msnbc's marianna atensio remains on the scene for us. marianna, what do we know at this hour?aig, they're bringing metal beams in to help with the rescue efforts. but before we continue with that, i want to introduce you to a mother and her daughter, she's 11, and she survived this earthquake inside the primary school. what were you thoughts when you heard about this earthquake and you knew your daughter was inside? [ speaking in native language ] >> she didn't find out immedi e immediately the entire school collapsed. so her sister came rushing to get you out. can you explain to me those moments and how you were able to escape and i know this is very hard for you. [ speaking in native language ] >> reporter: neighbors and friends helped me escape through the windows. what else did you see in your school? [ speaking in native language ] >> reporter: she saw that the entrance was totally blocked, craig, and there were children there as well. did you see any of your friends, do you know where they are? [ speaking in native language ] >> reporter: her friends were not with her. h

obviously the conditions have worsened in miami in the last hours or so since we've spoke ton marianna. guys, i can't hear you very well, but as you can see, it just started pouring here in miami beach. it was an immediate change. the wind really picking.up and it started to feel like the storm is heading this way. here in miami beach, it looks like a ghost town if you can see. there's a lot of boarded up businesses and businesses that haven't decided to board up, but they've placed sandbags undernea underneath each of the doors. we've been talking to people here who have decided not to evacuate, even though this entire barrier island is under mandatory evacuation orders. people have been telling us they don't want to leave because of their pets and their homes, but i just spoke to a police officer here in miami beach who told me they are still trying to urge people to leave. they are still busing people out of here, still knocking on doors to make sure that people know that there is still an option, a window to leave today. but that police officer told me that if the wind gusts reach

even though marianna is eight months pregnant, the kremers initially decided to stay put and ride out the storm. but their living room slowly turned from this, to this. >> you've got to hold mommy's hand. >> reporter: six days ago, they decided to flee. mariana filmed the family boarding a good samaritan's boat that rescued them, along with their three-year-old son, george, a dog and two cats. not knowing where they would go, she posted the video to facebook. >> so sad to leave our home behind but grateful for this brave man to picked us up. now what, question mark? we don't know. >> reporter: and you still feel that way? >> and i still feel that way. >> reporter: mariana says her streets were clear until the city released water from two reservoirs, an effort to keep antiquated dams from buckling. >> that's the part i just can't get over, why weren't we warned? >> reporter: are you angry with the city of houston? >> i just don't understand why the communication wasn't better. they should have known that the neighborhoods behind the bayou were going to be severely affected. yet, nobody

that's where marianna atensio has been. give us a sense of what it's like right now. >> reporter: chris, the storm is a couple of hours away from the florida coast line, and just look at some of the damage that these wind gusts have already created here in miami beach. this is a pretty big tree that i'm standing next to completely toppled. again, this storm isn't even here. we saw similar trees like this on our drive over here. the storm surge is really the biggest threat for barrier islands, for coastal cities like miami beach. the beach is over here to my right, not very far away. if we are to get those estimated 15 feet of storm surge when this storm comes here to florida, thisle walking now is very likely to get flooded. if you see this is collins avenue to where i'm standing, to the back of me this is a street with a lot of power lines, a lot of trees, very dangerous for people to be walking around here. again, what we've been seeing in miami is because it's not going to get a direct hit from the storm, you're seeing p

that's where marianna atensio has been. give us a sense of what it's like right now. >> reporter: chris, the storm is a couple of hours away from the florida coast line, and just look at some of the damage that these wind gusts have already created here in miami beach. this is a pretty big tree that i'm standing next to completely toppled. again, this storm isn't even here. we saw similar trees like this on our drive over here. the storm surge is really the biggest threat for barrier islands, for coastal cities like miami beach. the beach is over here to my right, not very far away. if we are to get those estimated 15 feet of storm surge when this storm comes here to florida, this whole area where i'm walking now is very likely to get flooded. if you see this is collins avenue to where i'm standing, to the back of me this is a street with a lot of power lines, a lot of trees, very dangerous for people to be walking around here. again, what we've been seeing in miami is because it's not going to get a direct hit from the sto

