Giving you the information you need to know. What we know at this hour is at least 36 people are confirmed dead. More than 270 homes and businesses have been destroyed. The flames scorching more than 1800 acres there. Bill staggering. The fires were moving so fast forcing some to flee into the ocean. Coast guard rescued dozens from the water. Thousands will be without a home. The former hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard. Bill when you look at the sidebyside comparisons of what was to what people are waking up today, it is kind of difficult to conceive of what they have been through over the last 24 to 36 hours and how to move forward from here. Dana a look at where the fire is burning right now. Fox weathers max gordon is live in maui. Max, this is an incredibly fastmoving story. What do you know this morning . Flying into maui earlier in the evening we saw the flames from our airplane window. A harrowing sight. You are supposed to drop into paradise. Unfortunately This Is Hell On Ear
A desperate search for survivors and bodies still underway. Several large fires across the island remain active and out of control. Several brush fires affecting the big island of hawaii. The governor declaring a State Of Emergency discouraging all nonessential travel to the Island Of Maui. All airports are open to get people out. A long road ahead to recovery. Dana jordan escaped the flames. His home burned to the ground but he and his family are grateful to be alive. Im sorry for what youve been through. What was it like and what did you go through . A lot. Definitely once in a lifetime thing you dont want to go through. Briefly an overview of my 45 minutes time frame, we saw smoke just above the hillside of our home and then kind of thought to ourselves hey, with the winds, maybe our family should start to prepare. Gather our things. Get what we need and maybe head out. Before we knew it, the flames were already at the doorstep of our a couple houses down from where we live and at o
morning and bring you updates for what people are saying in the dead of night. watch. we had a house. even our dogs are we don t know if our houses are burned or our animals are alive or not. the firestorm came through the tree screen and took everything with it. i ran to the beach and helped everyone i could along the way. dana: a deadly wildfire in maui killing 36 people destroying hundreds of homes and forcing thousands of evacuations. it happened instantly wiping out a major tourist center as well leaving behind little more than smoking piles of rubble and ashes. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: epic tragedy. strong winds from hurricane dora hundreds of miles away were whipping up the wall of flames on the island.
accessible. i think right now the biggest thing about our community is we have lost so many connections to our hawaiian history, to lahaina was the capital of hawaii. so many of the churches and structures that existed during that time are now all gone. and we need to figure out a way to rebuild our community first before we can even open it up to other people, i think. dana: jordan, i understand that you said that when you arrived into safety you said i m praying that a miracle happens. i think the fact that you are here and with us and able to talk to us and hope you stay in touch. all of us wrap our arms around you collectively and pray for you and your family and please give them our best as well. thank you for coming on and explaining everything to us. you re welcome. thank you, bill and dana. bill: thank you so much.
we don t like, many of which were true, by the way, then maybe we ll lay off on trying to take away section 230 liability protections or maybe we ll help you with europe. that is when the dangers occur, the secret conspiratorial working together and why these things need to be dealt with publicly and keep the government out of secret demands on social media companies. bill: how do you police that? we ll see how the arguments go. you are on record are saying it is headed to the highest court in the country. we ll see if you are right on that, too, to scotus. michael, nice to see you. you, too, bill. bill: thank you. bill: so today we remember the life of a legend, wow. robby robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter at the band has died at the age of 80. born in toronto, gained fame for his work with bob dylan and so