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appreciate your time. kate? and as we are learning, everyone on maui has their own story of loss in this tragedy. joining us now is jess menina. thank you so much for joining us. we re going to show pictures to everyone that you sent to us. you lost both your home and your business, which was a popular gift shop in maui. first, what has the last week been like for you? there s honestly no words. we lost everything, so it s been trying to navigate and stick together. all of our community is spread everywhere, all over the island. it s been hard, like your reporter said before, to be in contact with anybody on the west side at all. there were days that we didn t know if our families survived because we evacuated two completely different ways out of that two-lane highway. so it s been trying to piece our life back together and a lot of
coming to hawaii on monday, and i m wondering what you want him to see or what you want him to hear. i just hope that more of the truth comes out. a lot of what s being shown on the news isn t really what s happening here in maui. a lot of donations and things are being blocked by the red cross and fema, and so the ohana, the whole island of maui, has come together to help each other. i think everyone s a little bit let down at the lack of response from our government. i can t really speak to anything that would be said to biden. we re all a little let down, honestly. i want to ask you, the fema administrator, she was on the ground i think they said 72 hours after after the fires started. she was on cnn on wednesday and asked about some of the questions around the response so far. she said she said this, jess, she said, there are a lot of rou resources on the island, but we
have to be able to get substitute the community and help get that message out there. what do you think of that? i think there s a huge lack of communication. i think the people of this island are there has never been more community that i ve seen in my life which is why i opened my shops here to cater that. the people have rallied together far more than any government has so far. our walmarts and targets are empty because all of our people here on maui have gone to buy brand-new supplies for all of us who have lost stuff. and if it wasn t for them and these donation centers that fema and red cross have not set up, or our personal donations, we do have gofundmes and venmos set up, all of us personally, i wouldn t have food on my table. it s not direct money or direct funds or or food and donations like we really kind of need to see, and the maui people have come together in tremendous ways to make that happen. jess, i m so sorry that we re meeting under these