Good morning. We are 13 miles away from the town of lahaina. Next to a road block. Seeing heart breaking scenes of folks come out. Pleading with officers, wanting to be let in because they lost their friends and Family Members residents arent going to be let in for some time now. This is still an active Search And Rescue scene. They are still trying to get people out, busing people out of the Evacuation Zone this as the death toll unfortunately continues to climb. 55 people at least confirmed dead at this time. Several fires burning on the island of maui since tuesday. None of them yet fully contained by officials here. Yet unknown how they started. Most destructive on mauis west side ripped through the community of lahaina driven by fierce winds High Pressure to the north and Hurricane Dora as it passed hundreds of miles to the south. According to hawaiis governor the fire destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in lahaina and destroyed the towns ban i dont know tree the peaceful Island P
a lot of people here don t know the fate of their friends and loved once. bark to you. that s exactly right. that s why there are still 1,000 people missing. max, thank you very much. sad. not only to lose everything. thank you. ainsley: thank you, max. they don t know if their animals are okay. steve: i know it. so he was just talking about how the cell phones were down you interviewed somebody a little while ago who said there were no alerts, no sirens before it. ainsley: she said they practiced with the tsunami alert once a month and they did not do that. steve: i know. kurt the cyberguy is joining us right now. and, kurt, because the cell towers were down. we have got a story this morning about a family of five that were in a white van in lahaina surrounded by flames. they couldn t get a cell phone call out but they had one of the new apple phones that actually has satellite technology and they were able to call for help, and people came and rescued t