right in front of this is where we find marianna on the scene.ates over the last 30, 40 minutes here? >> reporter: this scene just grew more active in the past couple minutes, we've seen people with scrubs go in and out here. also a larger presence from mexican federallies, a group of doctors calling for a pediatrician, anesthesia guest. and i'm here with a paramedic. he will speak to us in spanish and i'll translate. in the past couple minutes, what are we seeing? [ speaking foreign language ] >> they need special doctors. trauma doctors. pediatrician. it looks like we might have in the area, yes -- they set up a makeshift hospital and you have seen signs of life from the children inside. [ speaking foreign language ] >> there are, otherwise we would not be here. thank you so much, i know you need to go in a hurry. thank you so much for your time. so the update from one of the paramedics on the scene here, again it just grew more active by the minute. we're not sure if it's regarding this young girl that has captured the attention of everyone th

msnbc's marianna atense ois there. what's the outlook at this point for restoration of running water in beaumont, marianna? >> reporter: craig, the people you see behind me, they have been working tirelessly overnight to make sure that the citizens of beaumont do get water restored. they have made some advances, but it's been incredibly challenging. beaumont basically is an island right now. it took us about three hours to get into the city. it's completely flooded every which way. and basically, as you mentioned, one of the big problems is that these electrical pumps that pump water into the city's water treatment plant, which is over here to my left, they are completely flooded in. they are under water, and that is what caused this massive water shortage here in beaumont. now, as i mentioned, there are folks behind me working to make sure that the citizens of beaumont have water restored. actually, exxonmobil is here. you guys are big into oil, obviously. tell us what you were doing. what role are you playing in rest

we want to go now to marianna who has been standing by in miami for us. last time we talked to you, you had a guest with you who decided to hunker down and stay there with his dog as well. from what i understand, you have someone else as well? >> that's exactly right. in this barrier island that is under mandatory evacuation orders, you have people that have decided, you know what, i'm going to ride the storm here. i want to bring ken in today to tell us, sir, you have decided not to evacuate here in miami beach. >> absolutely. my wife and i decided stay out the storm here in miami beach. >> reporter: you understand the entire city of miami beach is under a mandatory evacuation order. the mayor has said this is a nuclear hurricane we're facing. >> i know. it might not be the smartest thing, but we're still doing it, and it's quite cool that ocean drive is totally empty. >> reporter: ken is referring to sort of this very touristy area of miami beach, which looks like a ghost town. i'm still surprised to find people like you who decided to stay. any chance

let's go to marianna in miami beach right now. what's going on where you are?> reporter: as you can see here in miami beach, the wind has turned very violent. the storm is about an hour and a half from florida, as you mentioned. but this storm that is 400 miles wide. you'll feel it everywhere. this is a street that's usually bustling with tourists, people. it's a ghost town right now. we're seeing trees, wobbly power lines. again the wind gusts and the rain has you can see, this is just kicking up, turning very violent. when you have a storm with registered winds of 130 miles per hour, you're going to feel it everywhere. and here in this barrier island, they issued a mandatory evacuation order. people are not walking around. we spoke to police officers yesterday and they said that when winds reach -- that is clearly the case right here, they can't be out patrolling the streets. hopefully here everybody is hunkered down and everybody is in their homes or in shelters where they're going to spend the storm because the next couple of hours will just be crucial here

. >> marianna atencio on the ground for us there in mexico, city. we'll check in with you a little later. desperate searches for trapped survivors are being carried out all over mexico city and other areas hit hardest by the quake. nbc's ron mott is at a relief distribution center in the central part of the city. ron, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: it's a little different scene than marianna is experiencing. in is a frantic scene getting relief spl relief supplies. all the private donations coming in here are being sorted by need, by community. we've got toilet paper, clothing, tents on the other side. everything is getting organized and bagged up. as requests come in, there's a control center here putting all the needs together into one delivery and then they have runners who will take these out into the community. earlier we spoke with a woman who organized this. this is ad hoc put together tuesday afternoon. she said they don't trust the government will get it to the people in a timely fashion and, b, they don't think the government will

