and said, it looks like it's pomp pompeii. they're just calcified. frozen in time. >> where were the alerts? why weren't the sirens sounded? and the surprising resignation of the maui emergency chief. plus the urgent race to help the thousands displaced by the flames. >> this is our house. it's all turning to dust. >> many are just thankful to be alive. >> i was fighting off fireballs. i had my purse, my cane. i'm alive. >> and more than 1,000 people still unaccounted for. this special edition of "nightline"," howie strong," david muir reporting, will be right back. my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. (vo) for over 50 years purina cat chow has been helping cats feel at home. with trusted nutrition, no wonder it's the number one dry cat food in america. come home to cat chow. that smell could be 8,000,000 odor causing bacteria. good thing adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9%

how wonderfully preserved pompeii is. under conservation, they have been found for so many centuries. and now, of course, scientists there are a storehouse of information, a storehouse of finds, and how do we understand? it's only just the beginning, that is, and i think there's more to come, and we'll be following this news and make sure to keep you updated, but right now we're offering you. hey, a little closer screen, because today in the review we stand. the art of understanding art , the creativity and personality of the eminent florentine painter botticelli in general , italy does not leave us. sandro botticelli of the early renaissance artist botticelli is a nickname that the artist got from his older brother. translated as a barrel, the future genius was born in florence and soon became the most sought-after painter. throughout italy, botticelli was the favorite painter of the florentine aristocracy in the 1480s. lorenz medici invited artist to paint pictures for the interior of his country residence. at this time

david, those tomatoes are from nearby -- the company's in naples, but pompeii.ch >> the richest >> why are we talking about this >> that's rao's. that's where they make the tomato sauce you think they get it from 115th street no, these are tomatoes -- i'm jealous of the soil. >> does new jersey have good tomatoes this time of year >> campbell's, that's where it started. but david, if you're going to pick a place, you want to be in italy, and you want to be near pompeii because that is the holy grail of tomatoes. >> got it. >> it's mostly -- they do roman. they don't do beefsteak, okay? jersey's beefsteak >> 23 bucks a share. campbell's shares -- >> the romas, you know >> i'm aware >> they don't have a lot of seeds. that's what they use, and they're delicious. >> and if you like to package your tomatoes, then you can probably get something from verativ, jim, which is getting bought in a private equity deal. we're not talking about deals in terms of things that are particularly large >> that was a high-multiple stock so it's interesting what will happen but they n

like pompeii almost. just dead. i mean, there's nothing you could do.t 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 mark

like pompeii, almost. he is dead. there is nothing you can do. it was that fast. >> reporter: though's well-known art gallery in lahaina burned to the ground. he said the building was the first movie theater in the state of hawaii. he escaped on his motorcycle with only his laptop and passport, leaving his car behind to be consumed by fire. >> i could feel the flames burning my neck and i could see the embers in front of me. it was insane. >> reporter: the investigation continues into the cause of the fire and questions remain about why hawaii's warning sirens were not activated for locals and tourists. >> so far authorities have only searched 3% of the total burn area for victims. they say 1000 people are still missing. >>> fire crews and people in the area are still battling flareups across five square miles in lahaina. >> there are 60 or 70 that we put out today. i put out another 100 yesterday. >> at the same time, getting aid to maui has been difficult because everything has to be flown or shipped to the island. despite the obstacles, suppli

. >> i saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal, like pompeii almost, just dead. there's nothing you could do. it was that fast. john: to help the some 4,500 people who need shelter, officials said that so far they've secured 500 hotel rooms. in china, it's heavy rains that are causing problems. in western china, a mudslide and flash flood left at least 21 people dead. chinese officials said a highway was damaged and power knocked out. searchers were looking for 6 people reported missing. in ukraine, russian shelling killed 7 people today in the southern region of kherson. ukraine's internal affairs ministry reported that among the dead were four members of one family: a newborn, her parents, and her 12-year-old brother. and in the black sea, a russian warship fired warning shots at a cargo ship. it's the first time russia has fired on a merchant vessel since pulling out of a deal that allowed ukraine to export grain shipments through the black sea. and last night was peak viewing all over the world for the annual perseid meteor shower. the moon was just a slim cr

going around in a circle. >> reporter: 470 search and rescue agents are combing through this american pompeii. 85% of the five-square-mile disaster zone has been cleared. but fema search teams say clearing what's left could take weeks, if not longer. >> hey, buddy, ready to go? >> reporter: kristi bohrman and her dog, canyon, are one of 40 cadaver dog teams sifting through what little remains. >> structures that are burned have been burned completely. and so we're talking about ash, and we're talking about metal, and that's basically what's left of those structures. >> reporter: and tonight questions still remain about herman andaya, the now resigned head of maui's emergency response, and his decision to not activate emergency sirens. >> do you regret not sounding the sirens? >> i -- i do not. >> reporter: andaya was off-island at the time of the fire, attending a conference for the state's first responders. but sources tell cbs news several off his counterparts pulled out of the event so they could prepare their communities. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: the national weather service issued fir

search and rescue agents with the assistance of 40 cadaver dogs are combing through this american pompeiin three quarters of the five square mile disaster zone have been cleared. x marking thehe spots a already checked. more than 1,000 people are still missing, and there are more businesses, condos and entire neighborhoods to go. what rescuers are finding speaks to both the scale of destruction and the county's failure to issue evacuation orders. this is french street. without a procedure evacuation order people in an attempt to run the flames got in their cars and took to the road. 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. many tried to flee into the ocean while governor joshua green described the firestorm that swallowed lahaina as a bomb going off, there was a very long fuse as the fire burned in brush for nearly two hours before exploding, spreading a mile a minute. >> i realized when it was time to go when the smoke was so dark we could not see anythin

