Hawaiis lahaina are allowed to briefly return to the town that wildfires virtually wiped out. The u. S. Attorney leading the Hunter Biden Probe has now been given Special Counsel authority, what that could mean for the president s son and the president s reelection campaign. Let me explain, please. We are no longer friends. It just got real. Adam sandler casts his real life family in his latest comedy on netflix. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. Theres word of yet another evacuation on maui. The Police Department says there is a fire in west maui and residents in the kaapali area are currently being evacuated. Were told the area was untouched by the initial wildfire. That comes as a search for survivors is taking a bleak turn. Days after devastating wildfires tore through parts of the island, countless people remain unaccounted for. Cadaver dogs are sifting through the charred remains of homes and buildings and although the number of people confirmed dead stands at a grim 67, officials warn that figure will likely rise much higher in the coming days. Authorities predict it will take years to get the island back to where it was with damage estimates running well into the billions. Thousands of people have been left homeless and in desperate need of shelter after running from the flames often with little more than the clothes on their backs. We stepped out my front door and it was just this hundreds of feet of Black Smoke Engulfing the town and 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. I mean we ran out of the house with no shoes. Its just so much. Its a lot. Authorities have briefly reopened the main road leading into lahaina so people could return to what is left of their homes, but closed it again a short time later. The devastation in the area is hard to believe. When the mayor said its all gone, its all gone. Its all gone. Its gone. Reporter unimaginable shock, an entire city burned completely to the ground. Devastation, everything gone. Everybody lost everything. Reporter we surveyed the damage from above and the destruction is difficult to imagine. The view from above is apocalyptic. You can see a row of cars clearly trying to make it out, many of those stuck in accidents, in a traffic jam on a onelane road. All those cars reduced to ash. Reporter lahaina residents allowed back into the city to see the destruction up close, but not without a warning from the governor who told a local tv station in hawaii, i want to caution everyone. Lahaina is a devastated zone. They will see destruction like theyve not seen in their lives. Everyone, please brace themselves as they go back. As some may be able to return to their hometown, as many as 1,000 people are still missing and unaccounted for. Honestly, we dont know and heres the challenge. Theres no power. Theres no internet. Theres no radio coverage. Reporter and theres fear the Climbing Death Toll will go even higher with more than 1,000 buildings destroyed. I do not know what the final numbers going to be and its going to be horrible and tragic when we get that number. Reporter thousands of still displaced and thousands of travelers are still waiting to get off the island. Were just visitors. Were leaving primarily because were just using up food and resources that the locals need. Reporter people remain without power and many have no water. Were talking about more than just days. Were talking about weeks to months in some cases to get energy fully restored. Reporter and shelter space on the island is filling up quickly. Were kind of at the limits in some of the central maui ones. Well have to be creative with our team after this to try to get more for folks out on the west side. Reporter as the reality of the situation sets in, so does the frustration with how it happened. We have Tsunami Warnings i think should have been utilized. I think this could have been handled so much better in so many ways. Reporter and questions are starting to circulate among the people who inhabited this once paradise island. Why werent they warned sooner . I think that the tragedy would have been very difficult to anticipate, especially as it came in the night with high winds, but that does not mean that we wont do everything we can in the future to stop this. Reporter veron. An Emergency Doctor who runs mobile doctor joins us now from maui. Doctor, so good to have you with us. Weve all seen the horrifying heartbreaking scenes from the impacted areas ravaged by the wildfires. Can you describe for us what the situation is like. On the first day, second day or today because each day has been different . Go ahead. The first day was probably the most traumatic. I think nobody knew what were dealing with, even the medical personnel. We all had warnings that theres going to be high winds and fires. I personally thought its going to be some brushfires. We get those every now and then. Seems like weve been getting them annually. Luckily i wasnt needing to evacuate, woke up in the morning and just wasnt getting any news from lahaina. Obviously the power lines were out. Cell phone signals werent working. I got notified just through some ems, Emergency