CABRERA: Lava, toxic gas, and more than 450 earthquakes in 24 hours. Nightmarish conditions for residents of Hawaii's big island. Many having just minutes to escape the lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano. In one community, lava is springing up from fractures in the ground up to 100 feet in the air. CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam is live near Hilo, Hawaii. Stephanie, officials say there's still more danger ahead?</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Definitely, Ana. They have now recorded seven fissures that have opened up spouting that lava into the sky. And many of those fissures right in neighborhoods right by people's homes. Those neighborhoods have been evacuated. They have moved everyone out of there. And then as if that wasn't enough to have to worry about the lava, there's also the issue of the sulfur dioxide which is impossible to breathe. When you smell it, you get near it, it almost takes your breath away. So because that is also erupting, they have had to clear out further areas just to make sure that no one is impacted by that. And then as you mentioned, those earthquakes, which one so strong yesterday, 6.9 magnitude on the Richter scale, it knocked out power to thousands of customers in the area so they are working to get that back but at the same time dealing with the fact that you have that sulfur dioxide issue in the air and also the lava that is springing up in these neighborhoods, Ana.</s>CABRERA: Just incredible images we are seeing there. Stephanie Elam, thank you for staying on top of this story. Coming up, crossing the line? The scandal involving NFL cheerleaders. A topless photo shoot and a night out with male sponsors. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Don't go anywhere.
Nightmarish Conditions For Residents Of Hawaii's Big Island