[ 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
by. we don t know numbers at this time. we have had heard from the chief communications officer for the county of maui that evacuations are extensive and multiple structures have burned, but she doesn t have an exact number. they re industry trying to focus on getting people to safety. a lot of people as a matter of fact we just learned that a shelter on the west side, they re being evacuated from the evacuation shelter. they are leaving the west side, getting out of the area completely. to answer your question, we adopt have exact numbers. officials are trying to work to get that information. in terms of burns victims, they re being flown to specialized hospitals for critical burn victims. a huge rhine for that is we only