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deadly w whiefldrlgds rip throu hawaiian behinds h tampa's mayor reels in a million dollar catch, but it wasn't a fish on the end of the line, 70 pounds of cocaine, and she's not the only florida keys boater this year to find this kind of catch. and your streaming subscriptions are on the rise. disney+ is the latest platform to push prices higher, and we'll tell you how and when your bill will jump. it's bad enough to have a snake fall on you, but imagine a hawk swooping down to pluck it right off your arm one woman in texas shares the wild encounter in her own words. it's thursday, august 10, "early today" starts right now.

glad you're with us this morning. i'm frances rivera we begin with a deadly inferno ripping through paradise wildfires burn on the island of maui urgent evacuations continue across maui where mm services and communications have been crippled satellite images show the widespread destruction on the island at least 270 structures have been damaged our miguel almaguer starts us off. >> reporter: the apocalyptic scene in maui unfolded before sun rise an island wildfire so explosive flames poured into the pacific, forcing the desperate to plunge into the ocean to escape the inferno. the coast guard quickly plucking roughly a dozen from the water, as witnesses say the unstoppable blaze ripped across homes and took at least six lives. >> the smoke was just so thick people were running around,

looking for refuge it was, the heat was unbearable. >> reporter: during the chaotic evacuation >> oh, my god. >> reporter: hospitals treating at least20 burn victims quickl became overwhelmed 911 service went down, cell coverage is out, and the national guard was ordered in to help >> it really took us by surprise >> reporter: as 70 mile per hour winds fanned the flames. the air attack was grounded. quickly multiple fires erupted, historic sections of lahaina were engulfed in flames and smoke. >> this is not a safe place to be on certain parts of maui we have shelters that are overrun. >> reporter: state officials say some of maui is without power. roads are blocked. hotels are closing, and thousands of tourists and locals are trying to flee >> our stuff is still at our hotel, so we are here at the airport with no stuff. >> the firestorm came through

and took everything with it. >> reporter: but for those with nowhere to go or no way out, the extent of the damage is still unclear. >> local people have lost everything they've lost their house they've lost their animals and it's devastating >> reporter: this is the misery in maui, as a wildfire turns this tropical paradise into a hellish nightmare. here at the airport and across the island, some 4,000 people are trying to leave maui, which is still under a state of emergency. airlines are sold out and hotels are evacuating many have nowhere to turn. >> miguel, thank you new this morning, two more men have turned themselves in after that violent confrontation on a dock in montgomery, alabama. allen todd and zachary shipman surrendered to police and face charges of third degree assault. richard roberts was already in custody. officials say a fight broke out

after the boaters were asked to move out of the way for a riverboat. and a court ruling made public on wednesday has revealed that the office of jack smith executed a search warrant earlier this year for the twitter account of former president trump. the ruling said smith's office was searching for evidence of criminal offenses. the warrant's existence was made public in a decision by a federal appeals court holding the social media giant known now ag as x as not immediately complying with the request posting on truth social wednesday, trump accused the justice department of secretly attacking his twitter account. just hours before president biden landed in ute e ute wedneut

federal officials shot and killed a man who made threats. >> reporter: the fbi says its agent agents had a deadly confrontation with a man who had threatened to kill him a suspect, craig robertson, who they say was approximately 70 to 75 years old >> there was a big boom. then there was another one and another one. >> reporter: in court documents, the fbi says robertson posted on social media, i hear biden is coming to utah, and he was cleaning the dust off his sniper rifle. this post shows a picture of his weapons along with threats ahead of the 2024 election cycle the documents also say robertson posted threats to kill vice president kamala harris and the democratic d.a. in manhattan, alvin bragg who's prosecuting donald trump in march the fbi says it

observed robertson wearing a hat that said "trump." >> he was nice to me it just goes to show you never know who your neighbors are. >> reporter: it comes amid growing concerns over threats to public officials and their families capitol police saying the number of investigations is historically high. major instances include the attack on house speaker nancy pelosi's hususband pauaul. the fbfbi hahas not releleased y details about what sparked the deadly confrontation no fbi agents were injured >> peter, thank you. dianne feinstein fell in her home in san francisco. a spokesperson telling nbc news that she went to the hospital as a precaution they said all of her scans were clear, and she returned home after about a two-hour visit

