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Town is gone. People who live there say there were no warning sirens to alert them as the flames moved towards their homes. Billions of dollars it is going to cost to repair the damage. It is going to take many years to do that. Many of the one of the most Famous Landmarks In Lahaina is the largest banyan tree in the us. It is a majestic fig tree, 150 years old. It was a big tourist attraction. Look at it now. All burnt. Their branches are damaged by the flames. Just a bit of the history of that area left standing. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed. The worst hit area has been lahaina,...

Windy night. 600 thousand people receiving voluntary evacuation notices. number of injured jumped up to 20. we know there is at left one building collapse. roads were closed. several cars were damaged or flipped over. and that's just the beginning of what crews are seeing as they head out this morning to assess. meanwhile, this storm is taking a turn for the rain-soaked mainland. the southern island of kyushu. it is very mountainous terrain and communities built up at the base of the mountains at the rivers. so the concern here on the ground, as this typhoon moves in, and prepares to dump a wh...

Recruiting for isis. and live to tokyo bracing for a powerful typhoon. and the breaking news of major escalations in fighting between israel and hamas and the growing threat of an all-out war.

Well. they were put on alert at the t typhoon, which meant they had to stay not side. no reports of injuries that we know of from the base. >> good to know that. will ripley in tokyo, thank you. chad myers is tracking the typhoon for us. what's the latest, chad? >> it is a very dangerous storm. though losing strength, getting dry air wrapped in from china mainland here and so now the eye is not as distinct. but that still doesn't mean this is a very big surge. think of how sandy died and still had a huge surge because at one point in time, sandy was about a cat 4, cat 5. that's what this was, ...

They still call it typhoon. no longer a super typhoon because it's not above 150 anymore, it's 145, like we'll split hairs at 145. making landfall somewhere close to danang. can you explain where you are and what you have been seeing and hearing? >> reporter: yeah, we're on the island on the central islands of the philippines. we're here because of the earthquake that came through about three weeks ago. so people were severely damaged over 34,000 homes destroyed as the typhoon came through, most of those people were living in temporary shelters or under tarpaulins. we had them moving into wh...