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Disaster in state history. Confirmed deaths at 55. Were told that number will likely grow. None of the fires right now is fully contained. Not one. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Those fires have left a wasteland of obliterated neighborhoods and landmarks and think about the economy there with the businesses knocked down. They dont know when they can get in there and when tourism will be an option again. The historic city of lahaina, once hawaiis royal capital, is charred ruins now. Survivors stunned at just how fast Hurricane Doras winds helped the flames to spread. People are found in houses in a huddle. There was nowhere to go. Beyond any other tropical storms, 100 times, covid, everything for our small town. People lost everything, homes, jobs, their cars, some their pets. There are still people missing. I have never seen something ravaged so fast. ....
A powerful "bomb cyclone" is blasting the Pacific Northwest Tuesday morning, knocking out power with ferocious winds and bringing rare blizzard conditions to the Cascades and Olympics. ....
Tropical Storm Idalia descended on the Carolinas on its way out to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction throughout the Southeast that stretched back to its landfall as a hurricane in Florida. ....
We re 13 miles away from lahaina where the bulk of the damage is. police are letting residents in, though they are restricted from some areas where it is too dangerous to go. there is still hot spots in the town of lahaina and unfortunately they are still finding bodies of victims. as of now 55 people confirmed dead at this hour. now, fires burn throughout the island of maui right now. none of them are fully contained. it is unclear how these fires started but they were whipped up by ferocious winds and very dry conditions. the most destructive the fire on maui s west side which ripped through the community of lahaina, the fierce winds, hurricane dora made things even worse passing just south of the island contributing to those ferocious winds. according to the hawaii governor it destroyed more than 1,000 buildings and damaged the town s ....
Any urgent notices that have gone out because of that. if i don t have that right, just understand that that s why. but obviously, that is something that remains of huge concern here in this area, given that that is one of the most prominent industries here in this part of louisiana. yeah, you re not alone, ed. there s so much technology and communications that are down right now across the state. thank you very much for the reporting. we ll check back with you. so, another town that s been battered by ida is a community about an hour southeast sorry, southwest of new orleans. ferocious winds, heavy rain all caused extensive damage to homes and businesses there. jason carroll is there for us. what are you seeing? reporter: well, victor, we moved away from downtown houma, where we saw so much destruction there, to some of the surrounding neighborhoods and we re finding even more here in this house, a house that used to stand, now gone. ....