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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/17/23

CBS Evening News

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

3.8620 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

New questions and growing anger on what could have been done to prevent the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. In more than a century. The death toll is rising, and it is possible more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for. Tonight, FEMA is telling CBS news that many people died in their homes, and it may take years to identify all the remains. Officials say just 40% of the impacted area has been searched. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight our new reporting the horrors search teams in Lahaina are finding as they search

0:06.4

the rubble and the new outrage over the disaster response after the emergency management director

0:12.0

appears for the first time. His heavily criticized reason for why he didn't sound the warning sirens.

0:18.7

Here are tonight's headlines.

0:23.6

This remarkable video,

0:26.3

survivors seeking safety in a pool as wildfires rage

0:28.2

and are tough questions

0:29.7

to the man in charge of emergency response.

0:32.3

So many people said they could have been saved

0:34.3

if they had time to escape.

0:36.6

Had a siren gone off.

0:40.3

Lahaina is not for sale.

0:42.0

One of the big concerns from our reporting on Maui,

0:44.8

developers coming in and buying their land.

0:47.4

What Hawaii's governor is saying tonight.

0:49.4

My intention from start to finish is to make sure

0:52.4

that no one is victimized from a land grab.

0:57.8

A rare storm has formed into Hurricane Hillary along the Mexican coast.

1:02.4

The storm is expected to move towards Southern California.

1:07.4

Flash mob burglaries hitting luxury retailers like Gucci and getting away with millions in stolen goods.

1:14.9

No Angelino should feel like it is not safe to go shopping in Los Angeles.

1:22.5

Here in Louisiana, they're building this massive ship, a first of its kind in the U.S. to service the

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