Street because the pavement was so hot. I have seconddegree burns on the bottom of my feet. Reporter amid the tragedy, a silver lining, as this couple sifted through the rubble of their home searching for their wedding rings. He found it . One, we are still looking for the other one reporter meanwhile at the airport, tourists desperate to get home, thanking the locals who helped them reach safety. One of them said, there nothing else they can do, they cant get to their home, they know that their family is safe. So i might as well be here to help. Reporter as for those returning home, hawaiis governor, going on local television sharing that residents from lahaina can now visit their property and see what is left of it. Several locals that we met with, already on their way. Larry amazing they found their wedding ring. Two newlyweds from santa rosa tell may tell abc 7 is about their honeymoon in paradise. They were forced to evacuate. Cornell bernard tells us what kept them them,. Them calm. Reporter just days after the newlyweds tied the kno the couple was off to maui for their dream honeymoon, which was anything but. We went from planning the perfect honeymoon to planning how to actually escape from the fires. Reporter once they arrived at their hotel on monday, the weather quickly changed. The winds were crazy. I remember seeing at the some of the chairs were starting to blow over. Reporter she says tuesday evening, the wildfires began. Smoke and flames could be seen from the couples patio. There was no communication. Reporter the power failed and cell phones to network. There wasnt really any food at the hotel because there was no power. Reporter they stood at hours at this Grocery Store getting food and ice but the couple says living through the 2017 north by wildfires taught them to be calm and vigilant. Honestly, santa rosa fires and the strong winds, we stayed in the hotel lobby, taking shifts. Reporter they made their choice to head to the airport with theirlahaina airport, but with lahaina in flames, the main road was closed. It probably took around one hour, 20 minutes. It was a very scary road. Reporter they made it and got a flight to honolulu where they spoke with us from the airport. But with no return flights available to the bay area, they flew back to maui where the tsa line was long. Courtney says a small price to pay after maui families have suffered unimaginable loss and tragedy. Clearly our hearts go out to all the people of lahaina, the families that lost their homes. The families of the people that lost their lives. Reporter cornell bernard, abc7 news. Kristen a convoy loaded with relief supplies has arrived in west maui and that didnt take long for locals to come looking for help. All of it handed out to thousands of needy residents of lahaina. Many citizens kept coming with bags in hand grateful for assistance. What do you guys need right now . Food, gas, water, anything, clothes. Supplies, hygiene, who knows . Anything can help. Kristen some Restaurant Owners have begun pitching and by serving free food to those in need. A major challenge is getting foods and goods related to the people who are still stranded in lahaina since roads are blocked off. Larry searchandrescue teams from the bay area are in hawaii to help with the recovery effort. This volunteer boarded a flight to hollander this morning. Hes done similar work for 18 years including disaster deployments after floods, and hurricanes and fires all over the u. S. He will spend the next two weeks assisting the folks in hawaii. I think the physical separation of the islands is going to be a unix challenge a unix challenge. I never had to deal with that kind of situation when i was in orlando for the Hurricane Ian response. I could drive county to county. Here, we are going to have to fly from island to island. Larry , joining a number of national and local search and recovery teams. He will be working with government officials to coordinate what needs to be done by the red cross. Kristen lets go live to maui where abc News Reporter melissa don who has been covering this developing story joins us live with an update from the island. Melissa. Reporter devastating out here with the firefights. We want to be clear here, in maui, where we are, there are three separate fires burning. They are close to fully containing all three of them burning on this island. Kristen i see those cars behind you, the area into lahainas still closed. What are you hearing and learning from people there . The biggest update has been from hawaiis governor and mauis mayor, allowing for residents to finally go back to their homes. This is 30. Now are left with that difficult task to make it back to survey their property and to see what is possibly left of it. Kristen are we at the point where searchandrescue is still going on . Kristen, stark. 