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maui, the death toll is soaring as we get new reports from the devastation. and back in court. donald trump's legal team is about to appear before the judge in the 2020 election case for the first time, as prosecutors are now asking to start the trial in january. what is the judge going to say? five americans wrongly detained in iran on the verge of freedom after the u.s. strikes a deal with tehran. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." ♪ this morning the scenes in parts of maui are apocalyptic as rescue crews reach new areas. the death toll rose sharply overnight to 55. the governor estimates some 80% of lahaina were

destroyed. >> when the mayor said it's all gone, it's all gone. it's all gone. it's gone. >> i'm telling you, none of it's there. it's all burned to the ground. >> the mayor says the death toll is likely to rise. they have only been able to count bodies found outside structures and many people are still unaccounted for. today search and rescue teams from california and washington state will join the effort in hopes of finding more people alive. among the missing is linda vikali, her family has not heard from her since wednesday. >> they're looking, but we have not heard anything yet, and from what i've seen, it looks like their apartment complex is completely gone. >> also missing disabled veteran tim williams. his family last heard from him on wednesday when he sent them photos of the fire. he told them i was trying to find shelter, but his family does not know if he made it. more than 11,000 customers are still without power.

cell service nearly nonexistent. the scope of the loss is overwhelming. >> there's a lot of people, more than 36 people that didn't make it. i tried to warn as many people as i do. we tried. there was a lot of people -- lining i think it was just like so chaotic, nobody knew. there were no phone connections. as much as i was trying to save and let people know there were no options. i just had to go. i don't mind being homeless. i just more like am caring for the community. >> it is so hard. cnn's bill weir is on the ground in maui this morning. bill, thank you for being with us. give us a sense of what you're seeing and what the situation is. >> reporter: it is so devastating, john. your heart just breaks for these

people. so many people on this island affected, even those who didn't maybe live in lahaina and work on the west side of the island, that's where most of the tourists come, so this will affect hundreds of people on this island. right now the campfire of 2018 in california which took 85 lives in paradise, california, is the deadliest in u.s. history. this probably will exceed that. they are worried that the number could reach into the hundreds because so many people were caught between this wall of flame and the pacific ocean. those who did try to evacuate were stuck on the road in bumper to bumper traffic there, many others we know went into the waves to try to find relief, spent hours there, others didn't survive either from smoke inhalation or taking by choppy waves. the wind was 60, 70 miles an hour. i talked to one farmer, eddie garcia, who had fought the flames himself, was trying to build a fire break on his farm when he saw a tornado which has

never been seen in this part of the world before. it took part of his equipment away. you can see the emotion as he describes how many lives were affected by this one disaster. >> you are telling me that this is not just one village on maui, this will affect all -- >> every single person. every one of my friends lost their job because the building they worked at. so much of the people that live here, work here on the west side, it's like where the hotels are, it's where all the tourists come, it's the reason we don't have beaches. it's like everyone has lost their job, they've lost their house, they've lost their family. i think there's going to be hundreds of people dead and i don't say that as any conspiracy theory, i just look at how fast it moved and i know how people were out here, we are all in slippers, you know, it happens -- what happens? how are you going to get out that fast? it's all wooden houses super close together in that nine hood. you've probably been here on vacation. if there's a way you can help, it's your turn.

help here because it's needed. every single home in lahaina is gone. it's like i said before, it's apocalyptic. >> reporter: you know, in the best of times on an island like this in the middle of the pacific a gallon of milk is $12 here. now they have to deal with a whole new level of hardship, cutoff supply lines, no electricity, no communication now and that's really, john, the most excruciating part for families waiting for proof of life from someone they love. >> bill, obviously, you know, it's 3:00 a.m. where you are now, it's dark. i was hearing from you by phone when you were first arriving on front street in lahaina last night. just give me a sense of what was it like when you first arrived there. what did you see? >> reporter: the first thing is the smell, you can smell the burning chemicals, the boats that had melted in the harbor there, it's just acrid smoke,

thick in the air. very little life. there were work crews out just sort of cleaning up the roads, helicopters overhead, national guard helicopters, the big s chinooks and just utter devastation. bent and burnt and charred pieces of people's lives, their businesses. one of the most vibrant tourist spots really in the united states there just laid to ash everywhere. everywhere you look there's that iconic ban i don't know tree which thankfully looks like it survived which will be a morale boost for people now, but so many pieces to pick through, john, so many lives to account for right now. it's just taken the wind out of people's emotional sails here. it's going to be a hard road in the next couple days. >> it is hard to process some of the images we're seeing of buildings just flattened there or in some cases melting in on themselves. bill weir, thank you for being there for us. we look forward to speaking to you again throughout the day.

