A search for answers. The atf now in maui investigating what sparked a catastrophic wildfire, as crews search for more than a thousand people still missing. And in the aftermath of the disaster, a top Emergency Management official stepping down even as he defends the response to the fires. Plus, delay, delay, delay. Donald trumps legal team testing the limits of that legal strategy, proposing to start one of his special counsel trials in april of 2026. Will the judge buy their reasons for the setback . And serious skepticism from the white house to the pentagon about ukraines current strategy and where kyiv is targeting its fight against russia. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We start this afternoon with major growing questions on the cause and the response to the deadly maui wildfires. Right now, the atfs National Response team is joining the investigation. The death toll remains at 111. But a thousand people
the trios today show unity and force in the face of a rising china and an increasingly provocative north korea. also overseas, russia is blaming ukraine for another attempted drone strike on moscow today, calling it a terrorist attack. a bit of irony there, given the number of missiles russia has lobbed at ukraine. moscow s mayor says the drone damaged a nonresidential building after they say it was shot down by russian air defenses. the strike forced four moscow airports to close. it marks the third time in the past month that the moscow district has been struck by a ukrainian drone. these alleged attacks in the russian capital come as we learn u.s. officials are growing skeptical of another piece of ukraine s strategy, and that is the decision to ramp up missile strikes specifically on russian occupied crimea in southern ukraine. cnn s chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh is in dnipro.