1000 people that the governor says are still unaccounted for. There could be a lot of variables to this. One instance being because cooms comms are still down, they are still working on that. They might just be missing, thats a hopeful news. Right now we are seeing if seeing emergency officials come in, things are touch and go as they continue to search for victims. Kristen while thats going on, those who survived the fire have a lot of needs. We know fema administrators expect to meet with state and local officials. Can we talk about what the priorities are right now . Definitely. First and foremost, fema, as we know in california, they deal with this often for wildfires. They have a massive task at hand because of the amount of people in need. We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of people that need shelter. Femas working to find quick temporary shelter for the next few weeks or months because rebuilding here is going to take years. Kristen it has the challenge of bringing equipment, construction materials, all of that adds to the challenges. In terms of housing people, i know the governor has talked about, if you can open up your home so shelter people, please do that. Im not sure if thats actually happening or Hotels Opening up to people. What are you hearing . Reporter . As of right now, the hotels are working. If you know the people of hawaii and you know what ohana means, ohana means family. This is throughout all the different islands. I have not yet heard directly of someone taking someone in. But i would be hardpressed to find that they have not already taken in some residents who have lost their homes. Kristen it is that ohana spirit. Thank you so much. If you would like to help with the wildfire relief efforts, you can make a 10 donation to the red cross by texting red cross to 90999. You can also give by calling the red cross at 1800redcross. The American Red CrossNorthern CaliforniaCoastal Region has deployed people to the fire zone, where they are focusing on helping find shelter for evacuees. Larry a summertime as summertime ends, kids are going back to school and the bay area is facing another covid surge. It is driving hospitalizations across the country, not as bad as the past surges, though. Our south bay reported dustin dorsey, with more information from a panel of experts about what you can do to keep yourself and loved ones safe. Reporter back again like it never left. Im sorry of covert fatigue, but the virus is not fatigued, we have put the pandemic word aside but that does not mean that we have put the virus aside. Reporter a word of warning as wastewater data positive tests and hospitalizations rise nationwide. Dr. Peter chen hong is what we have seen the biggest search we have seen since covid first emerged. We may end up with a situation of a smaller rise in the summer and the bigger one in the winter. Reporter the covid wastewater data since 2021 shows high winters and summers with jepson between. With dips in between. Everything on the radar is one of the offspring of xvb. Reporter the virus receptors are evading reception and is waiting at the same time warm weather is bringing people and doors and crowds are gathering for large events. Theres an uptick in cases in ireland, the u. K. , france, japan, brazil, australia, new zealand. No matter where you go. Then concerts like taylor s bringing people together. Reporter he says the best way to shake off the swell is to take full advantage of protections in place like paxlovid for patients in high risk and the monovalent vaccine said to come out mid to late september. He said you should keep masking in crowded areas. We have to take care of all populations and make sure everybody has access and ability to get these tools. Reporter dustin dorsey, abc7 news. Kristen if you happen to smell smoke in the east bay today, this could be why. The Protection District is hosting a 150 acre wildland Fire Training exercise with more than 100 firefighters from across the bay area. The training is taking place on the painted rock land trust between lafayette and moraga. And has a couple of benefits to help fire crews practice suppression skills but also remove hazardous fuels in grassland areas. Today is bringing together a lot of components to pull together a successful training operation and enhance the resources and fire safety here for the town of moraga. Kristen the fire is expected to burn through 5 p. M. This afternoon. Crews will remain on the scene to mop up the area. Larry the San FranciscoPolice Department has made a significant arrest. The departments narcotic unit says officers seized more than five pounds of drugs as well as a ghost gun during the arrest of 20 marcus carcamo wednesday at his home in oakland. They confiscated nearly 220 grams of fentanyl, 150 grams of rock cocaine, 72 grams of meth and feta main, 30 grams of heroin, and more than 58,000 in cash. Kristen given the green light, a look at what we can expect now that robo taxis are approved to pick up rides for here or rights for higher in San Francisco. How to navigate around the devastating wildfires in maui if you have travel plans to the islands. Andthe new trend some say makes them a more present parent, but there are risks. Meteorologist had a few isolated showers this morning. They are long gone. We are in for a warming trend. I will be back with the weekend forecast coming up when abc7 news at 4 p. Im with it i gotta good feeling about this yeah, so lets get it im feeling good vibes introducing togos new frech dip sandwiches. 