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Its the largest Natural Disaster that our state has seen. Thats becoming evident quite quickly. That is the governor of hawaii, josh green, and new this morning, cnn is on the ground in lahaina. Our crew there captured these aerial shots from a helicopter, and what it shows is utter devastation. The head of fema is set to travel to hawaii today. This thousand the second deadliest wildfire in recent u. S. History, and it could soon become the deadliest Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. This is drone video of the long lines of traffic, of cars, people trying to get back into lahaina. A lot of them are wondering if their homes are still standing. Heres cnns mike valario. Reporter one of the things that doesnt come through with all of the new images is the pine people are feeling. First responders helping evacuees, what will happen to the soul of lahaina with so much of it gone and so many of its people still missing. Its all gone. Reporter a sobering response from maui countys mayor, richard bisson. Its all burned to the ground. Reporter its only been a few days since wildfires lit up the sky. You can see fire raining down from the sky and things are igniting all around. Reporter the images fresh in the minds of survivors. Its an extremely traumatic experience. Theres a lot of emotion and trauma thats going to have to be dealt with for the whole community. Its the largest Natural Disaster that our state has seen. Reporter Rebuilding Lahaina will be a massive effort, according to Hawaii Governor josh green. It is going to take many years. When you see the full extent of the destruction of lahaina, it will shock you. Reporter these Satellite Images show the extent of the damage to lahaina, before the catastrophe and after. Nearly every home, building and business decimated. It really looked like a war zone. Reporter one of the many businesses destroyed, belonged to tiffany nguyen, the owner of whalers locker gift shop. This is so devastating. I think lahaina and all of hawaii has a special place in everybodys hearts. Its such a tight knit community. Reporter President Joe Biden issuing a federal disaster declaration, allowing federal aid to help the state and members of the coast guard and National Guard joining local efforts to help. The national gauard as activated 134 personnel, 35 from the air National Guard to assist with the hawaii wildfire response. Reporter and as the residents of maui piece their lives back together, a reminder. We are maui strong. We will get through this. We will be better. We will make this the safest, best community possible. Reporter and as we start friday, so many of the phone lines across maui are still down. Getting them working again will help rescuers and First Responders figure out how many people are still missing, and that could be an agonizing unknown that may last for days. Poppy, victor. Thank you for the reporting. Lets talk about that now. Its unclear how high the death toll could go here. As mike pointed out, police in maui do not know how many people are actually missing. How many people are still missing at this hour . So honestly, we dont know, and heres the challenge. Theres no power. Theres no internet. Theres no Radio Coverage until we get some of those basic things set up, were not going to have that number. Reporter tim williams family, they have not heard from him since he sent this photo of the Inferno Closing in as he was evacuating. Hes a disabled veteran who uses a wheelchair and crutches to walk. Lindas family in massachusetts says that they have not heard from her since the fire destroyed her apartment, and theyre even more concerned because she has health issues. She doesnt get around very well. She needs some assistance, and i just hope that someone was able to get to her and help her to evacuate. Theyre looking, but we have not heard anything yet. And from what ive seen, it looks like their Apartment Complex is completely gone. Adding to the tragedy here, some survivors say they either didnt get Evacuation Orders or the orders came too late. A brush fire spotted early on tuesday at 8 30 a. M. Local time, the county Facebook Page put out this message ordering evacuations around lahaina intermediate school. You see the school marked on the map here, which ended up not being the area most impacted. 90 minutes later, the county says the fire is 100 contained. Another evacuation message doesnt go out for 5 1 2 hours. Cole millington lost his home and business in the fires. He joins us now. Cole, i am so sorry for all you have lost. What happened as you tried to escape . I can run you through the whole situation of the afternoon and kind of what happened for the next couple of hours and days. I would say at about 4 00 in the afternoon, i looked out my Bedroom Window and i saw a huge plume of black smoke. I immediately told my roommates, i said, hey, you know, this looks pretty serious, maybe we should start packing bags, thinking about leaving and within 15 minutes of talking about that and seeing the smoke, we were running down into our cars, anything we can grab, go bags, mostly nothing. I got my passport and my dog and my truck, and we were peeling out of the driveway, the whole street was starting to catch on fire. There wasnt really an Evacuation Notice for us. It was more we realized the town and our street looked like it was going to burn. My phone got one ping as i was getting into my truck, and that was the only Evacuation Notice we had. I got in my truck, got my dog in the truck, we start driving down the road, and theres, i mean, the whole time theres 90 Miles Per Hour winds and crazy