And have warned the death toll may rise. And in the past hour, James Tokioka director of the department of business, Economic Development and tourism in hawaii, gave this update. Its a very, very sad day in hawaii. It is devastating. And i know many families in maui are struggling right now as well as many Family Members across the state. We want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. I am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the Convention Centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. As the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. We have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. I want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the Convention Centre was here at four oclock in the Morning Setting up. They are doing an incrediblejob. People have been up all night. I really want to thank them for all of the work
a candidate in ecuador s is assassinated while on the come in trail. politicians are set to question senior police in northern ireland about major a data breach of officers and civilian staff details. hello. this is bbc news. the death toll from the wildfires in the us state of hawaii has now risen to at least 36 people. large parts of the tourist town of lahaina on the island of maui have been burned to the ground. firefighters are still trying to get the fires under control. there were reports some people had jumped into the ocean to escape the fast moving flames. this is the aftermath of the wildfires. officials said it is still difficult to determine the true extent of the damage on maui,