st. maarten -- this morning, a woman from st. e house was still standing and heavily damaged. they said what are you going to do now and basically her answer was i never liked a roof, this is a possibility to rebuild my house to my own design. this is an absolute disaster and an opportunity. in st. maarten have experienced at that and we will pick up our shovels and brushes and we will rebuild and we will be better and more beautiful than we were before irma. thank you very much. [applause] >> we are going to have to turn over to the next panel but i do not want to not get the opportunity for a couple of questions to be asked from the audience. i have a couple myself area for the sake of time, if i could invite -- sharp was is charles so black emergency managers association international. >> i heard you better without the microphone. the black emergency managers association and washington, d.c. and my heart goes out to the people. >> i do not understand a word you are saying. they can hear you. -- igionally, how involved really wa

st. maarten. dutch, half french island was the worst hit, leaving 10 dead and many areas completely devastated. macron will go to st. maarten to oversee relief efforts but his government has already come under pressure for not doing enough. many residents say they have not had enough help with homes, hospitals, and schools line in ruins. a long wait for baguette in this neighborhood. this bakery is the only shop to have survived hurricane irma. there is anger at the authorities. >> we are as french as anyone. we need help there is no one here. >> i don't know what the government is doing. we need help in every neighborhood. you understand? we are poor people. people will start to get angry. >> some of the worst scenes are here in the district, one of the islands poorest. people here say they have been abandoned by france. >> today, we don't have much, but tomorrow, we will have nothing. nothing. we are just here waiting for aid. rather than looking down on us from your cities come a pointing finge

st. maarten. today it looks like this. st. arten's landmarks including their world famous airport have taken a devastating blow. this is what it looks like inside the airport. check-in desks flooded, debris all over the place. local officials say huge swaths of the island have been leveled. about 80,000 people live on st. maarten. most have seen their homes damaged or destroyed. this is what the docks used to look like. now the docks look like this. this is one of the hotels in st. maarten in brighter times. it has replicas of famous paintings on the outer walls. this is that same hotel now. you can still see some of the paintings. nothing else really looks the same. st. maarten is famous for its beautiful, pristine beaches. the beaches of st. maarten now look like this. hurricane irma is expected to make landfall in the main lands u.s. this weekend but it has whipped through the caribbean, killed at least 17 people so far, at least 5 from st. maarten and people in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and in barbuda. barbuda

st. maarten. reporter: really finally for residents of st. maarten.he naval vessels finally docked on the hurricane stricken island. guadahat a loop -- in plane carrying electricity genders arrive -- generators arrived. >> nothing is reliable. i mean, this is what you get. sorry to say this, but they were worried only about white people. french authorities defended the decision. >> the island was completely cut off. , of course, it took time for us to organize things. reporter: stranded survivors tried to reach their families. we are safe. , they are working on finding a boat to get out of here. irma rippedrricane through st. maarten last week, leaving tens of thousands homeless and knocking out power lines. to arrive in the caribbean nation of amid criticism that the disaster has been bungled. a rally during catalonia's national day. these commemorations come just three weeks before the government tries to hold a referendum on independence which is legally binding. more -- is standing by at today's rally. reporter: there has been a rally from 4 diffe

st. maarten.have been getting the medical, like, emergencies out but there are still people who have been staying in relatives' houses or other people's homes. >> reporter: irma smashed into st. maarten and left a massive trail of destruction, but the misery didn't end there. susan coquin says she has nothing left. >> went through the storm, got looted and robbed, my place blew up. 40 years of my life was here. >> reporter: in neighboring st. john, thousands of americans are still waiting to be evacuated. 80% of buildings are thought to be damaged, roads are impassable, and some residents had to walk miles for food and water. back in st. maarten, there's finally a glimmer of hope for coquin. she just learned she's getting off the island, along with dozens of others. smiling through their fatigue-- ( applause ) ...and greeted with applause, back on american soil. >> mason: tony dokoupil is back in san juan tonight. tony, describe the conditions you saw on the island. >> reporter: anthony, hurricane

