via tv. i'm matt piper in new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. i'm major garrett in new york. the death toll from the historic fire that roared through parts of the hawaiian island of maui

has risen again. more than 90 people confirmed killed. the inferno is now the deadliest u.s. wild fire in more than a century. the scale of suffering and trauma only now coming into focus. cbs morning's co-anchor decull poe is in maui tonight and leads our coverag. tony, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. we are just back now from a shelter still filled with 1,000 people, five days after that wild fire chewed through parts of west maui. and many people here tell us they're still trying to comprehend the sheer scale of the devastation and to process the pain. the people in hawaii are some of the toughest around, but even they need help. they certainly do. there's a search here for everyday things like gasoline, phone reception, just a signal, or your next hot meal. power outages are rolling and it means that major appliances are all but useless. residents say it's local volunteers and groups that have stepped up while the government has so far,r, thahat help mostl words, not yet deeds. there's also increasing

frustration, major, about the response to the fire threat, warnings that were never heard or never seen. we do have full coverage tonight of this historic destruction and we'll begin with our jonathan vigliotti who has been on the ground here in hawaii for days. he has the very latest. jon jonathan? >> reporter: tony, at this hour, hundreds of people are still missing. as the days go by with no word, hope is quickly fading that everyone will be found alive. first responders have described absolutely horrific scenes. and a warning to our viewers, what you're about to see and hear is disturbing. local crews working with cadaver dog teams flown in by fema resume their search today in neighborhoods reduced to fields of ash. >> when we pick up the remains and they fall apart, i don't know how much more you want me to describe it. that's what you're stepping on. >> reporter: maui's police chief says crews have covered just 3% of the destruction. >> we've got an area that we have to contain that is at least

five square miles. and it is full of our loved ones. >> reporter: the fire ripped through lahaina tuesday afternoon, a time many tourists and locals would have been walking and shopping on historic front street. >> i saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal. like pompeii almost. just dead. i mean, there's nothing you could do. it was that fast. >> reporter: the first wave of 150 fema agents arrived on the island friday. 90 of them search specialists looking through homes, businesses and cars. this is french street. without a proper evacuation order, people in a desperate attempt to outrun the flames got into their cars and took to the road. but the fire quickly caught up. in how these cars are lined up.- we're talking dozens as far as you can see. there was so much panic as the fire hit. sources close to the search,

several of them tell me the death toll could be in the hundreds. >> if that's what they're telling you, i wouldn't second guess them. >> reporter: fema administrator surveyed the damage. how long do you think it will take to conduct this search effort? >> i think it just depends on the conditions around us and how long the dogs can continue to go in there. we're bringing in more teams and more dogs so we can speed up that process as much as we can. >> reporter: as the search continues, with x marking buildings checked, county officials are now under fire for their response. a 2014 hawaii wild fire protection plan warned dry vegetation could fuel a catastrophic blaze, but action wasn't taken. and survivors say they weren't told to evacuate until it was too late. and many people didn't even realize there was a fire until the flames were on their heels. the state attorney general is now investigating the county's emergency response before, during and affidavit the

disaster hit, tony. >> reporter: you can definitely understand why, jonathan, thank you very much. the word of the day, though, is relief. relief. getting relief to those is one of the hardest challenges right now because everything needs to be flown in or brought in by boat. it is an island, after all. that takes time something that victims don't have right now. our cbs los angeles station reports that the dock here has become the epicenter of the relief efforts. >> it is so deaf stating. >> reporter: relief workers are rushing supplies into lahaina tonight by plane and by boat. >> we get water. we get food. we get toilet paper. >> reporter: people who lost their homes are now living in parks. >> we lost everything. >> reporter: arlan is looking for basic necessities. >> we need formula, diapers, ice, water and just food. >> reporter: officials estimate 86% of lahaina's residences have been damaged or destroyed.

