ABOUT THEIR HARROWING ESCAPE IN JUST A MOMENT. BUT FIRST, THE HUMAN TOLL AND AN ISLAND BEGINNING NOW JUST TO SEE THE FULL EXTENT OF THE DEVASTATION. >> ABC'S GIO BENITEZ IS ON MAUI. NEIGHBORHOODS ON MAUI TONIGHT, IN RUINS. FIRE RAVAGED COMMUNITIES REDUCED TO RUBBLE, EMBERS STILL SMOLDERING. THOSE EXPLOSIVE FIRES CLAIMING DOZENS OF LIVES AND FEARS. TONIGHT MORE BODIES WILL FOUND AT SUNUP. WE HEADED OUT BY BOAT TO SEE FIRSTHAND THE STAGGERING DESTRUCTION OF HAWAII'S ONE TIME CAPITAL. WHILE HIDING ITS SHORELINE SCORCHED. >> DRAMATIC NEW DRONE VIDEO SHOWING HUNDREDS OF HOMES AND IN ASHES. >> RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IN FRONT OF THAT FAMOUS FRONT STREET HERE IN LAHAINA. AND YOU CAN JUST SEE IT IS COMPLETELY. HOME TO SO MANY HISTORICAL LANDMARKS. BUSINESS SAYS SHOPS, RESTAURANTS AND OF COURSE RIGHT THERE IS THAT 150 YEAR OLD BANYAN TREE BELOVED BY MANY HERE. >> WE WALKED THROUGH THE STREETS WITNESSING APOCALYPTIC SCENES. HOMES, APARTMENTS, RESTAURANTS ALL LEVELED. SO WE'VE MADE IT TO A HIGH. THIS IS AS FAR AS WE CAN GET, BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORT. BUT YOU CAN JUST SEE THESE ARE HOMES WERE ONCE AMAZING HOMES RIGHT HERE ON THE WATER, ON STREET, AND THEY'RE JUST GONE. >> AND FOR DAVID ODOM OF OUR ANGELES STATION, KABC, ON THE GROUND HERE TO RIGHT HERE BEHIND IS A CLASSIC LAHAINA NEIGHBORHOOD. AND YOU COULD SEE DEVASTATION IS VAST. MANY HOMES, THIS ONE CITY BLOCK HAVE GONE UP IN FLAMES. >> AL KRIS ESCAPING, BUT FEARING HIS HOME IS GONE. >> IT WAS HUGE BLACK SMOKE BACK THEN AND IT'S UNDESCRIBABLE. TONIGHT, TERRIFYING NEW VIDEO OF THE MOMENTS THOSE FLAMES OVERTOOK TOWN. PEOPLE FORCED TO DRIVE THROUGH WALLS OF FIRE AND SUFFOCATING SMOKE. >> THE HARROWING ESCAPE BROUGHT THROUGH CREW MEMBER DUSTIN JOHNSON RACING TO WARN OTHERS ABOUT THE ONCOMING FLAMES. >> IF ANYBODY IS STILL OUT HERE, THE FIRE IS ON BROAD STREET AND IT IS TIME TO GO. SEAN DOHERTY HAS AMONG THOSE JUMPING INTO THE OCEAN. >> AT ONE POINT, IT SEEMED LIKE MIKE BROWN, INHALED A LOT OF WATER. HE SAYS THE FIRST RESPONDER TOLD THEM TO GET OUT. THE SITUATION WASN'T GOING TO BETTER, BUT DOHERTY WAS NOW BAREFOOT. >> I COULDN'T EVEN MAKE ACROSS THE STREET BECAUSE THE PAVEMENT WAS SO HIGH. AND NOW I HAVE SECOND DEGREE BURNS ON THE BOTTOM OF MY FEET, JUMPING BACK INTO THE WATER, LOSING TRACK OF HIS GIRLFRIEND BECAUSE IT WAS SO DARK AND SMOKY. WE LOST. WE LOST EACH OTHER. I HAD NO CHOICE. >> I HAD TO GET BACK INTO THE WATER. HE IS STILL TRYING TO FIND HER. MULTIPLE FIRES ARE STILL BURNING ON THIS ISLAND. AIR NATIONAL GUARD HELICOPTERS SWOOPING IN. JOINING THE FIREFIGHT IMPORTANT CULTURAL AND HISTORIC LANDMARKS DESTROYED, THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS THAT WERE THERE. >> THE CHURCH, THE PRISON, THE MISSION HOUSE. ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT THINGS ARE GONE FOREVER. >> THEY CAN'T BE REPLACED. THEY CAN'T BE REBUILT. IT'S STILL CLEAR TONIGHT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE MISSING AND HOW MANY HAVE BEEN INJURED. BUT ONE GLIMMER OF HOPE. ON WEDNESDAY, WE MET STEVE SCOTT, WHO GOT SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE, PATRICIA. >> I'M TRYING TO FIND. MY WIFE. I KNOW SHE'S SAFE. I THINK SHE'S SAFE. >> BUT I HAVEN'T FOUND HER YET. LATE WORD TONIGHT IS OKAY, AND THEY ARE NOW REUNITED. >> WELL, THAT IS A BIT OF GOOD NEWS TONIGHT. AND GIO JOINS US NOW FROM MAUI . WHAT STRUCK YOU MOST ABOUT WHAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE SEEN TODAY? WELL, PHIL, IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE HOW MUCH DESTRUCTION THERE IS. I MEAN, IT IS NOT HYPERBOLE WHEN WE CALL IT SCENES FROM. THAT IS QUITE LITERALLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY STRIKES US IS THAT YOU SEE CARS IN THE OF THE STREET. YOU SEE BICYCLES JUST LEFT BEHIND. IT WAS SO CLEAR. PEOPLE JUST HAD SECONDS TO GET AWAY. THEY JUST LEFT EVERYTHING BEHIND, INCLUDING THOSE CARS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. SO IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT THE GOVERNOR, PHIL, THE GOVERNOR OF HAWAII, ACTUALLY JUST WALKED THROUGH LAHAINA AND HE ALSO CALLED TOTAL DEVASTATION. IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO SEE THIS RECOVERS. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A VERY, VERY LONG TIME TO REBUILD LAHAINA AND CERTAINLY SO MUCH OF MAUI. PHIL, JUST SO MUCH DEVASTATION. GIO, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND AS THAT DEVASTATION IS LAID BARE, EFFORTS ARE ALSO UNDERWAY TO PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER TO THOUSANDS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THESE WILDFIRES. AT THE SAME TIME, MANY HAVE MOVED TO THE AIRPORT IN HOPES OF FINDING A FLIGHT OUT. ABC'S WILL CARR IS AT THE AIRPORT ON MAUI TONIGHT AS THE FIRES CONTINUE TO BURN ACROSS MAUI CHAOTIC SCENES AT THE ISLAND'S MAIN AIRPORT. >> THEY BASICALLY EVACUATED THE. EVERYONE JUST NEEDS TO FIND A WAY TO THE AIRPORT. AIRLINES SAY THEY PULLED MORE THAN 11,000 PASSENGERS AND 400 CREW MEMBERS OUT OF MAUI ALREADY. HUNDREDS MORE SLEEPING IN X-RAY MACHINES, CARTS, ANYWHERE THEY CAN. WE MET CINDY BLANCO FROM OREGON, WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING THE AIRPORT FLOOR WITH HER KIDS SINCE WEDNESDAY. >> YOUR AIRLINE SAID YOU CAN'T GET OUT TILL SATURDAY. WHAT'S YOUR PLAN AT THIS POINT? WELL, I STARTED THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO CAMP AT THE AIRPORT WITH KIDS FOR TWO DAYS. SO I GOT US A RENTAL CAR. WE'RE GOING TO SLEEP IN THE MINIVAN FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. OKAY. YOU GOT ANOTHER BUCK COMING ON OVERNIGHT. >> THIS SHELTER TAKING IN MULTIPLE NURSING HOME, EVACUATED BY SCHOOL BUS. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING RIGHT NOW FROM. YOU KNOW, LET ME MEET 1:00 IN THE EVENING. >> ALREADY AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS FERRYING DONATED SUPPLIES TO STRANDED FAMILIES FOR PEOPLE ON THE MAINLAND WHO DON'T HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING AS TO JUST HOW BAD IT IS. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT? IT'S DEVASTATING. >> DEVASTATING. BACK AT THE AIRPORT, VOLUNTEERS HANDING OUT MEALS. >> THIS IS JUST WHAT WE DO. FREEZE, WHETHER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL FAMILY HERE. AND IT'S ABOUT ALOHA SPIRIT. YEAH, LIKE A LITTLE LOVE AND I GUESS PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES AND MAYBE SOME OF THESE FOLKS ALSO LIKE, LOST THEIR PERFECT VACATION HERE AT THE AIRPORT. SAY, I DON'T KNOW, BUT SO THIS EVERYTHING LIKE IT'S DEVASTATING. >> SO MANY LOOKING TO HELP WHERE THEY CAN. WILL JOINS ME NOW FROM THE AIRPORT IN MAUI WIL. WHAT ARE THE AIRLINES SAYING ABOUT GETTING SOME OF THESE PASSENGERS AT LEAST ONTO PLANES ? PHIL, THE AIRLINES SAY THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TONIGHT TO HELP. UNITED CANCELED ALL OF ITS INBOUND FLIGHTS. THEY'RE SENDING EMPTY PLANES TO COME HELP PICK UP SO MANY OF THESE STRANDED PASSENGERS. THIS AIRPORT IS JAM PACKED AND THERE NO ROOMS LEFT ON THIS ISLAND. SO SOME OF THESE PASSENGERS MAY FIND THEMSELVES SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR HERE AT THE AIRPORT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THEY ARE A GOOD PERSPECTIVE ON IT, THOUGH, SAYING THAT THEIR HEARTS GO OUT TO THE PEOPLE ON THIS ISLAND WHO LOST EVERYTHING. BILL WILL CARR FROM THE AIRPORT IN MAUI WILL, THANK YOU. >> FOR MORE NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME IN PASTOR COWIE. HE AND HIS WIFE, SHAYLA OF KING'S CHAPEL IN HARD HIT LAHAINA. WE UNDERSTAND IT HAS BEEN A BRUTAL AND EMOTIONAL COUPLE OF DAYS. I JUST WANT TO SAY. IT'S GOOD TO SEE BOTH OF YOU LOOKING AT LEAST PHYSICALLY. WELL, AS WE KNOW WHAT THE DAMAGE IS LIKE THERE ON THE ISLAND. SO THANKS FOR JOINING US. >> YOU BOTH ESCAPED YOUR HOME WITH YOUR TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WHEN THE WILDFIRE ENGULFED YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. >> FIRST, IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT THE CONDITIONS WERE LIKE AND THEN, HOW FAST DID THE DANGER ESCALATE? >> YOU? IT WAS REALLY FAST. OUR NEIGHBOR CAME OVER. THANK YOU, J.J.. OUR NEIGHBOR CAME OVER AND HE HE LET US KNOW THAT THE FIRE WAS RIGHT ABOVE US. THAT, OH, NOW. AND ONE OF OUR STREET NAMES IN LINE. AND WE SO WE GOT A FEW THINGS AND GOT IN THE CAR. AND WHEN WE DIDN'T WANT TO, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO GET STUCK IN TRAFFIC AND SO WE GOT CHILDREN, OUR DOG, AND JUMPED IN THE CAR AND I TOLD MY HUSBAND TO HEAD TOWARD DAD'S WHO LIVE IN WAIKAPU AND TRAFFIC WAS JUST CONGESTED. EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO LEAVE. S, TURNING ON THE FRONT STREET. NOW, WHEN WE REACH FRONT STREET ,I MEAN, THE FIRE HAD ALREADY CROSSED OVER PAST OUR HOUSE ONTO FRONT STREET, AND THEN YOU JUST SEEN BUILDINGS ON FIRE ON THE FRONT STREET, CARS JUST BEING ENGULFED IN. AND I ALMOST TOOK A WRONG TURN WHEN MY WIFE TOLD ME TO GO LEFT. YOU KNOW AND THEY DON'T GOING LEFT AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS GOING IN LINE AND INSTEAD OF LEAVING LINE ENDED UP GETTING STUCK THERE. BUILDINGS STARTED FALLING APART AND ALL WE JUST HAD IT ALL. AND I MEAN, IS JUST BEHIND US AND WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD TOWARDS WAILUKU. I MEAN, IT'S JUST CLEAR SKIES AND BEHIND US, THE SKY IS JUST DARK BLACK EVERYTHING. AND WE'RE JUST GOING UP IN FLAMES. AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN EVACUATED WERE JUST WALKING AROUND AND WE'RE LIKE LOOKING LIKE YOU SHOULD LEAVING AND YOU KNOW WELL YOU KNOW, I JUST KIND OF FELT LIKE PEOPLE WERE KIND OF GIVING UP. THEY JUST WEREN'T, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET OUT. I IT WAS SUCH A WEIRD FEELING OF EERIE FEELING. I CAN HEAR THE EMOTION, OBVIOUSLY, AND SEE IT IN YOUR FACE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A TRAUMA FOR EVERYBODY WHO HAS EXPERIENCED IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, FIRST, YOU BOTH ARE PARENTS. >> AND AS A FATHER, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND? IT WAS OBVIOUSLY SECURING YOUR FAMILY RIGHT. >> YEAH. JUST GETTING MY FAMILY ALL. YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE. I'M SORRY ABOUT YOUR HOME. YOU KNOW, I DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT MY HOME. MY HOME IS REPLACEABLE. I LEFT WITH WHAT WAS. AND THAT'S MY FAMILY. YOU KNOW, AND IT BREAKS MY HEART THAT A LOT OF FAMILIES DIDN'T HAVE WHAT I HAD TO LEAVE WITH MY FAMILY. A LOT OF FAMILIES DIDN'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE WITH THEIR FAMILY. YOU KNOW I YOU KNOW, MY HEART JUST BREAKS FOR THEM, YOU KNOW? >> YEAH, WELL MINE DOES AS WELL. BUT I'M SO GLAD YOUR IS IS INTACT TONIGHT, AT LEAST PHYSICALLY. YOU KNOW, YOUR CHURCH IN THE LINO WAS AMONG THE BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN THE FIRE. BUT PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE THE KIND OF DAMAGE YOU SAW IN THIS HISTORIC COMMUNITY THAT YOU LOVE SO MUCH. YOU WELL, THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, I KNOW. WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE PULLING TOGETHER TO TRY TO GO BACK AND GET THE SUPPLIES THAT PEOPLE NEED. AND WE WERE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. YOU KNOW, OUR OUR CHURCH HAS BEEN MOBILIZED WE WERE THANKFUL TO BE PART OF A BIG CHURCH. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE MANY LOCATIONS THAT ARE SO OUR CHURCH AND CARL LEWIS HELPING IN THE EFFORTS TO GET SUPPLIES TOGETHER. AND AS SOON AS WE GET THE GREEN TO GO IN TO GET SUPPLIES ,THE HOMES IN KAHANA AND THE PILI AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL IN THERE WILL WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT. AND WE'RE PROVIDING A PLACE TO STAY FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING OUT. >> YOU BOTH ARE NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND WE KNOW THE ISLANDS ARE A PLACE DEEP SPIRITUALITY. WHAT ROLE WILL FAITH PLAY NOT ONLY FOR YOU, BUT PEOPLE ON THAT ISLAND AS? >> THE RECOVERY BEGINS OVER THE NEXT DAYS, WEEKS AND YEARS AHEAD. WELL, JUST BRINGING COMFORT, YOU KNOW, AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW YOU KNOW, ONE THING WE, YOU KNOW. KING WHO WE'RE FAMILY OR PERSON OR CHURCH, YOU KNOW, WE GET INVOLVED WITH OUR COMMUNITY . YOU KNOW, WE LOG ON PEOPLE AND WE JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE THERE FOR THEM. >> WELL, I'M SO HEARTENED TO KNOW THAT YOUR FAMILY IS IS TOGETHER. AND YOU DO YOU DO HAVE EVERYTHING NEAR THAT IS REALLY IRREPLACEABLE WITH YOU TONIGHT. PASTOR KAWAI AND CHAYA KAHI, YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US AND WE WISH YOU THE VERY IN THE RECOVERY AHEAD. ALL. >> THANK YOU. GOD BLESS. BLESS. NOW TO THE METEOROLOGY AT OUR HONOLULU STATION, KITV MALIKA DUDLEY, WHO IS MONITORING THE WILDFIRES AND OF COURSE, THE WEATHER DRIVING MALIKA YES, LOCAL. >> THERE ARE STILL THREE ACTIVE FIRES. THE LINE OF FIRE, FORTUNATELY, IS 80% CONTAINED. THE FIRE IN KIHEI IS 70% CONTAINED. AND LINDA, WE'RE STILL ASSESSING THAT. YOU CAN SEE THE FIRES HERE ON THE MAP. THE WINDS ARE STARTING TO DIE DOWN, BUT REMAIN GUSTY IN SPOTS. BUT WE HAVE SEEN SOME RAIN SHOWERS AND WINDWARD AREAS, THE LARGELY NOT IN THE AREAS THAT NEED IT MOST. WE STILL HAVE DROUGHT CONDITIONS ACROSS BY EVEN THE WORST OF IT IS RIGHT HERE IN MAUI WHERE WE'RE FACING MODERATE TO SEVERE DROUGHT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S OUR DRY SEASON. WHILE ANY RAIN IS GOING TO HELP, WE ARE RUNNING AT A DEFICIT AND DRY BRUSH IS FUEL FOR THOSE FIRES TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD. WE'RE ALSO MOVING INTO THE PEAK OF HURRICANE SEASON. DORA, WHICH PASSED SOUTH OF HERE, BUT WAS THE CAUSE OF OUR HIGH WINDS, IS OUT AND MORE TYPICAL TREATMENT WEATHER IS BEGINNING TO FILL. SO THERE IS SOME THERE ARE SOME POSITIVE THINGS OF NOTE WHEN IT COMES TO WEATHER AND THE CURRENT FIRE, BUT WE ARE JUST GUIDED BY WHAT WE'RE SEEING BEHIND US. >> ALL RIGHT. MALIKA DUDLEY FROM KITV, THANK YOU. FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL BATTLING FLAMES ALL ACROSS MAUI ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT HALEAKALA. HOMES AND BUSINESSES HAVE ALSO TO THE GROUND. OUR BECKY WORLEY, WHO GREW UP ON MAUI, IS IN THE TOWN OF KULA, WHERE SOME RESIDENTS ARE UNABLE TO GET BACK TO THEIR HOMES TO SEE THEY'RE EVEN STILL STANDING TONIGHT. >> THIS IS THE DEVASTATE REALITY FOR SO MANY COMMUNITIES ACROSS MAUI. >> THIS IS THE TOWN OF KULA, 35 MILES EAST OF LAHAINA. FIREFIGHTERS BATTLING FLARE UPS. >> THIS WAS A HOME FOR DAYS, FIRES ROARING THROUGH THIS RESIDENTIAL