More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
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You? well, two things. one is to pray of course pray for the people of maui. pray for the responders who were trying to help like our church and many others that are wanting to do something to help. secondly, you can contribute. one of the proms when a tragedy like this happens is you have a lot of scammers that set up go fun things and all of that. you don t know if you re giving to the right organization. we have been you re a long, long time. i ve been pastoring a church for 43 years is grown from a church of 100 to thousands and thousands. it is a place to invest. what i would recommend is people look up kings cathedral.com. there is a banner and they can click that says it maui relief. whatever they want to give. aishah: we will direct them to that, pastor thank you so much for joining us. we know you are holding up this community as best as you can but we appreciate it.
Help as man people as we can. so we do have a fund called the maui relief fund, they can help by getting ahold of kings cathedral.com and clicking it. one of the problems you are aware of, when you have a tragedy like this a lot of people try to use it to take advantage of getting money for projects we have no idea about. so i m thankful that we have a lot of people that are starting to help and, so, we will cross the bridge of resources when it comes, so. . trace: yeah, pastor, very quickly, lastly, you know, i ve covered a lot of these types of things. i always worry about the kids. kids take this very hard, psychologically, physically. is there help to be had there as far as resources go? well, i know that everybody in this county is trying to help. schools are trying to help. our government offices are trying to help. everybody s trying to do that. i know as far as the church, we