This morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. Officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. But they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. Crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. The search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and Officials Say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. And fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5. 5 billion dollars. The video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. Take a look at this tiktok video. It appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. Cnn has not been able to determine the source, or the video of the video, or independently verify the video, but the dense smoke and high winds created what you can imagine was incredibly chaotic and a terrifying situation. Take a listen to this next video. It is hard to hear but captures the terror as a resident tries to escape the flames in her car. We got to walk over there somewhere by the beach. Oh, [ bleep ]. No, no, no. Not like this. Not like this. No. [ bleep ]. The terror speaks for itself, doesnt it . This morning, we spoke with congresswoman from maury and lahaina in her district and she says her state has to learn from this disaster. It is not like Hurricane Force winds, dry brush, or red flag conditions. We saw this before, and we did not learn our lesson. That brush fire could erupt as a result of churning hurricane winds. And we underestimated the lethality, the quickness of fire. In this situation, we have got to make sure that we do better. Cnns gloria from honolulu, we are hearing so many traumatic stories of survival and the rescue and Recovery Efforts are conditioning as well. Yes, amara, rahel, just hearing that video, hearing those peoples voices and seeing the damage, in the video, and the images, it is really helping to bring everything into focus, just how much damage and loss this has in lahaina, 80 miles west of here from where we are. I want to go over the numbers that we have out this morning. Because now, we know at least a total of 2,207 structures were damaged or destroyed in the fire. More than 2,000 acres have been burned. And 86 of the structures that were exposed to fire are classified as residential buildings. So you can just imagine the loss. We have heard from witness accounts, and residents who have told us they were only able to get out with the clothes on their back. So we are talking about property loss. Loss of businesses. Loss of peoples livelihoods. And now, lahaina is going to take a long time to recover, and it will likely cost billions of dollars. Fema has put out a preliminary assessment, estimating the recovery to cost at least 5. 5 billion dollars. Now, trying to assess the damage is exactly what residents are trying to do. I want you to listen to a couple who spoke with my colleague yesterday, and they were trying to get back into the area, but were turned away. The police wont let us go to our home. We live in the same house, for 50 years. Since 1971. So i wanted to go down there. See if anything is left. You know. But they wont let us. I guess its dangerous or something. So well deal with it. We will wait a week or two, and we can go see whats left. And start from scratch. And rebuild. Reporter now, we are waiting to see if and when residents will be allowed back into the area today, for a couple of hours, yesterday, the one road that is currently leading in and out of lahaina was opened up but officials had to close it quickly after that because there were so many people and cars that were trying to get into an area that still remains unsafe. All right, gloria, thank you. And as we have been talking about all morning, there is obviously a lot of questions and some criticism over how authorities handled the early moments before the wildfires began to spread, just really quickly, across the island. Yes, hawaiis Attorney General will lead a review safetys response leading up to the fires. And as you said, the questions are mounting, criticisms are mounting, about the states response, and why Warning Signs were not activated which critics say cost some people their lives and that is not the only concern about hawaiis wildfire preparedness. Cnns pam brown reports now. Reporter cnn is learning hawaii officials underestimated the risk of wildfires in a recent report. Even as other documents show officials knew they lacked resources to preebt and prev and fight fires. We had advanced notice coming into the summer, the winds, the low humidity, and the fuels, and any ignition would have sparked a pretty big fire and thats exactly what we saw. Reporter in a state report, out just last year, Ranking National disasters, hawaii officials classified the Wildfire Risk to human life as low. In this colorcoded chart. The assessment though coming years after Hurricane Lane fanned the flames of fires in hawaii, raving maui and ohahu in 2018 and it highlighted how unprepared officials in hawaii were dealing with a disaster. With a County Report in 2021, noting Hurricane Lane made small fires swell, and stretch Public Safety resources with strong winds grounding air support. That storm should have been a wakeup call. According to this Planning Document from hawaiis Emergency Management agency. Other state and local documents show hawaii lagged behind in preparedness for the devastating wildfires playing out now that have killed more than 50 people, left countless people missing, and triggered widespread evacuations. A cruel deja vu for some residents. About four years ago, we had another hurricane, and we lost the house in the fire. Rebuilt. And what happened yesterday is killing me right now. We just lost the house again. Twice. In four years. A 2021 report also makes the troubling point that despite the increasing number of wildfires, Fire Prevention was given, quote, Short Sh Rift in a Strategy Plan from the Maui Department of fire and safety. The plan also included, quote, nothing about what can and should be done to prevent fires, which it called a significant oversight. Given how catastrophic this event was, i think there will be a lot of pressure on the state and other organizations to improve the Fire Prevention action that theyre taking statewide. The increase in fires in hawaii comes as maui has faced increasing Drought Conditions in recent years. Contributing to warnings like this. In a may webinar from the hawaii wildfire management organization. Hawaii has a big wildfire problem, we are on par with the most western prone states in the continental u. S. The impacts of the fire are broad and long lasts. Now residents are left to rebuild again, as the threat of the fure looms with no clear plan in the future in place. I know what i need to do. Weve done it before. This suck. Reporter it is unclear whether additional preparation and mitigation could have reduced the devastation, and all of the damage we have been seeing from the lahaina wildfires, given its intensity and speed. As the responsibility, the governor of hawaii tells cnn, the responsibility falls on all of us. Back to you. Pam brown, thank you for your report. And for more information on how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn. Com impact. Or you can text hawaii to 707070, to donate. Other news this morning, iowa is in the political spotlight this weekend, as more and more republican president ial hopefuls flock to the Iowa State