let's go right back to puerto rico now and check in with ivan watson. i think we've worked out the audio wrinkle there, ivan. so give us a sense of what people are feeling there, particularly after the president's sentiment. is this kind of salt to the wounds? they've already been victimized by the two hurricanes and now to hear the president of the united states with such strong language and, you know, differentiating people by saying it's they, making no real direct reference to these americans there in puerto rico, and instead criticizing the mayor, who has been pleading for help after saying people are dying there. >> fredricka, i don't have specific response to the president's latest tweets. where i've been traveling to outside of san juan, when you reach the edge of the puerto rican capital, that's where the cell phone signal for the most part dices, and as you drive on the highway, and the roads have been cleared where i've been, there are pockets on the highway where people pull over on the side because there might be a little bit of cell phone s

ivan watson is in florida, puerto rico where the u.s. aid agency fema is bricking much needed supplies. and leyla santiago has an emotional reunion with our family. we'll bring you her story, are but first ivan watson in one small town still lacking basic necessities, food, water, electricity and desperate for help. >> reporter: welcome to florida, florida, puerto rico. like so many other communities on this american island, this town suffers from fuel shortages and the collapse of many other utilities. >> this is no water in the house. no telephone, no internet, nothing. >> reporter: have you seen any -- officials -- >> nada. no, no, no, one, no one pass through my neighborhood. >> reporter: one neighborhood in florida is struggling with an additional problem. are these fish in the road. >> si. >> yes. fish in the road. >> reporter: you can fish in the street? >> yeah, a little one, big one. >> reporter: this town is up in the hills, nowhere near the coast, and yet somehow the storm backed up a nearby creek, creating this flood that has

our ivan watson is there surveying the damage and had been speaking with the americans there. puerto rico who need the help. ivan, based on what we are hearing, it sounds like electricity is a big thing. gas and medicine are also hard to come by for a lot of people, given there are still areas that are more disconnected than the main cities like san juan, how is all of that getting to those people? >> that's the big question here. >> reporter: you know the roads, the highways that i have traveled on out of the capitol here have been opened and inside roads as well through smaller towns and that's one remarkable achievement of these ten days since the hurricane. you can drive to places. then when you get to places, you are struck that only 45 minutes out of san juan and an hour out of san juan, there is no electricity and people say not only there is running water and there is gas lines and people are spending the night into get diesels and gas for their vehicles that you heard from leyla that also cell phones signals to non-existence, there is no information of where to go. i s

cnn's ivan watson. death toll did rise in part because the body of one female victim, an adult woman, unsighed so far, was found at another location. this was on sunday at a school that cnn reported on extensively, which collapsed. her body recovered there, bringing the death toll at that location, the school, to 19 school kids who were victims as well as seven adults. the authorities say that all the children that were there have been completely accounted for. there was a ceremony, a mass, at a church here in mexico city for some of those tragic child victims of that just horrible tragedy. the there is another one here at this location, six-story offic building, get out of the way so you can see the operations taking place here under a bit of a rainfall right now, before 4:00 a.m., where the rescue teams are digging through the rubble of a six-story office building that collapsed, and they say they believe they're more than 40 missing people inside. all throughout this area here, there are many familie

i want to i want to bring in ivan watson in mexico city for us where the death toll has climbed, the s 325. ivan, do we know if today's quake caused more damage where you are? >> reporter: we have not gotten official notification of add d igs buona additional damages or casualties. we heard from the mexican officials that they believe, from the earlier earthquake that you reference at the beginning of the month with a magnitude of more than eight but it did not cause rescue workers at a different location where there is another collapse building suspending their work for fear and endangering the rescue team. ana, i spent with my team traveling through some of other state in mexico and there is damage in smaller communities and we encounter one very tragic story at a collapse church in a small village where residents were supposed to be celebrating a baptism when the earthquake struck and the village was forced to hold a funeral. >> a community in mourning and crosses on the street to honor victims of the deadly earthquakes that shook the villain on tuesday. it was not supposed to be t

