Welcome to cnn this morning. Its saturday, august 19th. Im amara walker. Im victor black well. Thank you for spending part of your morning with us. Were learning more about what is expected to happen when former President Donald Trump surrenders to officials in the Fulton County jail in georgia. How this will look different and how the Secret Service is prepared. This hoss we have suffered is unspeakable and devastating. We will continue to mourn as we care for the survivors and begin to move forward together. So much heartbreak as the death toll in maui continues to climb. As were getting a closer look at the scope of the damage, what the governor is saying about the Recovery Efforts and whether tourists should continue to visit. Hurricane hilary is closing in on the southwest with a years worth of rain. Weve got a look at areas the most at risk. I look on the bus and really our kid is the last kid on the bus. Willie wont be riding the bus anymore. A nationwide shortage is causing cha
Hearing with special counsel jack smiths team. Theyre trying to determine what evidence trump may discuss publicly in the Election Interference Case. Plus, we have two Nbc News Exclusives today. New reporting about the special counsels investigation into classified documents found at President Bidens office and home. And democratic senator joe manchin skipping a major white house event as he considers running against President Biden. And celebrations are being held around the world today. The 50th Anniversary of hiphop. We begin this morning with Breaking News for the Third Straight day. Catastrophic wildfires are tearing through hawaii with six active blazes. Six still burning. It is now the second deadliest wildfire in u. S. History. 55 people died. The death toll is expected to rise as the fire is just 80 contained as of right now. With over 1,000 structures burned, thousands of acres of land scorched, the governor says it looks like a bomb went off and thats the likely the Largest
carley. todd: brooke singman joins us with the latest. brooke: brian walshe was arrested yesterday for murder of his wife and being charged with improper transz port of a body. authorities face the task of prosecuting a murder case without ana s remains. brian could appear in court today as early as 9 a.m. dependent on defense attorney availability. here is a timeline leading up to brian s arrest. new year s day ana was last seen alive. it wasn t until january 4th police were notified, they arrested and charged brian with misleading investigators on the 8th and january 9th, police recovered a bloody xief from the basement of brian and ana s home. police report revealed brian had threatened to kill ana several years ago. yesterday brian walshe was charged with the murder. a friend of ana said she was a forgiving wife that believed the best in brian. she was always defending brian and giving him chances, maybe that kindness killed her, sounds horrible to say. she is a giv
it is top of the hour. just in to cnn, michael cohen, the former personal attorney to president trump is meeting at the manhattan da s office. this is a very strong indication that the sweeping investigation into the trump organization is continuing. and perhaps the focus has returned to this hush money payments to stormy daniels. we re following the story. what did michael say when he went in? we have video, you played it of michael walking into the manhattan district attorney s office. cohen said he could not comment on what the topics they would be discussing would be. but he might have more to say when he is leaving. but this is the first time cohen has been in since this investigation has been led by the manhattan district attorney. he previously been in to meet with investigators 13 times over the previous years. the trump organization and the financial statements, now sources tell me that the investigators have refocused back to the hush money payments. of course
trump s defense attorneys. it will be interesting to see whether or not they go back to the judge that ordered this, judge cannon in west palm beach, and say, you know, you never really addressed this, so why is the special master bringing this up, is this something you can make a ruling on? so i think that s something we ll have to watch. we have crossed the top of the hour. tom winter and vaughn hillyard. tom, how does this fit in as we step back out of the weeds on this investigation, how does this fit into the larger look the doj is taking at these documents, whichever way this decision breaks from the special master? does it really change the thrust of the investigation from doj? vaughn pointed out the special master, judge dearie, is hoping he can have the review portion done by october 7th. everybody is targeting a november 30th date for completion here. that s what the judge who initially ordered targeted this as well. presumably the week after thanksgiving this c