well jeffrey soccer and is the host of island ninety two radio in st maarten in the virgin islands and joins us now on the line what is the situation there in st maarten right now are you prepared for maria . we are as prepared as one can be for maria i will tell you that. i think we are going to be spared if we look at the current forecast track the brunt of maria looks like we're going to be more in the trouble storm wind and rain category with maria with winds between fifty eight seventy three miles an hour expecting a lot of rain a fair amount of wind but. i think everyone here on the island was. breathing a deep sigh of relief as this particular storm started to stay a little further south than we originally thought just a couple days ago it is it has been a experience to live through this is you walk around and talk to people on the street here the the level of anxiety is palpable you truly can see the fear. in people's eyes as you talk to your neighbor thank you so much jeffrey jeffrey in soccer it's up for soccer and radio hosts with island ninety two in st maarten in the virgi

st. maarten. is important nation really recognize who the americans are in the caribbean and pay us a little bit of extra attention. one of the things that happen for me when i was trying to find coverage about the virgin islands and my home, was that i was single active things on television about the region. i was so pleased as someone who is from the caribbean region to see there was beginning to be some attention to the caribbean enmass. it is true the u.s. has a responsibility to ththe caribben as the most powerful economic force in the region. it is important we can attention to st. maarten and saint martine , which are dutch and french. it is important that we pay attention to the british islands . but lo and behold, we have american citizens in the region as well. these are not just american citizens who are visiting as tourists or american citizens who have newly moved to the cariribbean. but we have american citizens in the u.s. virgin islslands who we born american citizens, who are amer

how did you get from st maarten to puerto rico?for about four hours in a queue where there seemed to be no information that people were stuck at the airport and we saw some us military planes coming in, so the queue starts going down and we were thinking positively, but we saw people getting pulled out of the line, non—us citizens, and you had to have aus non—us citizens, and you had to have a us passport to be able to board. there was a lot of british citizens and we were informed nor british citizens were on st maarten, so we we re citizens were on st maarten, so we were on display and didn't know what to do. the hotel rooms we left we knew would have been ruined our people would have taken all the supplies. we were in a complete panic. hurricane cosy started to form and... i am really sorry to interrupt but we're going to have to leave it but thank you very much telling us your story. 20 more on hurricane irma other website. officials in mexico say at least 90 people are now known to have died in thursday's earthquake — the stro

st. maarten. bringing supplies in and people out. a flood of people desperate to leave st. maarten. at the island's main airport, the terminal is not safe. so the departure lounges, such as they are, are tents propped up in the parking lot. country by country with duct-taped flags and plywood signs. >> i'm here since 5:00. >> reporter: it will likely take months to restore water and power to much of the island. irma ripped off the roof of this power station and destroyed several of the island's water tanks, too. only this weekend did gas stations and banks open briefly. >> the government and >> reporter: like many islands, st. maarten relies on tourism. upwards of 90% of the economy is tourism-based. but just look what hurricane irma has done. all of these buildings are hotels. none of them will open any time soon. among the passengers boarding the cruise ship, hotel owners mike and fawnette. their beachfront b & b, the azure beach hotel, a total loss. >> well, the azure hotel is destroyed. but we're going to be demolishing it and rebuilding. opening hopefully in a year. >> reporter

st. maarten and st. barts. priority will be given to the hospital and the retirement home. reporter: after hitting the island with winds of 290 kilometers per hour, the eye of the storm then passed by turks and caicos. irma is making its way toward mainland u.s. category three josÉ is not far behind, bringing with it a second blow to the caribbean. where thehorities storm has already passed our accessing the -- are assessing the extent of the damage. more from the french territory of waterloo -- guadalupe. >> many people are still without water supplies. it will take at least four days for basic service to be reestablished and months before life is back to normal on that front. that is amid the widespread damage to property. the situation on the french island of saint martin is even worse -- san maarten is even worse. the destruction is much greater. we understand things have been complicated there by people taking advantage of the situation by looting shops and businesses. the hub of the french relief operation is based here in waterloo -- in guadaloupe. 600 personnel were

