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Buildings. >> reporter: these volcanic vents continue to ravage the community of leilani estates, opening along the lower rift zone of the kilauea volcano. there is the circular house where you can see where the lava first broke out. you can see that it is still smoldering, surrounded by the dead trees that were burned there. >> the fissures are breaking open over the rift zone now. pretty much every morning -- >> reporter: the destruction snakes across the landscape in waves of black. we head about 15 miles to the source. ho all of this began when the vent of kilauea collapsed. >> it collapse...

Expected. certainly folks really taking this very serious when it comes to additional fissures being reported, removing people from that area. and of course when you're on an island, there is only so much you can do to get away from a certain threat zone. that's something they're watching carefully. historically, this is a geological work all taking place and essentially history taking place as well. you can go back to 5.1 million years ago. that's when the oldest islands in hawaii, and that's kauai. and oh roi what 3.4 million years old. maui as young as 1.3 million years old. and the big isl...

Not the other way around. >> dana: fox noose alert on the disaster -- fox news alert on the disaster of the big island in hawaii where a powerful volcano shows no sign to slow down. it is sparking dozens of evacuations, william la jeunesse live on the big island. tell us what it is like there. it looks horrible. >> yeah. the conditions are pretty bad a mile away from where i am at. the police will not let us in the subdivision. but you remember we had two major earthquakes last week in this area. and there has been multiple eruptions since then from the kilauea volcano. in the neighborhood, we...

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Two new fissures have opened up. high emission of sulfur dioxide is coming out of those fissures. an eruption is supposed to take place at the summit. here is a map of the earthquake activity. here is the kilauea summit. here is the communities last week were evacuated from. this is called the east rift zone where the heavier population is as opposed to the summit of the volcano. focus on the green dots. these are the previous fissures. this dot up here 16 and 17. they are away from a lot of the other ones that poses its own new threats because this is now an area has not had to deal with the ...