It's the Ryan Laira Show on WNLIC. Good morning, everyone. As the whole country is focused

on the death and devastation in Maui, where wildfires not only killed a lot of people,

but destroyed an entire city, but remained hidden and has gotten very little coverage

so far. Is a plot, I think we can call it a plot, among some who seek to turn this tragedy

into profit. Yesterday, USA Today published a piece titled Maui is not for sale. Survivors

say developers want to buy land where their homes once stood. According to residents

interviewed for the piece, they are already receiving inquiries from developers seeking

to purchase, quote, the land islanders and their families have lived on for years, if

not generations, unquote. Some of these inquiries are even coming through social media sites

like Facebook. It's been reported. Those who remain fear that without timely government

aid and intervention, neighbors will sell their ancestral lands to people who will change

them forever. This can be seen as an example of what some people call disaster capitalism.

Have you ever heard that term disaster capitalism? It's actually got an Oxford dictionary

definition as the practice of taking financial advantage of natural or man-made disasters

and unstable social, political or economic situations. So Hawaiian Governor Josh Green

is reportedly exploring the possibility of a moratorium as USA Today reports it, a moratorium

on sales of damaged or destroyed properties. Let's hear from him directly. This clip comes

from Hawaii Governor Josh Green's address to the people of the state on Tuesday.

I've asked my attorney general to watch for predatory practices and we will be embedding

attorneys who are going to work pro bono for our people, Maui attorneys for Maui's people,

to be at our joint response centers available to all of us. So if people have someone reach

out to them to try to get their land, we will be able to get expert legal advice so that

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