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The Salvation Army will continue to provide them with services throughout the storm.

And going live now to Hawaiian Electric's outage map, and you can see it's showing not too many in the dark tonight.

The utility company is monitoring conditions around the clock and says it has crews ready to deploy on every island.

Trump has signed off on a pre-landfall emergency declaration for Hawaii, approving the governor's request for federal funding to respond to the hurricane.

509 right now as we brace for NOLA.

Hawaii Electric has released some interesting data from the storm hits that we've already taken.

How are they going to look for us?

Yeah, good morning.

Fire commission meetings scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been canceled.

And tomorrow's public hearing on Hawaiian Electric's rebasing proposal in Hilo has been canceled.

One major event that is still on is the Honolulu Century and Ride Aloha Festival from Friday through Sunday.

Riders will cover up to 100 miles along Oahu's south and windward coasts.

We have a lot of electric line personnel on the islands, but we also have a lot of storms.

Hawaiian Electric today begins flying some crews back to their home islands, partly because Kauai grid restoration is now in its final stages, but also because still more weather is approaching from the east.

Also breezing through Hawaii, the Neve Trio, performing a trio of concerts, one today in Hilo, one Friday in Waimea, and then Sunday at UH Manoa.

Music by Johannes Brahms, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Astor Piazzolla, and Jennifer Higdon.

So it's a great opportunity to come down, talk to the Board of Water Supply.

Hawaiian Electric will be there and some senior groups as well to help the communities out there to be prepared for a storm season.

Yeah, and also some workshops as well.

I know we love, people love their rain buckets.

It's veteran local travelers based island hoppers who are most likely to get dropped off by a friend or relative within an hour of scheduled departure.

What's as big as an 18-wheeler truck trailer but holds electricity? A Tesla battery built for industrial power storage.

Hawaiian Electric is buying 54 of them for power storage on Maui.

The first six have arrived.

Ben, thank you very much for that report.

Hawaiian Electric crews are extending lane closures on Likiliki Highway as they repair storm-damaged equipment.

The shoulder and far right town-bound lanes will stay closed from before Wilson Tunnel between mile markers 6.5 and 4.

The closures run today through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

I'm Howard Dicus with more of your local biz.

Hawaiian Electric is preparing for hearings next week before the Public Utilities Commission.

The company's requested a 5.3% rate hike.

That works out to $170 million in and added annual revenue.

Power is restored for 82% of the island.

The county says roughly 250 line workers will be working across the island this week, including crews brought in from Hawaiian Electric, Southern California Edison, and HMS.

KIUC has isolated part of the transmission line between Princeville and Wainiha, allowing crews to make repairs while attempting to restore surrounding communities, but the mayor tells us electricity isn't the only concern.

16 of Kauai's 22 water pump stations were still operating on generators yesterday morning.