In hawaii, hasjust given this update. Its a very, very sad day in hawaii. It is devastating. And i know many families on maui are struggling right now as well as many Family Members across the state. We want to send our heartfelt love to them and our prayers to them. I am going to talk with two hats on, from here at the Convention Centre, we set up to accommodate 2,000 people. As the planes were leaving from maui, we realised that some of the people, in fact, a lot of the people that were coming to 0ahu from maui had made their own accommodation. We have a set up here that would accommodate 2,000 people. I want to really thank the team here because terry 0rton from the Convention Centre was here at four oclock in the Morning Setting up. They are doing an incrediblejob. People have been up all night. I really want to thank them for all of the work that they did, the red cross has been here helping us, nicky from the red cross. Thank you to all of those people. John monaghan and jerry gi
Hi there, thank you for being with us. We begin with an ongoing tragedy in hawaii. At least 36 people have died in wildfires and President Joe Biden has issued a major Disaster Declaration. Hawaiis governor says it was the deadliest Natural Disaster for hawaii for generations and he expects the number of deaths to go up significantly. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and hospitals are treating patients for burns and smoke inhalation. Our North America correspondent nomia iqbal has this report. Much of the Hawaiian Island of maui is now scorched earth. A pilot can hardly believe what hes seeing. Oh, my gosh, look at the harbour this looks like baghdad or something. The Historic Town of lahaina barely exists any more. Since the fire began on tuesday, it has ripped through, fuelled by Hurricane Force winds, leaving burnt out cars on once busy streets, and instead of historic buildings, there are Smoking Piles of rubble. Everybody still out here, its time to go for
cheering making the final footsteps towards realising their dreams. how are you feeling? feeling great! jon goodwin and mother and daughter duo keisha schahaff and ana mayers make their way to the spaceship unity. then at 8.30 local time, lift off, on schedule and in perfect conditions. this is the momentjon goodwin has been waiting for a quarter of his life. he is now on his way to space on virgin galactic s first private passenger flight. three, two, one. release, release, release. and this is what it s all about, as the spaceship unity hit apogee more than 50 miles above the earth s surface. congratulations tojon, to keisha, to ana on becoming astronauts today. and a special congratulations to our unity pilot kelly for her first space flight. ..three minutes of weightlessness and views of our planet that only astronauts have ever experienced. you are so much more connected to everything
have become virgin galactic s first space tourists. the trio were flown to the edge of space and experienced zero gravity, before returning to earth. sophie long reports from the spaceport in new mexico. cheering. making the final footsteps towards realising their dreams. how are you feeling? feeling great! jon goodwin and mother and daughter duo keisha schahaff and ana mayers make their way to the spaceship unity. then, at 8.30 local time, lift off on schedule and in perfect conditions. this is the momentjon goodwin has been waiting for a quarter of his life. he is now on his way to space on virgin galactic s first private passenger flight. three, two, one, release, release, release. and this is what it s all about. as the spaceship unity hit apogee more than 50 miles above the earth s surface. congratulations tojon, to keisha, to ana on becoming astronauts today. and a special congratulations
to our unity pilot kelly for her first space flight. three minutes of weightlessness and views of our planet that only astronauts have ever experienced. you are so much more connected to everything than you would expect to be. like, you felt like a part of the team, a part of the ship, a part of the universe, a part of earth. it was incredible. we welcome our crew back as they come in for landing. as unity glided back down to the new mexico desert, there was jubilation and relief. i m still up there and it s just amazing that you can land so smoothly on the runway, coming back from space. safely back on earth, jon told me his experience was better than he ever imagined it would be. looking at earth from space, the curvature of the earth, the blackness of space the pure clarity was amazing.