. >> i saw one dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal, lime pompeii almost, just dead. 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 front 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. you could 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 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 surveys the damage. how long do you think it will take to conduct the search effort? >> it depends on the conditions and how long the dogs can continue to go in. we're bringing in more teams and dogs to speed up that process as much as we can. >> reporter: as the search continues, with

but for example, who will buy the last day, whose pompeii they stole the russian museum and put on thescumbag, i want all the paintings and order exactly it and i need to look for recent reports on apartment robberies and said something like that, and so these days they surrounded the apartment of another collector. it's kind of bitter. mikhail borisovich is the former owner of an antique shop. it was possible to endure a lot from him, but they took it like that, little by little, not counting kiselyov's painting. so it seems to me that this is the same customer working. why were you silent? here i am not silent. i talked to his wife. thank god there were no deaths. well gurvich. now he is in sverdlovka with a massive heart attack. nobody is allowed to see him. now i will call again. my apartment is on an alarm, if i'm not at home, then 3-4 minutes the outfit is here. if i'm at home, then what kind of signaling is it with the old man alone, and nonsense. it's just by chance that sonya and i were talking on the phone at that time, she understood everything and called the police. well, t

. >> reporter: 470 search and rescue agents are coming through this american pompeii. 85% of the fiveeen cleared. but fema search teams say clearing what's left could take weeks, if not longer. >> hey, buddy, ready to go? >> reporter: christy bormann and her dog are one of 40 cadaver dog teams sifting through what little remains. >> structures that are burned have been burned completely. so we are talking about ashes, we are talking about metal, that is basically what is left of those structures. >> reporter: and tonight, questions still remain about herman andaya, the now resigned head of maui's emergency response and his decision to not activate emergency sirens. >> do you regret not sounding the sirens? >> i do not. >> reporter: andaya was off island of the time of the fire, attending a conference for the state's first responders, but sources tell cbs news, several of his counterparts pulled out of the event so they could prepare their communities. >> oh, my gosh! >> reporter: the national weather service issued fire warnings beginning four days before the disaster. >> a lot of peo

heard stories that people would just see families huddled together, and they said, it looks like it's pompeii. they're just calcified, frozen in time. then when i heard that, because schools weren't in that day, it was so windy, that a lot of these were children at home -- it's just too much. sorry. sorry. >> david: the images of that night. the families, parents and their children in their cars. they won't forget. tonight, how did this happen? it was more than a week ago, monday evening, august 7th, 10:47 p.m. a surveillance camera capturing this moment. a flash. video of what could have been an early trigger in these deadly fires. a power line arcing. witness jennifer pribble. >> it was windy, and then there's a flash, and i think that's when a tree is falling on a power line. the power goes out. the camera comes back online and then the forest is on fire. >> david: the data come bile co whisker labs documenting dozens of major electrical incidents around lie high that. >> we've got that video of that kind of explosion, and we've got ten sensors in that community that show a very sharp drop

there and this tremendous family operation with these fantastic tomatoes coming off the hillsides of pompeii and turning it into what i would describe as a truly unique and differentiated sauce. those trying to copy a, i understand why that is impossible to do. it is prepared in such a way where brings technology and scale with a touch of mom's kitchen that we love to see. it is so special. that is why we love it. anybody who thinks they are going to touch the sauce, no. where excited with what we will do there. i'm very excited. >> super brands just like pacific, these are brands that are premium, you can charge more because people love them. i was excited about this here. for me, people said that you pay too much. for me, this is the beginning of this brand that people do not know. >> that was really the major part of the thesis of this acquisition. the team is just done a fantastic job. fantastic job and they have done a great job with this business. one thing i would say is that they have done a great job of building distribution. if you look at the skus at this portfolio, there is 20% d

to see it destroyed like this, to realize almost like pompeii in italy, you have families, entire families were burned to death, found -- i saw one report that firefighters are having hard time psychologically going from house to house because the scenes of little children, the scenes of families who had gathered in the bathtub and shower trying to find one last place where there was water. and then you learn to cope big things. one, that the electric company had asked for several years for approval to spend the money getting rid of the invasive grasses that are at the heart of the fire and they have been turned down because the money was supposed to be spent on going green. it went red and kill people. second, you had a former obama official who was a water resource manager who for five hours refused to release the water who wanted to talk about how would we make sure that everything has worked out all right. and frankly there is a movement among some of the left-wing nutcase in ohio -- in oahu and maui. to not allow water to be used to fight fires. explain that to me. they value the wate

at the footage and hear the accounts of the survivor the oil thing i can sort of compare it to is pompeii the eruption of mount vesuvius. it just came upon you so quickly. >> he mentioned 80 mile-per-hour gusts that blew the fire. we thought we were safe with it being so far south of us the national weather service in our emergency managers knew the high winds were coming. it was a possibility but we have never had a fire like this before. and it came quick. the commissions were right for it. maui is now dealing with at the worst disaster we've ever had. we've got the hurricanes, tsunamis, two lava flows in 2014 and 2018. but the images coming out of lahaina and the stories is devastating and hurting the island so much. jon: of covered a lot of wildfires in writing by never thought to be seeing what i'm seeing there on maui. jeff hickman, thank you for joining us. >> aloha sir, thank you. supporting of the victims of the wildfires go to redcross.org/foxforward or text hawaii to tran eight. that will make a 10-dollar donation. the att attorney general america garland yes rate limit u.s. at

the room was found just north of pompeii. >>> breaking news this hour, thousands of people have beenficials say at least one person has died, dozens on of homes have been destroyed, but that number is expected to go up, all three fires have been raging outside of spokane since friday and now there's concern they could keep spreading. here's nbc's jesse kirsch. >> reporter: this is incident command for the gray fire, of the three fires that are burning outside of spokane, washington, officials say that this fire has destroyed the largest number of structures and has threatened the largest number of residents here in eastern washington state, hundreds of firefighters have been working around the clock to battle this blaze which has so far not been put under control. in spokane county alone, there are reports of upwards of 25,000 acres burning, thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate including the city of medical lake where roughly 5,000 people were ordered to evacuate and we know that there have been dozens of structures including homes which have been burned down in these fi

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i saw one friend dead on the ground like a piece of charcoal, pompeii almost. he was dead. mean, there was nothing you could do. it was that fast. >> reporter: officials here in hawaii talked about those bodies burned so badly they're asking families of the missing to give dna so that they can try to help identify some of these people that they are finding, some of them they're finding together, and they say that when they're collecting their bodies, a lot of them unfortunately are just so badly burned. we know that right now evacuation centers like the one behind me are doing everything they can. there are so many supplies that are pouring in, and fema's set up a website disasterassistance.gov for anyone that needs assistance or anyone on the ground, you can go to a fema member and start getting set up to get that assistance. we know more people are bringing in food today to try to feed the people. we know they're going to need about 9,000 gallons of -- 9,000 meals a day and hundreds of gallons of water. people are very frustrated. those who are trying to get to lahaina ri

it’s just like pompeii, we couldn’t do anything forest fires flared up in small pockets for about a weekland, and then suddenly a solid wall of fire fell on places that have always been a symbol of that same paradise pleasure terrible footage taken by survivors is an illustration of the chaos in which people who fled from death could only rely on themselves. there is someone lying there and we can’t help her anymore, god. just go ahead. on the lists of the missing without you, hundreds of cynologists with dogs trained to search for bodies are combing the whole city, chief, the police are asked not to have false hopes , there are practically no chances to find survivors under the rubble, there ’s no idea. have. how many in the end there will be victims, but it will be a terrible figure of such devastating natural disasters. in the history of the region there was no never. however, 9 years ago, environmentalists warned that a drought on maui could lead to a tragedy, but the local authorities, miraculously surviving residents, did not take any measures in this regard, massively complaining

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d & gllc lieu pier 47 and item 51 is for 340 jefferson street. 340 jefferson llcdba pompeii grotto. same house same call. the resolutions are adopted. next item. >> 52, this resolution approves the third amendment to a contract software a service agreement with yardy system inc. to increase the contract amount for a new total not to exceed amount of 515,000. and to increase the contract duration by 5 years a new term through april 24 of 2028 and new duration of 15 years. same house same call. the resolution is adopted. next item >> item 53. this resolution approves modification to the folsom storm water improvement project contract. tunnel engineering with mc millen associates. to increase the contract a new total amount of 17. 2 million. and to increase the duration of -- to add 9 years special a month and new term. through november 30 of 2027. >> same house same call the resolution is adopted. next item. item 54 this retroactively authorizes the department of public health a grant increase for 7.2 million from health resources and service administration to participate in a program

d & gllc lieu pier 47 and item 51 is for 340 jefferson street. 340 jefferson llcdba pompeii grotto. same house same call. the resolutions are adopted. next item. >> 52, this resolution approves the third amendment to a contract software a service agreement with yardy system inc. to increase the contract amount for a new total not to exceed amount of 515,000. and to increase the contract duration by 5 years a new term through april 24 of 2028 and new duration of 15 years. same house same call. the resolution is adopted. next item >> item 53. this resolution approves modification to the folsom storm water improvement project contract. tunnel engineering with mc millen associates. to increase the contract a new total amount of 17. 2 million. and to increase the duration of -- to add 9 years special a month and new term. through november 30 of 2027. >> same house same call the resolution is adopted. next item. item 54 this retroactively authorizes the department of public health a grant increase for 7.2 million from health resources and service administration to participate in a program

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