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now. today, monday, august 14th, 2023. breaking news -- historic disaster. the number of people killed in maui continues to grow with over 95% of the disaster zone still left to be searched. the massive relief effort now under way, and the lingering issues that could exist for months. more legal troubles. a georgia prosecutor is laying out a case against former president trump. whwhat he's accuseded of d doin thatat state, andnd whenn charg coululd be filed. home explosion. a blast in pennsylvania leaves five people dead, including a 12-year-old. what we're learning about how it happened. and smash and grab. thousands of dollars in merchandise stolen in minutes. details of a coordinated attack in southern california at a mall and how police say they pulled it off. we begin in hawaii with the

devastating aftermath of those deadly wildfires. crews are still searching for victims in the charred ruins of lahaina. >> specialist teams and cadaver dogs are going through the rubble, and families of the missing are still desperately trying to get answers. >> we've been to a lot of hotels inside lahaina, but none of them are there. we've been to the police station. we called red cross, anywhere that we can find them. but nothing -- zero leads. >> at least 96 people have died, making it the deadliest wildfire disaster in modern u.s. history. just 3% of the burned area has been searched so far, and hawaii's governor estimates the damage will cost nearly $6 billion. >> donations and volunteers are pouring into the island community. and as the focus begins to shift to a long, difficult recovery, there are storms that could impact hawaii later this week. meteorologist bill karins will track those for us in a moment. first, we'll go to nbc news'

dana griffin outside a shelter in maui. you've been speaking with beam who fled lahaina, still have family left behind. what are the biggest needs they have in that community right now? >> reporter: right now the biggest need is housing. you know, there's about 1,100 evacuees that are in shelters like the one behind me, and the pastor i spoke with says there's only about 30 to 40 inside right now because they're starting to move them into hotel rooms. but the issue is those hotel rooms are only going to be available for 30 days. there's going to be another challenge of figuring out more permanent housing until lahaina can be rebuilt which could take years if not decades. we've also spoken to people who are very frustrated because -- we've seen friend foods being dropped off at the shelters. the greatest need is lahaina and beyond. they're not allowing anyone in unless you can prove that you live there. i spoke with one woman over the weekend. here is what was frustrating her.

listen. >> where is the -- they're letting tourists in right now when we have families out there who are starving. there's thousands of people, there are still towns past lahaina that have nothing now. >> a lot of people didn't make it. everybody's -- everybody's house burned down. everything burned down. >> reporter: extremely emotional for a lot of people who are also missing family members. the fema administrator moments ago during that white house press briefing, she said that they will get to a point where they go back and try to figure out what went wrong with those sirens that did not go off. right now the focus is on recovering the missing and those bodies that are yet -- have yet to be identified. they're asking family members to give dna samples so that they can try to identify those bodies. >> dana, thank you. bill, let's bring you in and talk about the forecast and what we expect to happen next. a lot of these wildfires, most of these wildfires have been contained. but what are some of the

long-term concerns for hawaii going forward? >> we've heard stories and concerns from scientists saying they worry about the water, obviously, the drinkable water and contamination. they're also worried about the air quality of the fires that have already burned and why that smoke was going and what was in them. happy to report the air quality monitors across all the islands are good, very good right now. haven't heard of any problems whatsoever. the trade winds continue to blow. if we have any problems going forward, it's going to be because of high winds again. and if we get any new fires. there's a lot of what ifs. but the forecast winds are going to pick up in the next two to three days. it's not going to be the extremes like with the horrific fire, but in the 20 to 22 mile-per-hour range. there are two systems, one is tropical storm greg. that will pass south of the islands. strong high pressure to the north. the pressure grgradient, it wil be getting strong irtuesday,

wednesday, into thursday. we'll see what happens with this hurricane in about a week from now. it is supposed to get a lot weaker by the time approaches the islands. we'll track greg. it's going to go south of the islands. looks like about an average tropical storm. remember we had hurricane dora just to the south of the islands. that's a strong hurricane. so that increased the pressure gradient even more. that's good that that does not look as extreme. i did mention that fernanda, the hurricane, will weaken as it approaches the island. again, winds will be increasing over the next couple of days. so fire and weather concerns will increase withit. >> all right. meteorologist bill karins and dana griffin, thank you both. if you at home want to help the wildfire victims in hawaii, we have a full list of organizations on our website at nbcnews.com. and this week the fulton county district attorney appears to be laying out her case to a georgia grand jury. it will decide whether to charge president trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the election loss in the state. the investigation has been under way for more than two years.

