Good evening, and welcome, everyone. The scope of the devastation and loss of life in maui from that rampaging wildfire is coming into horrific focus tonight. Revealing a landscape of incinerated homes, businesses, cars, and so much more before and after satellite images illustrate the path of destruction, as the firestorm blew through the Historic Town of lahaina. Fire still burning today, but winds have thankfully calmed. And this evening, survivors are sharing with us their harrowing stories of escape, which, for many, involved a desperate dash to the ocean with the flames at their backs tonight, President Biden declaring a major disaster on maui, intended to fasttrack help to the island, where thousands are in shelters and communications are spotty we have an expanded reporting team on the ground we begin with miguel almaguer, who made his way deep into the disaster zone. Miguel, i can imagine, it is a shocking scene to view in person. Reporter it certainly is, lester, and the dama
As Deadly Wildfires roar through the hawaiian island. Social media posts leads to an arrest warrant. An fbi raid that turned deadly. Now the fire at the port of oakland. The flames started after 5 30 at schnitzer steel. Shawn chitnis is live at the alameda ferry. A lot of people are waking up to poor air quality. How is it looking now. Amanda, that concern for the air quality is coming from the pictures we saw of serious smoke coming from the side of that fire. We are glad to show you now that the fire is looking the best we have seen it all morning. No flames visible at this time. None of that thick dark smoke high in the sky. A little bit of smoldering from what we can tell at this location. This comes more than 12 hours after firefighters started to attack this fire last night. The latest that we are getting from the Fire Department is that they made some progress and that the debris pile that started the fire has gotten smaller. That was part of the tiling that created so challenge
The climates off the mid day in most go in an awful lot to tell you about today. I appreciate you joining us for this. How is live broadcast and opposition . Candidates in ecuador is upcoming president ial election has been shot dead during a campaign. Riley on wednesday this in the capital kito a warning you may find the following. Images disturbing. A 4 digit showing 49. 00 will of a sense youre leaving the event as hes entering his con gunshots right now. I, when it says say he was a hit 3 times and he died later of his injuries and hospital. At least 9 of the people in the event will also include including 2 police officers. And one of the government was also killed by security. Stop the report saying that may have been 3 shooters. I could, almost president , has expressed his condolences saying the crime will not go unpunished. And he suggested, organized crime was behind the shooting. A 6 people who were fortunately be detained in connection with this incident out for the non dol
And thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. Donald trumps fourth criminal indictment, number four appears to be buffets away. Nbc news is now reporting that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis is expected to present her case to the grand jury next week. We know the d. A. Willis has been investigating trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Her investigation appears to have quite a bit in common with the federal case being brought by Special Counsel jack smith in washington, d. C. The case in georgia may prove to be different than dak smiths case in one very meaningful way. To understand that, we have to go back to 1979. The City Of Atlanta was experiencing an unprecedented wave of crimes. It wasnt Nbc Nightly News in august of that year. During the First Six Months of the year, crime and atlanta was up 30 . Robbery and aggravated assault were upset many percent. Murder was up to. Atlanta has had 140 homicides the, highest total since 1973. That wa
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