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When we approached from the south and started to head up the coast, we were in shock. We were looking at each other in the helicopter, and we had tears in our eyes and we just couldnt believe, it didnt seem real. It looked like a war zone, a place that had been bombed, and it was just smoking and burning afterwards. Just unbelievable. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Subversion Case is saying trumps First Amendment rights not absolute but also making clear shes not accepting the special counsels request full clock. President Zelenskyy Cleaning House after what he calls a Corruption Scandal sweeps through the Ukrainian Military. Im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. This morning, officials are warning the death toll from the wildfires in hawaii, which stands at 55, will rise, as search crews are finally able to get inside burntoutbuildings and search for victims. The Historic Town of lahaina has been almost wiped out. Nearly 80 of homes and buildings are gone. Were hearing story after story of heartbreak. One man is now living in the back of a uhaul because there are no hotel rooms available. He just moved to lahaina and was set to open an art studio on front street, but the fires got there first. 50 years of all my paintings, and ive had collectors ive had collectors on facebook werie me today, were heartbroken, well give you back the original painting we bought, everything. It hurts, man. Its a lifetime of work gone. The fires started, survivors say they got little to no warning to leave. Many people got stuck between a wall of fire and the ocean. Boats went up in flames looking like the waves were on fire. A boat captain in maui, on tuesday night she watched lahainas harbor burn, and had to rescue two children from the ocean. She joins us now by phone. Captain, thank you so much for being with us. I cant do your story justice. Will you walk us through what happened to you that night as the waters were looking at pictures of it right now the waters were literally on fire all around you. Right. We had a 10foot skiff, and i was evacuating people from the harbor, and i was going to go back for my boat, but the priority was just to get people out and away from the fire because the fire was the winds were about 70 miles an hour, and the fire was just it wasnt like a slow wildfire. It was a horizontal fire that was chasing you. And the harbor was pitch black with smoke. We got people off their boats. They wanted to try to save their boats, and were like youre going to die, you got to come with us now. So we got them out, and driving out of the harbor, its pitch black dark because of the smoke, you can just feel the heat. We got them offshore. There were some boats that were empty, and they were at anchor. We got them on those boats, and in the 70mileanhour winds i was going to go back in to try to save my boat, and the dingy motor, we took a wave and it killed the motor, and we were adrift heading out to sea. But we were luckily able, as we were flying past a boat, i was able to throw a line and get that line to that boat. And we just watched our boats burn. The boat i have is not a pleasure craft, its a boat that serves the community, and i just want everyone to know that im so sorry and i tried my hardest to get to that boat to save it, and im so sorry that i feel like i let people down. Theres so much the 120foot boat, we took shelter, and we got a call a couple hours later that the coast guard had a hundred people in the water and they needed help, if there were any boats out there. Im out there with emma, nelson, and lashanna. All three of us, were captains, and we knew the dingy motor was not reliable, but we got it to start again and we made the decision to go help people. So thats that video that you saw of us going into the harbor where its on fire looking for survivors. And you were able to pull two children from the water. Explain what happened there. So, basically what happened was, like people are saying, there was no warning, there was no alarms. The Cell Phone Towers were burned. People werent able to get water because it was just a trickle of water. The power cut, so people ran for the beach. They had no options. There are cars with the doors still open of people just running. And there are bodies on the street. And its just 20 feet from the ocean. Thats how quickly this fire was. The people that were able to jump into the ocean, the coast guard wasnt able to get in shallow enough. And, so, we were able to get this 10foot skiff in the middle of the night in the smoke. And it was just explosions going off. Hundreds and hundreds of explosions. And we were able to grab two very small children and then bring them out to the coast guard vessel that was waiting outside the reef. I mean, your efforts, miraculous given the situation there. I know you probably wish you could have done more. But you accomplished so much. Is your home okay . My home is okay, thank god. There are so many people that lost so much more than my business. My heart goes out to the people here on maui. Its such a devastating situation. I had about eight people in my house. We have no electricity. Our biggest need out here i think is communication. The community made a spreadsheet. Theres about 2,000 people unaccounted for. And we just have no way to communicate. I had to drive up a mountain to try to get cell service. My car is burned down. I borrowed a car. Everyone here, theyre just worried about their loved ones. And we have no way to communicate. Well, christina, we appreciate your efforts to communicate with us so that we can know what is happening there on the ground. We hope that you and the people of your town get the help that you need very, very quickly. Again, thank you for your efforts, and thank you so much for being with us. Kate . So, crews now are racing to get desperately needed supplies, just like food and water and communications back up in parts of maui. But recovery is very clearly going to be slow, long, and difficult, and so many people on the island are left wondering what is next. It was everything i could do to just gather my kids and gather whatever i could in two minutes to get out of the house. We ran out of the house with no shoes. Finally saw the pictures of what used to be our house and our town. Just trying to figure out what to do from here. Because theres nothing to go back to. Joining us now is the mayor of Hawaii County big island mitch roth. Mayor, thank you for your time. What support is the big island providing for maui right now . Well, we put together a task force where were trying to give whatever support we can. Were helping them find housing for some of their people there. Weve just sent over some of our police officers, our animal control officers. Were trying to work with the county of maui to make sure that were not sending people over just willynilly. We want to make sure that they have a place to stay and theyll have a job to do over there. Absolutely. Mauis mayor, one thing he said is its all gone. Lahaina is gone. And he says its the biggest and worst Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. When he says that, what does that mean for all of you . You know, we look at hawaii as a state pretty much a family. We treat each other with aloha, and mayor bissen, who is a good friend of mine, weve been communicating a little bit about this. We have Family Members that are over there. We have friends that are over there. We still have people in our county that are looking for their Family Members