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
republican presidentacy hopefuls are descending on the iowa state fair. at least four candidates have signed what s called the loyalty pledge required to participate even as the front-runner donald trump says he won t take the oath. i wouldn t sign the pledge. why would i do that? there are people there i wouldn t have. cnn s jeff zeleny is joining us. he has an update for us. which candidates have signed the pledge so far? reporter: wolf, we know four candidates have signed the pledge. one of whom is campaigning here, north dakota governor burgum, vivek and nikki haley have also
replace boris yeltsin after putin s own 16 years of service as a kgb agent. not long ago ed a 20-minute conversation with boris yeltsin, who today ends his historic tenure. presidentacy elections have been announced, vladimir putin has been elected president of russia. putin deployed his own government background in relationships to actually get installed, which allowed him to then run for the results you just saw as a new incumbent with connected insiders, and forces behind putin who immediately used the power of official state tv to enhance his profile, aiming to win him more than 50% of the votes cast. as the times reported, that was before the 2000 election.
vice president biden announcing he will not enter the presidentacy race himself this year, and his 2012 debate opponent congressman paul ryan announced he will throw his hat into the ring to try to become speaker of the house, but will only do it if republicans great to a whole host of paul ryan is demanding unified support from the three caucuses in the house that center rite republicans right-wing republicans and super hard-line republicans. he wants all three of those caucuses on board endorsing him by friday of this week. he says he wants to be excused from the usual fund-raising responsibilities of being speaker of the house so he can spend more times with his families and wants a rules change to make it harder to fire him as speaker once he gets the job. that last one has been a
he will not enter the presidentacy race himself this year, and his 2012 debate opponent congressman paul ryan announced he will throw his hat into the ring to try to become speaker of the house, but will only do it if republicans great to a whole host of paul ryan is demanding unified support from the three caucuses in the house that center rite republicans right-wing republicans and super hard-line republicans. he wants all three of those caucuses on board endorsing him by friday of this week. he says he wants to be excused from the usual fund-raising responsibilities of being speaker of the house so he can spend more times with his families and wants a rules change to make it harder to fire him as speaker once he gets the job. that last one has been a sticking point for the super hard-line right wing caucus called the freedom caucus, who