miguel marquez cnn hardin county texas. (grant) today kron4 news has partnered with the salvation army to raise funds for disaster relief after hurricane harvey decimated parts of texas.(vicki) to help, kron4 is holding a telethon fundraiser all day long to help the victims of the disaster. everything raised will go toward recovery efforts.(grant) pam moore and steve aveson are in our newsroom with the kron4 cares telethon... they have details on how people can help. (steve)here is how to help:you can donate to the salvation army by going to its website or call kron4 at (415) 561- 8063 during telethon hours. grab your phone and call kron4 call (415) 561-8063telethon hours last until to 10 p.m tonight.salvation army disaster teams from across the country have mobilized and will remain in communities impacted by this terrible storm, supporting long-term disaster recovery efforts and providing ongoing assistance to those in need.your support helps the salvation army stay on the front lines of hurricane harvey relief efforts. .

i'm going to go straight to miguel marquez in mexico city. miguel, is there any indication rescue workers are close to freeing this trapped little girl? >> reporter: well, they think that she is still alive down there. and i'm whispering because we're in a period of silence here where the rescuers have asked that the entire area to be quiet so they can listen for signs of life. they believe that they have located the location where she is, there may be others down there with her. they are moving in from two different locations. i want to show you a little of what's happening here. you have volunteers up here and all the material going on this way where the rescue is actually taking place and they are meticulous, hand by hand, scoop by scoop as they are trying to get where they're going. they are for the most part using plastic buckets now to move debris out of the school so they can -- and then they bring it out into the street and pile it up and move it off into dump trucks later on. it is a much more organized effort here today than it was j

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that reporter -- miguel marquez helped push her car into the miguel marquez helped push her car into so she could fill-up. right now -- a desperate right now -- a desperate search for a pregnant teacher who is missing. laura wallen of olney -- hasn't had any contact with her family since monday. tom roussey -- with the pleas for her return. a deadly crash unmarked montgomery county police cruiser is under investigation this morning. the cruiser collided with a scooter last night at veirs mill road and norris drive in wheaton. the person on the scooter was killed. there's still no word on that person's identity. veirs mill road was shut down for about five hours. it's xx and we're just getting started. started. right now -- hurricane irma wreaking havoc as it barrels through the atlantic. wind speeds reaching 185 miles per hour -- with gusts up to 225!! now folks in

miguel marquez is in miami for us. >> reporter: evacuations are underway, and you can measure the concernn floridians' minds by the amount of gas and water that's available out there throughout miami and in florida water at many stores, whether it was a walgreens, target, walmart, publix, completely out. they say they are getting more in the hours and days ahead. in walmart's case, they are pulling from distribution centers as far away as nevada to get water to stores here in florida. gas also in short supply. some people waiting up to two hours for gas. this is one shell station on u.s. 1. i can still see a line. it's about a 45-minute to an hour wait now at this gas station. goes this way and comes this way on u.s. 1. speaking of u.s. 1, this is u.s. 1 headed southbound, the opposite lane, that's northbound. almost no traffic on it now. it's been a steady flow of traffic for much of the day as people start to evacuate monroe county. that is the keys in florida. already under a mandatory evacuation order for shelters in miami already open. clearly this area bracing for a major, major sto

all right, let's go back out live to miguel marquez, who it looks like is about to start whispering because they want the silence. they want to hear the little girl. can you give us an update, migu miguel? >> reporter: yeah. we've had an uptick in activity here. it's not very clear what's happened, but they have just asked for another moment of silence here as searchers are continuing to pour in here. we've seen a ton of activity down here. a short time ago -- ambulances down there now. you can see here in front of me there are more searchers and police going down there to help in the search. a few moments ago we saw what appeared to be a husband and wife in complete grief, barely able to walk, being taken from the scene and away from the school. i have seen a few people who appear to be parents leaving the scene today, most of them just stone faced, without emotion, barely able to speak, to move. the parents that we saw come out here just a short time ago were very, very distraught. i'm going to give you a sense, we are standing in a crowd of probably a thousand people, and i want to give

