Island of maui and ordered federal aid to help support the Recovery Efforts there. Ktvu is tom vacar has been monitoring those Recovery Efforts a joins us now with the latest. Hawaii. , somber and very sad day. The day after the worst destruction is over is often the worst day for survivors. Its when officials conduct the body count of people and pets lost homes, businesses and the certainty that things everything will never be the same again. Its the time of disbelief and deep soul sadness. Nikki white is desperately trying to find her dad, tim, a 65 year Old Air Force military police veteran living in lahaina. Her father told her by phone that he was in his car seeking shelter. He was saying that he couldnt get through to the places we were telling him to go because of the fire and structures were down. And then just communication stopped. So were almost at 24 hours of no. One hearing from him. This is far more than the historical loss of the once hawaiian capital and royal residence
Im you know, should go to stuff out there. Its. A lot of things going on that makes you think man like like gotham city or as thats sometpros come in. A spate says the crime was peculiar and done by what appears to be a professional instead of smashing the glass to get in the burglar removed. It dont even know how to explain that in that profession. But glass is perfectly preserved. It wasnt broken into and that it wasnt, you know, theres no shattering meth running on cowboys has been a spate hose american dream. He immigrated to the United States from the philippines when he was just a boy. He says he loves his community, but its hard not to feel defeated when crimes like this happen, its even more challenging when trying to file a claim. And your insurance says it might bail because of frequent crime. Pretty much told me that its not worth my time because my rates, my rate might go up theres also a possibility that, you know, if i claim one too many times that theyll its actually let
Right now at 5 30, months of heated debate comes down to this. Today state regulators decide whether to give Driverless Car Companies free reign on San Francisco streets. These robotaxis have prompted intense discussions over safety, accessibility and the citys inability to set policy on autonomous vehicles. Are Wilson Walker has the latest from the meeting of the state Public Utilities commission. Wilson . Reporter this started at 11 00 and they are on to the final phone calls. How many phone calls are left . They are down to three. They said now in the queue, seven phone calls. You could hear this kind of, oh, this has been going on for a while. We havent even gotten into the commissioners yet to make a decision, so we dont know yet. But look. A lot of background in grievance and hope surrounding these calls and it was on display here today. I am also a mother of two children, one of whom is blind and i myself am blind. Driverless vehicles would be an amazing advantage for us getting
He says 2000 rooms are needed and hes encouraging the community to open up their homes if possible to survivors. More than 1000 structures were destroyed across the island, and the governor says it will cost billions of dollars to restore what is lost. It is going to take many years to rebuild lahaina. When you see the full the full extent of the destruction of lahaina, it will shock you. It does appear like a bomb and fire went off. If i may. And all of those buildings virtually are going to have to be rebuilt. It will be a new lahaina. Right now, there is no water and no power on the west side of the island. Search and rescue crews are moving into lahaina to look for survivors and any additional victims. We are going to try our very best to identify those that have perished so that the families can have that closure and can have that understanding. Were also going to try and connect our families with those who are in our shelters. As you understand, this is an emergency. We phone ser
Good morning. Its saturday, august 5th. Im stephanie sierra. Well have more on that top story in just a moment. But we begin with the weather and a welcome back to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning. Hey, stephanie. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for that nice warm welcome. Its good to be back. And were bringing on some warm for this first weekend of august. We have upper level northerly winds and a building area of High Pressure that has already put us at 70 degrees in antioch, upper 60s by the delta, mid 60s, san ramon and were looking at a cool 55 in San Francisco. So anywhere from about a degree to eight degrees warmer except at the coast we have that fog. It will be with us to keep temperatures comfortable there and we will have moderate to good air quality today only because by the time we get to tomorrow, another 5 to 10 degrees of warming and some very high upper level smoke, perhaps thats creating more of those hazy conditions. But you can see that we are even brighteni