the video coming out of the town are horrific, fish, chicken s turning up dead or becoming extremely ill. the people wonder if they are next. burning plastics and chemicals in the air, issues with our dog vomiting, acting lethargic. the fish is dying so how my supposed to be safe bathing my children, cooking with any of it. i cannot date in town before i have a giant migraine. i don t feel anywhere in this town is. basically they nuked the town with chemicals to get a railroad open. you watch people investigating, they have giant hazmat suits on. but somehow, it is safe for people to go back to these homes. jesse: dana put in biden epa on the spot after insisted there is nothing wrong with the city s water. would you return to these homes now? would you feel comfortable bathing your children and the waterboard drinking the water? based on those homes tested if those test results have come back and said the air quality is okay and the word water is oka, i wou
at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corroborated by video on the ground, we ve built up a picture of what happened and how a desperate situation was made worse still by mistakes from authorities. and we ve obtained new recordings that indicate a breakdown in communication around where the fallen power lines were live or turned off that led to roadblocks that may have been unnecessary. it s the morning of august 8th, and winds in lahaina are already high. and i started seeing all the cyclones and stuff like that out over the water and i ve never seen that in person. so i thought it was kind of cool, and i started videoing to show her, and the windsjust. itjust started getting worse and worse and worse. by this point i started noticing debris down in the roads. parts of roofs had started blowing off, all kinds of stuff. you could hear it hitting the side of your car. clunk ok, that one hit the top of the car. - every exitjonathan tries is blocked. som
roadblocks and debris created a burning maze of trafficjams. traffic is completely stuck and people are going to die here and there s no reason why. trapped in lahaina as it burned to the ground. it s criminal, what happened. people lost their lives that wouldn t have lost their lives. and then why they did close the road, i think that s something a lot of people want to know. you know, better preparation, right? i mean, that s what everybody is pointing to. and who should take responsibility for that? lahaina is the gem of the hawaiian island of maui, a tourist hot spot with huge cultural importance. this is the first kingdom of hawaii. this is the gathering place. it s unfathomable. you can t even imagine a reality of lahaina burning. we could have focused on any number of things that went wrong on the day of the fire. but we ve chosen to look at how people did and didn t escape from lahaina as it burnt. at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corrobo
reaction? the environment where this or that. you love your children and you have an instinctive reaction. the instinctive reaction when i see that plume of black, ugly smoke is, what the i am not going to take my baby here. i know he is an honest guy but he doesn t look it. johnson, the congressman mentioned this morning, he lives there. i like his tempo, but still, i m not bringing my kids around there. and i feel for those parents with limited means. their whole life is invested in their homes and they have mortgages. and what happens to that, how will they become trust your gut, trust your instinct and never ever listen to an expert drink the water and then regret it later.