. >>> want to go right to miguel marquez. looks like a dramatic moment. they're trying to rescue children at the school in mexico city. miguel, you're there on the scene for us. update viewers. >> reporter: yeah, hope here is measured by silence. i want to show you what's happening right now. you can see people with their hands in the air, rescuers have asked the entire crowd, hundreds and hundreds of people around these blocks to be quiet. it is pin drop quiet in this area right now. you will hear the sound of whistles blowing just down the block where they are trying to get the attention of anybody under that rubble. they believe there's a young girl who is still alive. here's -- so then it's business as usual. now goes back to business as usual. the entire crowd completely quiet and hen goes back to business as usual. they have a thermal scanner under there. they believe that a young girl is still alive under the rubble, 21 children have perished in this particular location. three are still missing as well as one adult. and it is -- again, we go back to

things down there, but it's not clear who it's coming from or what it's coming from, john. >> miguel marquez, fantastic reporting down there. it is a confusing situation right now. the important thing, the search goes on for someone who might be trapped in that rubble, miguel, thank you very, very much. >>> all right in the politics lead, special counsel digging in on oval office meetings. what are lawmakers learning in their own investigations? we are joined next. endless shrimp is back at red lobster. and we went all out to bring you even more incredible shrimp and new flavors. like new nashville hot shrimp, drizzled with sweet amber honey, and new grilled mediterranean shrimp finished with a savory blend of green onions, tomatoes, and herbs. feeling hungry yet? good, 'cause there's plenty more where these came from. like garlic shrimp scampi, and other classics you love. as much as you want, however you want them. but hurry, endless shrimp won't be here long. as much as you want, however you want them. we come into this world needi♪ others. then we are told it's braver to go it alone. ♪ b

miguel marquez in miami. thank you, sir. one person in the eye of this storm willingly is a hurricane chaser and mike, you have chased down 40 hurricanes in the past 30 years so for the people who are at home and may be undecided, you're looking at this historically powerful storm. what are you expecting to endure? >> well, if we take a direct hit in the keys, it will be catastrophic. i mean, you do not want to be here with direct hit. and right now, there's a lot of models that show that. there's a lot of models that show up the east coast, up the west coast, right up the keys, so you need to assume the worst. you do not want to be stuck here with this kind of a storm coming over the keys. it will be catastrophic. >> when you say catastrophic, i mean, speak to the specifics of that. what would that look like in a place like the keys? >> well, if that ring of thunderstorms, which is the intense eye wall, goes right over the keys, the wind will come off one side of the ocean, go across the island, right to the other, and it w

let's get the late es on the evacuation at babtist beaumont hospital, where we find miguel marquez. what's happening, miguel? >> reporter: we are waiting for the first of the helicopters to come in. they think they have an incoming helicopter bringing in somebody who is injured. that's something that baptist beaumont hospital is asking other emergency crews not to do, but there is an ongoing emergency here with the water crisis. so, you still have injured people coming into the hospital here. the baby that is are being air lifted today, three of them are healthy. 11, though, are premature babies. we got a look at a few of those babies in the neonatal center here and the nurses caring for them. some of the parents, amazingly enough, you know how protective and possessive parents are of newborn babies, some of the parents are stuck in floodwaters and cannot be here to go with their babies when they are evacuated. >> i would think for all parents, it's terrifying for us as well. we are doing the best we can. you know, the parents, some of them can be here and see their infants. some par

miguel marquez showing us the situation there. the u.s.sident donald trump will return to texas on saturday and see some of the damage from hurricane harvey first hand. but in the meantime his vice president, mike pence, just toured the areas hit by the storm. he visited rock port, texas with the governor of the state and even helped to clean up. many organizations are here and available to help people in the houston area one called somebody cares. and earlier i spoke with its founder, doug stringer. and i asked doug about his organization, how it was providing relief to so many people who need help. >> we've been a part of these crises before, katrina, rita, and ike in our own city. but this is such an unprecedented storm and hurricane that we had to set up the houston area in quadrants to try to get fluid information realtime assessments and to find out what the greatest needs were so we could begin to meet those needs together. we staged in rockport and houston and east texas prior to the hurricane and within hours we had some of our pe

cnn miguel marquez has more. >> reporter: dave and renae the city of beaumont is experiencing a double crisis. they have too much water from the sky and none coming out of faus et cetera. we are at the baptist hospital in beaumont where they're vakting the entire hospital because the city, all 135,000 people in the city and parts of the surrounding county are completely without water. they started with about 193 patients. able to get several out. down to 85 at this point. and these are not tcritically injured. one patient moved to missouri. nine prematurely born infants moved to galveston out of this facility. the rest of the patients have to move by chopper because beaumont is cut off from the rest of the world. it sits up on a plain and the freeways are cut off. they have to move people out by air. it's with military precision with bank after bank of helicoptering moving the critically i feel out first and moving down the line to those less critically injured. >> miguel marquez great reporting from houston. >> and the u.s. decides to close russian diplomatic missions in the united st

jim. >> miguel marquez doing his best.e has been whispering at the scenes the last few days and doing a lot of work covering that quake down there with the cnn crews. he is trying to nurse that voice. coming up, saving luther strange. president trump steps in to help the senator who based his campaign on one thing. allegiance to the president. can trump deliver the votes. the president not hitting like after facebook said they will deliver ads to the special council. his response is all part of an ongoing election hoax according to the president. we'll be right back. ♪ the all-new volkswagen tiguan with available pedestrian monitoring. the new king of the concrete jungle. and life's beautiful moments.ns get between you flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. >> president trump heads to alabama tonight in the middle of an ugly gop election to fill the senate seat to used to belon

