But breaking tonight, we first told you about this last night. But now at least 36 people are dead and thousands are fleeing their homes as i will wildfires sweep across the Hawaiian Island of maui. The flames have forced some adults and children to literally run into the ocean to avoid blaze. This is a disaster of historic proportions for the island state. President biden is promising immediately help for those affected. And the u. S. Military is assisting in the response. Some historic areas have been totally destroyed. National correspondent William La Jeunesse joins us now from outside a shelter on maui. Good evening, william. Good evening, bret. You know, the fires are still burning. So this remains a Search And Rescue operation. In fact, were told a number of individuals are still up in lahaina. They survived the fire but they dont want to leave because they wont get back. In the video i want to show you is from lahaina. Thats the commercial heart of this island and it was litera
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Alec ross, why do you open your in the Book Industries of the future toy with a story about vomit. The first sentence of the book is its 3 00 in the morning and im mopping up whiskey smelling puke after a Country Music concert in West Virginia. Not a typical beginning for the book about the future. Want to be clear that the perspective i give is from somebody who grew up in West Virginia and who worked as a midnight janitor. So most people who write books about the future do so from a position of what id call coastal privilege, and i guess part of what i wanted to convey was that there wasnt any blue blood in this body and i wanted to talk about a whole different issues from the perspective of somebody who grew up in West Virginia and worked as a janitor host you rite that people in West Virginia were doing their best to manage a slow descent. Guest i just turned 25 and my beginning was spent West Virginia and i thought it was normal to an inherently difficult situation. And it wasnt r
Weve been seeing the visibility drop as more fog continues to settle in. Zero in lancaster. Thats dense fog. Quarter mile in reading, patchy, dense fog will be the case throughout the morning. After the sun comes up,c well start to see a lot of this diminish. 45 in philadelphia, 40 in pottstown, 39 in reading. Millville at 38. For the bus stop forecast this morning, were dealing with fog and some areas, especially in the Lehigh Valley. If youre north and west of philadelphia, through the Lehigh Valley this morning at the bus stop, 40 degrees. By the afternoon well be seeing temperatures closer to 60. Philadelphia mid40s by the afternoon, low 60s. If youre in new jersey and delaware, mainly the mid40s by 7 00 a. M. And by 2 00 well be in about the mid60s. Coming up, ill show you the rest of the forecast with more rain chances. Ill show you that straight ahead. Lets get a check of the roadways. Were watching the schuylkill expressway right now. This is around montgomery drive. Were stil