it is now the deadliest wildfire in modern american history. hawaii's island of maui reduced to ashes

our team is on the ground in hawaii this morning as the death toll is rising. all eyes on georgia as a grand jury and donald trump faces the possibility of a fourth indictment. live with what the court and company can expect as ththe georgia a da p prepares to m ma case. see e the momoment a houous pennsylvania explodes killing five people inside the powerful blast destroying three homes and damaging a dozen more we have the story of a man that ran toward the flames and saved the lone survivor. a driverless traffic jam reeks havoc on the streets of san francisco. just days after getting the green light to expand. see why more people than ever want these programs to hit the brakes. and a surprise performance from ed sheeran, eagle eyed fans might be able to figure out what he's saying while working at the lego store it's monday, august 14th and early "today" starts right now good morning, and thanks for waking up with us, i'm vinita

nair. >> and i'm jessica layton. this morning we want to begin with what is the deadliest wildfire in u.s. history officials confirming that at least 93 people have been killed on the island of maui and they are warning that the number will likely climb more than 2,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed and police say so far they've really just been searching the cars in the streets as of sudden they had only searched about 3% of those structures. >> just so you know, 3%, that's what's been searched with the dogs, 3% when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, and so when you have 200 people running through the scene yesterday, i don't know how much more you want me to describe it >> a new class action lawsuit alleges the destruction could have been avoided if the utility company had deenergized power lines ahead of the weather

they say they don't comment on pending litigation, adding in part the high winds protocols were followed. fbi teams are on the scene helping to investigate the cause of the fire. coming up, we will have a live update from hawaii. after months of anticipation georgia prosecutor fani willis is widely expect this had week to wrap up the case for bringing charges against former president donald trump and his allies. this all goes back to the alleged interference in that 2020 election. for more on this we go to nbc's chris pollone in washington. chris, good morning. willis, as we know, has previously suggested she will make charging decisions in this case by mid-august here we are now, so what should we expect out of fulton county >> reporter: jessica, good morning. two people have confirmed to nbc news that they've been called to that fulton county, georgia, grand jury to testify this week, journalist george chiti as well as republican former lieutenant governor geoff duncan say they will testify tomorrow.

that clarifies the timeline willis is working on she has been investigating pressure former president trump and his allies put on state and local officials to overturn the 2020 election results in the weeks and months after election day. experts say willis could use a state organized crime law to charge more than a dozen people in the case. the former president maintained his innocence while campaigning in iowa over the weekend. >> is there any chance you take a plea deal in georgia >> we did nothing wrong. we don't take plea deals, it's a wise guy question. mr. wise guy we don't take plea deals because i did nothing wrong. it's called election interference. >> president trump, did you seek to overturn the 2020 election? >> you know the answer. >> reporter: if that grand jury does hand up an indictment it would be the fourth criminal indictment that former president trump is facing. he is currently the front runner for the gop nomination jessica? >> all right a lot of developments to look forward to

chris, thank you. a pennsylvania suburb was rocked by a deadly blast saturday morning as the town recovers officials are still trying to pinpoint a cause for the explosion that sent shock waves through the neighborhood nbc's emilie ikeda has more. >> reporter: a western pepennsylvaniaia neighboborhoodn pieces a after a deadly housuse exexplosion rarattled d the area the terrifying incident in plum captured on a doorbell camera. you can see debris shooting across the whole block and the fireball that demolished several homes on saturday morning. >> we have a full completely completely gone. >> reporter: craig lives several doors down. >> as a police officer you hear an explosion and you run towards it. >> yes. >> reporter: he helped carry his neighbor from the raging fire who now he says is in critical condition. >> we're fighting through the debris, the rubble, the fire trying to get our neighbor out of there but not a second

thought watts given. >> reporter: authorities concluded their recovery mission at the decimated lot, five people were killed including one child anand nenearly 60 firerefs treated by ems as the cause of the explosion remains a mystery gas has been shut off in this neighborhood as a precaution. >> at this point we can share that our system was operating as designed it's still too soon to estimate when service will be restored. >> reporter: fire officials say the explosion leveled three homes and damaged at least another dozen in the pittsburgh suburb such a force blowing out windows, four homes away. >> i was sitting right here -- >> reporter: families like this one now left to pick up the faces and face the utter devastation that claimed the lives of five of their friends. >> i was with three of them the night before and not even 12 hours later we find ourself in this situation. >> reporter: people still evaluating the extent of the damage not joe scarborough on this unrecognizable block but debris was literally thrown

across the neighborhood. authorities say it could take months if not years to determine the cause of the deadly explosion. back to you. >> emily, thank you. to ukraine now where at least seven people were killed by russian shelling in the kherson region on sunday among the dead an entire family of four including a three week old infant that's according to the country's interior minister. commenting on the attack in a speech posted to telegram ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said, quote, we will not leave any of russia's crimes unanswered let's go live to our raf sanchez who is following these developments good morning, raf. how did this assault on kherson unfold >> reporter: jessica, good morning. yeah, this is the latest russian attack on civilians in the southern ukrainian city of kherson. adds you will remember the russians occupied the city for the first nine months of the war, withdrew to just the other side of the dnipro river and

