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Maker of oxycontin. What happens in vegas, hacking, the white house telling thousands of hackers to try to do their worst against chatgpt. Cnn this morning starts right now. The tragedy in hawaii is getting worse by the hour. Overnight, the increase in the death toll up to now 55, and most people we speak with expect its going to go even higher. And very concerned about a lack of warning that were hearing from some of the residents there. Hawaiis governor says that number of dead likely to increase significantly as Search And Rescue teams go through Hundreds Od Washington Are Headed To Hawaii now. They will be searching for survivors. They are also bringing cadaver dogs. Were getting intel now that the Rescue Effort is severe. And we want to match that need with what we have. Our personnel here are highly trained. They train over the course of several years for this very moment to serve. And as poppy mentioned, there are serious questions about if and when people were warned to evacuat
Didn t get evacuation orders or the orders came too late. a brush fire spotted early on tuesday at 8:30 a.m. local time, the county facebook page put out this message ordering evacuations around lahaina intermediate school. you see the school marked on the map here, which ended up not being the area most impacted. 90 minutes later, the county says the fire is 100% contained. another evacuation message doesn t go out for 5 1/2 hours. cole millington lost his home and business in the fires. he joins us now. cole, i am so sorry for all you have lost. what happened as you tried to escape? i can run you through the whole situation of the afternoon and kind of what happened for the next couple of hours and days. i would say at about 4:00 in the afternoon, i looked out my bedroom window and i saw a huge plume of black smoke.
A brush fire was spotted early on tuesday and at 8:38 a.m., the county facebook page put out this message, ordering evacuations around lahaina intermediate school. you see the school marked on the map here, which ended up not being in the area most impacted. about 90 minutes later, the county says the fire is 100% contained. another evacuation message doesn t go out for five hours. we re talking 3:33, when the next one s out. our own bill weir got a firsthand look at the destruction. he walked through the burned streets of lahaina. this is the historic banyan tree, it looks like it may have been survived. it needs water desperately to survive iright now but for the locals coming down and looking at the damage, this is such a sign of hope that maybe their iconic tree will have lived when so much else is gone here.