Sirens on this i island. And why that wasnt activated, because it clearly would have given people more time to escape the flames and get out of town. And, of course, the number of fatalities would probably not be the number that it currently is. Another big challenge here, mike, is housing. Why . Theres not much of it. Its expensive to rent or own. And unlike, say, the mainland there are not any towns that can simply absorb 4,500 people right now that need shelter. Lahaina was really small, nice historical place, and its gone. All the kind of, like, precious memories of my kids and kind of generational stuff. Reporter so eva adams, she lost her home. It was in this new 89unit, Affordable Housing complex that is now, of course, as you see, just ashes. There are about 2,700 buildings here that were destroyed in lahaina, 86 of those were homes. And the community of lahaina is a very working class, a lot of Native Hawaiians who serve the resorts, and right now those people who are now home
mike: concerns arising over merrick garland s special counsel appointment as some republicans now question whether weiss will be an unbiased investigator pointing to weiss work on hunter biden s plea deal that that fell apart last month. for more on potential legal fallout for hunter biden, hans von spakovsky joins me, senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation. well welcome. thanks for having me. mike: how do you assess the appointment of the special counsel in the hunt e biden case? well, i think the concern it was feeded, but it isn t going to change the way he s compromised the investigation. he and his lawyers have, had either incompetence or intentional misconduct in the way they mishandled it. there s incident after incident after incident9 of things they did wrong including justs basically allowing the statute of limitations to run on really serious tax the evasion tax