Wildfire updates. What can you tell us now in. Reporter hey there, griff, good morning to you. Were alongside one of the main entry points into the town of a lahaina. People here have been lined up for hours, some of these folks sleeping in their cars waiting for the curfew in the town of lahaina to expire. Some of these people have nothing left, they just want to get in, see whats left of the town. Take a listen to some folks about what theyve seen there. I want people to know that there are people out here suffering, and we need donations. We need, we need people shipping things out here. We need families fed, we need yeah, we need so much men help. Reporter home after home in lahaina, gone. One estimate from core logic puts the estimate of destroyed homes at more than 3,000. The rising death toll now at 80 people as rescue crews search for more victims. Thousands of people have now left the island, and around 1400 are currently staying in Emergency Shelters here. Its still unclear h
in jerusalem. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is scheduled meet with several arab leaders today as the u.s. tries cool tensions in the middle east. blinken is in amman, jordan where he will meet with his counterparts from jordan, egypt, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and qatar. a palestinian authority will also be in attendance. the trip comes after he met with israeli leaders in an attempt to get them to agree to humanitarian pauses in the war against hamas. we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we ve been clear that as israel conducts his campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is refusing the idea of a cease fire, saying the more than 240 hostages still held by hamas must be released first. the united states would not agree to a cease fire after, the bombing of pearl harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. israel will not agree to
3 january 2nd. that is just before the iowa caucuses which are also slated to be in january. your thoughts. well, first of all, the constitutional right to a speedy trial wrongs to the criminal defendant belongs to the criminal defendant, in in this case president trump. it doesn t belong to the department of justice. so if anyone wants to speed e the case along, it s up to the defendant. now, of course, the alternative which which usually happens, molly, in these kinds of cases is the defendants need time to investigate and take what s moan as discovery, get their information together because, remember, the department of justice has been working on this january 6th stuff literally for years. so they ve got their ducks presumably in a row to be able to try the case against president trump. but donald trump has not had that advantage, so he s going to need time to prepare his defense. there s a lot of allegations that are here involving various states and how the, you know, whethe