The governor addressed the rising number in his statement. 101 lives have now been lost, 27 of the survey have been completed. I spoke with the president this morning and we speak often. He and joe biden extend their absolute love and heartfelt wishes about the tragedy that has occurred. They are heartsick that we have lost these 101 souls. Joining us now from maui is our reporter, helena humphrey. Helena, the governorjust posted a video on social media with an update. He has confirmed a rising death toll, what else did he say . That is right and the message from the governor has been every time we see that death toll climb upwards, he said that our hearts are a little bit more broken. He has also been saying that residents of western maui can now start to go back into lahaina, although he did specify that would not be able to go into the impacted zone. In a bid to reconnect these areas of the island that have been completely disconnected with the wildfires. He also spoke about housing
and price arthur out with these tourist high rise resorts? the government is saying if anyone comes and offers to buy the land, speak to me, comes and offers to buy the land, speakto me, we comes and offers to buy the land, speak to me, we will protect the land it will be up to the residents of lahaina to decide what to do when they, eventually, can rebuild the area. he also mentioned the visit from presidentjoe biden saying that will be coming in the coming weeks, saying he has beenin the coming weeks, saying he has been in regular contact with the president and he would teleport himself right here now if you could but the message consistently has been from the white house that president biden does not want to distract from delicate recovery operations, which continue. the recovery operation is slow and deliberate, just over a quarter of the affected site already combed, do they have the resources that they need? they say that they do now, that they have more sniffer dogs on