marianna live for us in miami this morning. thank you. >>> let's turn back to washington. seven months into his presidency donald trump has made the art of the deal, but shocking republicans, it was with democratic leadership. in a landmark oval office meaning the president agreed with a plan including hurricane harvey relief. a debt ceiling increase and a three-month -- to fund the government, defying his own leadership. it gives democrats lench forcing two unpopular debt ceiling votes by year's end, instead of just one. it all began earlier in the day, and the democrats put out a news release calling for a three-month funding bill, which got an icy reception from paul ryan to say the least. take a listen. >> it emz so like they're trying to extract something. >> i think that's a ridiculous idea. i hope that they don't mean that. let's just think about this. we've got all this devastation in texas. we've got another unprecedented hurricane hitting -- about to hit florida. they want to play politics with the debt ceiling? i think that's a ridiculous and disgraceful, and to

marianna atencio is in miami. rehema ellis in the bahamas. we start with marianna there. how are folks preparing? >> reporter: craig, south florida is preparing for the worst. a storm that governor rick scott is already calling life-threatening, is comparing to hurricane andrew, saying you could potentially be worse. and in cities along the coast, like miami beach, where i'm standing now, people have been lining up for blocks to grab their bags of sand to protect their homes. i'm going to walk over to where mayor phillip levine, the mayor of miami beach, has been working for the past couple hours to raise awareness about this situation. bear with me as we go around. mayor, can i grab you here real quick? >> sure. >> we're on with craig melvin. can you tell me what kinds of preparations are under way hear in miami beach? >> what we're doing is everything. what you're seeing now are osama bin laden bags. giving out sandbags in miami beach, putting in portable pumps, generators, speaking with our homeless population here. getting together with our seniors, making sure they u

and i want to turn now to marianna attendanceo. she's been talking with d.r.e.a.m.ers in houston who have also been dealing with the devastating aftermath of hurricane harvey. marianna, what are the d.r.e.a.m.ers there telling you, because just before the hurricane hit, i spoke with the governor and he said if you are undocumented, don't worry about it, come, seek shelter, we will protect you. well, that was before the storm. >> reporter: that's what the mayor of houston also said, stephanie, but i just spoke to a d.r.e.a.m.er whose house flooded. in fact, i'm standing in front of her flooded home right now, and she tells me that her and her undocumented family were afraid to seek help and haven't really dared to do it because of their immigration status. she also told me that d.r.e.a.m.ers in houston, around 70,000 of them, are having to deal with what she called two storms, not only dealing with the aftermath of harvey and these destroyed homes, but also this potentially life-changing decision on daca. let's listen to what she to

marianna. >> reporter: ali, many of the estimated 68,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers in houston got straight to work today even though many of the people here, they lost their homes, they got, you know, ready to get to work here in this phone bank answering questions from the community about hurricane harvey but also about daca. i want you to take a look at what's going on here, a big social media push. young people here, dispensing legal information as well. and i want to quickly interdice you to carolina ramirez, one of the volunteers. can you tell me about the forms you are giving out. >> a lot of these are key information about daca sb-4 and harvey relief that people in the community are asking about. right here we have the frequently asked questions about what i should know with the daca termination. this one is an english version. >> can you quickly tell me what is the main concern you are hearing from the community on a day like today. >> yeah. i have unfortunately had to hear moms on the phone crying, telling us that, what are they going to do. their children have daca and at the same time,

