What is the, what has been the reaction of, of, of your residents over the last maybe 12 hours or so?

Yeah, um, well, you know, it's kind of a mix, right? 'Cause the, you're right.

I mean, we thought we were kind of out of the woods, uh, when we saw, uh, you know, when we saw it turn to the left.

Uh, it was going to more to the west.

Uh, but then the, that band of, that band of rain and that, that wind kind of caught us at the end, and, and it did, it did hit us, uh, pretty strong, uh, like, like you said, in Naalehu, in Waiohinu, uh, Pahala.

You know, the same, the same place where, where Lala hit, so there was some, some anxiety there.

Um, and we had our crews out there all night.

... for a little bit.

You guys made a lot of progress down south, but what do you still have to do?

Oh man, there's so much, right? We're in the recovery phase.

And so right now we're collecting an assessment of all of the needs.

Okay, so that's major.

And then we're also preparing for the potential next storms.

So as far as the needs, there's a lot of needs out there.

Housing is the biggest.

What is the status of that process? And what have the communication with the community been like?

You guys made a lot of progress down south, but what do you still have to do?

Oh man, there's so much, right? We're in the recovery phase.

And so right now we're collecting an assessment of all of the needs.

Okay, so that's major.

And then we're also preparing for the potential next storms.

So as far as the needs, there's a lot of needs out there.

Housing is the biggest.

What is the status of that process? And what have the communication with the community been like?

And so it just makes me wonder about Like, whose responsibility is it to prevent the scale of destruction?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I know.

It's not a matter of if you write mail on it, it's when, right? And so, you know, so there is a balance in all of this, too.

So one of the biggest ongoing concerns that's a disaster, I think, is homelessness.

In a sense, it's a social disaster.

Like, how can we kind of find homes for people? You know, and then the other disaster is like, Hawaiians leaving Hawaii, right? So they're leaving the islands, right? So we're trying to mitigate that.

So I'm wondering, you know, what are you expecting from the federal government? Maybe just focusing in on natural disasters, you know, for the sake of this conversation.

But yeah, we have a better feel on numbers?

Yeah, well, I mean, we have, it's a county cemetery, so, you know, we have a list of the plots, we have names, but, you know, when we did the, uh, The briefing on Wednesday night, you know, there were some family members who said, you know, that their names were not on the list.

So we do have some work to do in working with each of the families to make sure that our list matches up with what they know.

And there's just all kinds of questions, you know, like when can the other sections that is preserved, when can it be used? For example, if somebody passes away, God forbid, in the next week or something, and they had a plot in, say, I don't know, section D or E where it's okay, like could they use the sites? And our answer is right now, first of all, it's very difficult to get to the site because there's all kinds of debris.

It's very unsafe.

So we recommend nobody go to the site, especially with machinery right now until we give the go ahead.

And we're there now making sure that, you know, we want to search every single debris for every possible sacred remains, right? Because we owe it to the families to do that.

And then do we have a plan, you know, as we start retrieving some of these coffins or caskets, you know, where they'll be, or how they'll be stored until we can get them back in the ground again?

This morning we hear from Big Island Mayor Kimo Alameda, who assures us that everything that can be done to track the suspect is being done.

Well, I, I can tell you right now, we are focused on finding this, this suspect.

I mean, we got all hands on deck.

Um, you know, what's so fortunate is our collaboration with the state and the feds.

I mean, the, the governor's office have already been in contact with, with, with us.

Uh, you know, we got the county police chiefs, uh, from various, uh, from the three other counties have, have contacted our, our chief and, and willing to offer services.

US Marsh Services is bringing in a team and, and th- these folks are super skilled in fugitive ap- apprehension.

... to track the suspect?