cnn's ivan watson is in the town of florida, puerto rico, where the u.s. aid agency fema is bringing much needed supplies. residents there have been lacking the basics, food, water and electricity and desperately need help. here is his report. >> welcome to florida. florida, puerto rico. like so many other communities on this american island, this town suffers from fuel shortages and the collapse of many other utilities. >> no electricity, no water in the house. no telephone. no internet. nothing. >> have you seen any officials -- >> no, no one, no one. no one pass from my neighborhood. >> one neighborhood in florida is struggling with an additional problem. >> this is -- the are these fish in the road? >> yes. >> you've got fish in -- in the street. >> in the street. little and big one. >> this town is up in the hills, nowhere near the coast, yet somehow the storm backed up a nearby creek, creating this flood that has inundated dozens of family homes. among those now homeless, edith. >> we lose everything. first floor and second floor, everything is gone.

ivan watson is also in puerto rico tonight. ivan, you were there. you saw the desperate things people are doing right now just to get food. >> reporter: oh, what's crazy about that, erin, is that washed out bridge is only 45 minutes drive from downtown san juan. 25 miles as the crow flies. you have a bridge to a small town, a neighborhood in the municipality. 1,000 people living in that town. the surrounding countryside is ravaged by hurricane maria. there's no electricity in municipality. there are long, long lines of people waiting for gas. there's no cell phone connection, no telephones, either. it's worse for that community, because to get in and out, they have to ford the river with water going up to their knees and then since they can't get their vehicles across that collapsed bridge area, then they have to hike as one couple that i met did. hike about two hours to the nearest store to buy bread and rice to hike back two hours, wade across the river and bring that food to their children. the wire that was laid across the river was done by loca

i want to bring in cnn's ivan watson nea a concrete bridge that was washed away. ivan, we have been looking at remarkable pictures behind you. >> this is the business model of relief and recovery in the municipality. the bridge was washed out after the storm. the community here, no government, no kind of emergency worker, this is people and residents have set up a metal wire, a cable across where the bridge used to be. and locals are being forced to forward the river in knee high water to try to reach the outside world. that is the business model of recovery and relief for this community of san lorenzo that has no electricity, no running water, and no fuel for the vehicles. there is an alternate road that takes about three hours over the mountains to reach the outside world. we have been watching for the past couple of hours. residents, women, children, and the elderly have to cross this on foot to try to reach the outside world. if somebody needs insulin if they are diabetic and there are no refrigerators working, they have to tak this way out. it was described ho

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i want to go to ivan watson live for us in san juan. president trump is tweeting tonight on the crisis in puerto rico. one says, puerto rico is devastated, phone system, electric grid, many roads gone. fema and first responders are amazing. governor said great job. ivan, the president says food and water are being delivered. what's the reality there on the ground? >> reporter: i went to a community today that hasn't gotten any assistance at all, the locals say don, from the outside world in more than a week now, since hurricane maria. part of this is complicated by the fact that the main bridge linking to that community was washed away in flash floods after the storm. take a look at an excerpt and example of what we saw there on the ground. the wire that they're hanging on to has been set up by residents of the town. this is their improvised method for trying to reach the outside world. we just spoke with a couple who had crossed this way and then walked two hours to the nearest supermarket to try to get bread and food and rice for thei

. >> cnn international correspondent ivan watson is live in south seoul, korea, with the very latest.hearing there? >> good morning christi and victory. there is condemnation for that intercontinental ballistic missile. and allies condemned it. and with japanese territory, they condemned it and so has russia and china both signatories to multiple u.n. institutions supposed to ban north korea from nuclear weapons and these ballistic missiles. but north korea remains characteristically defiant. it announced that kim jong-un oversaw the missile lunch which took place friday morning here local time. and went one step further, effectively doubling down, ordering his forces to run and upwork at full speed to try to develop north korea's nuclear arsenal, to some how reach parity with the u.s. military. and the essential goal here is to develop an arsenal of ballistic missiles, intercontinental ballistic missile, that can carry nuclear warheads all the way to the u.s. mainland. that is north korea's stated goal, despite recent sanctions from the u.n. security council, which were just imposed