miguel marquez, live in miami. let's bring him in now. we've seen incredibly long lines. police escorts for refueling tanks. we've seen you out speaking to people. what's the latest? where are you? >> it is midnight in miami. and things are getting a bit desperate here. we were at one gas station for many hours. they went through 10,000 gallons of gas. that ended about 20 minutes ago. we went to another gas station. we saw over a gas stations that were shut. this one just got another load of gasoline from a tanker truck just dropped it off. you see the line of car here. not very long at midnight. but here's what's happening now. people are coming from the south looking for gas. the second line that's starting on this side. creating a little tension at times among people here who are wanting to get gas. the governor here in florida, taking some extraordinary steps. having police escorts for tanker trucks to get them to gas stations like this. and for employees to continue to work as long as they can. and once it's time to get out, they and their families can be escorted ou

miguel marquez cnn hollywood, florida. (justine) coming up... hundreds of volunteers came together to cleanup the coast... we'll hear from people about the major trash problem popping up along the shoreline.(jr stone) plus... a state trooper saves a man from jumping off a bridge...and it is all caught on camera. that story is up ahead.(justine) and... an armed robbery at a popular candy store in the north bay.... we're live with more on the suspect police are now looking for. that's after the break. (jr stone) in petaluma... a see's candies store was robbed at gunpoint just five minutes before the store was getting ready to close. (justine) this happened friday night near the corner of mcdowell boulavard and maria drive. this comes one week after the city's first homicide in years...but police tell kron four violent crime is not necessarily up...it just happened to be back to back.(jr stone) kron four's ella sogomonian is live in petaluma with how people are feeling tonight.... ella...certainly a scary situation for those inside. petaluma reside

miguel marquez cnn hollywood, florida.jr stone) the patients in the video later received medical care and are recovering. the facility expressed its condolences to victims' families and says it's cooperating with investigators. three agencies have launched investigations, including a criminal probe. officials say they still need to determine whether the deaths were heat-related. (jr stone) time now to check on our weather... (justine) here is meterologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: we're at the peak of hurricane season and it's gettng active. we have 3 tropical weather systems in the atlantic right now, jose, maria and lee. hurricane jose is now spinning to the south and headed north. it could come near new england by wednesday. right now it looks like the eye will stay off shore but there will be plenty of wind, rain and high surf.this is the last weekend of summer but it's already feeling a littl like fall outside. we had a few passing clouds otherwise is was a gorgeous day. highs today were at or just slightly be

>> miguel marquez, thank you.ation says saf members set up mobile cooling units and continually checked on patients. releasing this statement. while our center did didn't lose power it did lose a transformer that powers the air-conditioning unit. continued to follow up with status on when repairs would be made. there was a generator on standby. >> it's not clear if the generator broke or why the air conditioners wouldn't be on that power supply. the nursing home a had citations in h the past. both instances the nursing home correct the the problems. >> president trump and the if tis lady headed to florida today making stops in ft. myers and naples. about 3 million customers without power this morning. >> the speed of the relief evident forts being questioned on the caribbean islands. thousands of residents in dire need. more than a week after irma barrelled through as a category 5. cnn's cyril vanier with that story. do you stay? do you go. where are you going to get the next bottle of safe water? >> reporter: yea

>> miguel marquez for us there in beaumont. to his point, becky ames, the mayor of beaumont, said basically we're an island right now. >> yeah. >> terrifying. >> an island without any water. >> without water. right. >>> on the high side of all this, celebrities are putting their money down to fund relief efforts for texans in dire need. hats off to houston, texans', j.j. watt. you're a fan of his. his grassroots fundraiser is now topping $13 million. here's what he told anderson cooper. >> this isn't a one day, isn't a one week, isn't a one-month thing. this is going to take months and years and years. i want to make sure that since we have this large sum of money, i want to do it right over the long period. i want houston to know i'm here for the long haul. i'm not here for the initial fundraiser. i'm here to make sure we take care of you down the road. >> way to be, j.j. ellen degeneres and leonardo dicaprio each contributed $1 million each to harvey relief efforts. singer miley cyrus also digging into her wallet, donating a

