here in hawaii so far damage has been minimized. boy, adam, what a tough year for the big island. you ve got first that volcano and now these fires and flooding rains. adam, thank you so much. leland. leland: joining us now from honolulu, central pacific hurricane center meteorologist, chevy. we see the track of the hurricane behind you. honolulu s mayor about an hour ago saying, we dodged a bullet now, as they look at things saturday morning, sunrise. accurate? i d say accurate, yeah. it could have been much worse. maybe folks on the big island would not say that they dodged a bullet because they ve been dealing with catastrophic flooding for the last couple of days and the rain is going to continue to fall as we go into the weekend. so, but i would say, you know, up in kauai, they probably don t realize there s something going on because they haven t seen much weather at all.
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and officials here say do not let your guard down. doesn t mean it s over. we ll have rain, wind, local flooding and we need to be vigilant and we don t want to let all of our guard down. we pre positioned the equipment to remove debris and employees across the state are prepared to respond should there be ponding or backups. and we could actually smell the smoke here this morning. the fires would be to my left. if you look at a map of hawaii, guys, it s on an arc and the way the islands are stretched out with the big island being the furthest south and furthest to the east and how that storm came in and basically spun, that s why it hammered the east side of the island and really, the east side of the big island has saved a lot of the other islands from getting the torrential rain that hilo has been getting. of course, there will be a lot of damage this when this is all done and some cleanup and some folks will need to be helped there. but the good news for the wide chain of isl
down on his criticism of the russia investigation. what the president is saying about his former attorney. and tropical storm lane causing major flooding in hawaii. adam klotz is standing by with the latest on conditions in the pacific. hay hey there, yes, it was a hurricane and even though it s now a tropical storm we re tracking showers across the island. i ll talk about that and plus have the track of the storm coming up after the break. the day after chemo shouldn t mean going back to
had such a tough year. especially on the big island. first the volcano another tropical storm, brushfires. overall, how is the economy doing since tourism is such a huge factor? that s a good question. 2017 was a very good year for us. the six months of 2018 have been very robust. by all measurements, we ve had a tremendous year. again, i think hawaii is in demand. i think all the incidents have been very challenging but at the same time, they have made us better preparing for this type of crisis. again, the visitors industry, the state, the city, the counties all working together collaboration has the best i ve seen. we were prepared for the hurricane. these past instances make is better for preparation.