this island this many days after the tragedy and now that communication is largely up around the island, the number of people in the shelters has gone down as they are taking the displaced and moving them that hotels, whether employees or donated rooms, the state is helping picking up that bill, and preparing for the president and first lady s visit here on monday. the fema administrator is coming back to maui. she was here last weekend. she coming with the president. said in a press conference they are not sure if he will fly over the damaged area or walk around the burn zone there. the white house has yet to release that. she insists that the president will stand with the people of maui and especially here from local leaders on how they want to rebuild. that s the loudest chorus right now. local leaders in lahaina who have implored the governor and state administrators to listen to them, to give them a seat at
Arrest made: Man taken into custody by Maui Police Department for trespassing in restricted Burn Zone of Lahaina, Maui. Despite Prior Warning, Lahaina Man Was Arrested by Maui Police Department for Entering Wildfire Disaster Area In a report by Hawaii News Now, the Maui Police Department apprehended a 39-year-old man, Josepha Toakala, last Friday for […]
morning. aloha once again from maui, on the 11th day after the catastrophic fires changed life on this island forever. i wish i had more news to share about the number of the missing, but while the search area seems to be jumping pretty dramatically in the last couple days, it s than over a thousand missing number that haunts so many people here on this island this many days after the tragedy, and now that communication is largely up around the island, the numb fer before o people in the shelters has gone down dramatically as they re taking the displaced, moving them to hotels, whether employees, the state is helping pick up that bill. they re preparing for the president and first lady s visit. the fema administrator is coming back to maui. she was here last weekend. she s coming with the president. they said they re not sure if he s going to fly over the damaged area or walk around the burn zone there.
public meeting records found andaya repeatedly downplayed the use of sirens, calling them, a last resort if i would have had access to that button, i would have pushed it do you think the sirens going off would have saved lives i do, yeah. reporter: andaya s resignation comes as hawaiian electric faces multiple lawsuits alleging the utility is to blame for igniting the fires. the power company says it doesn t comment on pending litigation, stressing the causes of the fires have not been determined. it comes as the death toll balloons to well over 100 with more than half the burn zone searched. i m heartbroken, bro. i m heartbroken. words can t explaiain because i keep hearing, you know, pepeople i know w that i care about is still unattended for. reporter: with upwards of a thousand people still unaccounted for, the few who have been identified so far are mostly the elderly
the latest, 71-year-old donna gomes, known for her tough love and big heart, perhaps closure for one family as so many others brace for the same i want accountability it destroyed more than half of the people we know, , and just now, likeke, we re seeieing the pictures of we re seeing t the faces, the pictures of the people we lost reporter: tonight the pain here unimaginable as is the loss miguel, it s been so long now. these stories of the missing are heartbreaking. i know behind you the search continues in the burn zone. reporter: it does, lester, and now the atf is on the ground their job is to get to the bottom of what started this fire. by the end of this weekend, authorities hope to have the entire burn zone searched, but we also expect the death toll to spike dramatically, lester all right, miguel, thank you. meanwhile, a huge wildfire in canada s