traditions and follow that lead. there is a piece on cnn.com about the water rights right now. he said, we want to rebuild maui according to the wishes of the people of maui. which people? is it developers? is it work rg class locals? there s a lot of questions there. he did empathize, and this is what he s so good at given the tragedies in his life. he just wrapped up meeting with some survivors at the war memorial, big shelter in central maui there. children who have lost parents, parents who have lost children who are just cycling through unfathomable grief right now. and that number of 850 missing is still just hard to wrap our heads around two weeks later. what did local residents do to prepare for the visit? reporter: well, i ve seen everything from, you know, just beautiful symbols of aloha. we were meeting with a hawaiian farmer yesterday who was a little bit ambivalent about the federal response but was making
performers of the tv shows were being cut out, squeezed out of their own lands. for him to say, a couple of times we are going to pay attention to ancestral lands, and traditions, and follow that lead. there is a big tension over here. i have a piece up on cnn. co m about the water rights issue right. now they say they want to rebuild maui according to the wishes of people of maui. which people? is it the developers, working class, locals there s a lot of questions there. he did empathize, this is what is so good at, given the tragedy. he just wrapped up meeting with some survivors at the warmer memorial, a big shelter in central maui there. children who have lost, parents parents who have lost children, who are still cycling through
killed and more than 800 are still unaccounted for following the deadliest wildfire in the u.s. in more than 100 years. bill weir has more on the president s trip to hawaii. reporter: the president and dr. biden spent several hours both over and on the ground here and meeting with first responders and victims of the tragedy at the big shelter in central maui. and he said the right things in many cases. when he came to the microphone to give his statements, he said the thing that lot of folks i ve been hearing from for two weeks have been saying, that he wants the people of maui to help determine how this place is rebuilt. there was a question asked who will have the most influence in that conversation going forward. locals here working class native hawaiians and multigenerational locals are worried of disaster capitalism, people moving into exploit this and buy up as much land as they can in this paradise and rebuild it for
and on the ground here. meeting with first responders and victims of the tragedy at the big shelter in central maui. le said the right things in many cases. he said the thing that a lot of folks have been saying. he wants maui, the people of maui to help determine how this place is rebuilt. who will have the influence. multigeneration locals are worried about capitalism. people buying up as much land as they can. the president promises that won t happen. it remains to be seen. he did serve as empathizer in chief, after five days of being silent on the issue, publicly. but the governor said he was