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Is jump in the ocean and spend about eight hours there. and thats when the car started exploding. and it just became apocalyptic, like you had said. just pure tragedy. there is about 60 to 100 people in the water with me. and they kept on asking me, is this it? i kept telling them no, no, no. in the back of my head, i was thinking maybe. >> oh, my gosh. you describe a horseshoe of fire and cars exploding. were you injured in any of this? >> just speckled from the wind pushing ashes on me. i made...

And not burn. i just started praying and said, please, god, not today. this is it. >> reporter: dana griffin joins us from maui wlachlt are you seeing there today? >> reporter: good morning to you. right now it is about 5:00 a.m. local time. all is quiet. people are still inside sleeping. hundreds once again slept inside this evacuation center. many have had their lives upended and some barely escaped the flames. we are seeing images as you can see on your screen of this burned out skeleton of l...

Ashes. >> thats the one thing i wanted to hold on to forever, now hes just in the ground with all the other ashes. >> ill be talking to a state senator who represents the devastated town in just a moment. but i want to begin in d.c. where two big legal stories are unfolding simultaneously. a dramatic day in court just wrapped up with new details in the election interference case against former president trump. just one detail to share with you, the special counsels team has a jaw dropping 11.6...

Here on the island of maui residents are now being allowed to return to work if anything is left of their homes in the devastated town of lahaina. they are being warned to brace for the emotional turmoil of what they were fine when they get there. and the other main stories on the programme tonight... a home for a matter of days. the barge housing asylum—seekers on the dorset coast is evacuated after its water supply is found to contain bacteria. desperate for a snap of england captain harry k...

Fire. >> do you have a sense, governor, of how long it will be until you have a full picture of the death toll? >> i think actually over the course of the next week, we will get as close to a complete assessment as possible. as you know, sometimes natural disasters or essentially wartime disasters -- and it does look like a war zone where lahaina is concerned -- you will sometimes discover later that someone has perished because it was burned to the ground. when i say that, i do not see it light...

Tragic wildfire in Hawaiian town claims 36 lives as officials continue firefighting efforts. Devastating impact and loss acknowledged

These were local residents and we need to figure out a way to help a lot of people in the next several years. school was destroyed. many of the businesses, a church was destroyed. it will take years. >> devastation was most serious in the town of lahaina, a tourist and economic hub with 9,000 residents and now largely destroyed. survivors say the flames driven by winds from hurricane dora spread with just astonishing speed. veronica miracle is on the ground with more. >> it is like an apocalypse...

Place in hawaii has been reduced to ashes. nearly 300 homes and businesses now gone. >> my moms place is gone. my place is gone. pretty much everybody i know lost everything that we have. i mean, i havent been able to assess, but everybody told me that front streets gone. >> meteorologist angie lassman is standing by for us. first lets go to hawaii and nbc news correspondent dana griffin. so many people there just lost so much and the fires are still burning. communications are still down, evacu...

Ashes right now, it has been burned down, but we have to make sure that we preserve that, that part of our past. this is now part of that story, more importantly how do we use this to be more resilient as we go forward. >> tragedies like these challenge us, and it is always remarkable to watch how people rise to the occasion. you talk about people pulling together and weve been hearing and watching as everyday citizens in lahaina are rescuing their neighbors, literally right now. and i want to p...

And in these sidbyide images, you can see a large portion of the town has been utterly destroyed. a number of cultural sites have been reduced to ashes. urgent search-and-rescue missions are underway. the coast guard plucked more than 50 people out of the ocean off maui. as of this moment, more than 21 people are in emergency shelters, 11,000 customers are without power, and officials are asking visitors who can leave lahaina and maui should do so.