st. maarten and st. barts. >> images of a storm that has broken the scales. these pictures were taken by the international space station. these are from the eye of the storm, taken by a crew from the ocean and atmospheric administration. this is the fourth being unleashed under -- over the caribbean. and this is the result. the dutch-run island of st. maarten in the crib -- the grip of hurricane irma. resident donald trump declared states of emergency in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. president trump: there is a record-breaking hurricane headed toward florida and puerto rico. we will see what happens. we will know in a short time. it looks like something that will be not good -- believe me, not good. reporter: irma is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic. the u.s. national hurricane center has described it as potentially catastrophic. it has been reported that st. barts has been devastated by the superstorm, which is hurtling toward puerto rico, bound next for kt, and then to the u.s. mainland. the governor of florida had a clea

st. maarten 100%. brent: you said there was total devastation. reports we're getting tonight, 80,000 people are homeless. we have reports that paris is sending helicopters, medicine, water, volunteers. is that enough to rebuild, in your own words, a completely devastated island? jeffrey: we need help everywhere. we need food. we need water. we need medicine. we need skilled labor. we need people can help rebuild hotels, homes, re-roof existing homes. we need everything. we just need the manpower and the assistance to make it happen. there is only so much that we can do. the dutch marines have been pretty much in control of the dutch side of the island since shortly after the storm. in the last day or so, we have seen things get significantly better in terms of the control and the movement of people and keeping people off the streets so that utility workers, the power company, the water company, they can get out and do their jobs. you also see the resiliency at a community level. neighbors are working with neighbors to help one another. brent: we

st. maarten. the most powerful one in the atlantic is now on a path for puerto rico, the virgin islands and possibly florida by this weekend. >>> good afternoon, and thank you for joining us at noon. i'm andrea roane. president trump has declared a federal emergency in puerto rico and forecasters say the island hasn't seen a storm the size of irma since 1928. the governor of puerto rico has preemptively open dozens of shelters and evacuations are under way in the florida keys as thousands get out of irma's path. here's kenneth craig with more. [ storm noise ] >>reporter: packing 185-mile- per-hour winds, hurricane irma made landfall in the caribbean early wednesday barrels against the island of st. maarten. the storm flooded a harbor, stranding cars. irma is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic. this is the view from the eye of the storm. in puerto rico the island's 3.4 million residents braced for the worst. the head of the power company says parts of the island could be in the d

st. maarten.w lights that are on in the island, they're either fortunate that have the power turned back on, or they have a generator. if they have a generator, they need some of this. they need the gasolines. but the gas stations are all closed. and that buys you about two hours of power. let me show you this way. these are the guys who are -- have allowed us to stay here. that's the only reason we can put this broadcast out there. one of the few things -- tom, i know you're camera-shy. but when you talk to people, this is what happens. why are you sleeping here? >> the roof of my house is gone. >> reporter: you can't sleep in your house anymore? >> once it gets better fixed i will. but that will be a while. >> reporter: for the moment, tom is one of the many, many people whose homeless and you can put it that way. he's sleeping here with his wife. he's one of the sports section of the paper. i'll show you this. this is the lifeline. i was telling you about the gasoline, this is about two hours o

st. maarten, which is controlled by france and the netherlands. irma caused more than $1 billion worth of property damage and destroyed 70% of the homes on st. maarten. following right behind irma is the category 4 hurricane, jose. the national hurricane center warned jose, with its 145 mile- an-hour winds, could make landfall on st. barts, st. maarten and other parts of the caribbean in the next 24 hours. heeding the warning, all 1,600 residents of the tiny, already battered island of barbuda evacuated today to nearby antigua. while hurricane irma was downgraded to a category 3 storm, it's expected to gain strength before making landfall tomorrow morning in florida. today, florida governor rick scott said irma could be florida's "most catastrophic storm" ever and told residents in mandatory evacuation zones to get out now. >> this is a major, deadly storm, and our state has never seen anything like it. millions of floridians will see major hurricane impacts with deadly, deadly, deadly storm surge and life-threatening winds. >> reporter: as strong

in the virgin islands hi jeffrey what is the state of things in st maarten right now how are island residents preparing for maria. you know we are doing all the things that we did just two weeks ago to prepare for months the thing that is just different this time around is there is debris everywhere so the last twenty four to thirty six hours is all about trying to clean up the debris that could become something that just takes off in in that wind of maria that's really been the focus for the last twenty four thirty six hours as we repair from maria it looks like maria is going to stay just enough to our south that we're going to get a fair amount of rain and be subject to some tropical storm force winds which is nothing compared to what we went through with irma and you know my heart goes out to everyone on dominique because i completely understand what what they're going through as they. look outside for the very first time as as light comes up and it is just devastating everywhere when i look around st martin you know there's not a single building that is not somehow touched by a