stuff like that. Theres Telephone Poles in the road, theres trees in the road. Theres people screaming in the streets. Theres no one saying this is where you should go, this is what you should do. Theres one road in and out of lahaina, its drive towards the fire or drive away from the fire. I got in a line of cars probably, i dont know, 5 miles deep at that point already. Everyone was trying to get out. And i sent you guys some videos. I dont know if youve seen them. We have. Theres pictures of me showing my Rear View Mirror and side mirror as im in the truck, and you can see the fire going across the road in fires. Im sure people had to get out of their car and start running. It happened so unbelievably quickly that it was really difficult, really scary. Cole, let me ask you if you had waited to move, make a decision to leave after you received that ping as you described it on your phone, do you think you would have made it out safely . I probably wouldnt have been able to grab anything in my house. I dont know if i would have been able to find my car keys, my phone, my dog food, whatever. It pinged me as i was getting in my truck to leave. That warning was useless. We have tsunami warnings that i think should have been utilized. I think this could have been handled so much better in so many ways. So many of us residents felt like we had absolutely no warning. And what about now . I mean, i know youre staying with friends, do you even have enough supplies, food, et cetera . Are you getting what you need from the government . Im not getting what i need from the government. The community on maui is extremely strong, and the Crowd Funding and the Community Effort to support each other right now is so unbelievably immense. Its chaotic and extremely hard to organize. Who meets where. A lot of Big Box Stores are running out of supplies and things are starting to get a little weird after Natural Disaster happen like that. A lot of people are spending their hard earned money and taking their personal vehicles and driving to lahaina to deliver supplies because were not receiving, in any capacity that we need to be receiving on a large level. We showed some of that video at the top of people who were driving back into lahaina. Were low on time but i dont want to run out of time before you talk to us about this go fund me thats set up for people who want to help you and others rebuild and restart. Yeah, theres a lot of confusion on where money can go. It would be helpful in hawaii, my first order of business yesterday when i woke up. I have been awake for 72 hours. Ive taken a couple of cat naps. Our first order of business was i have a local business. I have a good reach on the island, i have a good reach across the United States. My first order of business is im going to set up a fundraiser to collect funds. This isnt going to be a couple of days or a couple of weeks. You guys are showing the videos. This is going to be months long, years long. My goal is to crowd fund as much as possible. Im working with the relief foundation. You can find it on relieffoundation. Org. They work in the haiti disaster. They worked with houston during that flooding and that hurricane disaster. They worked in katrina, the japan earthquake, and i got in contact with them. Theyre helping me kind of figure out how this money isnt going to get taxed away and not to me personally. Its going straight to friends and family who have literally nothing. I want to interject one last thing, a lot of the community has asked me to tell you guys because they know im on air, we need support on the federal level. We should have the navy here. We should have the coast guard here. We should have hospielicopters. It shouldnt be Me And My Friends Driving through a burning town to get there. We need real support, this is a severe disaster. We know the fema administrator is in route there today, a National Disaster has been declared there, a federal disaster as well. Im gog ting to tweet out the l. Relieffoundation. Org is the organization . Yeah, you can find the donate button. They set up the web site to show my stuff. Im going to work with local Community Nonprofits and local leaders and people who are in tune with the community to figure out how to best use the funding. I was talking to maui Rapid Response has been doing a phenomenal job of telling people what is needed and what is not needed and where. I have been in contact with them. I was in contact with the west side rep. Im trying to get information to make sure this is really effective. Absolutely. Cole millington, thank you for spending time with us. I understand youre there with more than a dozen people at a friends house, and its going to take a long time to rebuild. We wish you the absolute best, and well check back in. Cole, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you guys for having me. What a shining example of stepping up to the moment. Hes collecting money not for himself but for others, for the organization trying to help. Anyone who wants to help can. The Special Counsel investigating former President Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Composing A Trial Date of january 2nd, 2024, two weeks before the iowa caucuses, how trump is responding. And speaking of iowa, the republican president ial hopefuls are there at the Iowa State Fair, flipping pork chops and paying homage to a butter cow. Well go there live plus, well tell you which candidate just made that debatete stage. Tablet Beeping hi. Hey. Are you ready for your Virirtual Tour . Yeah, id love to see it. upbeat music continues vo Verizon Small Business days are back. 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