is in houston, miguel marquez is in beaumont. stephanie, let me go to you first.ots of mounds of trash, people taking that stuff out of their homes. but that doesn't mean problems are over. >> not at all. there's so much work here. in fact, while you look here, looks like a lot of drywall in front of me, a lot of it is people's best possessions, favorite things, things they cared about when the water surprised them, from what i understand talking to people that live here. three feet of water entered their homes, they left in a hurry. you can see what happened. a lot of people made it back in here wednesday. since then, you see work going on, emptying out homes, pulling out drywall, trying to get drywall to dry. people are like we have nowhere to go, one family just remodeled the kitchen in june. and now you look at what we have out here. one of the issues they're dealing with is how long will it take for them to get in touch with fema, for them to come look at the homes to begin the work of rebuilding the homes and putting up new drywall, all of that that it takes

cnn's miguel marquez with more. >> we put the pork chop, chicken and sauce savaged, he gone tuck t sausage on the grill. >> reporter: how difficult is it to live day-to-day here? >> it's sad. and it's hard. because the stove don't even got no more meat when it's gone out we done. >> reporter: with many displaced by the hurricane, walker now has 8 people living if her house today, she's cooking for twelve and she still doesn't know when the lights are going to be upon. >> you keep calling they say they don't know when it's gone be back on. >> reporter: how many times have you called? >> 60 times. >> reporter: nearly 60% of the people live in poverty. >> as you can see all of our vegetables -- >> reporter: found tell has a wife and five kids. he works creating creole and english in a clinic. >> i couldn't get any milk, when -- but even if i had bought it i won't be able to store it. >> there nowhere else for you to go? >> there no where else to go. >> reporter: the town's grocery store open but no power, no milk or meat. >> reporter: every day you're without electricity how hard is life? >>

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before we go to break, let's check in with miguel marquez. u could hear tom, miguel. this is a big lady that we're dealing whoa with hurricane irma. she's going to hit you hard and it's going to last for a long time. >> reporter: irma has been hitting us for a while and it is definitely getting worse. i don't know if we're going to have it as badly as you. but three hours of port charlotte, we're just south of port charlotte. we're experiencing what you did a little while ago. this is the marina. this is hay maamazing that wate still going out. there's in sea water in this marina again. it's all fresh water. the boats you see off in the distance, those are sitting on mud right now incredibly enough. if you look over here to the left, you can see there's a sign that's just about to come off of a pole there. that's the power of this wind. look at the trees in here. these are some of the strongest winds we've seen so far. the palm trees are just, you know, perpendicular. they don't look -- doesn't look normal. it's amazing that these things can s

let's begin with miguel marquez at the hospital where the babies are about to be evacuated. miguel, give us the latest. >> reporter: yeah, this should start at any moment. this is a day long operation to move 14 different babies, 11 of them are premature here at baptist beaumont hospital. the way this will work, doctors say they will bring in helicopters and one, perhaps two at a time. the babies will start to be transferred to valve ston. the first to go will be the most critically injured. moments ago, we saw some of the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit here at baptist hospital. the nurses caring for them. the staff here certainly feels like these are their babies. you know how fragile a regular baby, a normal baby is. these premature babies are so fragile, it is incredible to see some of the parents says the doctor caring for them, are still stuck in the storm and the floods and can't get here to see their babies transferred. >> we are doing the best we can. under the current conditions. you know, the parents, some of them can be here and be able to see their inf

miguel marquez, cnn, hollywood, florida. >> with a criminal investigation into those deaths under way, the facility in question and its owners could face serious legal jeopardy. joining us with her expertise is cnn legal analyst areva martin. so let's break this down. sweltering heat, frail and elderly patients. >> yes. >> and then we hear death apparently due to that heat. >> yeah. >> so death which could have been avoided and begs the question is this -- does this meet the legal definition of negligence? >> i think what's so disturbing about this story is that this nursing home has a history, a history of violations under florida law for not having in place that which is required to care for this very vulnerable population. and now we're learning that on sunday, apparently, their air-conditioning unit went out, and we don't know what happened between sunday and wednesday. what we do know is that those individuals were not removed from that facility, were not taken to that hospital, which was like so close. you know, just feet or, you know, less than a mile away from that rehabilitat

we heard miguel marquez just say there were 300 water rescues. what happens now? how are people still in these homes, how are they going to get water and get out and survive this? >> well, for the most part, like i said, the water rescues are slowed down. our shelters are closed. we have been able to -- some people have been able to return to their homes, a large percent, maybe more than 50% have been able to return to their homes because water has receded in many areas. the other small percentage of people still displaced, we were able to get out of the city. we've had a couple of different plans. we start with plan a. if that doesn't work out, we move on to plan b. it's one thing after another. we continue to take what's getting thrown to us and try to address it as quickly as possible. number one is life safety. we're still doing a little water rescues. the first thing is getting water to our citizens. as soon as we get a water distribution center set up, we'll start giving out water to our citizens. >> we're looking at how challenging these water rescues are.

