Almost entirely to the ground. Because of the wildfires, fires are continuing to burn. Helicopters continue to douse the flames. Many people, forced to flee at a moments notice, had to leave everything behind. Hawaiis Attorney General has announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about power, and why the power should have been cut to the island. Meantime, the police chief for maui county said he expects the death toll to rise. Realise this. When we find these. Ourfamily and our friends, the remains we are finding is through a fire that melted metal. We have to do rapid dna to identify them. Every one of these 89 arejohn and jane does. And when you are asking us, and we know we have to get. And i love the way our house of representatives, how she said it, we are so eloquent, we have to go quick and we have to do it right. So when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, and so when you have
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
Because none of us really know the size of it yet, everybody wants a number. you want to fast and you want it right. we are going to do it right. let s cross to maui, and speak to our correspondent helena humphrey. what is the latest there? the very grim news here that, once again, the death toll is being revised upwards, and we were told in the press conference, which took lace at our government building just behind me to prepare for the death toll to go up even further, and that tragic devastating message from the police chief telling anybody in the room, if you have loved ones who are missing, please get in touch to do dna swab testing, and i think that underscores the devastation here at hand. also in that press conference, a lot of questions with regards to the sirens and to the warning system, if there were any
Being told to do dna swab testing to try and identify their loved ones. that is the first step to people can then start to process what had happened. we understand more aid is coming in. this really goes down to the very basics we need for humans to survive, food, shelter, water, health care, people even begin to talk about rebuilding their lives here. ., ~ talk about rebuilding their lives here. . ,, i. our reporter on the ground, helena humphrey. there s growing pressure on the uk government to do more to stop migrants crossing the english channel on small boats after six people drowned off the coast of france. labour says people smugglers are running rings around governments efforts to tackle the problem. uk ministers have pushed tougher laws through parliament which make it illegal for people to claim asylum in britain if they ve arrived on small boats. simonjones has the latest. despite yesterday s deaths in the channel off the coast of france, the crossings continued.
In addition to the three murders, the three other women reported surviving sexual assault in the area, two of them say they were choked into unconsciousness. we re now waiting for word from police to finish conducting more dna swab testing and interviews as well as before they ask the da s office for an arrest warrant to officially and finally charge rodriguez with the murders. jenna: julie on this breaking story, thank you. reporter: sure. jon: it is back to work on capitol hill as house republicans resume their push to reveal the health care repeal, i should say, the health care law. debate gets under way on the floor this afternoon. a vote is set for tomorrow. let s talk about the political implications with nancy, she was a senior adviser and national spokesperson for the mccain presidential campaign. simon rosenberg is the president of ndn, a left-leaning think tank and a tomorrower campaign adviser to president clinton. so what is going to be