. >> norah: the threat continues on maui as fires still burn in kula. ♪ ♪ >> a georgia grand jury handseeping indictment yet against former president donald trump. >> on charges he and 18 others engaged in criminal conspiracy, trying to undermine the results of the 2020 election in georgia. ♪ ♪ >> a small-town kansas newspaper is in the national, even international spotlight, it was raided on friday for a story that never published. ♪ ♪ >> norah: investigators identify a possible cause in a deadly home explosion in a pittsburgh suburb. ♪ ♪ >> it's a little noah's ark. >> norah: as maui residents look towards recovery, the volunteers looking out for the fire's littlest victims. >> humans need the pets just as much as the pets need the humans. ♪ ♪ >> norah: good evening, and we are live again tonight from maui, reporting from america's 50th state, hawaii, because it is grappling with the worst natural disaster in its history. today marks one week since the wildfires tore through lahaina, but the search and recovery for victims is just in the beginning stages. the death toll stands at near

we're actually in a place known as the upcountry in a town called kula. we witnessed crews dousing hot spots just up here, not far from where we are. and they believe that that started this wildfire in this area that took out 19 homes, including the home behind me. it is a reminder tonight that the danger still exists. you can even hear some of the helicopters in the region. cbs's lilia luciano reports on a community that's relying on each other in the face of devastating loss. >> reporter: in maui's upcountry town of kula, this is the land where sweetheart mori's home stood just last week. >> we fortunately got out alive before the fire came. >> were you able to salvage anything from your home? >> nothing. nothing. we came -- we came back the next day, and everything was still on fire. >> reporter: her family's survival is the only solace. >> everybody's struggling here as it is, living day by day. but they still give, you know. they still want to help. >> reporter: kula residents jack swank, eric mcvay, and their roommates built a brigade of hoses with

whit and gio are there on the ground in kula, hawaii. the recovery efforts continue. >> will: you both have a personal connection to hawaii. whit, you have family on the island. gio, you're there because you were on vacation already earlier this week and you've seen now a different version of that magical place. what's it been like? >> whit: it's really been a transformation. gio and i have been talking about this, this island going from an island paradise to this place of despair and tragedy and for me personally, my wife was born and raised in hawaii. i grew up coming to hawaii. i had family friends here for a long time. as a kid, i would run around lahaina and play around the banyan tree. when i was 16 years old and i got my driver's license, this family friend of ours let us borrow their convertible so i could drive around town and i have these rich, beautiful memories of the islands here and it's just been so tragic and sad to see what's happened. >> gio: it really has. tommy and i, we love this island. we love hawaii in general. al

just 25 miles east in kula, crews are still battling smaller wildfires that have destroyed at least 19 homes. lilia luciano reports on the heartbroken community. >> reporter: in kula, this is the land where a home stood just last week. >> we fortunately got out alive. you know, in the -- before the fire came. >> reporter: were you able to salvage anything? >> nothing. nothing. we came -- we came back the next day, and everything was still on fire. >> reporter: her family's survival is the only solace. >> everybody's struggling here as it is, living day by day. but they still give, you know, they still want to help. >> reporter: kula residents jack swink and aaron mcveigh and their roommates built a brigade of hoses with neighbors to save their block. >> we're still on edge. we're -- we do not feel like at all.ut of the woods yet, not- >> reporter: she says many have wanted to buy off her property, but even if they need to pitch a tent it's not for sale. it's for the next generations. amaya is her granddaughter. >> it's been heartbreaking, coming up and seeing my grandma's house gone. >

but they still give, they still want to help. >> reporter: kula residence jack swink, aaron mcveigh, a brigade of hoses and neighbors to save their block. >> we are still on edge. we do not feel like we are out of the woods. not at all. >> reporter: mori says many have wanted to buy off our property, but she says even if they need to pitch a tent, it is not for sale. it is for the next generations. amaya is mori's granddaughter. >> it has been really heartbreaking. coming up and seeing my grandma's house gone. >> reporter: you are planning to rebuild? >> rebuild. >> reporter: you are staying >> president biden: >> we will stay. this is my land. this is my land. we are from here. this is my country. so i cannot go anywhere, you know, i think about moving to the usa. because it is so expensive over here. but where i going? i don't belong there. >> reporter: mori told us, like those neighbors, her husband also tried to avoid evacuations and try and protect their home, but thanks to that granddaughter, she finally convinced him to leave, and now, of course, the house is destroyed, but th