>> i lost my condo, my jeep, my laptop, my cell phone, everything i ever owned for 40 years that i lived in lahaina. >> reporter: but there's no estimate for the emotional trauma left behind. this gentleman relives the terror of the flames in his sleep. >> i have nightmares of just screaming, run, run, run, run. if you don't run, you're going die. >> reporter: for him, there are friends lost and friends found. >> i'm seeing people, now, oh my god, you're alive. >> reporter: in the park, there is food for the hungry. but their biggest need is a place to live and hope for the future. >> i'm a little worried because i have a 4 month old and a 2-year-old. >> reporter: and this dock normally recreation area now a vital part of the supply line. volunteers packing baby food, gasoline, water and other supplies and delivering them by boat and jet ski.

tony? >> reporter: thank you very much. important work there. the destruction from the wild fire spread not just along the coast of lahaina and what's known around here as the up country. we met locals in the region who are already thinking about their future while still also coming to terms with their loss. in the hills of maui, not far from the devastated coast, the fires have chewed through the up country grassland. in the cooler region alone, more than $400 million in damage. nearly 700 acres burned and almost 550 buildings affected. minutes from the airport, we spotted a team of locals looking for still smoldering hot spots and hoping to snuff them out. mark joseph is a carpenter by trade. >> there's probably about 60 or 70 we just put out today. i put out another 100 yesterday. i was here for about six hours. >> everything around it is scorched and burned and gone. >> reporter: just up the road, monica owns this inn. tuesday morning, she told me

winds drove the smoke and flames over a gulch and straight toward her family property. >> we're putting out a fire right here by the cottage. and we were -- we br dousing it with bottles of water or our garden hose. that's all we had. >> reporter: but the moment came when they could no longer hold >> we evacuated when the winds shifted and the flames became three and four stories high. >> reporter: wow. >> and the embers started to rain on us. and we said, it's time to go. >> reporter: there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." ♪

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>> reporter: but on may 1st, 2007, he set a goal. >> i wanted to get better drawing. so i saw an illustrator out of the uk named tom judd, who did a sketch a day in his notebook for one year. i thought that was a cool way to get better at drawing. >> reporter: to get better, wipgleman known professionally as beeple started creating art he posted online daily. where did you find your inspiration? >> sometimes it's art on the internet. and sometimes it's the culture of the internet. and sometimes it's news on the internet. >> reporter: after 365 works, the first year, he moved on to posting 3d renderings, tackling politics, pop culture and power dynamics, creating cartoon-like and in your face images. after the first year, what was the end goal? did you think, okay, i'm just going to keep doing this and for how long? >> even after i would say that first year -- like, there was no time i ever really seriously thought about quitting. >> reporter: after 13.5 years of posting everyday, he coined his

collection everydays, the first 5,000 days. creating an nft, a nonfungible token. >> what is an nft? >> in my case it's art. >> reporter: your digital art is one form of an nft. >> yes. my digital art is just one use case of this technology that i belief will be like web pages. this is an idea of just owning a virtual thing that i think could be applied to a lot of different things. >> reporter: wipgleman grew up in wisconsin. his dad was an electrical engineer and his mom worked at a senior center. >> it was very boring. there was not a lot to do. and there was definitely no art. the first time i got a computer i was in fourth grade. and it was very, very immediately like, this was the thing. >> reporter: at 41 years old, he's now considered one of the most celebrated digital artists of our time. his hobby of trying to get better at art evolved into an

impressive collection of brash and sometimes bizarre images that eventually caught the distinguished eye of christie's auction house. you sold da vinci and now you sold beeple. >> exactly. 500 years of art history, starting with the renaissance down to a couple of years ago. >> reporter: alexander rodder is kristy's global chairman for 20th 21st century art. what kind of impact have nfts had in the world? >> enormous impact. it was a meteoric rise of the nft community and of the nft interest. it culminated really during the covid period. >> reporter: in march of 2021, christie's auctioned off its first purely digital work with the unique nft. what was your goal? >> when we first started talking to kristys, no nft ever sold for $1 million. i had the record at like 750,000. so i was like, oh, this could be the one that sells for a million

dollars. >> reporter: fr a million? >> yeah. >> on the eve of the everyday's auction, one of winkleman's pieces a video called cross roads that originally sold for 60,000 resold for 6.6 million. >> there was a bunch of all of my friends were suddenly making crap tons of money. it was like what the hell is going on. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: this was a moment. >> 100%. >> we're watching the closing of the auction. >> reporter: in the final minutes of the auction, surrounded by family in wisconsin, winkleman was on the edge of his seat staring at a bid for 25 million. >> you know, you could see the number going up. and it blinked from 25 million to 50 million and that's when i jumped off the couch. it was just like what in the is going on? in one second i made $25 million. like, what is going on? >> it probably means digital art is here to stay. sort of crying outside in the backyard there.

