in decades. let's begin with nick paton walsh on the southeast coast of puerto rico. we do not have communication with him right now because of all the conditions. he is getting the worst of those and let's see what is happening with him. cnn's raffaele romo is going to join us from puerto rico's east coast. what are you seeing? >> reporter: alisyn let me show you what this hotel had to do to prevent catastrophic damage. they had to tie ropes to their front doors because they were afraid at one point that the air currents were so strong they would completely destroy the lobby, and in a way that has already happened. let me show you what flying debris has done to the lobby. they broke the glass above me and right now the lobby is

taking great amounts of water, and the reason why i am here, alisyn, is because our team, ourselves, had to be evacuated because conditions were so dangerous and precarious at one point. take a look outside. all of that debris came down in the last three hours. that's when we could experience the strongest winds here in bough cardozo. you have to take into account, this is the strongest hurricane this island has seen in almost nine decades, so that gives you an idea of how bad the situation has been. what i can tell you at this hour is that the entire city is without power right now. also, many of the streets are impassable because of flooding. a very, very difficult

situation, and as you can see by the strength of the winds outside, this is not yet over and it's going on very much, alisyn. >> absolutely. thank you very much for showing us the mess that is happening there. cnn's laila shaantiago in s juan. we saw you get blown around. >> reporter: i will tell you, those were really tough winds and are continuing behind me. this is now my view of hurricane irma -- excuse me, hurricane maria. these ropes are vibrating. you can see them shaking and they are up on the walls that already have metal sheeting that was put up yesterday. let me take a walk so you can see what we are seeing in the hotel. police officers are standing by waiting to do their jobs that

they can't do right now because it's too dangerous. i am told they are already getting calls for rescue but they cannot go out right now because it's too dangerous. let me show you what else we are seeing in the hotel, which, by the way, has dozens of tourists that have taken shelter here. they have towels on the ground because they are preparing for water that could possibly come in. beyond these walls where you see security in place right now, dozens of tourists are right now in the staircase seeking shelter from hurricane maria as it comes in. they asked everybody to come down from this area because of what you saw earlier, chris, where i was almost blown away by these category 4 storm winds. i mean, it's incredible. i was talking to one of the officers who told me it's hard to watch, a, because this is their home, this is their island and they are getting calls for help. their own families are out there

right now at this hour, 11,000 people -- at last check, anyway, 11,000 people in shelters and this is an island of 3$3.5 milli -- 3.5 million people. as of 11:00 p.m. when we last checked in with the power company, 30% of the power company's system had already been impacted. that's before what we saw, waking up to the ominous hum. the winds circulating and the debris i watched as a starbucks sign came down from the building as part of the metal sheeting that was put up was ripped through and there was flying debris in this area. this is not the only storm that is looming over this island. there's an economic crisis.

$70 billion in debt. the rebuilding that is already being talked about by the governor and the people of puerto rico is not going to be easy by any means. >> laila, thank you very much. keep the team safe and let us know what develops in san juan. chad meyers joining us. what is the progression? >> the center of the storm now is 15 miles south-southwest of where laila is. that means the winds are going to shift in san juan in the next 15 minutes. for most of the night the winds were like this, and for most of the morning the winds were like this. now that the eye has gone by the winds are going to shift direction and come in like this. all of the debris we saw in her live shot will be blown the other way. debris is a significant indicator of how much damage

there is to the island. devastating doesn't even truly begin to what really is going to show in the daylight when we can actually get out there. at 140 to 150 miles per hour, the storm came onshore very close to our nick payton walsh there on the southeastern side of puerto rico. 100-mile-per-hour winds over the entire island. the entire place had at least 100-mile-per-hour winds. that's the big white circle you see there. those winds will affect the dominican republic as well today. a lot of rain coming in and we have flash flood warnings going on and some spots could pick up 20 or 15 inches of rain. it's not like in harvey, but this is a mountainous island so it will run off quickly. then what happens? now we see the storm running up the east coast. let me show you what the models said overnight. yesterday, those same models

were here and i liked that solution, and now they are here, but not liking it so much. still no contact with the u.s. landfall wise, but i don't like the progression to the west. >> thank you. skwraoeujoining us on the p is the governor of puerto rico. where do we find you at this hour? >> hi, alisyn. we are in the executive mansion and we have operations here to make sure we have redundancy, and as we anticipated, this is the most devastating storm in a century or in modern history. the critical right now is for people to recognize the brunt of the storm is still to come. there's a lot of flooding and infrastructure damage, but the only thing that should matter right now is that people stay