but first, let's get the very latest from our senior international correspondent, ivan watson. he's in san juan for us tonight. ivan, the u.s. navy is now delivering some critical aid. you saw the mission up close. >> reporter: that's right. they've been here since before this hurricane struck, and they're trying to help. and the military, the department of defense, says that the number of troops deployed here is expected to double in coming days from about 2,500 active duty now to about twice that in coming days. but quite frankly, for an island of some 3.4 million people stricken by this hurricane, that may just not be enough. citizens of colombia escaping the u.s. island of puerto rico. evacuated by their government to board a colombian air force plane. and it's hard to blame them. aboard a u.s. navy helicopter, you get a sense of the scale of the damage here. a week after hurricane maria barreled across puerto rico, transport, electricity, drinking water, and telecommunications are seriously, if not completely, disrupted. this devastated island still needs so much help. and

i want to go to our senior international correspondent ivan watson. ivan, you got into the country side today and i want you to tell our viewers the scene you saw. >> reporter: okay. i went to a village, wolf, it's in it's only about 25 miles from where i'm standing now. we made the drive back in about 45 minutes. but that village is cut off from the outside world because the flash flood, washed out the bridge that linked that village that more than 1,000 people to the outside world. it has forced now the residents of that village to have to forward a river in knee high water with a keern are cable that they've laid themselves across the troifr help them forward that river. they have to cling to that. and that's just to get across the river and then to hike hours to try to reach a store to buy food in for example. the village itself and the surrounding municipality has no electricity, it has no telecommunications, and there is little to no running water. and as i explained, ordinary transports such as trying to get from that village to the rest of puer

let's go to ivan watson about 35 miles from the capital of san juan. tell us about how people are making that journey. >> we are going to zoom in here right away on this river and you can see that's a man named manolo gonzalez. he just forted the river that cutoff this community of more than 1,000 people from basically civilization. from the rest of puerto rico. it was washed out in hours after the hurricane by flash floods. i will show you where the bridge used to be and you can see how high up it is and that the water ripped away huge segments of concrete and has essentially cutoff this community fromhe rest of the area. there is another mountain road that people can use. the residents tell me it's two to three hours to get out to the bigger state. who has the fuel to drive two to three hours when fuel is being rationed? it's hot right now. it's high noon and the traffic is subsided, but throughout the morning, we watched residents. women, children, wading across this river on foot to try to get out to the outside world. it only took us about 45 minu

ivan watson is there and has more. >> reporter: a community in morning.n the streets to honor victims of the deadly earthquake that shook the village on tuesday. it was not supposed to be this way. that morning locals gathered at this church in the center of the village to attend the baptism of a 3-month-old girl. this is a video of the 277-year-old church filmed in happier times. it was the beating heart of this community. but that all changed in an instant when the earth began to shake on tuesday. a church employee was assisting with the baptismal ceremony when the earthquake struck. >> translator: it was almost instantaneous. when it started shaking pieces of the ceiling started to fall. everything went dark. i shut my eyes. when i opened them, everything was covered with dust. i saw a little girl about 4 years old whimpering and fortunately she was under the debris. >> tao survived but 12 other people were far less fortunate. a day after the baptism, the church held a funeral. >> reporter: this is what senate intelligence committee tragic and incompre

. >> cnn's ivan watson joins us now from one location.e damage -- where are you and what's the damage like? >> reporter: i'm in a town here call ed johita. it suffered scores of casualties in tuesday's deadly earthquake. at least 70 people killed in this state. what you see as you come to this small market town, some buildings like this, a number of adjoining two story homes that all came down in a pile of rubble. most of the buildings are still standing, but there is a great deal of kind of structural damage right now. much of the downtown is blocked off right now. businesses closed and residents have had to move out because one of the big fears they tell me, is aftershocks that could bring down homes, buildings, that are already somewhat damaged. we do see a large presence of police, of army, of civil defense as well. they seem to be doing part of the work of trying to protect some of the streets, especially now that darkness has set in, there are some good sides to this. street lamps are working right now, there's some electricity here

