Hard questions on maui. How did this wildfire start . How did it grow so fast . Destroy lives all with so little warning . Now a top official in charge of the response to that crisis has quit even as he stands up for how his agency handled the disaster. Plus a historic hurricane. Hilary is now a huge category four storm. It could be the first storm of its kind to hit california in some 84 years. Some areas could get a years worth of rain in just one day. And justice deferred. Donald trumps legal team trying to push one trial years into the future. While the former president backtracks his plans to hold an explosive News Conference monday. Were following these developing stories and more right here all coming in to cnn news central. The origin and the response to the deadly maui wildfires are both under growing scrutiny. Just a couple of hours, residents of the devastated town of lahaina are set to hold a News Conference to address how officials responded to the disaster. It comes after mauis Emergency Management chief, herman endaya resigned, one day after defending the decision not to activate the islands Warning Sirens in the midst of this. Were also learning the atf is joining the investigation of how the wildfires started. Cnns Bill Weir Is On Maui and joins us now. First to the Lahaina Community members, their News Conference here. Theres growing frustration both with the lead up to this, lack of warning, and the response to it. Can you explain that frustration . Reporter as you can imagine, your neighbors have lost homes and family members, and there is no one in uniforms, days for weeks afterwards. All these relief pods are completely diy, and you set up by folks, life guards and bartenders have taken care of each other in these communities right now. Theres frustrations about everything from the air, which is toxic and blowing around. They need dust fences to protect that, to water, which cant be consumed or even boiled in parts of lahaina. There are pets, hundreds of pets that survived and now are sort of going hungry inside that area. Theyre demanding to get in there to take care of their an malls. A woman lost her home and business and articulates it well. Listen. The whole island of maui has come together to help each other. I think everyone is a little bit let down at the lack of response from our government. People have rallied together far more than any government has so far. Our walmarts and targets are emptied because all of our people here in maui have gone to buy brand new supplies for all of us who have lost stuff. If it wasnt for them and these Donation Centers that fema and red cross have not set up or our personal donations, we do have gofundmes and venmos set up personally. I wouldnt have food on my table. Reporter and there you go, just a little sample of the frustration, jim. So help us understand that. I look at this first of all clearly the worlds eyes are on this. They know what happened there. By the way, youre not far from one of the Largest Military enable installations in the world with an enormous amount of resources. Youve got the coast guard. Why . Why arent there people in uniform there, uniform of any kind, right, helping out . Reporter exactly. Thats the question. Thats the question. Nine days after a major event anywhere in the world weve covered these, you see humvees and choppers, pretty much everywhere. They have increased some personnel especially around the fires and some relief areas, but not nearly what weve seen. And then as a result of all of this frustration, you have mauis emergency chief, Herman Andaya who stepped down citing health reasons, but of course this came after a midweek Press Conference where he defended the decision not to sound the Alarm Systems on maui, saying it would drive people uphill. But even hawaiis own Emergency Management website says the allhazard sirens is used for a variety of natural and human caused events including tsunamis, flooding, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, terrorist threats, hazardous materials. So if anything, going forward, there will be a new attention paid to these Alarm Systems, what they mean, what people should do when they respond to it right now. But you hear a lot of residents saying it insults our intelligence to say as mr. Andaya said, if they sounded the alarm, people would run uphill thinking it was a tsunami to get them out of their home realizing that ash and smoke and embers are getting around and you should get away from the fire that could have probably saved lives. And speaking to the official there yesterday, talking about kids who may have been home alone in the midst of all of this because the schools were closed. Bill weir, its got to be hard to see all of this firsthand, so thanks for being there with us and helping us tell those stories. For more information about how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, please go to cnn. Com impact. Lots of great options there. Or text hawaii to 707070. Thats 707070 to donate. And now to the rare west coast hurricane, a category 4 hurricane named hilary. Its winds are now lashing mexico. The u. S. Will feel that storm soon. It could dump more than a years worth of rain on three states, california, nevada, and arizona starting this week including areas that dont normally get anywhere near this amount of rain. Cnn meteorologist chad myers is in the weather center. Chad, not a typical place you see these kinds of storms come through . No. National Hurricane Center issued its first ever Tropical Storm watch for california . Whats happening and when will it all start . Reporter well, we hope some of the rain, and i know this seems weird, but let me just explain myself. We hope some of the rain will start tomorrow afternoon because we dont want wind without a damp surface to blow across. We dont want to experience what just happened in lahaina with a wind event before the actual rain starts. So were kind of watching these arms, these outer bands try to feed up past cabo. Eventually by tomorrow afternoon likely into southern california. There it is, the Tropical Storm watch, the first ever for california period. There are Hurricane Warnings to the south because there will be Hurricane Conditions there. But here is the deal with this storm. It is going to die rather quickly because its going to go from 88degree water to 68degree water, and hurricanes dont like anything below about 82. So when we get into this colder water, we know the storm is going to die off. It isnt going to be a hurricane. There could be some gusts, but it isnt going to be a true hurricane when it gets up towards california. Its going to rapidly deintensify because theres your water and there is your water. Try to swim in the Pacific Ocean off california without a wet suit or go surfing. Its not very fun. Its very, very cold. But we do have the real threat of how much rainfall could come down. Some spots, jim, could pick up between 7 to 10 inches of rainfall. Nowhere, especially the hills around southern california, can take that kind of rain without really having some bad outcomes. Yeah, it seems like every day were talking about a neverbefore event or a worstever event. And i suppose we will keep on doing the same. Chad myers in the weather center. Thanks so much. Boris . Turning now to georgia, where lawyers for donald trump are engaged in talks with the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney about the details of trumps Surrender On Rico charges. That