st. maarten got hit hard. >> it was horrifying. we were in our bathroom for probably over ten hours sitting on couch cushions and pillows and eventually water. it was pretty crazy. thankfully we were able to get out okay after all that time. >> neil: how did the word get out, scott, or how did you manage by the time i had a chance to speak with your mom, she was relieved because she heard that you were all right and then it was the journey to puerto rico. could you explain the order of events? >> well, the day after the hurricane hit, the general manager for the hotel got together with a couple people, and they traveled up to the top of a mountain nearby just to try to get cell service. at that point, they called their corporate office who has a list of every person that was staying at the hotel. the corporate office made personal calls to each and every family member on the list to let them know that everybody was safe and sound. >> neil: sarah, for you, this is a honeymoon for the record books, i'm sure. so you certainly have som

st. maarten and st. thomas. thanks for being here.e put your energy into a travel website. as you say, the whole end prize of trying to find cold places to go is so corporate and boring and you end up with the same lists and the same recommendations. >> humorlessness. when has anyone not traveled and found a vein of funniness in it. but the reason i sort of made the transition out towards travel is partly it's more interesting at my age now than music. but it's the essence of story telling. travel is at the heart of every story, whatever story you tell. it involves movement and discovery. kennedy: how can we rebuild these places? is it a form of charity going somewhere that has been ravaged by hurricanes that may not be up and functioning? or is it stoking the human spirit and the power to heal by visiting places. >> you bring up a point. we'll help by going there without question. and they will appreciate us going. the caveat is there has to be somewhere to go. in puerto rico that won't be the case for a long time. kennedy: incredibl

st. maarten.was only half french, half dutch island to survey the devastation after bringing much food, water, and medical supplies. presidents were ready anxious -- residents were anxious for aid to get there. macron spentsident time with residents of saint maarten, their concerns included lack of water but also looting. >> people are worried. nicer particularly dangerous because there is no electricity. have deployedes 2000 people, including soldiers and police, and an additional 1000 agents will arrive by the end of the week. emmanuel macron visited a tourism hub, smashed by irma, like most of the island. told him they are tired and angry at the base of the response. he says he understands the frustration while defending his action. macron: t this is the m most powerful weather disaster on record. reporter: the french president promised water distribution will improve, that schools will soon reopened, that roads will be cleared, and that people will finally be able to leave the ravaged island.

st. maarten also has a dutch side. to talk more about that side of the island, we crossed live to our correspondent standing by in the netherlands. good afternoon. what is the latest we know about the damage that has been caused to the dutch side of the islslad by hurricacane irma?a? >> there's no running water, no electricity, no gas. 95% of the territory has been destroyed. we still h have no worord on the number of victims. communications have been very didifficult. the dutch military has finished aerial footage that shows the chaos of hurricane irma. houses under water, cars floating in the streets. it is absolute carnage. the world-famous airport has also been destroyed. >> for those living on the dutch side, they've been equally affected by this powerful hurricane. talk u uthrough how the dutch gogovernment iss responding all this. >> the dutch p prime ministers said t today that they will be concentrating on providing help to t the 40,000 pepeople livingg ere. they will be provididing food ad water for the next

st. maarten alone wiped out. it is a desperate situation. it will take a lot of coordination between different countries. while the french are in charge of french st. martin and guadalu guadalupe. for now, alyson, the real focus is trying to get people out who still want to get out. there are still thousands of people on st. martin. it is still pretty desperate indeed. >> clarissa, thank you for that update. let's talk about how to get aid to the people who most desperate lu need it. we have officials from the virgin islands to tell us what they're doing next. s advisor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪ won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quot

