911 services down in Maui as officials warn residents & tourist to flee deadly fires

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We are tracking devastating and deadly wildfires across Hawaii as drought and hurricane-force winds fuel multiple blazes which have killed at least six people. Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor joins to provide updates. Plus, in Utah, a man accused of threatening to kill President Biden has just been shot dead by FBI agents trying to arrest him. Also, in the Georgia 2020 election interference probe, the Fulton County district attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening now breaking news. We're tracking devastating and deadly wildfires tearing
0:08.5	across Hawaii. Drought in hurricane forest winds fueling multiple blazes which have killed at least six people.
0:16.0	Hawaii's lieutenant governor joins me live this hour.
0:19.0	We're also following breaking news out of Utah,
0:22.0	where a man accused of threatening to kill,
0:24.9	President Biden has just been shot dead by FBI agents trying to arrest him.
0:30.3	And tonight's sources tell CNN, the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people as she nearest charging decisions in her probe of alleged election interference by Donald Trump and his
0:44.9	allies. Stand by for details. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States
0:49.2	and around the world. I'm Wolf Plitzer, you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news.
1:03.0	Let's get straight to the breaking news.
1:05.0	The horrendous wildfires scorching the island of Maui in Hawaii.
1:09.0	We're getting very grim reports of a rising death toll
1:12.0	as authorities urged residents and tourists
1:15.4	to flee the fast moving blazes.
1:17.7	CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has all the latest developments.
1:26.0	Looks like an area that has been bombed in the war. Tonight, at least six people confirm dead and a massive search and rescue operation
1:31.0	underway in Maui County as wildfires engulf two Hawaiian islands.
1:37.2	New helicopter video showing homes and businesses burned to the ground.
1:41.9	In my 52 years of flying on Maui, I've never seen anything like that.
1:47.0	The state now activating military Blackhawk helicopters to fight the fires that are burning across Maui and some brush fires on the Big Island.
1:56.0	Maui's mayor saying more than 2,000 people are in shelters.
2:00.0	All of this as winds associated with Hurricane Dora continue to push across the island and fuel the flames.
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