the former president has denied all wrongdoing. mr. trump has also publicly criticized the district attorney overseeing the probe. let's bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake who covers the trump campaign. he's in atlanta live for us now. there's a lot of trump investigato keepck of. yoow, jusod the j in t hush case here new york declined to recuse himself. remind us what this case in georgia is all about and how significant it could be compared to those others. >> reporter: yeah, these cases are starting stack up. the georgia case is one that has long concerned the trump campaign in part because it's a state case, not a federal case, which means even winning the white house means he couldn't pardon himself if he were convicted here. partly because the evidence is so accessible. donald trump is essentially being investigated here for his and his team's efforts to first influence the count of votes, try to come up with votes that hadn't otherwise been found, then to try to get fake electors put in place who could vote for him on january 6th.

all the while having hearings and leaning on local republican-elected officials to make this work for him. the most famous example is this phone call the former president made to the secretary of state during that sort of heated december-january period between 2020 and 2021. listen, you'll remember. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> reporter: as parts of an hour-long phone call the secretary of state repeatedly tells the president he did not win the state. expected to be a key piece of evidence that this grand jury has heard as they're getting ready to make their decision. gabe? >> there's been some significant movement on this case, right, in the courthouse behind you. what's happening now, and what does this mean for the grand jury timeline? >> reporter: yeah. it's a secret process. it's always hard to tell exactly what's going on behind closed doors. we do know in this case that at

least two witnesses who were told that they should expect to testify tomorrow on tuesday have instead been brought into the courthouse to testify today. among them, george chidi, a freelance journalist who happened on the fake electors, voting for themselves and signing fake electors in georgia. he spoke about why he was testifying in this case. here's what he said -- >> the only r i'm doing this honestly is because i think thhe stakes are that important to democracy writs e in t united states. and becau ie this limita on what going to behat i'm going to be asked about. >> reporter: so the best we can tell that journalist, george chidi, is testifying as we speak. again, he wasn't expected to be here until tomorrow. so it's possible this timeline which we thought would lead to perhaps an indictment vote later in the week, maybe tomorrow, could be speeding up. >> garrett haake, live watching it all for us. thank you. investigators in

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directly to their gate at some of the busiest airports. airport concessionaire otg managements is removing the ipads from restaurants and replacing them with mobile phone ordering services. customers will use qr codes posted around terminals or on a website to place their order. and over a third of gen-z workers say they feel guilty when they're not working on vacation. the youngest generation of workers is also the least likely to unplug on a vacation in the next few months. around 30% say this is due to economic and financial concerns. guys, i mean, maybe it's not surprising. earliest in their career trajectories and most connected of the generations. but still -- >> we know people who struggle with that -- >> i feel guilty. trying to get over it. >> are you going to use the airport mobile scans as a frequent traveller? >> yes. >> morgan? >> yes, 100%. >> morgan brennan, thank you.

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di ande did not do that. >> reporter: the frustration over school buses spreads far and wide. >> they're 15 minutes early or 15 minutes late, or sometimes they usually if they're late to the next route they bypass the stop. >> reporter: with a nationwide driver shortage impacting 80% of districts, according to hop, skip, drive. lack of competitive pay, recruiting problems, and strict regulations all making it hard to fill positions. >> our kids are going to be the ones to suffer because they can't get to school because we can't get them there with no bus. >> reporter: across the nation, a variety of temporary solutions are under way. in chicago where the district's short half their bus drivers or around 600 of them, the city is offering free transit cards to qualifying families. >> honestly it breaks my heart because we have students, we have kids that really -- they need to get to school. >> reporter: in hillsborough county, florida, with a roughly

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signs of the problem easing, and that this school year is posing just as many challenges as the past two when it comes to finding teachers. and they attribute this to two real things -- one, there is a rise in teacher resignations, either early retirements or teacher burnout or teachers taking advantage of the strong labor market to shift into other careers where they could potentially make more money. and at the same time, fewer people going into education. particularly as college costs have risen, debt students are taking on has gone up. and the wages and salaries for teachers has been gone up. as a result officials are having to resort to desperate measures like combining class sizes or having to put people in the classroom to teach who have no teaching experience previously. >> yeah, and shannon, that is a concern. you know, we also heard that in sam's report with some school districts going to those extreme