our ivan watson is in seoul, south korea, which responded to the latest provocation with a show of its own force. ivan, what can you tell us? >> yeah. this latest north korean missile launch triggered something we haven't really seen before, which was a tit for tat missile launch coming from its neighbor to the south. south korea, which announced that about six minutes after the north korean missile went up into the air, that the south koreans fired two of their own ballistic missiles that they identify. one of these malfunctioned and didn't get very far. but again, this a new measure that the south koreans were clearly prepared for and they've had a lot of practice because the north koreans have fired no less than 21 missiles since last february, all of them banned according to multiple united nations security council resolution, so they were clearly preparing for this measure. the missile itself, that the north koreans fired, it flew to an altitude of 480 miles, 2300 miles in distance, over sdwjapa triggering air raid sirens there and warnings for people to take cover. that would put

our senior international correspondent, ivan watson, is in seoul, south korea, with the latest on what we know at this point. so what have we learned, ivan? >> reporter: well, we know that u.s. pacific command says that this was fired from eastern parts of north korea, the eastern coast, and that it is believed to be an intermediate range ballistic missile that flew for about 20 minutes over northern japan, before splashing into the ocean. no reports of any casualties or damage. but certainly, alarms going out across japan and further ratcheting up tensions here in the region, since this is the second time in less than three weeks that north korea has fired a missile over japan. u.s. secretary of state, rex tillerson, saying this is a direct threat against the key u.s. ally, japan. and it also comes less than two weeks after north korea conducted a nuclear test. which has been met with international condemnation and another round of economic sanctions. secretary of state tillerson has singled out in response to this, russia and china, which it claims that russia is the largest user of

ivan watson, cnn, mexico city. >> and during ivan's report, you saw behind him the sea of people. you know, continuing that search effort. >> i was listening, and looking right at those people. you can appreciate what they're up against and what people went through. >> a lot of work for sure. >>> germans are voting this hour and we could be seeing the start of a new era in german politics. >> chancellor angela merkel is expected to keep her job but a far-right party could gain more political party. we'll have more about it next. wemost familiar companies,'s but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. when people ask me now i tell them this. bright reveal peel pads from l'oreal. with glycolic acid... visibly reduces wrinkles and reveals brighter skin. all this power in one little pad. bright reveal

some survivors spoke with cnn's ivan watson. >> a community in mourning.sses on the street to honor victims of the deadly earthquake that shook victims on tuesday. that morning, locals gathered at this church in the center of the village to attend a baptism of a 3-month-old girl. the this is a video of the 277-year-old santiago apostolic church filmed in happier times. it was the beating hard of this community. but that all changed in an instant when the urg began to shake on tuesday. a church employee was assisting with the ceremony when the quake struck. >> it was almost instantaneous. when it started shaking, pieces of the creel started to fall. everything went dark. i shut my eyes. when i opened them, everything was covered in dust. i saw a little girl under cart bre. she survive. >> but others were fast less fortunately. a day after the baptism, the community held a funeral. what should have been the celebration of a new life instead resulted in the death of an innocent family. among those who perished in the church, most other this man's family. he l

ivan watson reports from seoul, south korea, with the latest details. north korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile from the pyong-yang area-- south korea said the missile flew over japan and toward the north pacific ocean.the launch comes just hours after north korea responded to the united nations security council's unanimous approval of additional sanctions... by threatening to "sink" japan and reduce the u-s mainland into "ash and darkness." north korean leader kim jong un is less than six years into his reign... and has tested more missiles than his father and grandfather combined. prior to the recent launch, the country had fired 21 missiles during 14 tests since february-- further perfecting its technology with each launch. this video from july 4th, shows north korea's first test of an inter-continental ballistic missile -- which it claims could reach "anywhere in the world." (steve) new at ten... president trump signed a resolution today condemning white supremacists, neo-nazis and other hate groups. this was in response to the nationa

