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News, we are tracking devastating and Deadly Wildfires across hawaii. Drought and hurricaneforce winds fueling multiple blazes which have killed at least six people. Hawaiis Lieutenant Governor joins me live this hour. We are following Breaking News out of utah where a man accused of threatening to kill President Biden has just been shot dead by fbi agents trying to arrest him. The Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney is expected to seek indictments against more than a dozen people as she nears Charging Decisions in her probe of the El ....
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Mountains and it creates these very dry, timberlake conditions. we ve had wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour on the island of maui. sustained winds over 25 miles per hour and as we continue to see the funneling effect we will see the impacts with the wildfires continue at least for the next 12 hours before hurricane dora moves well away from the islands. 12 more hours. they really need help right now. derek, thank you so much. he s going to be watching this. folks are clearly waking up or haven t gone to sleep overnight for what they re dealing with. on the phone joining us right now is one man who lives in hawaii and has been dealing with exactly what we re talking about. allen decar. can you hear me? yes, i can. thank you so much. the control room just told me you ve had to evacuate twice because of how these fires have been moving. yes. tell me what you ve been going through. what s the situation? so i live and work in lahaina town and had to evacuate. ....
Their homes have been burned down. and, wolf, the mayor of maui warns that the fires on the island are not yet contained with flare-ups continuing to occur and an analysis of our team of meteorologists here at cnn expects the winds to start to relax later tonight local time, perhaps a sliver of hope in a dire situation, wolf. perhaps. all right, derek van dam, thank you very much for that report. for more on the fires i want to bring in our meteorologist chad myers. he s joining us from the cnn weather center. how are the winds contributing to this ongoing danger? two things combined, wolf. a high pressure to the north up here. there s hawaii right through there and hurricane dora. a category 4 hurricane that passed south. you would think hundreds and hundreds of miles would be far enough away, but with that high there and that low there and the funneling effect, it wasn t. 82 miles per hour was the ....
Also, freeze precipitation across northern portions of that area. upstate new york, northern portions of pennsylvania. the wind is going to be a huge concern with this. we could see hurricane-force winds just offshore, places like long island, and we re talking about any time between now and say the wee hours of the morning, 40 and 45-mile-per-hour winds with gusts up to 60, 70 miles per hour, and once you get into new york, with that funneling effect, we could feel winds even stronger. so, this one is going to be a big one. the good news is, it s mainly going to be rain along the coast, so, the big cities will just have to deal with the rain, but it s going to be snow in those northern sections. so, there s that area of hurricane force winds possible. and then, our wind threat, the warnings, watches and advisories all in place. there s a look at your rain totals, anywhere from two to four inches across places like new york, boston, and then all of this snow, especially in those higher ....