Response. And Hurrican Hilary is getting stronger. And timing is everything for team trump. His lawyers proposing new trial dates and negotiating when he will sur render in georgia. We begin with the maui official who defended the decision not to activate the Warning Sirens. He is now stepping down. He cited Health Reasons for his resignation. It comes with the death toll at 111 people and more than 1,000 still unaccounted for. Randi kaye has more on the fallout. So many of the residents felt like we had no warning. Reporter hawaii has one of the largest Public Safety outdoor siren Warning Systems in the world. Sirens that were silent as wildfires raged. The question is, why. First it was this it would not have saved those people on the mountain side. Do you regret not sounding the sirens . I do not. Sirens as i mentioned earlier is used primarily for tsunamis. Reporter that is what the head of mauis Emergency Management agency said wednesday. But even before that Press Conference ende
recovering their loved ones. members of their families. reporter: search sand rescue scouring more than 2,000 homes and businesses as the magnitude of the loss sinks in. it is hard to take in. reporter: and even as authorities delicately search the rubble for human remains, some residents say that they have been approached by speculators, reawakening medical others of historical wrongdoing including colonization and overgovernment and further stoking fears of losing their land. governor green reacted to those fears and mounting frustration over reports of unso he police at this timed calls from outsiders looking to buy damage prop properties. we ll work to block those actions. reporter: there are signs of some improvement here. we have been watching as electricity crews try to put the power back on and we have also mean seeing cellphone towers
WHILE Clare was under a red alert for a number of hours last Friday morning, the damage wasn’t as bad as had been feared, but on Sunday Storm Franklin caused more problems than had been expected.
assessments, clean up debris and hang new lines. i do ask that everyone have patience. this is going to take some time to restore. and in some circumstances it will be a situation about rebuilding. hurricane force winds can significantly damage infrastructure. those crews are still down there right now, getting a sense of what is going on the ground. with power out, that pretty much drives everything. there may be impacts on local waste water treatment facilities. most of those facilities should have generator and fuel supplies for a number of days. however, it is a priority. once it s safe to re-enter, it is a priority to get those electricity crews back in on the ground. communications is also an issue, particularly down in the virgin islands. but in florida, there is some cell service disruption and maybe wire line disruption as well. same thing applies. as soon as it s safe to re-enter, crews should be back in there, doing damage assessments late yesterday and into today. last thin
p pool creating a massive radiation risk. this aerial video was released of the power plant with close-up shots of several reactor buildings. you can see the extensive damage explosions there have caused. in the meantime, electricity crews are trying to reconnect the power to two less volatile reactors hoping to restart their cooling pumps. the plan would then be to extend electricity to the two more dangerous ones, reactors three and reactor four. i don t think the reactor four is about to blow up or anything. we don t really have the accurate insight information. we are trying to find out. that s why we are trying to tackle on the other three reactors so we can approach to reactor number four. this situation might hold for a while, but it s not going to blow up anything. it s now been one week since the magnitude 9 earthquake and