sources tell us that the fbi got permission to monitor paul manafort before and after the election. >> an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. >> that puts pressure on the president and all those around him even greater. in just hours, president trump will address the u.n. general assembly for the first time. >> president trump expected to issue harsh warnings to iran and north korea. >> i hope he reads from his speech and does not go off script. we cannot do this alone. we have to work with the international community. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. chris is off. john berman is with us. we begin with breaking news.

hurricane maria has strengthened to a category 5 storm. it's taking aim at puerto rico after battering the caribbean island of dominica, packing 160-mile-per-hour winds at this moment. puerto rico's governor fears the impact could be, quote, catastrophic. >> we are also following several others, several other big stories, including a cnn exclusive. we have learned that the u.s. government wiretapped former trump campaign chair paul manafort, amid concerns he was communicating with russian operatives, trying to influence the election. all this going on as president trump gets set to give his first address to the united nations general assembly. a speech expected to be deeply philosophical. that's what the white house tells us. it will include warnings to north korea and iran. let's start with meteorologist chad myers, tracking hurricane maria. chad? the storm moved right over dominica overnight as a category 5 hurricane. and even the southern tip of guadalupe had the northern eyewall, the most dangerous p t

part. i know you talked to that man in st. croix. i don't know how you can be as prepared as you can get for category 5 landfall. i know you think you're ready but, boy, hours and hours of wind speeds 160 miles per hour for that island st. croix and then into puerto rico. it stays either a 4 or 5, right on the edge. 157 is the edge. it goes from 155 to 160 and back and forth. close enough for me. direct landfall near puerto rico, up to st. croix or even farther north. here is the u.s. virgin islands, the bvi. i think less likely down near ponce. we'll continue to watch it, still in the cone. the cone turns right. the cone does turn away from the u.s. at the very last minute, turks & caicos in the bahamas. that's where irma went.

this is where maria is going. it will be a very significant storm for the turks & caicos as well. here you can expect what the windfall will be across this area the next couple of days. just notice the white. it's the most damaging part. it's well over 100 miles per hour. that moves right into puerto rico, even into the u.s. virgin islands that were hit so hard with maria. then across from puerto rico and northward, very heavy winds. much harder hit in san juan than the last storm, than irma. finally the turks & caicos and sliding up toward the north and northeast. alisyn? >> chad, thank you very much. we'll check back, obviously, with you as soon as possible. maria's wrath is being felt by the islands that have already been devastated by hurricane irma, including antigua. michael holmes joins us live with more from there. what's the situation there, michael? >> reporter: alisyn, you get a sense behind me of what it's

like here in antigua. we're outside of the cone chad was just talking about. you can imagine what it's like within that cone. just imagine dominica taking that massive hit. we heard from the prime minister. he had to be evacuated from his residence. the roof caved in. there are reports from local ham radio operators on the island that there is significant structural damage. i want to mention, we talked to a pilot who flies around here all the time. he said a couple of years ago a tropical storm severely damaged dominica. this is a cat 5. one can only imagine what the scene is like on that tiny island. the other thing to remember about a place like dominica, it's quite mountainous. the risk of mudslides, a foot, 15," 20" of rain gets dumped on it, people live on those mountainsides, on those hillsides. they are at risk of mudslides as well. getting information out is going to be crucial in the hours

ahead. it is now past dominica, as chad said. guadalupe, said everybody stay indoors. preservation of life is the important thing at the moment. john, back to you. >> michael holmes, can't believe we're looking at these pictures again of another storm battering the same basic area. state of emergency is in effect in puerto rico. the island gearing up for a direct hit by the category 5 hurricane. cnn's nick valencia live in san juan with the latest. nick? >> reporter: good morning, john. this is expected to be a monster storm. people here on the island territory of puerto rico are taking the warnings very seriously. ominous warnings from officials. we want to give you the sense of what the current conditions are here. on one of the beaches of this beautiful territory. those waters, those waves are starting to swell up. earlier this morning, those skies were relatively clear. blue skies. you see cloud formations.