in the kula region, 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 60 or 70 that we put out today. put out another 100 yesterday. here around six hours. >> everything around is it scorched and burned and go. >> reporter: up the road monica loui owns the kula sandalwoods inn. tuesday morning she told me winds drove the flames straight toward her family property. >> we're putting out a fire by the cottage. we were dousing it with bottles of water or garden hose because that's all we had. >> reporter: 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, the embers started to rain on us, and we said it's time to go. >> reporter: she had expected to lose everything. how did you feel when you came back to this? >> it was a

. >>> in the upcountry, crews are still putting out hot spots in kula. cnn's bill weir takes us there. >> reporter: aloha from the kula neighborhood. this is the ongoing upcountry fire several miles from lahaina, but several hundred homes were burned up here last week and there are active hot spots, still over a week after the initial blaze broke out. you can see the chopper in the distance is from the maui fire department. he's got a bucket dangling below, and with precision, dipping it into swimming pools and dropping it on smoldering hot spots in these canyons. there was worry that if the winds cranked up again it could start a whole new firestorm up here. here he is coming right now. this is really the only official presence we've seen, even this long after the initial fire. while we have heard reports they were going to double the number of national guardsmen and maybe the coast guard to work on the fires, we haven't seen any evidence of that yet. we are seeing, actually, a couple of folks with fema vests talking to homeowners about how to get them

we're in the kula neighborhood already ravaged by fire. and you can see the water-dropping helicopters working around the clock to still put out hotspots. for many who've fled the disaster zones, still an agonizing search for housing and supplies. did you guys get any alerts that a fire was coming towards your neighborhood? >> we didn't have any alerts about the fire. we just knew about the storm. >> whit: kevin campbell and his fiance tasha anderson, who is nine months pregnant, had no time to pack any belongings, as the smoke and flames roared towards their lahaina home. >> we grabbed our dog and the cat and our passports and friends. >> whit: the couple is now desperately searching for a steady place to live. tasha's doctor telling her their baby boy is due any day. >> doctor said yesterday he feels like he could come any time this week, just because of the stress. >> whit: this is a photo of their destroyed home. only a melted roof laying flat on the ground. historic lahaina town now a hellscape. our will carr getting an up-close look.

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whit and gio are on the ground in kula, hawaii, with the very latest. good morning, guys. >> gio: hey, good morning, will and janai. such a heart breaker here. i have been here since, as you know, before these fires broke out, and it's been so surreal to watch the transformation on the island as the people now turn to dealing with this tragedy. fire officials do believe it will take a few more days to completely contain the fires. they are working to extinguish flare-ups on the island, and there was a new evacuation for residents in kaanapali when a fire broke out on the hillside. thankfully that fire is now contained. >> whit: so, we are seeing some progress. that is encouraging news. in the meantime, on other parts of the island, residents were being allowed back into their charred neighborhoods to see the extent of the devastation for the very first time, but this morning, there are growing questions about what happened before the fires and whether there was enough warning for people to get out. this morning, the devastating wildfires across hawaii,

that will help kulas down for the weekend.y the time we get to friday and saturday, it is going away and it won't be there to help us anymore which is why there is a warm-up that shows up as we get into early next week. taking a look at san francisco and oakland, we know the temperatures aren't going to change a lot. when we look at the north bay and the south bay valleys, you can see the temperatures coming down for the weekend, then into the mid-90s by next week. this is the warm-up for the east bay, that brings us back up to the verge of 100 on wednesday and the beaches won't change. >>> heading back to school can be a challenging transition. coming up, how these pups are helping some east bay students thrive in the classroom. tonight, watch for our special presentation, still marching, celebrating 60 years since the march on washington, that is tonight at 7:00 on cbs news bay area. >>> there something new coming to prime time. a new way to start your night. a new way to make sense of your day. a new way to experience the n

