devastation in lahaina town and that is really the residential hub of the island. not like a lot of hotels out there. naalahu has been burnt to the ground. the hotel districts are mostly untouched, but really residents are in dire need right now for a place to live and that is what we re working on. steve: clint, i don t know if you know the answer to this, people are thinking about how to help. people can donate to maui united way, maui food bank, red cross, any charity or something you can tell us? i wouldn t necessarily recommend red cross, they are fabulous, but maui my three favorite are maui united way,
walk us through what they re looking at today. reporter: now they re going into more of a typical tradewind pattern. we don t have those 50, 60-mile-per-hour winds out of the northeast, but the problem here is they want rain. we need water to help douse some of the flames. the winds are coming at more of a northeasterly direction. up and over the mountain ranges, and the windward side will see the rain today, but on the leeward side, where luhina is located, unfortunately, we anticipate the forecast to stay dry. so any hot spots are going to have a bit of a difficulty actually starting to see any of that relief from the rainfall. as i advance this graphic, you ll see on and off again showers. there s some accumulation, especially in the higher elevations, but really on the eastern facing slopes of maui and into the island of hawaii. this is being exacerbated by the ongoing drought. new information to cnn, the drought monitor, we just got this within the past 30 minutes or so. this is
monitor this. a lot of experts are saying we ll probably have more deaths throughout the day today. people had nowhere to escape. the air and wind are starting to diminish, that is a good sign. yesterday we had wind gusts 50, 60 to 70 mile per hour. pressure gradient was so strong, it set things up. very dry across maui and the rain deficit and wind and wildfire burning across the island, it was devastation. could see potential for gusty winds, 20 to 30 miles per day. things will improve. hurricane dora, category 3 storm, moving away and will not affect land. this was indirect impact from the hurricane.
haven t heard from in 48 hours and we re trying to connect. ainsley: are most people getting in their cars or trying to find flights, getting on boats? you know, most of them that i know that we ve been able to reconnect is staying with family and friends on the island. governor josh green declared a state of emergency for housing over a month ago. we have almost 10,000 homes on the island and with this fire it exasbaited the issue. we need to work on emergency shelters and any extra beds we ve got, people saying, come stay at my house and maui is coming together the best way it can. we re trying to get out there and help and search for our loved ones. it is looking like total
scrambling to safety. ainsley: smoulderring after hurricane-forced winds whipped across the illegal aliens. brian: max is on the ground this morning. it was a pretty alarming view coming into maui, you can see fires burning luckily as the hours have passed, fire conditions have calmed down and the winds die down. firefighters are keeping a look out making sure it doesn t grow out of control. folks don t know why the fires started, officials are investigating. when they did start on tuesday, this island was ripe for fire, things were dry and humidity was low and hurricane dora, spinning south, whipped up winds. we had winds in 70 to 80 mile