30 minutes ago we saw rainfall form out there. i mentioned anxiety among those folks here in the island. i was talking to residents yesterday. they were telling me there's people here who still don't have power, electricity from hurricane irma. there's still debris, noticeably, in the streets and parts of this island. people here are anxious that not much time has elapsed between hurricane irma and hurricane maria. irma didn't even make a direct landfall here but maria is expected to do exactly that. at his press conference, governor saying there's no time to expect miracles and expect this to change at all. you should expect the worst and people here on the island are preparing for the worst. john, alisyn? >> thank you, nick. we'll be tracking maria's progress throughout the morning. >> we want to get to a cnn exclusive. sources say u.s. investigators wiretapped former trump campaign chairman paul manafort under a secret court order before and

after the election. evan perez and pamela brown broke this story for us. we have all the breaking details for us about why the government was listening to someone so close to the president. evan perez joins us now. tell us about your reporting. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. sources tell us the fbi got permission from the secret surveillance court to monitor paul manafort, the former trump campaign chair before and after the election. extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. of course, manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling probe. there are intercepted communications that raise concerns about whether manafort was encouraging russians to help the campaign. other sources tell us that this intelligence was actually not very conclusive. special mueller's team has now been provided all these communications. >> evan, what do they mean by encouraging the russians? >> reporter: right. there's a lot we don't know

about exactly what was said. now, we're told that the fbi has communications between suspected russian operatives relaying what they claimed were discussions with manafort as well as communications involving manafort himself. none of this has amounted to what people would consider a smoking gun in this investigation. there's still much more work being done to determine whether there's a criminal violation here. we didn't get a comment from paul manafort's spokesperson but he has previously denied he knowingly communicated with russian operatives during the election and also denied helping russia undermine u.s. interests. >> so monitor him not just once, evan. >> reporter: right. >> two separate times here. >> reporter: right. exactly. the secret order began after manafort became the subject of an fbi investigation in 2014 and centered on work being done by consulting firms here in washington for ukraine's former ruling party, according to the sources we've talked to. the surveillance was

discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of those sources. the fbi did restart the surveillance after obtaining a new fisa court warrant that extended it at least into early this year. now sources tell us that the second warrant was part of the fbi's efforts to investigate ties between trump campaign associates and suspected russian operatives. it's unclear when that new warrant started. as part of the fisa warrant we've learned that earlier this year, the fbi conducted a search of a storage facility belonging to manafort. of course, we know that this past july the fbi raided his home in virginia. >> evan, obviously one of the big questions is whether or not president trump or president-elect trump was somehow swept up in these wiretap conversations while manafort was under surveillance. what do we know? >> right. that is the big question. we've been told by sources that the president and manafort were

still talking early this year, well after the campaign was over. during that time the fbi was listening to manafort's phone. it's possible that those conversations were collected, alisyn. >> so if you were following twitter overnight, evan, which i know you are doing, you know the president's supporters claim this justifies the president's assertion last year that he was wiretapped. does it? >> reporter: right. they are certainly making that point loud and clear. that was earlier this year, by the way. the justice department has denied that the president's own lines were wiretapped. as we said, it's possible that he was picked up on manafort's surveillance. we shall note that manafort does have a residence in trump tower. it's not clear to us whether any of the fbi surveillance was done on him there. >> so what does all of this mean for the ongoing robert mueller investigation? >> right. put together this picture along with reporting we saw in the "new york times" yesterday that indicates that mueller's team

has already warned manafort that he is going to be indicted. that jives with information we learned as well. that tells us this investigation is accelerating. we expect that we're going to see charges most likely against paul manafort, probably for tax issues, financial issues. appears to be the strategy for mueller's team to be that they want to try to flip him, perhaps use this financial investigation to pressure him to provide additional information on the larger investigation, which is still about whether or not there was anything illegal, in any coordination or can contacts between people associated with the trump campaign and russia. that's the question that mueller is charged with investigating. that's the question we all want answered. >> evan, thank you for all the reporting, for this exclusive. you've given us a lot of information. let's bring in our panel now. cnn political analyst david gregory, cnn senior analyst and

