The Deadly Wildfires devastating maui has now killed at least 36 people. Their bodies discovered in the ruins of the raging inferno. Officials held a News Conference just a short time ago. Primary focus is to save lives. Prevent Human Suffering and mitigate property loss. That is what the counties were and are doing. What we do anticipate is additional requests and were already providing support for trying to get the communications back up, water distribution. Were hearing they may need more Law Enforcement official for federal and state Law Enforcement. So were working through that. The damage to the infrastructure, it is not just buildings, i mean these were Small Businesses that invested in maui. These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. School was destroyed. Many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. It will take years. Devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000
They will steady decrease as we go forward in time. we have drought across portions of hawaii, maui is seeing the most extreme drought which is actually just moderate grout, but enough to dry out the grasses and create fuels for fire especially when you haves winds that we saw. so lahaina, 20 to 25-mile-per-hour winds, this is basically right now. and then we ll see the winds drop steadily throughout the afternoon. and then by the time we get into tomorrow, the winds will die down even more. it is hawaii. you are not going to have zero winds. but you will have about 10 to 15-mile-per-hour winds which is definitely normal across the island chain. so we ll continue to see breezy conditions. however those should improve, but again the damage has already been done. you ve seen that from the pictures. officials there saying that it will be a long road to recovery. jennifer gray, thank you. turning to a brutal political assassination.