safe, and we will start the rebuildi rebuilding process. >> when you say this is the worst that we have seen in anybody's memory, just two weeks ago you were hit by irma and there are still scores of people without power as a result of irma, so how does this compare to other hurricanes you have seen and irma? >> there's no comparison, really. for irma we were very prepared and executed our protocols appropriately, so much so we were far ahead in the rebuilding process, so much so we were able for other americans stranded on the island and now unforekphtuny we have the second storm and this one more devastating than the first one. who knows what the damage will be. we are at about 60% out of electricity in puerto rico, and we should expect more to be out,

and telecommunications are failing. infrastructure can be fixed. lives can't. >> we are looking at the heart ther there. what is your biggest fear at this hour? >> my biggest concern is for the people, right. we have been sort of blessed for a couple of decades that hurricanes have skimmed through but have not hit right through us. my biggest fear prior to the storm was complacency. we have many fronts of danger, not only flooding regions, which we have plenty here in puerto rico, coastal lines where the surge is coming, and also we have mudslide potential and vulnerable housing. we are talking wooden housing and so forth. we made an enormous effort, not

only the government but the municipal governments and the people of puerto rico to get people out of harm's way, and open shelters, and we opened shelters that will withstand the winds. this is a dangerous storm and my biggest concern is, yes, we will feel the brunt of it for the next 12 hours b, but afterwardse will get a lot of rain and people might have a sense that they have gone through the worst part of it, but as we know with hurricanes, it's the flooding and heavy rains that tend to be the number one cause of death. >> governor, i want to ask you about the shelters. the numbers that we're getting just seem like only a fraction of the people in puerto rico took advantage of the safety of a shelter, and 11,000 evacuated their homes, and you have 3.5 million people. why didn't more go? >> well, there's two reasons.

number one, we don't have all of the data. this has been done with the municipalities. 11,000 should be an indicator that a lot more people have gone to the shelters. as soon as we have more data, i will keep communicating through twitter and communicating with people so they know the up-to-date numbers. the second reason is a lot of people have friends and family members that do have concrete housing. puerto rico, a lot of the infrastructure is built on hard concrete. some of the people may leave the coastal areas, and there are a lot of people that have strong concrete houses. many of the people when we went to the emergency evacuation procedure, instead of going to the government shelter would go to family housing. we don't know how many, what is the extent, but our hope is

really a lot of these people are not tabulated at this moment or have gone to seek shelter at a friend or family member's place. >> do you have numbers on people who are hurt or casualties? >> we don't have any numbers are casualties. it talks a little to the strength of the storm. we have to get our rescue workers out fairly quickly. you know, once winds go to 50 miles per hour we got them out. we are very attentive. we know it's dangerous and it's going to bring with it very likely injury and, of course, a possible death. we want to make sure that we are aware, we can inform and keep informing people that the best solution for you right now, if you have family members and you have friends in puerto rico is to let them know they should stay in safe shelter. there's no reason to go outside right now. it's too dangerous. after the winds come by there's

going to be a lot of rain which presents a lot of danger as well. >> governor we just got an alert from the national weather service i want to share with you, the eye of the storm is 15 miles southwest of san juan, so it looks as though you have several more hours of going through the conditionings you are seeing right now. >> we will be bunkered down here in san juan, and hopefully we will withstand the storm and rebuild. of course we asked for our federal citizens to send thoughts and prayers, and once it passes we will be informing all of you. >> everybody is keeping you in their prayers this morning, governor. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, alisyn. joining us now is the fema administrator, and he is joined by a sign language interpreter so we can get the message out to the broader audience.

puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and we are talking about u.s. protected territories there. what do you have in place to get in there once maria is passed? >> we are well positioned. we have more assets on the islands before irma hit. we have 3,200 staff members in the islands collectively. we have multiple days' worth of kau pha commodities, meals, water, and other things ready to go. last night st. croix took a big hit. unfortunately the wind field expanded last night as it passed to the south of st. croix basically putting 137-mile-per-hour wind gusts through st. croix. we will continue to be ready to support. >> we had a member of congress representing the u.s. virgin islands saying they may not have power for weeks or months. it seems to be a very, very difficult living condition.