. >> marianna atencio is south of san juan in bayamon, puerto rico. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: katy, the food is running out for many people in this line. we have been waiting for them for bags of ice since 6:30 in the morning. they need the ice in order to preserve the little food they have left. this gentleman, 85 years old, waiting in line. the president of this ice plant just told the folks here, about 1,000 people still in line, that the cutoff point to get ice today, two bags of ice, is this one right here. all these people that are left in this line, they're going to continue to wait at their own risk, to see if they get these two bags of ice they desperately, desperately need. you see so many children on this line because they're giving out two bags of ice per person. so, entire families are here. nobody's going to work. children are not going to school. and i want to point to this lady who's about eight months pregnant, giving birth in about two weeks. what are your concerns with the baby on the way with the baby on the way? >> mosquitos and power and ligh

but let's start with msnbc's marianna atencio in vitaer, texas. they are still conducting rescues?rter: that's right. there was a search and rescue mission on a boat that just left about a minute ago or so, which leads us to believe here in texas, southeast part of the state, there are still loved ones unaccounted for. there are still these surveillance missions that are happening. because they just simply don't know. there are people that might still be out there. now, this is between louisiana, lake charles, louisiana, and between beaumont, texas. bidor, most of it is under water. it is practically an island right now. and, again, you see these law enforcement officials trying to go out into these communities to see if there are any people left. animals left. a lot of activity. we have even seen choppers hovering above us. there is a nearby city called roe city, as well. another 4,000 residents. we caught up with the mayor of that city today, and she for the first time was getting on a boat to try and see if, you know, her city council, what kind of shape it was in. if everyone i

>> marianna, thank you so much. you can see how windy it's gotten. let me turn to david frehlich, communications director of naples, florida. good to hear from you. this was not supposed to hit from you as hard but that westward shift meant you are directly in irma's path. are you ready? >> good morning. yes, we are. we are as prepared as we can -- well, as anyone can prepare for something like this, i guess. but i can tell you that oddly enough a couple of weeks ago we had actually had sort of a mini mock simulation of this whole type of thing. certainly we didn't plan for something like this, but all of our teams from the county really worked on a smaller scale of something like this and all of our people here are prepared to help if the storm comes through. >> do you have a good sense at this point, david, of how many people actually left the city, how many people are in shelters and how many may be hunkering down in danger's way? >> the first part, unfortunately the storms that went through houston really was a wake-up call for florida, certainly

connect to the internet and even communicate with the washing machine is claudia last shock and marianna hooter with the next part in our series digital germany. address that lights up my limited wanted one she described the design in detail back in one thousand nine hundred fifty eight but it's taken this hmong for technology to catch up. on fashion label electro couture has created the dress and decked it out with modern l.e.d. . incorporating digital technology into clothing is still just a nice in the fashion world. founder liza long shows me how to send a text message to the dress telling the l e d's to change color you know. give it a try first type hash tag. what's your favorite color it looks like you've chosen white is that right. the dress basically responds like a cell phone you send a text that bounces up to a satellite and back down again and it's old data it doesn't matter if my dress is communicating with the internet a microwave or a car or if my clothes communicate with each other i just can even tell the washing machine which setting to use you know. technically it's al

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hello i'm marianna mozzie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes a mass signals it's ready to end a longstanding feud with its palestinian rival fatah.

understand we met noémi and event two sisters from boston who run a small bar in the center of the city mariannais in favor of an independent catalonia noaimi wants catalonia to remain part of spain and that national identity is central to their differing opinions. i feel spanish and catalan i'm not embarrassed to have two different cultures and i'm in which by both of them i speak two languages and it's nice to have this option if. i don't share any. culture of the rest of the country. sundays plan vote is a constant presence in conversations among family and friends in catalonia often leading to a heated debate. you know. no way to work and have dialogue and sometimes talk of a daily night's speech and it's very important for people to know that family relationships haven't broken dein and need to have groups of friends. not fighting each other on the streets. catatonic able to have peaceful dialogue. but the future of catalonia and the independence vote isn't a black and white issue in a recent survey carried out in the region four and five catalan said they would in favor of holding a refere

from there now to puerto rico, marianna has the latest on the ground there. what's going on. >> reporter: we've been reporting on these long lines to get absolutely everything, every basic necessity here in puerto rico. this is a line of people that are here to get gas. they have these buckets here to fill them with much needed diesel so, sir, can i just ask you. >> yes, ma'am. >> how long you've been in this line and can why you need the gas so desperately? >> currently been here 15 minutes. it's one of the shortest lines that you can find in the area and then what happens is i need this containers here for my electric generator. >> reporter: okay. >> my vehicle has fuel and right now they're rationing at $15 per person. >> reporter: you can't even get all that you need? >> currently, yes, because my containers with $15 i don't need no more than 15 for myself but you got other people that don't have the luxury of having the bigger containers, and they have to spend more time in line. >> reporter: i've heard that those containers are hard to come by. also som