over there. Its a big deal for us. When someone in your family has something that goes wrong, people naturally come to help. And thats what the whole state is doing, not just our island. We had our fire. We got done with that. And now its time to give back to the rest of our family, the rest of our state. Some residents are now, of maui, are speaking up, and wondering why they werent able to have more of a warning, thinking they should have been able to have more of a warning and how dangerous the fires were becoming and how quickly. I spoke with a Maui City Council woman a little while ago, and she said we do need to do better looking forward. But overnight mauis police chief said no one saw this coming. Do you think thats the case, mayor . Well, i would agree that they didnt see it coming to that agree. We knew that we were under a red flag warning. At the same time, on hawaii island, we woke up about 4 00 in the morning. We had our own brush fires that we were dealing with that were pretty extensive. And, so, we knew that we were going to have some fires. We didnt know we were going to have the extent that we did have. And, so, we worked on ours, they worked on theirs at the same time. And i think at one point, they had actually had their fire controlled. When you have 70mileanhour winds, its very difficult to keep those things under control. And, now its going to be a long process for all of hawaii to get this all back together and recover and to begin to make people whole again. Mayor, thank you for your time. Thank you. For more information f all of you on how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, you can go to cnn. Com impact. You can also text hawaii to 707070 to donate. John . He is running a Political Campaign currently. He has to yield to the administration of justice. 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This is the first time we have heard from federal judge tanya chutkan. And she has said some really interesting things, telling trumps lawyers that the administration of justice comes first and that he may not be able to say everything that he wants to in political speeches. Cnns Katelyn Polantz outside the court for us once again. More and more details, katelyn. If you can, bring us all up to speed once again on what we have heard from judge chutkan, what shes laid down so far. Reporter well, this hearing isnt over yet. But eaven the things that shes done so far have given limitations to donald trump and made clear that he needs to watch what he says publicly, versus what hes learning behind the scenes as he prepares for trial even though hes a political candidate out there giving speeches and posting on social media. One of the things that she has already said is going to happen is that when donald trump learns any information he didnt know before from witness interviews that the Justice Department did, sensitive witness interviews, hes not going to be able to disclose that. Thats an order from the court. And that is an order from the court that is going to be Above And Beyond any sort of free speech claims that donald trump may make. The judge here has been quite clear, saying that his speech is able to be limited, the First Amendment does have limitations to it, and that she is not going to be doing things based on what is happening in the political sphere. She is a judge, it is separate. One of the quotes that really jumps out from this hearing today, the fact that he is running a Political Campaign currently has to yield to the administration of justice. And if that means he cant say exactly what he wants to say in a political speech, that is just how its going to have to be. And then also she says, i cannot and i will not factor into my decision what effect it will have on a Political Campaign for either side. And so there are still many arguments being made here, and theyre talking about how trump will be able to disclose or not disclose, largely not disclose information hes learning as hes getting evidence and his lawyers are getting evidence in this case, and they prepare for trial. But also judge chutkan is clearly issuing quite a warning to trump and his defense team that he needs to be careful not to obstruct justices, not to intimidate witnesses. That is a real thing, a real line that he could cross if he keeps talking publicly about witnesses in this case. Shes really tried to avoid it being specifically about any witness in particular. His lawyers have brought up mike pence. Thats something the Justice Department also had flagged here. But this is quite a clear sign from the judge. And on top of that theyre still working out some details in this situation, how much trump can review evidence, where he can review evidence, who can be with him. Also how they will designate the evidence in this case as it gets handed over, what are the things that trump specifically cant share more widely versus what can he incorporate into his political speech. But so far this is quite a set of things that the judge has said really taking on a lot more than just the legal issues in this case, which i might note, have largely been in line with what Donald Trumps lawyers have agreed to or have proposed so far. Katelyn polantz, dont go far because we keep getting new reports from inside the courtroom. Standby if you will for just a moment. Paula reid whos been inside the courtroom, shes making her way out. In the meantime, joining us right now is former assistant u. S. Attorney nick ackerman. Katelyn has been laying all of this out for us, what has been coming out from court what the judge has been talking about. Before we jump into some of her quotes and things weve heard from the judge, overall, what do you take from what were hearing from the judge so far . None of this is very surprising. This is a very standard protective order that the government wants. The purpose of a protective order is for the defendant to be able to get discovery and use it for his defense. Not to put on a public display or contest the allegations in a public forum. Hes already agreed to two protective orders that are almost exactly the same in both the miami classified documents case and the new york case prosecution. So none of this is surprising. I think shes essentially going to be putting in place the order that the government has asked for. And based on the comments that i heard, it just reaffirms my opinion that this case is going to trial in january or february of next year. This judge is not taking any blowback from this defendant. Theyve tried over the last couple days, if you look at the filings that have been made, theyve tried everything to delay this as much as possible, put this over till next week, try and not to make it very important in a matter thats pretty perfunctory. I think the judge has seen through their delay tactics. And shes not going to take any of it. And i think this is a clear message to donald trump that he is going to be in the dock in january or february, and a jury is going to be listening to the evidence. The actual legal rulings she could issue here may be narrow today. What she said overall may have a greater impact and may be more expansive, nick. Im going to paraphrase here. One of the things she did say is that being a president ial candidate is really no different than any other job. Shes going to treat running for president like she would treat any job, which is to say that the Iowa Caucuses dont mean anything more to me than a Business Appointment that a defendant might have, so dont expect the implication t

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