To leave everything behind to the mercy of the flames. On saturday hawaiis Attorney General announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about whether the power to the island should have been shut. One of the airports has been closed to General Aviation to allow Emergency Services to reach it faster. Lets go live to maui, and helena has been reporting at this temporary shelter. What is taking place where you are right now . Karl, we know the where you are right now . Karl, we know the situation where you are right now . Karl, we know the situation right where you are right now . I l we know the situation right now is that more search and recovery teams are coming onto the island of maui, and that is because there are just so many people who continue to be unaccounted for. And what you see here at that shelter is that people come here repairing for the worst but with some hope, hoping that potent
Recovery crews are combing through the charred ruins. More than 2,200 structures, homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed. The states governor says some areas look like a war zone. The wildfires are the worst to hit a state in america in over a century, and there is growing anger on maui over both the lack of warning about the fires and the response by officials to the thousands left without homes and, in some cases, without adequate food and water. Jill tokuda, a democratic congresswoman from hawaii, told cbs that officials had been taken by surprise by the tragedy. Everybody who has ever lived in hawaii knows the warning sirens, it goes off once a month, and if it doesnt hawaii knows the warning sirens, it goes off once a month, and if it doesnt it hawaii knows the warning sirens, it goes off once a month, and if it doesnt it nets hawaii knows the warning sirens, it goes off once a month, and if it doesnt it nets fixed hawaii knows the warning sirens, it goes off once a m
To the mercy of the flames. On saturday hawaiis Attorney General announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about if power to the island should have been cut. Earlier i spoke to our reporter Helena Humphrey, who is on the ground in maui. Well, karl, we know the situation right now is that more search and recovery teams are coming onto the island of maui, and that is because there are just so many people who continue to be unaccounted for. And what you see here at that shelter is that people come here preparing for the worst but with some hope, hoping that potentially they could find loved ones here. Just over my shoulder over there is a Missing Persons tent. Thats currently being run by volunteers who know the community on the island, and they give People Police forms so that they can fill them in, which are handed to the sheriff, and then people can scan a qr code to try and get some informat
Lets bring in our North America correspondent anthony zurcher. It has been a very long day, the grand jury proceeding going on for hours and things are not over yet at the courthouse. Flat over yet at the courthouse. Not over yet at the courthouse. Not over et over yet at the courthouse. Iirrt over yet although we are getting indication that we could have those indictments that you mentioned, ten indictments, we dont know who they are what they cover but they are what they cover but they will be unsealed, publicly released sometime in the next two hours and at that point, the mystery will be over, we will look into it and steve donald trump is invited, or any associates of him, like rudy giuliani, if they are included and what kind of crimes they are charged with. Obviously in the investigation was on attempts to influence or overturn the results of the 2020 election in georgia but did they use a Racketeering Law which has a 20 Year Prison Sentence as part of a criminal enterprise that
Significantly after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent John Sudworth reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. Theyre now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Pearl harbor is a 20 minute flight away, right . Why are the limited resources of police on this island left alone . Where is the support for them . Why are we taking supplies on a boat instead of helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened landscape above the town where the grass was burning and what happened with the Hurricane Blowing away off to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of the isla