Buses began pulling up at the Honolulu airport this morning before dawn with the 159 passengers who are booked on the first repatriation flight, that took off for American Samoa at 8 a.m. “I’m thinking about my mom,” Eileen Tyrell, of the Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa told Hawaii News Now. “She’s on this flight, and just not her, but the hundreds and thousands that are waiting to go home. This flight gives them so much hope.” [screen shot from HNN video]