. >> thank you, marianna. we are tracking hurricane irma brewing in the waters of the atlantic. now a category 3 storm. will it make landfall in the u.s.? we'll check in with bonnie snyder if in just a few minutes. >>> now to politics. new details in the russia investigation. the "new york times" reporting special counsel robert mueller has obtained a draft letter created for james comey. the letter was met by opposition who believed that its angry, meandering tone was problematic according to interview wes a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. >>> meanwhile, president trump is facing growing calls from republicans, including house speaker paul ryan, to keep daca in lace. a decision on the so-called dreamer program had been expected this weekend, but is now pushed to tuesday. joining me now, ginger gibson, political correspondent for reuters and dave lawler. great to have you both this morning. dave, i want to start with you and the white house's delay on daca. what do you think the suspect is factoring into this calculation between now and tuesday?

carry out an october first referendum asking voters whether to separate from spain spanish president marianna calls that vote illegal and says he will stop it. the most sensible the most reasonable and the most democratic thing to do is to stop they should say there is no referendum they know there isn't going to be one. spain has arrested and released senior catalan government employees instead in three to four thousand national police and civil defense forces to stop the vote spain can no longer count on those seventeen thousand regional bullies known as marceau's and that sets up a potential conflict between two armed forces with very different goals for the national police charged with shutting down the referendum and who see their duty as protecting the rights of catalans making matters worse the spanish troops are housed in four ships off the coast of catalonia and boycotting local port workers refused to dock the ships as spanish delegate in catalonia says spain is not trying to control the most of those just to coordinate with them but i don't know if what we have is a not a substitut

emergency committee that will be later on friday we'll be live in london in just a moment first though marianna han takes a look at what happened. heavily armed officers move to surround the train parked on the tracks at pos and scream chub station in southwest london emergency units responded at eight twenty in the morning at seven twenty g.m.t. to reports of an explosion on a train during rush hour this image posted to twitter which cannot be independently verified it stood to show a package still burning on the train we are treating the matter as a terrorist related incident and the metropolitan police counts terrorism come on will take responsibility for that investigation what mrs reportedly said there was panic as passengers realized what had happened with people trembled as they fled the incident happened in the early morning when london's underground system is busy and commuter trains are often packed with people it comes at a time of heightened tension there have been for a texan britain this year which have killed thirty six people and in two thousand and five suicide bomb attacks on

on the street the protesters are not going home they are not forcing the spanish prime minister marianna lahore's message you know to be addressed tonight that there referendum is on democratic they're sending a message that they want to hold a referendum and they want to break away from spying to become an independent which probably laura and you mentioned there who are as you say who don't want to listen to that corey's just made two to cancel referendum is the situation likely to escalate you think on the ground the old problemi passion running so hard on both sides right you can hear the people here sean we will vote we will vote they want to be able to vote in the october first referendum but the government the central government has drawn a line in the sand and said no we will not accept what they call an illegal referendum and as we saw with the raids this morning the central government is sending its security forces to try and stop the organizational that referendum that will inflame passions here on the street and it is very difficult to say what is going to happen opted out of

hours on the streets the protesters are not going out they are not forcing spanish prime ministers marianna lahore's message you know to be addressed tonight that they're referendum is on democratic they're sending a message that they want to hold the referendum and they want to break away from spying to become an independent republic. still to come on the program hurrican maria makes landfall on the question rico with officials warning of catastrophic damage. when we check out the new way to pay for u.k. supermarkets. and we've got a bit of travis drifting. it's way across the southern parts of australia at the moment it's showing up on the satellite picture quite clearly gradually drifting its way across the southeast corner as it does so it's going to swing around the wind so that means for some of us it will get a lot cooler for the say then twenty degrees will be the maximum there in melbourne and then eventually those temperatures will begin to recover as we head into friday on friday and we've also got another weather system that's edging its way towards us and that could make things

