Is up to 67. Thank you so much for joining us on kron. 4 news at 8. Im Vicki Liviakis and im Catherine Heenan. The death toll expected to climb higher and hundreds of people are still missing tonight, the office of hawaiis attorney general says it will be conducting a review of the Decision Making and the policies leading up to during and after the wildfires. Survivors saying they did not hear any sirens or get warning to let them know they were in danger only realizing it did in many cases when they saw the flames or heard explosions nearby. The state of hawaii does have the largest integrated outdoor all hazard Public Safety Warning System in the world. With about 400 sirens positions across the state to alert people about varias Natural Disasters. Another threat, Emergency Management records show no indication that the warning sirens sounded instead officials sent alerts to mobile phones, televisions and radio stations. But widespread power and cellular outages might have limited th
Historic a tally or a hawaiian town. The death toll as of now is 67 with at least 1000 people still unaccounted for. Thank you so much for joining us. Im vicki liviakis. The bay area is sending resources to help out with search and rescue operations in maui. Con fire assistant chief jeff peter flew out of oakland earlier this morning. Hes joining femas Incident Support team. Peter brings decades of experience in everything from search and rescue to logistics and recovery. And hes previously help to support the agency in major disasters all across the nation. Harpers dan kerman has the latest. Ive always thought that if you have the ability to do something and you have capacity to do something, you should. Calais only grew up in san leandro and now finds himself on the big island of hawaii in the town of kona taking part in the university of washingtons physician assistant program. As soon as he heard about the fires in maui, he helped organize a fundraiser for this weekend. Then lined
And after the wildfires. This comes as the number of dead continues to climb. It is 67 tonight, but will likely go higher. Firefighters are making progress in getting the fires under control, the one that ravaged lahaina is 85 contained. The kihei fire is at 80 and a third fire is at 50 . However, there is a new evacuation tonight for kaanapali because of a fire. We are continuing to get harrowing tales from people who survived and barely escaped. There were people jumping into the ocean, swimming to boats to try to escape the fire. There are people on the ground crying, unsure where to go or not able to breathe because of the smoke and we were minutes away from that potentially being us just that close. Search and rescue teams are on their way to help, including some from california. Abc News Reporter Melissa Arden has a look at what is hawaiis worst natural disaster. Everything is gone. This is this is terrible. Heartbreaking images show the aftermath from hawaiis largest and deadlie
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Good morning. It is saturday august 12th, 7 00 as we take this live look outside. Foggy from our bay bridge toll plaza camera, headed towards Treasure Island there and cant even see the city in the background. A typical summer morning in San Francisco. Thank you so much for starting it with us. Im kira klapper. Before we get to cinthia with our microclimate forecast we want to begin with breaking news out of the east bay where firefighters are battling this fouralarm fire in pittsburg igniting around 4 30 at what fire Officials Say is an abandoned building on east 10th street, intersection of los madonnas street. Firefighters say because of a risk of collapse and are defensive pr operations from th exterior. No injuries reported. We will continue to monitor this fire and bring you updates in this newscast and on our website nbc bay area dot com. Now turning to the forecast and Cinthia Pimentel joining us with the weather. Good morning, everyone. Yes. You mentioned off the top, a typica