Driver fatigue is being investigated as a contributing factor in a single vehicle roll-over in Northern Johnson County that resulted in the deaths of two people.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says at around 3AM Monday (October 16th), 55-year old Sonja Foote and 52-year old Ricki Foote, both from Was
Come this weekend and wash a lot of that into the sea right there, and so you ve got these search and recovery teams picking through this, looking at sort of the granular level, while outside people are just crushed and they know that that fatality count is going to mount by the day, and the number of missing still exceeds a thousand. with noses 40 times more powerful than ours, a trained cadaver dog can smell a body buried 15 feet deep, but in lahaina the challenge for these good boys and girls is not depth, but breadth, as they work three and a half square miles of ash and loss. for their handlers, this is painstaking, heartbreaking work. for the dogs, it s hot and hazardous. easy, easy. who is this? this is prentiss. hi, prentiss. prentiss is a boy?
Residents frustrated. right now the maui community is helping the maui community, and i m really it s really affected me because where is the president? he decides to come here this week, to come here next week. i mean, like where aren t we americans, too? like we re part of the united states, but why are we getting put in the back pocket? why are we being ignored? the mayor of maui county tells cnn that as of this morning 45% of the burn zone has been searched. so they are making progress every day, but it is a slow, daunting task. cnn s bill weir is on maui with the latest. reporter: here on maui as that fatality count tics up a little bit at a time day by day, it s the number of missing that weighs so heavy on the hearts of people here and really around
Ongoing effort. reporter: here on maui as the fatality count ticks up day by day, it is the number of missing that weighs so heavy on the hearts of people here and really around the world watching this story. over 1,000 missing according to the governor s last statement on that and given the fact that lot of the power is back up, a lot of the communication is back up, you d think we would have heard from those folks by now. and what is especially grievous is when you think about how many children were home that gaday. there was no school. a lot of young ones were with the grandparents or someone else while the parents worked. so you can imagine the agony in those families if they haven t found their children. i spoke actually to a veteran urban search and rescue officer from fema in hawaii from the houston area and he says that some 90 disasters that he s addressed in his career, this is
And tonight, the state s main electric provider is also facing a new lawsuit, alleging that its power lines caused the fires. joining me now to discuss is hawaii governor josh green. governor, thank you for being here tonight. i know that you have been working on this, you have some news for us today. what is the latest on the ground in hawaii? well thank you, and thank you for your prayers. our fatality count is at 101 now. we ve completed 27% of the search and rescue, as far as territory goes. and we now have 185 search and rescue individuals on the ground, plus 20 dogs. so, we re going to push through the recovery much more quickly now, hopefully by the end of this weekend, much of it will be done. so, that s one thing. also, i ll be making a major announcement here locally, but i will share with you now also nationally. we will be opening the road. i ve ordered the road to be opened, to connect all of maui again. so that all of our people can begin to recover. i was with my chief of staff, and team yesterday in west maui,