The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
Personnel from the u.s. embassy in haiti and just this week u.s. diplomats still in the country were confined to the embassy grounds due to gunfire close by. the security situation in the country remains dire with over 1,000 kidnappings in the first half of this year. that is according to a u.n. report. kenya is slated to lead a multinational force to take on the gangs. but there is no time table for their arrival. next step for this process to stand up a multinational force is for the government of kenya to lead an assessment mission. i don t have an exact date of that mission, but i do expect that to happen in the very near future in the matter of the next few week. reporter: and her family and community are elated to have her back. her aid group released a statement saying it is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that we confirm the safe release of our staff member and