flight was called off due to wind conditions. our reporter, john maguire reports. if ever anyone was born to fly, it was pete gregory. a third generation hot air balloonist and also an airline pilot, he lived his life in the skies. since the age of three, pete and his brother dan often flew with their father, andrew. ballooning is a field and he was passionate about aviation as a job and ballooning as his hobby and his passion. i guess you could say we were born into hot air ballooning. pete gained his licence at the age of 17, i gained mine at 19, and we ve flown in many countries around the world and been very lucky to do so. the brothers took up competitive flying. here they are winning thejunior world championships in poland two years ago. they were both involved in a contest in worcestershire injune when pete s balloon crashed and he was killed. dan s ground crew that day was andrew, with his wife louise doing the same for pete.
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
jaan roose an estonian athlete walking across this slackline between two iconic towers 185 metres above the ground. incredible stuff and i m delighted to say that jaan joins us live. we are looking at these pictures and thatis we are looking at these pictures and that is absolutely astonishing. what was that like? it that is absolutely astonishing. what was that like? was that like? it was really tough. ma be not was that like? it was really tough. maybe not the was that like? it was really tough. maybe not the longest was that like? it was really tough. maybe not the longest line - was that like? it was really tough. maybe not the longest line i - was that like? it was really tough. maybe not the longest line i have | maybe not the longest line i have done. i was doing ten times longer before that but this time, this was the hardest because it took a lot more time than expected because of harsh wind conditions. i iffiiiii more time than expected because of harsh wind co
incredible stuff and i m delighted to say that jaan joins us live. jaan roose, the slackline athlete who made this incredible walk. it was a tough challenge for me. not the longest line i have done, before that i did a highline that was ten times longer but this was the hardest one for me because it took us way more time than expected because of harsh, harsh wind conditions. i because of harsh, harsh wind conditions. because of harsh, harsh wind conditions. , . ,, ., conditions. i will come back to the harsh conditions conditions. i will come back to the harsh conditions in conditions. i will come back to the harsh conditions in a conditions. i will come back to the harsh conditions in a moment - conditions. i will come back to the harsh conditions in a moment but| conditions. i will come back to the l harsh conditions in a moment but to ordinary people it looks absolutely nuts doing that. do you get frightened, do you get nervous? what is going through your mind? we are play
machines including syringes to inject drugs like heroin and other items. bill, back to you. bill: something we ll watch. wow, only day one. imagine that. thank you, nice to see you in brooklyn. dana: hemmer thought you had to pay for it. it s free. an update on the haze happening on the east coast and upper midwest of our country. we are covered with just incredible amounts of this smoke that is coming down from canada. there are wildfires there. they are happening earlier in the season than typical. it is usually in the western part of canada. these are also in the eastern part of canada and because of the wind conditions right now and for the next several days it is pushing that and all the particulate matter and all the haze down to us. so we are going to monitor this. the mayor has air quality warnings out for everybody. check local listings and with your officials if you have any conditions that could be exacerbated by this kind of smoke. the state of mississippi is turning ar