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and have warned the death toll may rise. and in the past hour, james tokioka director of the department of business, economic development and tourism in hawaii, gave this update. it s a very, very sad day in hawaii. it is devastating. and i know many families in maui are struggling right now as well as many family members across the state. we want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. i am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the convention centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. as the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0 ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. we have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. i want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the convention centre was here at four o clock in the morning setting up. they are doing an incrediblejob. people have been up all night. i really want to thank them f ....
in hawaii, hasjust given this update. it s a very, very sad day in hawaii. it is devastating. and i know many families on maui are struggling right now as well as many family members across the state. we want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. i am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the convention centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. as the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0 ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. we have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. i want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the convention centre was here at four o clock in the morning setting up. they are doing an incrediblejob. people have been up all night. i really want to thank them for all of the work that they did, the red cross has been here helping us, nicky from the red cross. thank you to all of those people. john mo ....
welcome to the lead, aim jake tapper. and we start with breaking news, violent and explosive wildfires in hawaii. fueled by strong winds from a hurricane, 800 miles away. it is a situation so sudden and so catastrophic on maui, local officials say a dozen people ran into the ocean to try to escape the flames. and they went out so far they then had to be rescued. hawaii s governor said hundreds of families have been displaced and some loss of life is expected, unquote. cell towers and 911 are out of service on the the hard-hit west side compounding the difficulty for many. we re expecting a press conference and we ll bring you that when it starts but derek van damme looked at where this erratic disaster may be headed next. reporter: hellish scenes of wildfires engulfing normally picturesque maui. powerful winds, associated with hurricane dora helping fuel the flames. fact that we have wildfire in multiple areas as a result of indirectly from a hurricane is unpreced ....
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