Mounting about why residents werent given more warning. Whether more should been done to alert people, to what the governor says, will likely be the largest Natural Disaster in state history. Nbcs joining us from maui, lets talk the latest on the search for survivors. Is it still being classified as a Recovery Operation . How are they looking at their . This is still a Search And Rescue effort. You may have seen me spinning around as this was happening. That is because the road behind me has just opened up. This road has been shut down due to a curfew for the last few hours. Really, overnight, stay lit a few people in yesterday. Then they shut it all down all of a sudden yesterday. People have been waiting here for hours, since 3 00 in the afternoon yesterday. It is now 5 00 in the morning. This is finally opening. This is a huge deal to folks. They are still waiting to get into see their homes. Maybe reunite with people that are missing. This is happening as we speak. I will tell you
into see their homes. maybe reunite with people that are missing. this is happening as we speak. i will tell you that search and rescue effort is, certainly, the primary operation. things are getting desperate. a lot of it is shifting to recovery. more and more cadaver dogs, teams that are now diving into these buildings that they were not able to get access to. unequivocally they will find more dead. again, you re looking at this live. people now, for the first-time, getting to go back in. they will likely see the ruins and remains of their community. take a look at what we found. take a l ook atthis morning, the grim rey setting in. residents returning to the charred neighborhoods where their homes wanted. why is governor saying it looked like an atomic bomb hit. warning locals to brace themselves. everybody lost everything. we don t know how to feel. the view from above showing the apocalyptic scene it was left of a raging wildfire swept through the island tuesday taking nearly