former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin and former fbi special agent, asha ringatha. great to have all of you. what does it mean that the fbi agents were able to go to a fisa court and get two warrants to monitor paul manafort? >> right. nothing but national security matters and they go to a judge and say we have probable cause to believe, if you approve this wiretap, you will get -- we will get information related to violations of national security. >> but we don't know what that probable cause was? >> no. but we do know that these are generally very voluminous documents filled with evidence. some people accuse these fisa courts, foreign intelligence surveillance act courts of being rubber stamps. you can be sure with someone as high profile as this, a judge would have been very careful.

they approve, these judges, whoever -- we don't know the identity of the particular judge -- approved these warrants twice. that suggests there is some evidence that paul manafort was involved with foreign intelligence. doesn't mean he's guilty of a crime. doesn't mean anyone is guilty of a crime. but it shows this was a very aggressive investigation even before robert mueller was appointed. >> one thing we didn't know yesterday is there are tapes of paul manafort having conversations. of what, we don't know. but there is that concrete evidence out there right now. and we know, because of "the new york times" reporting also, that paul manafort was told by investigators that he's likely to be indicted. what does that all say to you? >> there are obviously tapes. the fbi was monitoring him.

with regard to this idea that any communications with trump could be picked up, that is true. that would be called incidental conversations. that doesn't mean that the president himself was being targeted. unless there's connection between those conversations and foreign intelligence being sought under the order, those would actually be screened out of any kind of communications that the fbi would monitor. i agree that there's pressure being put on manafort to give more information. underlying counter intelligence investigation with criminal prosecutions potentially coming out of it. the primary threat here is the attack on our democracy by russia.

so they are going to use any leverage they have against manafort to get him to talk about that if they believe he has information. >> david gregory, cnn has exclusively this reporting, this bombshell that he was actual ly wiretapped twice. a little bit of color of what it's been like at paul manafort's house while this investigation has been going on and the tactics that robert mueller's investigators have been using. manafort was in bed one morning in july when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his virginia home. they took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, even photographed the expensive suits in his closet. the special counsel then followed the house search with a warning. his prosecutors told mr. manafort they planned to indict him. >> what's significant about here, as jeffrey pointed out earlier this morning, you don't see search warrants being executed in these kinds of cases

t shows a level of aggressiveness on the part of the fbi prior to the special prosecutor and now with the special prosecutor. it also makes clear that the original act here, the interference in the election, that's primary ily what they're after here. we've seen several layers of this. those close to now the president and trump enterprise and russia going back some time and the investigation into actual context and the idea of some kind of obstruction of justice by the president, that the president's own counsel has been concerned about. it shows you the aggressiveness of the investigation and the fact that we know some facts about all of this. as a candidate, president trump was talking about and inviting

russia to hack into the dnc e-mails, to get the e-mails, inviting a crime, interference in the election. he has been less than truthful about contacts he has had with russians. that's just in the public sphere we are reporting on. we don't know what what extent they're close to indicting manafort to provide information on others. not only is the legal piece, we get a window into how aggressively that's moving. that will stiffen the spine of even republicans now who are investigating this. >> paul manafort is the top of the pyramid. paul manafort was the campaign chairman. the fact that they are focused on him has pretty severe implication

implications. >> the pressure that is on him and the fact that they're looking at all these crimes and are willing to charge him in court that they believe that he is essentially some kind of hub in agreement or activity going on between the russians and anyone else in the united states whether or not they were connected to the campaign. i think that he holds the key and that's what they wanted known and that's probably why he's being very reluctant. and i think that, you know, the tactics that are being used are probably -- they're being used because he's not being as forthcoming as they would like him to be. and they need to go in and do it more aggressively. >> interesting possibility. we'll get into that much more coming up. jeffrey, asha, david, thank you very, very much. backdrop for president trump. in a few hours, he will take center stage at the united nations and address the general assembly for the first time.