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Larry robo toxic companies were given the green light to operate 24 7 and begin charging riders in San Francisco. Leah melendez has taken and cars operated by both companies. Your reports on these Driverless Cars are so fantastic. I would put you in one of those cars every day to see what happens. What does the road ahead actually look like . You should come with me one of these days. [laughter] the road ahead was actually pretty quiet today. We knew that we had been told they were not immediately going to flood the streets with their Driverless Cars. But we did learn today the price to ride one of them is by now we know the outcome of the vote favored the driverless companies. 24 hours later, waymo test drivers were still getting in their cars collecting data. Cruise was doing the same. Here we are the day after the vote. We noticed the floodgates have not really opened. Ive seen the same number of Autonomous Vehicles on the streets of San Francisco. On the app, Driverless Cars with passengers on board are still only operating from 9 p. M. To 5 30 a. M. , even though they are now allowed to pick up paid rides 24 7. I will probably continue to use it. Reporter do you think the price is right . I dont know what the prices are. Reporter that was put out after yesterdays vote. The price starts at five dollars and charges . 90 per mile and . 40 per minute, with tax included, the cost for a 13 minute ride is 12. 50. Now, compare that to uber and lyft, same starting drop off location, both were slightly more expensive. During yesterdays hearing, the cpuc said it will collect data from the two companies, stating loosely that the oversight will continue. I expect industry to engage in ongoing dialogue with First Responders to resolve issues as they arise. Reporter the president of the board of supervisors had hope for a broader oversight. They did not make that an actual enforceable condition which wouldve met some of San Franciscos desires. So we are disappointed. But we want them to reconsider. We are going to ask them to rehear this matter and we will be filing the appropriate paperwork to have a rehearing. Reporter the supervisor told me the fight is not over. One thing stood out yesterday, two labor unions came to support the driverless companies. Thats because the unions representing the San Francisco electrical workers and the janitors struck a deal with cruise, and we believe this is the first Labor Agreement in this new industry. Will waymo follow . Possibly. We will see. I will pick you up after 9 p. M. , larry. [laughter] larry who knows where we will end up . Thats the problem. Kristen thats the surprise and fun of it. Today, august 11th is known as national 811 day. Pg e is raising awareness to mark before you dig, calling on its customers to call 811 before making any Home Improvements to there front and back yards involving any type of digging. It doesnt matter how big or small the project is. Pg e crews will mark underground utility lines using Specialized Technology for free. If you dont call 811 and you do your project and you hit one of our lines, it can be a big safety hazard. The Fire Department response. It might impact our gas lines. Kristen repairing a damaged you totally line could cost up to 3500. They are there. Called him. Call them. That it was kind of cool. Larry bright as your address. The sun will be out. Meteorologist it will be nice and warm inland, just temperatures rising over the weekend. L lets get you outside. It is absolutely gorgeous from our exploratory in camera. We are seeing the sun underway. Tomorrow, partly sunny, 63 degrees. You know how it is wi fog. It is touch and go and breezy. Always a good idea to grab an extra layer. We have the usual fog here. Earlier this morning, it got interesting. Leftover moisture made its way across the monterey bay and had a couple of light showers move through parts of the south bay. San jose measured a trace of an inch. It is still triggering active weather. Just keeping an eye on that for the time being. One thing we are noticing is it is still a little bit muggy too humid outside with dew points in the 50s and 60s. It is bright and sunny. 65 in the city, 71 oakland, upper 70s for san jose, palo alto. You can see a combination of the fog and the sunshine. Thats pretty much what you will see this weekend with a bump up in those numbers. 82 santa rosa, mid 80s around concord and livermore. Santa cruz, looking nice right now. Coastal fog spreads overnight. A warming trend this weekend. The hottest days will be early next week. The fog will push in across parts of the bay tomorrow morning. We start out with that fog and later in the afternoon and evening there still could be some wraparound high clouds that come back from the system that is still just meandering around the state. Temperatures in the morning, in the 50s and 60s. Watch out for the fog tomorrow afternoon. Plenty of sun in the south. The south bay. 64 pacifica, a nice day in San Francisco, 68 degrees. In the north bay, mid from sun refiled to novato. 74 oakland. 82 fremont. Inland, it gets warm. 93 livermore, 92 concord. Temperatures are in the mid 90s this weekend inland, coast side, in the 60s. Next week, triple digits showing up for the hottest inland valleys. The beauty of the bay area is our microclimate. 60s at the beaches. We are not expecting any extreme weather. Kristen thank you. Larry it may not come as a a surprise. Families are spending more money on essentials. But now we are learning about how much more. I look at the family budget. 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