High pressure systems to the north. What it is doing is putting the squeeze on the Hawaiian Islands and allowing those winds out of the east to gust. We just checked, over 40 Miles Per Hour in some of those locations. That is going to complicate fire efforts. Look at the aerial video that you are seeing on your screens right now. This is imperative. The fire that impacted the west side of maui, the location, the economic hub of hawaii where all the resorts and businesses are generally located, where people go as tourists to visit, well, the fire ran out of room to burn. It literally moving into the ocean as it had nothing else to char. It was incredibly harrowing. Adjectives use like dyer and apocalyptic. You can see exactly why with some of these first aerial visuals that we are getting. Now, everyone in hawaii knows how to handle a hurricane. Everyone knows how to handle volcano as well. As difficult as it can be. This caught people off guard. As a meteorologist, we were watching Hur
desantis is finally in the race for president but not without a hitch right out of the starting gate. the governor s unusual choice to announce in an audio interview with elon musk on twitter, it was plagued by glitches and started 25 minutes late. desantis on fox later making light of the technical difficulties and laying out his vision for leading the country in a different direction. i m running to lead a great american comeback. we know the country is on the wrong track. we see it with our eyes. we feel it in our bones. we see the border being overrun, we see crime infesting the cities. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrity to our institutions and sanity to our society. jessica dean is in miami with more on desantis big unveiling. r do you go with the crowd or do you look at the data yourself and cut against the grain? and i chose to do the latter. reporter: florida governor desantis attempt to declare candidacy for president in
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