marianna rain bands have moved in. doesn't look look it's raining now but it certainly was a short while ago. >> reporter: it was a short while ago here. this is brickell in downtown miami. this is an area that could potentially be hit by that storm surge we've been talking about. before we get to that, i want to introduce you to pierre, who we just caught up with on his morning jog. do you live in brickell and are you planning to evacuate? >> no, i live in brickell and i'm going to ride the storm. >> you know the -- >> we have a great building c concrete building, worst case i go to the fourth floor and chill in the staircase. >> you have experienced a cat 4? >> i think what i experienced before was a 3. but, no, i think -- know the wind, i know the dangers, but like i say, i think it's safe where we are. >> some of the buildings here, alex, new construction. they have those hurricane-proof kind windows. you mo we could lose power for several days here. filled up the bath tub for bathrooms and we're good for a week. >

marianna, i know you have been tracking the storm from the ground there give us an update as to what you are seeing. >> reporter: i want to different you guys one last look at star island. so you can see some of the damage hurricane irma caused to the sole entrance. this is the sole road in and out of star island. an island that is known for these big celebrity homes. can you see how these winds brought down these trees. it's the metal fence behind me. it came crashing down, bend it right there bass of these high winds we, ourselves, yesterday, you had that storm surge pounding many of the roads along the peach with sand, police officers this morning telling us they are impassable at the moment, some parts at least. we also spoke to the miami beach commissioner who tells us there is still occur few in place. much of miami beach is without power at the moment. police telling us, they are afraid of looting. they also made two arrests this mornin morning. they don't want people to take advantage of this situation year e clearly, as people check out scenes like this up with. we have one

. >> marianna, talk to us as you have been driving around, how water logged the city is. when we talked about saturday morning, we talked about the bridges that you are talking about that correheck connect ou mainland. are people surveying those to may sure they're safe so people that will there can make it over? talk to us about that. >> reporter: so from now, we have been able drive around relatively well in terms of the big bridges him don't forgive the bridges around miami, they're pretty high up. the beach had a lot of risk of flooding because i've lived on the beach before. i know that heavy rainfall will flood many of the areas in the beach. it doesn't appear to be a tremendous problem from what we've heard from authorities and seen on social media, we are coming to to survey the damage. but the year that did suffer a lot of flooding. we show thad in our reporting yesterday or in the early afternoon yesterday was downtown miami t. area that connects the beach to brickle, to the until part of miami. i already had water up to my ankle. it was rising quickly. that was

the white house says they will meet with the cabinet, dave price is in the weather center, marianna isport. dave, i'm going to start with you, we were talking about the storm earlier downstairs. we were talking specifically about where this thing lands and whether or not it matters, ultimately, if it is category four or five. >> in the biggest picture, it doesn't. think about it, if you see an elephant charging down a hall way, you will not try to duck out of the way, you just try to leave because there is no room for error. this is an elephant of a storm, and again, the state is only 140 miles wide. a couple things to note, this is the first time the location has been tied to miami. 380 miles southeast of that city right now. 155 155-mile-per-hour winds. don't get stuck on whether it's a five other a four. this is powerful. but this is perhaps the most interesting to me. it is now moving west at 14 miles per hour. the big question here initially is what kind of encounter is it going to have with the island of cuba. and next, where does it head? this western movement is very interestin

marianna, i know you have been tracking the storm from the ground there give us an update as to what you are seeing. >> reporter: i want to different you guys one last look at star island. so you can see some of the damage hurricane irma caused to the sole entrance. this is the sole road in and out of star island. an island that is known for these big celebrity homes. can you see how these winds brought down these trees. it's the metal fence behind me. it came crashing down, bend it right there bass of these high winds we, ourselves, yesterday, you had that storm surge pounding many of the roads along the peach with sand, police officers this morning telling us they are impassable at the moment, some parts at least. we also spoke to the miami beach commissioner who tells us there is still occur few in place. much of miami beach is without power at the moment. police telling us, they are afraid of looting. they also made two arrests this mornin morning. they don't want people to take advantage of this situation year e clearly, as people check out scenes like this up with. we have one

