High pressure systems to the north. What it is doing is putting the squeeze on the Hawaiian Islands and allowing those winds out of the east to gust. We just checked, over 40 Miles Per Hour in some of those locations. That is going to complicate fire efforts. Look at the aerial video that you are seeing on your screens right now. This is imperative. The fire that impacted the west side of maui, the location, the economic hub of hawaii where all the resorts and businesses are generally located, where people go as tourists to visit, well, the fire ran out of room to burn. It literally moving into the ocean as it had nothing else to char. It was incredibly harrowing. Adjectives use like dyer and apocalyptic. You can see exactly why with some of these first aerial visuals that we are getting. Now, everyone in hawaii knows how to handle a hurricane. Everyone knows how to handle volcano as well. As difficult as it can be. This caught people off guard. As a meteorologist, we were watching Hur
The 2020 president ial election in georgia. Duncan is now a cnn political commentator. Here is durncan and what he tol me earlier today about the subpoena and his plans to testify. I did just receive notification to appear on Tuesday Morning at the Fulton County grand jury, and i certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. I have no expectations, but ill certainly answer questions put in front of me and certainly dont want to go any deeper than that to compromise the investigation. For me, this is a story thats important for republicans to hear, americans to hear. Lets hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Donald Trumps actions and the surrounding cast of characters around him. We watched a series of events happen that were tragic and untruthful, and hes got a chance to present these facts and say, hey, i didnt know what was going on, or i think what reality is going to be is they knew exactly what they were doing. I think the interesting part to this
Approved, what its going to take a long time as the mayor and the governor alluded to, so much destruction, its going to take time to rebuild. Thank you. fit take time to rebuild. Thank ou. , take time to rebuild. Thank ou. ~ ,. , take time to rebuild. Thank ou. ,. , ~ you. At this time, would like to brina you. At this time, would like to bring up you. At this time, would like to bring up robert you. At this time, would like to bring up robert fenton, l to bring up robert fenton, region to bring up robert fenton, region nine fema administrator. We appreciate it. First, our condolences and prayer for those of lost friends and loved ones during this event. We want to be with you, not only now that through the recovery in the years to come. Also, a message of safety, continue to heed the warnings of local officials. Dont wait, listen to them, heed to their warnings. As all the speakers before me talked about, its unity of effort. Ijust like before me talked about, its unity of effort.
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A desperate search for survivors and bodies still underway. Several large fires across the island remain active and out of control. Several brush fires affecting the big island of hawaii. The governor declaring a State Of Emergency discouraging all nonessential travel to the Island Of Maui. All airports are open to get people out. A long road ahead to recovery. Dana jordan escaped the flames. His home burned to the ground but he and his family are grateful to be alive. Im sorry for what youve been through. What was it like and what did you go through . A lot. Definitely once in a lifetime thing you dont want to go through. Briefly an overview of my 45 minutes time frame, we saw smoke just above the hillside of our home and then kind of thought to ourselves hey, with the winds, maybe our family should start to prepare. Gather our things. Get what we need and maybe head out. Before we knew it, the flames were already at the doorstep of our a couple houses down from where we live and at o