As of Monday, there were 115 people confirmed dead in the 'extreme disaster,' and identifying some remains may be impossible.
— a staggering number that presents huge challenges for officials who are trying to determine how many of those perished and how many may have made it to safety but haven’t checked in.
There are widely varying accounts of the tally of the missing. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Sunday on the CBS News show “Face the Nation” that more than 1,000 remained unaccounted for. Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said in a pre-recorded video on Instagram that the number was 850. And during President Joe Biden’s tour of the devastation on Monday, White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall put it between 500 and 800.
Babrauskas added that damage from debris removal and excavation can also make recovery efforts difficult. Standing next to a burned banyan tree that he said was a symbol of the Hawaiian people’s resilience, Biden promised to rebuild as the people of Maui want, and “not the way others want to build.”
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