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Please. five days on, the true scale of hawaii's disaster is becoming clearer. john sudworth, bbc news, maui. the focus is now on getting aid to survivors. my colleague helena humphrey is in maui. monica, we are here on the road to lahaina. this is as close as we can get. you can see the last police checkpoint here behind me stop right now they are only allowing emergency workers in and there are some concerns as well about the smouldering ruins and the potential for any smouldering ruins and the potentialfor any kind of potential for any kind of flareup in terms of the fires and you only have...

Impacted to apply for federal assistance. you can go to disasterassistance.gov and for people missing family members, there are still hundreds missing. they have set up a family assistance center at the community center, about 2 miles from where we are right now. we're at kings cathedral, another shelter where they have about 30 to 40 people still inside because so many people are actually starting to move to hotel rooms. they set aside 500 rooms for people most impacted. the sad things is not knowing for family members who are desperate to know what happened to their loved one. we have talked...

>> i lost my uncle, tony, and his wife and his daughter >> reporter: he and his wife attended church just a few miles outside the burn zone as they start to process all they've lost >> you just have to look to the lord you just trust in the end he has a purpose for us >> and tom, on top of all this i know folks are paying close attention to another storm churning in the pacific. >> reporter: yeah. it's the last thing hawaii needs right now, but hurricane fernanda is heading toward this chain of islands. the chief of police here in maui tells me they are monitoring the storm, they are worried a...