st. maarten, or anguilla. month power most likely. we have heard from france's foreign minister that on the island of st. maarten, the four largest buildings are destroyed. they believe that most of the old buildings are either completely destroyed or partially destroyed. but, again, until the back end leaves this, we will not be able to have any airplanes get up in the air to give us some sort of an aerial assessment. ground crews on the ground will start giving us some word. hopefully in the next 12 to 24 hours. but most likely they're still shell shocked from this. the system then moved across the british virgin islands and it has done some flooding to st. croix and the u.s. virgin islands in the harbor, but more importantly now, we are watching the winds in san juan. a gust up to 62 miles per hour, it will get stronger. again, only 50 miles away. only half an inch has fallen in san juan, but the bands are moving closer to this. if you can see the color of red in the inner band, the eye wall, that most likely could strengthen irma

st. maarten last thursday. they texted this video to denise. >> you see our view of the atlantic ocean. >> she only had me on the text message because she didn't want to worry anyone else. >> she sent this video early wednesday morning showing hurricane irma's fierce winds at the resort. the total told guests to evacuate. denise said her sister couldn't get a flight out. >> just a text. she had to leave the room and sent the text message that says we're going to try to make a run for it. >> irma destroyed st. maarten, electricity and wi-fi signals are scarce. denise talked to her sister for a couple minutes. >> she said, denise, do whatever you can to get us home. >> now she's concerned because of hurricane jose. >> you've been in contact with the state department. what are they telling you? >> my understanding is they are trying to bring a plane in but the airport is demolished. >> right now she waits for answers hoping her sister makes it back to the u.s. >> there's no more shelter. >> shomari stone, news 4.

st. maarten. this is it. there's no light. so little power on the island so all along that street, there's a furniture store and many other stores, only two of them have a light that's running. we're actually very fortunate because the biggest newspaper on the island has agreed to let us sleep here. they eve got power. they're one of the rare people that have power. the power company is going house to house. they've got to make sure there are no live wires to turn it on. let me show you a couple things that are necessary right now. this is a generator. the few lights that are on in the island, either they're one of the fortunate ones that have the power turned back on or they have a generator. if they have a generator they need the gasoline, but the gas stations, they're all closed and that buys you in this building about two hours of power. let me show you this way. so these are the guys who have allowed us to stay here and this is the reason we can put this broadcast out there. one of the few things, i know you didn't want t

st. maarten and barbuda.orrespondent: the fiercest storm on record has brought near total devastation on barbuda. almost every home on this tiny island has been damaged or destroyed. >> we just did a flyover and i have to tell you my heart sunk. this has been one of the worst days of my life. so i know how you must feel. the entire country has been decimated. i've never seen anything like this before. correspondent: it is a similar picture in neighboring st. maarten, with no electricity and the airport and seaport closed. authorities say that the dutch territory is pretty much unreachable. but the netherlands is trying to send help. >> we have airplanes with food and water for the next five days, and supplies that will go that way today. so we are doing everything we can to give first aid and help in supporting the situation. correspondent: with wind 300 kilometers per hour, this is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the atlantic. it is heading to the u.s. and is expected to hit florida over the wee

st. maarten region. you can see some of the devastation that was brought to that area just a week ago from hurricane irma. remember jose also skirted the island nation and brought destruction to that region as well. so they have had a very difficult atlantic hurricane season to say the least. and now we are facing the threats from tropical storm. you can see the leeward islands and also the hurricane watches that are in effect across the northern caribbean islands, st. martin, antiqua, barbuda. this is the latest. 85 kilometer per hour sustain winds, east to the east/southeast of the lesser antilles, so it still has some ways to go, bithat is not good because there is lots of warm caribbean water that is jet fuel for hurricanes. so it will tap into that moisture source and intensify. in fact you can see the official track calls for 205 kilometers per hour and exact path brings it more or less parallel with these islands eventually impacting part of the dominican he republic and into puerto rico as we hea

st. maarten. cars and boats and a flooded harbor, this is st. john in the virgin islands.d so strong, knocked the coconuts out of the trees. look closely. you can see them on the ground. in addition when it goes to the bahamas, they believe the southern islands of the bahamas are in the worst shape. a lot of people in the southern island chain being evacuated up to nassau. trace gallagher has more. hey, trace. >> hey, shep. a cluster of islands there. it appears those on the clean side of the storm escaped it. i want to show you st. maarten, a population of about 75,000. it appears to have be hit the hardest. the french ministry says four of the government buildings on st. maarten that are built well have been badly damaged. many of those islands are recording winds upwards of 180 miles per hour. antigua appears to have dodged a lot of the dangerous winds. you can see from this video, they're getting plenty of rain and that can cause flooding and damage. we're told they didn't get the worst of it. the storm is battering more islands, especially the u.s. and british virgin