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>> till you come in and they're counting down, you're all ofof a sudden, ah, we're really g going to do ththis thing >> r reporter: kellyly latimere be at the helm on n the historic mission on the same ship that sent sir richard branson and his crew beyond the stratosphere in 2021 >> it feels like we're at the turning point of a new age of spspace travelel >> reporter: h hoping to bring tourism to the cosmos, it's the latestst salvo a and the first virgin galactic c flight to car regular folks, like kesha and her 18-year-old daughter lucky enough to skip the $450,000 per ticket by winning their seats in a lottery. and they'll become the first mother and daughter duo to go to space. what are you looking forward to the most >> looking back and seeing the beautiful planet and looking across to see my daughter's face while she's looking at it as well >> reporter: the 90-minute flight blasting off at three

times the speed of sound with total weightlessness, and to find out what to expect i took a spin in the cockpit simulator. two, one, drop, whoa >> and fire. so we fire up the motor, and off we go. >> reporter: there we go and now earth is above us. wait, what >> reporter: the launch of a lifetime to the edge of a new frontier >> where do you think humanity goes from here >> upward and outward. it's going to grow dramatically. >> reporter: gadi schwartz, from new mexico's gateway to space. strong storms brewing from the mid atlantic to the plains let's turn to angie lassman who's tracking the severe weather that could stick around into the weekend >> we've got another day of strong storms that are possible. no surprise there. 'tis the season for that we've already seen some of this ramping up soggy conditions unfolding for

much of the eastern half or eastern third of the country let's talk about what's happening. we'll see the system continuing to push to the east and bringing heavy rain and the potential for stronger storms throughout the day today. that will eventually push offshore, then we'll see this other frontal boundary leaving it unsettled for folks there here's where we're watching for the greatest chance of storms, raleigh, charlotte, wilmington 14 million at risk hail, winds, that's what we're a mainly watching, minneapolis to quincy here as we get into tomorrow same story as far as the hazards are concerned. 17

mid-80s, summer like from chicago to omaha with plenty of sunshine and that's a look at the forecast, frances. >> we'll check in with you in a bit. angie, thank you we are back in 60 seconds with a famous face stepppping dn atat howard ununiversity g g down at howard d universityty g joy te table for r less. when shariring, the love s starts withth qualality ingrededients. anand when grereat tastste meets lolow prices. that's tototally targeget. to give e your teethth a dentntist clean n feeling. start withth a round b brush . add popower. and you've got o oral-b. add popower. round clcleans betteter by surroununding each h th add popower. to rememove 100% m more plaqu. for a a superior c clean. to rememove 100% m more plaqu. ororal-b. to rememove 100% m more plaqu. brbrush like a a pro. to rememove 100% m more plaqu. viviruses and d bacteria f ft all arouound us. unlikeke air freshsheners, only n new lysol a air sanitir kills 99.9.9% of virusused bactereria in the e air. becaususe scent cacan't saniti. lysol can.

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quickly identified the contents. >> and so i could see from my days or years in narcotics, i could see they were tightly-wrapped kilos of cocaine, so we pulled it up onto the boat >> reporter: the package eventually passed on to border patrol which posted this photo >> i just surmised it either fell off a boat or dropped out of a plane or somebody ditched it if they saw customs coming towards them who knows where it came from >> reporter: authorities say just in the month of july, bales of cocaine and marijuana were found in the water around the florida keys at least three other times. all discovered by recreational boaters who hoped prevent millions of dollars worth of drugs from reaching the u.s. >> thanks to steven romo for that report. still to come, wework's a warning is that their business is not where they're seeing red.

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and then a hawk swooped in several times attacking them both corey peele from our houston affiliate tells us more about the traumatizing and bizarre experience >> reporter: the wrap around peggy's arm covers the scars after a snake and hawk attacked her in the back yard >> i was mowing on our property, and just out of the sky, out of the clear blue, a snake fell onto my arm. >> reporter: he says the snake held on tight. >> i began to sling the snake off my arm and he wrapped on and held on tighter. he was striking my face and glasses. >> reporter: the snake wouldn't back down. >> just started praying out, "jesus help me, please, jesus help me" >> reporter: she got another surprise >> a hawk came down, he grabbed the snake and tried to get the snake off. he didn't have a good grip the hawk came down about four times, finally got the snake and took off with the snake, and i

looked down, and i was covered in blood my arm was pretty tore up. >> reporter: jones ' husband ruh her to the hospital. even the doctors had a hard time believing her story. >> i think they kind of thought i might have been on drugs, because they asked my husband and daughter what kind of drugs i was taking it was definitely no drug. >> reporter: she believes the hawk is the reason her life was spared >> i this i that was god's way of letting, letting me live. and, because i, i couldn't figure out a way the snake was not letting go of my arm i feel thankful that i'm alive >> and our thanks to corey peele for sharing that story now sandwich fans are taking their love of subway to a whole new level. the chain announced that nearly 10,000 people are willing to legally change their names to "subway", to receive free sandwiches for life. between august 1st and 4th,

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a really tragic moment for not just the people of maui, but for the entire state. >> breaking right now