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Inside and most of the reason that we see interruptions in service is because of debris flying around in the wind that then knocks out poles or knocks out some of their towers. because of that, they have crews stacked for 24 hours looking for that, looking to restore service and similarly in other parts of the state, as well. overall, this is a very bizarre thing and that is why we have seen in all of our social media, l.a. county, san diego, all of them putting out, fema, the state of california, putting out messages itting people to be prepared because no one looks at the weather in august, ...

Season. that's a state, people that are used to storms like this, preparing for storms like this. again, california, nevada not places that are used to that. with that in mind, what are you most worried about looking ahead in the next 24 hours? >> one of the things to worry about is that people as they see the hurricane downgrade, they dismiss it as not being a major event. the reality is this will be a wind event, this will be a major flooding event. and it's typically water in places like florida, louisiana, across the gulf coast. it's the flooding and water that begins to take lives. all en...

This is not a wind event. this is a rain event. we do have tropical storm watches already in effect. those will get bumped to tropical storm warnings probably tomorrow, as the storm does get closer. here we go. big storm in very warm water. but then it farther to the north. and as it gets farther to the north, it loses that warm water, and it loses its wind power. it's not going to lose its rain effect. it's not going to lose all the power it can have here. these areas here, category 4 for flash flooding event. there's only 4% of the days in america with this type of purple. and 37% of all the...

Take on a third party to investigate what happened, looking at the preparedness, looking at the response. why weren't key emergency management officials on the ground during the fire. all of that part of the investigation. meanwhile, there has been another lawsuit filed against hawaiian electorate, the main power provided, on the island, with the allegation that the fire was started, based on their equipment. and that there was years of mismanagement, that could've prevented this, mainly, shutting off the power before this huge wind event that we got happened on this island. so, now we'll go t...

Prevent this? >> so, i think, yasmin, this actually turns quickly into two questions. one is of the long term and two is of the short term. both equally important to figure out why this happened in the first place. the long term consists of what you just mentioned, talking about infrastructure improvements based on reporting that was done at the time. this is years ago. so, these lawsuits were now up to five, by the way, allege gross mismanagement. not only of the short term situation, of the wind event that we got, but also the long term of hearing that there may need to be great civilization...