Medical Services people, paramedics, firefighters that did some runs over there and theyre telling me theyre seeing bodies on the ground and i said this could be serious and had this gut feel something could be wrong. I activated our team and started a nonprofit called modal monday and i called my team and got in the mobile unit, the little private ambulance i built out with everything in it from oxygen, portable ekg, iv fluids and we drove out to lahaina. It felt like an atomic bomb went off when we got to ground zero and a apocalyptic with smoke and smells and fires and seeing the wounded come out of the woodwork a bit and we triaged a couple people. Some people felt they were starving. Some had hypothermia. I was shocked to hear their stories. People had swam into the ocean and hung on for dear life. Ive seen some of the footage thats very disturbing now thats coming out. We had people that had eye issues, respiratory issues. Second day we went out, it was a little bit less, but some people kind of congregated in our area and i think thats the hard part. Some of these people dont want to leave. Theres people still in tears looking for their pets, their loved ones, very disturbing. So each day its like another scene and the islands doing its best with shelters, but i realize now we had a meeting or some of the higherups realized that we might have to go to them and im the only doctor thats been going to them because im a mobile setup and thats what ive done during covid. I do house calls. Thats my specialty, but i help the people and this is like my calling. Thats what i do with my team, but theres still the roads arent good. Theyre still not letting i see the vision and the purpose that they wanted to have people come out of there and get to the shelters in the middle of the island. When i went there, i felt like i was stuck because some people have chronic medical conditions and their medications gone. Guess what . Im a doctor. Im like let me prescribe it for you. Wait, how you going to get there . Your cars gone. Wait, you dont even have gas. Theres no gas on that side of the island. So theres nothing that can be done unless we have the resources. So we need them for the people. We need to take medicine to them. Thats what i think we need to start working on these next few days and i think the Department Of Health is on it and theyll go visit andafter. Doctor, lots of very daunting challenges. What is most needed right now . What does the community in lahaina need . I feel electricity, medicine, buildings, all these things are going to take months, weeks. You know, this is not just an acute disaster, a hurricane comes or a tornado comes and just goes. This is going to be a long time effect, everything from Mental Health to chronic illnesses and we only have one hospital on this island and trying to limit these chronic conditions from being acute. Thats my fear. My fear is these people have ran out of medicine. You can skip the medicine one day, two days depending on your condition, but at some point its going to get worse and im hearing reports these people in their homes or their families homes who made it out, but theres a whole area in kaa pali, a whole city outside of lahaina with no electricity. I dont know how theyre surviving without it. Im delivering pizza, food and water half the time im out there, but im also doing medical work when i find people. We need to city up a center and advertise for these medical people to come to us or we need to be there more to find out where we need to go because thats my problem. I feel like with my team were mobile and were one or two vans looking and searching and ground zero, i think most people have kind of come out and gone to shelters because theres no way you could survive there. Theres nothing. Our thoughts are with all the people impacted and with First Responders like yourself, doctor, doing such important work. Thank you so much for sharing with us your experiences. Thank you for having me. Have a good night. After five years of investigating hunter biden, the federal prosecutor in that case has been elevated to Special Counsel. Under those new powers the investigation could expand into many other areas. Cnns jen sullivan has the details. Reporter a surprising move in the ongoing probe against hunter biden. U. S. Attorney general Merrick Garland announcing friday david weiss is Special Counsel in the case. It is in the Public Interest to appoi him as Special Counsel. Reporter thpresident s son was charged with failing to pay more than 200,000 in taxes on more than 1. 5 million in income back in 2017 and 2018 and illegally owning a gun at a time he was addicted to drugs. Last month hunter biden was expected to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors. In exchange hed not face jail time for the gun charge, but the deal between the Justice Department and hunter biden fell through at the last moment. The District Judge called the deal confusing and not straightforward. Hunter biden pled not guilty. The two parties continued negotiating, but prosecutors finally said talks were at an impasse. The appointment of mr. Weiss reinforces for the American People the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. Reporter This Means Weiss will have more power than a typical u. S. Attorney. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation. Reporter the ongoing probe has drawn intense political scrutiny from republicans arguing hunter biden was given a slap on the wrist because his father is president. Its the latest development further fueling political divide. If he were republican, hed be in jail by now. Reporter and democrats firing back. Allegations of political bias dont seem to hold weight when mr. Trump was ultimately in charge of the Justice Department and its handling of the investigation. Reporter the criminal case will likely go to trial. Im jen sullivan reporting. The federal judge presiding over the election sub version case against donald trump warned trumps lawyers friday to avoid making inflammatory public statements about the trial or she may have to speed up the court date. Cnns Jessica Schneider has the details. Reporter the case against donald trump in washington, d. C. Is moving rapidly and the judge in this case is really being firm on what trump and his legal team can and cannot disclose about this case to the public. So the judge issued a protective order that lays out that trump and his team cannot disclose any Sensitive Information given to them during this discovery process. That includes material about the grand jury or Search Warrants and she ao issued several warnings to trump. She noted that even though hes running a political mpgn, he still has to in h words yield to the administration of justice. She said if that means that his political speech has to be somewhat limited, then that is how its going to be and she says shes going to be carefully scrutinizing statements from trump and his team. She says anything that can be interpreted to be intimidating to witnesses or prejudicial to potential jurors, it could really threaten the whole process in this case. Under all these terms, prosecutors said theyre prepared to begin handing over material immediately. That includes 11. 6 million pages of documents. It includes hundreds of recordings of Witness Interviews which trump, of course, will be prohibited from disclosing publicly and now well see how quickly this case can go to trial. The prosecution said they want it to start january 2nd. Trumps legal team has to propose their start date sometime next week. Theyll likely propose it after the election in 2024, but really at the rate the judge is moving, she might want to move closer to the prosecutions proposed january 2024 date. So we will see. Jessica schneider, cnn, washington. Just six months remain before the Iowa Caucuses and thats why republican candidates are now at the annual state fair hoping voters like what they hear, but it could be a hard sell, especially after donald trump arrives later today. Plus ukraines president moves ahead with a major crackdown on corruption, how some officials reportedly made ill gotten gains while Recruiting Troops for the front lines. Ill be taking m meetings. With family and friends. And checking voicemail. As my activities p permit. Ill connect with you. After reconnecting with me. Get 1. 9 apr for 36 months plus 1,500 Purchase Allowance on a 2024 xt5 and xt6 when you finance through cadillac financial. female announcer attention medicare has expanded dexcom coverage for people with diabetes. 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Our european allies are lein the effort, but if the capacity for training in europe is reached, we are certainly open to doing the training for ukrainian pilots here in the united states. Meanwhile president zelenskyy is announcing a crackdown on suspected corruption in ukraines military recruitment centers. Fora striking move by the president of ukraine clamping down on corruption. Reporter announcing all officials in charge of Regional MilitaryRecruitment Offices have been dismissed amid widespread corruption allegations. The fear is bribes were being taking. There was Draft Dodging occurring in these Recruitment Offices. Ukraine has long suffered from issues of corruption, but, of course, it hits a deeper nerve, if you will, during a time of war, president Zelenskyy Taking A very strong approach to this describing the allegations of corruption here as essentially high treason. Take a listen to what he said in his public announcement. Translator some took cash. Some took cryptocurrency. Thats the only difference. The cynicism is the same everywhere, enlisted enrichment, illegally obtained funds, illegal benefits. This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery in times of war constitute treason. Reporter ukraine has long suffered issues of allegations of corruption way before this conflict. Its part of the reason why president zelenskyy came to power. It was part of his platform when he was running for president that he would fight corruption, but he needs to take a tougher stance in a time of war. This is not the First Time Since the start of the conflict there has been issues of corruption, allegations of corruption. Earlier this year he had a major shake