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immediately. in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thanks. speaking of outside lands, the three-day festival wrapped up in san francisco. hundreds of thousands of people came to golden gate park to enjoy the food and music. the festival did have some trouble. the stage in the soma tent partially collapsed on friday. no one was hurt but it was shut down for the day. they did briefly reopen it on saturday but shut it down again over concerns with the flooring. overall, people we spoke with told us they were having a great time. some said they've been coming for years now. this was the 15th anniversary for outside lands. it's been rocking in golden gate park since 2008. well, hooer are some other stories you need to know about concerns over possible kniep nepotism. we want to tell you about a fire at a south bay apartment. our traffic camera spotted the

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decision, a judge today sided with a group of young climate activists in montana who said the state violated their constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment. in the first of its kind climate trial, 16 plaintiffs, aged 5 to 22, allege that montana's fossil fuel policies contributed to climate change. the judge found that the state's failure to consider climate change when evaluating permits for energy projects was causing harm. dramatic video shows the moment two people in a vintage fighter jet ejected out of the plane just before it crashed on sunday. the soviet-era fighter jet was flying as part of the thunder over michigan air show. the federal aviation administration said the two passengers made it safely to the ground using parachutes. an investigation into the crash is under way. and the "barbie" movie has done it again. director greta gerwig's pink film phenomenon has topped the box office for the fourth straight week bringing in more

than $33 million. in total the movie has raked in over 1:3052 -- over $520 million domestically and a billion worldwide. it's on track to become the year's top film. >> wow. we are following breaking news out of philadelphia. federal and local officials have just announced the arrest of a 17-year-old as part of an attempted terrorism investigation. nbc news justice reporter ryan riley joins us now. what more do we know about how authorities found this teenager and what exactly is he accused of? >> reporter: we don't know the name, but we know that the teenager was allegedly in medication with individuals he believed to be associated with al qaeda, a terror organization designated in 2020. heaters what the special agent in charge had to say at a press conference -- >> this individual was also sending and receiving media containing terrorist propaganda

and guidance on committing criminal acts including how to construct a bomb. the investigation further determined that the individual appeared to be taking steps to travel overseas for the purpose of joining or supporting terrorist activity. most concerning, however, was the evidence that he had access to firearms and had purchased items and materials commonly used in the construction of improvised explosive devices. >> reporter: so what she said there, also at the press conference, is there's a multitude of weapons that were accessible to this individual, and there were chemicals bought that could be used in improvised explosive devices. this is a kind of case that the fbi is generally pretty good at and has practice over for the past two decades, you know, since 9/11. they very much have been focussed on the foreign terrorist threat. so it is the kind of case that sort of in their wheelhouse, and they know how to execute. >> ryan, this is a 17-year-old, but the state attorneys, they want to charge this 17-year-old as an adult, right?

is that normal? and if so or if not, what is the significance of it? >> reporter: yeah, especially for federal authorities it gets tricky because they can't bring cases against 17-year-olds in court. this is a case where they offloaded to state prosecutors, the prosecutors intend to charge him as an adult at which point we're going to learn the individual's name. that step hasn't taken place yet. and this case will continue with state authorities rather than on the federal level given the suspect's age here. >> all right. ryan reilly, thank you. there are new questions today about why a small kansas police department raided the office of a local newspaper and the home of its owner and publisher. you see the police here searching the offices of the "marion county record," a paper that only publishes once a week. police seized computers and cell phones, and the paper's publisher now calls the raid an unconstitutional violation of the first amendment. the police chief is not giving details about what led to the

raid. senior national correspondent stephanie gosk is following this story for us. stephanie, what has the back -- what is the back story here? what was the reason for this raid? what are police saying here? >> reporter: yeah, so gabe, follow along a little bit with this. it gets complicated. first of all, the first thing to know is marion, kansas, has a population of about 2,000 people. is really small, small town. this is a restaurant owner that alleges that this local paper obtained personal information about her driving record illegally. she went to the police, the police obtained a search warrant. the search warrant says that there is probable cause that identity theft took place at this newspaper and that there were computer crimes. then they were given the authority to go in and seize all of these materials. but here's the issue -- the issue has to do with the privacy protection act which protects journalists under federal law, that in these circumstances what should have been issued,

