Staying in Emergency Shelters with many not knowing when basic services will be restored and if their homes are still there. Plus hunter biden is being investigated by a Special Counsel. Why republicans arent pleased with the developments. And australia and france fighting for a spot in the world cup semifinals. Well have the latest on all the actions. We begin this hour in hawaii, where were getting a better understanding of the devastation caused by Deadly Wildfires that tore across the Island Of Maui and sadly a new death toll. 80 people are now confirmed dead from the fire. That number could rise dramatically in the coming days as crews with Cadaver Dogs Sift through the ashes of homes and buildings. The only public road in and out was open briefly on friday to give people a chance to see whats become of their homes, but authorities closed it again a short time later. Officials say the fire is 85 contained, but the danger isnt completely gone. Criticism is growing on how authorities responded to the fire and why Emergency Management says the wark sirens werent activated when the fire broke out. Many people were unaware how bad things had gotten until it was too bad to leave. The governor talked about what went wrong. What we understand is when the fires reignited in the Late Afternoon or early evening, they were focusing on fires elsewhere on the idensland. And the telecommunications were destroyed very rapidly. Communication was caught off by the destruction of heat coming down the mountain. The destruction is difficult to Fathom Opinion an entire community eliminated in a matter of hours. When the mayor said its all gone, its all gone. Reporter unimaginable shock, an entire city burned completely to the ground. Devastation, everything, gone. 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 trying to make it out. Many of those stuck in accidents, in a traffic jam, all of those cars reduced to ash. Reporter residents allowed back into the city to see the destruction up close, but not without a warning from the the governor who told a local tv station in hawaii, you want to caution everyone, they will see destruction like they have not seen in their lives. Everyone, please brace themselves as they go back. As some maybe able to return to their hometown, as many as a thousand people are still missing and unaccounted for. Honestly, we dont know. Heres the challenge. Theres no power. Theres no internet. Theres no radio coverage. Reporter theres fear the Climbing Death Toll will go high er with more than a thousand buildings destroyed. I do not know what the final number is going to be. Its going to be horrible and tragic when we get that number. Reporter thousands are still displaced and thousands of travelers are still waiting to get off the island. Were leaving primarily because we are using up food and resources. Reporter people remain without power and many have no water. Were talking about measure just days. Were talking about weeks to months. Reporter shelter space on the island is filling up quickly. Were at the limits in some places. Well have to try to get more for folks on the west side. Reporter as the reality sets in, so does the frustration with how it happened. The Tsunami Warnings should have been utilized. This could have been handled so much better in so many ways. Reporter questions are starting to circulate among people who inhabited the island. Why warerent they warned soone. The tragedy would be difficult to anticipate, especially overnight with high winds. But that does not mean we wont do everything in the future to stop this. Reporter cnn, maui, hawaii. Winds are forecast to decrease across maui today, and a few showers are possible. The fires were fanned by winds and detrier than usual conditio. Chad myers explains more. Its obviously good news that Hurricane Dora has moved away. The High Pressure has move d away. The Pressure Gradient making all the wind is now gone. What isnt gone is this Rainfall Deficit. 80 of hawaii in some type of Rainfall Deficit and more importantly in maui county, 16 of the area there under severe drought. Even in the dry areas of maui just to the west of the area. Dry areas, its just a rain forest. Its not. The other side is where it is dry almost a desert. Heres the west side of maui. The wind and the storms come in from the east to the west. If you are on the east side of these mountains, thats where it rains. It rains almost every single day. Places receive 400 inches in some places. So there is the rain forest that we talk about. You see pictures of it. But on the other side when the air comes over the top and back down, thats when you get the dry air. It really looks like a desert on the other side of the rain forest. Something else that may have happened, these canyons that you see coming down from the top of the extinct volcano, they may have acted like a Wind Tunnel Effect funneling that. This is still years and years and years that they will look at this. Something else you probably havent heard of unless youre from the west, Wildland Urban Interface. What is that . Thats when you get wildland here. In fact, those are abandoned Sugar Cane Plantations that are just growing wild Shrub Grasses and things that burn when they dry out. Backed up right up against the town itself. When you catch the Wildland Urban Interface on fire, thats the risk of sending the fire into a town. It happened in paradise, california, with the campfire. Its happened All Over The World where you take a piece of land and want to put homes up right up against the trees because its so pretty. Then youre in that wui. A lot of this burned right into town. My next guest works on development of Machine Learning for weather and climate predictions. Peter dubin joins us from germany. Thank you so much for being here with us. When were looking at the situation, were learning that the threat of high winds and wildfires were minimized ahead of the tragedy. Could more accurate models lead to better predictions and lives saved in cases like this . Yes, absolutely. We have seen this in the last couple decades that the models are Getting Better and better. Therefore, it was more and more possible to twill kind of issue earlier warning for extreme events. Not just for this situation, but cyclones in general. So yes, better models for better predictions that can help save lives. So many of those better models are