To Hawaii now - where the lava flow we've been watching for a few weeks - is now covering nearly one-thousand hectares.

The volcano's crater is producing small bursts of volcanic ash, which is slowly being pushed downwind. And volcanic gases and ash emissions may increase. One home-owner went to see his house, when red-and-orange fountains of lava started erupting just meters away. Stephanie Elam reports.

Thick waves of fresh lava glaze a path down a mount of volcanic rock. This didn't exist just a few days ago.

STEVE GEBBIE LEILANI ESTATES RESIDENT "We gambled and maybe, maybe didn't win."

Every day, Steve Gebbie heads into Leilani estates to check on the house he built by hand. Only one way to his place remains, but this road is now scarred with jagged cracks, a by-product of Kilauea's eruption. Steve says some folks in the neighborhood patched the road enough to make it passable - at least for now. When we first met Steve three weeks ago, it was just days after the eruption began. Back then, he thought his home would be gone by now.

STEVE GEBBIE LEILANI ESTATES RESIDENT "There's three fissures right next to my house. What I'm thinking is that they're going to grab a hold of each other."

Steve's fear turned to fact. The fissures have banded together into a massive volcanic complex. Kilauea's eruption is callous in its haphazardness, leaving residents who haven't lost their homes with a sick vein of hope each day.

Stephanie Elam Reporting: "How does it feel being back here right now?"

Steve Gebbie Leilani Estates Resident: "A little numb. At this point, we're kind of numb. It's been three weeks. The heart breaks slowly."

Just a few hundred feet away from his driveway, lava continues to ooze closer. It's already taken out some homes here, swallowed by the unforgiving molten rock. Tin roofs at rest in a sea of black.

STEVE GEBBIE LEILANI ESTATES RESIDENT "It almost feels like it is going to fill in the basin. When that happens, that's when all hell is going to break loose at the top."

STEPHANIE ELAM HAWAII "We were just standing down here not 5 minutes ago and there was no lava fountain to be seen. But take a look at this now. It's like it came out of nowhere. You can hear it. The ash is blowing around. We are told by residents that as early as this morning, this was deep, deep red."

As the winds pick up, the heat of the lava field scorches past.

STEVE GEBBIE LEILANI ESTATES RESIDENT "It's just a matter of time. I don't know what's going to be left of Leilani. I really think it might be wiped out."

A seemingly endless supply of lava, fueling Steve's nightmare that his house will be lost to Kilauea.