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Authorities name 388 people still missing after Maui fires

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USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Authorities have named 388 people still missing after Maui fires.

USA TODAY White House Correspondent Joey Garrison explains how co-defendants in former President Donald Trump's Georgia indictment might turn on each other.

A man has been charged with assaulting officers in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot after a USA TODAY investigation.

New bills would make phone calls from prison free.

USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise gives a heads up about this fall's emergency alert test.


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0:00.0

Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Saturday, the 26th of August, 2023.

0:21.0

Today, Maui's death toll is expected to rise with hundreds still missing.

0:26.0

Plus, could co-defendants turn on each other in the Georgia indictment?

0:30.0

And a man has been charged with assaulting officers on January 6th after a USA Today investigation.

0:44.0

Maui's confirmed missing have been named after a devastating wildfire tore through parts of the island this month,

0:50.0

largely destroying the historical Hawaiian capital of Lahaina.

0:54.0

County officials released an FBI verified list of 388 people who remain unaccounted for, more than two weeks after the worst of the blaze.

1:04.0

115 people have already been confirmed dead, a number that's expected to rise.

1:10.0

Several people on the missing list share names indicating that multiple members of families are missing.

1:16.0

In one case, four members of what appears to be the same family are unaccounted for.

1:21.0

Meanwhile, officials say that immediate family members of missing people can provide DNA samples to help with identifying the remains of fire victims.

1:30.0

Search crews continue to work through burned areas of Lahaina and other parts of West Maui.

1:38.0

For former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia election fraud case,

1:43.0

the threat of jail time is getting real for those charged, arrested, and booked this week.

1:49.0

And what happens next might be a question of who turns on whom.

1:54.0

I spoke with USA Today White House correspondent Joey Garrison for more.

1:58.0

Thanks for making the time, Joey.

2:00.0

Hey, thanks for having me.

2:01.0

So a former federal prosecutor said this Georgia case has the indicators of a classic mob case.

2:08.0

What did he mean by that, Joey?

2:10.0

Yes, so with the district attorney brought these charges, he did so under a RICO statute in Georgia.

2:16.0

RICO law is traditionally the law in which the Justice Department has taken on a criminal organization like the mafia.

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