At least 93 people have been killed, hundreds more remain unaccounted for after the most destructive wildfire the nation has seen in over 100 years, engulfing large parts of the west coast of maui. as rescue recovery efforts are continuing throughout the coming days and weeks, questions are being raised about the islands emergency management system and how it s sirens not being activated during the blaze may have contributed to the rising death toll. white governor, josh greene, addresses with my colleague, jonathan capehart, earlier on msnbc. as the sirens, we ll know soon whether or not they did enough to get those sirens going. there is massive destruction in telecommunications. otherwise, we ourselves are to communicate with each other, like we always do, within seconds on our cell phones. we ll make sure we get to all the answers that people deserve. so, we had hopes to speak with maui county council chair, alice lee, about the siren issue. she had to cancel for parents,
With alicia menendez. thank you so much reverend sharpton. menendez hello everyone, i m alicia menendez, coming and they are tonight with breaking news l of maui, where the death toll has risen to 93. sadly, officials fear that number will rise. these are now the deadliest wildfires in modern u.s. history. here s hawaii s governor, josh greene, earlier today, on msnbc. if they need, they need our love. they need our embrace, and they need resources. right now, we are still in the throes of the acute phase of this recovery. meaning that we are still recovering the tragic loss of life, and the bodies that were, that were previously here in hawaii. it s a war zone. as the death toll rises, and rescue recovery efforts expand, there s also a growing push for accountability across hawaii, three law firms have already filed a class action suit against the electric company on
Damage from the hurricane, hurricane ian , an army of recovery workers are on the ground. can staged. ul as you can see. this wasl before like three football fields full ofese all these electric companies to go and make repairs and restored power that was there before% the storm. they have now restoredof over 8% of the state s damaged electrical grid. ery ef and as wfoe speak around the clock, rescue recovery efforts all acrosse the state are continuing, all while democrats in washington, they typicallyyand that play pos and that s what they re doing. on friday, vice president kamala harrisrrican announced the federal government would be doling out takeicane reliefe funds on the basis of race, all in the name of equity. n take a look. i know we are all thinking about the families in florida,nd in puerto rico, with fiona in and what we need to do to helpod them in terms of an immediate response and aid. r lowe st it is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impactedx
Army of recovery workers are on the ground, well staged as you can see. this was before, like three football fields, full of all these electric cost to go and make repairs and restore power. that was there before the storm. they have now restored over 80% of the state s damaged electrical grid. as we speak around the clock, rescue recovery efforts across the state are continuing. all while democrats in washington, they typically play politics, and that s what they re doing. on friday, vice president kamala harris announced the federal government would be doling out hurricane relief funds on the basis of race. all in the name of equity. take a look. i know we are all thinking about the families in florida and puerto rico, with fiona, and what we need to do to help them in terms of an immediate response and aid. it is our lowest income communities, our communities of color, that are most impacted by these extreme conditions, and
And the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are completely devastated. they are house by house because they have to go to that debris to make sure they are looking for people who can hopefully still be alive in there and we can get to rescuing. president biden says he will visit florida on wednesday but tomorrow he and the first lady are reeling if is in puerto rico still reeling from tiana two weeks ago. 138,000 households remain without electricity. msnbc news reporter joining us from fort myers beach. we begin with you, liz. let s get the latest on the rescue recovery efforts what are you seeing and what are the numbers? alex, crews are working around the clock, still so many unaccounted for and in the county where we are, one of the hardest hit, you can see behind me the demolition crew that already came in from miami.
Joined by florida senator rick scott is with us. senator, let s talk about the rescue recovery efforts. i know the state of florida, we ve been putting it up on the screen. if people know relatives, friends, that might be trapped, there is an input web site, we ll put it up on the screen where people can go and put it up, and i think it s, what is it, floridadisasterfund.org. sean it s floridadisaster.org. first my heart goes out to everybody impacted. i hope everybody s safe our first responders will get to you as quickly as possible. i ve been talking to sheriffs, mayors, police chief fire and rescue across the state and they re committed to getting to people as quickly as they can. great coordination between local state and federal. i talked to the fema administrator yesterday the lady that runs southeast for fema are committed to doing everything they can, the state s doing everything. so hopefully everybody stays safe. don t do anything foolish. and then we ve got to look at
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Place you lived, the place you ve grown up in this state? this is something that we never, ever, ever expected. you know, we re from the bahamas. and so we know that we get hurricanes. but, you know, we feel i think we have this strong building code, and that s going to save us. but in this case, that didn t do much for us. i mean, it s absolutely heartbreaking. i could never have imagined. i know that before the prime minister first officially announced that there were confirmed deaths, i was hoping with everything in my that there would not be deaths. and of course that s not the case. i don t know where the death toll is going to be. i have kind of come to grips with the fact that there are deaths now, and lots of them. it s just a horrible situation there. jared higgs, thank you for everything you re doing with the rescue recovery efforts, and good luck. best wishes to you and to your family there. thank you. up next, the summer of
From the governor of north carolina and how rescue recovery efforts are going along and also where were you 10 years ago this weekend when lehman brothers went down and the financial meltdown we ll explore that but obviously the focus will be on the hurricane but on the political storm brewing between those who held the secretary of state john kerry is some saying maybe a presidential campaign of his own has been very critical of this administration and its approach to foreign policy in particular dealing with iran that triggered a in-your-face response from the secretary of state mike pompeo, and following it all, in d.c. sir? reporter: neil, secretary pompeo unloaded on his predecessor for meeting iran s foreign minister accusing john kerry of actively undermining u.s. policy against the state sponsor of terrorism. what secretary kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented. this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world s