Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that
been sparked by hawaiian electric s power lines. that is the company named in these three lawsuits. they claim that the company should have deenergized those power lines with the fire threat due to those high winds. that is a practice we usually see in california, certain power companies will notify residents they are shutting down the power so that in the event that equipment fails or power lines go down, it prevents the likelihood of a fire starting. so that s part of the investigation. right now, crews, though, however are still focused at the decimated site where they are still sifting through the rubble, trying to find countless others. we know at least eight people we have been able to identify. we are still working to learn the names of other people. they are still trying to identify those people through dna samples, chris. dana griffin, thank you for that update. now to the very fast schang