Declaration for hawaii. The lead starts now. Unprecedented disaster. New images showing the power of flames ripping through communities in hawaii. The death toll rises to 36 as crews anticipate that number growing even higher and President Biden 6 billion deal with iran, will the regime free Five Americans in exchange for frozen funds . The first steps in the works, plus the deepest dive yet into the lavish life ill Supreme Court justice, clarence justice, private planes, luxury trips all bankrolled by billionaires detailed by propublica and never disclosed. Welcome to the lead. I am jake tapper. We start with the other did it of the utter devastation in hawaii. A lack of power and cell service complicates Search And Rescue efforts. At least 36 people have been killed in what the state Lieutenant Governor calls unprecedented wildfires. Most of the wildfires on maui island are still not contained. It could take days or even weeks for power and Cell Phones Service restored. Issues that are making it incredibly hard for survivors to know if their friends and family are okay. I have extended family. My grandmother, my uncle, my friends. We are looking for them. So many people have gone missing. I will say it is an unspoken that the death toll is way higher than 36. This afternoon President Biden approved the Disaster Declaration for hawaii includes money for temporary housing and for home repairs. The states governor estimates the damage to homes and buildings will be in the billions of dollars. Cnns Veronica Miracle starts off our coverage from maui, hawaii where one resident tells her it looks like a bomb went off. Its time to go reporter chaos and panic as the wildfires ravage the island being lost and destruction in its wake. Some residents escaping by boat watching the flames engulf their town as they sail away. We caught up with volunteers in harbor while they were loading up supplies. We had five bombs so big they were sucking oxygen out of the air. I think this is an absolutely top Level National disaster. We have never seen anything like it in 32 years. Reporter we are just beginning efforts. What we see is justice widespread devastation across many different neighborhoods in maui. Families waking up today after losing their homes, possessions and or some for some, their pets. It transformed overnight. Everyone that i know and love, my colleagues, friends, we are all homeless. Its extremely traumatic. There is a lot of emotion and trauma that will have to be dealt with for the whole community. Reporter the kos card pulled more than 50 people from the ocean but jumped in to escape to flame. Can see their bodies floating. Reporter nearly 11,000 customers remain without power. More than 2000 residents are in shelters and many travelers still stranded on the island. The National Guard reports they dropped one 50,000 gallons over the fires to help suppress the flames and all the flyers fire still rave ray john. Reporter Lieutenant Governor sylvia lake toward up by helicopter and was shocked. It looked as if the whole town was demonstrated devastated. Jake, these volunteers put out a call for help and all of the supplies came together in the last hour. They will be loaded on a boat and taken close to lahaina. They need gasoline. We are told some people are not able to leave because they dont have enough gas in their car. That is why supply runs like this are so critical. Jake . Reporter Veronica Miracle on the island of maui, thank you. The faa is restricting flights so Search And Rescue can complete work but there also are evacuation flights. For some of those people they touchdown with only the clothes on their backs knowing their home and all of their belongings are gone. Cnns mike valerio is outside the Convention Center in honolulu which has been turned into a makeshift safety center. Reporter jake good morning from honolulu. I think that to a person you hear expressions of profound gratitude. Everyone here is coming fresh off the flame from the epicenter of the disaster. We have been here since about midnight local town. I think that what has been so moving is when you see people come off these buses straight from the International Airport and you see in their faces expressions of laurel, exhaustion, families who have witnessed so much from this Disaster Zone that they never thought within the realm of possibility. To that end you will hear who a man from a man who is coordinating this Convention Center into a makeshift shelter. Also a woman who witnessed the devastation of the Disaster Zone. Listen to what they told us. We talk a lot about aloha, right . The value. We talk about the value of malama to cherish. Its one thing to talk about it and its another thing to live it out. Its devastating to see how much damage has been done. The entire hillside on one area where a lot of houses were wiped out. Then the other section of town where the old Historic Town was just a black and ruin these are intricate beautiful, sand castles. Think of the beautiful sales of the ships. All wiped out in a matter of seconds. So arresting for people to so wrapping up the plan here for the rest of the day authorities tell us they only cared for about 100 or so people overnight but as this Evacuation Operation becomes more of a finely Tuned Machine out of maui they are expecting more people whose lives were horribly disrupted to come find us alice here or at least a temporary spot where they can regroup and figure out how to go on from here. Jake . Mike valerio, thank you. Joining us a resident who has drone video of the wild fires. Clint, one of the worst things about being a journalist you talk to people on their worst day on one of their worst days and i am sorry to be doing that now. How are you and your family doing . How are your friends doing . We are one of the lucky ones. Im here on the south side in a fire that we had start over here and it ended up petering out on the wind and the wind has been the biggest Driving Factor in fueling the flames. Now he has had multiple fires that we have been juggling and its part of the reason why resources are gathered so thin because firefighters were dealing with evacuations. I was taking footage throughout the night working to make sure people understood where we sat and how disaster it it could be and whether or not we are able to get over this. It got pushed to a gully where the wind stopped and that created a natural firebreak so as of right now my main family is all safe and accounted for. I also own a Paintball Field on the west side and a lot of our friends are missing. We are so cowering scouring the regular locations. We are hoping this is just a Battery Issue or Cell Phone Tower Issue but its really terrifying and as i have heard and we all know this number of 36 people passing away will grow dramatically as time goes on and Rescue Efforts continue. We are asking everybody to pitch in and help. We already made multiple runs to drop off supplies and food and clothes. Diapers, wipes, anything that is of use. Toiletries. And i have had clients reaching out offering their Condo Vacancies up for