been made illegal. and the latest from hawaii as the death toll continues to climb. and officials begin to ask if there was anything more they could have done to save at least some of those lives. but we begin tonight with a question that i will bet you have never thought of but that the latest trump indictment got me thinking about it. it is this. what is a gang? really, what is it? and what pops into your head when you think of the word. our friends at merriam-webster define it as a group working to unlawful or antisocial ends, especially a band of antisocant adolescents. there have been many definitions. in the early 1900s, they were rowdy kids. on tv, our gang, otherwise known as the little rascals, spanky, alfalfa, and the bunch. there were the sharks and jets in west side story for those of you who love musical. in the modern era, people probably think of the crips or bloods or ms-13, but the gangs that were most famous and notorious were the mafia families of the 1
the governor addressed the rising number in his statement. 101 lives have now been lost, 27% of the survey have been completed. i spoke with the president this morning and we speak often. he and joe biden extend their absolute love and heartfelt wishes about the tragedy that has occurred. they are heartsick that we have lost these 101 souls. joining us now from maui is our reporter, helena humphrey. helena, the governorjust posted a video on social media with an update. he has confirmed a rising death toll, what else did he say? that is right and the message from the governor has been every time we see that death toll climb upwards, he said that our hearts are a little bit more broken. he has also been saying that residents of western maui can now start to go back into lahaina, although he did specify that would not be able to go into the impacted zone. in a bid to reconnect these areas of the island that have been completely disconnected with the wildfires. he also spoke abo
in the trump administration. some of the accusations against mr trump include violating georgia s racketeering act. racketeering is a type of organised crime where someone profits through dishonest or illegal activities. and the ex president s also accused of soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer. also, making false statements and filing false documents. a reminder that these charges are all in connection to accusations of election meddling by trump. the bbc s kayla epstein has been following the events in georgia and has more on the legal view of the charges. i ve been speaking to legal experts about this all day and they ve told me they are not surprised that a racketeering charge was brought by fani wills. it s a signature charge brought in the past and we expected to see this, but we ve still got indictment, which is nearly 100 pages, it names 19 defendants, including donald trump, i think a lot of people were struck by the breadth of the evidence she lays
are known to have died but hundreds still remain unaccounted for. search teams are checking through the rubble of burned out buildings and vehicles. many people were forced to run into the sea, to escape the flames. an official review has been ordered into whether residents were given sufficient warning about the fire. it appears some early sirens never sounded. there are also questions over the speed of the emergency response. from maui, here s john sudworth. videos of the disaster continue to emerge. this one shows lahaina s residents huddled in the water the only place of refuge they could find as the smoke and ashes from their burning town rained down upon them. hundreds are still listed as missing. the authorities say temperatures here reached 1,000 degrees. the task of both finding and identifying the bodies will take time, according to hawaii s governor, himself a trained doctor, speaking to us media. they will find ten to 20 people per day, probably, until they fi
significant, this evidence linking members of trump s legal team, to the breach of a voting system there. jessica, these text messages add to a growing body of evidence that links donald trump s legal team to this voting system breach here in georgia that happened on january 7th, 2021. more specifically, it links them to this effort to secure written invitation from a local election official there, essentially allowing them, in their minds, to speenter the election office and no election official is allowed to let anyone have access to voting systems. but trump s team and lawyers were trying to convince this election official to provide a letter of invitation. and these text messages show us how they were involved in the planning, and how down from rudy giuliani to sidney powell, how they were kept in the loop on the state level as they worked to secure this written letter of invitation, and ultimately access to the voting system there is in coffee county. this is 200 mil