it was like -- it was -- i'm going to disney world. >> reporter: in the end, everyday sold for $69.3 million and are now chronicled in new book called "beeple:everyday, the first 5,000 days" the artist has come a long way after starting out working in his home to a new studio space. >> a lot of time i will put in a landscape. what else, what do you think? >> i like this. >> this one, okay. >> reporter: this is his 22,000 square foot exhibition and experiential space he opened in charleston, south carolina, this year. it's a place to bling the community together around education and a love for digital art. it's also a gallery where everydays still takes his breath away in a 12 x 64 display. >> the first time my wife came in, she started bawling because it was just -- there's tons of pictures of her. there's a picture of her right here. and it's like -- >> reporter: how satisfying is it to have it printed out? >> it just is such -- the

picture from our wedding day. it's such a crazy mix of things that happened in our life. >> reporter: though some are skeptical the popularity for nfts keep growing. more than 24 billion was spent on the platform in 2022. a lot of people say digital art is not real art. what do you say to them? >> there are a lot of people who still don't understand this sort of movement. i'm trying to show you something you have not seen before. that is what i think an artist's role is. and then from there, it's up to you to cide. >> repor

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>> reporter: project manager bruce preston juggles millions of pieces to help this hospital in england take shape. >> so we have 2, 300 rooms and spaces that we need to keep track of what's going on in every one of those spaces. >> reporter: tracking progress is usually done by hand. but on this job, a 360 degree camera is capturing every inch of the site, using artificial intelligence to compare the images to the buildin's blueprints. >> green all done. orange whether there's work still to be done. >> reporter: their ai system catches mistakes before they become a costly problem. >> how many times does the industry lose money because it finds out way down the line that, we missed something? >> reporter: construction is estimated to be a $10 trillion industry worldwide, with about $1.6 trillion wasted every year by productivity problems.

they saw an opportunity. >> this tool is about giving them the information to make the right decisions. how can you plan next week without knowing exactly where you are? >> reporter: building on time and on budget is good, especially when you're footing the bill. >> getting it right and having zero defects is really important to us. >> reporter: and with a smarter pair of eyes on this job site, workers say their vision is already coming into focus. ian lee, cbs news, england. that is the "cbs overnight news" for this monday. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center in new york, i'm major garrett. ♪ this is cbs news flash i'm matt piper in new york. new details are emerging about the extent of the damage from the catastrophic hawaiian wild fires. at least 93 people have died, and the town of lahaina saw more than 2700 structures destroyed.

governor josh green is calling it the worst natural disaster in state history and says damages are at $5.6 billion. an investigation is under way in pennsylvania after a weekend house explosion. five people were killed, including a child. it destroyed three homes and damaged at least a dozen others. and the fight between mark zuckerberg and elon musk may only stay on social media. zuckerberg says musk is not serious about the fight and says he's moving on. in response, elon mosted zuck is york. ♪ historic destruction and desperation in maui. >> oh my gosh. look at the harbor. >> the death toll grows. now the deadliest wild fire in modern u.s. history. cbs's tony dokoupil is there leading our coverage. >> reporter: survivors are finally making their way back to

the hard-hit town of lahaina, devastated by these fires. hundreds of homes reduced to metal and ash. >> worrisome sques, what happened to the warning systems? >> i'm jonathan outside lahaina where hundreds of people are still missing as the search continues, fema is now flying in extra cadaver dogs to assist in the effort. hundreds still missing. others filling shelters. is there enough space? i'm in maui, where paradise has now become a makeshift shelter for those who lost everything. plus, harrowing stories of escape. >> let's go! >> and kindness. we'll have the latest. also, weather threat. extreme heat scorches the sun belt and northwest. damaging storms, thunder across the east. >> whoa. >> president trump, did you try to overturn the 2020 election? >> you know the answer to this question. plus, donald trump facing a fourth indictment. a georgia grand jury considering the case. deadly explosion.

a blast destroys homes and lives in pennsylvania. >> i was eating a sandwich and heard a very loud explosion. and later, hawaii strong. out of the horror, help and hope. the faithful gathering today focussed on healing. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening, everyone. i'm major garrett in new york. the death toll from the historic fire that roared through parts of the hawaiian island of maui has risen again. more than 90 people confirmed killed. the inferno is the deadliest in more than a century. the scale of suffering and trauma only now coming into focus. cbs morning's co-anchor tony dokoupil is in must way and leads our coverage tonight. >> reporter: major, good evening to you.

