• Officials in Hawaii have activated the state’s National Guard as lava from the eruption of Mauna Loa encroaches on a critical highway.
• Lava has slowly been flowing toward the Daniel K. Inouye Highway, known to locals as Saddle Road, for days.
• Members of the National Guard were called to help with traffic control on Monday, over a week after the volcano began shooting out fountains of lava for the first time in nearly four decades.

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