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Cbs s lilia luciano reports that despite the challenges, family members are still holding on to hope. i m going to find my mother, one way or another. reporter: it s been two weeks, but jason musgrove is refusing to give up looking for his mother, linda vacated lee. until someone tells me exactly where she is at, i am not going to stop looking for her. reporter: he says he believes she was at her apartment near front street when the wildfire ripped through lahaina. cruz and cadaver dogs continue combing through structures to narrow down the list of roughly 1100 people still unaccounted for. higher than the 850 previously reported. the fbi is also struggling with not enough dna samples from relatives to help identify the remains they recovered. why do you think it is taking so long? language barrier. initial scattering. the night of the event. and number three, they are sheltered in right now and ....
For. the rain in forecast could complicate the difficult and delicate task of identifying and finding remains of anymore victims. with us is senator brian shots of hawaii, and thank you for being with us, and aloha, as i know that you like to say, and senator, we keep hearing of the people unaccounted for, and the mayor of maui is putting the number at 850 today, and what is your understanding of what the number represents? possible that there are 850 deceased people still uniden unidentified? i don t want to speculate, but there is a process that we are going through with fema-led cadaver dogs through lahaina town, and there is a process ....
Down here. reporter: new video from the data shows local firefighters overwhelmed by the flames. tim laborte s father is among them. as hope fades, he is posting missing persons fires. we don t know if you might have left early, ran into another area where it was bad and might have diverted him back and he might have been going around in a circle. reporter: 470 search and rescue agents are coming through this american pompeii. 85% of the five square-mile disaster zone zone has been cleared. but fema search teams say clearing what is left could take weeks, if not longer. hey, buddy, ready to go? reporter: christy bormann and her dog are one afford a cadaver dog teams is sifting through what little remains. what remains have been burned completely. we are talking about ashes, we are talking about metal, that is basically what is left of the structures. reporter: and tonight, questions still remain about herman andaya, the now resigned ....
From maui. reporter: it is now day 11 since the catastrophic fire that tore through parts of maui and absolutely decimated the town of lahaina. and while the search area has grown with a lot more personnel, a lot more cadaver dogs coming into west maui, the number of the missing remain stubbornly stuck and just puts a pit in your stomach when you think about all of the families waiting for some confirmation, fearing the worst, but holding on to some bit of hope. president biden and the first lady are coming to maui on monday. whether or not they actually walk through lahaina, the burn zone, or just fly over the scene, dan criswell, the fema administrator, could not say. promises the president will stand with the people of maui and lend an ear to local leaders who are very concerned at the reopening plans, rebuilding plans, anything going forward won t include them as has been the case here for generations. the number of people in shelters ....