Lava Flows Near Geothermal Power Plant
HARLOW: You're probably used to these images by now, but you shouldn't be. This -- I mean, this is remarkable, but it's been three weeks since the Kilauea volcano first erupted, the lava spouting out and showing no signs of slowing down. You've got dozens of homes, buildings, cars destroyed. People have evacuated.</s>BERMAN: Yes, several cracks on the ground has sent lava and toxic gas into the air. It's so bad that officials are handing out new masks today to protect residents from the volcanic ash. Our Scott McLean live on the big island where he's been braving all of this. Scott, what's the latest?</s>SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John and Poppy, there are no shortage of dangers here on the southern part of the big island of Hawaii. You mentioned the ash cloud for people who are near the summit of Kilauea about 20 miles away from we are. There's also the sulfur dioxide continuing to pour out of those fissures. There's also the laze hazard, that nasty gas that happens when lava hits the ocean. That can also be potentially dangerous. I haven't even mentioned the earthquakes and obviously the lava itself. Well, the latest threat here is this geothermal power plant where lava is encroaching slowly on to the property. Authorities they met with residents here to try to calm some of the concerns that they had. There were dangerous chemicals on that plant but they have been removed now for some time. That plant has been shut now since May 3rd. But now the issue is those geothermal wells. Ten out of 11 of them have had cold water poured down them that seems to neutralize them. They had issues with the 11th. What they did is plugged it or capped it and authorities are confident at this point that it won't be an issue. They're also telling people that the lava that is slowly creeping in there is still more than a mile away. And the fissures, some of them continue to bubble up. Some of them are dying down including the one that injured Darryl Clinton. He is the only person to have been injured so far by Kilauea. He was actually protecting two houses, one of which was only about a hundred yard away from a spewing fissure. We spoke to him in the hospital yesterday and he is in remarkably good spirits after being hit with a lava bomb that burned his leg and burned his porch. He's got a rod in his leg. He will be out for six weeks, but it's just amazing to hear how positive he is despite what's happened to him -- John and Poppy.</s>HARLOW: It is. He's quite a character. I'm glad he's all right after that happened. Scott, thank you very, very much. You can go to CNN.com. There's actually this Web camera, and this is a live feed of the volcano, the Kilauea volcano right now, 24/7 on CNN.com.</s>BERMAN: It's mesmerizing. It is mesmerizing but still dangerous.</s>HARLOW: Yes.</s>BERMAN: Yet mesmerizing.</s>HARLOW: It's very, very frightening.</s>BERMAN: It's like the Yule log.</s>HARLOW: It's like the what?</s>BERMAN: Yule log, but not as festive.</s>HARLOW: Your reaction just moments ago from former FBI director James Comey, reacting to the president's claims that a spy was planted in his campaign. Wait until you see what the fired FBI director has to say.