Warning as theyre heading into this it is incredible is right. Matt. Thank you very much, kate. New hour of Cnn News central starts now the national Hurricane Center out with a new update on Hurricane Milton. The track, the intensity when it is making landfall and the center calling it a Once In A Lifetime event and this has to stop that are the words of and that is what we were just told by the head of fema on this show about the false rumors swirling about the Agency And Disaster relief rumors being pushed by Donald Trump. And with 28 days until the election, Voting Groups are concerned how natural disasters like milton will be impacting your Vote And Voter registration. Im Kate Baldwin with john berman. Sara sidner is out today. This is Cnn News central we do have breaking news. We just got a Brand New updated forecast on Hurricane Milton the major hurricane is still a category four storm. A very powerful Category Storm with potentially catastrophic winds, as well as an extremely da
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
ago. the fingerprints of climate change written all over this story. indeed. let s go to maui. veronica miracle is on the scene for us. what are you seeing and what are you hearing? wolf, absolute devastation on the ground. this group of volunteers have come together in the last hours. they put out a call asking people to bring donation and people have been coming in droves. they plaque a boat and trailer to the brim. it s already on its way to those stuck in lahaina. and another trailer will be on its way soon. the people had firsthand accounts. others actually experienced the devastation themselves. one man i just spoke with escaped the flames. he lost his house, lost his car, barely got out with his life. take a listen.
and get into the bloodstream and linked to asthma, heart disease, respiratory illnesses. we re watching out for a press conference from eric adams a few hours from now to get an update and how long they expect this situation to last. athena, thank you for the reporting. please keep us posted as we hear more from the mayor. and you ve seen the sky lines in new york. here s a look at the hazy sky lines in philadelphia, baltimore, charlotte, north carolina, all across this part of the country. derrick vandam is with us now. how much longer will this smoke, this smog fill the skies in cities across the u.s.? phil, i think we ve got several more hours if not another day of seeing more scenes like this playing out in the national mall. looks like to me a climate change movie playing out in real time. definitely the fingerprints of climate change written all over this story. and we could see this wall of smoke literally traveling across lake erie yesterday as it
multi-state, multi-agency response. absolutely. what we re seeing is we ve got impacts in six states. fatalities in five of those states. we did receive a request from the illinois governor earlier this morning for an emergency declaration as well. that will be going to the president here shortly for his signature. and our regional administrators are working with the other states impacted to help them draw up their emergency requests for any assistance they might need. i covered tornadoes in kansas and missouri and in oklahoma in the spring and summer. when we re talking about tornadoes in this part of the country, in december, do you see the fingerprints of climate change on these storms? you know, i don t know if it s directly related to climate change, but what i do know is that we re seeing an increase in the number of storms and the severity of storms. and we have to take a concerted effort for fema to help communities to reduce the impacts that they re seeing from