This community went through. Tonight, we are inside the fire zone in maui. For the first time, we see the images captured by two captains who answered the call for help from the water. The coast guard telling them people, families, and children were in desperate need. Tonight, they take us back by water to where they helped those fighting to survive, including a young brother and sister. Their entire bodies covered in soot. And tonight, abc news with a minutebyminute look at how this deadly disaster unfolded. Our indepth timeline. Hourbyhour, putting the pieces of this tragedy together. So much time went by, as the fires grew. Why werent there more alerts . Why were the sirens not sounded . Tonight, authorities defending their reason not to use them. The two Boat Captains describing the moment the coast guard sent them in, telling them, we need help. They could feel the heat, the smoke, and the wind as they pulled into the harbor. Tonight, investigators and what theyre now learning abo
Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. Tornadoes slamming the northeast. And the major hurricane now bearing down on the u. S. , historic in size. First, the images coming in tonight, that rare tornado on the ground near providence, rhode island. The twister crossing Interstate 295. A driver telling authorities her car was lifted into the air. Two tornados in massachusetts. Homes damaged, trees down. Trevor ault standing by with late reporting. Also tonight, bracing for that rare monster hurricane in the west. The first ever Tropical Storm watch now issued for southern california. The storm, hilary, a powerful category4 hurricane as we come on tonight. Winds up to 130 miles per hour. Millions now bracing for heavy rain and flash flooding. Major American Cities in the bullseye from san diego to las vegas. Meteorologist lee goldberg timing this out. We are just back from maui tonight, and 24 hours after answering tough questions on why maui did not sound those sirens
killed him in response. he shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly 14 students and killed a teacher. mr. ro mas, the shooter, he himself is deceased. and is believed that responding officers killed him. abbott says the suspect allegedly shot and killed his grandmother before going on this school shooting rampage. we re going to show you live pictures of the area. at this moment, the police chief says family members are still being notified, the horrific process that s played out in school shootings before. this particular mass murder come after the buffalo rampage which was previously the deadliest shooting of this year. americans mourning once again. we can also tell you that president biden will address the nation tonight as the country continues reeling. we will bring you the facts as well as perspective in this hour of coverage. we begin with former assistant fbi director who has been covering this for us and jim cavanaugh, retired special agent in charge. and
they re telling us that they re starting slowly to unload these places. there are five sets of those. so it s very slow and we re pretty far back in the line. it s going to be at least two hours. he also says he doesn t know what s going to happen to us once we re deplaned, where we ll go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. he said it will take a number of days before things get back to normal. we re in it for the long haul. we ve totally run out of water. they ve asked us kindly not to flush the toilets. otherwise everyone seems to be in a relative calm. they gave us beverages about an hour ago and we re just waiting. wow. it doesn t sound good. how long have you been stuck there? we landed at 2:15.
so about five hours. wow. and the pilot is telling you it could be two hours more before you can get off. did you hear what led to this? reporter: it s unclear to us. it s a construction issue. as far as we know there s no power at the airport. lucky for u
16th birthday. happy birthday to you david: back on the boat with those captains, it was very clear to us the strength of this community. a lot of people here did a lot of heroic work, huh? the community s done amazing on the response side. there was other boats out here that night. we re not the only one. that was one of the most amazing things out of this, to watch how fast the community came together and rose up. it was instant and it was everybody. david: i think the whole country is thinking of the people of lahaina and maui. we have to do something to honor all these families here. i hope so. so we choose those captains and the people of maui and their strength. good night. larry: a san francisco