do you agree if desantis is defending trump at the debate he shouldn t be at the debate, he shouldn t be in the race. anyone who s going to be in the debate talking about another candidate shouldn t be in the debate. you should be focused on your vision for america. what we ve seen is his desire to attack people a certain number of times or compliment people a certain number of times. his spokesman who has an alter ego twitter account put out, you know, a false statement about my campaign and about my voting record. and it seems like they re not even reading their own research, which they paid god knows how much money for in a $150 million campaign where they re hiring a ton of staff. they re not even reading their own research because in the first page it shows that i voted for a republican in 2016 and 2020 and yet they continue to say that. so, they re a campaign that s struggling to tread water.
will: i know this area well and told you about my personal experience right across the seawall is bars and restaurants, tommy bahama is where these people are, waikiki brewing, cars jammed, do i run north or south, i cannot run towards the hills, they ran to the ocean. some people there for seven hours. rick: about to beaded the ocean under normal circumstances trying to tread water, not just the calm body of water, it is the ocean which is treacherous in the flame coming at you because up to 80 mile-per-hour winds and that flame would push you out. will: and the smoke with wet t-shirts and scarves they were trying to find their way to not have the lungs filled with smoke. a lot of drone footage. the word the two words that come to mind are total, it is total devastation. rick: a town of 13000 people it looks like somewhere between 2,023,000 structures in a town of 13000 people are gone.
of smoke and the flames around the harbour. you can understand why some people decided to take the risk and jump into the sea and tread water for hours. the coastguard said that about 50 people were rescued from the sea. they put paddle boat into the water to get people out, including some small children. paddle boards. a relief operation is under way to help the residents. makeshift shelters have been set up and there are queues of traffic as people head towards them, so they at least have some shelter. you can see from these pictures matresses have been brought in for people to sleep on. this photo taken at the war memorial stadium shelter in maui. a makeshift noticeboard has been set up. there are pleas for missing loved ones to get in contact such as we love you marisa, call us please.
looking back at the shore. you can see the huge amount of smoke and the flames around the harbour. that s what they were escaping, that s why people decided to take the risk and jump in the water, and tread water. the coastguard said about 50 people were were rescued from the water. makeshift shelters have been set up and there are queues of traffic as people had towards them to get some help. you can see from these pictures mattresses have been brought in for people to sleep on. this photo, taken at the war memorial stadium shelter in maui. a notice board has been set up. there are pleas for missing loved ones to get in contact such as, we love you, marissa, call us, please.
fires like the one you see here consumed roads and exit points. flames moved with such speed, that some tourists were forced to jump into the sea nearby and were left to tread water or cling to sea walls for long periods of time. they ve been talking about their experience. the ocean almost sucked my kids away a few times. but yeah, here we are. we stuck together, we held on, that s, we are not going to die this way, no. but we are here, we are alive. the fires were at their most intense along the western coast of maui. but other areas have been affected. authorities say the blaze around lahaina, is now about 80% contained. the pulehu fire, in the middle of the island, has been 70 % contained. officials are also keeping across a third fire, in upcountry maui. there are fires too on neigbouring big island. the governor of hawaii josh green has toured lahaina. he posted this update