have continued to shell kherson relentlessly since then. yesterday's attack attacking the city and surrounding neighborhoods and at least seven civilians were killed including that three week old baby girl, her 12-year-old brother and their mother who was 39 years old. ukraine's interior minister says these terrorists must be stopped. now, this came after an alarming incident in the black sea where the russian navy says it used automatic weapons to fire warning shots towards a civilian cargo ship heading towards a ukrainian port russian commandos descended from a helicopter on to that ship, searched it before allowing it to go on its way now, the russians say this is their policy of treating any ship heading towards ukraine as potentially a carrier of weapons. this policy put in place after the collapse of that grain deal to allow ships out of southern ukraine a couple of weeks ago. the ukrainian government is saying that this firing towards

the civilian ship was piracy and needs to be investigated by the international community. jessica? >> raf, thank you. two pilots are recovering after a dramatic plane crash in michigan they were able to eject just moments before the vintage fighter jet plummeted into the parking lot of an apartment complex. the crash happened at the thunder over michigan air show yesterday afternoon. witnesses captured a black cloud of smoke raising from the crash scene. both high lots were rescued and are expected to be okay, the cause is now under investigation. robo taxi company cruise is caught in a public relations debacle after up to ten of their vehicles malfunctioned and cause add traffic jam in a san francisco nightlife district at 11:00 p.m. on friday witnesses tell the "l.a. times" that the car stood blocking traffic for about 15 minutes before eventually driving away cruise is blame ago nearby music festival for wireless connectivity issues that

impacted the cars. critics say this is just the latest example of how self-driving cars are unsafe >> we forget how everything is connected right now. after reaching hurricane status last night hurricane fernanda could impact hawaii angie lassman is tracking where the storm is heading certainly not what you want to hear for hawaii. >> we are going to be watching this down the line, we are not talking in the next couple of days but maybe by the weekend and early next week we could see indirect impacts we've also got tropical depression 8-e this along with the high pressure to the northwest of hawaii will continue to keep those trade winds a little more elevated than we like over the next couple of days and we've also got a tropical disturbance that has a 40% chance of developing that will likely become a depression down the line here is the track of fer nanand, those indirect impacts down the line, we will keep a close eye

on that. also a line of thunderstorms has popped up flood alerts across parts of the midwest and stretching through places across the country, really the eastern third of the country is where we will see the most active weather through the day today, not just heavy rain but the potential for strong storms. the risk of strong wind gusts and large hail on the table for this after, 110 for phoenix today with full sunshine, san antonio ends up at 104. and that's a look at your forecast, ladies >> angie, thank you. now to a story that might clear up monday blues. chicago was home to the third annual dachshund derby they were invited to participate

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>> reporter: these two hold tight to their thoughts of jonathan the coroner's report says he died from a fentanyl overdose. >> this was not johnny scoring on the corner, this was a migraine servicer trying to get pain relief and went to a pharmacy. >> reporter: johnny harms suffered from migraines his entire life and during an episode on his vacation in cancun he went in search of medication at a mexican pharmacy he took a billed labeled migraine tablets and hopped a flight back home to california with his girlfriend. within hours johnny harms was dead. >> as soon as that poison was sold to him, it was just a matter of time before he would die. >> reporter: about 200,000 americans travel to mexico each year to buy prescription drugs, often because they're cheaper. the state department is warning them, buy with caution, writing, counterfeit medication is common and may prove to the ineffective, the wrong strength or contain dangerous

ingredients. those dangerous ingredients are what researchers at ucla found when they tried to buy prescription drugs in northern mexico. >> they look like an oxycodone but contain fentanyl or adderall. >> reporter: and for a report in the "l.a. times" reporters bought and tested 55 pills from 29 pharmacies all across mexico. they say a little more than half were counterfeit and many contained fentanyl >> i'm very concerned that it seems to be something happening all over the country. >> reporter: most of those tests were on purchases of individual pills which could be used as party drugs, but maryland congressman david trone who asked for the state department warning thinks all prescription drugs there are a danger >> what's your warning to regular folks going on vacation in mexico thinking if they need to grab a tylenol they can. >> they run a huge risk. this he need to stop buying any drugs in the mexican pharmacies.

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now searching for victims of the wildfires that have claimed at least 93 lives. >> nbc's jay gray joins us now from maui with the latest on the recovery efforts yea, what are you seeing there >> reporter: ladies, good morning. we're seeing damage like you see behind us here, just shells that are left behind and this type of devastation stretching for miles right now across neighborhoods like this one and in many cases entire towns just swallowed by flames the laid back pace of this island giving way to the frantic rush of recovery teams that continue their work around the clock here the images don't begin to show the extent of what's been lost here >> our cars are burned up, the dogs and animals are dead. everybody is dead. there's dead people in the water. >> reporter: for those that call this island home the horror is overwhelming areas including lahaina ravaged

by the fire, more than 2,000 structures, homes and businesses now rubble and ash tourists in this vacation paradise replaced by first responders, recovery teams and cadaver dogs their gristly task made even more difficult by the intensity of the flames. >> the remains we're find something through a fire that melted metal we have to do rapid dna to identify them. so just understand what this thing is because none of us really know the size of it yet. >> reporter: less than 10% of the burned-out communities have been searched and already more than 90 victims identified hawaii's governor worried about what the growing effort could ultimately reveal. >> as a physician, it is a harrowing sight in maui. when those police and this division do come across scenes in houses or businesses is very

difficult. >> reporter: survivors. >> we need medicine, we need pillows, blankets, food. >> reporter: struggling through at times unbearable pain. >> i haven't gotten a break and i just am like -- i have to help like i have no other option. >> reporter: aching as they try to figure out what's left and what comes next. and as you just heard communities still with so many needs right now, the clothing, food and water, but there's also a growing concern long term about housing for so many families that have lost everything. >> all right jay, tnk youha

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