ivan watson shares the latest updates from the scene of an ongoing operation to save as many victimsas possible. some workers at mexico city's some workers at mexico city's police headquarters are refusing to return to work at the downtown building because of suspected structural damage. administrative worker mariana ramirez said sunday that she plans to go as far as the sidewalk outside monday morning, but will not enter. ramirez was on the fourth floor of the 12-story building when the earthquake hit tuesday. she says the shaking was "terrible, terrible" and hasn't been back to work since the quake.ramirez and others are pushing a petition on change.org that calls for city authorities to commission an independent evaluation of the building that would be shared with its employees.she says so far bosses are saying the building is fine. but photos shared by employees show a buckled floor and what appears to be a severed support column. half of the cupola of an historic church in mexico city has fallen after sustaining damage during the magnitude 7.1 quake that hit central mexico this

ivan watson explains how other countries are also reacting to north korea's latest provocations. >> reporter: north korea faces near universal condemnation from the international community for the launch of a ballistic missile on friday morning local time here. the united nations security council condemned it, called it a throat regional peace and stability especially since this flew over japanese territory which is an inherent threat against japan. s the u.s. and its allies condemn this and also beijing and moscow. two countries that have in the pastthe u.s. and its allies conn this and also beijing and moscow. two countries that have in the pastthe u.s. and its allies con this and also beijing and moscow. two countries that have in the past provide some had cover to north korea. but north korea has season defiance, publishing images of its leader kim jong-un ov overseeing the launch of the intermediate range ballistic missile and doubling down in fact with statements attributed to kim jong-un in the north korean state media urging the north korean armed forces to seek basically parity with

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our senior international correspondent, ivan watson, is in seoul, south korea, with the latest on whatt this point. so what have we learned, ivan? >> reporter: well, we know that u.s. pacific command says that this was fired from eastern parts of north korea, the eastern coast, and that it is believed to be an intermediate range ballistic missile that flew for about 20 minutes over northern japan, before splashing into the ocean. no reports of any casualties or damage. but certainly, alarms going out across japan and further ratcheting up tensions here in the region, since this is the second time in less than three wes

i want to check in with cnn's senior international correspondent ivan watson. re there in san juan, ivan. you traveled to florida, puerto rico, today. what are conditions like there? tell us about that spot. >> reporter: this is a small town off the highway, only about an hour's drive west of san juan. the residents are dealing with the problems that plague so many other people on this island. no electricity since the storm. no running water. barely any telecommunications, and of course the long gas lines because of this fuel crisis. people spending the night in line hoping they can maybe buy fuel. and on top of that, what neighborhood is stuck with a flood. during the storm, somehow a nearby creek got backed up, and dozens of families' homes are now underwater. as i was talking to people there, they say they've gotten some assistance. some of the residents that are now homeless are staying in a local shelter run by the town government in florita. we met a man who was using a bulldozer to clear debris. he said the local town government had provided free fuel to

cnn's ivan watson live for us in mexico now. ivan, good evening to you.hat is the extent of the damage? what are you seeing? >> well, as you can see behind me, in this town of jojutla, you had this situation here where you had adjoining two-story houses that were all brought down by tuesday's deadly earthquake. fortunately in this small market town most of the buildings are still standing, but there's a great deal of structural damage, a lot of cracks in these buildings. so people are not staying in their homes in this part of town. the businesses are all shuttered as well because there's the fear of aftershocks that can bring buildings down further. moments ago we saw government workers coming through and an engineer basically assessing buildings and spray painting on them whether or not they need to be demolished or they are allowed to remain standing. but the initial shock and fear of the deadly earthquake on tuesday, don, i'd say in this community has given way to the next step. so you've got hoards of volunteers really from all over mexico who are he

ivan watson joining me now. ew details about what you're seeing but you're -- looks like there are rescues under way behind you? >> let me set the stage here. we're at the entrance to the village of san lorenzo where a major bridge here was washed out by floods after the storm and here we are eight days after the storm and as you can see here people are having to walk out, out of their vist village, on foot, through this river after the bridge was washed out. this is the united states of america, eight days after the storm, you can see this family here, on foot, walking through knee high riv water. they're using a metal cable that residents here erected themselves, strung up across the river, to help people through this river, kate. and this is the best way the fastest way that residents of these neighborhoods, these villages up here, have of kind of reaching the outside world. if there's a medical emergency, if they need to try to get fuel. the alternative is a three hour drive through the mountains to try to re