>> miguel marquez, thank you for that. >>> rescuers are beginning a block-by-block search of homes inehind in harvey's historic floods. 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed statewide. cnn's brian todd looks at what search crews are up against in west houston. >> reporter: we're here in west houston where the waters are still dangerously high. several days after hurricane harvey came ashore. look at this -- this is a neighborhood called lakeside forest. the water is still just up to the windows on the first floor of these houses. it's eerie being out here in the dark. this neighborhood was flooded from the start but the water kept rising because of the controlled release of the addicks reservoir near here. one person we rescued from a canoe who was stuck is a meteorologist. he thinks that this water level really is not going to decrease any time soon. he says the water, this neighborhood probably will not be rid of the water for maybe weeks. so look at the -- if you look at this, these people will be up against it and may not get into their homes any time soon. >>> as flooding slams the

>> miguel marquez, thank you very much. i want to go to dennis cross, a e search and rescue task force aide. dennis, hen we hear this, obviously desperately searching in the rubble for a life, the president of mexico says there could be people alive in ten collapsed buildings. the earthquake was more than two days ago. how much time is left? what is the clock that rescuers are racing against. >> caller: hi, erin. thank you for having me on. i am a member of the task force leader of a task force working with u.s. agencies for international development. we were forch not to be called in this morning. we are searching a sight where we have a live hit. there's chaos after a devastation like this. some think they hear something, others don't. as a highly specialized team, we bring in a canine. if it hits, we double check with another canine, if that takes a hit, we will utilize the lifting devices we have and a structural specialist to determine that structure is stable for us. we will use saws, rebar cutting equipment, we will

miguel marquez, cnn, los angeles. >> thank you, miguel. now, i want to bring in tomma smith, who you saw in miguel's piece, famously protested. thank you for coming on. your protest at the '68 olympics considered one of the most iconic sports moments. how do you think the protests we're seeing in the nfl compare to your own protest? can you compare them? >> the platform, don, is basic. the need to be heard is certainly something that is very necessary. and to see the athletes stand for the right to be heard, stand as men and women to be heard because their job or jobs that nature of this country is work, the nature of this country is the first amendment. and i think the work of the athlete is very pound frg the sake of the life in this country, and it's good to be heard. >> it's kind of the same argument. leave the politics, the personal feelings off the field or off the playing field or what have you. what do you make of that argument? >> well, it's a situation that's been going on for a long time. there are those that believe you have a

miguel marquez joins us now live from punta gorda on florida's west coast.t like there at the moment? i know it's been getting worse. >> yeah, we are just starting to get the very first of the rain and the wind of irma. and it's still hundreds of miles away. it's been raining fairly steadily. i mean it is interesting. you would think it was just sort of a pleasant summer rain except for the fact that in the next 24 hours we are going to get deluged with whipped and rain. punta gorda very, very sensitive the hurricanes. charlie came through here 13 years ago and nearly leveled the town. i heard the meteorologist you were speaking to earlier saying charlie was a relatively small storm. it did major, major damage in this town. and the path that irma is on is not unlike that of charlie. it's just out to the west of punta gorda, which means that puppeta gorda and this county of charlotte will be on the dirty side of the eye wall where the storm surge is expected to bed about. they are expecting here ten, perhaps 15 feet of storm surge. basically a giant wave comi

but for now, people are up and ready for the storm. >> miguel marquez in port charlotte. rick scott said they need nurses and volunteers to help out in the shelters. so many people answered the call and miguel, thank you. we have an important forecast update, seconds away. cnn's special live coverage continues right now. >>> john, thanks very. i'm anderson cooper in the west of florida, fort meyers where people woke up today with a very different anticipation of the days ahead. as the storm moved to the west but as john berman mentioned we have an important update. the latest, the 5:00 update, the track of the storm and as soon as that comes through we'll go to allison chinchar. people in florida are watching this very closely because as we saw with hurricane charlie back in 2004 it was moving up this river and a slight -- i think it was a four degree shift made it hit the town of punta gorda. not the areas that people had anticipated. let's go to allison chinchar with the latest on the storm. what have you learned from the 5:00 update. >> so the latest we have, we are co

let's go live to cnn's miguel marquez in mexico city.ese rescue efforts to try to reach a trapped schoolgirl and today there's been an odd update. tell us about it. >> yeah. it's a little hard to see. i think there's a lot of egg on official faces. the deputy marine, the deputy of the navy department here who was running the operation there, who yesterday said this little girl never existed, i never said anything my people never said anything, has backtracked to where the government is saying look, we don't know who's under there. it could be a little girl or an adult. we' we were not sure. in a statement saying i was basing the information we gave out earlier on the little girl on the best information we had given what they were finding in that collapsed school and what they were seeing on the various means that they were using to test whether there was somebody down there. apologized for basically saying that there was no little girl in there. i will say that it has caused a lot of heart ache among families in that neighborhood that so