he is expected to deliver harsh warnings to north korea and iran and express u.s. self interest. jeff zeleny is live at the united nations with a preview. >> reporter: good morning, john. leaders of 170 countries will be on hand as president trump addresses the united nations general assembly, likely to be on the edge of their seats as well, to listen as he interprets his america first agenda. white house official tells me the president will focus squarely on what he's calling the menace of north korea. with the eyes of the world watching, president trump will bring his america first vision to the u.n. today, delivering what the white house calls a deeply philosophical speech that will encourage nations to take responsibility for their own security. >> americans and nations of europe value freedom of speech and sovereignty. >> reporter: framing his foreign

policy as a pragmatic approach that shows the benefits of countries acting in their shared self interest. expected to issue harsh warnings to iran and north korea. senior white house official telling cnn the president will speak in extremely tough terms about the north korea menace. after remaining silent about kim jong-un during the first day at the u.n. >> the main message is make the united nations great. not again, but make united nations great. >> reporter: the president striking a familiar campaign-like tone during day one of the summit. his words were far more measured than on the campaign trail when he blasted the u.n. as a bloated bureaucracy. >> the united nations is not a friend of democracy. it's not a friend to freedom. it's not a friend even to the united states of america. >> reporter: even ridiculed the iconic emerald backdrop, where he will stand today, once saying on twitter, the cheap 12-inch square marble tiles behind

speaker at u.n. always bothered me. i will replace with beautiful large marble slabs if they ask me. but far more pressing items are on the president's desk this week, an issue he discussed with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu yesterday in addition to the prospect of brokering middle east peace. >> i think there's a good chance it could happen. >> during a meeting with french president emmanuel macron, president trump held strong to his decision to withdraw from the paris climate accord. but president trump saying he was inspired to hold a fourth of july military parade in washington after witnessing bastille day in paris earlier this year. >> we'll have to try to top it. >> reporter: now these speeches for any new american president is always a fascinating moment to watch as world leaders take their measure of this president. most, of course, have not met president trump. an interesting view inside the room here, alisyn.

the north korea delegation, which does not include the president, of course, but north korea delegation, because of a lottery drawing, will be sitting at the very front of this room. they will just be a few feet away from the president as he addresses again what he's calling the menace of north korea and ticking through all those global challenges here. that speech, the biggest one of his presidency in a foreign policy setting coming in about three hours time. >> jeff, that is some interesting color in terms of the optics of the room. we'll all be watching for that. thank you very much. meanwhile, republican senators are making one last push to appeal obamacare. what's in this new bill? and does it finally have the votes to pass? one of the bill's sponsors is here next. you can do endless onlineve research about the ct6. or you can come in and have it all for less than you might imagine. don't wait. our 2017 models will be moving fast.

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senate republicans are pushing one last attempt to overhaul obamacare. senators lindsey graham, bill cassidy, dean heller and ron johnson have introduced new health care legislation. can they get to 50 votes before a september 30th deadline? let's bring in one of the bill's

sponsors, republican senator ron johnson. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well. let's pull up for our viewers what is in your bill. it would repeal the obamacare mandates, eliminate the obamacare subsidies, eliminate medicare expansion, loosen protections for existing conditions, it would repeal a handful of taxes and it would defund planned parenthood. what makes this bill, do you think, different than all the other ones that have come before? and why would this one be able to pass? >> primarily it's taking all the obamacare funding and turning those into grants and sending those out to states in a more equitiable fashion. three states, california, new york and massachusetts, they represent a little more than 20% of the population yet they get about 36% of all obamacare funding. it's simply unfair. wisconsin, very innovatively

using its own discretion concern about its own citizens, governor walker, state legislature filled the obamacare gap. we got no funding for that whatsoever in medicaid expansion. this is a far fair process. i have to believe, alisyn -- i've been highly concerned about the market distortions caused by obamacare, premiums to double nationally, many cases triple. here the one size fits all model in washington, d.c., people aren't concerned about it. governors, state legislatures will be far more concerned about those forgotten men and women if they have more control over those dollars rather than washington, d.c.'s one size fits all model. >> some of your republican colleagues in the senate don't like what you have put forth. here is senator rand paul. graham cassidy keeps obamacare and tells the states to run it. no, thanks. rebranded trillion dollar spending program because it adds some block grants. keeping 90% of obamacare is not okay. it's not what we ran on.