(darya) that was ivan watson reporting. happening now...san francisco are looking for the driver who hit and killed a grocery store owner in san francisco. it happened on friday morning... the driver is still on the loose. 56-year old gus vardakastanis was hit and killed outside the wholesale foods produce market in the bayview district. the car was as a silver sedan with heavy front-end and windshield damage. (mark) coming up on the kron 4 morning news... we head out to colin kaepernick's hometown to see how fans there are reacting to the protests all around the n-f-l. and... we know president trump isn't making friends in the n-f-l right now. but nascar is standing by the commander in chief. what one of racing's top owners is saying about protesters. . a major hot spot. bay bridge wb 80 jammed from the maze due to a stall near midspan (robin) a major hot spots . bay bridge wb 80 near midspan has traffic jammed from the maze. ( mark ) we've been talking about it all morning... the battle between president trump and the n-f-l. but the presi

ivan watson is getting more information from south korean authorities. what are they saying, ivan?> reporter: well, the national security council will be meeting trying to make sense of this latest potential move by the north koreans. this suspected missile launch coming just essentially hours after the south korean president moon jae-in says that south korea does not plan, in response to the provocations and the recent missile launches, it does not plan to seek the deployment of nuclear weapons here in south korea. mo the south korean president moon jae-in says there's no need for that. he was elected in the last year and promised to try to reach out diplomatically to north korea and in an interview with cnn, he la la meanted and said that he was very saddened by this aggressive approach that the north koreans have taken. essentially, the south koreans are struck wringing their hands. >> i want to go to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. what's the reaction, if any, coming in from white house officials? >> reporter: the white house is monitoring this and getting dev

. >> ivan watson, appreciate that report. >>> just after the earthquake in haiti in 2010, i had the honorand rescue. one of the people we talked to on the ground as they worked, was captain jason vasquez, part of his team is now in mexico. he joins me now. thanks so much for being with us. when you see the destruction in mexico, and you see the huge crowds of people working on a site. is it -- is there a challenge with having so many people on one site? is there benefit to having fewer people or is it -- is just more hands better? >> well, they sent us down to haiti, we had a search team looking for worksites with rescue teams to follow us up. and rescue those victims. we break it up into a search component and a rescue component. as one site is being worked on, we'll have a small team out looking for other worksites for our guys, so we're not wasting any time. >> i was with your team when a woman came up to your team on a street, a mother who said her daughter was trapped and we're showing some of the video from back then. and your team spent -- i mean, just heroic hours combing through

cnn's ivan watson is live in mexico city with the latest. >> reporter: john, that's right. the search continues at this location. before dawn it was pouring rain. it stopped the hard work the international team, and dangerous work, the international team of rescue workers have been doing here. there have also been aftershocks, strong earthquakes, throughout the weekend forcing them to suspend their work. meanwhile, relatives waiting for at least 40 missing people in this collapsed six-story building in an agonizing vigil camping out day and night here. on sunday an adult woman, the body of an adult woman was recovered from a collapsed school where at least 19 children were killed, and 7 other adults were killed. the death toll growing over the course of the weekend. the dome of an old church collapsed. our lady of angels children here in mexico city. as far as the recovery efforts, well, the government says it's trying to reopen schools now. it says 103 schools have been inspected and deemed safe for kids to go back to school, but there's still more than 9,000 still closed.

