How to Help Maui Locals
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Rescue efforts continue in Maui after fast-moving wildfires caused catastrophic damage across the island this week. The death toll from the wildfires has risen to at least 53 with several others wounded. Thousands of Maui residents have been displaced by the catastrophe, as well.
The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will return to the negotiating table today. The meeting comes as the writers' strike just crossed the 100-day mark, a milestone the Guild’s negotiating committee co-chair Chris Keyser has called “an anniversary of shame.”
And in headlines: the first of Trump’s many criminal trials could start as soon as January 2nd, the Supreme Court put on hold a bankruptcy settlement involving OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, and Virgin Galactic sent its first tourists into space yesterday.
Show Notes:
Help those affected by the fires in Maui
- Maui Mutual Aid Fund - https://www.bit.ly/mauimutualaide
- Hawai'i' Community Foundation Maui Strong Fund - https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
- Fundraiser for Pūnana Leo o Lāhinā whose school site at Waiola Church, which burned down: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvvWWoqSl9V/
- Fundraiser for Nā ‘Āikane O Maui Cultural Center, which burned down: https://www.instagram.com/p/CvvJeNzy2WM/?img_index=1
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 11, I'm Trayville Anderson, and I am Priyanka Arabandi and this is what |
| 0:07.2 | a day, the podcast that wants just one luxury vacation. |
| 0:11.9 | Meanwhile, Justice Clarence Thomas is over there, getting 38. |
| 0:16.3 | One doesn't feel like a lot to ask for. |
| 0:18.0 | And ProPublica's new report says they were all funded by conservative benefactors, lucky |
| 0:23.0 | him. |
| 0:24.0 | Maybe I need to get me some conservative friends Priyanka. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, negotiations are back on between Hollywood studios and striking writers. |
| 0:36.2 | Plus, the first of Trump's mini-criminal trials could start as soon as January 2. |
| 0:41.6 | But first, the rescue efforts continue in Maui after fast-moving wildfires caused catastrophic |
| 0:47.5 | damage across the island this week. |
| 0:50.3 | The death toll from the wildfires has risen to 53, with several others wounded as of the |
| 0:55.7 | time of our recording at 9.30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday. |
| 0:59.6 | Those numbers could, of course, change in the coming hours and days. |
| 1:04.2 | According to officials, the blaze is currently 80 percent contained. |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, I've been seeing the photos, the videos, not looking great by any means. |
| 1:14.4 | What's it like on the ground there at the moment? |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, the devastation is just widespread. |
| 1:20.1 | The aerial footage shows wreckage where the historic town of Lahaina used to be. |
| 1:25.2 | The people who've survived just have the most harrowing accounts of evacuating their homes, |
| 1:30.4 | trying to escape the flames. |
| 1:32.3 | As we were telling you on yesterday's show, some people even jumped into the ocean to get |
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