is expected to go down next week. But cnn has learned the Secret Service has been on site for several weeks already prepping for a highprofile surrender. Lets discuss with cnns sara murray and jennifer rogers. Sarah, first to you, tell us about this secret Service Presence . My colleague, ryan young, has been reporting Secret Service has been around the Fulton County jail for the last couple of weeks. This is as jail officials, the Secret Service, and the City Of Atlanta trying to get on the same page about how a trump surrender would look at the Fulton County jail. Obviously if youre the Secret Service, you dont want to be ushering the former president in there for the first time without having gotten the lay of the land and understanding what he will be going through the different rooms of the jail where he may be interacting with other people and how to keep him separate from the general jail population, which of course, we expect to have happen. Again, this is what we would expect, the Secret Service is not going to want to show up there blind with the former president of the united states. Absolutely. Jennifer, to you, the deadline for trump and his codefendants to turn themselves in is a week from today, at noon. Are you surprised no one has surrendered yet . Not really. I mean its not a very pleasant thing to go show up and, you know, do the formal arrest and have the charges formally lodged against you. So im not surprised. Theyll probably start trickling in at some point next week and through the week with the last of them showing up on friday as well. And im curious about lower level defendants. If they surrender, does that eliminate the chance that they could strike a plea deal . No, not at all. This is just, you know, get in, get processed, get the ball rolling. And then what the prosecutors will be doing because, of course, they charged 19 people. They need to thin that out before trial and they probably want to develop some cooperators. This is the time theyre currently strategizing and thinking about who likely knows what, what testimony can each defendant offer, and who they will be reaching out to in terms of the lawyers, which they may not know by the way. Some may not have lawyers yet. As soon as they do, prosecutors will know who to contact and whether that person could talk about cooperation. And sara, i want to pivot to the timing of trumps federal election subversion case. His attorneys apparently want that trial to start in april not of next year, but 2026 . Quite a ways down the road. The Justice Department asked for january of 2024, so that gives you an idea of how far apart they are. It will be up to the judge to decide ultimately what the trial date is going to be in this case. But trumps attorneys are arguing that one, hes got a lot of legal problems on his hands and on his schedule, and two that there is a lot of discovery to go through in this case. 11. 5 million pages. I want to read a portion of the filing. A particularly colorful description of the amount of documentation they have to go through. They said even assuming we could begin reviewing the documents today, we would need to review at a pace of 99,762 pages per day to finish the governments initial production by its proposed date for Jury Selection. Thats the entirety of toy storys piece cover to cover 78 times a day, every day from now until Jury Selection. That is quite a colorful entry. And jen to you, what do you make of this disagreement . How likely is it that prosecutors will get their way and see a more close start date to the trial . Boris, were going to see, i think, at least one or two trials next year before the election. The question is which ones . I mean the prosecutors are going to have to Start Talking to one another and sort out which trials are going first. Its just not going to happen without everyone getting on the same page, they cant proceed in a vacuum. So i think we will see it. Theyre going to have to meet in the middle. 2026 is going to be a nonstarter. But a couple of these trials are likely to happen after the election next year into 2025 because there is just too much to do. Its not as bad as theyre making it out to be with the discovery, but four trials is a lot to prepare for especially someone as busy as he is with a campaign schedule. They just need to get it going. I suspect the january 6 Election Interference Case will probably take precedence and probably get the first trial slot in say february or march of next year. What if there is a disagreement among prosecutors about how to coordinate the order of these trials . Yeah, and there might be. Theyre going to have to sort it out. Unfortunately theres no grand person above all these people that can order them to do something. But you know, i think in the end they will have to acknowledge the trial will take too long and Jury Selection will also take a long time, and shes going to have to follow behind the federal cases. So i think that is what will ultimately happen. We will keep our eyes on all of these Different Cases and obviously the 2024 president ial campaign in the backdrop. Jennifer rogers, sara murray, thank you so much. Jim . Still ahead, he was just indicted along with former President Trump for trialing to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Now exclusive cnn reporting reveals Kenneth Chesboro was marching on Capitol Grounds with Conspiracy Theorist alex jones on january 6. Were going to walk you through the video that shows that. But first President Biden hosting the leaders of japan and south korea for a first ever Summit Featuring all three nations. 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Our countries are strong expert world will be safer as we stand together. Their common goal today, a show of unity and force in the face of a rising china, and increasingly provocative north korea as well. Joining us now, Mike Gallagher of wisconsin, also sits on both the intelligence and Armed Services committee. Thank you so much for taking the time this afternoon. Thanks for having me. The u. S. Standings against china is a relatively bipartisan issue, a rare one in washington today. Thats part of this message today, this summit with south korea and japan. I wonder in your view, is the u. S. Doing what they need to Counter China economically and militarily . Reporter well, let me first say when it comes to the summit, its a massive step forward, and i applaud president yoon and Prime Minister kishida for putting aside historical sensitivity and coming together for this historic meeting. For decades weve had bilateral meetings, but our position has been weaker as a result. Now were going to have a series of Trilateral Cooperative efforts, and i think it does nothing, but enhance peace and stability in the indo pacific, specifically as we think about a few weeks ago, we celebrated the 70th anniversary, ending the korean war, a war that claimed thousands of american lives and many more korean lives. Its to remind us that we need to do Everything Possible to deter and prevent a war before its too late. To get to your direct question, i think on that issue, what were not doing with the sense of urgency is surging hard power, west of the International Date line to put the path, so he doesnt look across the Taiwan Strait and think he could make a move and achieve that ambition. Thats where it has run into a bureaucratic log jam at the pentagon. Thats why we need to work in a bilateral movement to put in a Place A De