i'm in the community of kula, a distance away from lahaina but the place burned in the same weather withdfires fueled by the offshore hurricane and there were homes and businesses hit in that same event and we've spoken to some of the emergency relief volunteers working here who say they have come, some of them, directly from ukraine with a similar skill set, of course, much of this looks, of course, like a war zone and it will be this recovery work the presidentened a first lady can see for themselves as well as the onerous and challenging work of recovering the bodies in lahaina where it's expected to continue into next week and beyond. >> we're also hearing a key road into west maui that would lead into lahaina would be opened. what would that mean for the residents there? >> much of lahaina has been completely out of bounds to the public and media since the disaster for very good reason. the work of recovering the bodies is ongoing. there's been some frustration that people want to get back to their homes and see the damage for themselves. there will be some relief that that access i

it has burned more than 2000 acres as a fire burning upcountry in the community of kula is also 90% contained. and nearby, a fire burning in linda is now 85% contained. florida is bracing for some intense weather coming. its way as tropical storm idalia is set to sweep along the coast in just a few days. record warm temperatures could make this a potentially very dangerous weather system as idalia is brewing in the gulf of mexico. experts predict the storm will hit the sunshine state this wednesday. governor ron desantis has already declared a state of emergency for almost half of florida's counties. anybody on this gulf coast certainly from tampa, all the way up to places like bay county, you should absolutely be very vigilant right now. you should be following what what the track of the storm and you should just be making your preparations as there was a sales tax holiday this weekend to help floridians stock up on essential storm prep supplies such as flashlights and generator toys, even paper towels and pet food were tax exempt to support locals in their storm preparations. you can buy th

but, yes, my home burned down in kula, which was one of a couple of wildfires that broke out on augustf: the day of the fires, how were you able to evacuate? marina: a separate fire from the one that took my house actually broke out a few miles away from me earlier that morning, so we were already on edge, because this sort of a thing has not happened, at least in my lifetime growing up here. i don't remember anything like this ever happening. so we were already on edge. we were preparing our go bag. we have three cats. we decided to catch them and put them into carriers. and, sure enough, around -- we think around noon that day, a fire broke out about two properties over from us. and in the hours that followed, the smoke was so bad. and then we saw flames. so that's when we just we made to get -- we made the call to get out before an evacuation -- an evacuation order had been issued. geoff: and, as i understand it, you were denied fema assistance at first, which is remarkable, really, given that you're someone who knows how to navigate the system. tell me more about that and what folk

and authorities are warning people in lahaina and kula to not drink the water. they say don't bother to boil it because flames swept through and left behind so many toxins. >> just some harrowing stories of survival there, jeff. probably the most distinguished was the woman who had to jump into the water to avoid the flames. >> reporter: liz, if you're familiar with lahaina, it's basically a harbor town. so she was near the famous and historic library when the flames started racing towards her. she decided the only way to survive was to jump in the water and that's what she did to survive because at one point she said she ducked underneath the pier there, the dock i should say, because she saw debris falling. >> wow. >> reporter: so she was using the pier to kind of shield her and then at this point she kind of had to navigate in the water because there were boats exploding and burning and drifting by her. so she swam from boat to boat at the head of the boat until she swam about 45 minutes to the other end of the harbor and got onto the pier and then she said t

. >> and that is outside of lahaina in the town of kula, where people had to run for their lives. >> i still don't know where my little brother is or where my step dad is. and everyone i know in lahaina, their homes have been burned down. >> and now lahaina is a tourist town with a population of 12,000 locals. here is a look at traffic as people evacuated. of course, as the news reporters are going in the other direction and the devastation they're experiencing. it is also taking a toll. >> i, like so many other people on maui, have been trying to get a hold of loved ones out on the west side and a lot of people, excuse me, they are not answering, and a lot of people are doing that as well, are they okay? and so we don't know. >> we do know many of the burned patients are being air lifted to oahu, sheltering about 2,000 tourists whose flights were canceled. ryan? >> and just frightening images. >> it is such a beautiful community and so heartbreaking to watch the devastation. all right, thank you so much. >>> a number of bay area tourists were in maui when that broke out as they spok