we are just back now from a shelter still filled with 1,000 people five days after that wild fire chewed through parts of west maui and many people here tell us they're still trying to comprehend the sheer scale of the devastation and to process the pain. the people in hawaii are some of the toughest around but even they need help. they certainly do. there's a search for everyday things like gasoline, phone reception, just a signal, or your next hot meal. power outages are rolling and it means that major appliances are all but useless. residents say right now it's local volunteers and groups that have stepped up while the government has so far any way, ththat help momostly wordsds, n deeds. there's also increasing frustration, major, about the response to the fire threat, warnings that were never heard or never seen. we do have full coverage tonight of this historic destruction. we'll begin with our jonathan vigliotti on the ground in hawaii for days. he has the very latest. jonathan? >> reporter: tony, at this hour, hundreds of people are still missing. as the days go by with no word, hope is quickly fading that everyone will be found alive. first responders have described

absolutely horrific scenes. and a warning to our viewers, what you're about to see and hear is disturbing. local crews working with cadaver dog teams flown in by fema resume their search today in neighborhoods reduced to fields of ash. >> when we pick up their remains and they fall apart, i don't know how much more you want me to describe it. that's what you're stepping on. >> reporter: maui's police chief says crews have covered just 3% of the destruction. >> we have an area that we have to contain. that is at least five square miles. and it is full of our loved ones. >> reporter: the fire ripped through lahaina tuesday afternoon, a time many tourists and locals would have been walking and shopping on historic front street. >> i saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal, like pompeii almost, just dead. i mean, there's nothing you can do. it was that fast.

>> reporter: the first wave of 150 fema agents arrived on the island friday. 90 of them search specialists, looking through homes, businesses and cars. this is french street. without a proper evacuation order, people in a desperate attempt to outrun the flames got into their cars and took to the road. but the fire quickly caught up. and you can see the desperation in how these cars are lined up. we're talking dozens as far as you can see. there was so much panic as the fire hit. sources close to the search, several of them tell me the death toll could be in the hundreds. >> if that's what they're telling you, i wouldn't second guess them. >> reporter: fema administrator surveyed the damage. how long do you think it will take to conduct this search effort? >> i think it depends on the condition around us and how long the dogs can go in there. we're bringing in more teams and measure more dogs so we can speed up that process as much as

we can. >> reporter: as the search continues with x marking buildings checked, county officials are under fire for their response. 2014 hawaii wild fire protection plan warned dry vegetation could fuel a catastrophic blaze, but action wasn't taken. and survivors say they weren't told to evacuate until it was too late. and many people didn't realize there was a fire until the flames were on their heels. the state attorney general is now investigating the county's emergency response before, during and after the disaster hit, tony. >> you can definitely understand why. jonathan, thank you very much. the word of the day is relief. relief. getting relief to those is one of the hardest challenges right now because everything needs to be flown in or brought in by boat. it is an island, after all. that takes time, something that victims simply don't have right now. our los angeles station reports that the dock here has become the epicenter of the relief

efforts. >> it is so devastating. >> reporter: relief workers are rushing supplies into lahaina tonight by plane and by boat. >> we get water. we get food. we get toilet paper. >> reporter: people who lost their homes are now living in parks. >> everybody lost everything. >> reporter: where arlan campo is looking for basic necessities. >> we need formula, diapers, ice, water and just food. >> reporter: officials estimate 86% of lahaina's residences have been damaged or destroyed. >> i lost my condo, my jeep, my laptop, my cell phone, everything i ever owned for 40 years that i lived in lahaina. >> reporter: but there's no estimate for the emotional trauma left behind. this gentleman relives the terror of the flames in his sleep. >> i have nightmares of just screaming, run, run, run, run. run. if you don't run, you're going to die. >> reporter: for him, there are friends lost and friends found.

