at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corroborated by video on the ground, we ve built up a picture of what happened and how a desperate situation was made worse still by mistakes from authorities. and we ve obtained new recordings that indicate a breakdown in communication around where the fallen power lines were live or turned off that led to roadblocks that may have been unnecessary. it s the morning of august 8th, and winds in lahaina are already high. and i started seeing all the cyclones and stuff like that out over the water and i ve never seen that in person. so i thought it was kind of cool, and i started videoing to show her, and the windsjust. itjust started getting worse and worse and worse. by this point i started noticing debris down in the roads. parts of roofs had started blowing off, all kinds of stuff. you could hear it hitting the side of your car. clunk ok, that one hit the top of the car. - every exitjonathan tries is blocked. som
roadblocks and debris created a burning maze of trafficjams. traffic is completely stuck and people are going to die here and there s no reason why. trapped in lahaina as it burned to the ground. it s criminal, what happened. people lost their lives that wouldn t have lost their lives. and then why they did close the road, i think that s something a lot of people want to know. you know, better preparation, right? i mean, that s what everybody is pointing to. and who should take responsibility for that? lahaina is the gem of the hawaiian island of maui, a tourist hot spot with huge cultural importance. this is the first kingdom of hawaii. this is the gathering place. it s unfathomable. you can t even imagine a reality of lahaina burning. we could have focused on any number of things that went wrong on the day of the fire. but we ve chosen to look at how people did and didn t escape from lahaina as it burnt. at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corrobo
substantial slowdown in activity. on the other hand, we saw things like car building, engineering, putting on activity, so that helped balance things out. we on activity, so that helped balance thins out. ~ . , on activity, so that helped balance thins out. ~ ., , u, things out. we have been covering this a lot. are things expected to pick up? that is a really important question. it is important because the more active the economy is, the more wealth people are able to make by working harder and so forth. mast working harder and so forth. most forecasters working harder and so forth. most forecasters think working harder and so forth. most forecasters think we working harder and so forth. i’l if?3ii forecasters think we will not see any growth in the next few months or so. the bank of england recently said that there will be no growth until 2025, so, quite a long time before we see any growth in the economy, according to most commentators but, importantly, the bank of
cross border fire into in the west bank yesterday, cross borderfire into lebanon in the past few days and growing fears that yemen could be being pulled into this conflict as our international editorjeremy bowen reports. more palestinians left their homes moving along salah al din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who s 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians
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