KATHY:
THE NUMBER OF HOMES DESTROYED BY
LAVA
GREW EXPONENTIALLY TODAY...26
HOMES LOST, AS OF THREE O'CLOCK
THIS AFTERNOON.
HAWAI'I COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE
SAYS THERE
ARE NOW AT LEAST TEN FISSURES
AND THERE
ARE A FEW MORE EXTENSIVE FLOWS.
THE U-S-G-S SAYS THE LAVA HAS
SPREAD TO MORE THAN 387-
THOUSAND SQUARE
FEET AROUND THE MOST ACTIVE
FISSURE... BUT
THE RATE OF MOVEMENT IS SLOW.
Talmadge Magno, Hawai'i County
Civil Defense Administrator: "
seems like the flows are
extending further from the
fissures so the eruption is
progressing."
KATHY:
MAGNO SAYS A LAVA FLOW WAS
REACHING AS
FAR AS A QUARTER-MILE FROM A
FISSURE THIS
MORNING.
HE ALSO SAYS THE COUNTY AND
CIVIL DEFENSE WILL BE OPENING
INFORMATION
CENTERS IN PAHOA, WE'LL LET YOU
KNOW
WHEN THEY DO.
KATHY:
WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE TONIGHT.
SARA MATTISON SPOKE WITH A
"TEACHER" WHO
LOST HER HOME...
BUT LET'S START WITH HOWARD
DASHEFSKY WHO'S IN PAHOA...
WHERE MANY EVACUEES
COULD BRIEFLY RETURN TO THEIR
HOMES
TODAY.... TO RETRIEVE IMPORTANT
ITEMS, LIKE
MEDICINES, DOCUMENTS AND PETS.
HOWARD?
HOWARD:
HI KATHY WE'RE HERE AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 130 AT
OLD PAHOA ROAD.
THIS IS THE FIRST CHECKPOINT THE
RESIDENTS NEED TO PASS BEFORE
THEY
WERE ABLE TO GET UP TO THE
LEILANI
SUBDIVISION AREA WHERE THEY HAD
TO GO
THROUGH A SECOND CHECKPOINT BUT
WHAT'S
HAPPENING HERE IS A PRETTY COOL
THING.
THIS MORNING THIS FIELD HAD
WAIST HIGH
GRASS THE OWNER OF THE LOT CAME
IN WEED WHACK TO DOWN THEY PUT
OUT A FEW PHONE
CALLS AND EMAILS AND THE COCONUT
WIRELESS
WENT CRAZY AND IT'S TURNED INTO
A TOTAL
SHOW OF ALOHA ACTUALLY FOR
RESIDENTS WHO ARE LINED UP SOME
FOR HOURS IN HOPES OF GETTING
BACK HOME.
For the first time since lava
first broke the surface in
Leilani Estates late last week
dozens of residents were
allowed back into their homes.
But only after providing proof
they lived in the evacuated
area. .. and only after
officials deemed their
individual streets safe from the
combination of lava and
toxic gases.
8:17 - 3:35
Victor you just came from your
home first time since
last week what was it like?
Victor Hoapili / Leilani Estates
Resident:
It was devastating. Every road
that you go down there
in leiLani what are the last
irruption was everything is
brown dry don't want her running
around desolate
nobody's there except for a few
people running around. Despite
what he witnessed. Hoapili knows
he's one of
the fortunate ones. At least for
now.
3:42 - 9:01
The house is in one piece and I
live in the lower section
right next to the initial
irruption that happened on
Thursday or Friday whatever that
I was very lucky my
house so you're lucky? For now
I'm lucky my house is
still there. It's smoking
everywhere the grass is all
dry smoke everywhere but the
Tradewinds blessed us
today without the Tradewinds we
would not
have been able to go down there.
Authorities from the National
Guard and Hawaii fire
department were on scene in the
affected area to
monitor any changes with both
the winds and the outbreaks. And
those who were allowed to return
to their homes were given time
to grab their valuables and head
back out.
14:55 - 15:52
Awww you got your pets my God.
What was it like down there? All
my sweet boys we got two of
them. There's one
of them left and I got six back
there still that we
cannot find.
Carol Shepard / Leilani Estates
Resident: But theres people
there that are just going to
peoples houses, they are angels
right now. They been going to
peoples houses one in the
morning they got these
two last night at one in the
morning and they got them
they're holding them for us and
they're just angels 15:22
15:25 sot. Carol. Can you just
describe for me what it is like
in the place that you've called
home for so many years?
Devastating terrible. It's so
beyond words I know
we live in a Volcano and I know
all this but
intellectually. But when it hits
like this main thing for me is
been the earthquakes Constant
for the past few
days has been really really
Frightning 15:52
For others. The greatest fear
remains to be the unknown.
Ron Taylor / Leilani Estates
Resident:
18:28 "You haven't had a chance
to get your home we
are going there now? Yes 18:32
devastating as this
whole process it's devastating
I've had a hard time sleeping
I'm stressed out" 18:39
18:58 "I just hope I don't smell
the sulfuric acid but I
know what it feels like in the
lungs because I e breathed
that before. First whif of that
and I'm out of there". 19:07
And while residents in the
evacuation zone were learning if
their homes stood the test of
Madame Pele ...
their surrounding communities
proved to be
an equally powerful force.
Coming together in an
incredible showing of neighbor
helping neighbor.
Ikaika Marzo / Leilani Estates
Resident:
2:43 we just came up with this
idea tell people know
what's going on in the
community. For people who
need it close they wanted to
know if their homes were still
up and then a lot of people
started to want to donate 2:57
Ikaika. 3:00 A lot of the
Leilani people are starting to
come here to pick up donations.
People that were
evacuated out of there. People
who literally left with
only the clothes on their back?
Pretty much because
once it erupted pretty much
everybody had to get out of
there as soon as possible
3:14
Curtis Carvalho / Donating
Goods: 4:05 This is what the big
Island does tell me what's
going here? Right here is all
the donations for the people
down there who lost their homes
and in distress. 4:17 its a
community thing man . You have
a truck full of stuff or does it
all come from? It's all
donations came from
these people right here. This is
the aloha"
4:28
And the aloha is coming in
waves. More food, more clothing,
and even more containers to
store it all.
An outpouring of support for
people who have no idea what
else tomorrow might bring.
16:00 sot. Carol My house is
fine, fingers crossed. We
may be able to go home someday.
But you have your
animals right now? Yes, I could
care less about
anything right now that's all
that matters the people we
love and the animals that we
love that's it the rest is
replaceable. That's right".
16:17 Sot:victor 9:41 Got all
my stuff my hat my ukulele my
computer and my medicine because
I only had 20
minutes to get out. Brudduh said
you gotta get out 5-6
cop cars in front of the house
ha ha" 9:52
HOWARD:
AGAIN CIVIL DEFENSE AND FIRE
OFFICIALS WILL
STAY IN LEILANI SUBDIVISION TO
MONITOR THINGS.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE OFFERING
ANY MORE
BRIEFINGS TODAY THE NEXT ONE IS
SCHEDULED
FOR 3 O'CLOCK TOMORROW
AFTERNOON.
AND ANOTHER COMMUNITY MEETING
WITH COUNTY OFFICIALS THIS UP
FOR TOMORROW
AT 5:30 PM AT PAHOA HIGH SCHOOL
CAFETERIA.
KATHY. WE'LL SEND IT BACK TO
YOU.