>> i'm seeing people now and just like, oh my god, you're alive. >> reporter: in the park, there is food for the hungry. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: but their biggest need is a place to live and hope for the future. >> i'm a little worried because i have a 4 month old and a 2-year-old. >> reporter: and this dock normally recreation area now a vital part of the supply line. volunteers packing baby food, gasoline, water and other supplies and delivering them by boat and jet ski. tony? >> reporter: thank you very much. important work there. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the destruction from the wild fire spread not just along

the coast of lahaina, but also into what's known around here as the up country. we travelled to a region and met locals there who are already thinking about their future while still also coming to terms with their loss. in the hills of maui, not far from the devastated coast, the fires have chewed through the up country grassland. in this region alone, more than $400 million in damage, nearly 700 acres burned and almost 550 buildings affected. minutes from the airport, we spotted a team of locals looking for still smoldering hot spots and hoping to snuff them out. mark joseph is a carpenter by trade. >> there's probably about 60 or 70 that we just put out today. put out another 100 yesterday. i was here for six hours. >> everything around it is scorched and burned around. >> reporter: just up the road, monica owns an inn. tuesday morning she told me winds drove the smoke and flames over a gulch and straight toward

her family property. >> we're putting out a fire right here by the cottage. and we were -- we were dousing it with bottles of water or garden hose. that's all we had. >> wow. >> reporter: but the moment came when they could no longer hold back the fire. >> we evacuated when the winds shifted and the flames became three and four stories high. and the embers started to rain on us. and we said it's time to go. >> reporter: she had expected to lose everything. >> reporter: how did you feel when you came back to this? >> it was a miracle because we left with it on fire. >> reporter: but the house that she planned to renovate for her family didn't make it. you were going to live here? >> yes. >> reporter: so on the one hand the inn still stands. >> yes. >> reporter: what was it like to see that your future home was no more? >> sad. it was sad. >> reporter: she said she is for

now putting her faith in the future and leaning on an old hawaiian saying. a little joke here moving forward it goes there's no looking back. we wish her the best. another famous resident of hawaii, oprah winfrey has a home here and she is doing her part to help as well. she has been bringing supplies and also emotional support, a big dose of that, to people who have little to nothing left. she was at the shelter we just came from and we talked to her outside that shelter about what survivors are most grateful for. >> they're still just grateful to have each other. so it's really, you know, the aloha spirit is about community and about family. and we have seen this here in ways that, you know, most people never get to imagine what that really looks like. >> reporter: and you can see more of the interview with oprah on "cbs mornings." for now, major, i will repeat a line that's been repeated to me over and over again here, even by people who lost what we would call everything, it's just stuff, they say.

the resilience and the sense of community here is truly inspiring. but for now, i'm going to send it back to you for the rest of tonight's top stories. major? >> tony dokoupil in maui, thank you so much. tonight, tens of millions of americans are threatened by extreme weather, including scorching temperatures and violent storms. let's check in with meteorologist lynette charles from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, major. yes, we have been dealing with some severe thunderstorms across the area. we're going to do it all over again for today. as we can see, it's likely we'll see more showers and thunderstorms. all modes of severe weather on the table back down off towards kansas, springfield and st. louis. we'll start to see this line of showers and thunderstorms continuing to move on off towards the east. the strongest of your thunderstorms will be possible as we head towards your d.c. time tomorrow. in the evening, the afternoon and we're still tracking the heat indexes up to the 110s and even higher than that. and this is all courtesy of all this moisture from the gulf of mexico. and this will extend off to the pacific northwest as well.

it's going to be dangerously hot. back to you. >> lynette charles at the weather channel, thank you. to georgia now where former president donald trump could face his fourth indictment. this time for his alleged role in election interference in that state in 2020. cbs's nicole kylian is in atlanta tonight with the latest. nicole, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, major. fulton county district attorney fani willis is expected to begin presenting evidence to a grand jury as soon as monday. and with such a sprawling case, some legal experts predict it's possible multiple people could be charged. >> reporter: tonight, an increased security presence outside the fulton county courthouse ahead of a potential charging decision this week by district attorney fani willis. >> we're ready. >> obviously we're concentrating on georgia and things that impacted georgia. >> reporter: at the center of willis' 2.5 year investigation,

this phone call by then president donald trump to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, in the days before january 6th, seeking to potentially overturn the 2020 election. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes. >> reporter: on his truth social platform sunday, trump called it a perfect phone call. >> did you attempt to overturn the 2020 election? >> you know the answer to that. >> reporter: and at a stop this weekend at the iowa state fair, where the former president tried to show up florida governor ron desantis, he was peppered with questions about a possible fourth indictment. >> we did nothing wrong. >> yes, sir. >> we don't take -- it's a wise guy question. >> reporter: cbs news learned several witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, including former gop lieutenant governor jeff duncan, and independent journalist geroge chidi, who both said they will testify tuesday. >> have you been asked to testify before the grand jury this week? >> if i am called, when i am