Fair. It is a chance for the candidates to make their case straight to the voters from the des moines registers soapbox, or in a fairside chat with the popular governor. Cnn has more from des moines with this political privilege. It political pilgrimage. It is a busy day today. What can we expect . Reporter it is already picking up, we are seeing the president ial candidate from the republican side sitting down with a fairside chat with Iowa Governor kim reynolds, taking questions, talking about his various platforms, and his vision for the country moving ahead, should he be the nominee. We are expecting a total of seven candidates running for president , both on the gop and the democratic sides, although it is going to be dominated by the republicans, vying for that position to challenge president joe biden. The main event of course. And this is the big day of the Iowa State Fair politically. Donald trump and ron desantis, both of them will be here today. Not at the same exact event but they are going to be at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, at around the same time. Joining donald tmp will be the nine florida representatives, and you know, people here in iowa they dont exactly know who these folks are, but hes clearly sending a message to desantis who is closest to him, though behind in double digits, in most polls, and sending a message, to desantis, saying this is your home state and guess what i have. And amara and rahel, you can think of it as donald trump trolling the way he does on social media, bringing it here to the state fair in person. All right, lots to watch there, thank you. And for more now on the Iowa State Fair, lets bring in laura lopez, cnn political analyst and correspondent for the pbs news hour. Good morning. Lets talk about why this event is so significant. This event is really a key draw for all of the candidates, because it is a chance for them to press the voters and make a case for them, and along with other local iowa elected, that they are the ones that can take on president biden, come the general election. It is a chance for candidates to try to attempt, in the past, to break out behind who might be the favorite, and so weve seen that a lot of the candidates like Vice President mike pence, and ron desantis, Florida Governor ron desantis, senator tim scott, are all really trying to convince voters that theyre the better option than trump, but they are still very much in the shadow, and im a little skeptical but this time around, this fair will actually be a potential breakout for any of these candidates. That is certainly something a lot of people are watching. I will play for you, this is 30 minutes ago, what was said and we can discuss on the other side. These are great people running the primary, by the way. I love them all. Were colleagues, not competitors, were colleagues in a national revival, and i will not bash any of them, theyre great people. And the one credibility incremental reform and in case im probably not your guy, do you want reform or revolution . I stand on the side of revolution. Theyre taking the nice guy approach but also saying if elected we take some pretty big swings. I realize youre in washington right now, but what do we know about the reception from this type of message . So he is surprisingly in some national polls, he has been in third place, behind trump first, then ron desantis, then i will note that politico had an interesting analysis of the polls out this morning that said that he is doing better among online polls. So people who are polled online, who sometimes have a monetary incentive to answer those online polls, but on telephone polls, which is a different segment of the electorate, he is sometimes in seventh place, or in sixth place. So far behind a lot of the others in the pack. And iowa itself, it found that ron was behind trump, desantis, and senator tim scott, so not really leading that much in iowa, which of course, the reason that iowa is so key again is because it is the first s state, its a state where a candidate like ron can try to win and reset the narrative about whether or not the former President Trump can win the nomination. Speaking of resetting, one person who seems to be resetting his campaign is desantis, and you said youre skeptical that this, the Iowa State Fair will necessarily provide a break through, but you could argue perhaps, no one needs it more than desantis. Thats right. He definitely need it. His fam cain has been floundering his campaign has been floundering since essentially january when he was showing that he could be neck and neck with the former president , and since then, he has just gone steadily downhill. Now trailing the former president by double digits. And his campaign has spent, well, a pac that is associated with his campaign, a pac that is a separate independent pac that supports him, has spent a substantial amount of money in the last month or so, really trying to make voter contact, and so far, desantis doesnt have much to show for it. It seems that the republican consultants that i talked to say that this tactic, by a lot of the candidates, cannot go after the former president , to not go after trump, to not talk about what he did on january 6th, and it is not necessarily helping them. Candidates like desantis have actually floated pardons for trump. Saying that, you know, accusing the justice department, baselessly, of weaponizing themselves, and running a conspiracy and being corrupt. So how they try then to take down the former president when they arent will being to attack them, that consultants ive talked to say it is not helping them in their bid to come out from behind. Thanks for being with us today. Still ahead, a u. 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And on friday, Court Documents revealed that the deal had completely fallen apart. We want to bring in cnns marshall cohen. What does this mean now for the investigation, this elevation to Special Counsel status . Well, good morning, guys. What this means is that the investigation that seemed to be over just a few weeks ago might only be starting with a possible trial looming in the future. As you mentioned, the huge announcement yesterday, from the Attorney GeneralMerrick Garland, that in the past two days, david weiss, the prosecutor in delaware, had requested Special Counsel status, and that the Attorney General decided to grant him that status. Why . Why did this happen . Why now . What appears to be the most reasonable explanation is what you mentioned, the plea talks, between these two parties, completely breaking down in the last few days, and prosecutors describing in a court filing, literally, while Merrick Garland was speaking yesterday, prosecutors said in a court filing that the talks had reached an impasse, and that a trial was likely necessary. Guys . And i mean it really is a twist in event, right . Because hunter biden was potentially facing just probation as a result of the plea deal, and now, a Potential Trial as you say, is Hunter BidensTeam Responding . What are they saying . Where do we go from here . Yes, they have been pretty cautious, i would say, with their response. They have not been attacking the prosecutors. And they have been pointing out that while this case is all about taxes and things like that, he eventually did pay his full tax bill of about 2 million. 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