AND AREA ON THE SLOPES OF HALEAKALA VOLCANO. NOW, HOMES AND BUSINESSES BURNED TO THE GROUND FROM THE. YOU CAN SEE IT, THE HOMES STILL SMOLDERING, GONE. SOME OF THE ROADS BLOCKED. MANY EVACUATED RESIDENTS HAVE NO IDEA THEIR HOMES ARE STILL STANDING. >> NANCY GARNETT HAS BEEN EVACUATED. THREE TIMES. AUTHORITIES HAVE TOLD HER IT IS SAFE ENOUGH TO GO BACK NOW, BUT SHE KNOWS IT COULD CHANGE AT ANY MINUTE. BUT I HAVE LOST FRIENDS LINE AND TWO PEOPLE DIED THIS MORNING, THEIR HOUSE. AND I'M JUST I'VE BEEN HERE 48 YEARS AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I GREW UP HERE ON MAUI. AND TO THINK OF THE DAMAGE IN LAHAINA, IT'S UNIMAGINABLE. AND TO HEAR THE FEAR IN THE VOICES OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY HERE IN UPCOUNTRY MAUI IN THE STILL ONGOING, IT'S JUST HARD TO WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND. BUT I DO KNOW THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS ALREADY RALLYING FOR OTHER AND MAUI WILL COME BACK STRONG. >> ABSOLUTELY. WORLEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND NOW TO ONE OF THE THOUSANDS WHOSE LIVES BEEN THROWN INTO CHAOS, LOSING NOT ONLY HIS HOME IN LAHAINA, BUT ALSO HIS ART GALLERY BUSINESS THAT WAS SET TO OPEN TODAY. REPORTER JEREMY LEE FROM OUR STATION KITV. >> TONIGHT, SO MANY LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS SHATTERED. WITH NOWHERE TO GO, RUBY MAZER IS LIVING OUT OF THIS U-HAUL WITH HIS SONS. HE HAD JUST MOVED HIS ART GALLERY FROM OAHU TO LAHAINA AND WAS GETTING READY TO OPEN HIS DOORS TODAY. >> WE FOUND THIS AMAZING LOCATION ON FRONT STREET. THEY CAME THE DAY BEFORE THE FIRE WANTING TO BUY IT, AND THEY SAID, WELL, COME BACK TOMORROW BECAUSE WE'LL BE OFFICIALLY OUT THIS TOMORROW AND EVERY DAY. >> HIS NEW GALLERY WAS DESTROYED. >> FLAMES RIPPED DOWN FRONT STREET. IT'S OVER. IT'S GONE. >> IT'S COMPLETELY. IT'S A WAR ZONE. LAHAINA. A MECCA FOR ARTISTS AND ART LOVERS. FRONT STREET, HOME TO ABOUT TWO DOZEN ART GALLERIES, HIT HARD SMACK. THE LIFETIME OF WORK GONE. >> REPORTER JEREMY LEE FROM OUR STATION KITV. MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS REPORTEDLY PROVED AS A DISASTER DECLARATION FOR HAWAII DURING HIS REMARKS IN SALT LAKE CITY TODAY, HE HE TOOK A MOMENT TO ADDRESS THE DEVASTATING FIRES. >> WE'RE WORKING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO FIGHT THESE FIRES AND EVACUATE RESIDENTS, TOURISTS. IN THE MEANTIME, OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAWAII, BUT NOT JUST OUR PRAYERS. EVERY ASSET WE HAVE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THEM. AND WE'VE SEEN IT IN THEIR HOMES. BUSINESS DESTROYED AND SOME HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. >> AND IT'S NOT OVER YET. >> ABC'S CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE HAS BEEN MONITORING THE FEDERAL RESPONSE HERE. MARY, WHAT TYPE OF AID IS BEING DEPLOYED? >> WELL, PHIL, BY ORDERING UP ALL FEDERAL ASSETS AVAILABLE ON THE ISLAND, IT MEANS THAT TONIGHT THE COAST GUARD, ARMY AND NAVY ARE ALL NOW ASSISTING AND HELPING LOCAL RESPONSE GROUPS. THE HAWAII NATIONAL ALSO ACTIVATING OVER 130 GUARDSMEN AND THE ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO DEPLOYING CHINOOK AND BLACKHAWK HELICOPTERS, AMONG OTHERS, HELP IN THE FIREFIGHTING. FEMA IS ALSO SURGING PERSONNEL TO THE ISLAND TO HELP THOSE SURVIVORS ACCESS FEDERAL ASSISTANCE. PRESIDENT DIRECTING THOSE IN NEED TO THE WEBSITE DISASTER ASSISTANCE DOT GOV TO LEARN WHAT HELP MAY BE AVAILABLE. BILL. ALL RIGHT. >> MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. MARY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. MORE TO GET YOU HERE TONIGHT ON PRIME VIDEO OF AN ARREST AT A RESTAURANT IS SPARKING OUTRAGE AFTER A IS WRONGFULLY ARRESTED WITH A BABY IN HIS ARMS. WHY MISTOOK HIM FOR ONE OF THE REAL SUSPECTS? FIVE AMERICANS FREED FROM IRANIAN PRISONS. WHY IT COULD STILL TAKE THEM TO GET HOME. BUT NEXT, NEW DETAILS ABOUT A UTAH MAN KILLED BY POLICE DURING A STANDOFF AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> WHENEVER NEWS BREAKS THE CRUSHING OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, HERE IN KENTUCKY, NO MATCH FOR THE TORNADO. 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YOUR ABC NEWS LOS. >> WELCOME BACK. WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER NEWS TO REPORT FOR YOU TONIGHT, INCLUDING A DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGH BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN. IRAN HAS FREED FIVE AMERICANS FROM PRISON FOR NOW. THE FIVE MUST REMAIN THERE IN IRAN UNDER HOUSE ARREST. >> BUT U.S. SAY IT'S THE START OF, QUOTE, A PROCESS THAT COULD THE AMERICANS HOME IN A MATTER OF WEEKS. HERE'S ABC'S CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS MARTHA RADDATZ TONIGHT. >> AFTER MONTHS OF SECRET NEGOTIATIONS FIVE AMERICANS. THE LAST KNOWN PRISONERS HELD BY IRAN FINALLY FREED FROM TEHRAN'S NOTORIOUS EVIN PRISON AFTER YEARS OF INCARCERATION. THREE OF THE AMERICANS, SIAMAK NAMAZI HELD SINCE 2015, MORAD TOBIAS AND EMAD SERGIE ARE ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE, WHICH THEY VEHEMENTLY. THE FOURTH AND FIFTH AMERICANS WANT TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS. ALL FIVE NOW UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN IRAN UNTIL THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. ARE FINALIZED. THAT DEAL CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF $6 BILLION IN OIL REVENUE FROM SOUTH KOREA THAT HAD BEEN TIED UP BY U.S. SANCTIONS. U.S. OFFICIALS SAYING THE MONEY MUST BE USED FOR HUMANITARIAN. >> MY BELIEF IS THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THEIR NIGHTMARE AND THE NIGHTMARE THAT THEIR FAMILIES HAVE EXPERIENCED. >> AND MARTHA JOINS ME NOW. MARTHA, WHAT ARE U.S. OFFICIALS ABOUT WHEN THESE HOSTAGES MIGHT FINALLY GET TO COME HOME? >> WELL, PHIL, IT WILL LIKELY TAKE AT LEAST FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS FOR THAT MONEY TO COME THROUGH AND THE PRISONERS HOPEFULLY BROUGHT BACK TO THE U.S. THEN. THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING TONIGHT THE NEGOTIATIONS REMAIN DELICATE, ALTHOUGH THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN IN CONTACT THE PRISONERS. PHIL MARTHA RADDATZ FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. TONIGHT. MARTHA, YOU. NOW TO THAT DEADLY FBI RAID IN UTAH. SOME NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE UTAH MAN ACCUSED OF THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT BIDEN. PLUS NEW VIDEO OF THAT INCIDENT. ABC'S MOLA LENGHI HAS MORE. TONIGHT, NEW VIDEO CAPTURING, THE DEADLY STANDOFF IN UTAH AS FBI AGENTS TRY TO ARREST A MAN THEY SAY WAS MAKING CREDIBLE THREATS TO KILL PRESIDENT BIDEN. >> VIDEO TAKEN BY A NEIGHBOR SHOWING AGENTS A HOME IN PROVO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING YELLING FOR CRAIG ROBERTSON TO COME OUT. THEN A FLASHBANG GOES OFF. TONIGHT, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABC NEWS ROBERTSON APPEARED TO POINT A GUN AT THE OFFICERS BEFORE. >> AGENTS FATALLY SHOT HIM. GUNSHOT WOUNDS CAN BE APPROXIMATELY 35-YEAR-OLD MALE. A FEDERAL COMPLAINT LISTING DOZENS. ROBERTSON'S ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AMONG THEM IMAGES, A CACHE OF WEAPONS AND MULTIPLE VIOLENT THREATS AGAINST BIDEN AND HIGH PROFILE OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THIS ONE JUST FOUR DAYS AGO. I HEAR BIDEN IS COMING TO UTAH, DIGGING OUT MY OLD GHILLIE SUIT AND, CLEANING THE DUST OFF THE M24 SNIPER RIFLE, AND STILL FBI AGENTS ACTING SWIFTLY BECAUSE. THE PRESIDENT WAS IN SALT LAKE CITY THE LAST TWO DAYS, JUST NORTH OF PROVO, WHERE THAT FBI RAID HAPPENED. THAT SHOOTING IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION. >> PHIL? ALL RIGHT, MOLA, THANK YOU. MEANTIME THERE IS SHOCK IN SOUTH AMERICA AFTER AN ECUADORIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ASSASSINATED AFTER A CAMPAIGN EVENT IN THE CAPITAL OF QUITO. LET'S GO TO ABC'S MATT RIVERS NOW WHO HAS THE LATEST DETAILS ON THE SUSPECTS MATT. >> WELL, WE'VE GOT SOME NEW INFORMATION INTO WHO AUTHORITIES SAY ARE AT LEAST SOME OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FERNANDO VILA. ESSENTIAL ECUADORIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED AT LEAST SIX SUSPECTS THAT WE KNOW OF SO FAR. AND STRIKINGLY, THEY ARE COLOMBIAN NATIONALS IN RAIDS TO ARREST THOSE PEOPLE. AUTHORITIES, THEY FOUND, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A RIFLE, A SUBMACHINE GUN, FOUR PISTOLS, THREE GRENADES, FOUR BOXES OF AMMUNITION AND, A VEHICLE REPORTED STOLEN. ARMED FORCES FROM THE ECUADORIAN GOVERNMENT ALSO BEING DEPLOYED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO HAVE A PRESENCE IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, SAY THE GOVERNMENT, UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. A SEVENTH SUSPECT, ALSO COLOMBIAN, WAS KILLED DURING A SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE SHORTLY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION. THAT SHOOTOUT INJURED NINE PEOPLE, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS AND A CANDIDATE FOR THE ECUADORIAN LEGISLATURE. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY STILL DON'T KNOW WHO, QUOTE THE INTELLECTUAL OF THE CRIME ARE, NOR DID THEY HAVE AN EXACT MOTIVEOR THE CRIME. BUT THEY BELIEVE SEVEN SUSPECTS HAVE LINKS TO ORGANIZED CRIME. PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO SAYING HE BELIEVES THE ASSASSINATION WAS CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT SOMEONE OR SOME GROUP TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTIONS, WHICH TO HIM WILL STILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED ON AUGUST. THE INVOLVEMENT OF COLOMBIANS. EERILY REMINISCENT OF THE ASSASSINATION OF HAITI'S PRESIDENT BACK IN JULY 2021, WHEN SOME TWO DOZEN EX-MEMBERS OF COLOMBIA'S MILITARY WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR THAT KILLING. PRESIDENT LASSO SAYS HE HAS REQUESTED THE HELP OF THE FBI IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THIS KILLING, THE LATEST IN AN INCREASINGLY VIOLENT COUNTRY. ECUADOR USED TO BE KNOWN FOR ITS PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO THE LARGER, MORE VIOLENT COUNTRIES IN THE REST OF THE REGION. BUT THAT HAS CHANGED OVER THE LAST YEARS WITH DRUG CARTEL ACTIVITY EXPLODING IN THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING THOSE LINKED TO POWERFUL CARTELS RIGHT HERE IN MEXICO VALLEY. SINCE HE SAID HE'D RECEIVED MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS, AT LEAST ONE CARTEL DUE HE BELIEVED TO THE FACT THAT HE OPENLY AND OFTEN ABOUT CORRUPTION AMONGST ECUADOR'S ELITE, THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZED CRIME. HE RECENTLY SAID HE KNEW HE WAS RISKING HIS LIFE SAYING THOSE SORTS OF THINGS, BUT SAID HE WAS NOT AFRAID AND WOULD NEVER BACK DOWN. >> PHIL? ALL RIGHT. MATT RIVERS TONIGHT. >> MEANTIME, THERE IS STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP, ARRESTED AT EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AND THEN RELEASED, THE TECHNOLOGY, SHE SAYS, LED TO BELIEVE SHE COMMITTED A CRIME. IT WAS ONCE THE KIDS, THE CITY AND NOW IT'S BOOMING BUSINESS. HOW GRAFFITI EVOLVED FROM BEING SEEN AS A CRIME TO TURNING ARTISTS INTO MILLIONAIRES. THIS WAS A VISUAL MOVEMENT THAT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE OF IT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE OF ART, BUT IT HAD SO MUCH INFLUENCE. AND I BROUGHT SO MANY PEOPLE THAT NEVER THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD BE AN ARTIST. BUT NEXT, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE OUT ON THE TRAIL, HOPING TO GET VOTERS ON THEIR SIDE FOR 2024. BUT WHAT AGE DO AMERICANS THINK IS BEST A BEST FIT FOR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT BY THE NUMBERS. >> WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, SO MUCH ON THE LINE, MORE AMERICANS TURN HERE THAN ANY OTHER NEWSCAST. ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH DAVID MUIR, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MOST WATCHED NEWSCAST ACROSS ALL A TELEVISION. >> THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSHING FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL DESTRUCTIVE CAT 4 STORM ALONG I-5. >> BOSTON IS IN THE BULL'S ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAM IN NEWS ANYTIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7. >> STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LAUREN AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS FROM AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS COMES THE ALL NEW ABC NEWS APP. BREAKING NEWS, INCREDIBLE VIDEO FASTER, SMARTER AND CUSTOMIZABLE TO YOUR INTERESTS. YOU LOVE BEING IN THE KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THIS EXPERIENCE. THE NEW ABC NEWS APP DOWNLOAD IT NOW. THIS IS WHERE THE NEWSMAKERS FIRST IN THE MORNING TO BE HEARD. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE MORNING SHOW. HOW WOULD YOUR MOM FEEL ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR BROTHER NOW? I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT FEELS TO GO FROM $20 BILLION TO $100000. YEAH. ARE WORRIED ABOUT GOING TO JAIL. >> YOU WRITE THAT YOU HAD LOW GRADE DEPRESSION. HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF IT? WHEREVER THE STORY. ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA IS RIGHT THERE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION'S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST. STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME TIME BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE, A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE. >> EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. WHAT THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. >> THE CRUSH FAMILIES IN POLAND AT REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM THE CAPITAL THE CAT 4 STORM HIGH FIVE. >> BOSTON IS IN THE BULL'S EYE. LET'S GOT ABC NEWS LIVE. AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS ANYTIME ANYWHERE. STREAMING 24/7 STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. WHEN I GOT SENT TO IDAHO TO COVER THE MURDERS OF FOUR COLLEGE STUDENTS, IT WAS A STORY THAT. DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. FOUR STUDENTS STABBED TO DEATH IN THEIR BEDS WHILE TWO ROOMMATES WERE HOME. YOU GOT TO THINK TO YOURSELF, OKAY, WHO'S THE TARGET? HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE A MAN GOING THROUGH TO GET TO HIS TARGET? I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH WITH ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE STORY OF SAVAGE MURDERS, A DETERMINED SMALL TOWN POLICE FORCE AND A SCHOLAR OF CRIME. THIS IS THE KING ROAD KILLINGS. THE FULL SERIES IS OUT NOW. LISTEN TO EVERY WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. >> EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION'S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. >> WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS. >> WHAT? REPORTING FROM MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA, I'M ROBIN ROBERTS. WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. >> YOU'RE STREAMING ABC NEWS LIVE. WELCOME BACK. IT IS STATE FAIR TIME IN IOWA AND THAT MEANS FRIED FOOD, LIVESTOCK SHOWS AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS. >> NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR GOP PRIMARY CANDIDATE DOUG BURGUM VISITED THE FAIR TO RALLY SUPPORT TODAY. >> FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO ON THE FAIR THIS WEEKEND. BUT AS AMERICAN VOTERS EYE, THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, WHAT AGE DO THEY THINK IS BEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY? >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK BY THE NUMBERS. F AMERICANS SAY THEY WANT SOMEONE IN THEIR FIFTIES, THE OVAL OFFICE. THAT'S ACCORDING TO A RECENT PEW RESEARCH CENTER SURVEY WE'RE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW, THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WILDFIRES, THE DEVASTATING ON MAUI. >> GOVERNOR JOSH GREEN IS SPEAKING LIVE RIGHT NOW. LET'S LISTEN. >> TODAY HAS BEEN CATASTROPHIC ,BUT WE TELL YOU THERE IS GOING TO BE A TEAM EFFORT TO BRING OUR STATE BACK. WHAT WE SAW WAS THE UTTER DEVASTATION OF LAHAINA. WE WALKED FROM END TO END TODAY AS A TEAM MAYOR AND FOR THE COUNTY SENATOR, SHOTS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND MYSELF, PLUS ALL OF OUR TEAMS AND WE SAW WAS LIKELY THE LARGEST NATURAL DISASTER IN HAWAI'I STATE HISTORY. YOU'LL RECALL IN 1960, WE HAD ONE YEAR IN THE STATEHOOD, A TSUNAMI THAT HIT AND TOOK 61, LIVES ON THE BIG ISLAND. WE ARE SEEING LOSS OF LIFE HERE . AS YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER HAS BEEN RISING AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE LOSS OF LIFE. BUT WE HAVE EXTRAORDINARY PROFESSIONALS ON THIS JOB. WE ALSO HAVE SEEN MANY HUNDREDS OF HOMES DESTROYED. AND THAT'S TO TAKE A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TO RECOVER FROM. BUT THAT'S WE COME TOGETHER. WE COME TOGETHER TO GIVE COMFORT TO. AND LIKE I SAID, WE WILL PREVAIL. BUT WE COME TOGETHER NOW TO TALK ABOUT THE SPECIFICS OF RESOURCES. THIS MORNING, AT 12:10 A.M., MY TEAM AND I SUBMITTED THE PROPOSAL TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR A PRESIDENTIAL DISASTER DECLARATION. AND EXACTLY 6 HOURS LATER, WE WERE HONORED TO RECEIVE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE SUPPORTING OUR FULL RECOVERY, WHICH MEANS THAT THERE WILL BE GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS FROM, FEMA. THERE WILL BE SUPPORT FOR RENTAL AID. THERE WILL BE SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. AND THIS JUST A SMALL PIECE OF WHAT'S GOING TO BE NECESSARY. BUT THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS, THE RECOVERY WILL HELP BLUNT THE LOSS OF LIFE, BECAUSE ALL OF US WILL HAVE A LOVED ONE HERE ON MAUI THAT WE KNOW OF THAT LOST A HOUSE THAT LOST A FRIEND. WE TALKED TO MANY PEOPLE TODAY, NOT JUST AT THE SHELTER, WHICH WAS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD. AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THE VOLUNTEERS LIKE WE APPRECIATE THE INCREDIBLE WORK OF THE FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE. BUT WE TALKED TO AN OLD GENTLEMAN WHO HADN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS EVER IN HIS LIFE, A WILDFIRE THAT TOOK A WHOLE CITY. HIS NEIGHBORS HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES. HIS HOME WAS INTACT. HE WAS IN TEARS. THIS IS A GENTLEMAN THAT DOESN'T CRY EASILY. WE SAW YOUNG MEN ON BICYCLES RIDING THROUGH. THEY ALSO HAD MUCH LOSS SHARE. THEY LOST THEIR HOUSES AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN. SO WHAT WE'RE TELLING YOU IS WE WILL REBUILD TODAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM NOT JUST ME AS GOVERNOR, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT SENATOR SHOTS WILL BE ABLE TO BEGIN WORKING ON AND PROPOSING OUR AID. ALSO, WE HAVE EXPERTS FROM FEMA ,OF COURSE, OUR LOCAL LEADERSHIP, OUR STATE SENATOR AND MAYOR. BUT LET ME SAY THIS A COUPLE OF THINGS. WE ARE GOING TO NEED TO HOUSE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. IT'S OUR INTENT TO INITIALLY SEEK 2000 ROOMS SO THAT WE CAN GET HOUSING FOR PEOPLE. THAT WILL MEAN REACHING OUT TO ALL OF OUR HOTELS AND THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY WILL ASK PEOPLE TO THOSE EXTRA ROOMS OR THEIR USE FOR THE THAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR PROPERTY. WE WILL CREATE A PROGRAM SO THAT THAT'S AVAILABLE. IT WILL BE DEEPLY SUBSIDIZED, IN MY OPINION, TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR MANY MONTHS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO FIND A HOME. THEY CAN HAVE A HOME HERE. WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE THE HOTELS . AS WE DO THIS, THEY ARE PART OF OUR ECONOMY AND OUR COMMUNITY. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO CALL TO ACTION FOR PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE. IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL SPACE IN YOUR HOME, IF YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO TAKE SOMEONE IN FROM WEST MAUI, PLEASE DO. WE'LL FIND A WAY TO CONNECT YOU. PLEASE BRINGING THOSE PEOPLE INTO YOUR LIVES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A SPACE THAT YOU CAN OTHERWISE RENT. THE STATE WILL FIND RESOURCES BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE IN FULL SUPPORT. PRESIDENT BIDEN SPOKE TO ME DIRECTLY AND SAID THAT WILL BE HERE WITH US ALL THE WAY. WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS AT THE END. BUT I KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL EXPERTS HERE THAT ARE GOING TO ADDRESS YOU. AND WE UNDERSTAND YOU'RE HUNGRY FOR INFORMATION. LET ME JUST SAY THIS UPFRONT. WE RESPECT THAT. WE KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT YOU DO YOUR JOBS. BUT WE'RE JUST ABOUT 48 HOURS IN AND THERE'S TRAGEDY ON THE ROADSIDE. THERE'S TRAGEDY IN THE HOMES IN LAHAINA. AND WE'RE TRYING TO BE VERY CAREFUL TO RESPECT THE DIGNITY OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD SUCH LOSS. SO IF WE'VE BEEN AT ANY TIME MORE DIFFICULT TO COMMUNICATE. IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO ALSO RESPECT WHAT THEY'VE GONE THROUGH. WE'LL GET YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION AS WE GO FORWARD. SO I'LL PAUSE THERE AND GET BACK TO MAHALO MAYOR AT THIS TIME. I'D TO WELCOME MAUI COUNTY COUNTY MAYOR RICHARD BISSON AS WELL. >> ALL MY LIKE THIS, I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND, GOES THROUGH SEVERAL PHASES. WE HAVE BEEN IN THE PHASE NOW OF FIGHTING FIRES AND SAVING LIVES. I APPRECIATE THE PATIENCE THE MEDIA HAS HAD WITH US, ALLOWING US TO GO THROUGH THAT . SOON WE'LL BE IN THE RECOVERY AND REBUILDING PHASE, AS THE GOVERNOR HAS SPOKEN TO. WE KNOW THAT'S GOING TO A LONG PROCESS. I REALLY WANT TO SPEAK TO OUR CITIZENS, RESIDENTS, OUR VISITORS, OUR BUSINESSES WHO HAVE SUFFERED TREMENDOUS AND PROBABLY INCONSOLABLE GRIEF . I THINK FOR US, THE MESSAGE IS WE'RE GOING TO TRY OUR VERY BEST TO IDENTIFY THOSE THAT HAVE PERISHED SO THAT THE FAMILIES CAN HAVE THAT CLOSURE AND CAN HAVE THAT UNDERSTANDING. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TRY AND CONNECT OUR FAMILIES WITH THOSE WHO ARE IN OUR SHELTERS. AS YOU UNDERSTAND, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. PEOPLE LEFT WITHOUT TAKING ANYTHING WITH THEM. IN MOST CASES, THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. SO NOW WE'RE AT THAT PHASE WHERE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THOSE ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WHETHER THEY'RE AT A HOTEL OR A SHELTER OR, STAYING WITH A FAMILY OR FRIEND THAT WE CAN TRY AND MATCH THEM BACK WITH THEIR FAMILIES. A LOT OF WORK BEING DONE BY ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE HERE TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. AND AGAIN, AS GOVERNOR SPOKE IT ,WE WILL WE WILL REBUILD. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DO. UNTIL YOU SEE THE DEVASTATION THAT WE ALL WITNESSED, MAYBE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS BEFORE THIS MORNING IN PERSON TODAY, IT'S DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE, BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE THAT WILL NEED A LOT OF HELP. AND GOAL AS GOVERNMENT IS TO PROVIDE THAT HELP TO PEOPLE. I DID WAS ALSO SPEAK TO THE FOLKS WHO NOT WHOSE HOMES WERE NOT DAMAGED. AND I KNOW THE QUESTION ON YOUR MIND IS WHEN CAN I GET BACK TO MY HOME? JUST AS SOON AS WE CAN TRY TO PROVIDE THE CERTAINTY THAT WE HAVE RECOVERED THOSE THAT HAVE PERISHED. THAT'S REALLY OUR OUR GOAL RIGHT NOW. WE'RE HOPING TO FIND PEOPLE THAT MIGHT JUST BE INJURED A LOT OF TIME HAS PASSED SINCE THE INCIDENT. SO WE'RE STILL IN THAT PHASE. BUT PLEASE ALLOW US TO COMPLETE THIS PROCESS BEFORE WE ALLOW PEOPLE INTO THEIR HOMES. THERE'S NO POWER. THERE'S NO WATER BACK ON ON THE WEST SIDE EITHER. SO THOSE ARE BOTH THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO RESTORE AS WELL. WE ALSO TO MAKE SURE WE CAN PROVIDE ENOUGH SHELTER SPACE THAT OUR SHELTERS FOR FOLKS WHERE KIND OF AT THE LIMITS AND SOME OF THE CENTRAL MOLLY LINES. AND WE'LL HAVE TO BE CREATIVE WITH OUR TEAM AFTER THIS TO TRY TO GET MORE FOR FOLKS OUT ON THE WEST SIDE. SO WE'RE VERY COGNIZANT OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW. WHERE IS MY FAMILY MEMBER? CAN I MOVE BACK TO MY HOME AND WHAT'S THE LONG PLAN? I MOSTLY, HOWEVER, WANT TO THANK ALL THE THE PARTNERS, THE ALLIES THAT WE HAVE IN OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, OUR GOVERNMENT, OUR FELLOW COUNTY GOVERNMENT SUPPORT, AND OF COURSE, OUR PUBLIC, YOUR PATIENTS, YOUR VIGILANCE. WE CONTINUE TO ASK FOR IT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I NOW LIKE TO BRING UP U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN, SENATOR, WITH U.S. SENATOR BRIAN SCHATZ. >> I LOST THAT ALOHA, EVERYBODY. I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS TO SAY. FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE UNIFIED FROM THE FEDERAL TO THE STATE TO THE GOVERNMENT AND ESPECIALLY INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY. WE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE IN THE EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTER. AND I'VE BEEN IN A LOT OF HOUSES AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY DEDICATED TO DISASTER RESPONSE. AND, OF COURSE, RECOVERY AND SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SO MANY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. THEY'RE KIND OF MANAGING HAVING TO BE A FIRST RESPONDER. BUT WORRY ABOUT THEIR OWN FAMILIES. AND SO WE ALL WANT TO THANK THEM. BUT JOSH GOT A CALL FROM THE PRESIDENT. I JUST GOT A CALL. THE VICE PRESIDENT, LEADER SCHUMER, CALLED AND ASSURED ME THAT WAS GOING TO DO EVERYTHING HE COULD IN TERMS OF A DISASTER, SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING BILL. AND ONE OF THE BEST PIECES OF NEWS, WHICH WAS FORTUITOUS WEEK, IS THAT BOB FENTON FROM REGION NINE, WHO HAS BEEN A LONGTIME FRIEND OF HAWAII THROUGH FEMA, THROUGH WILDFIRE, OTHER WILDFIRES THROUGH VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, THROUGH FLOODS AND TROPICAL STORMS IS HERE AND IS ONE OF THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE ON DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY GET. AND HE'S HERE PHYSICALLY WITH US, WALKED FRONT HAS DONE ALL OF IT AND IS GOING TO STAY FOR THE DURATION, EVEN AS THE FEMA ADMINISTRATOR, I THINK, ARRIVES THAT TOMORROW EVENING. SO WE ARE UNITED. WE ARE NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE TASK IN FRONT OF US IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND COUPLE OF WEEKS, BUT ALSO COUPLE OF YEARS. THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG PERIOD OF RECOVERY, BUT WE WILL REBUILD. >> MAHALO, SENATOR BRIAN SCHATZ . AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO BRING UP MAJOR GENERAL KEN HARA. GOOD AFTERNOON AND ALOHA. AND I'D LIKE TO START OFF AGAIN BY OFFERING MY CONDOLENCES AND, PRAYERS TO EVERYONE FROM ALL CONCLUDE TO THE VISITORS. IT WAS JUST EXTREMELY SAD ENDING TO SEE THE DESTRUCTION THERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, I WAS FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO SEE FIRSTHAND AND NOW REALIZE THE AMOUNT OF SUPPORT WE'RE GOING TO REQUIRE FROM THE FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND THE PRIVATE AND I WAS TALKING TO GOVERNOR GREEN AND SAID THIS HAS GOT TO BE AN ALL OF NATION APPROACH. WELL, BECAUSE OF WHAT I SAW, WE'LL BE ACTIVATING WHAT WE CALL THE JOINT TASK FIVE OR SO. THAT'S A STATUS COMMANDER. I'LL BE APPOINTING BRIGADIER GENERAL STEVEN LOGAN, WHO'S MY DEPUTY ADJUTANT GENERAL. HE WILL BE THE DOWNSTAIRS COMMANDER. SO HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO COMMAND BOTH ACTIVE DUTY AND NATIONAL GUARD FORCES. I'VE BEEN IN CLOSE WITH ADMIRAL AQUILINO, WHO'S THE COMMANDER OF U.S. INDO-PACIFIC COMMAND, AND GENERAL CHARLES FLYNN, WHO IS THE COMMANDER OF THE U.S. ARMY PACIFIC. AND THEY HAVE SAID THEY WILL PROVIDE STATE WHATEVER MILITARY RESOURCES WE NEED FOR RESPONSE AND RECOVERY . WELL, I DID ASK AND WE DID FORMALLY REQUEST CAPABILITIES AND RESOURCES FROM FEMA AND FROM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW ADMINISTRATOR CENTER TO GO INTO THE DETAILS OF WHAT HE HAS APPROVED. BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A TIME, AS THE MAYOR AND BOTH THE GOVERNOR ALLUDED TO, SO MUCH DESTRUCTION GOING TO TAKE TIME TO TO REBUILD IT. WE'RE GOING TO NEED THAT. ALL OF THEY SHOULD APPROACH IT I TALKED ABOUT. THANK YOU. HELLO. AT THIS TIME, WE'D LIKE TO BRING UP ROBERT FENTON REGION NINE, FEMA ADMINISTRATOR . >> APPRECIATE IT. AND FIRST, YOU KNOW, OUR CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS WITH THOSE WHO HAVE LOST FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES DURING THIS EVENT. WE TO BE WITH YOU NOT ONLY NOW, BUT THROUGH THE RECOVERY IN THE YEARS TO COME. >> ALSO, MESSAGE OF SAFETY. MAKE SURE YOU CONTINUE TO HEED THE WARNINGS OF LOCAL OFFICIALS DON'T WAIT. LISTEN TO THEM AND. >> THEIR WARNINGS ARE AS ALWAYS BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT IS UNITY OF EFFORT. I LIKE TO SAY ONE TEAM, ONE FAITH, BUT THIS IS REALLY TO TAKE A WHOLE COMMUNITY EFFORT. IT'S JUST NOT GOVERNMENT AT THE FEDERAL OR LOCAL LEVEL. IT'S BUSINESS, PRIVATE SECTOR, NON-PROFITS, THE CITIZENS OF MIAMI ALL COME TOGETHER TO WORK TOGETHER TO HELP RECOVER THE DEVASTATION THAT I SAW TODAY. >> SIGNIFICANT. I'VE BEEN ON MANY FIRES MY CAREER. I'VE BEEN IN THE FEMA FOR 26 YEARS, BEEN TO THE BIGGEST FIRES IN THE COUNTRY AND. THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED AND, A LOT OF LOST STRUCTURES DOWN THERE. >> SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE WILL BRING AND THAT ARE IMPORTANT HERE IS ABILITY TO PROVIDE DIRECT FEDERAL ASSISTANCE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS I HAVE THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO TASK OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO MAUI IN THE STATE OF HAWAII AND SOME OF THOSE MISSIONS, I'M SURE, ARE GOING TO BE IN THE DEBRIS REMOVAL AREA. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE IS THE U.S. EPA DOES FOR US. THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS USUALLY SUPPORTED FOR US IN MANY OTHER MISSIONS TO INCLUDE POTENTIALLY GENERATOR MISSIONS, MASS CARE COMMODITIES, AND ALSO BRINGING IN SOME SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAMS THAT HELP WITH CADAVER DOGS TO LOOK FOR HUMAN REMAINS. AND THEY'RE ON THE WAY IN RIGHT NOW, BOTH FROM CALIFORNIA AND WASHINGTON AND WE'LL INTEGRATE THEM AND SUPPORT THE GREAT FIRE DEPARTMENT YOU HAVE HERE. OUR INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS A KEY PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUALS FOR THOSE THAT ARE SURVIVORS WHO EITHER LOST LOVED ONES OR YOU CAN'T GET BACK TO YOUR HOUSE OR. YOU THINK YOU'VE BEEN IMPACTED BY THIS STORM. GO AHEAD AND PHONE THE ONE 800 3206632 FEMA NUMBER, AGAIN, THAT IS ONE 800 3206632. YOU CAN ALSO GO TO DISASTER ASSISTANCE STOCKYARD AND FEMA ASSISTANCE CAN PROVIDE DIRECT GRANTS TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO ASSIST THEM WITH HOME REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT. AND CERTAIN UNINSURED ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL, PROPERTY LOSSES. SO KEEP ANY RECEIPTS YOU INCUR DURING THIS TIME. ALSO, THEY'LL AUTOMATICALLY REFER YOU TO SMALL BUSINESS. AS WE TALKED ABOUT, THERE'S A LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE BUSINESSES AND THE SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION. WE WERE NOT ONLY WITH BUSINESSES BUT INDIVIDUALS, AND WE ENCOURAGE ALL THE SURVIVORS AND NOW MAUI COUNTY AS A FOR FEMA TO ALSO BEGIN TO REACH OUT TO YOUR COMPANIES ,START THAT PROCESS SIMULTANEOUSLY. >> YOU START THE INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE PROCESS IN ADDITION TO INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, WE CAN PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES AND CERTAIN ESSENTIAL NON-PROFITS. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS DOWN THERE. HOSPITALS THOSE KIND OF THINGS, AND WE CAN HELP WITH THE REBUILDING OF THOSE. SO NOW YOU WANT TO REBUILD THEM, BUT WE WANT TO REBUILD THEM BETTER, MORE RESILIENT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE HARDENED AGAINST FUTURE THREATS, WHETHER IT BE FIRES, HURRICANE TSUNAMIS OR OTHER EVENTS. AND THEN OUR LAST PROGRAMS, OUR MITIGATION PROGRAM, 15% OF ALL THE FUNDING WE SPEND HERE WILL BE PUT ASIDE TO HELP WITH SOME OF THOSE FUTURE PROJECTS. SO AS WE REDESIGN AND LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE FUTURE, HOW DO WE HELP GET THERE, THOSE FUNDS SHOULD BE DRAWN ON ALONG WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE HAVE A LONG TERM RECOVERY COORDINATOR HERE TO HELP MAUI, THE STATE OF HAWAII, TO TO HELP REBUILD THOSE AREAS IMPACTED WITH THAT, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO BE HERE AND TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO EVERYONE HERE. AND PLEASE START BY STARTING THAT PROCESS TO REGISTER FOR INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE AND DISASTER ASSISTANCE. I GAVE THEM 1-800- 3206632. THANK YOU. WE NOW LIKE TO BRING UP SENATOR LINSEY COATES ON MY CALL. I'LL MAKE THIS REALLY FAST. AS KNOW, WE HAVE TRIED TO BRING IN EVERY RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE THAT WE CAN OR TRYING TO DO THIS. NOTICE THAT OUR HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES OR PRAYERS OR LOVE TO YOUR OHANA, YOUR FAMILY OUT AS OUR PHONES HAVE BEEN FILLED VERY HEAVILY NOT JUST HERE IN MAUI, AS WE ALL WENT INTO THE SENATE THIS MORNING. I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A TEAM ON THE GROUND THAT IS WORKING HARD, FAST AND SWIFT PEOPLE HERE. GOVERNOR HAS DONE EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER, AS WELL AS OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION ON THE MILITARY. I CAN TELL YOU THAT ON WORKING THROUGH HONOLULU AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AS WE START TO MOVE PEOPLE OUT AND RECEIVING PEOPLE ON THE OTHER END THROUGH HD DIRECTED AT TOKYO, GO HAS BEEN A HUGE SUPPORT AND HIS TEAM IS NOT JUST ABOUT TOURISM HERE, IT'S ABOUT THE RESIDENTS. ALSO AS WE HELP TO ASSIST THEM. WE'VE HEARD THE OUTREACH. I ASKED THAT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN HELP EACH OTHER PLEASE HELP EACH OTHER IN TIMES OF NEED. WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF EMOTIONAL TRAUMA GOING ON. I WANT TO JUST THANK EVERYBODY WHO HAS SUPPORTED. WE HAVE MUCH FUNDS, SUPPLIES COMING IN. THE GROUPS, THE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN AFFECTED THESE ARE THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE STANDING THERE STRONG ACROSS THE WORLD. WE ARE GETTING CALLS JUST TO HELP WITH HOUSING FUNDS. AND IT IS JUST UNBELIEVABLE. BUT OUR PRIORITY HERE IS MAUI AT THIS TIME IS THE PEOPLE OF MAUI IS TO SUPPORT THE MAYOR. I DO WANT TO REITERATE, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA HAS KILLED US A LOT. A LOT OF THE INFORMATION GOING OUT HAS BEEN MISINFORMATION, WHICH IS WHY THE TEAM FROM GOVERNOR DOWN TO MILITARY HAS PUSHED CLARIFICATION TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ON PLEASE ON THOSE NUMBERS AND STOP THEM. WE COME OUT. IT COMES TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT THE COUNTY. THE MAYOR HIS TEAM ON THE GROUND. AND, YOU KNOW, MAHALO FOR BEING YOUR MAHALO FOR PEOPLE TO GET THE WORD OUT. AND GOD BLESS OUR FAMILIES. TEACHER MAHALO, SENATOR. I'D LIKE TO NOW BRING UP FIRE CHIEF BRAD VENTURA. >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BRAD, INTERIM FIRE CHIEF FROM OUR COUNTY. FIRST, I WANT TO START BY GIVING YOUR CONDOLENCES TO ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS INCIDENT. AFFECTED A LOT OF US PERSONALLY, MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, OUR FAMILIES AND OUR DEPARTMENT. SO OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL OF THEM. GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND OF HOW THE UNFOLDED TUESDAY. MY FIREFIGHTERS ARE FACED WITH MULTIPLE LARGE WILDFIRES BEGINNING JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY MORNING. THESE FIREFIGHTERS ARE COMPOUNDED BY EXTREME WINDS THAT WE'RE ALL AWARE OF. THE FIRST FIRE UP IN UPPER MCCLEOD BURNED ABOUT 675 ACRES BY O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. THAT'S WHEN THE LINE OF FIRE BEGAN AND WAS FUELED, GUSTS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. SOME EVEN REPORTED TO 80 MILES AN HOUR, BUT WE SAW THE 60 MILES AN HOUR IN LOCALIZED REALLY, REALLY DIRECTED RESOURCES FROM MANY PARTS OF THE ISLAND TO RESPOND TO THAT LINE AREA. AND AROUND NOON, AN ADDITIONAL FIRE STARTED IN KULA AND THAT SPURRED EVACUATION ACTIONS OF COOL LEILANI CIRCLE KILLED A MAN IN THAT AFTERNOON AND RESOURCES WERE ALSO DIRECTED OF THERE AROUND 6PMA FOURTH WILDFIRE STARTED THAT AFTERNOON ON ROAD DOWN IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY THAT BURNED SEVERAL ACRES. AND AGAIN, RESOURCES WERE HAD TO BE REDIRECTED AND DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE TO TRIAGE WHAT MOST IMPORTANT AT THE TIME. SO THAT FIRE WAS LEFT WITH LESS RESOURCES AS OF YESTERDAY AND BURNED 675. I'M SORRY, NOT THAT FAR. THAT FIRE IS SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES. I DON'T HAVE A NUMBER ON THAT ONE YET, BUT WE WANT TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY IS THAT NONE OF THE FIRES 100% CONTAINED RIGHT NOW. AND THERE IS STILL ACTIVE FIRE IN OF THOSE AREAS THAT I'VE DISCUSSED. ADDITIONALLY, WE'VE HAD MANY FIRES IN BETWEEN THESE LARGE FIRES AND WITH THE CURRENT WEATHER PATTERN THAT WE'RE FACING, WE STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL, YOU KNOW, RAPID FIRE BEHAVIOR. AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE STAY OUT OF THE AREA, STAY DILIGENT IF THEY SEE SMOKE ,PLEASE, PLEASE CALL 911. WE'VE SET UP OUR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM TO, MANAGE OUR RESOURCES WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT. >> ALL RIGHT. WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING NEWS CONFERENCE FROM MAUI TONIGHT, EVERYONE FROM THE GOVERNOR TO THE MAYOR, SENATOR, TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW. WE GOT AN AWFUL LOT OF INFORMATION. I WANT TO GET TO MELISSA. DON WHO IS ON MAUI AS WELL. MELISSA, I KNOW IT'S WINDY WHERE YOU ARE BUT YOU WERE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THAT PRESS CONFERENCE. THE GOVERNOR SAYING THE LOOKS TO BE THE WORST NATURAL DISASTER IN HAWAII'S HISTORY. YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1962, A TSUNAMI TO EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THIS. IT IS INCREDIBLY STRIKING, PHIL, THAT IT GIVES ME CHILLS. UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT THAT MEANS TO SO MANY OF US THAT HAVE BEEN TRACKING THE STORY IS THAT THE DEATH TOLL IS INCREASING. THAT IS IT'S REALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE. AND THEN YOU SEE THE IMAGES AND IT IS SO STRIKING. I PERSONALLY HAVE YET TO SEE THE IMAGES. BUT WHAT I HAVE EXPERIENCED IS TALKING TO THE PEOPLE, THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN LINING UP HERE, EITHER COMING TO WAIT TO SEE. MAYBE THEY CAN GET BACK IN TO SEE THEIR OWN HOME. THE ONES THAT SAY THAT THEY'VE GOT VIDEO THAT SHOWED THAT THEIR HOUSES WERE DESTROYED. SHARING TO ME THROUGH TEARS HOW EMOTIONAL THEY'VE BEEN BECAUSE. THEY WANT TO GO BACK, BUT THEY'RE AWARE THEY'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO NOTHING. AND WHEN I SAY NOTHING, THAT MEANS THEIR HOME IS GONE, THEIR SCHOOLS ARE GONE, THEIR CHURCHES, THEIR LOCAL BUSINESSES. THEY'RE GONE. THESE ARE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. SO IT IS REALLY SOMETHING OF MAGNITUDE. AT THE SAME TIME, WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THE CONDITIONS. IT IS IMPRESSIVE, OF COURSE, THE WIND GUSTS THAT CONTINUE TO ROLL IN. AND THEN I ALSO PREFACE THIS BY SAYING THIS WAS A LOT BETTER. WHAT WE'RE FEELING RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU IMAGINE THOSE WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 90, 80, 75 MILES PER HOUR, FEROCIOUS WINDS WHEN THESE WILDFIRES BROKE OUT? SO IT REALLY A LOT TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND, BUT IT HELPS PAINT A PICTURE HERE. AND REALLY JUST SPEAKING WITH THE PEOPLE JUST SHOWS YOU HOW TIGHT KNIT, SUPPORTIVE THIS COMMUNITY IS AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT WE DO OUR ROLE TO SHARE THEIR MESSAGE AND, GET THEM THE ASSISTANCE. >> SO, MELISSA, YOU YOU TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE TODAY AT THAT AREA WHERE YOU ARE. WE HEARD THE MAYOR THAT THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO NEED TO BE PLACED. HE'S GOING TO ASK HOTELS AND SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO. EVEN ASKED A CITIZENS TO SAY IF YOU HAVE ROOM OR YOU HAVE A ROOM TO RENT, CAN YOU PEOPLE . WHAT HAS THE RESOLVE BEEN OF THE FOLKS YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO TODAY? THAT'S SHOCKING, RIGHT? HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU THINK THAT YOU HEAR THAT? THE SENSE THAT, HEY, CAN YOU TAKE SOMEBODY IN? THAT IS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ACROSS HAWAII AND ALL OF THE COUNTIES THEY'RE ASKING IF YOU HAVE A SPACE IN YOUR HOME TO TAKE SOMEBODY. IT SHOWS THE RESILIENCE OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE. THAT SPIRIT FROM MOMENT THAT WE LANDED, I WAS ASTOUNDED BY THE KINDNESS OF PEOPLE TRYING TO HELP US OUT AND REALLY JUST HOPING FOR THE BEST FROM THEM. >> YEAH, AND IT'S A LONG ROAD AHEAD. THEY STILL HAVE TO FIND PEOPLE, EVEN IDENTIFY THE DEAD. MELISSA FROM MAUI, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ABC NEWS LIVE PRIME STARTS RIGHT NOW NOW. >> TONIGHT, SCORCHED EARTH IN HAWAII. >> I'VE BEEN HERE 48 YEARS AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. FIERCE WINDS AND DROUGHT CONDITIONS ARE CAUSING MAJOR WILDFIRES IN HAWAII AS THE LOSS OF LIFE CONTINUES TO. >> WE'LL HAVE A REPORT FROM THE GROUND. PLUS, AFTER MONTHS, HEIGHTENED TENSIONS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN, FIVE IRANIAN-AMERICANS ARE FREED FROM PRISON WHERE THEY ARE NOW AND EXCHANGE THAT GOT THEM FREED. AND ANY FORM OF ADVERTISMENT TODAY OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN AND EVEN EVEN A MUSIC. EVERY FORM OF MEDIA HAS BEEN INSPIRED BY GRAFFITI. GRAFFITI WAS ONCE SEEN AS A MAJOR CRIME ACROSS THE COUNTRY . SO HOW DID IT GO FROM A CRIMINAL ACT TO A CENTRAL PART OF HIP-HOP CULTURE? WE GO BEHIND THE EVOLUTION IN OUR SERIES CELEBRATING HIP HOP'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY. >> GOOD EVENING. I'M PHIL LIPOFF IN TONIGHT FOR LINSEY DAVIS. THANKS SO MUCH FOR STREAMING WITH US. WE ARE FOLLOWING THOSE STORIES AND OF COURSE, MUCH MORE TONIGHT. BUT WE BEGIN WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN WHAT AUTHORITIES NOW SAY MAY BE THE MOST DEVASTATING DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF HAWAII. OFFICIALS PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON THE WILDFIRE LATE TONIGHT AFTER CONFIRMING THE DEATH TOLL HAS RISEN TO AT LEAST 53. GOVERNOR JOSH GREEN SAYING THAT AFTER LUHYA, THEY EXPECT THAT NUMBER WILL RISE. WHAT WE SAW WAS LIKELY THE LARGEST NATURAL DISASTER, HAWAII STATE HISTORY. YOU'LL RECALL IN 1960, WE HAD ONE YEAR INTO STATEHOOD. A TSUNAMI THAT HIT TOOK 61, LIVES ON THE BIG ISLAND. WE ARE SEEING LOSS OF LIFE HERE . AS YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER HAS BEEN RISING AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE LOSS OF LIFE. LEADERS ALSO SPOKE ABOUT WHAT IT WILL TAKE IN DAYS AND WEEKS, MONTHS AHEAD TO BEGIN THE REBUILDING PROCESS WITH. HUNDREDS OF HOMES, THEY SAY, AND BUSINESSES DESTROYED. NO POWER, NO WATER, AT LEAST ON THE WESTERN OF THAT ISLAND. >> AND WHILE THERE IS PROGRESS TO REPORT IN THE FIREFIGHT. WE ARE TOLD NONE OF THE WILDFIRES ARE 100 PERCENT CONTAINED AND CREWS ARE STILL BATTLING HOTSPOTS AT THIS HOUR. >> LET'S GET RIGHT TO ABC NEWS MELISSA DON, WHO IS LIVE IN MAUI FOR US. MELISSA, YOU'VE BEEN THERE ALL DAY TALKING TO PEOPLE AND HEARING THE FRUSTRATION AND THE DEVASTATION. YES. PHIL, IT IS OUTSTANDING. AND FIRST, NOTE THE CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW. AGAIN REALLY STRONG GUSTS COMING IN. THAT DOES IT MAKE FIREFIGHTING ANY EASIER, WHICH IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT THESE HAVE BEEN DEALING NOW WITH FOR DAYS IS DRY CONDITIONS, THESE GUSTING WINDS. SO THEN YOU ADD IN THE PEOPLE TO, ALL OF THIS JUST REMARKABLE, THE RESILIENCE THAT WE ARE ALREADY WITNESSING. A MOMENT HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY . THERE WAS DOZENS AND DOZENS OF CARS LINED DOWN BECAUSE FOLKS WERE HOPING AND HOPEFUL THAT MAY BE THE ROADBLOCK THAT LEADS TO THAT WESTERN HISTORIC MAUI TOWN WOULD REOPEN. HOWEVER, GOING TO TAKE A WHILE. WE'RE HEARING FROM OFFICIALS, FOLKS, WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR A CHANCE. MAYBE THEY COULD SEE WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR HOME IF THEIR HOMES SURVIVED. WE SPOKE WITH PEOPLE, MANY FRUSTRATED, OF COURSE, WANTING TO WHAT THE GOVERNOR JUST SAID, THAT THERE WILL BE FEDERAL AID AND ASSISTANCE. THEY WANT TO KNOW THAT THEY'LL BE TAKEN CARE OF. A LOT OF THEM TELLING ME WE KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE HERE IN HAWAII, THE PEOPLE HERE IN MAUI, WILL TAKE CARE OF US. BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLKS, THE MAINLAND, THE FOLKS ALL OVER THE WORLD ALSO HAVE OUR BACKS. NOW, ONE WOMAN THAT WE MET WITH ACTUALLY WAS HANDING OUT WATER BOTTLES AS A VOLUNTEER. WE SAW CHATTING WITH HER. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN I LEARNED SHE'S HERE VOLUNTEERING, HELPING. BUT SHE HERSELF ALSO LOST HER HOME TO THE WILDFIRES. PLEASE HAVE A LISTEN. I KNOW THAT YOU LOST YOUR HOME AND I'M SO SORRY. I THERE MUST BE SOME OF YOU ALWAYS THINKING OF MY FAMILY. OH, YEAH. YEAH. LIKE, YEAH, MATERIAL THINGS, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A HARD PILL TO SWALLOW, BUT AT LEAST WE HAVE OUR FAMILY. THEY ALL HARD TO HEAR THAT. WE TWEET ALL OF THE WINDS AND THE CONDITIONS WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH. ALSO, MEANTIME, YOU'RE SEEING A LOT OF TRUCKS JUST BECAUSE THESE ARE EMERGENCY PERSONNEL, THE TRUCKS, THE RESOURCES, THE WE CONTINUE TO GO IN AND OUT TO THESE DEVASTATED REGIONS. AGAIN, SOMEONE WHO LOST A HOME HELPING OUT AND JUST TO ENSURE THAT OTHERS WILL HAVE THEIR BACK HERE FILL. ALL RIGHT. MELISSA DUNN ON MAUI RIGHT NOW. MELISSA, THANK SO MUCH. >> RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JOINED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE HAWAII FIREFIGHTERS UNION, BOBBY LEE. >> BOBBY, THANKS SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BE WITH US AS WE KNOW, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT DAY. WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM FIREFIGHTERS THERE ON THE FRONT LINES FIGHTING THE FIRE AND ALSO INVOLVED IN THE RECOVERY EFFORTS? >> WELL, THANK YOU TO I APPRECIATE BEING HERE. YOU KNOW, FOR THE MOST PART, OUR FIREFIGHTERS THEY'RE ALL THEY'RE THERE TO HELP PEOPLE. AND SO REGARDLESS OF HOW DIFFICULT THE JOB IS, THEY'RE GOING TO JUST CONTINUE TO PUSH FORWARD AND JUST KEEP GOING AND EVERYBODY THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE DO. YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT THE FIRST RESPONDERS AND YOUR JOB AND. >> YOU KNOW, YOUR JOB IS TO DO THAT. BUT STILL, THE FIREFIGHT IS THE FIRST RESPONDERS LIVE THERE. THEY'RE WORKING SO HARD, MANY OF THEM ALSO DEALING WITH THEIR OWN LOSSES. THIS HAS TO BE INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL FOR THEM TO BE DOING THEIR JOBS WHILE DEALING WITH EITHER LOST HOMES OR, GOD FORBID, LOST FAMILY MEMBERS. >> YES AND THAT IS ONE OF OUR BIGGER CONCERNS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT DOING OUR JOB. OUR FIREFIGHTERS LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. THEY'RE PART OF THE COMMUNITY. THEY'RE DEALING WITH THEIR FAMILY, THEIR FRIENDS. AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE'VE HEARD THAT WE HAVE AT LEAST 14 FIREFIGHTERS WHO LOST THEIR HOMES IN. THIS IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION, SPECIFICALLY IN. AND SO IT'S AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TASK AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU START GETTING INTO A BODY RECOVERY AND DEALING WITH CASUALTIES. AGAIN, THESE AREN'T STRANGERS. >> THESE ARE THESE ARE FRIENDS AND FAMILY. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE MAUI HAS ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT, ABOUT 400 OR SO FIREFIGHTERS DEALING THIS ENORMOUS DISASTER. AT SOME POINT, OBVIOUSLY, THE FIREFIGHTERS THEMSELVES WILL NEED ASSISTANCE. >> WHAT ARE YOU HEARING THAT THEY NOW? >> YES. YOU KNOW, THIS A BIG PROBLEM WHEN YOU LIVE ON AN ISLAND AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE BRIDGES OR A FERRY SYSTEM . >> WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHAT YOU HAVE. THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO DEAL WITH. SO, YOU KNOW, OUR FIREFIGHTERS, THEY'RE ON ON A SHIFT, JUST PARTICULARLY ON THE MAUI. WE HAVE GOT 65 FIREFIGHTERS ON DUTY AT ANY GIVEN TIME FOR A SHIFT. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT YOU TO DEAL WITH THE FIRE. WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY OF HAVING OTHER COUNTIES OR OTHER STATES ROLL IN AND PROVIDE. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY IS THE DIFFICULT ART FOR ART'S WHEN YOU WHEN YOU LIVE ON THE ISLAND AND THAT'S WHY FOR US YOU KNOW FIREFIGHTER SAFETY IS A BIG ISSUE BUT MORE SO STARTING STUFF IN OUR FIRST TRUCKS IS A REALLY HUGE ISSUE BECAUSE THAT'S ALL WE HAVE. >> SO AS FAR AS RIGHT NOW, THE I MEAN THEY WENT THROUGH THE WORST OF IT AND ALL. >> IT'S MOSTLY UP, BUT IT'S GIVEN US AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS FOLLOW UP A LITTLE BIT. FOR EXAMPLE. THEY HAVE ABOUT 40 FIREFIGHTERS RIGHT NOW THAT CAME EARLIER TODAY AND ARE HELPING TO RELIEVE SOME OF THE MAUI FIREFIGHTERS AND GIVE THEM SOME HELP. AND I KNOW SOME OF OUR PARISH FIREFIGHTERS FROM THE AIRPORTS THERE ALSO CAME IN TO SOME ASSISTANCE. >> BOBBY, YOU'RE BORN AND RAISED IN A FIREFIGHTER THERE FOR 36 YEARS. WE ALL KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT TO FIGHT THIS OF FIRE, ESPECIALLY ON AN ISLAND. IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU EVER IMAGINED YOU WOULD SEE? >> NO, NOT TO THIS MAGNITUDE. AND, YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL BEGIN SECOND GUESSING. YOU KNOW, WHY DIDN'T FIREFIGHTERS DO THIS? WHY DIDN'T THE POLITICIANS, LEGISLATURES DO DO THAT? YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT A FIRE OF THIS MAGNITUDE, I MEAN, WE FOR US AS FIREFIGHTERS, WE DEAL WITH FIRES THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ELEVATED WINDS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE A WINDY DAY. >> AND WE GOT TO PREPARE THE FIRE IS GOING TO MOVE A LITTLE BIT FASTER. BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MILE, 40 MILE AN HOUR RISK, NOBODY FOR 60, 80, 90 MILES. AND WHEN IF HAVE THAT KIND OF WINDS IN HAWAII, IT WOULD BE BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE. SO WE'D BE DEALING WITH RAIN, WE'D BE DEALING WITH FLOODING AND. NOBODY WOULD BE THINKING ABOUT FIRE. SO THIS REALLY IS UNPRECEDENTED . FIREFIGHTERS CAN GO THROUGH THEIR WHOLE CAREER AND NOT EXPERIENCE SOMETHING LIKE THIS. >> AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM. >> YEAH. AND BOBBY, I'VE BEEN UP CLOSE TO FIRES LIKE THIS, WATCHING FIREFIGHTERS FIGHT THEM AND IT IS AN HEROIC EFFORT. SO YOU AND PLEASE PASS ALONG OUR SUPPORT AND BEST WISHES TO ALL THE FIRST RESPONDERS STILL FIGHTING THESE FIRES ON MAUI. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, PHIL. APPRECIATE THE TIME. >> AND AS THE DEVASTATION IS LAID BARE, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE SHOW THESE PICTURES TO YOU. EFFORTS ARE ALSO UNDERWAY. PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER TO THOUSANDS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED, THESE WILDFIRES. AT THE SAME TIME, MANY HAVE ACTUALLY MOVED OVER TO THE AIRPORT IN HOPES OF FINDING A FLIGHT OUT. >> ABC'S WILL CARR IS AT THE AIRPORT ON MAUI TONIGHT AS THE FIRES CONTINUE TO ACROSS MAUI, CHAOTIC SCENES AT THE ISLAND'S MAIN AIRPORT. THEY BASICALLY EVACUATED US. EVERYONE JUST NEEDS TO FIND A WAY TO THE AIRPORT. AIRLINES SAY THEY'RE FOR MORE THAN 11,000 PASSENGERS AND 400 CREW MEMBERS OUT OF MAUI ALREADY. HUNDREDS MORE STRANDED SLEEPING IN X-RAY MACHINES, CARTS, ANYWHERE THEY CAN. WE MET CINDY BLANCO FROM OREGON, WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING ON THE AIRPORT FLOOR WITH HER KIDS SINCE WEDNESDAY. >> YOUR AIRLINES SAID YOU CAN'T GET OUT TILL SATURDAY. WHAT'S YOUR PLAN AT THIS POINT? WELL, I STARTED THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO CAMP AT THE AIRPORT WITH THE KIDS FOR TWO DAYS. SO I GOT US A RENTAL CAR. WE'RE GOING SLEEP IN THE MINIVAN FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. >> WE GOT ANOTHER ONE COMING ON OVERNIGHT. SHELTER TAKING IN MULTIPLE NURSING HOME RESIDENTS EVACUATED BY BUS. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING RIGHT NOW FROM THE HAINA. YOU KNOW, LET ME REPEAT WHAT YOU CAN ALREADY. >> AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS FERRYING DONATED SUPPLIES TO STRANDED FOR PEOPLE ON THE MAINLAND. YOU DON'T HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING AS TO JUST BAD. IT IS. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT? DEVASTATING. DEVASTATING. BACK AT THE AIRPORT, VOLUNTEERS HANDING OUT MEALS. >> THIS IS JUST A DECREASE OF THEIR OVERALL FAMILY HERE. AND IT'S ABOUT ALOHA SPIRIT. YEAH, LIKE A LITTLE LOVE. AND LIKE THESE PEOPLE LOST THEIR HOMES. AND MAYBE SOME OF THESE FOLKS ALSO, LIKE, LOST THEIR PERFECT VACATION HERE. THE AIRPORT SAY, I DON'T KNOW. BUT TO LOSE EVERYTHING, LIKE SO MANY LOOKING TO HELP WHERE THEY CAN. >> WILL JOINS ME NOW FROM THE AIRPORT IN MAUI WIL. WHAT ARE THE AIRLINES SAYING ABOUT SOME OF THESE PASSENGERS AT LEAST ONTO PLANES? BILL, THE AIRLINES SAY THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO HELP. UNITED CANCELED ALL OF ITS INBOUND FLIGHTS. THEY'RE SENDING EMPTY PLANES TO COME HELP PICK UP SO MANY OF THESE STRANDED PASSENGERS. THIS AIRPORT IS JAM PACKED AND THERE ARE NO ROOMS ON THIS ISLAND. SO SOME OF THESE PASSENGERS MAY FIND THEMSELVES SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR HERE AT THE AIRPORT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THEY ARE KEEPING GOOD PERSPECTIVE ON IT, THOUGH, SAYING THAT THEIR HEARTS GO OUT TO, THE PEOPLE ON THIS ISLAND WHO LOST EVERYTHING. BILL WILL CARR FROM THE AIRPORT IN MAUI WILL THANK YOU. >> FOR MORE NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME IN PASTOR KAWIKA. HE AND HIS WIFE OF KING'S CHAPEL IN HARD HIT LAHAINA. WE UNDERSTAND, HAS BEEN A BRUTAL AND EMOTIONAL COUPLE OF DAYS. I JUST WANT TO SAY FIRST, IT'S GOOD TO SEE BOTH OF YOU LOOKING AT LEAST PHYSICALLY. WELL, AS WE KNOW WHAT, THE DAMAGE IS LIKE THERE ON THE ISLAND. SO THANKS FOR JOINING US. YOU BOTH ESCAPED YOUR HOME WITH YOUR TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WHEN. THE WILDFIRE ENGULFED YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. FIRST, IF YOU CAN, TELL ME WHAT THE CONDITIONS WERE LIKE AND THEN, HOW FAST DID THE DANGER ESCALATE FOR YOU? IT WAS REALLY FAST. OUR NEIGHBOR CAME OVER. THANK YOU, J.J.. MY NEIGHBOR CAME OVER AND HE HE LET US KNOW THAT THE FIRE WAS RIGHT ABOVE US THAT. OH, NO. AND ONE OF OUR STREET NAMES IN LINE AND WE SO WE GOT A FEW AND GOT IN THE CAR AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO WAIT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO GET IN TRAFFIC. SO WE GOT OUR CHILDREN, OUR DOG AND JUMPED IN THE CAR. AND I TOLD MY HUSBAND TO HEAD TOWARD GUYS WHO LIVE IN WAIKAPU AND TRAFFIC WAS JUST CONGESTED EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO LEAVE. SO WE HANDED DOWN DICKENSON, TURNING ON THE FRONT STREET THAT WHEN WE REACH FRONT STREET ,I MEAN, THE FIRE HAD ALREADY CROSSED OVER PAST OUR ONTO FRONT STREET AND THEN YOU JUST SEEN BUILDINGS ON FIRE ON THE STREET, CARS JUST BEING ENGULFED IN SMOKE. AND I ALMOST TOOK A WRONG TURN. BUT MY WIFE TOLD ME TO GO OUT. SO, YOU KNOW, I ENDED ON GOING LEFT AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS GOING IN LINE INSTEAD OF MY MOM ENDED UP GETTING STUCK THERE BUILDING, STARTED FALLING APART AND ALL. WE JUST HAD IT ALL. >> AND I MEAN, IT'S JUST BEHIND US AND WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD TOWARDS WAILUKU SIDE. I MEAN, IT'S JUST SKIES AND BEHIND US THE SKY IS JUST DARK, BLACK, EVERYTHING. AND WE'RE JUST GOING UP IN FLAMES. AND I JUST A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN EVACUATING WERE JUST WALKING AROUND AND WE'RE LIKE LOOKING LIKE, YOU SHOULD BE LEAVING, YOU KNOW ? YOU KNOW, I JUST KIND OF FELT LIKE PEOPLE WERE KIND OF GIVING UP. DO THEY JUST WEREN'T, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET OUT? I IT WAS SUCH A WEIRD FEELING BECAUSE ERICA REALLY, I CAN HEAR THE EMOTION, OBVIOUSLY, AND SEE IT IN YOUR FACE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A TRAUMA FOR EVERYBODY WHO HAS EXPERIENCED IT. BUT, YOU KNOW, FIRST, YOU BOTH ARE PARENTS. AS A FATHER, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND? YOU KNOW, AS OBVIOUSLY SECURING YOUR FAMILY RIGHT? >> YEAH. WAS JUST GETTING MY FAMILY ALL YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE THAT I'M SORRY, YOUR HOME, YOU KNOW, I DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT MY HOME. MY HOME IS IRREPLACEABLE. I LEFT WITH WHAT WAS VALUABLE AND. THAT'S MY FAMILY. YOU KNOW, IT BREAKS MY HEART THAT A LOT OF FAMILIES, IT HAVE WHAT I HAD TO LEAVE WITH MY FAMILY. A LOT OF FAMILIES DIDN'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE WITH THEIR FAMILY. YOU KNOW, I YOU KNOW, MY HEART JUST BREAKS. BUT, YOU KNOW. YEAH, WELL, MINE DOES AS WELL. BUT I'M SO GLAD YOUR FAMILY IS IS INTACT, AT LEAST PHYSICALLY. YOU KNOW, YOUR CHURCH IN LAHAINA AMONG THE BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN THE