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Cliff right where the blue dot is, to take drivers all the way to lahaina, about 9:00. so this is a long journey that people have. but this is to avoid the organized chaos of people coming from the south this way through perhaps the mountainsside. they are not letting anybody into the epicenter of the disaster zone because we still at this morning hour have reports of people who are perhaps trying to loot to see if any of the stores on the outer fringes of the disaster survived. and also when yo...

Friend susan. fred, this is the only way to get into lahina, into the disaster zone. were about 1,000 feet over the pacific ocean. its an orderly process. cars are stopping every now and then. people are coming up to us and want to tell us their stories. a couple seconds ago i talked to a woman named susan. i said, susan, were broadcasting to europe, africa, the mainland of the united states. tell everybody watching why this isnt just a postcard, but your home and why we all need to care about w...

Chats, there are a lot of people reaching out. can you help? here theres 20 people who cant get out to the distribution sites you dont have meals? we have vans, we have trucks, we are getting to those people as quickly as we can to provide them hot meals. we will come to them. we have the urgency of now to get people of meals as soon as possible. >> when you balance the urgency of now with the humility that you have share the you are up and running perhaps not as quickly as you would have liked,...

93 people are now known to have died, but the governor of hawaii has warned people to expect that number to rise significantly, after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. our north america correspondent, john sudworth, reports from the island. vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. these boats are now making multiple daily trips into the disaster zone with a growing sense of frustration. we are all wondering ...

People died here. you know, people -- its not just a vacation. its not just a place for vacation. we live here. >> reporter: and this is what makes moments like those, jessica, so profoundly sad. this beautiful setting that we have right here, looking at the pacific ocean, back towards the mainland of the united states. this, to give you just an idea of place, getting back to how people enter lahai, into the disaster zone. thats about 1,000 feet above the sands of the ocean. this is two lanes. t...

Attorney general, and thats the important piece for us now. of course, most of our efforts are going to be on recovery, finding a way to reunite families with either those that theyve lost so that they have closure or getting them housing and survival. these processes normally come much after an incident like this, but were doing it in parallel because we want to be safer and learn right now. while the authorities continue the difficult work of searching for, and identifying, the dead, some resi...

>> keep going, keep going. >> no, no, no, no, not like this! not like this! [indiscernible] >> wow, that is hard to listen to. that family, however, they did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter after taking refuge near the water. lets go now to cnns mike valerio on maui. mike, you made your way past that road that was closed overnight. what are you seeing and hearing from people? >> were the closest you can get to the perimeter of the disaster zone. we actually have some breaking news. t...

Happening with the former president. that resonates here in a place like this. you watch the frenzy around the former president on a day like today. it goes to show you that he is still the person who is driving the conversation. whether you look at on the ground or the you look at it up here from 30,000 feet. >> not quite 30,000 feet. [laughs] that would be bad, if you are currently at 30,000 feet. >> it would be pretty interesting. >> give year photographer a shutout for making that shot look ...

[ bleep ]. >> no, no, no not like this. not like this. no. [ bleep ]. >> oh, my gosh. i mean that family did eventually make it to an evacuation shelter, after taking refuge on rocks, by the ocean. lets go now to cnns mike valero on maui. what is the latest you are hearing from officials on how to proceed from here? >> fredericka, good morning. we are standing in the middle of a shutdown highway. this is where scores of motorists, as we zoom in to the darkness here, have been waiting overnight, ...

Anxiety, and to that note, we also have some video in the control room of just before sunset yesterday, there was another brush fire that started off, that sparked north of lahaina, and it caused an evacuation order. thankfully we were able to report that it is 100% contained, but fredricka, it broke out near a center that was scheduled to distribute free fuel to people who were running out of gas. who are living in their cars right now. and because of that brush fire, just north of the disaster...