On the west coast of maui. Firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires with officials saying they are 80 contained. This report from our North America correspondent sean daly. A community in smouldering ruins. Many homes here burned to charge rex. The church and the harbour among the Historic Site wiped out by the flames that tore indiscriminately through the former picturesque tourist town. The us marines and National Guard among the Emergency Workers on the ground. The us President Joe Biden has declared the situation as a major disaster. We situation as a maor disaster. We are situation as a maor disaster. We seeing situation as a major disaster. Are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising and we will continue to see loss of life but we have extraordinary professionals working on this job. We also have seen many hundreds of homes destroyed. And that is going to take a great deal of time to recover from. To take a great deal of time to recover from. ,. ,
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he gave us the latest on the situation and the relief effort the officials said the fires were 80% contained, the biggest and most severe fire burning is in lahaina in west maui and erase the historic town of lahaina and as you said this is a constantly changing situation, in fact minutes ago we learned of more fatalities so that brings the total number of debt up to 55. we are hearing this could be one of the worst disasters on the island, has anything like this ever happened before. the number of those dead. we had a number of wildfires on hama island, the bigger island, there was a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and destroyed some structures but most of that was dry open grass. 0f but most of that was dry open grass. of course, the area is no stranger
want to go to steve live now and figure out what they re dealing with today. hello in nassau. those images from the sky are simply devastating to look at. it is a total sense of destruction on large parts of the bahamas. there are 70 separate islands. the grand ba hama island as well as abaco islands to the north got pummeled. we just landed on the ground in nassau, which is largely unscathed. the scale of destruction we re talking about at least 15,000 houses destroyed. sometimes entire neighborhoods from the air look like they ve just been wiped off the map. the population in those northern islands about 70,000. right now as we stand at least 60,000 people in dire need of food, medical attention, and drinking water. aid has begun to arrive. u.s. coast guard, u.n., as well as the red cross are shuttling aid there as quickly as possible. some real challenges for that
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