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i'm in the community of kula, we are some distance away from the devastated town of lahaina, but nonetheless and businesses the power of the weather event that the fire crews were tackling that night. the same smouldering wildfire fanned by the offshore hurricane, bringing destruction to this area as well. the real onerous task, of course, as well as the emotionally challenging work is going on down in the town, as the forensic experts continue to comb through the wreckage there in the bid to discover the remains of more victims and to identify them. it is this work in the immediate recovery work as well as what's happening down there that the president and the first lady will be able to see for themselves. in another community effort, the town of lahaina is working to save its iconic banyan trees, one of which stood over 60 feet tall and is over 150 years old. the fires burned the famous trees but they're still standing. firefighters are working to save the iconic landmarks despite fears that the damage might be irreversible. residents of a city in canada's far north are being told to evacu

we travelled to the kula region, met locals already thinking about their future while still also comingo terms with their loss. in the hills of maui not far from the devastated coast, the fires have chewed through the up country grasslad. in the region, more than $400 million in damage, nearly 700 acres burned and 550 buildings affected. minutes from the airport we spotted a team of locals looking for still-smolders hotspots and hoping to snuff them out. mark joseph is a carpenter by trade. >> there's probably about 60 or 70 that we put out today. >> everything is scorched and burned. >> reporter: just up the road, ma monica 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. we were dousing it with bottles of water and a garden hose. that's all we had. >> reporter: but the moment came when they could no longer hold back the fire. >> we evacuated when the wind shifted and the flames became three and four stories high and the embers started to rain on us. we said it's time to go. >> reporter

residents in lahaina and kula have been advised not to drink or even boil water because of what couldin it. and today, wind gusts up to 35mph are expected on maui as fire crews continue to fight flare ups. but around the island, scenes of hope. at least six donation centers have sprung up organically. local community members coming together to help those who have lost everything. >> we have delivered over 1 million pounds of food, water and supplies to the lahaina community. >> and fema also says the agency has more than 300 staff on the ground giving out more than 50,000 meals. >> a landmark climate change ruling is being called a victory for young people and democracy, montana judge said officials violated the state constitution by not considering the effects on the environment in their fossil fuel policies. the 16 plaintiffs in the case ranged from age 5 to 22. they say climate change is overwhelming their lives as we've gotten a lot more wildfire smoke in august. >> so you can't go outside when it's really smoky because you don't want to get sick and then also the rivers have been

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a fire burning upcountry in the community of kula is also 90% contained. and nearby, a fire burning in olinda, now 85% contained. for the very latest on the search and recovery efforts underway in maui, head to our website, ktvu. .com. new at 11, the oregon man accused of kidnaping, assaulting and imprisoning a woman trying to escape from jail. this week. deputies in jackson county, oregon say naregatsi zuberi tried to break through the glass in his jail cell window this week. a maintenance worker alerted deputies of a suspicious noise when deputies responded, they say they found zuberi standing on his bunk bed near a chipped window. he has now been moved to a walled cell with no exterior windows and he's facing the additional charge of attempted escape and disorderly conduct. naregatsi is accusedce officer and kidnaping his victim in seattle last month. the fbi says that he then drove 500 miles to his home in klamath falls, oregon, and locked the woman in a makeshift cinderblock cell located in his basement. zuberi also spent years living in oakland in an

. >> reporter: residents in lahaina, and areas of upper kula, have been advised to not drink or even boil water, told to use bottled water and limit their shower time. and many frustrated after maui police suspended a program that allowed access into lahaina. >> i'm trying to get in to go see my house and i can't even go see it. >> reporter: over the weekend, the head of fema with the governor of hawaii examining the devastation, promising they're in it for the long haul. >> i want the people of maui to know that, governor, we're going to be with you every step of the way. >> reporter: but some saying the government response is just not fast enough. our mary bruce pressing fema today. >> has the federal government been able to fulfill every request that the state has made so far? >> they continue to work with the governor and his team to better understand what they need, and as soon as they make a request, we get that request processed. >> reporter: the administration saying they have over 300 fema staff on the ground, and have provided over 50,000 meals and 75,000 liters of water, s