kate, really it is just extraordinary to see. >> hearing that they don't even have an estimate of how many people are still missing, it's so hard. >> they haven't been able to get inside the structures yet where maybe so many people have been trapped. >> exactly. these wildfires that just ripped through maui have already become one of the deadliest fires in u.s. history and the federal government is stepping in. sending the fema administrator in today for one. maui's mayor -- for one thing, maui's mayor spoke to nbc this morning laying out their top priorities right now. >> we have not yet searched in the interior of the buildings. we're waiting for fema to help with that search as they are equipped to handle the hazmat conditions of the buildings that have been burned. >> as we were just talking about, which means the death toll could very easily and quickly rise once they are able to get inside these structures.

president biden has approved a disaster declaration that will send in and free up more federal aid and it is clear people on the island are in great need. >> formula, diapers, ice, water and just food. >> that's going through your mind right now? >> i have a 4 month old and a 2-year-old. >> cnn's priscilla alvarez is at the white house following this angle for us. what is the white house doing? what is the administration saying this morning? what are they doing to help? >> reporter: kate, this disaster declaration is a key step in mobilizing federal resources to these communities that have been devastated by the wildfires. so as you mentioned, president biden approved this disaster declaration just yesterday and it will unlock a couple of things here, including grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans for uninsured property losses and other programs to help

individuals and businesses recover. now, a white house official also told me that hawaii has asked fema for shelter supplies like water, cots, food, blankets. president biden himself has talked to the hawaii governor, we know that he did just yesterday, and that he also spoke to how he plans to have federal assets continue to go to hawaii and shore up resources. take a listen. >> all available federal assets on the island, including the u.s. coast guard and navy third fleet and u.s. army to assist local emergency response crews along with the hawaiian national guard. we're working as quickly as possible to fight the fires and evacuate residents and tourists. in the meantime, our prayers are with the people of hawaii but not just our prayers, every asset we have will be available to them and we've seen their homes and businesses destroyed and some have lost loved ones and it's not over yet.

>> reporter: of course, all of those assets will be important to their recovery. we also know that the fema administrator is headed to hawaii today where she, too, will survey the damage and report back to the white house. kate? >> priscilla alvarez at the white house, they are going to need to help, just take a look at those pictures we're seeing coming out of the island, you need to see nothing more than that. >> the pictures do tell the story. thousands of people have lost their homes there. joining me now is lauren with maui rescue mission. thank you for being with us. the official death toll overnight rose to 55. i know you have fears that it will likely rise much higher. why? >> yeah, thanks, john. so i'm here at a hyper local level working with nonprofits, so maui rescue mission is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are a mobile outreach to the homeless and we've been here before the disaster and will be here after.

our concerns are that we as a local nonprofit are not able to even access anything west of -- west maui is completely cut off from communication and power. our local facebook groups which are really important to a really tight-knit community here on maui, we're seeing a list of 1,400 names missing. that's very fluid, but that's sort of what we're seeing at a hyper local level. we're sending materials, churches, nonprofits are sending materials via boat to west maui and via air because the two ways to access the west side of maui are closed off to everyone except emergency personnel right now. >> you can't even get in by road unless you are the emergency personnel, is that correct? >> that's right. and to orient your viewers a bit, if you don't understand the geography of maui it's going to be hard to understand the scope

of the devastation here. the center of town is kaud kahakuloa that is in the valley, there's the west mountains and the central valley is in the middle and that's where the only walmart, target and costco is for the whole island. so transportation and access to resources is something we work with on a daily basis at maui rescue mission, getting resources to the homeless and, you know, before this we were working with a homeless woman on the west side to try to get her to fly to oahu for emergency surgery because oftentimes maui residents have to fly to oahu for things like specialist doctors appointments and surgeries. so burn victims are being flown to oahu.

