Morning Update: Maui death toll reaches 96, making it deadliest U.S. wildfire in century

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Good morning, At least 96 people died in Maui’s wildfires last week, and officials warned over the weekend that efforts to find and identify the dead were still in the early stages. The blaze that torched the town of Lahaina is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The death toll surpasses that of the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California, which left 85 dead and destroyed the town of Paradise. The wildfires are Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster in decades, surpassing a 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people. An even deadlier tsunami in 1946, which killed more...