coming with the use of ai. How does aipowered Weather Forecasting compare to traditional forecasting in terms of accuracy and speed and so on . Yes, thats a very interesting question. Theres a lot happening right now at the moment. So since the last five years, we were looking into Machine Learning for weather predictions. In the last half year, weather models based on Machine Learning were getting as good or even better than conventional els in some of the aspects of weather predictions. But theres a caveat to this. The models are different in nature. So some predictions are better with conventional models. Its really the synergies. For the positioning of cyclones, the Machine Learning models are getting very good. Its really the synergies we need to look into to really make the best of the both worlds. Interesting. Just from a laymens point of view, youd think ai would be more intelligent and be able to forecast some of those things better. So for winds, why would ai be more limited than traditional models . So traditional models are built on the physics. We look into the equations and the systems and we use Super Computers to solve the equations. For machinelearned model, they learn from the data. The data is basically about the atmosphere for the last 40 years. If you look into extreme events, that happens once in 100 years t doesnt mean that the Machine Learning models will be perfect in learning those events. And we also dont really know exactly what machine learned models are doing. We dont have a physical understanding behind them. They are a different beast. And the reasons why they are not so good in strong winds, we also understand, because it depends on the way, how those models are tra trained that they are better in Making Predictions rather than extremes. But this doesnt mean that in the future we will not be able to build more sophisticated mod thes. So its restaurant very dialic kp situation. Lots of good developments towards machinelearning models making better predictions in the future. But as it stands, ai wouldnt have been able to, in this case, predict what was going on because it was so exceptional, this idea of having these high winds and the fire threat, is that right . I think just right now, would agree with that. But i dont think thats probably true in a year from now. The speed of developments is quite strong. And we still need to learn how to use those Machine Learning tools in the best possible way and build specific tasks. We will also try to understand how Machine Learning would have helped in this specific situation. And im pretty sure in a year from now, well be able to make more use of those models than we are today. Interesting. I really appreciate your insights on this very interesting topic. And clearly, topical on a day like today. Thank you so much for speaking with us. Thank you. Donald trump and legal team are on notice. The federal judge presiding over the election case against the former president is warning to be extra careful of what they say publicly about the case. Jessica snider has the latest. Reporter the case against donald trump in washington, d. C. Is moving rapidly. The judge in this had this case is being firm on what they can and cannot disclose about the case to the public. So the judge issued a protective order, and it lays out the trump and his team cannot disclose any Sensitive Information given to them during this discovery process. That includematerial about the grand jury or search warrants. She issued several warnings to trump. En though hes running a political campaign, still has to yield to the administration of justice. That means that his political speech has to be somewhat limited, then thats how its going to be. Shes going to be carefully scrutinizing statements from trump and his team. She says, anything that can be interpreted to be sintimidating to witnesses or prejudice to potential jurors t could threaten the whole process in this case. So under all of these terms, prosecutors are prepared to begin handing over material immediately. That includes 1. 6 million pagesf documents, interviews, which trump will be prohibited from disclosing publicly, and now well see how quickly this case can go to trial. Prosecution has already said they want it to start january 2nd. Trumps legal team has to propose their start date next week. They will likely propose after the election, but 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 snider, cnn, washington. Republican critics have long demanded that hunter biden be investigated by a Special Counsel, but now that its happened, theres complaints its too little, too late. On a post on social media, Kevin Mccarthy blasted the appointment saying federal prosecutor has already investigated hunter biden for five years and cant be trusted to prosecute him. Paula reid has more on why this decision was made at this time. According to the Justice Department, on tuesday, the u. S. Attorn asked the Justice Department to ange his designation to Special Counsel for the purposes of the hunter biden investigation. Now hes a trumpappointed u. S. Attorney. Hes been investigating biden for five years. But the Justice Department has not put forth any official explanation for why he suddenly wanted to change his status and become a fullblown Special Counsel. There are some clues in the Court Documents because on friday Court Filings reveal that the Plea Agreement that had been reached has fall apart. They have reached an impass after a judge expressed some concerns and had some questions about the plea deal and after reaching this impasse, it a appears that that case related to some tax charges and one charge related to Gun Possession could now go to trial. One of the big differences once youre a Special Counsel, not only can you bring a case in any jurisdiction, you also have to write a full report detailing your findings. The Justice Department emphasizes that will help with the transparency around this investigation. Its not clear that republicans on the hill are going to see it that way. They wanted him to come and testify, answer questions. Its unclear how becoming a Special Counsel wocould impact husband willingness to testify before him. The previous Special Counsels like Robert Mueller have testified, but only after their investigations and after they submitted their reports. 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