what can fema do to help support during that power outage? >> unfortunately the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico both have very fragile power systems. after irma we had 90% of the power back on in puerto rico. i think we will see most of the ma juror t majority knocked off, not just in puerto rico but in the virgin islands knocked out for a long time. and we have power poles ready to go to come into the islands and restring the lines. because of the nature of the geography of the islands it's a logistical challenge so it will be a frustrating event to get the power back on. >> we wait to see what happens there. another important part of this interview should be reminding people of what already has been

wrought and still needs to be dealt with, and what still needs to be done in texas and florida? >> the old way of doing business with, you know, the way that fema provided housing is not going to work for this unique event because of the magnitude of it. we are working to finalize agreements to where recovery is basically supported by the federal government and managed by the state and executed at the local level. i continue to work with governor scott as well as other governors in the southeast to make sure we are meeting demands, and we are trying to put assets now towards maria. >> this is your opportunity. to ask for more resources, do you have what you mean. we know the fema budget is one of the footballs being tossed

back and forth, and we asked politicians not to play politics, and what level of confidence from lawmakers you are going to get what you requests? >> they are tracking it and working with us. i speak to various members of congress daily about budget needs and we are communicating to them clearly so they know what they need to do. >> let us know what information we can get out that is important to people. >> you got it. a powerful earthquake in mexico city, and more than 200 people have been killed. 7.1 magnitude quake struck the country and at this hour there's a frantic search for survivors. and what is happening, rosa?

>> reporter: alisyn, i just talked to a first responders on the sidelines that says four people have been rescued in the building behind me. as day breaks they are hoping to continue the search and hoping to find more people alive. but there are dozens of people here waiting, waiting anxiously and grappling with the fact that they might not get good news after first responders go through this mountain of debris. now, this is one of dozens of buildings that collapsed here in mexico city. just to give you an idea of the magnitude of this, we are 75 miles from the epicenter of this earthquake and dozens of buildings collapsed. glass buckled. they came crashing down. there are buildings and people trapped in buildings all over, and hundreds, perhaps thousands

of first responders, military, family, friends, going through the rubble trying to find loved ones. there are lists, like the one you see over my shoulder close to the buildings that have collapsed. those are the lists of the people who have been rescued. people come here, look at that list to see if their loved one has been rescued. if their loved one is not on that list, they wait. you probably see them behind me. there was a woman weeping loudly just moments ago that i talked to, and she says she has been trying to communicate with her daughter via text message, and she says she doesn't get an answer. the last time she saw her daughter she was in that building that you see behind me that is now collapsed. chris, a lot of very tense moments. people here in a lot of pain grappling with the fact that they might have lost loved ones. chris? >> the waiting, as we know,

rosa, is the worst part in a situation like this. prayers go to the point that miracles happen when it comes to recovery. certainly there's no guarantee, but time may wind up being a friend as much as a foe for them, and they may have to wait but more people may come out of that building alive. thank you. we have to cover what is going on with the health care, and gop trying to get something to repeal and replace obamacare, and that's delivering on the signature promise. the president is tweeting saying the bill is great. why do some republican governors say he's wrong? we will take you through two different lawmakers' perfective on this. we want to remind you of the jimmy kimmel test. >> this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. there's a new jimmy kimmel test

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making a last ditch effort to repeal obamacare with the graham cassidy bill. one of the men behind it is cassidy, and jimmy kimmel himself does not think he passed the bill. >> i don't know what happened to bill cassidy, but when he was on the publicity tour he listed demands for a health care bill clearly. these were his words. coverage for all, and no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions and no lifetime caps. guess what? the new bill does none of those things. this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. do you believe that every american regardless of income should be able to get regular checkups, maternity care, et cetera, all of those things that people who have health care get and need? >> yep. >> so yep is washington for

nope, i guess. stop using my name, okay? i don't want my name on it. there's a new jimmy kimmel test for you, and it's called the lie detector test and you are welcome to stop by the studio and take it anytime. >> harsh words, and joining us now is senator bill cassidy. what is your response? >> i am sorry he doesn't understand. more people will have coverage and we protest those with pre-existing conditions. states like maine, virginia, florida, missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by obamacare and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. >> the counter argument will be pre-existing conditions will be up to the pricing of the particular state and market. it's not what it is now where you can't allow insurance companies to cherry-pick and punish people for pre-existing

conditions, and the protection is not the same. >> the protection is the same. there's a provision that says those with pre-existing conditions have affordable and adequate coverage. >> but the schedule of what people might pay, pending a cbo score which you have to wait for under the rules for this type of reconciliation, the price won't be the same as it is now. it's going to be different. >> i think the price will be lower. what is being circulated is by those who wish to preserve obamacare and they are doing everything they can to discredit the alternative. the reality is, if you are in maine, virginia, texas, tennessee, there will be money in your state to help lower your premiums and provide coverage. by the way, we protest those with pre-existing conditions. >> protect means that they don't get priced out of their own care. that's the affordable part. that winds up being the rub.

yes, you are giving money to the states as a block grant and some governors will like that. you have some republican governors and the ama and the cbo all saying, no, this bill does not keep as many covered as is the case -- >> can i respond to that? >> absolutely. >> we will cover more. that's based on a study of a different bill, and those folks put great credit in the individual mandate that penalized or coerced working family into purchasing insurance. what works is giving power to governors. there's a fundamental difference. democrats think the washington, d.c. should have the power and people should be coerced. republicans think the state and the patients should have the power. there's a fundamental difference, and graham-cassidy

will protect folks. >> why do you have governors of your own party coming up and saying that's not true, and you will give me the money and i like the control but you will cut the amount of money i have and those block grants are going to go away altogether at some point in the future, so there will be less money in the system which you like because you want to take money out and use it for tax reform, or whatever you want to do it, but if you take money out you can't cover people. >> we take money out because we eliminate the mandated penalties. if you are in maine, florida, virginia, missouri, you get far more money than you do under the status quo. speaking of governors, we had 14 or 15 governors that signed a letter yesterday that they published saying they were in support of this. there was six who are not but 15 or 16 who are. the best way to get people

covered is not through penalties but through getting a governor engaged. our bill gives the governor responsibility, which he or she may not want but that's the pbet way to get people covered. >> giving the people the ability to have coverage and it being affordable are very different things. can you with a clear conscience say this bill gives people coverage the way they are now, and they are afford it the way they are right now? >> there will be more people covered -- >> access to coverage or actually covered? >> actually covered. in regards to affordability, there's a fellow with a daughter with a pre-existing condition, and under obamacare his premium is over $40,000. obamacare doesn't work if you

work. if you make too much money to qualify for a subsidy, you get stuck. we are helping those families, we are not penalizing because they cannot afford a premium which is too rich for them. we are better for working families. >> how are you better if you enable insurance companies to either not provide coverage to certain people if they don't want to or to price them out of coverage in a way that right now they are not able? right now, for those at home the aca was not just about bringing down costs, it was about guaranteeing outcomes and insuring protections, and that could be expensive but was necessary for somebody like jimmy kimmel, and people working check to check, and it was about making sure they got protected. you are taking that away? >> no, we are not taking it away. the only way the state can

drawdown money from the federal government is if they provide coverage. >> but define what that means in a way that doesn't apply now. it's in the bill. it's in your bill, senator. >> if i may speak. i know it's in my bill. we take it through the chip program. the chip program has a defined value. there's nobody who criticized the chip program. they all think it works. the senator from oregon the other night was on the floor, and he finished by saying on a happy note we just authorized the chip program. our bill goes through the chip program. it's how you provide and judge the coverage. >> how do you explain the resistance, senator? >> we protect those with pre-existing conditions. whatever is offered has to be affordable. >> the ama, and the cbo of the early scoring, and you guys are trying to rush this through before you have a cbo score, and i don't know how you square that

with respecting the reconciliation rules, and you have the republican senators that spend a lot on health care because of the complexity of their coverage needs, and why are they all against the bill? are they eaten on the insane root or know something you don't know? >> if i was a doctor in texas and i know there's going to be billions more in coverage, i would ask why did the ama do that? everybody fears change. everybody says even if it's from worse to better i don't want change. reality is think of the fellow back in louisiana who is paying over $40,000 a year, and he has a special needs daughter and he's got to take care of her. that insurance may be adequate, but for him it's not affordable. under our bill the state has the ability to put in things that makes it adequate and affordable. indeed, they are required to do so. this bill protects those with pre-existing conditions.

>> that's why you have the governors in some of the states saying it will not have enough? >> four times as many governors say they do want it. >> which brings us down to the votes. do you think you have the votes to get this passed? >> we will see. i am not doing the whip count, but we think it works. there's going to be states like virginia in which democrats will vote against their state getting billions more to cover those who are lower insured. a state like missouri where there's a democratic senator under pressure to vote no for a bill that brings billions more to provide insurance to those in missouri, and florida the same way, and maine, the democratic senator there, there will be so much more coverage in maine, and i hope they vote for their constitch wants and not party line. >> they are reversing the criticism on you. they are saying there's money but strings. we have control but not the same ability to cover the poor. >> the money is focused on those

who are from 50 to 30% of poverty level, and it's focused on those who are in the lower income, and the money continues. people who are saying that, they are saying the bill runs out. this is through the chip program. the chip program has to be reauthorized every five or ten years. it was just reauthorized. there's always bipartisan support. i think that's a little bit of a red herring. >> i appreciate you coming on to make the case for your bill. thank you. and the state that, as you just heard the senator say is going to benefit mightily from the cassidy graham plan. we have a member of the senate intel committee as well. senator, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> you must be very excited about the benefits that maine is going to experience under graham

cassidy was just heard from your colleague there. >> well, i don't understand what senator cassidy was talking about in terms of additional money because all of the analysis i have seen is that actually maine is going to lose over the course of this bill in terms of the money that is flowing into the state now to support health care. one of the real problems, and chris touched on it, we don't have a congressional budget office score on this. we are flying blind and they are going to rush this through -- or try to rush it through and i hope they fail next week, and without knowing what the impacts are going to be and how many people will lose their coverage. i characterize this a shift and shaft. it's shifting the responsibilities to the states to determine who gets coverage for pre-existing conditions and what the costs are going to be, and what the minimum coverages are going to be and they give them less money to do it. the overall affect, as i understand it, and i can't be as

confident as senator cassidy because i have not seen the congression congressional budget office score, and it's going to be negative and i am worried about the affects on my rural hospitals. we have two problems here. i think the bill itself is a bad bill but the process is just atrocious. it came out of nowhere. it was negotiated behind closed doors. they will have one hearing on monday and i call it a figure leaf hearing. we have had a bipartisan process going on for the last month and that has been aborted now because this thing has sort of taken over the action. in the meantime we are not going to take simple steps next week to bring down premiums for next year. it's really a tragedy. one of the sponsors said yesterday he's rooting for chaos. if you don't pass our bill you will get chaos because we will not fix the problems in the

affordable care act and we will let it collapse and that's irresponsible. >> this is so confusing for our viewers and all of america, because you just heard senator cassidy verbatim, we protect those with pre-existing conditions and more people will have coverage under his plan, and he made this point so crystal clear, maine will get far more money than they do now. so who are we to believe? >> you are to believe the congressional budget office. they are nonpartisan. they are led by a republican and they are the ones who are set up to settle these kinds of discussions. what will the dollar values be? how much will the cuts be? how many people will lose coverage? the problem is, these guys are not going to wait for that. my understanding is we are going to get a bob tailed response from the congressional budget office on monday or tuesday but not on the big picture of how

much it's going to cost and where the costs are going to fall and which states are going to be hurt and most importantly how many people will lose insurance coverage. they will try to rush this through. i believe they don't want the congressional budget office score, because that is what has tripped them up on the last two or three rounds of this. they are trying to make an a arbitrary deadline next week. take a deep breath and have hearings and listen to the experts and listen to the insurance commissioners and governors and all of those people and come up with something through the process where we know what we are doing and not being asked to jump off a cliff without knowing what is at the bottom. >> very quickly, if they could somehow get to 50 can they pass it without the cbo score? >> i believe they can. they are going -- i believe what they are going to do is get a congressional budget office score that the bill fits within

the reconciliation rules but that doesn't tell you what the long-term impact will be. under the rules they can do that, and under the rules of common sense and good process they should not the be able to do it. they shouldn't do it. in the meantime, i have to emphasize there's some pieces of the affordable care act which we could fix in a week that would bring premiums down this coming year, and that's estimated at 20%, and these folks are saying they are going to do that. we are working closely with alexander and patty murray, and we were close and then this thing just shut it all down. instead of doing it the right way we are doing it the wrong way and we are going to come up with a bad result that will affect millions of people, and one-sixth of the u.s. economy without any real serious analysis of what the affect is going to be.

it's not that i disbelieve senator cassidy, but i guess i go back to ronald reagan, trust but sraeur atpaoeu a verify. >> i would like to ask you about the russia investigation. long-time attorney and associate of donald trump, michael cohen, was supposed to be interviewed by your staffers on your committee. what happened? something went wrong with the interview? >> after the jared kutcher experience, we held it confidential, and he came out and made a big public statement which exonerated himself. the committee decided we would have essentially a rule or understanding that when witnesses come in to be interviewed by the staff behind closed doors, nobody is going to talk about it afterwards, so this fellow was in the middle of his interview, and in the meantime a public statement from him was issued.

at that point the committee said this isn't playing by the rules so we will cut this off and we would like you to come back, and thank you very much, in a public hearing where everything is public and we can question the witness and follow the evidence where it leads. basically, as i understand it from the chair and the vice chair, bipartisan, by the way, absolutely bipartisan, he didn't play by the rules the committee set up so we decided to try and pursue it in an open session which i think is fine. >> okay. we will see when that happens. angus king, thank you for being with us. the big story we are following this morning is hurricane maria. it's pummeling puerto rico. the damage already bad. this island already beat up from hurricane irma. we will take you there live. we have a storm chaser who caught unbelievable video of the storm. stay with us.

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threw puerto rico as we speak.

this is the scene at the famous hotel. ferocious winds are continuing to batter around the palm trees. we have storm chaser mike theiss and he shot that video from the window and joins us now from the elcon kaes door. >> windows are broken on the backside of the hotel. from the scene you were looking at, the awning came off the building itself and nothing major structural i can see. when the windows broke in, glass flying around and debris flying around. that's what it looked like inside the eyewall of the category 4 hurricane. >> is everybody still in the safe room? >> yes, everybody is still safe. the management has done a great job and kept everybody safe.

i was able to slip out and get a couple shots because i wanted to see what was going on outside. what i saw outside was not pleasant and i have a feeling there's going to be a lot more of that. >> set the scene for us. what is it like in that safe room? how many people are in there? how long were you in there? how big is it? >> it's like a ballroom. there's about 40 or 50 of us, and half are employees and the other half are guests staying here. everybody is okay. it was really loud. i could hear a woman screaming at the top of her lungs is what it sounded like during the eyewall. i believe the worst is over, although it's very dangerous outside. it's starting to wind down now, and it was a heck of a ride. >> listen, that description that you give is chilling. the idea that the wind was so intense and shrill it was like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs.

you have done this a lot, and this is your career. how does maria compare to other hurricanes you covered? >> this is in the top two. the only other hurricane i can compare it to was hurricane charlie in south carolina. as far as wind goes, hurricane maria and charlie are my top two hurricanes for intense wind. >> mike theiss, we appreciate you sharing all of your video with us. we appreciate you coming out to talk to us. it was really fascinating to talk to you right in the thick of it. be careful. obviously it's still very dangerous because now the storm surge and all of the rain continues. please be careful. thank you. we will check back with you in the days to come. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. we're keeping an eye on hurricane maria, of course. first, here's what to watch.

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nope, i guess. stop using my name, okay, because i don't want my name on it. there's a new jimmy kimmel test for you and it's called the lie detector test and you are welcome to stop by the studio and take it anytime. >> joining us now is cnn media analyst, bill carter. how does it play? >> i think it plays well. jimmy is a sincere guy. he's not a polished and plucked person that kellyanne conway attacks. he was in a personal situation. he speaks from his heart. this is a real world problem he had and he identified himself as a rich person so he didn't have to worry about taking care of his son, but another person would have hundreds of thousands of bills now and then bills later. his boy will need a lot of care. when he's 20 years old he will need another operation. and people are connecting with jimmy kimmel about this. >> what is the upshot of that?

in terms of public policy -- walter cronkite said he moved the political needle. does this change policy somehow? >> i don't know if it changes policy. i don't know how these people respond. they want to dismiss people like jimmy kimmel. i would like to see bill cassidy go back on and talk to jimmy kimmel now, and jimmy would get into his heart, i think. when it comes down to it, it's not about money anymore. >> first of all, comparing late-night guys to walter cronkite. >> walter cronkite. >> i think jimmy could stand up

very well, because i think he would cite the specifics of his situation. unlike walter cronkite, he did not have a son in vietnam. this is about his own kid. this is about his own experience. that hits people in a different way. >> cassidy is going to say this bill takes care of it, and it protests pre-existing conditions and does a lot of good things. >> and jimmy would cite all the associations that says it doesn't. i think he would say i know from a lot of people in this situation, and he talked to the doctors, what would happen if these laws changed. i think he would be able to understand it well. jimmy is a tough guy and i think he would handle it well. >> let's talk about the backlash or response to sean spicer's appearance at the emmy's. >> he did address it a little bit off the air, and on the air

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good morning, everybody. i am john berman. >> i am poppy harlow. breaking news this morning. millions of americans getting hit now by a catastrophic storm. it's not nearly over. >> also happening now, a desperate search for survivors for the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in mexico city. rescue crews combing through the rubble of collapsed buildings. let's be transparent here, hurricane maria is so fierce, our reporter