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Crews are searching some 2000 burnt businesses and homes but, thejob is not yet 50% complete. while the exact cause of the wildfires is being investigated mounting evidence shows downed powerlines could have played a role. here's the bbc'sjohn sudworth. maui's fight continues. this pilot, hovering above a swimming pool. now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. these homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this bird sanctuary captured a bright flash. staff believe it...

And we had no way to get out because the roads were blocked. the fire was blocking anything that didn't have a tree falling on it. and the shelters that people had gone to were having to be evacuated because the fires were taking over the shelters. it was apocalyptic. we've never seen anything like it. >> you didn't sleep at all last night. >> i haven't slept. no. no. i was on my roof all night just waiting for the go. my kids were downstairs sleeping and i was just ready to go at any moment. if the flames got too close. >> what is your concern about -- i mean, what is your back-up plan? there...

And a very, very senior trump administration official, arouar anderson, called it, quote, bullshit. he was not the only one who said that to me today, anderson. >> gloria, what are your sources telling you about how declassification actually works compared to what happened in the trump white house? >> the source i spoke to familiar with this process in the trump white house said that, look, the president can say i want something declassified. that's fine. but what has to happen is it has to be memorialized. there has to be a record of it. it has to be run through the paces of various agencies,...

Agency declassifying, the president would direct the head of the agency to declassify the documents. that would result in a written finding. people have to know if something has been declassified. if the president announces it unilaterally in the secrecy of the white house, it's like a tree falling in the forest. no one knows it. there's a separate process for declassifying information concerning nuclear weapons, that requires others than the president. again, there is a process. i'm not too confident it was followed in this case. >> peter, now to you. the former president says that some of th...

LENOX, Mass. — A New Hampshire man was killed during a severe thunderstorm on Tuesday when a tree fell on his truck. Police Sgt. Michael Smith and Officer Tyler Bosworth were dispatched...