Tuesday, June 12, 2018
FEMA assesses damage
Kim estimates up to 700 homes were destroyed by lava
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Federal Emergency
Management Agency assessments
of the number of homes
destroyed by the Kilauea
eruption in lower Puna will
continue throughout the
coming days. Mayor Harry
Kim estimates it could be as
many as 700.
Bob Fenton,
regional administrator
for
FEMA Region
IX, said that the
federal agency
will be able to
reimburse the state and county
for their disaster response
efforts and, depending on the
results of the assessment, the
state might be able to request
additional assistance to
reimburse residents who lost
their homes in the eruption.
Should reimbursement
for individuals be possible,
Fenton said the maximum
grant payout is just less
than $35,000, although the
average is about $4,000.
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FEMA determines whether
individuals will be eligible
for reimbursement based on
a combination of six factors,
Fenton said: trauma,
the availability of insurance
for residents, the availability
of local agency assistance,
the number of destroyed
homes, and the income level
of the affected area.
Currently, the official
number of homes destroyed
since May 3 remains at
169, said Hawaii County
Civil Defense Administrator
Talmadge Magno on Monday.
However, the actual number
is understood to be significantly
higher after the
destruction of Kapoho and
Vacationland last week.
Kim said Monday that
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KILAUEA ERUPTION
By NANCY COOK LAUER
West Hawaii Today
Two Hawaii County Council
members and two Big Island statehouse
incumbents cruised to early
victory this week when no candidates
filed to oppose them.
As of the Tuesday filing
deadline to appear on
the Aug. 11 primary election
ballot, Hilo District
3 Councilwoman Sue
Lee Loy and North Kona
District 8 Councilwoman
Karen Eoff are unopposed
in their bids for the nonpartisan
office, according
to a report from the state
Office of Elections.
“The voters in District
3 have stood by me, and
my family and I are humbled
by the privilege of
being able to continue to represent our
district values of honesty, hard work,
respect and a duty to care for others on
the County Council,” said Lee Loy, a
freshman council member, on Friday.
“As for why I’m unopposed? It’s a
demonstration of another core value in
District 3 — honor — and I will never
KIM
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take shape
Some candidates already
winners while others
face several challengers
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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday (Singapore time) at
the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore.
Trump, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un sign unspecified document
By ZEKE MILLER,
CATHERINE LUCEY,
JOSH LEDERMAN
and FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press
SINGAPORE — U.S.
President Donald Trump
and North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un concluded
an extraordinary summit
Tuesday (Singapore time)
with lofty promises by
Trump to take care of a
“very dangerous problem”
and Kim forecasting
“major change for
the world.” They signed
a document that Trump
described as “pretty
comprehensive,” but he
declined to describe it,
saying the details would
be revealed later.
The document signing
followed a series
of meetings at a luxury
Singapore resort.
Meeting with staged
ceremony on a Singapore
island, Trump and Kim
came together for a summit
that seemed unthinkable
just months ago,
clasping hands in front
of a row of alternating
U.S. and North Korean
flags, holding a one-onone
meeting, additional
talks with advisers
and a working lunch.
Throughout the summit
that could chart the course
for historic peace or raise
the specter of a growing
nuclear threat, both leaders
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