Almost entirely to the ground. Because of the wildfires, fires are continuing to burn. Helicopters continue to douse the flames. Many people, forced to flee at a moments notice, had to leave everything behind. Hawaiis Attorney General has announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about power, and why the power should have been cut to the island. Meantime, the police chief for maui county said he expects the death toll to rise. Realise this. When we find these. Ourfamily and our friends, the remains we are finding is through a fire that melted metal. We have to do rapid dna to identify them. Every one of these 89 arejohn and jane does. And when you are asking us, and we know we have to get. And i love the way our house of representatives, how she said it, we are so eloquent, we have to go quick and we have to do it right. So when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, and so when you have
Donald trump, now has ten days to surrender to authorities in georgia on charges tied to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. It will be his fourth time booked on criminal charges. He wont be alone. The 98page indictment names 18 codefendants, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. The 41 charges include racketeering and conspiracy. The atlanta area District Attorney fani willis says those 19 defendants in total plotted against the constitution which trump swore to protect and defend and abused the office, trump is of Course Running for once again. Cnns paula reed is at the courthouse in atlanta. Paula, this case is wider both in terms of number of defendants but also took a different legal path for charging this. Reporter thats right. A lot of key differences here. Not only in how its constructed. Fani willis pursuing a racketeering or rico case here. Rico laws were passed to dismantle organized crime. So shes charging former President Trump but 18 allies.
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
Suspect in a string of car thefts. They had a witness as describing the suspect as wearing neon shorts and a white shirt. Thats when they saw the boy deshawn and detained him since he was wearing similar clothing and was in the same Apartment Complex as where witnesses saw that Suspect Running off to. The chief here has issued an apology. Heres part of the statement he put out, saying, as the chief of police, i want to apologize this incident had such an effect on this young man and his family. Im asking the community to consider all of the facts of the situation before making a judgment. The relationship with our community has been and will continue to be a top priority for the Lansing Police department. Meanwhile, the Bernard Family Have retains an attorney. The attorney claims the boy was wearing a gray shirt, not a white shirt and that the police should have also seen there was a noticeable Age Difference between the boy, 12 years old, and their suspect. They are considering legal
The 2020 president ial election in georgia. Duncan is now a cnn political commentator. Here is durncan and what he tol me earlier today about the subpoena and his plans to testify. I did just receive notification to appear on Tuesday Morning at the Fulton County grand jury, and i certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. I have no expectations, but ill certainly answer questions put in front of me and certainly dont want to go any deeper than that to compromise the investigation. For me, this is a story thats important for republicans to hear, americans to hear. Lets hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Donald Trumps actions and the surrounding cast of characters around him. We watched a series of events happen that were tragic and untruthful, and hes got a chance to present these facts and say, hey, i didnt know what was going on, or i think what reality is going to be is they knew exactly what they were doing. I think the interesting part to this