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Is disasters are getting bigger. part of it is the storms are producing more rain and are more intense, so we have two problems here. we're growing our risk too fast, and the storms are getting worst and trying to build systems big enough, that's the challenge, and as we saw last year, three back to back hurricanes, you started running out of people and stuff very early in that response, and that's a big challenge to overcome. >> reporter: all right, what's your sense of, you know, for people who have seen it from your perspective, we sort of think of these storms as coming and going. again in...

Power has also saved honolulu and oahu because the storm has lost power, which has allowed the trade winds to push it westward away from the islands. as the mayor of honolulu said, honolulu dodged a bullet here, but there have been big problems, as we just talked about. all that rain down on the big island and then three brush fires on another big island on maui, and one was over 1,500 acres. we don't know what started the fires, but the winds whipped up the flames. seven houses destroyed or damaged down there. so, dodging a bullet, but there is still a lot more rain to come. i just looked at ...

Storm hits sometimes the next few hours. moving north. first place it hit, the big island and it hit hard. 40 inches of rain in places. that is described as catastrophic. the flooding is really immense down there, and also the land, the ground is now so waterlogged, any new rainfall can immediately be a flash flood. we've had landslides down there. there are roads closed, tourists about to be rescued from rental homes down there and if you move further north, maui is being hit. wildfires there and heavy rain and expected to move north towards oahu. the good news, at some point the eye of the s...

Exploded. it's more than 3,000 acres. campgrounds, roads closed. a lot of mountain communities are under serious threat. thousands of firefighters scrambling to slow it down. the terrain and weather is making it tough. two firefighters have been hurt bringing the total to four. thankfully they are all expected to make a full recovery. the photographer here noah berger for the associated press. yosemite one of the best places on the planet. more to come online on insta, facebook, twitter. i'll report with lester holt from the white house north lawn inspect that's where i'm headed now. ali and s...

In houston. >> getting ready to head over to a man whose truck was high in floodwaters. >> and she was doing this while her station was broadcasting while water was rushing into the first floor of their station. it just led me to ask, who are these enemies of the american people and how helpful is his rhetoric. i have been a journalist for a long time, i don't want to go around saying that all journalists are heroes. but the point that needs to be made here is that journalists are human, and we saw an army of journalists descend on houston with the interest in wanting to help people. whether i...