FIRE. BUT PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE THE KIND OF DAMAGE THAT YOU SAW IN THIS HISTORIC COMMUNITY YOU LOVE SO MUCH. YOU. WELL, THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, I KNOW. WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE PULLING TOGETHER TO TRY TO GO BACK IN AND GET THE SUPPLIES THAT PEOPLE NEED. AND WE WERE GRATEFUL FOR THAT, YOU KNOW? OUR CHURCH HAS BEEN MOBILIZED. WE WERE THANKFUL TO BE PART OF A BIG CHURCH. YOU KNOW, WE HAD AT MANY LOCATIONS AND SO OUR CHURCH IN HAWAII IS HELPING THE EFFORTS TO GET SUPPLIES TOGETHER. AND AS SOON AS WE GET THE GREEN TO GO IN TO GET SUPPLIES ,THE HOMES IN KAHALA AND THE PILI AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL IN THERE WILL WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT. AND WE'RE PROVIDING A PLACE TO STAY FOR THE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING OUT. >> YOU BOTH ARE NATIVE HAWAIIANS. >> AND WE KNOW THE ISLANDS ARE A PLACE OF DEEP SPIRITUALITY. WHAT ROLE WILL FAITH PLAY NOT ONLY FOR YOU, BUT PEOPLE ON THAT ISLAND AS THE RECOVERY BEGINS OVER THE NEXT DAYS, WEEKS AND YEARS AHEAD? >> WELL, JUST BRINGING COMFORT, YOU KNOW, AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW, YOU KNOW, ONE THING WE YOU KNOW, WE'RE FAMILY OR PERSON OR CHURCH, YOU KNOW, WE GET INVOLVED WITH OUR COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW WE LOVE ON PEOPLE, AND WE JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE THERE FOR THEM. WELL, I'M SO HEARTENED TO KNOW THAT YOUR FAMILY IS IS TOGETHER TONIGHT. YOU DO YOU DO HAVE EVERYTHING THERE THAT IS REALLY IRREPLACEABLE WITH YOU TONIGHT. PASTOR KAWAI AND CHARLOTTE CHAYA KAHI, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US. AND WE WISH YOU THE VERY BEST IN THE RECOVERY AHEAD. >> ALL RIGHT. >> THANK YOU. GOD BLESS. BLESS. NOW, THE METEOROLOGIST AT OUR HONOLULU STATION, KITV, MALIKA, WHO IS MONITORING THE WILDFIRES AND OF COURSE, THE WEATHER DRIVING MALLIKA. >> YES, LOCAL. THERE ARE STILL ACTIVE FIRES. THE LINE OF FIRE, FORTUNATELY, IS 80% CONTAINED. THE FIRE IN KIHEI IS 70% CONTAINED. AND LINDA, WE'RE STILL ASSESSING THAT. YOU SEE THE FIRES HERE ON THE MAP. THE WINDS ARE STARTING TO DIE DOWN, BUT REMAIN GUSTY SPOTS. BUT WE HAVE SEEN SOME RAIN SHOWERS AND WINDWARD AREAS, THE LARGELY NOT IN THE AREAS WE NEED IT MOST. WE STILL HAVE DROUGHT CONDITIONS. THE FIRE AND THE WORST OF IT IS RIGHT HERE IN MAUI, WHERE FACING MODERATE TO SEVERE DROUGHT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S OUR SEASON . SO WHILE ANY RAIN IS GOING TO HELP, WE ARE RUNNING AT A DEFICIT AND DRY BRUSH IS FUEL FOR THOSE FIRES TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD. WE'RE ALSO MOVING INTO THE PEAK OF HURRICANE SEASON. DORA, WHICH PASSED WELL SOUTH OF HERE BUT WAS THE CAUSE OF OUR HIGH WINDS IS OUT AND MORE TYPICAL TREATMENT WEATHER IS BEGINNING TO FILL IN. SO THERE IS SOME THERE ARE SOME POSITIVE THINGS OF NOTE WHEN IT COMES TO WEATHER AND THE CURRENT FIRE, BUT WE ARE JUST GUIDED BY WHAT WE'RE SEEING BEHIND US. >> ALL RIGHT. MALIKA DUDLEY FROM KITV, THANK YOU. FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL BATTLING FLAMES ALL ACROSS MAUI, THE SLOPES OF MOUNT HALEAKALA. HOMES AND BUSINESSES HAVE ALSO TO THE GROUND. OUR BECKY WORLEY, WHO GREW UP ON MAUI, IS IN THE TOWN KULA, WHERE SOME RESIDENTS ARE UNABLE TO GET BACK TO THEIR HOMES TO SEE IF THEY'RE EVEN STILL STANDING TONIGHT. >> THIS IS THE DEVASTATING REALITY FOR SO MANY COMMUNITIES ACROSS MAUI. THIS IS THE TOWN OF KULA, 35 MILES EAST OF LAHAINA. >> FIREFIGHTERS STILL BATTLING FLARE UPS. THIS WAS A HOME FOR DAYS, FIRES ROARING THIS RESIDENTIAL AND AGRICULTURAL AREA ON THE SLOPES OF VOLCANO. NOW, HOMES AND BUSINESSES BURNED TO THE GROUND. FROM THE AIR, YOU CAN SEE IT, THE HOMES STILL SMOLDERING, GONE. >> SOME OF THE ROADS BLOCKED. MANY EVACUATED RESIDENTS HAVE IDEA IF THEIR HOMES ARE STILL STANDING. >> NANCY GARNET HAS BEEN EVACUATED THREE TIMES. AUTHORITIES HAVE TOLD HER IT IS SAFE ENOUGH TO GO BACK FOR NOW, BUT SHE KNOWS IT COULD CHANGE AT ANY MINUTE. BUT I MUST. AND FAMILY. TWO PEOPLE DIED THIS MORNING IN THEIR HOUSE AND I'M JUST HUGGING HERE. 48 YEARS. >> AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I GREW UP HERE ON MAUI. TO THINK OF THE DAMAGE IN LAHAINA, IT'S UNIMAGINABLE. AND TO HEAR THE FEAR IN THE VOICES OF. MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY HERE IN UPCOUNTRY MAUI IN THE STILL SITUATION, IT'S JUST HARD TO WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND. BUT I DO KNOW THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS ALREADY RALLYING FOR EACH OTHER, AND MAUI WILL COME BACK STRONG. ABSOLUTELY. BECKY WORLEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND NOW TO ONE OF THE THOUSANDS WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN THROWN INTO CHAOS, LOSING NOT ONLY HOME IN LAHAINA, BUT ALSO HIS ART GALLERY BUSINESS THAT WAS SET TO OPEN TODAY. REPORTER JEREMY LEE FROM OUR STATION REPORTS. >> TONIGHT, SO MANY LIVES, LIVELIHOODS SHATTERED. WITH NOWHERE TO GO, RUBY MAZER IS LIVING OUT OF THIS U-HAUL WITH HIS SONS. HE HAD JUST MOVED HIS ART GALLERY FROM, OAHU, TO LAHAINA, AND WAS GETTING READY TO OPEN HIS DOORS TODAY. >> WE FOUND THIS AMAZING LOCATION ON FRONT STREET. THEY CAME IN THE DAY BEFORE THE FIRE WANTING TO BUY IT, AND THEY SAID, WELL, COME BACK TOMORROW BECAUSE WE'LL BE OFFICIALLY OPEN TOMORROW. AND THAT BECAME HIS NEW GALLERY WAS DESTROYED WHEN FLAMES RIPPED DOWN FRONT. >> IT'S OVER, IT'S GONE. IT'S SEASONED, IT'S A WAR ZONE. >> LAHAINA WAS A MECCA FOR ARTISTS AND ART. FRONT STREET, HOME TO ABOUT TWO DOZEN ART GALLERIES AND SMITH. A LIFETIME OF WORK HAND. >> REPORTER JEREMY LEE FROM OUR STATION KITV. MEANTIME, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS REPORTED IT PROVED AS A DISASTER FOR HAWAII DURING HIS REMARKS IN SALT LAKE CITY TODAY. >> HE TOOK A MOMENT TO ADDRESS THE DEVASTATING FIRES. >> WE'RE WORKING AS AS POSSIBLE TO FIGHT THESE FIRES AND EVACUATE RESIDENTS AND TOURISTS. IN THE MEANTIME, OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE PEOPLE OF WYE, NOT JUST OUR PRAYERS. EVERY ASSET WE HAVE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THEM. AND WE'VE SEEN FOLKS IN THEIR HOMES, BUSINESSES DESTROYED, AND SOME HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. >> AND IT'S NOT OVER YET. >> ABC'S CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT MARY BRUCE HAS BEEN MONITORING THE FEDERAL RESPONSE HERE. MARY, WHAT TYPE OF AID IS BEING DEPLOYED? >> WELL, PHIL, BY ORDERING UP ALL FEDERAL ASSETS AVAILABLE ON THE ISLAND, IT MEANS THAT TONIGHT THE COAST GUARD, ARMY AND NAVY ARE ALL NOW ASSISTING AND HELPING LOCAL RESPONSE GROUPS. THE HAWAII GUARD ALSO ACTIVATING OVER 130 GUARDSMEN. AND THE ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO DEPLOYING CHINOOK AND BLACKHAWK HELICOPTERS, AMONG OTHERS, TO HELP IN THE FIREFIGHTING. FEMA IS ALSO SURGING PERSONNEL TO THE ISLAND TO HELP THOSE SURVIVORS ACCESS FEDERAL ASSISTANCE. THE PRESIDENT DIRECTING THOSE IN NEED. THE WEBSITE DISASTER ASSISTANCE DOT GOV TO LEARN WHAT HELP MAY BE AVAILABLE. >> PHIL? ALL RIGHT. MARY BRUCE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. MARY, THANK YOU. >> SO MUCH MORE TO GET TO HERE TONIGHT ON PRIME VIDEO OF AN ARREST AT A RESTAURANT SPARKING OUTRAGE AFTER A MAN IS WRONGFULLY ARRESTED WITH A BABY IN HIS ARMS. >> WHY POLICE MISTOOK HIM FOR ONE OF THE REAL SUSPECTS. FIVE AMERICANS FREED FROM IRANIAN PRISONS. WHY IT COULD STILL TAKE THEM WEEKS TO GET HOME. BUT NEXT, NEW DETAILS ABOUT A UTAH KILLED BY POLICE DURING A STANDOFF AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT BIDEN. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY . TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION'S BIGGEST OUT. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE HOUSE. A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. THIS MORNING, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS WAS WHEN I SENT TO IDAHO TO COVER THE MURDERS OF FOUR COLLEGE STUDENTS. IT WAS A STORY. DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. FOUR STUDENTS STABBED TO DEATH IN THEIR WHILE TWO ROOMMATES WERE HOME. PERIOD. TO THINK TO YOURSELF. OKAY, WHO'S THE TARGET AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE A MAN GOING THROUGH TO GET TO HIS TARGET? I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH WITH ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE STORY OF SAVAGE MURDERS, A DETERMINED SMALL TOWN POLICE FORCE AND A SCHOLAR OF. THIS IS THE KING ROAD KILLINGS. THE FULL SERIES IS OUT NOW. LISTEN TO EVERY EPISODE, WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. >> IMAGINE IF YOU HAD AN INSTITUTION WHERE IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE POLICE? MAYBE SCARED? NO MOTHER SHOULD HAVE TO BURY WHILE A MERE LARK WAS KILLED IN A BOX. NO, NOT MORE SITUATION. HOW THESE COPS OPERATE THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN AMERICA'S DIRTY SECRET BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN. YOU HAVE A CHANCE. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE. ARE READY. LET'S DO IT. YES. IT'S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS, AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I HAD THIS GIRL. >> HOW ARE YOU? YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW IT'S LUNCH TIME IN AMERICA. SO WHAT ARE WE SERVING UP? WELL, HOW ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> YOU KNOW, THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. >> YOUR HOUSE, YOUR MONEY. BREAKING NEWS, POP CULTURE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS, MUSIC TRENDS AND COURSE GOOD FOOD. "GMA3" WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. A THIRD HOUR OF "GMA" IN THE AFTERNOON. SO JOIN US AFTER DINNER FOR EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. >> I LOVE THAT. MAYBE IT WAS THE IDEAL MARRIAGE. LITTLE DID I KNOW I WAS MARRIED . A MAN WHO HAD DONE SOMETHING SO HORRIBLE THAT IT WOULD DEVASTATE OUR LIVES FOREVER. >> TEACHER OF THE YEAR IS NOW CHARGED WITH . ONLY ON HULU. HE WAS LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE. THE SHOCKING STORY BEHIND A NUMBER ONE TRUE CRIME PODCAST ESCORTS. HE EVEN CHEATED ON ME THE WEEK OF OUR WEDDING. >> BETRAYAL. THE PERFECT HUSBAND. HE HAD LOT OF FANTASY. >> NOW STREAMING ONLY ON HULU. REPORTING FROM SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, I'M LINSEY DAVIS. WHEREVER THE STORY IS, WE'LL TAKE YOU THERE. YOU'RE STREAMING. ABC NEWS LIVE. >> WELCOME BACK. WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER NEWS TO REPORT FOR TONIGHT, INCLUDING A DIPLOMATIC BREAKTHROUGH BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN. IRAN HAS FREED FIVE AMERICANS FROM PRISON. FOR NOW, THE FIVE MUST REMAIN THERE IN IRAN UNDER HOUSE ARREST. >> BUT U.S. OFFICIALS SAY IT'S THE START OF, QUOTE, A PROCESS THAT COULD GET THE AMERICANS HOME IN A MATTER OF WEEKS. HERE'S ABC'S CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT MARTHA RADDATZ TONIGHT. >> AFTER MONTHS SECRET NEGOTIATIONS, FIVE AMERICANS THE LAST KNOWN AMERICAN PRISONERS HELD BY IRAN FINALLY FREED TEHRAN'S NOTORIOUS EVIN PRISON AFTER YEARS OF INCARCERATION. THREE OF THE AMERICANS, SIAMAK NAMAZI HELD SINCE 2015 MIRRORED TWO BARS AND IMAD ARE ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE, WHICH THEY VEHEMENTLY DENY. THE FOURTH AND FIFTH AMERICANS WANT TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS. ALL FIVE NOW UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN IRAN UNTIL TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRAN AND THE U.S. ARE FINALIZED. THAT DEAL CALLS FOR THE RELEASE OF $6 BILLION IN OIL REVENUE FROM SOUTH KOREA THAT HAD BEEN UP BY U.S. SANCTIONS. U.S. OFFICIALS SAYING, THE MONEY MUST BE USED FOR HUMANITARIAN REASONS. >> MY BELIEF IS THAT THIS IS THE BEGINNING, THE END OF THEIR NIGHTMARE AND THE NIGHTMARE THAT THEIR FAMILIES HAVE EXPERIENCED. >> AND MARTHA JOINS ME NOW. MARTHA, WHAT ARE U.S. OFFICIALS SAYING ABOUT WHEN THESE HOSTAGES MIGHT FINALLY GET TO COME HOME? >> WELL, PHIL, IT WILL LIKELY TAKE AT LEAST FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS FOR THAT MONEY TO COME THROUGH AND THE PRISONERS HOPEFULLY BROUGHT BACK THE U.S. THEN. THE WHITE HOUSE SAYING TONIGHT THE NEGOTIATIONS DELICATE, ALTHOUGH THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE PRISONERS. PHIL MARTHA RADDATZ FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. TONIGHT, MARTHA THANK YOU. >> NOW TO THAT DEADLY FBI RAID IN UTAH. SOME NEW DETAILS ABOUT THE UTAH MAN ACCUSED OF THREATENING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT. PLUS, NEW VIDEO OF THAT INCIDENT. ABC'S MOLA LENGHI HAS MORE. TONIGHT, NEW VIDEO CAPTURING THE DEADLY STANDOFF IN UTAH AS FBI AGENTS TRY TO ARREST MAN THEY SAY WAS MAKING CREDIBLE THREATS TO KILL PRESIDENT BIDEN . >> VIDEO TAKEN BY A NEIGHBOR SHOWING AGENTS A HOME IN PROVO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING YELLING FOR BRAD ROBERTSON TO COME OUT. THEN A FLASH BANG GOES OFF. TONIGHT, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TELLING ABC NEWS ROBERTSON APPEARED TO POINT A GUN AT THE OFFICERS BEFORE. >> AGENTS FATALLY SHOT HIM. GUNSHOT WOUNDS VERY PROXIMATELY 35-YEAR-OLD MALE. A FEDERAL COMPLAINT LISTING DOZENS OF ROBERTSON'S ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS AMONG THEM IMAGES OF A CACHE OF WEAPONS AND MULTIPLE VIOLENT THREATS AGAINST BIDEN AND OTHER PROFILE OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THIS ONE JUST FOUR DAYS AGO. I HEAR IS COMING TO UTAH, DIGGING OUT MY OLD GHILLIE SUIT AND CLEANING DUST OFF THE M. 24 SNIPER RIFLE AND STILL FBI AGENTS ACTING SWIFTLY BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT WAS IN SALT LAKE CITY THE LAST TWO DAYS, JUST NORTH OF PROVO, WHERE FBI RAID HAPPENED. THAT SHOOTING IS NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION BILL. >> ALL RIGHT, LOLA, THANK YOU. MEANTIME, THERE IS SHOCK IN SOUTH AMERICA AFTER AN ECUADORIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WAS ASSASSINATED AFTER CAMPAIGN EVENT IN THE CAPITAL OF QUITO. LET'S GO TO ABC'S MATT NOW WHO HAS THE LATEST DETAILS ON THE SUSPECTS MATT. >> WE'VE GOT SOME NEW INFORMATION INTO WHO AUTHORITIES SAY ARE AT LEAST SOME OF THOSE RESPONSES FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FERNANDO VILA. ESSENTIAL ECUADORIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED AT LEAST SIX SUSPECTS THAT WE KNOW OF SO FAR. AND STRIKINGLY, THEY ARE ALL COLOMBIAN IN RAIDS TO ARREST THOSE PEOPLE. