News, we are tracking devastating and Deadly Wildfires across hawaii. Drought and hurricaneforce winds fueling multiple blazes which have killed at least six people. Hawaiis Lieutenant Governor joins me live this hour. We are following Breaking News out of utah where a man accused of threatening to kill President Biden has just been shot dead by fbi agents trying to arrest him. The Fulton County District Attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people as she nears Charging Decisions in her probe of the Election Interference by donald trump and his allies. Stand by for details. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get straight to the Breaking News. The horrendous wildfires scorching the Island Of Maui and that way. We are very grim reports of a rising death toll as authorities urge residents and tourists to flee the fastmoving blazes. Cnn Meteorologis
Against president biden. our senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is gathering more information for us. what can you tell us, shimon? wolf thshgs was a very serious situation for the fbi. the last threat coming just days ago in preparation for the president s trip to utah. this is an individual by the name of craig robertson. he d been under fbi surveillance for quite some time, but finally after this last thread where he talked abo biden coming to utah, that he was going to be digging out his guille suit and dusting off his m-24 sniper that they finally decided that they needed to move in to arrest him. they went to his home this morning at 6:00 a.m. when they encountered him and that is when they shot ask killed him. i am told he was armed with a handgun at the time, but this threat was so serious, certainly for the fbi this morning as the president was getting ready to go to utah. fbi s.w.a.t. members and agents were suiting up to go and take
Of the case of christopher dorner, the ex-kof wcop who wena rampage and they re going after people for things like that, as well. i know you will continue investigating this. appreciate it very much. certainly not clear how much, if any, of the information posted on this website is accurate, but there s no doubt the fbi and the secret service are taking it all very seriously right now. only the high-profile victims know if the information is real or accurate. either way, it s scary and it could happen to you as well. let s bring in our national security contributor fran townsend. how worried should average folks be about the possibility of the sensitive information could be hacked? wolf thshgs is a real wake-up call to the american people. this happens every day to average american, we just don t hear about it. we re hearing about it because of who these people are, but you know, there are steps we can take. think of the many accounts that you have on the internet and you often u
plus, disturbing video of a deadly police beating. the victim, a meanta willy ill homeless man who can be heard calling out to his father they re killing me. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com while we begin this hour with the romney campaign, having some trouble staying on message. let s go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s on the campaign trail with the presumptive republican nominee. you re in lansing, michigan, right now. tell us what s going on, jim. reporter: wolf, earlier today mitt romney accused president obama of governing to the left of bill clinton and bringing big government back with a vengeance. it is a new message for a campaign that is sometimes straight off script in recent days. in michigan, mitt romney tried to steer his campaign back on message. america is going in the wrong direction. not forward, but sideways, or worse. reporter: he not only hit the president s
it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let s bring in lisa sylvester. she s working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what s going on? reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united states. normally an animal contracts bse from consuming contaminated feed and this cow tested positive from atypical bse, it s a rare form of the disease and not generally associated with an animal-consuming infected feed and it states, quote, the cow was never presented for slaughter for human consumption so at no time presented a risk to the food supply and milk does not transmit bse. so you can se