according to a lot of attorneys who practice law for journalists and the media, they say what should have happened were subpoenas for this information, not this wide-scale search. not just the offices for the newspaper but also the home -- also the -- the owner of the newspaper, his 98-year-old mother was in the house. and the following day after the raid, she died because, he says, the stress of this. it has triggered headlines across the country, and a lot of people questioning whether the first amendment was violated here. >> so tragic that a 98-year-old woman dying. quickly, stephanie, this raises a lot of questions. but quickly, could the police department face any legal action here? >> reporter: well, it would be a question of whether or not a law was broken, a federal law was broken. and we don't know at this point. we still don't have the affidavit for that search warrant which was really the key document here. >> thank you. take a look at this chaotic

scene at a los angeles mall. dozens of people raiding a department store in what police are calling a coordinated smash-and-grab operation. police say the thieves got away with nearly $100,000 worth of merchandise. nbc news has more on all of this. my abreak this down for us. what happened? >> reporter: los angeles police got a call around 4:00 p.m. saturday about shoppers at a nordstrom. between 30 and 50 people planned to shoplift at the same time, and some armed themselves with bear spray to neutralize two security guard. video shows the glass shattered on the ground and people leaving with bags and clothes. listen to what one official told us. >> this is organized. some of it involves gang members. some of it involves people who you would identify as professional retail thieves. for those individuals that were involved in this where bear

spray was discharged against the security staff, you're going to find an elevated prosecution. >> reporter: the lapd says upwards of $100,000 worth of luxury items were taken from the store. while these crimes have been popping up over the last year, l.a. specifically has seen a spike. there have been four similar robberies in the past few weeks there including one at a store that lost $300,000 worth of merchandise according to our station in los angeles. one expert wrote a book organized crime, and we asked about why the increase in crimes like this now? >> the threshold for these cities to prosecute for grand larceny, the threshold has increased for all of these cities. and then we have bail reform. >> reporter: so far there have been no charges in this mass shoplifting event at the nordstrom in l.a. we'll be keeping an eye on this as it develops. >> all right, thank you. four divers are alive and safe after vanishing over the weekend. they were rescued by the coast

guard and the navy. all four were found about 46 miles southeast of the cape fear river in north carolina. nbc's sam brock is following this story. sam, what did it take to find these divers and get them to safety? >> reporter: yeah, hours and a lot of good luck. as you said, 46 miles off the coast of north carolina. that's not a hop, skip, and a jump, that's about a two-hour ride for the u.s. coast guard to get out there. the video that you're looking at is infrared because it's from overnight. the divers were rescued at 12:45 a.m. there happened to be a naval warship nearby, what you saw on the screen. that small bot in the middle is the four divers. they were identified by the coast guard after midnight. when that happened the coast guard saw the lights. they dropped down flares and a life raft for them to get on top of. you see the boat dispatched to come rescue them. those are four ordinary divers. one 64 years old, an experienced navy diver. they went out with friends.

this was a routine recreational trip. you see the families' reaction there after the fact, embracing on dry land. basically this morning, right. this happened overnight. as they're suddenly realizing their loved ones that they're going to get their brothers and husbands back after what they thought could have been a mission impossible. really a remarkable sort of confluence of events to lead authorities in the middle of the ocean to these four divers. >> sam, just looking at that video, it's just incredible to see them rescue -- to see their emotional reunion with family members there when they came on shore. what more do we know about their conditions some how are they doing at this point? >> reporter: from what i'm told, they're good. ben wiggins is actually one of the survivors, one of the divers. we're going to talk to in a little bit. according to his wife, he's very sunburned. and she's trying to make sure he stays off of his feet and relaxes. he was guiding the less experienced divers, there was a 16-year-old in the group, a 26-year-old in the group, guiding them and told them to

hold out hope, to pray. keeping their temperatures at least emotionally on point. he was successful. and somehow in the middle of the night, the rescue guards, the coast guard, rescuers from the navy, get there and save the four survivors. >> thank you so much. you can catch more of sam's reporting tonight on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. coming up, at least three people are dead after a family lunch. why the chef behind the meal says she is not to blame.