called, i'll go and do what i did before. i will tell the truth. >> reporter: gabe sterling is a top deputy with the secretary of state. >> we have been saying this over and over again. we counted the ballots three times. he lost this state. continued to say he didn't lose it. it's just creating a lot of tension and a lot of chaos. >> reporter: security is expected to remain tight this week. the sheriff says his office has received dozens of threats against the district attorney and other officials here in fulton county. major? >> nicole kylian, thank you. there's a lot more news there's a lot more news ahead and we're done. hmhm, what abobout these?? ♪ looks s right. [sfx: spspilling souound] nonooo... nonooo... nonooo... quick, the ququicker pickcker upper! bounty absbsorbs spilllls lilike a spongnge. and boununty is 2x more absbsorbent so y you can usese less and get ththe job donene with .

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>> we have a full completely gone. copious amounts of debris and damage to the surrounding area. we're trying to evacuate. >> reporter: flames immediately engulfed two other homes, burning them to the ground. the explosion sending debris flying, damaging many homes in the neighborhood. shattering windows and destroying cars. george emmanuel lives on the street. >> it was scary. it was very scary. it was like hell on earth over there. >> reporter: the blast heard more than a mile away by families at a baseball game. >> what the hell was that? >> this fire will be defensive fire. i need everyone out of the structure. >> reporter: firefighters from at least 18 departments worked to douse the flames and rescue others buried in rubble. an official says representatives from several gas companies were also called to the scene. >> at this point, we can share that our system was operating as designed. >> reporter: among the five dead, a child. their ages and identities yet to be released.

another person was critically hurt. there have been at least two previous house explosions in plum in the past 15 year. the most recent was april of last year. in 2008, a house explosion destroyed three homes and damaged 11 others. the cause of this latest explosion remains under investigation. astrid martinez, cbs news. today in ukraine, russian shelling killed at least seven people including a 3 week old baby girl. ukrainian officials in the southern kherson region say the baby's parents and 12-year-old brother also died. kremlin forces have intensified shelling in the region since ukraine reclaimed parts of that area last fall. straight ahead, brazen burglars caught on camera, striking a california department store.

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let's go back to maui now and cbs's tony dokoupil. tony? >> reporter: major, thank you. finally tonight, we're telling you about another american community more unimaginable loss. those that are calling this place home that are showing us once again courage and heart and above all hope.

raging flames turned lahaina, crown jewel of maui, into smoldering ash but also ignited an outpouring of compassion. out of horror, something beautiful. neighbors helping neighbors, offering everything they can -- food, water, clothing or just a hug, all to the hungry and the homeless. donations keep pouring in by land and by air. piling up for distribution to those who need a helping hand. >> i just am very grateful. i know we all are. i know the people who are receiving the services are. and we hear it from them time and time again. >> reporter: there's a sense of family and pride in lahaina. visible for all to see. and today the maria catholic church, which has kept watch over the community for nearly a century, still standing amid all this destruction and loss, a symbol of survival. and all across the island, major, we are seeing hawaiians

banding together in the face of these wild fires. relief and recovery will be a long process and a grueling process. but tonight, even in the face of that adversity and all this devastation, what is clear is that the wave of hawaiian pride and the sense of community is very strong. we have been told repeatedly aloha will rebuild this world. major? >> tony dokoupil in maui, thank you so much. and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, please check back later for "cbs mornings" and of course follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. that's where you'll find my podcast "the take out." reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm major garrett. this is cbs news flash. i'm matt piper in new york. new details are emerging about the extent of the damage from the catastrophic hawaiian wild fires. at least 93 people have died and the town of lahaina saw more than 2700 structures destroyed.

governor josh green is calling the worst natural disaster in state history and says damages are at $5.6 billion. an investigation is under way in pennsylvania after a weekend house explosion. five people were killed, including a child. it destroyed three homes and damaged at least a dozen others. and the fight between mark zuckerberg and elon musk may only stay on social media. zuckerberg says musk is not serious about the fight and says he's moving on in. in response, elon posted zuck is a chicken. for more download the cbs news on your cell phone or connect via tv. i'm matt piper in new york. it's monday, august 14th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." historic blaze. the death toll from the wildfires in hawaii continues to rise as survivors look to rebuild the scorched ruins. we'll get the latest from maui.