where we re seeing lava continuously surging from fissures around a dangerous erupting volcano and what you don t see including tox ickes gases is a threat to homeowner and a major power plant. stephanie elam in hawaii for us. stephanie, what are you seeing right now? reporter: wolf, it is extremely windy here. on the big island where i m standing here. that is a good thing as far as pushing those toxic gases away but a very big concern as they re going to cross the estates and terrorized by the volcanic eruptions in the subdivisions there. what i can tell you a new stream of lava made the way into the ocean since we last spoke and also on top of that we can tell you that the concern about that geo thermal plant, we do know that no new lava encroaching
refuse to go stop at checkpoint, one of them trooper samuel crashing car and dying. we lost member of the family that was out here trying to protect the community and it s tough. jillian: bullard worked for the patrol for three years and was set to get married in three months. intensive manhunt intensifying, green, considered to be a dangerous threat to the public. escaped from a south carolina detention center on saturday with two other men after an electrical malfunction opened cell doors, the other two escaped inmates were captured and behind bars. rush to protect geo thermal plant, officials say it s secure after workers cap the wells, concerns that lava could trigger the release of deadly gas or cause blackout. we are now learning the molten rock almost cut the man s leg in
perspective after he saw it from the air. it looked like a film scene out of lord of the rings. huge pools and rivers. i couldn t tell which vent was which. they re all going off and it was a spectacular sight i ll never forget. pretty incredible images we re seeing. the other concern that is ongoing, air quality. two streams that are still going into the ocean. when that happens it makes this combination called lava haze. a steam that is packed with tiny little particles of glass and toxic acid. that s definitely still some concerns out here. not in regards to that geo thermal plant just yet. bill: thank you, jeff paul on the big island today. we ll talk real soon. sandra: gop lawmakers and justice department officials at odds over report an f.b.i. informant spied on the trump
landscape right now. right by that fountain of lava, the area s geo-thermal plant, supplying 30% of the island s electricity. we saw lava breaching the property. officials say they ve removed 50,000 gallons of flammable gas and are right now racing to cap a final well. in the helicopter, we followed those rushing rivers of lava to the ocean. what s incredible is when you fly right over those two rivers of lava down there, you can actually feel the heat being generated, what, 2,000 feet above them. the air in the southern part of the island, increasingly toxic. and you can see what this wind is doing, it is kicking up all of this steam and sulfur dioxide. now, that s hazardous to breathe. and there are multiple times more sulfur dioxide in the air now than there were a couple of days ago. families like dee nevarez racing to evacuate their idyllic homes earlier this month, now returning home to this. wow, look at that scene. let s get back to matt tonight.
there. where we are down in the lower zone, laugh have va is the main and also the gas coming out of the ground. not to mention the geo thermal plant, lava is on that property and they are working to secure that site with the eye of mitigating any potential explosive mix of chemicals. and then lastly, there is this other fissure that we ve been watching now explode for more than a week. it is the source of the only injury so far that kilauea has actually caused. a man named darrel clinton was hit by a lava bomb over the weekend, it hit him in his leg. and believe it or not, i spoke to his wife yesterday, she said that the heat of that lava bomb actually seemed to cauterize the wound on his leg and stop him from bleeding. it also was so hot that it started a fire on his porch. the reason he was there in the first place is because he was trying to protect two homes, one of which only 100 yards away. and i can report that not only