input. give us time to heal and allow us to sit at the table. reporter: atf investigators are working to determine the fire s cause as hawaiian electric and its subsidiaries are hit with a fifth lawsuit, alleging power lines owned by these companies came into contact with vegetation. reporter: do you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. reporter: it comes as maui s recently resigned emergency management administrator, herman andaya under fire for not activating the emergency sirens, saying that could have sent people toward the flames we re not stupid. we know what a fire looks like. reporter: with cell service spotty, kindergarten teacher, kim comato says she has been able to reach only 8 of her 23 students families own that you were wrong and it cost lives. these children on the hill, the ones we can t find, those are our students reporter: this is noaa the cadaver dog, they have managed
whack. the psychology of the person that did this. i m looking at it from the outside looking in, this is probably somebody that wants to get caught. i don t know i d go as far as saying they want to get caught but they re probably stepping back and looking at the havoc that they re causing throughout the nation in these investigations. i can tell you, as they said ear earlyer, they will catch this person. but they re taking everything in the sense of a puzzle. there s fbi agents, postal workers investigators and atf investigators. all of them are spreading out and they re all working together to bring this to some closure. charles: during the
either a team of atf investigators or fbi investigators or austin police department investigators. so throughout the course of this past week, there were points in time where we had persons of interest because of information that had been provided, and then as we furthered the investigation into those individuals, either backgrounds, social media life, things like that, we have run those leads to ground and at this point we re following up on a few more. we have had persons of interest and we continue to look at a few, but we have not identified a suspect or suspects as of this time. chief have you been able to speak with the two latest victims and at all and in this latest bombing, was the package visible? is the trip wire visible? people might want to know, you know, what they should be looking for. as far as speaking to the victims, they re in the hospital receiving care and that s what we re concerned with. we have had initial conversations with them to get an idea of where t
neighborhoods, are you searching in different places since this is so presented across tbeing ? as we ve talked about before, this has to be a community response. this is something that we ll solve as a community. officers working the neighborhoods are pay attention not only for the suspicious packages, but also items that may look out of place. the department of public safety is going to send additional troopers into the austin area to help us patrol and help look us for those individuals and inform the community. do you have a suspect profile or any kind of information about who he was targeting? as we mentioned yesterday, we have had a large number of tips that have to do in through the past week and each and every one of those tips gets worked by the teams we ve described. they get assigned out to either a team atf investigators or fbi investigators or austin police
outdated background check system into the 21st century. [ applause ] and these steps will actually lead to a smoother process for law-abiding gun owners, a smoother process for responsible gun dealers, a stronger process for protecting the people from the public from dangerous people. so that s number one. number two, we re going to do everything we can to ensure the smart and effective enforcement of the gun safety laws that are already on the books which means we will add 200 atf investigators and require firearms dealers to require more lost or stolen guns on a timely basis. we re working with advocates to protect victims of domestic abuse from gun violence, where too often [ applause ]