This is the principal debating society. I'm John Bachelor. Jeff Bliss is specific what we go to Maui

of the late tragedy. Jeff, a very good evening to you. What is a paddle out? Good evening.

Good evening, John. A paddle out is a ceremony that surfer is in particular, but people who describe

themselves as water men are very, you know, ocean friendly. Well, undercake, this is something that

started with among Polynesians, very popular and why has come to the mainland around California.

And it's a way to memorialize people that we've lost. And so what will happen is a group of people

will paddle out in their surfboards. They'll form kind of a ring or a circle. And then typically,

people will go around the circle, you know, giving some kind of words for the people that were lost,

you know, memories or prayers, that type of thing. And then at the end, people kind of splash

the water a bit to kind of signify, hey, we're still alive here. We're keeping the memory alive.

It's a very beautiful ceremony. I've been part of them before and very moving. But of course,

this happened in Maui this weekend to honor the dead from the fires several weeks ago.

And this is the first of several of these paddle outs are going to do, but it was very colorful.

Had hundreds of people that were out and of course out in the shore as well, all taking part in

this very special ceremony. We have new statistics on the missing. What is it, Jeff?

So the new statistics on the missing are good numbers compared to what we were looking at before.

You know, we're only into around 98 or 99 as the last number I had heard. But we're talking about,

you know, fewer missing, many more identified. So it's again, what we've talked about that happens

after big catastrophes like that. There's often a lot of confusion. Sometimes remains can be mixed

together. So it takes time for scientists and corners and such to separate those and get a

proper identification. We're moving very close to it. You know, they're never going to get to,

I don't think a zero number when it comes to the missing, but they're going to keep working on it

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