conservatives should say no. do you believe that you will have the 50 votes needed for this? >> we're certainly getting close. and for anybody who makes those exact same points i would argue you're facing a binary choice, leaving 100% of obamacare in place or taking what we can get and then working with the governors long term. i think this takes the power out of washington, d.c., starts putting it in the states. there are certain things we cannot do under senate reconciliation procedures. by turning these into block grants and start putting governors in charge and the governors in the states start putting pressure on washington, d.c. to create greater waivers, greater flexibility. maine is guaranteed issue. they didn't repeal it. what they did was supplanted it, literally cut premiums to young people to a third of what they were, for older folks like myself, cut premiums in half. that's state innovation.

state block grant system would grant those states the ability to innovate that way and then we can look at best practices. one of the things we're talking about in the bipartisan meetings with lamar alexander is one state gets a waiver. don't make another state go through the months, sometimes years of all the applications, the thousands of pages of applications. if one state has obtain aid waiver if that's the best practice if it's working, let another state adopt that immediately. >> okay. >> so this would give us so -- this would put us on the path of state control over insurance markets and states will be far more sxonsive to their citizens than washington, d.c. will. >> let me ask you about a couple of the senators who were holdouts last time and whether or not you think you've gotten them on board. lisa murkowski. your plan defunds planned parenthood. do you think she's going to vote for it? >> we're talking to senator

murkowski. and we make a fair amount of adjustments for alaska's unique situation, with the tribes up there and it's a much diversper state. one size fits all model doesn't work. we've tried to be flexible in the formulation. it's going to be a fairer process. >> how about senator john mccain? he famously, i don't have to tell you, he was the person who gave that thumbs down last time around. is he on board with this? >> governor ducey is now on board. he has come out with his support. again hhs will be showing some flexibility for arizona's unique situation. hopefully the governor's endorsement of the plan will certainly, i'm hoping, get john mccain to vote yes as well. >> very quickly, why will you vote on this before you have a final cbo score? >> cbo takes so long.

this is actually pretty simple. we're taking $1.2 trillion of obamacare funding and pretty well attaching it to the senate health care bill which has already been scored. it doesn't take rocket science to add those two figures up and give us the score we need to actually vote on this. cbo is cbo and they're saying they need weeks. i reject that notion and i think we can decide based on the information we already have. >> senator ron johnson, we'll be watching closely as that september 30th deadline ticks forward. thank you for being with us. >> have a good day. >> you, too. john? >> wiretaps on president trump's former campaign chair as part of the russia investigation. this, as a new effort launched today to highlight the russia probe, launched by a pretty unlikely team, to say the least. (vo) dogs have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of natural nutrition.

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cnn has learned that fbi investigators wiretapped trump campaign chair paul manafort

before and after the election. new details coming out nearly every day, our next guest wanted all the information in one place. they launched what they're calling nonpartisan committee to investigate russia. joining us now, director and actor rob reiner and senior edit editor, david. can i ask you about the news, cnn exclusive, paul manafort wiretapped. not one but two fisa warrants on him. what does that tell you about the investigation right now? >> jeffrey toobin gave a wonderful legal analysis. president trump had his meltdown on twitter 48 hours ago, he must have known that this was coming. it tells us about the russian connection in the campaign. he was working in ukraine, helped to subvert ukrainian democracy at russian behest. it was manafort who approached

