have been released by officials, one week after at least 111 people died. more than 1,000 people are estimated to still to be missing. it will be a long wait until the full scale of the destruction is understood, however the maui emergency management agency has estimated it will cost $5.52 billion to rebuild. the local chamber of commerce s foundation has established a business relief fund to help local businesses who have been impacted by the wildfires. joining me now is sherry menor mcnamara, president and ceo, chamber of commerce. thank you very much for being with us today. i thank you very much for being with us today. with us today. i know it is early days with us today. i know it is early days and with us today. i know it is early days and we - with us today. i know it is early days and we are - with us today. i know it is - early days and we are focused on the recovery, how much are people thinking about rebuilding at this stage? right
different way, what are your thoughts on that? right now the number one thoughts on that? right now the number one industry thoughts on that? right now the number one industry in - thoughts on that? right now the number one industry in hawaii . number one industry in hawaii is the visiting industry, maui, 80% of the industry relies on the visitor industry, it will be difficult to pivot 100%. with that said pre pandemic there has been discussion that we had too many, 10 million visitors and it kept building, there was discussion, but what we did do is pervert to more of a campaign encouraging visitors to campaign but who will be respectful of the environment and the people to learn from our communities and culture and to take care and that s what we want to build an industry, a visitor industry that will attract visitors that will understand the culture of hawaii. . ~ ,, , understand the culture of hawaii. ., ~ , . hawaii. thank you very much, president hawaii. thank you very mu
the first names of people killed on the hawaiian island have been released by officials, one week after at least 111 people died. more than 1,000 people are estimated to still to be missing. it will be a long wait until the full scale of the destruction is understood, however the maui emergency management agency has estimated it will cost $5.52 billion to rebuild. the local chamber of commerce s foundation has established a business relief fund to help local businesses who have been impacted by the wildfires. joining me now is sherry menor mcnamara, president and ceo, chamber of commerce. thank you very much for being with us today. i thank you very much for being with us today. with us today. i know it is early days with us today. i know it is early days and with us today. i know it is early days and we - with us today. i know it is early days and we are i with us today. i know it is i early days and we are focused on the recovery, how much are people thinking about rebuilding at
crosstalk. go ahead. how easy or difficult will it be to or difficult will it be to stamp out corruption in the way that, bernardo arevalo has promised? that, bernardo arevalo has romised? . , , ., , promised? that s precisely the challenae promised? that s precisely the challenge that promised? that s precisely the challenge that has promised? that s precisely the challenge that has loomed - promised? that s precisely the| challenge that has loomed over gottemoeller now for decades. it will have a difficult time for one, the ruling class, if you will, and not any one party but a number of parties in which the competitor or loser represented to disqualify the party with various means and the supreme court came out, it is not a final decision and we may see that reversed so they could not disqualify the party but i don t think the fight is over with yet because he promised to take this to the core of the government, the fight against corruption but by the same token his party on