Full Episode: Thursday, August 17, 2023
World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight a special edition of World News Tonight from Maui our first look from the |
| 0:05.5 | water of a paradise lost you can smell it in the air here you can see it over my |
| 0:10.5 | shoulder the burned out buildings the cars destroyed a stark reminder here of |
| 0:16.1 | what this community went through. Tonight we are inside the fire zone in Maui for |
| 0:21.6 | the first time we see the images captured by two captains who answered the call |
| 0:25.8 | for help from the water the Coast Guard telling them people families and |
| 0:29.7 | children were in desperate need tonight they take us back by water to where |
| 0:34.2 | they help those fighting to survive including a young brother and sister |
| 0:37.5 | their entire bodies covered in sun and tonight ABC News with a minute by |
| 0:42.6 | minute look at how this deadly disaster unfolded our in-depth timeline hour by |
| 0:48.5 | hour putting the pieces of this tragedy together so much time went by as the |
| 0:53.2 | fires grew why weren't there more alerts why were the sirens not sounded |
| 0:57.8 | tonight authorities defending their reason not to use them the two boat |
| 1:02.1 | captains describing the moment the Coast Guard sent them in telling them we |
| 1:06.3 | need help they could feel the heat the smoke and the wind as they pulled into |
| 1:10.4 | the harbor tonight investigators and what they're now learning about a |
| 1:13.7 | possible cause of this devastating wildfire the surveillance camera capturing |
| 1:18.5 | what could have been an early trigger and just a short time ago tonight the |
| 1:22.4 | Red Cross now calling this a mass fatality operation more than a thousand |
| 1:27.4 | people still unaccounted for our journey tonight to Lahaina from the water also |
| 1:33.2 | tonight hurricane Hillary rapidly gaining strength in the Pacific taking aim at |
| 1:37.2 | Southern California the storm expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding |
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