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They re already talking about rebuilding. native hawaiians kind of own the table. and then there is a transparency law in hawaii. and they re calling for that sunshine law to be in effect so there is transparency over what s happening when it comes to rebuilding plans, air and water, those sorts of things. but just in the near term, you ve got toxic materials blowing through the air there. they re starting to put a dust fence up to protect some of the surviving communities as well. but the cadaver dogs, we talked to a team, it s just meticulous painstaking work, alex, and some families are coming to grips with the idea that they may never have official confirmation that the people they love are gone. just such haunting, haunting images. bill weir, thank you so much for all of your extraordinary reporting. of course, our thoughts remain with the people of lahaina and all of hawaii. bill, thank you. for more information about how you can help hawaii wildfire victims, go to cnn.com/impa ....
But there are an estimated 1300 still missing, and that grim number is still to rise. our mcgill almaguer has more on the latest search efforts. in the midst of so much ruin, this is where the search for closure begins. tonight, fema slowly scouring the burn zone, a debris field that s also hallowed ground. respectful. because, you know, these were somebody s family. having searched only a fraction of the fires footprint there s just an endless amount of debris to go through. it s incredible. nbc news was given rare access to where cadaver dogs and recovery teams are working to collect the remains of the victims. from every direction and every angle, you can see the true scope of the damage. this is what authorities are sifting through every day. the fire came through here at 80 miles per hour. they need to search every building and every home before they can say their job here is complete. ....
brian: we are back with a fox weather wildfire alert. the number of dead in hawaii in maui ohio 111. more than 1,000 people are still missing at this hour. meanwhile, the president says he ll take a break from his upcoming vacation to go visit the devastated island. robert ray is live on the ground in maui with the latest. middle of the night in hawaii. a bit over a week since the deadly wildfires. 111 people have lost their lives. take a look at some of this video of lahaina on the west side of maui, just block after block. unfortunately, completely destroyed, 90% of the structure is gone. according to officials. you see some of this video too of cadaver dogs. over 40 of them on the ground as they are still searching for the remains of souls that have lost their lives over a week ago ....
Pool of a home that was completely burned down, they are refilling it with a fire hydrant, but the fire department is stretched so thin that it is really sort of do it yourself diy fire protection which explains this setup. this homeowner was gone, his wife was here, but she fired up their improvised sort of fire prevention system and they are spraying it as far as they can down into the ravine here. with the fear that some of these hot spots might whip up. there is a couple storms brewing in the pacific. nothing near to the storm dora that created all of the firestorm winds. but still anything that would kick this up is one more horrible thing to worry about here. meanwhile in lahaina, officials say about only a third of the area has been saeshlged with cadaver dogs, about a dozen souls have been identified through dna, and then they have dozens of other families now giving dna samples because they ....