The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
Personnel from the u.s. embassy in haiti and just this week u.s. diplomats still in the country were confined to the embassy grounds due to gunfire close by. the security situation in the country remains dire with over 1,000 kidnappings in the first half of this year. that is according to a u.n. report. kenya is slated to lead a multinational force to take on the gangs. but there is no time table for their arrival. next step for this process to stand up a multinational force is for the government of kenya to lead an assessment mission. i don t have an exact date of that mission, but i do expect that to happen in the very near future in the matter of the next few week. reporter: and her family and community are elated to have her back. her aid group released a statement saying it is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that we confirm the safe release of our staff member and
Building on front street, the old baldwin house. the roof was on fire and i started taking a video of it because i was amazed that there were no fire trucks there. reporter: roughly 500 miles to the south, hurricane dora is helping fan strong winds over the islands with gusts up to 80 miles per hour knocking out cell towers and 911 service. the hospital system are overburdened with burn patients, people suffering from inhalation. the reality is that we need to fly people out of maui to give them burn support. reporter: claire says she barely escaped her burning home but fears not all her neighbors did. i know for a fact people did not get out. there were quite a few homeless people in the area and people who don t have access to vehicles. reporter: other victims jumped into the ocean to escape the flames. the coast guard says it rescued 12 people from the waters off lahaina, survivors thankful to
Security concerns and not necessarily economic superiority. but chinese don t appear to be buying it. anna coren, thank you. let s turn to haiti now where an american nurse and her young daughter have been released after being kidnapped two weeks ago. kylie atwood has more from the state department in washington. we welcome reports of their release. we have no greater priority for the safety and security of u.s. citizens overseas. reporter: after nearly two weeks, confirmation that the american nurse and her young daughter were released. they invited me to come to the school to do some nursing for some of the kids. reporter: she works with an aid group run by her husband. she and her young daughter were taken from the group s campus almost two weeks ago. as gang violence overtakes the country. they were kidnapped on the same day the u.s. ordered the evacuation of all nonessential
Perimeter harden around the courthouse. and we could be just days away from learning who exactly will be charged in this roughly 2 1/2 year investigation into donald trump and his associates. sara murray, cnn, washington. beijing is fuming over new u.s. trade rules announced by the biden administration. the rules target u.s. private equity and venture capital firms as well as joint ventures seeking to do business with china especially those focused on next generation technologies. i want to bring in anna coren from hong kong. we know between the u.s. and china, there has been a bit of back and forth. how will these new rules work and what is china saying about it? reporter: this will certainly escalate tensions between the two world s largest economies. president biden signed this executive order banning new american investment in key technology industries in china,