trump and said i will work for free, which is not a big word in the manafort vocabulary, free. why was he so eager? why did he put himself forward? >> such a great point to remind everybody about. rob reiner, how did you get into this russia investigation racket? >> well, i mean, it occurred to me that, you know, we've heard this cliche our whole lives. when our country is attacked, politics stops at the water's edge. this is the first time that that didn't happen. and i don't know that the public understands the gravity of what the russians were able to do and continue to do here in the united states. they attacked us. they're trying to undermine our democracy. for some reason we are not understanding the gravity of this. and i think a big part of that is because the president of the united states is not saying in

the oval office, my fellow americans, we've been attacked. and so i started reaching out to people who are patriots and not necessarily my political stripe to say we're all together in this. our country is attacked. democracy is on the brink to -- if we're going to survive, we need to come together as americans and understand what happened. >> let me play a clip of what you put together here. this is literal lay a campaign, you're saying, to inform people of what's going on, you believe what the russian investigation -- the voice of god, morgan freeman, talking here. listen to this. >> using social media to spread propaganda and false information, he convinces people in democratic societies to distrust their media, their political processes, even their neighbors. and he wins. vladimir putin is that spy and

this is no movie script. >> talking about vladimir putin there. obviously russians deny direct involvement in the u.s. election. i want to bring bring up two points there, rob. you call this a bipartisan effort. >> nonpartisan. >> nonpartisan. rob reiner, david frume, none of you like donald trump at all. you all worked aggressively against him during the campaign and since the campaign and number two, that somehow people aren't focused on russia. it seems we talk a lot about the russian investigation. you don't think there's enough focus on what's going on? >> you guys do talk about it a lot. the media does talk about it a lot. and for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be penetrating into what i refer to as the real americans. patriotic americans that wave the flag. and i think because it's complicated. it's very, very complicated to

wrap your mind around all of the -- you know, what is cyber warfare? what is -- what have the russians been trying to do since 1917, since they were the soviet union and trying to destabilize us? david brings up a great point. i don't want to take it out of your mouth but about the idea that they're weak now militarily. you can pick up on that. and what they now do to underminus. >> russia is not the soviet union. they have to leverage america's weaknesses against america, including, above all, our intense partisan and other divisions. you say what's different. this is rob reiner's work. one of the great contributions he has made with this is people need a gold standard of what is known and had an is merely surmised. we have seen amongst the trump skeptics the willingness to believe things because they make you feel good in the moment. not because they're corroborated. cnn has been very careful. if you get your news from social

media, especially facebook, not everyone included among the trump critics. false stories are spread. people need know what is the state of play? what is known, what is guessed at and what is probably untrue? >> i do a lot of interviews with die-hard trump supporters and they say yeah i'm sure russia meddled. it's not the first time. they do this. they do it to other countries and, by the way, other countries do it, too, and by the way the u.s. meddles in other people's elections. how are you going to get them to pay attention to what people have compiled? >> what you said is true but it's also true that the level of their intrusion into our democracy is greater than it has ever been before and they have succeeded. in past times, they've always tried to spread propaganda. now they've actually succeeded.

they've disrupted the election and continue to spread -- they're going to look at this and say that's fake news. they've successfully made you guys fake news, the mainstream media, american journalism fake news. >> they're trying. i wouldn't say it's successful. >> well, they are successful with a lot of people. a lot of people discount cnn. >> the answer is republicans and democrats coming together and saying this cannot stand. make no mistake about it. if there was an atom bomb dropped on us, we would pay attention. what has happened is conceivably way worse than that. because it's not just disrupting the election. cyber warfare has the capacity to disrupt electrical grids, nuclear power plant and as of

now they've hacked into our nuclear plants and electric grids over 50 times this year. so this is going on. >> it's very ominous stuff. you guys trying to bring it to the fore and get attention for it. good luck. we'll be following along with all of your progress. david, rob, great to have you here. thank you so much. >> thanks for having us. another big story. hurricane maria is bearing down. it's testing, obviously, the patience and resolve of everyone in the caribbean. what needs to help for the countries still reeling from irma. how you can help. (con artists...)

