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
keeping his economic commitments abroad while managing a debt crisis at home, president biden says the best use of his time was to cut shows h histropy asia. we ll have the latest on that search. and the governor of montana thinking there s enough threat from china to ban tiktok, but how will he force it out of the hands of teenagers. all these stories are coming in to cnn news central. today in hiroshima, president biden was peppered with questions did the debt default, which really want supposed to be on the agenda. he s already cut his trip short, so he can get back to finalize a deal. leaders in washington have about two weeks to avert a potential disaster. let s take the live to japan for marc stewart . reporter: i cannot stress enough if there s a u.s. daylight, not only likely would it put the u.s. economy into recession, it could create global financial shockwaves. that s relevant for the g7. policy decisions, positions relating to the war in ukraine. money i
of some tragic, unable to communicate, unable to find people. when the power went out, it took the whole grid out. there was no access in any way for people to reach out and ask for help or communicate with their loved ones, so it was an unfortunate sit way. bosco, i know you said you eventually want to go back and seat what s left of the home and the art gallery where you worked. are you hopeful that they re still standing, or that they ll be rebuilt. i m going to put it in god s hands. we did what we could to save what we could. i m hearing rumors possibly the apartment building that was right behind the gallery is still standing, but you know, until i go and see it, it s one of those things i m nothing good to count the chickens before they hatch. i am hopeful. either way, we ll rebuild, make do with whatever. front street has been a staple
for the confusion might have aroused from his tweet from yesterday. he now is saying the colombian authorities i saying when they will be able to make contact, they will release a statement. we hope it to be a positive statement. what we understand right now, maybe there was some breakdown in the communication chain or the president anticipated some of the information he received. it s just that they haven t been able to make contact and be in close contact with them, hopefully bring them back to their relatives. it speaks to the difficulty of the sit way, with the radios and heavy rain in the middle of a rain forest. hopefully we get positive news. stephano, thank you so much. brianna? with president biden in japan for the g7 summit, the family of a u.s. navy officer in prison in that country is
opaque legal system. for a number of different things beijing could use to take advantage of that law. the hong kong government says that is not true that this closes certain legal loopholes. we ll see more protests 0en wednesday morning when the hong kong parliament will next debate the bill. after that, there will be another debate before it will be law. it is not over, we are expecting more protests this week after a million people came out on sunday. that is one in every seven people in this sit way. the fight is definitely not over. several wildfires are raging across parts of california. the so-called sky fire forcing the evacuation and closure of six flag theme park and neighboring water park. the fast spreading sand fire