wildfire updates. what can you tell us now in. reporter: hey there, griff, good morning to you. we re alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. people here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see what s left of the town. take a listen to some folks about what they ve seen there. i want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. we need, we need people shipping things out here. we need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. reporter: home after home in lahaina, gone. one estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. the rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in emergency shelters
joining the crowded field. is there room for another candidate from the sunshine statesome with him there are three of them. we ll can him. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. i hope for dads tomorrow s a great day. in the meantime, fast-moving political developments. lucas tomlinson. reporter: good morning, neil. president biden departed for philadelphia for his first re-election campaign rally, as you mentioned. hopefully, the traffic situation is okay after that mess on i-95. biden removing this endorsement from some of the largest labor unions in the country. it s the earliest endorsement from the afl-cio in history. here s the president. we are a democracy, and so we ve been engaging our members, listening to them, and they want someone who will stand up and fight for them. and that s exactly what this president has done. he said he wants to be the midwest pro-union president when he took office, and he has absolutely delivered. reporter
Be, and that means if you re not a go zillionaire and running for president, you can come into iowa and meet voters. reporter: it s all about likability here at the state fair. we re in the heart of the midwest, and people really don t want to tub some of the policief the policies at the debate, but with they want to see their likable, how they communicate, how they hold some of these babies, eat corn on the cob. you name it, they re doing it, so we ll see how it all turns out. molly: eating corn on the cob in front of a dangerous people, that is always a dangerous a bunch of people, that s always a dangerous thing. thank you for covering it for us, alexis mcadams, we appreciate it. griff: for more on campaign 2024, joining us to the marc lotter, america first policy student chief communications director, and david defurry, former obama campaign foreign policy adviser. let s pick up right where alexis left off, if can that is you go
What i tell my kids is your mother and i aren t paying for anything, you re on your own. just try the tough love approach. absolutely. neil: you re going to figure it out. you ll be a go zillionaire, you already are. we re working on it. thank you, neil. neil: good luck with everything. in the meantime, you probably know by now, given the coverage it s been getting, that our secretary of state after some months of delay will be arriving in china this weekend, i believe late tomorrow night. but don t expect him to get the treatment that one bill gates got, a personal audience with xi jinping, the chinese leader. seems that the chinese love business leaders. it s actually true, they really, really enjoy seeing them. our politicians? well, not so much. isn t that rich? after this. so we ve got to know a lot of things about a lot of things. like which mower makes the cut. the mulch that finishes the look. and picking a color that pops. you got this. we got you.