian aid into syrians across that turkish border. you have seen the conflict with turkey and the russian plane being shot down by turkey over that air space when they briefly, the russians briefly crossed into turkey so there s a lot to coordinate and a lot of people in our intelligence community telling me they think that putin s big play in sy