we are here in the kula neighborhood.ou can see behind me this is one of several homes burned to the ground. we can hear the water-dropping helicopters overhead, giving you a sense of the widespread devastation across the island. linsey? >> linsey: maui unrecognizable as you say, whit. thank you. >>> now to the attorney general elevating the u.s. attorney investigating hunter biden to the status of special counsel. it's a stunning turn for the president's son who just weeks ago believed he had a plea agreement to end the investigation and settle the charges. but now it appears he could be put on trial. abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, the president's son now under investigation by a special counsel and likely headed to trial. hunter biden still in the investigative cross-hairs of federal prosecutors, still clearly in legal jeopardy. >> i'm here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a special counsel. >> reporter: it was a surprise announcement from attorney general merri

and while fronts is scrambling to maintain his presence in kula shaker need air, it's big brother, b. u is reportedly moving to increase its influence in west africa member states. i said to have agreed to begin a mission in the gulf of guinea, this autumn, citing and cheap tyra operations and a need to bolster security of the operational report. least spine are gonna tow go the need and the ivory coast. police and soldiers deployed to the country's aiming quote to prevent the instability triggered by g hottest previous similar operations in new jazz modeling. somalia failed to yield fruit for it was. busy with international troops order to leave off the years of peace keeping operations, locals, and target. we say, based on past experience, the deployment of e u troops is less than welcome. it's not a good idea. it's old as despite the reference and booking at 1st. so molly, in these year, they failed in their mission. it's not worth it cetera is committed crimes when they were in this countries, we don't want them here. we need security in the country, but we think the situation get

the embers not far from where we are tonight in kula are still smoldering.wer. more members of the national guard activated to help and this just in the breaking news, the death toll on this monday night at 99. and hawaii's governor tells cbs news that the number could rise dramatically by ten to 20 per day, and that's because hundreds are still missing. well, today fema bringing in teams of cadaver dogs from the mainland. it is still so hot here that the dogs have to take breaks to cool down before resuming the difficult and somber work. the scope of the damage is unimaginable. and there are reports tonight that fire hydrants ran out of water as crews waste to fight the blaze. we have team coverage, but we will start at ground zero, the historic town of lahaina, the areas close to the public, but we got a firsthand look at why the heart of this community is hurting so deeply. our visit to lahaina once home to 13,000 people, now a desolate ruin. it's just like anything i've ever seen before. it's like an ash and moonscacap. look at how much. every single hou

the fire is in lahaina and kula destroyed more than 2200 structures, causing an.imated $5.5 billion in damage. annie barber, a santa rosa woman who lost her home in the 2017 tubbs fire, is on the ground in maui helping wildfire survivors move forward with their insurance claims. >> the people are traumatized. they have what i call fire brain , their brains fuzzy. they can only navigate so much. and i see a lot of fear. >> a survivor herself, annie, hopes to bring closure to the people of maui county officials on the island are now suing hawaiian electric, claiming the power company failed to de-energize power lines despite high winds and wildfire warnings . pride on display in the south bay. thereight festival gn until 11:00 pm right now and a parade will be held tomorrow at 1030 at julian and market streets in san jose. thousands are out to celebrate this weekend. and this year's theme is live out proud. organizers say it means to live as your authentic self. that theme i really feel is hitting really close to home this year and even from last year. >> as well, w

the fires in lahaina and kula destroyed more than 2200 acres or structures that is causing an estimated5.5 billion in damage . abc7 news reporter cornell bernard spoke with a north bay woman who is helping wildfire survivors rebuild their lives. >> i tend to see the challenges . i tend to see the heartache. annie barber is on the ground in maui helping wildfire survivor move forward with their insurance claims, which can be overwhelming. the people are traumatized and they have what i call fire brain, their brains fuzzy. they can only navigate so much. and i see a lot of fear. >> that fear is something annie knows about all too well. >> immediate bond. they know that i understand. >> she lost her family's home in santa rosa's coffey park during the 2017 tubbs fire, which burned thousands of homes and killed two dozen people. this was annie's home before and after, reduced to rubble. >> that's something that doesn't go away. it's a grief that you have to navigate it. >> annie works for united policy holders, a san francisco based nonprofit helping homeowners get the insurance resources t

