good morning, everyone. we are so glad you re starting your morning with us. good morning. happy monday. it s good to be back. a lot of news. a lot of news to get to, so let s get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3% of the disaster area has been searched. the governor calling it a fire hurricane. it spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the state s main electric provide r. hours from now the fulton county district attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the georgia election subversion case. this means a potential fourth indictment looms over former president trump. cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. and a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened.
the grand jury handling donald trump s election subversion case is meeting right now, with indictment number 4 possible in the coming days. why this case in georgia could create some of his most complicated legal problems yet. the death toll on maui keeps climbing. 96 confirmed fatalities now, with that number sadly expected to rise as search and rescue forge ahead. and the power company s now facing a lawsuit for not cutting electricity when forecasters were warning about powerful wind gusts. and almost two years after the chaotic u.s. exit from afghanistan allies who fled the taliban and were promised a home in the united states say they re now being sent back. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central . potential indictment number 4 of former president donald trump could be days if not hours away. today a grand jury in atlanta is hearing the culmination of a years-long probe into efforts to overturn ge
heads for boundaries of a protective order issued friday by the federal judge presiding over the julk by attacking the special counsel and judge over the weekend. but it was star treatment for the former president at the iowa state fair this weekend. upstaging ron desantis and the rest of the field. plus, hunter biden s attorney s main prosecutor and the plea deal. they say a trial for him could still be avoided as controversy grows over why the attorney general grows. and the overwhelming tragedy in maui has victims furious with the rescue and recovery as the death toll nears 100 in the deadliest wildfire in a century. where were you guys? no. where were you guys to try and get us out, evacuate us? no. we re mad. we re mad. we lost homes, towns. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where former president trump is already testing u.s. district judge protective order against him, lashing out on sunday in a string of social media post, slamming jack smi
prosecutor will begin presenting her case to grand jury setting up a fourth possible indictment. and speaking of iowa, ron sdaens did not have a great time there. he was heckled several times by trump supporters and trolled by the former president s campaign. also ahead, a special counsel is appointed in the doj investigation of hunter biden. we ll explain the new development. and plus an update on the catastrophic maui wildfire which is now the deadliest in more than history. joe, the scenes are just staggering. yeah, what a tragedy. unspeakable tragedy. and it seems to have been a perfect storm. winds blowing and whipping around, a lot of people saying they should have turned off the electricity. but the response from officials, that is how they were keeping the water pumps going. really just again a perfect storm, a disaster of unspeakable proportions for the people there. and we ll be covering that obviously across the four hours. and also a lot going on in politics t
significant, this evidence linking members of trump s legal team, to the breach of a voting system there. jessica, these text messages add to a growing body of evidence that links donald trump s legal team to this voting system breach here in georgia that happened on january 7th, 2021. more specifically, it links them to this effort to secure written invitation from a local election official there, essentially allowing them, in their minds, to speenter the election office and no election official is allowed to let anyone have access to voting systems. but trump s team and lawyers were trying to convince this election official to provide a letter of invitation. and these text messages show us how they were involved in the planning, and how down from rudy giuliani to sidney powell, how they were kept in the loop on the state level as they worked to secure this written letter of invitation, and ultimately access to the voting system there is in coffee county. this is 200 mil