Maui officials ramp up search efforts as thousands reported missing



County officials in Maui announced they are suing the electric company over the devastating Lahaina fires, alleging negligence. This comes as officials are ramping up their search and recovery efforts on land and sea as they urge the public to provide more DNA samples. NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports.

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46 comments

  1. DOD?! It took them long enough! Cluster-f**k!

  2. Small businesses on valuable waterfront property. Inconvenient for Developers.

  3. It's an ISLAND ! Nobody is HIDING. You can't fly without I.D.
    Everyone missing is DEAD !
    Duh.
    The media never stops treating the public like imbeciles.

  4. Blaming climate change while covering up the real reason for the deaths.

  5. OMG…. 2 weeks later? The people who are truly missing ARE dead. DNA is not going to bring them back. Sounds like another cover-up to me. The funds being used to DNA should be used to help the people suffering! Don't let them play with your DNA. This wreaks of evil.

  6. Just like a kitchen fire I have experienced

  7. cannot believe with technology they cannot do this more efficiently

  8. Father, I ask that you wrap your arms around our Brother’s and Sister’s in the Hawaiian Islands this morning.. Please talk to them and bring guidance into their lives with your Word.. Father, I ask that you please bring healing into their lives, healing from any injuries, healing from the hurt, pain and sadness, healing from worry and anxiety, healing fr depression and grief, healing from anything else that may bring harm to their body and homes.. Father, I ask that you please bring healing, comfort and peace to their mind and heart for their loss.. I ask that you please remove the sadness and replace it with happiness, love, laughter and tears of joy for the memories made and for the memories they can make in Heaven.. Father, I ask that you please provide for any assistance or needs that they may have and I ask that you please bring blessings into their lives so that they may be a blessing for others.. In Jesus name, I pray.. Amen!!!

  9. Devastating. Not since 9/11 have we seen this.

  10. If covid didnt wake u up to who the enemy is…keep being ready to be disappointed again…and again…and again…as people continue to die….stop turning to gov. To help you

  11. Wild how all the kids go missing….just like the tens of thousands in Ukraine…. and the 85k missing from the southern boarder. Weird how since the guy who is always creepy to little kids is in office, all these little kids just go missing…. hmmmm..

  12. When the search is ended I hope they build some kind of elaborate memorial and list ever single name of deceased and missing person and place it in the center of town where the most people can see it every single day where they eat, shop and/or work. Also build a park with a playground in honor of all the missing kids that can never be torn down in the future. Maybe oprah would fund it.

  13. As of today it was said 388 still missing not thousands

  14. how about searching for the CAUSE of the 'fires'?

  15. Biden doesn't care, he's on vacation again already.

  16. Lockdown Hawaii, search every building, every ship, every square inch. Leave no stone unturned.
    -Combat Vet

  17. No food ,water or help is being allowed at the crime seen of Hawaii!!! No reporters allowed either. They dont want the crime seen,they created to be discovered. Watch the land grab!!! The deep state murdered all these children and people. An inside job just like 9/11

  18. There are no family members to turn over DNA because entire families were murdered 🤣prayers for Maui❤

  19. So are they supposed to turn off the electricity every time it gets windy? Then people would complain about that, same thing happened in California. Can't live in a bubble life is full of danger. Bad things happen to good people that you have no control over, why cant people accept that

  20. Failures at all levels of government, from dumb cops endangering lives, to dementia joe on beach vacation. FAIL

  21. Incompetent WOKE responders and bureaucrats…..DEI employees…welcome to the world of incompetents! They just collect paychecks.

  22. You can't expect me believe the stranded fire victims are "forced to flush their toilets with bottled water" when they are less than 100 yards from the ocean. The tragedy is already bad enough without NBC needing to sensationalize it with more of their stupid narratives. You need to report on why this happened in the first place, and who is responsible for making it worse. Of course, your on the vulture payroll, so we won't hear about that.

  23. Why doesn’t NBC run headlines emphasizing slow insurance response, pressuring those companies to help the indigenous population there? Hmmm… wonder why that is….

