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That's become active again tonight. you're seeing all of this. what are you learning? >> reporter: right, what we've just learned, erin, is that there is a fissure that had slowed down in productivity of lava and increased its productivity now at the middle of this fissure system that is producing lava inside leilani estates, they say now that is encroaching on some treats there, so they're keeping there eyes on that. on top of that the lava has entered the ocean in three different places, crossing the highway. if issues come up with that they could airlift people out there. but most people ha...

There. they're keeping everything away. now they say they're stable, monitoring for sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide and detected none of that and asking people in the east area to be prepared to voluntarily evacuate if necessary to get out of there if conditions do change here. all of this as we >> we continue to see there are are more and numerous ash explosions from the summit of kilauea. i know that the lava fountain behind me is not as big today as it was yesterday, but it all can come back stronger, so that's what we've been continuing to watch here as this moves on here, wolf. >> goi...

Now? >> what i can tell you now is that some of that lava flow has has broken up into three channels that are entering the pacific ocean. i can see it from here. the plume coming up from it is very large and it is cascading away with the strong winds that we're having here today. that's one thing. we know some of the fissures have become reinvigorated and are spewing forth lava. they're keeping their eyes on that ask the summit because ash explosions continue to happen up there. and they are accompanied by earthquakes as well so ash plumes are another thick to be concerned with besides the lav...

A vulcanologist from oxford university we asked him whether a large eruption is now inevitable and is a very. it's a volcanic eruption every fifty one hundred years and the last eruption was nine hundred sixty three and so what the president of the eruption is very much like in one nine hundred sixty three where the eruption began semen and ash explosions and then the reports are. now in the ninety sixty three eruption. eruption did escalate but only about after about a month of background activity so it's certainly possible that iraq will become larger and it's been very well managed at the m...