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY FOUND OTHER THINGS A RIFLE, A SUBMACHINE GUN, FOUR PISTOLS, THREE GRENADES, FOUR BOXES OF AMMUNITION AND A VEHICLE REPORTED ARMED FORCES FROM THE ECUADORIAN GOVERNMENT ALSO BEING DEPLOYED AROUND THE COUNTRY TO HAVE A PRESENCE IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, SAY, THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL THE CONCLUSION OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. >> A SEVENTH SUSPECT, ALSO COLOMBIAN, WAS KILLED DURING A SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE SHORTLY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION. THAT SHOOTOUT INJURED NINE PEOPLE, INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS AND A CANDIDATE FOR THE ECUADORIAN LEGISLATURE. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY STILL DON'T KNOW WHO, QUOTE THE INTELLECTUAL AUTHORS OF THE CRIME ARE, NOR DO THEY HAVE AN EXACT MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME. BUT THEY BELIEVE SEVEN SUSPECTS HAVE LINKS TO ORGANIZED CRIME. PRESIDENT LAZO SAYING HE BELIEVES THE ASSASSINATION WAS CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT SOMEONE OR SOME GROUP TO INFLUENCE THE ELECTIONS, WHICH TO HIM WILL STILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED ON AUGUST 20TH. THE INVOLVEMENT OF COLOMBIANS. EERILY REMINISCENT OF THE ASSASSINATION OF HAITI'S PRESIDENT BACK IN JULY 20, 21, WHEN SOME TWO DOZEN EX-MEMBERS OF COLOMBIA'S MILITARY WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR THAT KILLING. PRESIDENT LASSO SAYS HE HAS REQUESTED HELP OF THE FBI IN THIS INVESTIGATION. THIS KILLING JUST THE LATEST IN AN INCREASINGLY VIOLENT COUNTRY. ECUADOR USED TO BE KNOWN FOR ITS PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO THE LARGER MORE VIOLENT COUNTRIES IN THE REST OF THE REGION. BUT THAT HAS CHANGED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH DRUG CARTEL ACTIVITY EXPLODING IN THE COUNTRY INCLUDING THOSE LINKED TO POWERFUL CARTELS RIGHT HERE IN MEXICO, FERNANDO VALLEY. SINCE HE SAID HE'D RECEIVED MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS FROM AT LEAST ONE CARTEL DUE HE BELIEVED TO THE FACT THAT HE SPOKE AND OFTEN ABOUT CORRUPTION AMONGST ECUADOR'S ELITE, THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZED CRIME. HE RECENTLY SAID HE KNEW HE WAS RISKING HIS LIFE SAYING THOSE SORTS OF THINGS, BUT SAID HE WAS NOT AFRAID AND WOULD NEVER BACK DOWN PHIL. >> ALL RIGHT. MATT RIVERS TONIGHT. >> MEANTIME, THERE ARE STILL MUCH MORE TO GET TO TONIGHT. COMING UP, ARRESTED AT EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AND THEN RELEASED THE TECHNOLOGY, SHE SAYS LED POLICE TO BELIEVE SHE'D COMMITTED A CRIME. IT WAS ONCE KIDS VERSUS THE CITY AND NOW IT'S BOOMING BUSINESS. HOW GRAFFITI EVOLVED FROM BEING SEEN AS A CRIME TO TURNING ARTISTS INTO MILLIONAIRES. THIS WAS A VISUAL MOVEMENT THAT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE. IT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE OF ART, BUT IT HAD SOME SUCH INFLUENCE. AND I BROUGHT SO MANY PEOPLE THAT NEVER THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD EVER BE AN ARTIST. BUT NEXT, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE OUT ON THE TRAIL HOPING TO GET VOTERS ON THEIR SIDE FOR 2024. BUT WHAT AGE DO AMERICANS THINK IS IS AT BEST FIT FOR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT BY. THE NUMBERS THIS SUMMER. >> "GMA" IS POPPING UP ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SPREADING SUNSHINE AND SUMMERTIME FUN IN THE MORNING. IT'S GMA'S RISE AND SHINE SUMMER TOUR. RISE AND SHINE, RISE AND SHINE. SO COULD WE BE COMING? >> YOUR HOMETOWN. WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE IN OUR WORLD RIGHT NOW. WE WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR TRUST AND FOR MAKING ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE BUSINESS. AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. READY? LET'S DO. >> YES, IT'S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF I HAD THIS GIRL? HOW YOU. YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING? SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TWO TWO, SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE . MY FAVORITE NOW IS THE ULTIMATE GAME OF DECEPTION IS BACK. WELCOME TO CLAIM TO FAME SEASON . 12 A-LISTER RELATIVES WILL COMPETE TO KEEP THEIR FAMOUS FAMILY A SECRET. >> I'M COMING FOR ALL OF YOU. I'M LYING ABOUT. >> EVERYTHING. YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY HERE, CAN YOU? GUESS WHO'S RELATED TO? >> WHO? I THINK HE'S RELATED TO. JANET JACKSON, HARRISON FORD, ANNE HATHAWAY. YOUR CELEBRITY RELATIVE IS SCREAMING. GOING TO BE NEW MONDAY ON ABC. AND STREAM ON HULU. >> IT WAS THE IDEAL MARRIAGE. LITTLE DID I KNOW I WAS MARRIED TO A MAN WHO HAD DONE SOMETHING SO HORRIBLE THAT IT WOULD DEVASTATE OUR LIVES FOREVER? >> TEACHER OF THE YEAR IS NOW CHARGED SEX CRIMES. >> ONLY ON HULU. HE WAS LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE. THE SHOCKING STORY BEHIND A NUMBER ONE TRUE CRIME PODCAST , ESCORTS. EVEN CHEATED ME. THE WEEK OF OUR WEDDING BETRAYAL. THE PERFECT HUSBAND. HE HAD A LOT OF FANTASIES. NOW STREAMING ON HULU. >> WELCOME BACK. IT IS STATE FAIR TIME IN IOWA. AND THAT MEANS FRIED FOOD, LIVESTOCK SHOWS REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS. >> NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR AND GOP PRIMARY CANDIDATE DOUG BURGUM VISITED THE FAIR TO RALLY SUPPORT TODAY. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO CALL ON THE FAIR THIS WEEKEND. BUT AS AMERICAN VOTERS EYE THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, WHAT AGE DO THEY THINK IS BEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY? >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK. BY NUMBERS. >> 40 9% OF AMERICANS SAY THEY WANT SOMEONE IN THEIR FIFTIES IN THE OVAL OFFICE. THAT'S ACCORDING TO A RECENT PEW RESEARCH SURVEY. GEORGE W BUSH, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS 54 WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE AFTER THE 2000 ELECTION. >> 24% SAY A PRESIDENT AND THEIR SIXTIES WOULD MAKE A MORE LEADER. GEORGE H.W. BUSH FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY, AS DOES RONALD REAGAN, BUT BARELY. THE GIPPER WAS 69. 17% OF AMERICANS WANT YOUNGER BLOOD. A CANDIDATE IN THEIR FORTIES THINK. BARACK OBAMA. BILL CLINTON, JFK. ONLY 3% WANT A COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN THEIR SEVENTIES OR OLDER. >> DONALD TRUMP WAS 70 WHEN HE WAS INAUGURATED IN JANUARY OF 2017, BECOMING THE OLDEST LEADER TO TAKE THE REINS. FOUR YEARS LATER, HE LOST THAT DISTINCTION TO JOE BIDEN WAS 78 WHEN HE MOVED INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. OF COURSE, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS RUNNING FOR REELECTION AND WOULD BE AN OCTOGENARIAN 82, TO BE EXACT, IF HE WINS A SECOND TERM, WHILE TRUMP, THE CURRENT 2024 GOP FRONT RUNNER, WOULD BE 78. IF WERE TO MAKE HIS WAY BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE. A REMINDER THE MINIMUM AGE TO BECOME PRESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES IS 35. THERE IS NO MAXIMUM, SO MAYBE THE SAYING IS TRUE AGES, BUT A NUMBER. THERE'S STILL MUCH MORE AHEAD HERE ON PRIME EXAMINING THE COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLICE AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY. HOW A NEW DOCUMENTARY IS LINKING CENTURIES OF HISTORY WITH SCENES WE ALL STILL TODAY. AND A CREATIVE SOLUTION. WHY A FIREFIGHTER CARRIED, A WOMAN ON HIS BACK UP 13 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS. BUT FIRST, A LOOK AT OUR TOP TRENDING STORIES ON ABC NEWS.COM. >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. READY? LET'S DO IT. >> YES. IT'S THE SHOW AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU DO? NOT JUST GO HOW ARE YOU? YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU BE WATCHING SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE? >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON 2 TO 6 EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS LIVE. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW, WHEN I GOT SENT TO IDAHO TO COVER THE MURDERS OF FOUR COLLEGE STUDENTS, IT WAS A STORY THAT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE FOR STUDENTS. STABBED TO DEATH IN THEIR BEDS WHILE TWO ROOMMATES WERE HOME. YOU GOT TO THINK TO YOURSELF. OKAY, MR. TARGET, IN HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD A MAN GO THROUGH TO GET TO HIS. I'M KAYNA WHITWORTH WITH ABC NEWS. THIS IS THE STORY OF SAVAGE, A DETERMINED SMALL TOWN POLICE FORCE, AND A SCHOLAR OF. THIS IS THE KING ROAD KILLINGS. THE FULL SERIES IS OUT NOW. >> LISTEN TO EVERY EPISODE WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. ALL RIGHT. >> HERE WE GO. READY? LET'S DO IT. YES, IT'S THE SHOW, AMERICA WANTS AND AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW. >> THIS IS WHAT WOULD YOU GO? HOW ARE YOU? >> YES. SO WHAT WILL YOU DO? WATCHING SATURDAYS ON ABC NEWS LIVE. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I GUESS I JUST FOUND OUT. >> WHAT WOULD YOU DO? MARATHON TO SIX EASTERN EVERY SATURDAY ON ABC NEWS. >> MY FAVORITE. NOW THIS IS ABC NEWS LIVE. THE CRUSH OF FAMILIES HERE IN POLAND, REFUGEE CENTERS IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE CLOSE TO THE FRONT LINE FROM. THE CAPITAL DESTRUCTIVE CAT 4 STORM ALONG I-5. BOSTON IS IN THE BULL'S EYE OF ABC NEWS LIVE. >> AMERICA'S NUMBER STREAMING NEWS ANY TIME ANYWHERE STREAMING 24/7. STRAIGHT TO YOU FOR FREE. THANK FOR MAKING ABC NEWS LIVE AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE STREAMING NEWS. >> FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. >> THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. EVERYBODY IN THAT HOME IS OKAY TO CATCH YOU UP WITH WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT. WE ARE HERE AT FASHION'S BIGGEST NIGHT OUT. WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY? YOUTUBE HAS UNVEILED A NEW SET OF POLICIES. WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT? THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN FAST, STRAIGHT FORWARD. SOME FUN IN BETWEEN A REAL LIFE BARBIE DREAM HOUSE, A NAME CHANGE FOR THE WIENERMOBILE. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, AMERICA. MORNING AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE. EARLY MORNING NEWS ON ABC NEWS THIS SUMMER. "GMA" IS POPPING UP ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY SPREADING SUNSHINE AND SUMMERTIME FUN IN THE MORNING. IT'S GMA'S AND SHINE SUMMER TOUR. RISE AND SHINE. RISE AND SHINE. >> AND SO COULD WE BE COMING TO YOUR HOMETOWN? ABC NEWS AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE NEWS SOURCE. WELCOME BACK. WHY A WOMAN FILES A LAWSUIT CLAIMING A WIDELY USED TECHNOLOGY LED TO A FALSE ARREST. A COUPLE CLAIMS A DOCTORED THEIR BABY DURING CHILDBIRTH. AND FIREFIGHTERS GET CREATIVE TO EVACUATE A WOMAN AFTER FLOODING. >> THOSE STORIES AND MORE IN RUNDOWN. >> POLICE IN DETROIT SAY THEY'RE GOING TO ENACT CHANGES AFTER A DETROIT WOMAN FILED A LAWSUIT SAYING SHE WAS FALSELY ARRESTED DUE TO THE CITY'S USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY. AMONG THE CHANGES THAT CHIEF JAMES WHYTE ANNOUNCED WAS A BAN ON USING FACIAL DERIVED IMAGES IN POLICE PHOTO LINEUPS. PORSCHE WAS ARRESTED IN FEBRUARY IN A CARJACKING INVESTIGATION WHEN A SURVEILLANCE PHOTO OF A SUSPECT WAS RUN THROUGH FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY AND CAME UP WITH HER PHOTO. THE VICTIM POINTED TO HER AS A SUSPECT WHEN LOOKING AT A PHOTO LINEUP, BUT INVESTIGATORS RELEASED HER SINCE, UNLIKE THE ACTUAL SUSPECT, SHE WAS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AT THE TIME. >> A WRONG ARREST AT A WISCONSIN APPLEBEE'S HAS SPARKED OUTRAGE. CELL PHONE VIDEO FROM JULY 20TH SHOWS KENOSHA POLICE TRYING TO ARREST A MAN THEY BELIEVED WAS IN A SERIOUS HIT AND RUN CRASH NEARBY. POLICE SAID WITNESSES IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECTS AS TWO BLACK MEN AND A WOMAN WITH A CHILD WHO RAN TOWARDS THE AND CLAIMED EMPLOYEES LED THEM TO A MAN AND WOMAN WITH A BABY SITTING INSIDE. OFFICIALS SAID THE MAN ATTEMPTED TO LEAVE AGAINST OFFICERS ORDERS AND. VIDEO SHOWS OFFICERS TAKING THE BABY FROM THE MAN AND FORCING HIM TO THE GROUND. THE MAN AND WOMAN WERE CHARGED WITH RESISTING AND OBSTRUCTING. AN OFFICER WERE FOUND TO HAVE INVOLVEMENT IN THE HIT AND RUN. THE REAL SUSPECTS OF THE HIT AND RUN WERE FOUND IN THE RESTAURANT BATHROOM. >> A GEORGIA COUPLE HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST AN ATLANTA HOSPITAL AND DOCTOR CLAIMING THE DOCTOR DECAPITATED THE BABY DURING CHILDBIRTH. JESSICA ROSS AND TREVEON, I SAY TAYLOR SENIOR, SAID ROSS WENT INTO LABOR WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD ON JULY 9TH AT SOUTHERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS AFTER 10 HOURS OF LABOR, THE DOCTOR SPENT HOURS TRYING TO PULL THE BABY OUT AFTER HE BECAME STUCK. THE SUIT CLAIMS DOCTORS PULLED HARD THAT THEY LATER FOUND DURING AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION THAT THE CHILD HAD BEEN DECAPITATED. THE COUPLE ALSO SAYS DOCTORS TOOK STEPS AFTERWARD TO CONCEAL WHAT HAPPENED. >> RAPPER TEKASHI, 69, WAS BRIEFLY ARRESTED IN FLORIDA. THE RAPPER WAS BOOKED WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON A CHARGE OF FAILURE TO APPEAR BY THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S AND RELEASED THIS MORNING ON $2,000 BOND. THE ARREST STEMS FROM TRAFFIC CITATION TEKASHI RECEIVED ON JUNE 11TH FOR DRIVING 136 MILES PER HOUR IN HIS LAMBORGHINI TEKASHI SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN COURT ON THE SPEEDING CITATION BUT ALLEGEDLY DIDN'T SHOW. FIREFIGHTERS IN FORT LAUDERDALE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL FOR A WOMAN IN A WHEELCHAIR TRAPPED DUE TO RECENT. HAILEY ROSA WAS ON THE 31ST FLOOR OF A BUILDING WHEN FLOODWATERS SHUT DOWN THE ELEVATORS HER SIDE OF THE BUILDING IN ORDER TO GET OUT OF HER APARTMENT TO THE ELEVATORS ON THE OTHER SIDE. SHE HAD TO CALL FOR HELP. FIREFIGHTERS CARRIED HER AND HER WHEELCHAIR UP THE REMAINING 13 FLOORS OF THE BUILDING. ROSA RECENTLY REUNITED WITH THE RESPONDERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO THANK THEM. >> A HISTORIC NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA. MICHAEL LAWRENCE, IT THROW THE 14TH NO HITTER IN PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES HISTORY. >> PITCHER MICHAEL LORENZEN WALKED FOUR BATTERS AND STRUCK OUT FIVE AND HIS TEAM'S SEVEN. NOTHING WIN OVER THE WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT. IT'S THE FOURTH NO HITTER OR PERFECT