  24. You know they could so easily have brought in ships some cruise ships to provide housing and food. This is such a joke the way its been handled. People can't get back in their homes. Nowhere to go no cars. Cannot get to food pantries with no cars. Come on man. Incompetent on every level.

  25. They wont let volunteers from the mainland go and help. The officials caused this on purpose and now wont let people help them. Now they are gonna buy the property for pennies

  26. Did you show Oprah's mansion, not a scratch.

  27. Does everyone see how RIDICULOUS this "reporting" is? Thousands have been missing for WEEKS!!!!! These people are gone. Stop gaslighting us! Man this is infuriating!

  28. Biden will be investigate for his lack of response.

  29. Ramp up search efforts? 2 weeks later! What! Day 1 they should have ramped up search efforts. And the prez should have been on scene no later than 24 hours.

  30. I wouldn’t ever give them my dna again… I’m praying for you Lahaina 😢

  31. Can they drop by helicopter or by drone. Water Food etc in the target areas for the people can’t get out.?

  32. Too many broken links in the chain of command. Reminds me of how the government botched the pandemic response!

  33. Make up your minds… first it was 1000 missing, then 1300, then 400 or 700, now it's thousandS ???

  34. Ask Kanye who burned it down for profits.

  35. I CRIED FOR 12 HOURS BUT NOW I LAUGH FOR 78 HOURS

  36. Dont worry Biden will get to it when he gets back from vacation.

  37. So let me get this straight this is the three-week-old story with over 1,400 people and 900 + children are still missing and now they're just starting to look and obviously many were vaporized in the direct energy weapon attack they shut the water off they sent the kids home from school even before a fire broke out alone without their parents they shut the alarm siren system off the police barricaded the citizens in the town so they would die and there's video after video showing the trees intact and the buildings turned into dust I mean we're talking cast iron bathtubs cast iron sinks porcelain fixtures turned into dust along with cars that were literally melted with trees with leaves standing next to them and now some of the officials are resigning as still locals are getting no aid from the Coast Guard from FEMA or all the other government entities and to top it off they're sending the eviction notices to remaining structures will declare the place uninhabitable the state will inherit the land and BlackRock will get the properties Al Joe Biden said no comment well he left saying we'll have a laser sharp response wake up sheeple direct energy weapons..
    How dare those pesky Hawaiians not comply with BlackRock..

  38. All body burn to ashes 😢

  39. Imagine you had billions of dollars, you were a very greedy person and saw $$$ in everything you see and had no remorse for the loss of life or anyone's well being except your own. Imagine I wanted to own a island that every year millions of people would visit. But… how can I own a island… how can I buy a island.. let alone part of a STATE? How can I push these native people out? Do I wait for a tsunami to come wipe them out???.. or can I rely on a perfectly orchestrated moment when a hurricane is nearby and winds are ferocious where I can "start a fire" and hopefully this FIRE can wipe out part of this town to begin this journey of OWNING part of the island. This happens everywhere whether you folks like it or not and the United States government is famous for this such as overthrowing countries government and presenting democracy and hiring a puppet "president" to negotiate all the deals with the U.S. such as natural resource deals and etc. For Maui.. however.. it is using Natural Disaster as a scapegoat to push the people out so the blame will be shifted and offset. I would not surprised if Lahaina 50 years from now becomes filled with resorts, clubs, hotels and lights all around like Vegas with not a single sign of Hawaiian history to be found.

  40. Them power companies taken over my town with all night industrial noise of a transfer station of semis idling and huge wire spoils being moved around on trains ciming and going. It's unbearable causing severe migraines and they only do it 3rd shift. It's literally depleted all the oxygen and replaced it with CO2 poisoning us.

  41. Thank God Biden's cat survived. Lots of rich land deals made i bet oprah you there

  42. Thousands are dead. They will slow roll the actual numbers to it doesn’t seem as bad as it really is.

  43. But networks still saying 100 dead.