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puerto rico dekhroeur clairing a state of emergency. the latest storm in the caribbean comes just two weeks after hurricane irma leveled the british virgin islands. big names are coming together to show the storm's power and the massive effort it will take to rebuild. >> on september 6th a category 5 hurricane unleashed its power on the caribbean. it pounded the precious islands with unprecedented force.

irma has left behind a trail of unimaginable destruction. the island and its people are shocked to the core and in a desperate state of emergency. people have lost everything. >> that was the voice of actress kate winslet, and joining us now is founder of virgin group and he rode out the storm in the virgin islands. what was it like? >> it was indescribable. we were in a concrete bunker, and for five hours it felt like the bunker was going to crack. the british virgin islands and the caribbean never had a storm like it. the worse the british virgin islands was category 3, and this was a category 7 storm.

>> meaning it was higher than category 5. >> yeah, they stopped at category 5 because they never thought it would go up to cat 7. we opened the door and saw the devastation. the other eye hit us and we rode it out for another five or six hours. >> you made this film and you were here to talk about this before hurricane maria was headed there, and you could get hit there again today. >> tonight -- the sad thing is the resilience of everybody, and the last week and everybody is trying to get themselves together and get shelter for everybody, and then another category 5 or category 6 will hit them tonight.

there's no roof. some peoples' houses -- the whole country has been devastated. it's going to be a ghastly night for them. the strength of the storm tonight is twice as what has ever hit the british virgin islands before. we will hope everybody is all right. we will have to start thinking about how to rebuild a whole country, and a whole country has been completely destroyed. the rebuilding, you know, the rebuilding will have to start. >> look, you obviously have the resources to rebuild and you had the resources to get out ahead of the storm. why did you say during irma? >> i always stayed when we had a hurricane come to the bvi, and the only reason why i left on this occasion is i was due to

talk at the climate change week this week, and i felt angry on what happened there, and i was at the paris talks. it felt like so much hope that the world was going to rally around with this problem, and then, of course, what happened in america when people, you know, denied climate change and said they would not rally on and help the rest of the world get on top of this problem. i wanted to get here and talk about it and rally help for the caribbean and for other places that has been hit. america has been hit badly, you know, places that never have been hit before. i will be going back tomorrow, the day after. >> you see a link between climate change and the intensity of the storms that we are seeing right now. >> look, you can never be 100% about links, but the scientists have said the storms are going to get more and more and more

intense and more and more often, and we have had four storms within a month, all far greater than what has ever happened in history. i think sadly this started things to come, and the insurance companies are showing that this is the start of things to come because the price of insurance against these sorts of events is going up and up and up. so yeah, look, climate change is real. 99% of the scientists know it's real. the whole world know it's real except for one person in the white house. >> donald trump's administration, you hear lots of people in his administration -- >> well a. few people in the white house. >> i guess my point is, now is no time to talk about climate

change, and it's intensetive to talk about climate change and we heard them say that as harvey was approaching. what do you say about that? >> the cost of rebuilding just the virgin islands will be $3 billion or $4 billion, and the cost of rebuilding houston will be billions of dollars. if that money could be invested in clean energy and where we won't have to suffer these awful events in the future, how much better than having to, you know, patch up peoples' houses after they have been destroyed. >> we know you are working hard to get your message out and get the help to the u.s. virgin islands and the british virgin islands, you can donate to his website on your screen, and hope those affected by irma by going to cnn.com/impact.

we are following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. >> sounds like a tornado and feels like an earthquake. >> this is going to be a strong storm as it continues on this track. >> it's catastrophic. there's no other way to put it. >> forces tell the team fbi got the permission -- >> it's more aggressive than the norm. >> this is an unprecedented situation. >> in recent years the united nations has not reached its full potential. >> president trump is expected to use what aides are calling a harsh tone. >> he needs to be showing he can be a world leader. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota.