Page 174 - Lava News Today

Shared by native hawaiians. thousands of tourists and locals arriving after sunset to witness the lava glow. nighttime traffic backs up to miles. to avoid the congestion, lets get back to the skies. >> 2,000 to 3,000 degrees fahrenheit or 1,000 degrees celsius. thats molten rock flowing like water. >> reporter: which has already crossed one volcano road, power lines and all, a searing slice right through it. >> the heat you feel as soon as you get close to it. >> look at the rushing flow, the ri...

Right through it. >> you can feel the heat as soon as you get close to it. >> look at the molten rock, the flow. you see the current of lava. >> darryn estimates its moving 30 to 40 miles per hour. >> just spewing from the top. >> reporter: jake, the experience, i struggle to find words. it was unreal to fly over that lava and have those sensory moments of the heat and also the smell of the sulfur, which is starting to smell across the island. so it is starting to spread quickly. the concentrati...

Cnn is getting a birds-eye view of hawaiis erupting mauna loa volcano and the spectacular lava show youre seeing. this is live. it is closing in on a major highway there. lets go straight to cnns david culver live in hawaiis big island. tell us what youre seeing there, sir. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, don. you have that live picture. thats incredible to see, fissure three, the only active and stable flow of lava right now. its just behind us. its that glow up there. you menti...

Issued and no homes or communities are threatened. the volcano is spewing hazardous gases created volcanic smog down wind. the amount of ash appears to be significantly reduced. the aviation alert has been downgraded from red to orange. temporary flight restrictions around the volcano remain in place. officials also say theyve seen an increase in people trespassing in the restricted area around the volcano. they say it is not only dangerous because there is crevices and lava tubes you can fall i...

Lava flowing from the worlds largest volcano continues to approach Hawaiis largest islands main highway, drawing concern from officials.

But the word i keep using it awe-inspiring. and the live pictures is beautiful to see. molten rock just flowing like water. what opportunities does this present for your research and what more we all then could learn about the earth? >> yeah, obviously a big opportunity to try to understand how volcanos erupt and shield volcanos like we have here, but also now that we have this very large lava flow that is erupting from the northeast. that is an opportunity to understand lava flow hazards. so, y...

Flowing like water. >> reporter: which has already crossed one volcano road. power lines and all. a searing slight right through it. >> the heat you feel as soon as you get close to it. and you look at this rushing flow, it is like a river. you see the current of lava. >> reporter: darren estimates it moving 30 to 40 miles per hour. >> but this in all, there is nothing like this just spewing from the top. >> reporter: it is just incredible to be up there in person. and the lava moving really fas...

At. its that way on the opposite side of the subdivision. >> reporter: dorothy invited us to where her home now sits, buried under 60 feet of lava. you can see a metal street light fused into the rock. four years after kilauea did this, she still walks it as if hes on her old street with her old neighbors. >> i assume youre all dispersed after that. >> yeah, we lost that sense of community is what we lost, in addition to the homes. >> reporter: mauna loas eruption, an emotional trigger for dorot...

Were on the road before sunrise, quickly realizing we can already spot our destination some 30 miles out. there you see it. thatw, mauna loa erupting. to give you a better view, we go up in the morning dark. paradise helicopters daryn hamilton, our pilot and guide, giving us rare access. >> we see the volcano, just off the eastern side there at about the 1:00 position. >> reporter: having flown in military hot zones, daryn even admits this is fire power like no other. >> what was it like the fir...

Are too high. on the ground officials watching the impact on saddle road, the main highway that connects the east and west of the island. erupting last sunday for the first time in 38 years, mauna loa, the worlds largest active volcano is one of five that make up hawaiis big eye hand. neighboring kilauea also active, that no longer shooting lava to the surface like it did in 2013. >> were on the street where my house was at. its that way, on the opposite side of the subdivision. >> reporter: dor...