Meet the Press NOW – August 10

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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At least 36 people are dead and officials fear that number will rise as multiple wildfires continue burning on the island of Maui. Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda, who represents Hawaii's second district which includes the island of Maui, says the state will still be recovering for generations. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell discusses President Biden’s disaster designation for the fires. Former Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.), who faced Trump in the 2016 presidential primary, discusses why more 2024 candidates aren’t attacking the former president over his legal troubles. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Thursday, disaster in Hawaii, where raging wildfires have killed at least three dozen people,
0:10.0	and mass evacuations are underway to try and get thousands off the devastated island of Maui.
0:17.0	Plus, breaking news, the U.S. and Iran strike a rare deal to release five Americans imprisoned in Iran.
0:24.9	It's part of an exchange that includes the release of Iranian prisoners and $6 billion in frozen Iranian government assets.
0:34.9	Plus, new developments in the trail and then the Trump trials as prosecutors
0:40.4	proposed starting the former president's D.C. federal trial just two days before the Iowa
0:47.3	caucuses.
0:48.2	The Welcome to Meet the Press Now.
1:01.4	I'm Chuck Top, reporting from Washington,
1:04.1	and we are watching more breaking news out of Hawaii.
1:07.1	It's a devastating scene.
1:08.9	Multiple wildfires are burning on the island of Maui. The historic
1:12.4	town of Lahana is in ruins. At least 36 people are dead. Officials fear the number will rise.
1:19.9	The fires, which ended up spreading quickly on Wednesday, was fueled by an 80 mile per hour wind
1:25.6	and a lot of gusts. And it's now among the deadliest wildfires in U.S.
1:30.0	history. Second only now to California's campfire, which killed 85 people in 2018.
1:36.6	Thousands of locals and tourists, which included the mayor of San Francisco, London,
1:40.9	breed, had to be evacuated from the northern part of the island as the fires
1:44.6	quickly spread. Many are now in shelters as firefighters were to contain three fires that remain
1:50.2	active. Airlines, including Hawaiian Air and Southwest, are now operating evacuation flights off
1:54.9	the island. You can see how narrowly people escaped the fire as it quickly took over the main
1:59.6	part of town in this shocking
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