miguel marquez is there live. i'm sure you're seeing the long lines at gas stations and what else are you seeing? >> reporter: it is absolutely surreal to be out here tonight. the current path of the hurricane takes it right over exactly where we're standing now. it's surreal here in miami. this is a gas line. typical miami fashion. music. these two have run out of gas so they're pushing up to the very front of the line, pushing it along as they can. the gas station itself is incredibly well run. they have police officers in front directing people in and i have bad news for people looking for gas at this particular place on u.s. one. there's about 10 cars further down the line at the very end there's a police officer. that is the end of the gas for this station. they got about 10,000 gallons today. the governor of florida taking extraordinary measures saying he is going to have police escorts for tanker trucks so they can get to gas stations for employees of gas stashzs so they can stay and work as long as they ca

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cnn national correspondent miguel marquez is there. miguel, talk about precious cargo.hat can you tell us? >> reporter: there is no more precious cargo than this. a newborn baby. a healthy newborn baby is fragile enough. imagine having to turn over your prematurely born baby to hospital staff to be transported by air? that's what's happening here today. we had been told they were going to go by helicopter, but when the doctors and nurses started looking into it. in large incubator devices. a little video of some of those babies before they were transported. they didn't want to take the risk of putting those incubators on a chopper, might have been squeezed into and maybe not quite as stable and made the decision to move them by ground, and ambulance to a local airport here and then fly them out to galveston, texas, or a fixed-wing aircraft to be cared for until the water crisis here is over. there was still 83 patients in baptist beaumont hospital this morning, and there hasn't been a big pace of individuals leaving. we've seen one helicopter taking one patient away. pa

miguel marquez is at the facility right now. there are serious questions about what steps the nursing home took in the days before the deaths. >> there are, and it depends on who you talk to depends on which answer you get. the state agency investigating this says the nursing home and the dehabilitation center had ample, ample opportunity to speak up and say they had either a problem with the power or the air conditioner or both, multiple times before the storm, during the storm, and after the storm, and they never did until 7:30 a.m. yesterday morning. that was after the evacuation was already under way. police here in hollywood, florida, lay out just a grizzly sort of house of horrors in that situation. 3:00 a.m. wednesday morning, they get a call, somebody in cardiac arrest there. 4:00 a.m., second call, somebody having respiratory failure there. shortly thereafter, another call from the same facility, a nurse at the nearby hospital 50 feet away, memorial hospital, she goes over, checks out the situation, she finally rings th

let's go to miguel marquez now, he's in punta gorda on florida's west coast condition. the west coast is going to take the bring of this. bring us up to date miguel. >> yeah, punta gorda very well aware of hurricanes. 13 years ago hurricane charley ripped through here and nearly leveled the town. we're north of fort my meyers, west of sarasota here. that hurricane takes it west of the city which is good because t not coming onshore here. it's bad in the sense because it's on that right-hand side of the eye wall which is some of the worst wind and storm surge. they're expecteding a very big storm surge in here, basically a giant waver of the ocean that comes on to land and sweeps everything out in relatively order. it's a very low-lying county here in charlotte county. they have three shelters here obviously because the lands are so low, they don't really have anything higher than below sea level essentially. so they -- the shelters in the county are completely full, they will accept people if there's a dire situation but they are moving people to five shelters or four no

cnn's miguel marquez followed one couple home.s were rising when this couple left their home. >> i don't know that i was expecting this. i don't know what i was expecting. >> i'm shocked. speechless. >> today, the smell overwhelming, mold grows everywhere. >> look at this. >>reporter: the walls crumble like cheese. everything in their home, a complete loss. >> the water line is right here. so we'll possibly have to go six foot through the whole house. >>reporter: parents to tiler, dexy and tal lon, 15, 13 and 11. they didn't have the heart to bring them to see what's left. >> our son's weight lifting medal the. that what was he was worried about. >> this is her volleyball pictures, last year first year to start playing volleyball and basketball. she made the team. >>reporter: overwhelmed by loss, katie excuses herself. >> it makes me sad for our kids. >> reporter: how will they take this? >> our youngest has cried to come home. >>reporter: this is the first time these people have gotten back into the homes. there are still about 1

cnn's miguel marquez is in beaumont. what's the latest? >> reporter: this is a scity, chris, suffering two crises at once. still dealing with water rescues in the city. nearly 300 in the city itself. many more in the surrounding county. here at baptist beaumont hospital, evacuations. the lack of water -- it's not the floodwaters rising here but the lack of water completely cut off the city. two pumps cut off by the rising natchez river. the hospital started off with 193 patients. they're down to 85 now. the most critically injured, those in icu, those on dialysis, nine prematurely born babies were all airlifted yesterday. they have 85 patients left. they need to continue to airlift them, they say, because the freeways around beaumont are either nearly impassable or completely impassable, and moving them is very, very difficult. they had to move them -- can't move them to houston where they usually go. they go to dallas, jasper, galveston. one patient went all the way to missouri. when will this be resolved? it's not entirely clear. it's ex

