Maui wildfires death toll rises to at least 53

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

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The wildfires scorching Maui are now 80% contained and the full extent of the devastation is now being discovered. CNN's Bill Weir was one of the first journalists to get to Lahaina to access the damage. Also, Tiffany Winn’s Lahaina business was destroyed by the flames. She describes what she found when she returned to the town. And in politics, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fired state attorney Monique Worrell on Wednesday, saying in an executive order that the Orlando-area prosecutor didn't pursue mandatory sentences for gun crimes and drug trafficking. He also claimed that showed "neglect of duty and incompetence." Worrell joins AC360° and says the governor is “pushing false narratives” and “weaponizing” the Florida constitution.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, trying times fast and slow today, with Jack Smith pitching an aggressively
0:07.5	quick election interference trial, and we get more evidence of defense foot dragging
0:12.3	in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
0:14.7	Also tonight we are on the scene of the enormous destruction in Maui, where some of the wildfires
0:18.9	are thankfully being contained, but the proportions of this tragedy, including now dozens
0:24.2	of lives lost, it just keeps growing.
0:27.4	Senator Florida Governor Ron DeSantis adds a new adversary to Disney, school librarians,
0:31.9	and the woke.
0:32.9	This time, local prosecutors, he is firing them, only he never hired them.
0:38.7	The voters did.
0:39.7	We will speak to the latest elected official to get the axe.
0:42.9	Good evening, John Berman here in Ferranderson, and special counsel Jack Smith trying for swift
0:48.2	justice in what could become the most significant criminal trial ever in this country.
0:53.4	If not unprecedented in its speed, then pretty nearly so.
0:57.5	The defense in one way or another in this federal case and the other today saying, not so
1:02.3	fast.
1:03.3	Today, the special counsel's team asked for a January 2nd trial date in the election subversion
1:08.3	case, which it said could take as little as four weeks.
1:12.0	The former president, who was expected to challenge that, took the first step tonight on his social
1:16.1	network, quoting now, but leaving out some of the personal attacks on Smith and President
1:20.0	Biden, quote, only an out of touch lunatic would ask for such a date.
1:25.0	One day into the new year and maximum election interference with Iowa.
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