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The world watching this story. over 1,000 missing according to the governor's last statement on that. given the fact that a lot of the power is back up on the island, a lot of the communication is back up you think we would have heard from those folks by now. and what's especially grievous is when you think about how many children were home that day. i'm hearing again and again from kids, there was no school when the fire hit, a lot of young ones were with their brand parents or someone else while the parents worked. so you can imagine the agony in those families, if they haven't found their c...

>> reporter: the first wave of 150 fema agents arrived on the island friday, 90 of them search specialists, looking through homes, businesses and cars. this is front street. without a proper evacuation order, people in a desperate attempt to outrun the flames got into their cars and took to the road, but the fire quickly caught up. you could see the desperation in how these cars are lined up. we're talking dozens as far as you can see. there was so much panic as the fire hit. sources close to the search tell me the death toll could be in the hundreds. >> if that's what they're telling you, i w...

Warnings, but first our team standing by in maui. tom llamas leads off our coverage tonight and joining us with breaking news. >> reporter: lester, we just learned maui and hawaii emergency management did not sound off those sirens, which could have let residents know danger was approaching. alerts did go out via phones and on broadcast tv and radio, but we just got back from flying over lahaina, and i can tell you, once that fire hit, there was almost no escape. tonight, the return to lahaina, residents allowed back in, and we saw from the skies above the shock that awaits them. >> even at 40...

The Philippine Postal Corp. (PHLPost) formally accepted the office equipment and computers given by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in solidarity with efforts to mitigate the effects of the fire that razed the near-century-old Manila Central Post Office Building.

Firefighters able to penetrate fire-hit Grand Residences building