thanks to miguel marquez. >>> with harvey just getting start -- harvey cleanup just getting started,istoric irma is gathering power in the atlantic. meteorologist pedram javaheri with the latest and the holiday forecast. >>> good morning. here's what's going on with hurricane irma sitting across the atlantic. the leeward islands the main area of concern at this point for the immediate landfall, the storm system. tuesday into wednesday morning. notice the consistency in the remaining category four. we think this will be a maker hurricane for -- a major hurricane for the future including the dominican republic, turks and caicos, the bahamas, maybe cuba. the track wants to keep a southerly track, taking it potentially around cuba into parts of the gulf. if that verifies, that is bad news for anyone along the gulf coast states. we have a massive area of high pressure. the bermuda high across the region that could steer and tug the system farther north and eventually to the east. the possible alternate scenario could be parts of the carolinas. if we're lucky, a trough from the u.s. could

miguel marquez, cnn, los angeles. >> thank you, miguel. now i want to bring in tommy smith, who you saw in miguel's piece, famously protested at the olympics in 1968. how doing? >> doing fine. thank you. thank you for coming on. your protest at the '68 olympics considered one of the most iconic sports moments. how do you think the protests we're seeing in the nfl compare to your own protest? can you compare them? >> the platform, don, is basic. the need to be heard is certainly something that is very necessary. and to see the athletes stand for the right to be heard, stand as men and women to be heard because their job or jobs that nurtures of america, the nature of this country is work, the nature of this country is the first amendment. and i think the right of the athlete is very pounding for the sake of the life in this country, and it's good to be heard. >> i'm sure you heard it, then. it's kind of the same argument. leave the politics, the personal feelings off the field or off the playing field or what have you. what do you make of t

miguel marquez brings us the latest from beaumont. >> reporter: this is the natches river in beaumontrial area still clearly inundated by water. much lower than it was when it was at the highest peak. it peaked here around 1:00 p.m. on saturday. i want to show how far it's come down since then. that's where it is now. up here is where it peaked. this isn't the only place having problems. there are still neighborhoods in beaumont that are completely under water. there are towns around beaumont that are still inaccessible. places like bevel oaks, sour lakes, pinewood estates. all of them still inaccessible because there's six or eight feet of water on the roads between them. people are coming together here like you've never seen, handing out water in big ways and small. some local restaurants have even come together, shut down business for themselves but serving thousands of meals to evacuees. as for the water here, it is sputtering back to life, literally out of faucets in beaumont. it is starting to come back. officials say once the natches goes down more, they'll be able to get to th

>> miguel marquez, thanks very much.l, again, we're going to continue to check in with you in the hours ahead. the headline right now is this storm is playing games, unclear exactly the status of it exactly the direction that it is moving. tom is saying it's moving north-northeast in a more easterly direction, which would certainly be some better news for areas like tampa, which had been expecting to be on the worst side of this storm. obviously storm surge like in punta gorda here in tampa is a big issue but again the uncertainty is frankly frightening at this point. we'd like to have a better handle on exactly the formation of this storm and exactly the movement of this storm. as tom said it is moving at a good clip. i think he said it was in the 12 to 14-mile-an-hour range. yesterday it was about 8 miles an hour, 6 to 8 miles an hour, very slow moving. the fact that it's moving quicker is also certainly good news, but that uncertainty, that is the headline right now, and the concern. we're going to take another break.

miguel marquez, cnn, hollywood, florida. >>> as millions in the caribbean and florida are still dealing with the aftermath of hurricane irma, another storm is brewing in the atlantic. hurricane jose. and it could threaten the northeast next week. let's go now to allison chinchar live in the cnn weather center for the very latest. what are the probabilities to this storm? >> right now, winds about 80 miles an hour, gusting up to 100 miles per hour. movement to the northwest about 9 miles per hour. that track does start to take it a little bit more west. and then it finally starts to make its way up to the north. we don't expect it to intensify much more than it is now because it's going to be entering much cooler water. that's really going to limit how much more it can intensify. by the time we get to tuesday, wednesday, even thursday, it's possible it may be back down to a tropical storm. this is good news because that's about the same time line we would expect it could potentially impact states like new york, massachusetts, rhode island, even connecticut. now, they are on the western f