. >> ivan watson in mexico. appreciate your reporting. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. it's 11:00 p.m. on the east coast. we've got a lot of breaking news for you tonight. the clock ticking as the gop scrambles on the effort to repeal obamacare. but the battle is a face-off between jimmy kimmel and senator bob cassidy. puerto rico drowning in catastrophic harvey-like flooding from hurricane maria. we'll show you some of the first images from this battle island -- battered island. let's get right to the latest on the senate's healthcare hail mary. phil mattingly has that for us. >> as the senate plows toward a vote to repeal obamacare, president trump is unequivocal tweeting, i would not sign graham/cassidy. it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. it does. >> more people would have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. >> reporter: trump's defensiveness over the issue is understandable. the issue of whether the gop proposal maintains protections for all has been a central and toxic piece of the repeal debate for months. and one that

and ivan watson is out front in puerto rico, you've been out today, what have you seen? >> reporter: we've been trolling the military effort here, several military officials tell cnn that they plan in the coming days to practically double the number of active duty troops on the ground from about 2,500 now in puerto rico and the virgin islands, to add 2,000 or 3,000 more. but that just may not be enough with a stricken island with a population of some 3.4 million people. >> citizens of colombia, escaping the island of puerto rico, evacuating aboard a colombian air force plane, and it's hard to blame them. aboard a u.s. navy helicopter, you get a sense of the scale of the damage here. a week after hurricane maria barrelled across puerto rico, transport, electricity, drinking water and telecommunications are seriously, if not completely disrupted. this devastated island still needs so much help. and the u.s. military is uniquely positioned to assist. the u.s. ship is an amphibious assault ship, but here's it's a floating logistical hub. the u.s. is supporting puerto rico, b

some survivors spoke with cnn's ivan watson. >> reporter: a community in mourning.deadly earthquake that shook the village of atsala on tuesday. it was not supposed to be this way. that morning, locals gathered at this church in the center of the village to attend the baptism of a 3-month-old girl named elida torres de lion. this is a video of the 277-year-old church, filmed in happier times. it was the beating heart of this community. but that all changed in an instant when the earth began to shake on tuesday. tiejo, a church employee, was assisting with the baptismal ceremony when the quake struck. >> translator: it was almost instantaneous. when it started shaking, pieces of the ceiling started to fall. everything went dark. i shut my eyes. when i opened them, everything was covered with dust. i saw a little girl about four years old whimpering. unfortunately, she was under the debris. >> reporter: teijo survived but 12 other people in the church were far less important. a day after the baptism, the village of atsala held a funeral. this is what is so tragic and

truly basic needs as cnn's ivan watson discovered at a river crossing where a bridge had been swept away>> reporter: the wire that they're hanging on to has been set up by residents of the town. this is their improvised method for trying to reach the outside world. we just spoke with a couple who had crossed this way and then walked two hours to the nearest supermarket to try to get bread and food and rice for their children and then had to walk two hours back. >> getting even the barest essentials, things we all take for granted, are a struggle. fortunately, help is coming from private citizens, public figures, obviously federal officials as well. singers marc anthony and jennifer lopez have created an alliance of artists working together for puerto rico. i spoke with marc anthony earlier. >> marc, the organization you founded, somos uno voz, just explain what it is and what kind of help you hope to provide to people in puerto rico. >> well, jennifer and i, i think it was minutes after we learned that it was imminent that the hurricane was going to hit puerto rico, we got in contact wit

ivan watson shares the latest updates from the scene of an ongoing operation to save as many people aspossible. some workers at mexico city's police headquarters are refusing to return to work at the downtown building because of suspected structural damage. administrative worker mariana ramirez said sunday that she plans to go as far as the sidewalk outside monday morning, but will not enter. ramirez was on the fourth floor of the 12-story building when the earthquake hit tuesday. she says the shaking was "terrible, terrible" and hasn't been back to work since the quake.ramirez and others are pushing a petition on change.org that calls for city authorities to commission an independent evaluation of the building that would be shared with its employees.she says so far bosses are saying the building is fine. but photos shared by employees show a buckled floor and what appears to be a severed support column. half of the cupola of an historic church in mexico city has fallen after sustaining damage during the magnitude 7.1 quake that hit central mexico this week.the dome of the our lady of