which was reported atjust after midnight, and another which led to evacuations of residents in the kulaana—mu road areas. then, at 3:20pm in the afternoon, maui county posted on facebook with the news of another threatening wildfire, advising residents to evacuate. by 3:30pm, the lahaina bypass was closed due to a flareup in the area. by early tuesday evening, there were multiple evacuation orders in place for the lahaina and upcountry fires. here's the latest update from bbc digital reporter max matza, who's in maui. thanks forjoining us. ijust wanted to start by asking you what the situation right now where you are at the moment? there are still thousands of people _ there are still thousands of people seeking shelter in the emergency shelters, some are still living in their cars, hotels _ still living in their cars, hotels are mostly full, some people — hotels are mostly full, some people are sleeping outside but there _ people are sleeping outside but there are lots of people and very— there are lots of people and very few _ there are lots of people and very few have been able to go

this one in the kula neighborhood you can see destroyed everything as we actively hear firefighters in helicopters dropping water over us. lester >> all right, tom llamas, thank you. >>> and there's so many stories of sorrow and uncertainty as people on maui mourn the dead, search for the missing, return home to find abject destruction. here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: as the smoke and flames finally began to clear, tonight here in lahaina, a new crisis unfolds. in this desolate tortured landscape, the search for the missing and for the dead >> that's my house right there. >> reporter: kimo kirkman has finally made it home, but all he has found is heartbreak >> oh, my god. it's the most heartbreaking thing i've ever been through. >> reporter: we first met the kirkmans thursday, who like so many families waited for days on the side of the road or inside shelters for this chance to go home. why do you get emotional talking about your community >> because i love my community. they've raised my girls with me. >> reporter: the kirkmans have closure, but far too many are haunted by the si

i live up in kula, up country.g. hanging the paintings. monday night, they were in the gallery. and people were coming in already saying i want to buy this. i want to buy this. and my son said you know what? my dad is going to be here tomorrow night. you bought from him before. you would love to say hello to you. come back tomorrow for the grand opening. tomorrow. so he said okay. and, the next day, i was up in my house and the winds were like 100 miles per hour. and i have 150-pound mastiff that could barely walk. and my son called and said dad, it is really getting bad. i said better come on back here, it is not looking good here either: they tried to get out of lahaina and they were closing down the road because of the flames. they got out. it was a miracle they got out. they came up to my house and they saw all the furniture on my deck. everything was being thrown around like toothpicks. dad, we have to go now. if it's going to get really bad, let's get a hotel room. not one hotel had a room available. we were

as of tuesday night, the lahaina fire on maui's western coast is 85% contained, and the upcountry kulanly 75% contained. in lahaina, search teams, aided by cadaver dogs, have been recovering human remains from destroyed buildings and burnt cars. so far, crews have scoured some 32% of the search area, and they're racing against the clock. forecasters say a high-wind storm this weekend could hamper their efforts. today, fema administrator deanne criswell spoke from the white house. >> given the conditions and the need for additional resources, we will have at least 40 canine search teams on the island in addition to hundreds of search and rescue personnel with more on the way. geoff: as coroners begin the process of identifying the dead, officials have called on family members to help, urging relatives of the missing to submit dna samples. authorities have started to notify the victims' next of kin. among the deceased, 79-year old buddy jantoc, 68-year-old franklin trejos, and 60-year-old carole hartley, all longtime residents of lahaina. the wildfires were propelled by high winds from a

. >> this is the kula neighborhood in maui.miles from the destruction in lahaina and this is still an active fire zone, only 60% of the country fire has been contained and we can actually see at least two hot spots around here which explains the yellow helicopter. that is the maui fire department. he's taking bucket loads of water of a nearby swimming pool of a home that was completely burned down and they're refilling it with a fire hydrant and it is so stretched here that it's do it yourself, diy fire protection, that explains this setup. this homeowner is gone and she fired up their improvised fire prevention system and they're spraying it as far as they can down into the ravine here with the fear that some of these hot spots might whip up, there are a couple of storms brewing in the pacific, nothing near to hurricane or storm dora that created all of the firestorm winds and anything that would kick this up is one more horrible thing to worry about here. >> meanwhile, in lahaina, only a third of that area has been searched w

