This morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. Officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. But they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. The search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and Officials Say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of t
Out front next, trumps legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the January 6th Case in court for the first time. This is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trumps trial january 2nd. And the death toll rising in maui as Search And Rescue operations are frantically underway. Im going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. Her incredible story. Plus, all the republican president ial candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. Were talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. For us, lets go out front. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfacetoface, trumps team set to meet judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is the judge overseeing the January 6th Case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. Trump now on notice to reply to jack smiths formal request for the trial January 6th Case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. That would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overturn the elec ahead of all
screen, developments in great britain right now. the very future of boris johnson, the prime minister that is under duress, if you look at it that way from his own conservative government, 359 members that are voting whether he should stay in power or that they have lost confidence in him. we should know the results soon as the leader of the torres goes, someone else would have to take over. who that next person would be. the unlikely that this happens is anyone s guess. even if he survived this vote, there s no guarantee that he won t still be wounded political bait. so we re watching that closely. we should know of his fate shortly. meantime, here, we re also keeping an eye on what s happening on the inflation front, which is now running out of control. gas prices hitting another record. the administration now focusing on this and not quite the way you d think. mark meredith has more from washington. mark? hey, neil. good afternoon. gas prices are breaking records on a ne
that does it for us, thank you so much for watching. remember, if your friends are busy tonight. you got a hot date. you and they can watch the night cap again tomorrow night at saturday, 11:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. i m signing off and i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of news news, thanks for staying up late with me. see you at the end of tomorrow. it has been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week for conspiracy theorists. normally there would be no reason to show you a clip of alex jones, but this was really something. i m literally here watching a family die. 30 years on air. 37 years in operation. 15 years in this building and i m literally. when i leave tonight. they will shut us down. maybe it is tomorrow, the next day. i want people to know, i love you, i believe in you, humanity, my grandparents grandparents and parents. i believe in humanity. they got to be stopped. you got to stop them. so, at the end of 2 day, w
88th anniversary. this was really something. i m literally here watching a family member die. 30 years on air, 27 years operation, 50 years this building. i literally when i know i leave tonight they re going to shut us down. either tonight, today. i believe in my grandparents, i believe in my parents. i believe in humanity. i just want to [bleep ] these people. they have to be stopped. we have to stop them. so, al at the end of the day we re going to beat these people. i m not trying to be dramatic here but it s been a hard fight. reporter: that was alex jones one of the country s biggest conspiracy theorists crying, at least we think it was crying on his show last weekend about the fact that his program info wars might finally be coming to an end. for a decade, jones and into wars has pushed insane conspiracy theories like 9/11 was an inside job. and the u.s. government controls the weather. but perhaps jones most disturbing conspiracy was his claim that the sandy ho