>> what's your sense of the greatest need in the affected areas right now? >> yeah, so as a sort of local nonprofit we are -- we are waiting for the approval to be able to access the areas that we can drive our trailer that has showers and laundry and hygiene items, like we're waiting to access those areas of greatest need. so to be honest we don't know. the scope is not clear. this is going to be an unbelievable recovery, but, john, the fires are still raging here. there's not 100% containment. there's three different wildfires and so we're still in the middle of this thing, but from a local level, as fema comes in and as we get all of this help, like please just buoy up with the local leaders here, the local reporters because they're here, they know the terrain, they know the communities. it's a very unique place here,

maui and the maui police -- the police chief referred to lahaina, the entire town as a sacred burial ground in the news conference yesterday. >> yeah. >> and so we just ask that everybody share their aloha, a collaborative spirit is really what we need and we're so grateful that the president is sending resources and we're going to need it. and so if your viewers are feeling like they want to do something, if you can give to a local 501(c)(3) that is on maui that has been here, like i said before, the disaster and will be here after doing things like hygiene kits like what maui rescue mission is doing, please do that. give to a 501(c)(3) that's local here. that would really bring the greatest -- because we are looking at years, years of recovery here. >> it's going to take a lot of time, a lot of work and a lot of heart, they're lucky to have you there, lauren henrie, thank you

for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> for more information about what you can do, go to cnn.com/impact or text hawaii to 707070 to donate. kate? coming up for us, it is the first hearing in former president trump's 2020 criminal case, as prosecutors are making a big new ask to start the trial in the beginning of january. it's all happening next hour. plus, five americans including these -- well, we will show you -- these three men who are right now detained in iran are a big step closer to coming home as the u.s. announces a prisoner swap deal with the iranian regime. a journalist wrongfully detained himself in iran, he joins us to talk about what the road ahead looks like. the captain of the alabama riverboat at the center of that massive brawl speaking out for the first time. what he says happened. >> but, you know, i saw it like

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a landmark day in the january 6th case against donald trump, the first hearing before federal judge tanya chutkan, this is the first time we will hear from her as prosecutors just filed a motion to start the trial in january. today we're looking for any signs for how she might proceed. cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is outside the court. today's hearing isn't about timing exactly, paula, but everything at this point seems like it's about timing. >> reporter: you are absolutely right, john. everything in this case is about timing and about speed because the dee freps strategy is to delay, delay, delay. you also have prosecutors asking for a speedy trial. we will get to that in a second. today's hearing is about the rules for handling sensitive evidence in this case. this will be the first time they're a cheering before judge

chutkan, she is an obama appointee, she's been on the bench for a decade and overseen dozens of january 6th cases. both sides will have the opportunity to present their arguments for how they think the most sensitive evidence should be handled as it is shared between prosecutors and defense attorneys leading up to a trial. just yesterday prosecutors said that they believe this trial should start on january 2nd, 2024. john, by any objective measure that's a pretty quick timeline for a case like this. prosecutors say it's in the public interest to move this case along quickly. defense attorneys have another week before they have to weigh in and offer their suggestion for a possible trial date and we will all be back here in three weeks on august 28th when judge chutkan says she intends to set a trial date for this case. but we will be watching today to see how quickly she makes the decision on these rules and just her demeanor, how she's going to handle this case.

this is her first test before the media, before the lawyers and this is going to definitely be likely the biggest case of her career. >> it will set the tone today for what we will likely see in the weeks and months ahead. paula reid, great to have you there. you will be giving us updates as quickly as we can get them from inside the courtroom. also this morning, five americans all wrongfully detained in iran are a big step closer to freedom. siamak namazi, emad shargi and morad tahbaz and another ta american who did not want to be identified are out of the notorious evin prison in tehran and on house arrest along with a fifth american. while all still will be under guard, this marks a big move and is the first indication in years of any progress in negotiations for their release. in exchange for their return we're learning the united states will release some $6 billion of iranian funds that have been locked up over sanctions in south korea. also under the terms of the

agreement iran would only be able to use the money for humanitarian purchases like food and medicines. joining us right now is "washington post" global opinions writer jason razion who was imprisoned for 544 days, finally released in 2016. thank you for coming back in. >> thanks for having me. >> this is a step. still a long road, though, from getting them home. what could these final weeks, days and final hours look like? how many complications could there be? >> well, kate, i can tell you that in the final days and hours of my detention, in an iranian prison, there were many complications and the whole thing almost fell apart right at the end on the last night. so, look, i'm glad to hear this news, i'm very happy that these five americans are out of evin prison, it's one of the last places in the world anybody

