today but only two card carrying residents and there has been some criticism of that because many people say that their identification is with the rest of their belongings, lying in the ashes, but the authorities have been very clear about why they want to control access to the area and that is because the recovery operation is still, even five days later, in its early stages, and the inferno that engulfed lahaina was so fierce that the fear is that there could be remains that people could unknowingly disturb and the authorities, understandably, obviously, don t want that to happen. president biden said that people would be given immediate assistance and we know that federal agencies are on the ground. but you speak to local people and they say they know that aid is not getting into the people who need it most and i ve spoken to a number of people who are taking it upon themselves, the people of maui are doing a lot of that, people using boats that
could a few extra minutes have given residents a chance to flee before the fire engulfed lahaina? we have spoken with so many survivors who say there were no evacuations issued, no text alerts, the sirens did not go off and even prior hydrants did not have water. how did so much go so wrong? i can t speak to a lot of our parts, they are not part of our department. reporter: today fema came for confirmed there was an issue impacting water supply to the hydrants. all as the search continues for the missing. the task overwhelming. they only cover 3% of this massive disaster zone. there is a google doc to help locate residents. over 5,000 names, most found, but hundreds are still unaccounted for. for lahaina residents who got out safely, roadblocks are preventing them from returning. i feel the anger and the angst that people want to go home, everyone wants to go home, there are so many of our friends