Lets go live now to our reporter on the ground in maui, helena humphrey. Helena, the governor of hawaii, josh green, has been speaking again today. What has he been saying . He has been giving up statement in that update he warned once again as he appears to be doing daily now that the death toll which is already significant is likely to rise. He has also been speaking about how it was that these wildfires were able to move so quickly and he said authorities now believe that one of the fires they believed to be extinguished in fact was not and when we saw high winds of a 70 mph, that allow them to take hold. He said at one moment they believe that these fires were moving at a frightening pace of one mile every minute, leaving residents of lahaina with very little time to escape. He has also spoken with the federal response he says the Us Health Department is now involved in more Tree Services and are receiving more us assistance to remove toxic waste in the area of lahaina. He has also
Scale of the humanitarian response variant lahaina and everyone you speak to you know someone who is impacted or are impacted themselves. they are traumatised. you get the sense that they are not even able to process what happened to them or grieve or mourn their loved ones because they ve lost everything and are looking for humanitarian aid in terms of food, shelter, clean drinking water, and when i was down in the harbour i met a young man called blake, a lahaina resident who has lost everything. resident who has lost everything- resident who has lost eve hina. , ., everything. listen to him. i was not everything. listen to him. i was not able everything. listen to him. i was not able to everything. listen to him. i was not able to grab - everything. listen to him. i was not able to grab my . everything. listen to him. i. was not able to grab my truck or anything out of my house. i was or anything out of my house. i was running up and down the bloci
On maori mark might know someone who is impacted or about themselves maui. we begin down here at the harbour today because many volunteers have, to get aid to lahaina with growing criticism about the speed and scale of the response they are receiving from federal authorities. i ve spoken to people who have lost everything and i met a man down here today, a young man called delaney, who held that his hands his hat and he said he lost everything in lahaina, and that was the only thing he could recoverfrom that was the only thing he could recover from the that was the only thing he could recoverfrom the rubble. i wasn t able to guard my truck. iwasn t able to guard my truck. so i wasn t able to guard my truck, so grab anything from my house truck, so grab anything from my house i truck, so grab anything from my house. i was busy running up and house. i was busy running up and down house. i was busy running up and down the block telling everybody it s time to go because i saw
Amount this afternoon working in this community and several others around us. you know, just trying to help these homeowners go through their belongings and try to salvage what they can salvage. it s almost impossible for a homeowner to go through a house like this by themselves and try to salvage it. you look at the damage. and a homeowner yeah, where do you begin? what do you do? so what we are doing is we ve got volunteers. and they come in. and they just volunteer to help them. some of them, we ve been cutting trees off houses, the ones that can be saved, to tarps on the roof so if it rains, the houses don t get wet. but these volunteers are the key, fredericka. we couldn t do it without volunteers. if i could put a plug in for them, if you want to be a part of it, go to samaritanspurse.org and click on volunteers because we need an army of them, especially in the next few weeks to come. it s going to be even more critical two or three weeks from now. yeah, you could use th