would want to be. i think it's a step towards their freedom, but -- but i want to remain vigilant and caution viewers and everybody in the media reporting on it to understand that things could still go sideways. >> we know about the $6 billion becoming more available, but after so many years, and we are talking about five people, i mean, do you think that iran will be getting more than what is so far out there in return? >> i don't know the precise details of what would be made available to iran, but what i will say is that they've been doing this for a very long time and in almost all of the cases that i'm aware of it was in an attempt to get some financial gain, but we have to remember that these funds were oil revenues that were in an account

in south korea that the south koreans held on to as really a favor to the u.s. government, essentially saying, hey, we are not going to make this money available back to iran without the permission of the united states. other countries have had similar accounts and made the funds available to iran without any sort of signoff from the u.s. so this was leverage that we had and if we're going to use leverage for anything, it should be for the safety of american citizens. that's what i think. is it good to give access to money to iran? i don't think so. but unfortunately we don't have a lot of deterrents in place. until we do, you can expect to see more and more of these cases. it's not going to stop until there's something credible standing in the way and that just doesn't exist right now. >> one of the last times -- i was looking back, jason. one of the last times we spoke you were on my show with emad

shargi's sister. i know you have and i have followed this case very closely. i want to play something that she said during or conversation back in september. >> bringing americans home will always unite our nation and not doing so will really cause harm and divisiveness and damage to sort of the identity of who we are as americans. we don't leave our americans behind. we need to bring them home. >> same time you have people like just one example mike pence spking out after the announcement of this questioning at what cost to bring americans home. pence put out a twitter statement, jason, saying that -- calling this the largest ransom payment in american history to tehran. what's your perspective on this given your experience of course? the cost of secures americans' freedom in exchange for other prisoners and the $6 billion we have talked about? >> what i would say is that i'm

proud and grateful to live in a country where my government cares about my freedom and my safety. right now because we don't have other mechanisms to stop the phenomenon of hostage-taking it's really a binary choice. leave people behind to languish in prison for years and years, or potentially die or be murdered, or negotiate with their chakchapters. it's that simple. i'm not in a position to know if a better deal was available or not available, but administrations going back to thomas jefferson have negotiated for the release of americans, including the trump administration. so it's really disingenuous for former vice president pence to come out in that way. i think, you know, there's still a lot of details that we don't know about that we will get and

made clear hopefully when these men and one woman apparently are ultimately freed, but in the meantime i think americans should rejoice in the fact that our citizenship still matters to our government because many countries do not negotiate for their citizens being held hostage. >> if anyone knows, you do, jason. it's good to see you again. thanks for coming in. >> appreciate it. >> thanks. john? butter sculptures and accusations of treason. it must be the iowa state fair. the republican candidates descending on this political festival with mike pence already facing the fury of trump supporters. house republicans moving ahead with the plan to impeach president biden. while they don't appear to have direct evidence linking him to his son hunter's financial dealings they now say they don't need it. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein.

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so this morning almost every republican presidential candidate is headed to iowa to take part in the famous iowa state fair, home of the butter sculpture. >> and so much more. it's not limited to the butter sculpture. >> but it is pretty awesome. it's a time-honored political tradition and it's a crucial opportunity for candidates to connect directly with voters in the party's first in the nation caucus state. >> this morning also on the campaign trail we are learning that senator tim scott is the latest candidate to sign the loyalty pledge required by the republican national committee in order to appear on stage for the first republican debate which

happens in just days from now. joining us now axios senior contributor margaret at that live and white house reporter for the associated press seung min kim. where does she begin? >> let's talk about the iowa state fair. >> what do you think it will mean for the primary this time around? every time donald trump is part of an election you have to say it changes it up, but what do you think it means? >> and he is changing it up once again, right? i mean, you've got the sort of trolling, he plans to appear with all of the members from the florida congressional delegation who backed him over ron desantis. you have donald trump -- it is customary, pattern and practice to meet with the local paper, sit down one-on-one with the iowa governor. he's doing it his way and he doesn't think that it will cost him at least not in terms of the national nomination. the final way that he has changed it up is he doesn't want to take this gop pledge to back

the gop no, ma'am fee even though the whole point of it was so that people would back him if he was the nominee. i think, you know, the idea of this state fair is so that individual candidates can get to know individual voters, when you have a caucus process it's much more intimate, but donald trump obviously feels that iowa voters, gop voters, already know him and that he doesn't need to do that work the same way and he wants to distinguish himself from the rest of the pack. i think that's what we're going to see. >> seung min, mike pence, i think, learned the stark reality of donald trump in iowa and trump's supporters when he faced a question from the crowd at the iowa state fair, a man asked mike pence, the former vice president of the united states who upheld the constitution on january 6th last year, he asked mike pence why did you commit treason on january 6th? that was the question to mike pence. there were some boos from the crowd. we have video of the moment, but really only the response. this is what pence said.

>> there's almost no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could pick the american president. i mean, the american presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. people deserve to know that on that day the former president asked me to choose him over my oath to the constitution. i chose the constitution and i always will. >> now, obviously seung min, mike pence was prepared for that question, but still it's just stark if this is what he is going to face whenever he goes to these republican events. >> right. right. and it's actually been fascinating to obviously mike pence ever since the january 6th indictment against donald trump became official because i feel like obviously this question of january 6th and the former vice president's actions that days, this is something he talked about on the campaign trail, but i feel like he has leaned into

this and his role and how he has done the right thing that day. he has leaned into that so much for as this has become a public focus. his campaign released t-shirts saying he is too honest, obviously referring to the former president's comments about mike pence's actions that day. this is why that big question of whether donald trump will participate in that republican debate in the next couple of weeks -- in less than two weeks is a really important question because pence has made that debate stage and obviously that looming question of january 6th, the election, the continued election denialism from donald trump and just sort of all of the questions and all of the politics surrounding that day is going to be much a more focal point if donald trump and pence are both there. >> i'm wondering if with pence's campaign they say thank you so much for that question because while it's not helpful obviously no matter how pence would answer the question, it's not going to help him with donald trump supporters, we know that's kind of baked in the cake already,

but with all other republicans that could be exactly the kind of answer they want to hear right now. let's talk about ron desantis. margaret, desantis -- the super pac supporting ron desantis has a new ad out, one in iowa and one in new hampshire. listen to this part of the new ad out in iowa. >> joe biden is destroying america and instead of looking to america's future, trump is busy attacking republican governors. >> when i spoke to kim, i said, wow, you want to remain neutral. i said, that's strange. >> without me you know she was not going to win. you know that, right? >> trump, he's all about himself. >> that is not the way we win as republicans. >> donald trump recently criticizing iowa governor kim reynolds. ron desantis super pac, oh, so happy to point that out. what does this do? >> well, so far in the polling it hasn't done enough. it hasn't done what desantis wants to do which is peel iowa

evangelicals away from donald trump and to him, but, you knew, it makes sense as a tactic. he and his wife are close with kim reynolds, with the governor. she declined to back trump and has said she will stay neutral, which trump reads as an endorsement of desantis essentially. you're seeing desantis try this in new hampshire as well with an ad kind of pulling the governor and republican governor there into that same frame, trump is shadow boxing with the governor. desantis is looking for ways to communicate to the gop base that trump is out for one person, himself, and not for the party. so far that message has not closed the gap in these months of early polls. >> our friends margaret talev, seung min kim, thank you for being with us to celebrate the iowa state fair and butter. appreciate it. >> and so much more. coming up, a fourth person

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cnn's ryan young has the latest for us now with this new fourth person accused. ryan? >> fourth person accused. if you watch the video you can actually see the part she played in it. a lot of people on social media were upset when she was not arrested because in the video it appears that you see someone kicking and maybe even spitting on that co-pilot during the -- that happened. people are looking into that but they're saying they don't believe it rises to that level just yet. take a listen to the boat captain talking about this whole incident. >> but, you know, i saw it like everybody else saw t it looks like white people attacking a black man. i thought that, i felt that, i felt -- i felt that was the case, what everybody was thinking, but, you know, i don't know the hearts of those men. i have no idea what's in their hearts. now, i do know the hearts of my crew and my crew was like

frustrated because they couldn't get to the dock and protective. i know that's what was going through their mind because that's what was going through mine. >> john, we have talked to people who work on that boat, they say they feel like family, a lot have been working on the boat for years so you can understand why they were rushing to the rescue of the co-pilot. we read this in some documents given to police that someone believed that one of the men who they believe started the fight actually said, i'm going to get my gun, and they believed he was going to return to one of those boats, one of those pontoon boats, and retrieve a weapon. at that point it sent more people into the fight because they wanted to stop that action from happening. so you can understand now this played out, all on video, and on top of that, the idea it was racially charged and then the idea that a gun may be put into this, you understand why people responded so quickly. john? >> ryan young, keep us posted on the latest developments. thank you very much. also on our radar this hour,

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