The tragedy that I think has got us all just riveted to our televisions, praying, trying

to give our heartfelt thoughts to those victims in the Maui fires.

This is what this is looked like in our news.

Maui is on fire, evacuations are underway, tens of thousands of people are without power,

and there is already extensive property damage, including in the popular tourist town of

Lahaina. Some taking shelter behind the seawall, others jumping into the ocean to escape the flames.

Both sides to the left and the right are on fire.

19-year-old Noah Thompson waiting in the water with his mother and younger brother for five hours.

This is the overhead view of the sweeping devastation in Lahaina.

80% of Maui's historic town in Ruins. This gridlock of charred cars details the desperation,

as many attempted to escape a wall of racing flames.

I'm not guys. No, we have yet to leave.

This is now the deadliest wildfire in modern US history.

Everything in Lahaina has been decimated, including our house.

Everything's gone. All the memories, all the places that we built beautiful memories together

are gone and so I'm just grateful that they made it out okay and just praying for the best outcome

for the rest of my family.

The winds were howling overnight and I even checked that about four in the morning because I was

surprised that I had missed the, you know, a weather advisory and there was still no advisory.

People were not informed except for five minutes before they had to evacuate

and this was via a cell phone message and emergency alert.

We have a tsunami warning system on this island. They did not activate it.

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