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you have taken everything for me. reporter: and the donations continued to pour and at this church behind me. hawaiians locals on the ground and jumped into action immediately they have a long tradition of helping themselves. many of them tell me they weren t going to wait for the government to save them. norah. norah: i heard that too, rudabeh shahbazi, thank you so much. one of those providing relief as longtime maui resident oprah winfrey who today promised a major donation after all of the smoke and ash has settled. she is not just providing aid, but also emotional support visiting people in some of the hardest hit areas. cbs s tony coble met oprah outside a shelter who have lost everything but hope. we find her at the entrance of the biggest evacuation shelter in maui county, still home to a thousand people and where oprah has been quietly visiting survivors. she wants us to hear some of the
keep going, keep going. no, no, no, no, not like this! not like this! [indiscernible] wow, that is hard to listen to. that family, however, they did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter after taking refuge near the water. let s go now to cnn s mike valerio on maui. mike, you made your way past that road that was closed overnight. what are you seeing and hearing from people? we re the closest you can get to the perimeter of the disaster zone. we actually have some breaking news. the roadway was reopened into the perimeter. it seems as though people are being turned around and that it
no, no, no! not like this! no! [ bleep ]. to hear that family s agony, that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter after taking refuge near the water. let s go to cnn s mike valerio on maui. so much to update us with. what is happening with that road and people being turned around? reporter: yeah, fredricka, it s a sense of organized chaos here. we are on the main roadway that leads into the disaster zone, so as we push in, these are some of the lucky drivers. it s mostly people with supplies, utilities who are going to first responders. they, for the most part now, are being let in. but it s a little more
[ bleep ]. no, no, no not like this. not like this. no. [ bleep ]. oh, my gosh. i mean that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter, after taking refuge on rocks, by the ocean. let s go now to cnn s mike valero on maui. what is the latest you are hearing from officials on how to proceed from here? fredericka, good morning. we are standing in the middle of a shutdown highway. this is where scores of motorists, as we zoom in to the darkness here, have been waiting overnight, sleeping in their cars, trucks, suvs, for hours. to get back into lahaina. this is the main way in and out of the disaster zone that was