helping, helping with supplies e stranded at the airport. many of the like the stanley s - many peoplehere lost so much themselves. they gave us all of these blankets and pillows. just random volunteers would show up and hand out food, offer to take us home, showers and stuff. everyone was super nice. reporter: hawaii tourism authority is now taking the unusual step of asking all visitors to leave the island of maui if they don t have any business here. now, many of these people will be going to honolulu, where the convention center there is prepared to take on up to 4,000 evacuees until they can find a flight home. margaret? margaret: wow. carter evans on the ground. for a look at how long these windy conditions will be fanning the flames, we turn now two meteorologist mike bettes from our partners over at the weather channel. good evening, mike. margaret, good evening. keeping a very close eye on the wind conditions across mile we. in lahaina, we instill gusty,-3r
julie knapp, visited their home at 16 years, which is now just smoking rubble. this is our first time coming our house burned down. reporter: and logistics present a problem. the only way to get supplies to the island is by air or by boat. but as you can see behind me here at king s church, the community has stepped up. margaret? margaret: thank you, rudabeh fear of and while shelters are overflowing, maui s airport is overflowing with thousands of stranded passengers attending to evacuate the island. cbs s carter evans is there and has been speaking with desperate travelers who have had their dream vacation turned into a nightmare. reporter: thousands of people are still trying to flee maui. oh, my lord. reporter: many taken by bus through the burn zone to the airport. the stanley s were on board and shot this video. we could see just smoldering peers just ruins. fire. that line goes way back. reporter: at the airport, a chaotic scene as they just
belongings. meanwhile, the pictures from above show the scale of the ruin, with block after block reduced to ash and the burnt out wreckage of the business district shows how quickly the flames over took that community. at one point, drivers were forced to abandon their vehicles as they sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic in a desperate bid to escape. the maui war memorial gymnasium has been set up as one of the many shelters across the island for evacuees who have lost everything. volunteers are handing out food, water, diapers, and other much-needed supplies. and thousands are stranded at the airport as they try to escape the chaos and return to the mainland. we have team coverage from every angle of this tragedy, but cbs s jonathan vigliotti has seen the devastation of lahaina up close. good evening to you, jonathan. reporter: and good evening to you, margaret. we walked 2 miles down historic french street, and i don t
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