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at least 99 people lost their lives. using first—hand accounts corroborated by video on the ground, we've built up a picture of what happened and how a desperate situation was made worse still by mistakes from authorities. and we've obtained new recordings that indicate a breakdown in communication around where the fallen power lines were live or turned off that led to roadblocks that may have been unnecessary. it's the morning of august 8th, and winds in lahaina are already high. and i started seeing all the cyclones and stuff like that out over the water and i've never seen that ...

roadblocks and debris created a burning maze of trafficjams. traffic is completely stuck and people are going to die here and there's no reason why. trapped in lahaina as it burned to the ground. it's criminal, what happened. people lost their lives that wouldn't have lost their lives. and then why they did close the road, i think that's something a lot of people want to know. you know, better preparation, right? i mean, that's what everybody is pointing to. and who should take responsibility for that? lahaina is the gem of the hawaiian island of maui, a tourist hot spot with huge cu...

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solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and in many cases actually were wealthie...

solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and in ma...