independence literature here or it could come to some kind of compromise the spanish government of marianna could agree say to talks that might lead to illegitimate an independent vote that spain would recognize later or they could simply give catalonia the same taxing authority that the neighboring basque country has where they keep their they collect their own money and they distribute it mostly in their own territory and here in catalonia it's a rich part of the country they send more to madrid then comes back and that does irk people here meanwhile what we have is a showdown to october first and nobody knows of that but will come off but if you listen to the catalonian president carlos put him on he wrote in the washington post sorry spain we're going to have an independence vote in catalonia whether you like it or not oh my john thank you very much for that john hendren joining us live from nine a thank you. and a few moments we'll have the weather weather but chad but still ahead on the news hour. the number of people killed in mexico's earthquake rises as rescuers refuse to give up h

that's where we find marianna attencio. the water is finally starting to recede in some parts of houston. people are finally starting to head home to start the recovery process. >> that's exactly what you are seeing here. this is the city's biggest shelter, and we've seen a drop from its peak when it had 10,000 evacuees to 2,500. the last red cross estimate as of last night, 1,750. that means that the people who are still here are the most vulnerable. people who don't have a home to go back to who are still trying to locate missing relatives. if you walk in the hallways, you see still flyers for missing people. people who need mental health assist yabs, medical assistance. yesterday i was with garrett haake watching some of the foels who are trying to get back home, and the roads are still very hard to access. the homes are hard to access, and that just means that the road to recovery here in houston will be very long and difficult for many of the people here. >> all right. bill karens joins us. harvey still possibly making

marianna, good to talk to you this afternoon.t city completely flooded still, ten days after the storm first started. >> it's hard to believe you can see the way inside the city completely flooded behind me, in fact we just saw the mayor of rose city getting on a small boat, loading it up and this is actually the first time that she's been able to go in to check in on her city. as you mentioned, 11 days s s a the storm hit, they were also loading hay on to the boat because there's at least 30 cattle that are trapped in the city and they're also doing surveillance missions at this point. can you tell me how many people you've rescued in this area in the last couple of days? >> friday it was roughly around 40, done a few animal rescues, but for the most part, there's still areas we can't even get to due to the rapids. >> reporter: so those raptdids, i'm hoping you can see them on this droen footage that we shot over rose city, you can see how fast the water is pouring into the city because the natchez river has just not receded yet

marian marianna, many people are happy to hear that elaine is going to puerto rico because while thehite house continues to say what a great job we're doing, when we speak to you and others on the ground, things sound very desperate. >> reporter: desperation is what you see here on the ground in every single corner of this island. just look at this line to buy ice. this line bends all the way back. the person from the ice factory right here told me that there is about 1,000 to 2,000 people in this line. and they are getting two packets of ice per person. so many people here are with their young children, with their elderly parents, because that means that they will receive more ice for food, more ice for medicine. most of the people here still have no power at home, so it is really a life and death situation for many of these folks in this line. so saying that they will send a three star general to the island, it just doesn't translate in the streets right now. we do know that according to the white house, there are 7200 troops in puerto rico and 2800 federal relief worker, but just

the bands that we have been seeing are coming from that area that marianna is. she is out in that area and we're getting them straight across and then they wrap around and go out the other side and curve into that storm. we have been noticing with every 15 or 20 minutes as you predicted, the heavier winds are pushing north. the bands have been heavier. have not gotten into what we saw yesterday, and that was like a sheeting rain ban. just like a solid sheet of rain that was going sideways. we have not seen that today, yet this morning. we will by the time we get there this afternoon. the rain bans that we have been watching that are down south of us, when you see those ban that's are yellow and orange, that's the rain that you're really hunkering down for. one of the things we were just talking about here was somewhere asked me, some of the worst damage i had ever seen in a storm, and the funny think was some of it was from a cat 1 hurricane on the coast of texas, but it stayed over that one area for 18 hours. so many times we get caught up in the worst damage w