a fire burning upcountry in the community of kula is also 90% contained. olinda is now 85% contained. and for the very latest on the search and recovery efforts underway in maui, you can head to our website at ktvu. .com 717. let's say good morning once again to rosemary on a slow starter of your around the bay anyways, but i guess a good day on tap and it's going to get hot this week. yes we are going to see a subtle warm up come our way for the weekend and then hot weather returning in time for the week ahead and a glorious start to the day. a view from above the clouds where we do have the blue sky out there. the sun is shining and we do expect partly cloudy to mostly clear skies away from the coastline today. she's going to take a little while before we see those clouds clear from our bayside communities and the fog that we are dealing with over parts of the north bay valley locations. we do have this system here. this is what is providing us with the cooler weather started a couple of days ago yesterday. temperatures are even cooler now. we are going

we're in the kula community. homes here devastated as well by the fire.ss hart's home, he's trying to clean up his property, but over and over, for several hours today, erin, we watched as volunteers turned up. they offered to help. they drove in their trucks. they said, hey, what do you need? how can we help? i've seen that multiple times, neighbors trying to help other neighbors. they say that's the only way they're going to be able to move forward. erin. >> gloria, thank you very much in maui tonight. the horrific devastation has changed the lives of so many, even the survivors. including tee dang with her three children and husband in a rental car in lahaina when the vehicles around them began exploding and catching fire. they were forced to jump in the water to save themselves. they were in the water for more than four hours to save themselves. i'm so glad to be talking to you. i can't imagine, you've got three children, on vacation, truly it's incomprehincomprehen. how are you and your family doing tonight? >> we're getting through. just processing

kula july inflation of this storage of fed pause on race. price pressure continue pulling. fresh inflation figures show that leaders hearing the federal reserve from -- deterring the federal reserve from raising rates in september. a similar price index, measure of goods and services and prices across the economy, rose a mild 0.2% in july, the same as in june. core prices which excludes volatile food and energy categories also increase just 0.2 percent in both months, extending a broader slow down in price pressures. the figures led to 3.2 percent annual inflation in july, up 53% in june. annual core inflation down to four point 7% in july from june's 4.8%. this is an interview on the new cpi numbers with san francisco fed president. she discussed the work if it has to do in stabilizing the economy. [video clip] >> i do know that there's a lot more information coming in between now and our next meeting and certainly between now and the year and i use the word information as to the data because -- i had an early part of your program that assessment with the fed looks only at

and as soon as i got there that whole area had to evacuate because of a totally different fire in kulat was, i guess, heading down to -- i was in maui meadows near wailea if you have a map. all of a sudden just as i arrived that whole area got evacuated. so now, i'm in a totally different part of maui in a rain forest because i figured that was enough, and i'm safe here at least from a fire e vashg situ evacuation because it's a rain forest. >> as you're talking, some of the video you sent in. the winds of the fire -- the winds -- this just looks terrifying. you've lived there a really long time. have you ever seen anything like this? >> yes. never seen anything like this. the winds started overnight and there wasn't any real warning about this, so there was -- sometimes there's a warning about an upcoming storm. certainly, we get lots of hurricane warnings about hurricanes that will come close, but not hit us, but nothing like that. the thing about this wind is it was a lot of gusts, 40 or 50 miles an hour, and this is in the middle of the night because things were breaking, branches

and they're just sort of dropping buckets of water, sea water, pulling water from pools up near the kulad. how they define that around here is if a fire is still burning but they know they have it contained, that's 100% contained. when they say it's extinguished, it's out, you can not worry about it anymore. so there are still these little hot spots up in the canyons. right now the winds are cooperating. the trade winds are a little bit gusty but nothing like the firestorm we saw before. they could really use some rain. and that's the thing you don't realize when you think about the tropical islands in the pacific, they're so green and lush, on a warmer planet as the clouds hit the mountains they suck all the moisture out of that and then the leeward side, on the other side of the island is just bone desert dry and that's where all this fuel is coming up. so keeping one eye on that and of course so much attention here looking for souls. >> cnn's bill weir on maui doing incredible reporting. thank you so much. appreciate it. and you can help the victims of these horrific wildfires in hawa

