This community went through. Tonight, we are inside the fire zone in maui. For the first time, we see the images captured by two captains who answered the call for help from the water. The coast guard telling them people, families, and children were in desperate need. Tonight, they take us back by water to where they helped those fighting to survive, including a young brother and sister. Their entire bodies covered in soot. And tonight, abc news with a minutebyminute look at how this deadly disaster unfolded. Our indepth timeline. Hourbyhour, putting the pieces of this tragedy together. So much time went by, as the fires grew. Why werent there more alerts . Why were the sirens not sounded . Tonight, authorities defending their reason not to use them. The two Boat Captains describing the moment the coast guard sent them in, telling them, we need help. They could feel the heat, the smoke, and the wind as they pulled into the harbor. Tonight, investigators and what theyre now learning abo
People who jumped in the water to just to survive this and who were huddled along front street here. we were expecting the worst on the way in, so we had we had big spotlights up, flashlights searching. it was there was so much smoke in the air, your flashlight beam would only go about 100 feet or so. david: as we look at it here, you can see that people had no place to go, other than the water or the one road out of town. yeah. david: i mean, they were trapped. sorry. david: it is still too raw. captain riley coons is a third generation hawaiian, and captain travis dewater. they were both there that night. it looked like a zombie apocalypse, everything was on fire. everybody was just covered in soot. david: their faces were covered in soot from the fire? yeah. i mean, everything. david: everything. everybody was kind of covered in soot. david: so many people who were actually even in the water were holding a t-shirt up to their face just to breathe through
geepg good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidates to try to have a big impact in the iowa caucuses and he still to this d
good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. the iowa caucus is just eight days away. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidat
good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. the iowa caucus is just eight days away. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidat