pictures of this live in the next little while. so we're waiting that here on fox news and will bring it to you when it happens. it's been a busy hour. i'm harris faulkner. more news now. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 in puerto rico where hurricane maria has been punishing that island with powerful winds. >> we've been seeing strong winds well over 100 miles for two hours here, strong enough to cause visible destruction. we've seen trees snapped, parts of well-made structures collapse. >> shepard: as steve can attest, it's a catastrophic storm. one of the strongest to ever hit american soil and the destruction could be widespread. we're tracking the hurricane. plus, in mexico city, cries of anguish at the site of a school collapsed in the earthquake. parents still waiting to find out what happened to their kids. rescuers working through the

night, searching for survivors. we'll go there live. president trump set to meet with the british prime minister. the leader of our strongest ally. we're expecting that in this hour. let's get to it. we're tracking two deadly natural disasters. the dangerous hurricane making its way across the caribbean and the earthquake in mexico. we'll go live to mexico city in just a moment. but hurricane maria has killed anybody people across the caribbean. today it made landfall as one of the strongest to hit puerto rico and st. croix. puerto rico's governor says puerto ricans have not experienced an event of this magnitude in their modern history. here's a look at the storm from space as the core moves over puerto rico. the hurricane made landfall as a

category four. the storm on the southeast coast of the island with sustained winds of 155 miles an hour. the national hurricane center warning of life threatening winds and storm surge and rain over puerto rico in st. croix today. water levels could rise up to nine feet on puerto rico with large and destructive waves. the dangerous winds are expected to continue for 24 hours. puerto rican officials say dozens of communities will have to be rebuild. they say the storm could "decimate" the island's power company. in one neighborhood on puerto rico's northern coast, the mayor said four out of five homes are destroyed. the storm has snapped palm trees, peeled off rooftops.

people in the capitol of san juan are reporting widespread flooding. some in high rise apartments. one woman that lives in san juan told the "miami herald" that her house was trembling. the rain horizontal and all the trees on the ground. she said the winds are like something out of a horror movie. we're also getting a look at the devastation on the small island of dominic dinatale -- dominique. the storm hit and blew away the mayor's roof. here's a look at the damage in st. croix, one of the u.s. virgin islands. the hurricane side swiped the island. knocking over trees, toppling power lines and causing severe flooding. officials in st. croix warned people to stay awake most of the

night and keep their shoes on in case they needed to run. forecasters say hurricane force winds extend 60 miles from the eye of maria. they say the center of the storm is expected to cross over the coast of the dominican republic tonight before moving to the turks and caicos and the bahamas. i want to get straight to steve harrigan who is live in san juan for us this afternoon. steve, looks like things have calmed down. what does it look like now? >> shepard, the wind has calmed considerably, under 50 miles per hour that means the police and first responders can go out. everywhere you look here, it's a wet miss and it's not getting better soon. where i'm standing now, chunks of buildings, satellite dishes, balconies, pieces of wall, holes in buildings. that was 145 miles per hour winds earlier this morning. we just moved around to a neighborhood. if your house is made of wood with a metal roof, just gone. some houses we saw on the street

gone. to move around here, it's streamly difficult. if you're an average citizen in puerto rico right now, you might not have a roof. you probably have structural damage wherever you live and you definitely do not have electricity. a situation that could last for weeks or months, shepard. >> going forward, floods and mudslides. >> it's not over yet. the winds were dramatic and possibly deadly. we don't know the results yet. we saw power crews out on foot because you can't get anywhere. there's so many downed power lines and downed branches. they were walking to try to assess the damage. as far as the mudslides go, especially in the central mountainous part of the country that is likely when you get 10-15 inches of rain. fema has prepositioned here. we'll search and rescue and a lot of recovery. >> shepard: thanks, steve. let's get to rick reichmuth in

the extreme weather center, this is awful. >> a horrible form. making landfall 6:15 a.m. maybe a little bright news, another going over land during the daylight hours. almost every record in puerto rico at record flood stage. all of them going up incredibly fast. unfortunately, cutting a cross diagonally across the island. everybody feeling the impacts of this storm, this is the future radar. the russia are the hurricane force winds staying to the north of the north side of the idea of the d.r. hopefully to the east of turks and caicos that got devastated by irma a couple weeks ago. then it continues to pull to the north. most of the models make this north ward turn here. this is good news for the southeastern part of the u.s. which we thought would have a district impact, this is following a similar trajectory

as to what the hurricane jose has done. pulling to the mid-atlantic and around parts of the northeast. we'll be adding impacts across parts of the northeast wednesday and thursday as the storm pulls off to the north. that said, too early to say what the impacts are. do we have a district hit somewhere? maybe on the outer banks? it's a possibility. somewhere farther in from new york city up around parts of the northeast, too early to say what we do know, environmental conditions are less favorable for a strong hurricane. the water temperatures come down as well. all guidances have a weaker storm. but tuesday, a storm off the shore of the mid-atlantic, shep. >> shepard: what a season, rick. can you imagine living through this thing? no lights, no way to get help, no idea whether your home will stand up or fall down around you. we'll speak with a woman riding out the storm, hiding in her

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>> shepard: more on hurricane maria as it batters puerto rico. officials say the extremely dangerous storm knocked out power to the entire island. blew out windows in san juan. let's turn to jennifer gonzalez

colon now. she's puerto rico's resident commissioner. the island's representative in congress and riding out the storm in a closet east of san juan. how are you? >> right now, i'm fine. waiting until the winds gets over the island. we are still having winds more than 60 miles per hour. so officials are asking people to remain at their homes because it's not safe yet to get out of the houses. there's a lot of flooding in many areas. we received between 12 to 35 inches of rain during this day. the winds began at 1:00 a.m. in the morning. we're still having the severe conditions and severe winds across the island. one of the main issues is that the rivers overflowed their banks. so it's really scary.

we never had this kind of hurricane before. of course, the whole island is without power. >> shepard: how are you talking to us? >> i have extra batteries for my cell phone because it's the only way to have communication. actually, a lot of communication towers went down and are off line. a lot of the people on the island do not have communication at this time. so that's maybe the reason some people that are in the states are calling their families and people and friends in puerto rico and they're not answering, because of that. >> shepard: representative gonzalez colon, there's so many puerto ricans, there's so many concerned about the area outside of the capitol.

what do you know from the neighborhoods? were people evacuated efficiently? >> yes, still, a lot of people are still here because of the flooding and the rivers out of their banks. this is the main problem we have right now. it's not safe to get out of the houses. in san juan, a lot of people lost their homes in the areas hit hard. a lot of people lost their homes because of the heavy winds. especially people with wooden houses. those wooden houses are almost gone in many areas of the island. i'm speaking with you. i'm still having heavy winds in my own house. the house just trembled during this situation. >> shepard: congress woman, for our viewers watching across the

48 and around the world this afternoon, what can people do to help you and the people of puerto rico? what is the most urgent need? how can we help? >> the most urgent need is restoring the power on the island. for that matter, i ask directly vice president mike pence last night. he called me. i asked him directly and some other cabinet members to send electric teams to the island to help us restore the power grid. the second one, the governor of puerto rico, help for those people that lost their belongings. it's going to take a long time to recover the infrastructure of the island. roads, bridges and many

hospitals have been hit directly by this hurricane. you'll have that. also in the hotels and metro area. so we still don't know the full extent of the damage of this monster hurricane left us here. >> shepard: i know the greatest fears are for the very young and the very old. it's a good time to remember that puerto ricans are americans just like all of us. they die on the battlefield and salute the same flag. i know this nation and the generous people of america will respond as they always do. all the best, congresswoman. we're thinking about you. >> thank you. as you said, there's four million american citizens here. five million puerto ricans in the mainland. it's the third time in less than a month that a hurricane

landfall on the u.s. soil. in our case, twice. irma and with maria. we've been managing people from st. thomas, the u.s. virgin islands, the british virgin islands, giving shelter to them. now we're going to need a lot of help. i want to thank vice president mike pence and fema director for their calls and their diligence. they're already on the island, fema, working with the governor, working with the teams. we may need a lot of help to help the island recover. >> shepard: we'll be speaking to brock long in just a moment from fema. thanks, representative gonzalez-colon. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> shepard: a ninth patient has died after hurricane irma turned a florida nursing home into an oven. that's the word of police from

hollywood. cops there say the latest victim had been 93 years old. this comes nearly a week after rescuers found elderly patients sweltering in that facility. the storm knocked out the air conditioning. investigators say the staff didn't call 911 for three days. investigators have launched a criminal investigation now. the center's administrator has said that staffers diligently prepared for the impact of hurricane irma. yet when the air conditioning went out on elderly and infirmed, they did not call 911 for three days. we're watching the aftermath of another natural disaster. one that broke during this hour yesterday. crews are digging through the remains of a school looking for anybody that may have survived yesterday's devastating earthquake in mexico. parents wait for word on their children. agonizing hours go by. firefighters, police,

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poor island to begin with. they have billions in unfunded pensions to teachers and government employees. when you're talking about an island with five million people, that is astounding. tens of thousands of puerto rico's best and brightest leave the island each year for better jobs in the u.s. the good news is the state of emergency in puerto rico declared by president trump could mean a lot of federal dollars flowing into the island, which could boost the economy at least temporarily. shep? >> shepard: trace, the storms have shown how bad some of puerto rico's infrastructure problems are. >> right. we talk about the island being without power. 10% is already without power following hurricane irma which didn't have a direct hit. the number 1 client is the water

company. so no power means no water, no sewer. unlike here in the u.s., the cell phone providers in puerto rico rely solely on the public power grid. so communications are also very limited and the island's power authority is massively in debt. so turning the lights back on could take several months. when it comes to infrastructure, it gets worse. retaining walls and buildings are weak. in some cases, they're dangerous by years of deferred maintenance and medical facilities are underfunded and could be overwhelmed by the storm. >> shepard: thanks, trace. updating the top story. the feds facing another huge cleanup. we'll talk about the head of fema about response and we'll watch for hurricane maria's next month. first, anthony wiener soon to learn his sentence for sexting with a teenage girl. today prosecutors laying out how

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>> shepard: at least 225 people confirmed dead in mexico and dozens of homes destroyed after the earthquake that struck 25 hours ago. that's according to officials on scene. drone video shows crews working at a school in mexico. one of the search and rescue missions are underway right now. video shows rescuers pulling children from what remains of the school. [speaking spanish] >> there you go. a live look at the school where rescues are underway right now. they're looking for anybody else

that may have survived and seem to be one person may be alive in there. the quake hit yesterday south and east of mexico city. 32 years to the day after a devastating earthquake hit the country and killed some 10,000 people. some more pictures now in the slide show that this first one -- the first picture here showing somebody giving water to a man who is trapped under a collapsed building. and here, a car crunched under part of the collapsed school we've been showing you. another image shows first responders working to remove a massive pile of debris. look at that pile. just incredible the work they're doing with so many buildings damaged or destroyed, this family and many others were preparing to sleep on the streets last night as they waited for after shocks. many raced to help rescuers. here's a street clown that showed up to offer whatever

assistance he could. in this instance, a woman holding up a sign for silence so first responders can listen for those buried under the concrete and steel. theresa may meeting with president trump. let's listen. >> thank you very much. it's great to have prime minister may from the united kingdom and her representatives who are people that we know very well through recent trade negotiations. i have to say we'll be doing a lot of trading with the united kingdom. we look forward to it. we have gotten to know each other over the last year. it's a real honor to have you here. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. good to be here. as you say, we've had many discussions between representatives and ourselves on a whole variety of issues, including trade which there be important for us and other issues, foreign policy issues, security and defense

relationship, which is the closest that we have. great that that continues. >> thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. >> shepard: pleasantries but no questions answered today. live pictures from mexico city where street rescues are underway, a split screen here on the right. you can see the streets of the city and on the left is the spot where they're searching for any possible survivors from the school that collapsed there. our correspondent, jonathan hunt is in mexico city near a collapsed building where we're hearing there may be people trapped there as well, jonathan? >> yeah, shep. we just arrived in mexico city about an hour ago.

we apologize for the communications. we're getting you a picture at this point. let me paint the picture for you. i'm standing in front of what was a five-story apartment building. each story of the building pancaked down on to each other right now. so it now stands what would have been about two stories high. although five crushed into each other. we're told there was like 40 apartments in that building. rescuers are swarming around it right now trying to find anybody that still may be alive in the rubble. they've been bringing out a number of bodies to the bodies of two children for instance brought out a short time ago. there are thousands of people here. a lot of official refugee workers obviously. i have to say one of the striking things when you arrive in mexico city is the number of volunteers, the number of ordinary mexican citizens rushing to help. we drove here from the airport,

shep, in the last few minutes. literally hundreds of pickups, motor bikes getting along as fast as they can. those pickup trucks of motor bikes loaded with people just wanting to help. they're carrying shovels, anything that may be of use as they try to perform the rescues around this city right now. we're in the southern part of the city, which is wards where the school is that you're talking about. that is one of the most intense scenes because there's so many children still unaccounted for. that digging will go on obviously until they have accounted for everybody who may have been in that school. the same with the building i'm standing in front of right now. the same with all of the 40 or so buildings that collapsed here in mexico city. preside the president has declared three days of mourning. it's right now a rescue

operation. the focus is finding people under this rubble who may still be alive. we're told, as you look at the pictures of the school, the elementary school and the southern part of mexico city, that they found one young girl alive. they're doing their best to get to her. obviously it is a very, very difficult operation. a very dangerous operation. when rescue workers go in to perform the operations as we saw a few years ago in haiti, they're putting their lives at risk. one wrong move, one wrong piece of concrete or one piece of timber moves and more of the building can come down endangering the lives of the rescue workers. it's a tense, difficult operation, shep. >> shepard: jonathan hunt in mexico city. live reports throughout the day. back to continuing coverage of

hurricane maria pummelling puerto rico and st. croix and others. federal government now dealing with its third natural disaster in less than a month. president trump has approved an emergency declaration for puerto rico and the virgin islands. the monster storm could cost billions in damage across the caribbean. that's on top of the devastation that hurricane irma has just left behind. let's go to brock long now from fema who briefed president trump by phone on hurricane maria. sir, nice to speak with you. how is the briefing? >> the president remains very engaged and his message is take care of people. that's what we're doing. we kept 3,200 staff on the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. that is incident management teams to medical teams to search and rescue teams. they're starting to deploy out as the storm -- elements of the storm pass through. and then we're prepared to open

up airports and the shipping ports to continue with more teams and commodities coming in up. >> shepard: what kind of reports specifically are you getting from the teams fanning out? >> so in the virgin islands as the system passed to the south of the islands last night, the winds expanded and they basically -- they had up to about 137 miles per hour winds. so they have a lot of roof damage. they do have damage to their critical infrastructure. the power is off. they experienced some damage to hospitals, which were already working with the governor to alleviate some of those impacts. puerto rico unfortunately, they're under flash flood warnings in the commonwealth. they have 100% of the power off. virgin islands and puerto rico have fragile power systems. the goal is life safety, life sustaining missions by getting

commodities in. first to push out debris to open the roads and provide emergency power to the infrastructure to get it back up and try to restore routine. >> shepard: looking across the expand of all that your department is dealing with, it's hard to fathom how difficult it must be to get through this. you have to be stretched thin right now. >> yeah. i wouldn't say we're stretched thin. these guys back here are incredibly dedicated. they've been running for 30 days at this point. we'll continue to meet the demands. we signed up for this job and dedicated to helping the governors achieve their response goals and help people. >> shepard: for people at home saying i want to help but not sure how to do it, what do you tell them? >> right now the best way is to go to nvoad.org.

that will give you basically a whole list of options to volunteer and donate. then once we work with the governors, there will be other opportunities to support volunteer and donations to each one of the territories. >> shepard: we're with you. can't thank you enough. fema administrator brock long. talk to you soon. >> thank you. >> shepard: president trump says he thinks he has a good shot at brokering peace in the middle east. the president met with the palestinian leader today. president trump said he made up his mind about the iran nuclear deal one day after calling it an embarrassment. so what is the decision? by the way, the iranian president has shot back. that is next. i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours.

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>> shepard: live in mexico city. southern part of the city.

so many buildings that have a collapsed across the great city. this school is of urgent concern. more than 30 kids and teachers for that matter are unaccounted for. 25 confirmed dead. now the race to find someone alive. they rescued one girl today. we don't know the particulars of her condition. we know that she's alive and we know they believe they're hearing sounds inside. they're doing everything they can to get in there and save anybody possible. president trump says he's made a decision on whether to pull the united states out of the historic nuclear deal with iran. the president says that decision is his to know for now. >> have you decided to stay or leave? >> i have decided. >> what is your decision? >> i'll let you know. >> shepard: he will let us know. he made a comment with a meeting with mahmoud abbas. the president's comment on the iran deal after he called it an

embarrassment during a speech to the united nations general assembly. the president of iran took a shot back. >> it will be a period of disagreement in the world of politics. the world will have lost a great opportunity. but such unfortunate behavior will never impede iran's course of progress and advancement. >> shepard: rogue newcomers to the world of politics. our chief white house correspondent john roberts is here. that's to be expected. >> there's been a lot of discussions around the jcp, joint comprehensive plan of action. the conversations are can the deal be reopened. the united states is one of six signators to the deal.

if you can't get a better deal, is the president better to pull out. as a candidate, the president said he was going to scrap the deal. but the president has recertified that iran is complying with the deal as another deadline comes up as some are saying the president will consider the decision. the white house's view of the deal, it only deals with iran and the nuclear program and doesn't deal with the support for terror, bashar al-assad. yesterday he said at the u.n., the iranian respond today by saying the following. >> ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric filled with ridiculously baseless allegations. >> absurd hateful rhetoric.

we report, you decide. the president has taken some other steps with regards to iran outside of the frame work of the nuclear agreement unilaterally imposed sanctions. if he decided to stay in the iran nuclear deal, the white house could take more steps to reign in iran's bad behavior. good luck with that. >> and they talked about the mideast peace deal. >> the president met with mahmoud abbas and the king of jordan. he met with the israeli prime minister. the president has a lot invested in this. his son-in-law, jared kushner is the point person on this. they have made a number of visits to the region. we talked about this yesterday. the president holding out hope that something may be possible. listen to what he said this morning. >> we're at a very important

juncture. a small period of time and we're going to see what we can do. so many people have talked about it and it's never happened. we're fighting very hard. >> he's optimistic. should we go through the list of presidents that were hopeful and came away with nothing. >> shepard: it's a long one. >> it is. >> shepard: michael crowley from politco. good to see you, michael. >> thanks for having me, shep. >> shepard: what is the reporting where we are in this. pulling out has enormous challenges. >> that's right. some critics of the deal, some that opposed it at the time that it was sealed with several countries as john pointed out, even some opponents of doing that now say it's too late. the cost of undoing this deal

are much greater than to opposed the deal. iran got a lot of financial benefits. as soon as the deal was struck in july 2015, iran got billions of immediate pay-off. there's no way you can claw that back. in fact, cia director mike pompeo spoke to bret baier. bret said you were a strong critic. and pompeo said things look different now being on the other side of the desk and the environment has changed. the deal is signed. iran got the benefits. those that didn't like the deal are cautious about blowing it up right now. >> shepard: will there real indicators that they're cheating or is the consensus that things are going as well as could be expected? >> you know, i guess what your definition of cheating is. the international a comic energy agency inspectors that have been going to iran and have this very specific checklist of technical

metrics say that iran is not cheating. they're in compliance. there was one incident iran got a little above the amount of heavy water they were supposed to have on hand. if you talk the people that are -- follow this closely, they say it's not that big of a deal. the iaea says they're in compliance. there's a group of people, trump administration officials, conservative, israeli officials say it's the wrong way to think about it. that it's broader than this. iranian behavior you have to look at. are they becoming more of a civilized nation that obeys the sort of rules of the road internationally. the answer to that is no. the deal sort of obligated iran to behave better in their neighborhood and therefore they're not honoring what some trump officials have called the spirit of the deal. the friends that served under president obama said the deal had nothing to do with iranian behavior, the metrics, the

research, the uranium on hand. that's the opinion right now. >> michael crowley fore politco. thank you. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: the top republican in the united states senate says he plans to move ahead with the latest gop healthcare plan. but he can lose only one more republican vote and still pass the bill. today the former president barack obama weighed in on this matter. on the battle over his own healthcare law. we'll go live to capitol hill and we're continuing to watch in mexico city where the search is on for survivors a day after the quake hit with so many wondering with buildings collapsed all over the country, how high the death toll may be. stimate. i just snapped a photo and got an estimate in 24 hours. my insurance company definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance.

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>> shepard: the senate majority

leader mitch mcconnell intends to break the latest gop healthcare bill to the senate floor to a vote next week. that's the word from his spokesman. when rand paul already pledging to vote no and with no support from democrats at all, the gop can afford to lose by one more vote. and there are people on the fence. the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel with the news. hi, mike. >> plans to vote next week are designed to turn up the pressure on undecided republicans. >> it's been the most fun thing i've worked on, the most challenging thing i've worked on and we're a point to take the bill up next week. to my republican colleagues, if you have a better idea, now is the time. >> you're going to take it up next week? >> absolutely. we're going to the floor with a repeal and replace proposal that is federalism. everybody gets to look at it, study it. >> a lot of focus on three

republican senators that killed healthcare reform in july. susan collins, john mccain and alaska's lisa murkowski. >> the initial analysis on the impact of the state of maine of their bill is that it would result to maine receiving a billion dollars less in federal funding for healthcare over the next decade. >> meetings continue on capitol hill trying to address the concerns of gop senators schlepp? >> shepard: there was a bipartisan effort to try to improve obamacare. what happened to that? >> it fell apart last night. you had senator lamar alexander and patty murray trying to work on a bipartisan fix by the end of the month. top democrats are expressing disappointment. >> it's unfortunate. we had a chance to do something important, historic, bipartisan that would have built on the healthcare system that we have in this country. now we're moving to another partisan approach. no cbo score, no hearings.

getting ready to repeat what we did a few months ago. >> former president obama weighed in this afternoon calling the latest attempt to scrap obamacare aggravating. >> all of this is being done without any economic or actionary or plain common sense rationale. it frustrates. it's certainly frustrating to have to mobilize every couple months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suffering on our constituents. >> it's not entirely clear if republicans will get to 50 yes votes, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel at the rotunda on the hill. thank you. we'll be right back. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass,

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