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Well we have breaking news from hawaiis big island. a dangerous one-two punch stunning erupting volcano and adding it to a series of strong earthquaking including a magnitude 6.9 tremor hours ago. the latest from stephanie elam in hawaii ton. >> reporter: volcanic eruption spewing molten rock ash and gases union the big island. the eruption stemming from a series of cracks in the rift zone miles from the kilauea volcano. video from earlier this week shows walls of smoke. leaving behind a red roc...

Because of the volcano and erupting more on the street. >> lava is coming out in lelani this is real. >> he at the center are these estates. a resident captured this lava fountain shooting a hundred feet in the air. >> all we heard down the road was boom. what is that? all of a sudden we smell -- we smelled the sulfur. we knew something was happening. within minutes we seen smoke. and now we see all this lava coming across the street. and its pumping right now. this fissure is opening up. and th...

That is the sound of a volcanic eruption in action. plumes of hot lava and rock being thrown up in the air like a fountain. cnn captured this video in a neighborhood in hawaii that is under mandatory evacuation. and for people living on the east coast of hawaiis big island, its been a day of anxiety. six volcanic fissures upped up in a neighborhood shooting lava and steam into the air. the power has been cut, and residents say they can smell sulphur dioxide, a toxic gas. the government has decla...

Has to come up somewhere. it comes out through those f fissures or through the actual eruption of the volcano. thats where you get lava as well as toxic fumes. thats what weve been seeing around this general vicinity. we talked about the earthquake. stephanie mentioned the magnitude 6.9. only about three miles deep. this did actually trigger a mini tsunami. sea level rise was about 15 inches. nothing dramatic. but the point is this was a large earthquake in association with that volcano. those e...

. extraordinary moments in hawaii, over 450 earthquakes in 24 hours and spewing lava. on the big island. thats what many people on that island have been enduring and many having only minutes to escape the lava from the kilauea volcano. people are now being told to ration their water even. if they do remain on the island. cnn correspondent stephanie elam is live for us near helo. officials there say more potential danger is ahead. >> exactly. as if its not enough to not know where one of these ...

Long as im in my house, my house is safe. >> if this opens up, i will leave, but other than that, unless they force me to leave, yeah, i aint planning to leave. whatever happens happens, thats it. deal with it as it comes. julie: william la jeunesse is live on the big island. still aftershocks, wow. >> yeah, you know, the experts at the volcano center here in hawaii are predicting things to get worse before they get better. more eruptions and more earthquakes. now, i want to show you something r...

As the big island and youre fine there. the big island had its largest earthquake since 1975 and in this remote area where this is taking place on the big island, about 1800 people have been evacuated. and specifically the community, its a rural community. i actually drove through a couple of years ago, called lalani estates. and monday the most recent. kilauea, one of several big volcanos on the island as been active since 1983. the last outbreak was 2014. this began on monday. there have been ...

As weve seen -- lava flow as weve seen in recent years. the volcano has been active ongoing since 1983. the eruption is in progress. its called the lower east rift zone. the earthquakes began before this. the seismic activity has increased over the last several years with the largest magnitude being at 6.9 earthquake, the largest since 197 15*. 1975. we know geologists are out there. they brought in the national guard to help monitor the air quality and help assisting in the evacuations of the f...

Tonight. >> reporter: tonight, fountains of lava engulfing neighborhoods on hawaiis big island after multiple new eruptions from the kilauea volcano. flames and lava shooting a hundred feet in the air, forcing at least 1,800 people from their homes with just minutes to spare. >> we could hear the lava exploding from the house. you know, is the house still gonna be there when we go back over there? >> reporter: the actual volcano crater miles away from the vents in the ground where the eruptions ...

The smell of toxic sulphur dioxide and burning trees hanging in the air. >> all around is a sulphur smell. i think were one street over from the lava right now. >> reporter: officials say the air quality is an immediate threat to life. the governor declaring a state of emergency. >> its a difficult thing to watch. the lava flow is unpredictable. not exactly certain what course it will take. >> reporter: thursdays eruption came hours after a 5.0 earthquake jolted the big island. on monday, one of...