welcome back. illinois state police are investigating how a 3-year-old child died on a bus full of asylum seekers. the bus of heading to chicago from the texas border city of brownsville thursday. illinois officials say the child died in the southern part of the state. joining me is homeland security correspondent julia ainsley. she's following the story. what more are we learning about the child's death? >> reporter: i got off the phone with a texas state official who said that this child started showing symptoms on the way to chicago, after this child became

one of more than 30,000 migrants that texas governor greg abbott has sent to chicago. since his plan to get migrants to other cities started. they understand the child started exhibiting symptoms like a fever and diarrhea and became unconscious. they then alerted medical personnel, called 911. emergency medical aid was rendered there as the bus crossed into the southern part of the state of illinois. by the time the child got to the hospital, there in the hospital the child did die. texas is pointing out the child did not actually die on the bus, but clearly that's where these symptoms started. they're also pointing out that most migrants, in fact all in this case, were screened by customs and border protection for any medical abnormalities or temperatures taken before they got on the bus, and that the other people who rode on this bus had their vitals checked to show that it wasn't something that caused an illness to outbreak or perhaps a condition like overheating, that spread throughout this bus to these migrants.

but it's been an opportunity for democratic lawmakers to callfor an investigation and for advocates to say these are squalid conditions and migrants are misled into thinking they'll have better opportunities when they get to cities like chicago. illinois state police are looking into the cause of death. texas saying we won't know the answers until an autopsy is performed. >> we've been to the border so many times, and this highlights the challenges, you know, in having to administer health care to some of these migrants, especially children. so you mentioned that a little bit. you touched on the response from texas governor greg abbott's office. what is the state of texas saying here? >> reporter: yeah, you know, these are such vulnerable populations, particularly the children and the enormous amount of traveling they've had to do, what they've been through. lots of times subjected to violence on their way to the united states. we don't know particularly what happened in this case, but we do know the state of texas is

saying they say every death is a tragedy, they point out the fact that they reached out for 911 care, and they called 911 to reach out for emergency and medical care. at this point they're not saying what the cause of death might have been. but certainly this puts into a larger perspective what's happening over and over again as cities like chicago and new york say that they are now taking in too many migrants and they're traveling too far in bad conditions after they've been here. puts that policy in a harsh spotlight. >> julia ainsley reporting on what many are calling a humanitarian crisis at the southern border and across the country. thank you. we are learning new details about a mysterious case out of australia where a family lunch turned deadly. officials say the meal may have contained poisonous mushrooms and ultimately killed three people, they believe. the woman who cooked them is under investigation. nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter reports from australia. a lot of australia's most

baffling police probes -- >> reporter: new questions swirling about the deadly mushroom mystery. the bizarre tragedy now grabbing global headlines. was it accidental, a fatal foray into foraging that killed three members of the same family, or was it murder? death by fungus. back on july 29th, police say erin patterson hosted her former in-laws for lunch. then within a week, authorities say three were dead, one still fighting for his life in the hospital, and the national rumor mill in full swing. >> i didn't do anything. i loved them. i'm devastated that they're gone. >> reporter: the australian broadcasting corporation reports that a statement from erin's lawyers to police says she served beef wellington with mushrooms that day. >> i just can't fathom what has happened. i'm so sorry that they have lost their lives. but -- i can't believe it. >> reporter: in the same statement she also says she

threw out the food dehydrator after speculations started to grow. police say the cause of death is consistency with eating death cap mushrooms, a highly toxic fungus found near oak trees. her former in-laws, gale and don patterson, and gail's sister heather have died. heather's husband, ian wilkinson, is in critical condition. according to police, erin and her two children didn't fall ill, and detectives confirming that erin's a suspect. >> she cooked those meals for us, for those people that were present. now again, she hasn't presented with any symptoms, but we have to keep an open mind in relation to this, that it could be very innocent. but again, we just don't know at this point. >> reporter: and this morning, victoria police telling nbc news the deaths are still being treated as unexplained, and so the mystery continues. now no charges have been filed,

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