people who are without shelter to get a couple of days and a nice bed and warm water. If they are able to make it over here on the south side but hospitals just way over capacity. Thousands of people with injuries there and let alone the number of is just well above 36 even though that number seems to be the official. Thats the number of the confirmed dead. And we can also tell our viewers the way they can help visitors of miami. You have described the devastation as the worst day maui will ever have. What is it like to watch part of your community disappear. I cannot fathom such a thing. It came trickling in. Without the communication we were only getting a few images and it was mostly just verbiage and descriptions. This building gone, this building gone. Pioneer in gone, harbor gone, it doesnt register her. It sounds like words. It cant possibly be true and then when you see that it literally all gone, it blows your mind. To have a fire storm moved through and burn every vote down to the waterline doesnt seem possible but running for their lives and jumping in the ocean to escape and one of my friends has fortunate enough to talk to his mom on the phone. He had to jump into the ocean. We didnt hear from him for a day and fortunately he was able to survive. Him and his girlfriend are badly beaten up both emotionally and physically. Part of the reason they survived was it took so long to walk to the shelters and he was able to help multiple people on the way out here which is why it took them so long to get there. Is somebody who knows about real estate, you have an idea for construction and such. Do you have any idea how long it might take to rebuild . Malley is notorious for having issuing permits. We have to come up with some other process because our county is lacking enough position to do the job appropriately. I dont know if that means outsourced adding or changing the dynamic where its more of an insurance bond against to make sure its safe as opposed to putting it on the insurance, but to replace or even put a dent in what has happened, our Current System cannot keep up so thats one of the things i have been scratching my head. There has to be a really big and draft changed in order to put people in a timely manner and the biggest fear is people will have to leave. There will not be a lot of options with being so isolated. People will have to move to the mainland and the only thing i can think is maybe provide them funds and provide a certificate for having first option on properties once things are rebuilt back in hawaii. Glenn hansen, thank you. For more information had to cnn. Com impact. Cnn. Com impact. We have a list of vetted organizations that you can check out. Coming up Five Americans almost free and in Exchange Iran could get frozen funds plus as federal prosecutors push for a january trump tile, how much support does he have within the Republican Party . We will talk to the former republican governor and this justice is blocking a Six Billion DollarPurdue PharmaOpioid Settlement and what are we learning about this from the Supreme Court breaking now i had. [female narrator] they line up by the thousands. Each one with a story that breaks your heart. Like ravette. Every step, brought her pain. Their only hope mercy ships. 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This would be the first step in a deal that includes the United States government agreeing to release a half billion dollars of as of now frozen iranian funds. Today the three named an Unnamed American and attention were removed from rons prison to a tel guarded by iranian officials. A Fifth American was already on house arrest. Cnns kylie atwood reveals how two nations with no armored diplomatic relations made this deal. Five americans who have been imprisoned in iran are now under house arrest. A major step towards freedom. This man is. He has been imprisoned in iran for years. The identity of the other two americans is unknown. The deal could make 6 billion dealers in iranian ones held in south korea more accessible to to ron while maintaining strict limitations on how those funds can be used. Thats according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Iran also said that five iranian prisoners in the u. S. Would be released as part of the deal. The Biden Administration still needs to work out some elements of the agreement in the coming weeks. This leaves plenty of room for something to go wrong. All we know now today is that they are out under house arrest and what happens next is anyones guess. National Security Council spokesperson called their moved to house arrest an encouraging step that the Biden Administration will not rest till they are back in the u. S. Calling ongoing negotiations delicate. This man is the longest held american per mizner arrest in 2015 and left behind in multiple deals between the u. S. And iran that freed other americans. His brother telling cnn this 2021. Each time i saw lights at the end of the tunnel it turned out to be a fastmoving train on or jeanette lee. He was so desperate to get out that he courageously called Cnns Christiane Amanpour from behind bars this year. The negotiations to secure the release of these americans are separate from conversations regarding Irans Nuclear deal, Nuclear Program excuse me according to a source familiar with the negotiations but progress here could of course facilitate forward progress in other areas according to that source. Cnns kylie atwood, thank you. Lets talk more about this with jared answer the pro bono counsel. Jared he was arrested in 2015 for having relations with a hostile state hes a dual iranian u. S. Citizen his dad was lord to iran and also time behind bars although he was later released so he could get medical help. Both men deny ever doing anything wrong. Irans government ever attempt to share any evidence of wrongdoing with you . It was very narrowly shared. Had been repeatedly interrogated on a range of things. He was being questioned about those things but there really was no trial at all. In fact he was taken with his lawyer to meet the judge who handed him a 50 page judgment. He was not able to take that with him, just take it with him. To say there was new no due process is an understatement. This is a great step forward. It undeniable. There have been so many attempts that have failed. If i had a dollar for every attempt i would have 100 by now. This is important and at the same time as noted we need to take this through its final confusion and i was heartened by hearing the iranian government say that they will be pardoned and exchanged for iranian prisoners in the United States. The fact that they publicly committed to that is great but that at the end of the day we know we can count on anything. How will life under house arrest in iran look like . So i think its better than one might imagine. They are being held in a hotel and Five Americans are being held together and are able to talk to each other. They are able to have better food and have their own bad and their own shower. 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