the site is once again closed with john bartlett as a journalist basis. i'm going to chile and has more. john, welcome to the day. what are authority saying about the state of the statues? yes. incredibly, something to, to wake up to this morning to 1st been burning for more than a week now in the, in a particular corner of the island on. but authorities are saying that they're not quite sure what the cause of the fire was quite yet. but the damaged the, the stuff, the statues is something that's irreparable, which is going to be very difficult to see how, how any of the damage can actually be recovered and, and whether these mo, i will be, will be okay to, to sit on the island as they have done for lost a 1000 years that can the statues be accessed right now to assess the damage properly? i believe so. yeah, i know on the island doesn't been this week or this year actually. i mean it's, it's a revenue he puts, it seems that i'll kill a, just a slow you guys go to make that way to the area. the fire is still burning in places, but in a much, much lesser de

the site is once again closed with john bartlett as a journalist basis. i'm going to chile and has more. john, welcome to the day. what are authority saying about the state of the statues? yes, incredibly, something to wake up to this morning to 1st been burning for more than the week now in a particular corner of the island on. but authorities are saying that the not quite sure what the cause of the fire was quite yet, but the damaged the, the stuff, the statues is something that's irreparable, which is going to be very difficult to see how, how any of the damage can actually be recovered. and whether these mo, i will be, will be okay to, to sit on the island as they have done to last a 1000 years. and can the statues be accessed right now to assess the damage properly? i believe so. yeah, i know on the island, i haven't been there this week. i was here actually, i'm been over to rappin to reboot. so it seems that i'll kill a just a slow you guys go to make that way to the area. the fire code is still burning in places, but in a much, much lesser degree t