nbc -- msnbc's marianna atencio is in viter, texas. mariana, i want to start with you. last updates we're seeing from viter, those homes with five feet of water. some neighborhoods just under water virtually. i know yesterday there was only one road open into viter. now is it looking this morning? >> you can just see around me, chris, this is the only highway that goes from lake charles, louisiana, to bow metropolitan. this is what so many vehicles have attempted to do this morning. this is the only highway into viter right now. this is a larger truck that just went by me. easy for that truck to go through. not easy for everyone to try to cross into vitor. it still remains pretty much an island. the river is receding, but not fast enough. they are also out of power in many areas of vitor. you can see an electrical substation behind me. >> we saw people trickling in. it's a signal that things are not improving fast enough, and as people are talking about the bigger cities, houston, of course, where a lot of people still need help. it is really the smaller towns here that

. >>> marianna, how are residents preparing there from what you have seen so far? >> people are franticly stocking up on anything they can get their hands on. bread, canned goods, water, batteries. any supplies. i've been on the ground in miami for 48 hours now, but i've also seen how those supplies have started to run out very quickly. it took our crew two hours just to find any water at all. here in broward county at this public licks in hollywood, florida, people tell us there was a line of about 100 people yesterday when the doors opened. you can start to see some folks trickling in waiting to see if they can get their hands on anything that is left to ride out the storm. we also saw delivery trucks delivering what they can. one delivery man telling us they can't get the stuff down here fast enough. for those people that are deciding if they'll stay home and ride out the storm here because of the shortage of gas, because they can't get out through my mie international airport, stocking up on supplies in the last window to do that may be closing in on them today

carry out an october first referendum asking voters whether to separate from spain spanish president marianna calls that vote illegal and says he will stop it. the most sensible the most reasonable and the most democratic thing to do is to stop they should say there is no referendum they know there isn't going to be one. spain has arrested and released senior catalan government employees instead in three to four thousand national police and civil defense forces to stop the vote spain can no longer count on those seventeen thousand regional bullies known as marceau's and that sets up a potential conflict between two armed forces with very different goals for the national police charged with shutting down the referendum and the more so to see their duty as protecting the rights of catalans making matters worse the spanish troops are housed in four ships off the coast of catalonia and boycotting local port workers refused to dock the ships as spanish delegate in catalonia says spain is not trying to control the most just to coordinate with them but i don't know if what we have is a not a substit

. >> marianna thank you very much. >>> the bahamas is the next target before it heads towards florida. it's where we find rehema ellis. i know we talkeded i know we talkede yesterday. what is happening today? is it less busy as people have hunkered down? >> well, it is because the storm is really approaching us here in nassau. as you can see, i have got on the rain gear. the wind has picked up. the seas are much choppier than they were yesterday. but the news today is irma has hit the southern bahamas. it is there right now and people are dealing with it the best they can. some 1,000 people were evacuated from that area. many of them brought to central bahamas, which is where we're standing. but no picnic here either. take a look at some of this. some people have tried to anchor these down. these food courts here. food carts here along the beach are really popular area. but homeowners are doing the same thing. i hope we've got some pictures where you can see homes are boarded up. people have been getting that food and the water that you talked about. but listen to what they say about

while i was on the streets the protesters are not going out they are not far spanish prime minister marianna lahore's message you know to be addressed tonight that they're referendum is on democratic they're sending a message that they want to hold the referendum and they want to break away from spying to become an independent republic. or brazil supreme court has issued a second round of corruption charges against president michel tema but the lower house of congress will have final say on any trial of the sitting president last month congress blocked a previous round of charges saying that terror from a court supreme court trial could have ousted him from office. now kenya's supreme court has blamed the electoral commission for its ascension to a presidential election the court judges say that the electoral commission refused to allow them to scrutinize its computer service which opposition leader said were hacked a present reelection was an earlier this month and a rerun is scheduled for october so. these are unprecedented times in kenya there's been atmosphere of uncertainty ever since s