GAME IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON AND THE FIRST FOR THE PHILLIES SINCE 2015. AND LORENZEN ONLY RECENTLY JOINED THE TEAM. THE PHILLIES ACQUIRED HIM FROM DETROIT ON AUGUST 1ST, AND LAST NIGHT WAS JUST HIS SECOND START WITH HIS NEW TEAM AND FIRST IN PHILADELPHIA. >> SAFE TO SAY IT'S GOING WELL SO FAR. >> GRAFFITI WAS INITIALLY SEEN AS A CRIME IN THE ARTIST, MOSTLY TEENAGERS AS CRIMINALS. >> AS THE YEARS HAVE GONE ON, JUST LIKE MANY OTHER PARTS OF HIP-HOP CULTURE, IT'S BECOME A MORE UNIVERSALLY ADMIRED FORM OF ART. >> SO AS WE LOOK AT HIP-HOP AT 50, ABC'S MEGAN WRIGHT SHOWS US THE EVOLUTION OF GRAFFITI. >> IN 19 EIGHTIES NEW YORK. >> HIP-HOP WAS THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE CITY BLARING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS BOOMBOXES BLASTING GROUPS LIKE RUN-D.M.C. AS THE MUSIC SOLIDIFIED ITSELF AS A PART OF NEW CULTURE, SO DID ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF HIP-HOP GRAFFITI. >> I THINK GRAFFITI WAS THAT THAT SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD. IT SORT OF JUST FEELS LIKE YOU OWN. THIS PIECE OF THE CITY, ONCE YOU SORT OF PUT YOUR NAME ON IT. >> IT WAS KIND OF LIKE A RAGING ADOLESCENT TEENAGE FORM OF EXPRESSION THAT WAS CITYWIDE. >> PEOPLE THEN VIEWED IT AS YET ANOTHER CRIME PLAGUING THEIR CITY. >> USING PAINT CANS INSTEAD OF BRUSHES, TURNING SUBWAY CARS INTO THEIR CANVASES, IT TURNED INTO A BATTLE OF SORTS. >> THE SEEMINGLY FEARLESS TEENAGE GRAFFITI ARTISTS AGAINST THE CITY WHICH WAGED A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEM, LED BY THEN NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ED KOCH. >> JUST SIMPLE VANDALISM. THEY SAID TO THE MTA, IT'S OUT OF CONTROL. >> PICTURE NEW YORK AND MOST PEOPLE SEE GRIME AND GRAFFITI. >> I THINK THE FEELING IS THAT IT MAKES THE TRAINS THAT DIRTY. I DON'T THINK IT'S ON. WHAT DO THINK ABOUT LOOKING BACK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS WERE WERE DOING? IT WAS IT WAS IT WAS. >> IT WAS INSANE. NOBODY LOVED IT. GRAFFITI ARTISTS KNOWN AS RIDERS SNUCK INTO THE RAILYARDS LATE AT NIGHT TO STAKE THEIR CLAIM, HOPING MILLIONS OF DAILY COMMUTERS SEE THEIR TAGS MOVING ACROSS THE CITY. >> STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, PLEASE. I WAS ABLE TO SEE THAT THE SUBWAY TRAINS COME HERE SINCE I WAS SEVEN. GOT INFATUATED WITH WHAT THE COLORS THE BRIGHT COLORS ON. >> ON THE SUBWAY TRAINS. BRONX GRAFFITI. >> WAYNE ONE TOOK US FOR A TOUR AROUND SOME OF THE SPOTS. >> HE'D SPRAY HIS ART AS A TEEN, RECALLING WHAT IT FELT LIKE WHEN HE FIRST BEGAN. THE TRAIN PULLS IN, RIGHT? I SEE MY. I SEE. I SEE MY PIECE ROLL IN BY. THERE'S A THERE'S A BUNCH OF GUYS STANDING THERE WITH THEIR SCHOOLBAG AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT IT. RIGHT. YOUR ART CRITICS ARE RIGHT THERE. IT'S NOT LIKE THE ART WORLD IN REAL TIME FEEDBACK. OH, YEAH. REAL TIME FEEDBACK. >> AND IT BECAME LIKE AN ADDICTION. THANK YOU. OKAY. WHAT DO WE HAVE IN HERE? >> THIS IS HOW I CALL MY MESS HALL. >> LEE QUINONEZ IS A RENOWNED ARTIST WHOSE WORK SELLS FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, AND HE HONED HIS CRAFT BY PAINTING SUBWAY CARS. >> THIS WAS A VISUAL MOVEMENT THAT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE OF IT WAS COMING FROM A PLACE ART, BUT IT HAD SO MUCH INFLUENCE. AND I BROUGHT SO MANY THAT NEVER THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD EVER BE AN ARTIST. I FELT I WAS GOING INTO THOSE PLACES THAT WERE VERY DANGEROUS IN THEIR OWN AND THEIR OWN WAY TO COME OUT MORE ON THE OTHER END. >> AS THE PRESENCE OF GRAFFITI ART SPREAD NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND. SO DID ITS CULTURAL IMPRINT, LEADING TO WHAT'S VIEWED AS THE FIRST MOVIE ABOUT HIP-HOP CULTURE. 1983. WILD STYLE. THE MOVIE FEATURED REAL LIFE GRAFFITI ARTISTS LIKE THAT, FREDDIE AND QUINONEZ. >> IT'S SUCH A WINDOW INTO A VERY INNOCENT, SINCERE TIME. IT'S AMAZING THAT THAT FILM HAS THAT KIND OF A ENERGY STILL TO THIS DAY. >> IT'S OPEN TODAY. THE FILM IS SO INGRAINED IN HIP HOP CULTURE THAT IT WAS RECENTLY SCREENED AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL. >> IT ALL STARTED A LITTLE SOMETHING LIKE THIS. THE FILM WAS ABOUT A MUCH LARGER LOOK OF CULTURE, OF TEENAGE CULTURE THAT HAD BEEN SINCE THE BEGINNING. >> WHAT WAS HARD WAS GETTING BECAUSE AT THIS POINT IT'S AMAZING. AS PERVASIVE AS HIP HOP CULTURE IS GLOBALLY, IT AT THE TIME. >> I HAD NEVER MADE A FEATURE FILM BEFORE. SO LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, WE DID THINGS ILLEGALLY AND WE DID THINGS BY THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS . YOU BOTH HAVE MENTIONED HIP-HOP FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GRAFFITI AND HIP HOP. >> HOW WOULD YOU BREAK? >> SHOULD POINT OUT THAT AT THE TIME WHEN WE WERE MAKING THE MOVIE, THERE WAS NO THERE WAS NO THIS IS WHAT IT'S CALLED. IT WAS JUST THESE THINGS GOING ON. >> WE HELPED KIND OF PUSH THE FACT THAT IT WAS HIP-HOP AND BECAUSE OF WILD STYLE, PUT OF THESE ELEMENTS TOGETHER AS ONE. THEN THAT THE PERCEPTION. >> PRIMA DONNA SAY THE SAME WILD STYLE WAS RELEASED. SO WAS THE DOCUMENTARY STYLE WARS. >> IT FOLLOWED SEVERAL GRAFFITI CREWS UP OF MOSTLY TEEN BOYS SHOWING THE DANGERS THEY FACE FOR THEIR ART AND THE PUSHBACK FROM THOSE WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. AMONG THEM, A BOY KNOWN AS DEZ TFA, WHO TRIED TO IT LOOK LIKE KATRINA, ABOUT HIS BREAK WINDOWS AND EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING LIKE THAT. >> WHEN DEZ WASN'T PAINTING, HE'D SPEND DAYS THE PARK ON TURNTABLES, A DEDICATION TO THE CRAFT THAT LED TO BECOME ONE OF NEW YORK CITY'S MOST POPULAR DEEJAYS, DJ KAY SLAY. >> BEFORE HIS DEATH LAST YEAR, HE REUNITED WITH STAR WARS PRODUCER AND PHOTOGRAPHER HENRY HAWTHORNE, REMINISCING ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS OF HIP-HOP CULTURE ON SHED 40 FIVE STREET SWEEPER RADIO SHOW AND ONE DAY ONE TO PUT ON T SHIRTS AND BREAK THEIR SHOW THE NEXT. WE WANTED TO PULL OUT THE EQUIPMENT AND DJ IN THE PARK, AND THE NEXT DAY YOU MIGHT WANT TO GO TO THE TRAIN YARD AND PAINT. NOBODY KNEW. YEARS LATER IT WOULD BECOME A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR. >> THEY WERE ONCE VIEWED AS CRIMINALS. MANY GRAFFITI ARTISTS NOW MAKE CONSIDERABLE MONEY FOR THEIR WORK, GAINING THE ATTENTION OF MAJOR BRANDS. >> FEW ARE AS IN-DEMAND AS CLAW MONEY. BUT SHE HASN'T FORGOTTEN HOW IT ALL STARTED. >> THEY WERE REALLY LIKE COMING DOWN ON THE TRANSIT, ON THE ON TRAIN RIDERS. >> THERE WAS THIS WEIRD PERIOD . >> NOBODY KNEW WHAT TO DO. SHE STARTED WALLS, MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF, CREATING AN UNMISTAKABLE DOUBLE SIGNATURE. >> I THINK THE COOL THING ABOUT THE CLAW IS THAT IT CAN MEAN TO ANYBODY. YOU CAN SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE OR A SIGN ATTRIBUTES TO IT THAT YOU SEE. IT'S OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. >> CLAW MONEY STARTED HER OWN CLOTHING 20 YEARS AGO AND HAS COLLABORATED WITH DOZENS OF MAJOR BRANDS FROM NIKE TO MY LITTLE PONY. >> I HAPPY TO DRAG GRAFFITI, YOU KNOW INTO SOME OF THIS LIKE, AMERICANA STUFF. SOME OF THAT MORE THAN THE CHAIR IS SOME OF THE STUFF I'M MOST PROUD OF IS, YOU KNOW, TOPPS BASEBALL CARDS THAT I'VE DONE. I DID A GARBAGE PAIL KID REAL AMERICAN POP CULTURE STUFF THAT LIKE IF I CAN HELP LIKE GRAFFITI INTO THAT, THAT'S REALLY EXCITING FOR ME. >> SHE'S ALSO FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING MORE WOMEN IN GRAFFITI. >> RUNNING AN ALL CREW. >> I'M A BUSINESSWOMAN. >> I'M A MOTHER. I'M A SOLUTION BASED PERSON. THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR. FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR STREET, FOR THE BOARDROOM, FOR WHATEVER THE KID WANTS. MARVELED AT THE SUBWAY CARS IS NOW ALSO FINDING SUCCESS. COMMERCIAL, WORKING WITH BRANDS LIKE NIKE AND REEBOK. >> ANY FORM OF ADVERTISE BEN TODAY OR ILLUSTRATIONS ARE GRAPHIC DESIGN. EVEN EVEN, YOU KNOW, MUSIC VIDEOS AND EVERY FORM OF MEDIA HAS BEEN INSPIRED BY GRAFFITI. >> DID YOU EVER THINK THAT GRAFFITI WOULD TAKE YOU TO THIS POINT WHERE YOUR ART WOULD TO EVOLVE AND EVENTUALLY YOU WOULD BE AT THIS PLACE WHERE AT NOW? I ALWAYS KNEW THAT IT WAS ART FROM THE MINUTE I STARTED. >> I JUST KNEW THAT IT WAS MY CALLING. AT THAT TIME. I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE IT WAS TO GO. YOU JUST NEED TO BE TRUE TO YOUR CRAFT AND TRUE TO YOURSELF. CLICHE AS THAT MAY SOUND, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS THE ANSWER TO THAT. AND YOUR LEGACY IS A REFLECTION OF HOW YOU FELT CALLING THROUGH THAT PROCESS. >> OUR THANKS TO MEGAN WRIGHT FOR THAT. >> SOME OF THE MOST RECENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN BLACK AMERICANS AND THE POLICE HAVE GARNERED NATIONAL ATTENTION, IGNITING PROTESTS AND INCREASING TENSION FOR THOSE WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. THIS EXPERIENCE IS ONE THAT HAS BEEN LIVED FOR CENTURIES. A NEW DOCUMENTARY IS LOOKING THAT COMPLICATED HISTORY. >> LET'S TAKE A LOOK. IMAGINE IF YOU HAD AN INSTITUTION WHERE IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE POLICE? MAYBE SCARED OF THEM? HOW WILL THESE COPS OPERATE IN THIS COUNTRY? HAS BEEN AMERICA'S DIRTY SECRET. >> NO MOTHER SHOULD HAVE TO BURY THEIR CHILD. NOW WE STAND DEALING WITH ANOTHER MURDER OF A YOUNG BLACK MAN. ABC NEWS STUDIO. SOUND OF THE POLICE EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE POLICE. >> CO-DIRECTORS STANLEY NELSON AND VALERIE SCHOON ARE HERE TO DISCUSS THE FILM. WELCOME, BOTH OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. LET'S START BY TALKING ABOUT THE FILM AND EXACTLY HOW IT EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP. >> WELL, I THINK IT EXAMINES THEIR RELATIONSHIP BY GOING IN IN THE PRESENT. AND WE FOLLOW THE CASE OF AMIR LOCKE, WHO WAS MURDERED, THE POLICE. BUT ALSO CAN WE FLASH BACK TO THE PAST TO ? THE POLICE BEGAN IN 1704 IN THE CAROLINAS AS CATCHERS, AND THAT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE POLICE. THE POLICE WERE PRESENT IN LYNCHINGS. THERE YOU SEE THE POLICE HANDCUFFS ON THE ON THE HANDS AND RISKS OF PEOPLE BEING LYNCH. SO I THINK OF THE THINGS THAT THE FILM DOES THAT NO OTHER FILM HAS DONE IS. TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE THE POLICE AS IT RELATES TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY. >> YOU ENSLAVED PEOPLE WERE CURTAILED, THEIR MOVEMENTS WERE CURTAILED THEY WERE SEEN AS SUSPICIOUS WITH A LOT OF FEAR OF REVOLT AT THAT TIME. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT, AT THAT STRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, IN THAT SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, LOOK IN TO SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH OF THAT SYSTEM REMAINS WITH US TODAY, HOW MUCH OF THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT BIAS TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE MIGHT WITH US TODAY. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE DOCUMENTARY WAS EXAMINING. LET'S JUST OF, HEY, HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHAT WAS THE PREEXISTING RELATIONSHIP AND HOW MUCH OF IT IS WITH US NOW AND AT LEAST TWO POINTS. >> YOU REACH OUT TO MEMBERS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY IN THE DOCUMENTARY. I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WAS EXTREMELY INTENTIONAL TO HARD TO TELL THIS STORY WITHOUT THAT VOICE. YEAH. >> I MEAN, I THINK THAT WE KNEW THAT WE HAD TO HAVE LAW ENFORCEMENT'S VOICE KNOW, OR ALSO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WOULD SAY, WELL, WADE, WHY DIDN'T YOU TALK TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, BUT ALSO THEIR GREAT . I MEAN, THAT, YOU KNOW, FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE, THEY TALK PATROLLING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND LOOKING AT AFRICAN-AMERICANS AS EVERY AFRICAN-AMERICAN AS SUSPECTS. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY CAME TO DO. THE WE TALKED A BLACK MAN WHO'S NOW POLICE CHIEF, AND HE TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW HE WAS STOPPED AS A KID. >> AND, YOU KNOW, THE ANXIETY THAT HE FEELS. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THE THINGS THAT I REMEMBER ABOUT THE FILM ,A QUOTE IS THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, BLACK PEOPLE, WHEN THEY SEE THOSE LIGHTS ON BEHIND THEM AND THEY'RE DRIVING AND THEY SEE THE LIGHTS COME ON, THEY THINK, YOU KNOW AM I GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS DAY? AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT WHITE PEOPLE FEEL IN THAT SAME WAY. AND, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO ASK WHY. WE WANT TO ASK, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN IT CHANGE? >> AND THAT WAS MY MY, MY, MY FINAL QUESTION TO YOU. HOW HOW CAN THAT CHANGE YOU? YOU LAY OUT THE HISTORY HERE VERY CLEARLY. I THINK FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW IT AND WHO LEARN SOME THINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THEN YOU BRING IT UP TO PRESENT IN DOING THAT AND LAYING OUT THE VERY COMPLEX HISTORY. WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COME AWAY FROM THIS THINKING? IS THERE HOPE COMING OUT OF THIS DOCUMENTARY? >> THERE DEFINITELY IS HOPE. I THINK THAT OF THE THINGS THAT'S HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, WITH GEORGE FLOYD KILLING AND SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IS THERE'S A CRACK IN THE DOOR. YOU KNOW, THE DOORS OPEN A LITTLE BIT. AND PEOPLE OF ALL RACES, COLORS, AGES SEE THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. THE FILMS, YOU KNOW, SHOWS YOU MORE THEN OF THE PROBLEM AND MORE OF HOW THE PROBLEM STARTED. AND THE FIRST STEP TO RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM. THAT'S THE FIRST STEP TO CHANGE EDUCATION IN THE BEGINNING. >> THAT'S REALLY THE FIRST STEP TO ANYTHING, RIGHT? EDUCATE PEOPLE ON WHAT IT IS. AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT. >> THEN PEOPLE CAN SORT OF HOPEFULLY THAT. RIGHT. SPARKING AN INTEREST IN LOOKING AT THE HISTORY AND COMMUNITIES CAN COME TOGETHER WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT TO WORK OUT SOLUTIONS. IT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF WORK. >> THANK YOU BOTH FOR COMING IN AND TALKING ABOUT IT. STANLEY NELSON, VALERIE SCHOON . SOUND OF THE POLICE BEGIN STREAMING ON AUGUST 11TH ON HULU. >> AND THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR THIS HOUR. I'M PHIL LIPOFF. STAY WITH ABC NEWS LIVE FOR MORE CONTEXT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP STORIES. >> THANKS FOR STREAMING WITH