that's where miguel marquez is. do you have any of these squalls coming through? >> reporter: winds new york city ra , no rain yet. the storm is to the left. port charlotte on the right of the storm, really the worst place. punta gorda, just south of us. that's a place that got levelled by charlie 13 years ago. so people here are very, very well aware of what's going on. this is king's way elementary. this has become a makeshift shelter, essentially. all of the shelters in charlotte county are full at this point. they have 5 other shelters in sarasota county that they're moving people to. i want to give you a sense of the parking lot. people parked up on the grass here and moved everybody in. as many people as they could. they cleared up the cafeteria, got everybody in. cleared it out again. made more room. moved people upstairs. they have brought in hundreds and hundreds of people into this shelter alone. 900 now in this one shelter. i want to introduce you to some of my friends out here. where's the family? ten kids here. this is the mom right over here. hello,

miguel marquez is in miami. they got hit. they flooded. but the difference in infrastructure and the ability to turn life around is night and day. miguel, what are you dealing with in miami? >> reporter: yeah. it's very much like that, chris. look, as tough as it is where you are now, miami, for all the wind and for all the damage they had here, it is in recovery mode. but it's not there yet. this is an intersection on u.s. 1. no lights at the intersection. some lights started to come on just as we were getting to go live here in the immediate area. but still they have to have police cars in certain intersections around town just to make sure people are stopping and treating it like a four-way stop essentially. florida power & light says on the east coast they hope to have lights by the end of this weekend. on the west coast, next friday. except for those areas hardest hit. severe flooding, tornados, that kind of thing. gasoline a big issue here. this station closed, wrapped up the pumps. you can't get gas here. even if the electricity come

first, though, i want to go to miguel marquez who is in punta gorda right now. miguel, how are things there? >> about 60 miles north. we're about 40 miles north of fort meyers. i want to show you that phenomenon you guys are seeing right there in tampa and we're seeing here as well, this is the marina for the city of punta gorda. all of the boats in there are not on water. they're on mud and you can see there's a big one off in the distance there and a sail boat right in front of it and those are sitting in mud. the water that you see in that marina is the runoff and the rain into that marina. we are also seeing the strongest winds that we've seen so far today. i mean, it's painful to the skin and it is also painful to your jacket and on to your body. there's a sign over here that's just about to let loose and the trees, you can see the palm trees are just in that unnatural shape as the wind is just pummeling the area. they are expecting once the eye wall goes through to have that five to eight-foot storm surge here, as well. they were calling for 10 to 15-foot s

cnn's miguel marquez has the latest.orter: the video seconds long and speaks volumes what was happening inside. in the hallway, a woman sits on a gurney entirely naked. the person who shot the video said the same woman was clothed in a gown when she saw her on monday but had grown so uncomfortably hot on tuesday she stripped or all other clothing seeking relief from the heat. the woman who shot the video did not want to be on camera but wanted others to see the conditions. in the video, her 89-year-old parents, gabrielle geraldo, were hospitalized after being evacuated. libya has since been discharged. gabrielle remains in the hospital with a urinary tract infection his daughter says he got because he was dehydrated. the person who shot the video said thee was at the facility monday and the air-conditioning was off. the video was shot tuesday night hours before the evacuation. it shows her father who suffers with always hiezheimer's. the second floor window open and curtains lifted up to allow as much air as possible. in

miguel marquez begins our coverage from hollywood florida. >> in addition to the eight dead here another2 are in critical condition. the death toll could rise. the state has shut the facility down. the latest information reading like a horror story. there was a call at 3:00 a.m. when one person went into cardiac a rest. another, then a third call, then the fire department started looking into the facility and realized it was too hot and that several others were having issues as well. one of the doctors who was a first responder from memorial hospital next door describes what he saw when he walked in that facility. >> the scene was chaotic. we had at least 115 patients we were trying to evacuate and bring to safety. i definitely saw mass casualties but this is something unique. >> the hospital makes clear it has no connection to the facilities in question but stepped in treating it like a mass casualty situation where they brought dozens of their staffers in to get those elderly patients out. the police department here in hollywood, florida says it is talking to all the staff members and

let's bring in miguel marquez. they fear it might collapse again. miguel?> we are here where a building maybe has dozens of people who are possibly alive. you have signatures here as the mexican navy is apologizing as you say. they released a statement a short time ago saying this is from the deputy of the mexican navy. i want to make clear the information was released by the navy based on technical reports and the accounts of the civilian and navy rescuers. i offered the mexican public an apology for the information disseminated this afternoon meaning yesterday where i affirmed i did not have details about a supposed child survivor this this tragedy. especially what he is saying that is they don't know whether it's a child or adult or anyone else. the mexican government put out that statement shortly before under the secretary said this 12-year-old doesn't exist at all. and now they have gone back saying they don't know whether anyone is in this building at all. they are still digging there. they are still hoping that there is somebody alive, but hope seem