helping neighbors with food and water, unfortunately a lot of communities including the one here and it kulaow are having security problems. looters who are taking advantage of the situation to go and break into homes, and we don't know where these people are coming from, but things like it, and you know it is very well that the deterrent effect of something like a presence control with the national guard work of the police department is something that these can skin you need them communities need and are importantly not seeing. basic communication and they don't have a cell signal, don't have wi-fi available, and a county state and federal officials need to be going out to these communities and finding them where they are to tell them what is going on and to let them know that resources are available. a huge amount of resources that are available from the department of defense, military facilities that exist within the state of hawaii and are chomping at the bit to provide the disaster relief here like they do in other countries all of the time, and that can only happen when the state and f

in the kula neighborhood miles away from lahaina, which, you know, is right on the beach town.es have burned, but we just witnessed, see these bottled water drop-offs people are having, we witnessed a couple of three guys from oahu who flew over as volunteers who were taking that water and hiking through the brush and putting out actually active hot spots over there that are flaring up right now. these are -- this pyre is only 60% contained and there are little these leftover fires from last week up in these canyons just as they were fighting a fire with bottled water, basically a private helicopter came, saw them and dropped a big bucket of water right on that hot spot. so, this is the response, i know we're talking, we're hearing that a week into this, the cavalry is coming, but we got guys putting out fires with bottled water and volunteers in helicopters in this neighborhood at least at the moment, anderson. >> are you seeing federal aid? are you seeing -- i mean, you know, fema, are they on the ground? how many military personnel on the ground? what sort of -- what kind of

i heard stories that many places on the island, kula, kihei, near my house were on fire.i took my bike, i borrowed a bike. i got through town. so, i got about halfway through, i thought, people need to see this, people need to see how bad this really is. i didn't know everything in there for the respects a those that didn't make it. you need to see, those people need to be able to get their head around it, to get relief efforts underway as fast as possible. that's all i was thinking about. video as much as i can, get home to my family as fast as possible. the more i, see the more horrific i guess every day. it's just heartbreaking. >> after having seen the aerial footage, it gives you a sense more broadly of what is happening on the island. watching the footage you took our viewers are watching it right now, breaking through the streets, you really get a sense of the devastation. the big question, of, course, do you feel that the authorities gave your community enough warning? >> i can't speak to that, i was not on the ground. i heard this before, i -- from a hearing, tha

firestorm tropical gusts that we saw last week, but a concern for the hot spots still in the upcountry kulae. there are two helicopters ready to put those out should they flare up but many concerns playing out here. so much trauma. bill wooer. cnn, maui. >>> fema is running out of disaster relief money weeks before the peak of the atlantic hurricane season. from catastrophic flooding, fires, as you saw there, and tornado outbreaks to crippling winter storms it's already been a record-breaking year with 15 weather-related disasters that each cost about a billion dollars. now the relief fund could run dry by the end of august, maybe even sooner. cnn's priscilla alvarez is live at the white house. this is a dire warning, we're watching what's happening in maui where tema has people on the ground, watching this massive hurricane that could be coming up and hit the southwest. what more are you learning about this? what are they going to do? >> reporter: sara, there is growing concern within the agency about what happens next because they are seeing their funds with the potential of being complet

. >> reporter: well, wolf, we're in the upcoming kula area. 60% contained, lots of hot spots, gulchesa helicopter making a water drop here. the latest from the search and rescue cadaver dog teams they've covered about and a third of the area. four more souls have been found so far. it's such a grim, raw time for the people here, so much uncertainty about where people will live. fema announced there's a program to get people into hotel rooms, a $750 payment for those affected. over 3,000 people have already filed with fema right now. they're encouraging everyone to do so. you won't give up any rights down the line for people looking to get help. wolf. >> i understand authorities are encouraging residents with missing family members to provide dna samples. is that right? >> that is right. we met with a family recently t. husband had given his d because his mother is missing. she's an elderly woman. they're pretty sure she didn't make it out. 41 samples taken from family of the missing. there's a team of forensics experts coming in to sort through this. it's painstaking and painful. ther