st. maarten. florida's governor is warning people to prepare for a worse case scenario when it hits the u.s. mainland on sunday. >> i cannot stress this enough. do not ignore evacuation orders. >> reporter: tampa's mayor was more blunt. >> this ain't indiana. this is serious stuff and you will die. >> reporter: people are leaving the florida employees on the only road in and out of the island chain ahead of tonight's mandatory evacuation. here -- florida keys on the only road in and out of the island chain ahead of tonight's mandatory evacuation. here this woman picked up 10 sandbags. she plans to secure her family home and then hit the road. >> we have reservations in orlando, but it's heading that way, too. my sister lives in orlando as well. supermarkets, gas is a problem there as well. >> reporter: she's one of many people in south florida desperately hoping that what happened with harvey in houston doesn't repeat itself here. at this point there is not a mandatory evacuation order in place fo

st. maarten island.the same time dealing with family and in south florida, um, family, um, in the tampa bay area, and in jacksonville. report roar she's been glued to her phone for days now. >> everybody is good. i haven't been able to reach my sister. so hopefully i'll be able to reach her bite end of the day. >> reporter: meantime, everybody is relieved to have lady bee and touch tone back in the studio. >> back to the ground running. back to the grind. back to normalcy. >> and we're happy they're both home. without a scratch even. he's praising the u.s. military as lucy said air lived him and everybody else to puerto rico so they could make a connecting flight to philadelphia. his travel companions for having his back through this horrible, horrible ordeal. iain. can you imagine. >> incredible stuff. glad he's home safe. thank you. >>> deadly fire hits overnight in wilmington. the flames started at a home on west 37th street around midnight. >> one manmade it out but when he thought his wife had not,

st. maarten. they describe it as a paradise lost. >> it's horrible. it's awful. this island was beautiful. it was a tropical paradise. it's awful. roofs have blown off. there are cars damaged and flipped over. back windows and bumpers ripped out. everything's an absolute disaster area. >> i got to tell you, nothing is paradise in 185 mile-per-hour winds. just so dangerous. hurricane irma blamed for the death of an infant in barbuda where more than 90% of structures have been destroyed. the island is described as "literally rubble and barely inhabitable." >> heart wrenching. absolutely devastating. i have never seen any such destruction on a per-capita basis compared to what i say in barbuda this afternoon. the infrastructure was damaged. all. the institutions. the lone hospital, the school. it is absolutely heart wrenching. >> prime minister brown estimates the damage on barbuda where some 1,800 people live to be at least $100 million. the storm wiped out the telecommunications system in barbuda, and there is no water or phone service. hurricane irma has maintain

st. maarten. if you've been to st. e probably been there because the runway is here and people sit along the beach. there's a restaurant and watch big planes land. they have sunset beach bar it's called. dutch officials tweeted this picture out. they say they're getting the airport back up and running. it's a high priority for delivery of supplies to get the economy back moving. so far it's not yet. this is a house in puerto rico. didn't get a direct hit there. the owner says starting a generator. a million people lost power there. this is st. thomas and the u.s. virgin islands, this is system to the mass. flooding there from hurricane irma. the damage there is nothing short of catastrophic. more than 20 construction cranes that tower over miami aren't no coming down because of the hurricane. that's from city officials. people that live nearby are told to leave their homes. the deal is it can take two weeks to dismantle them and get them on the ground. now it's too late. can't tie them down. the cranes way 20 to 30,000

it is passed over the leeward islands, which includes antigua and barbuda and st maarten.t is not known how much destruction has been there already. this is from the island of st maarten, the french interior minister said the island has sustained whites read —— widespread flooding and many buildings have been destroyed. another scene from the islands, we should be able to see it. absolute chaos, yachts in tatters, giving an indication of how bad the flooding is. we can expect to learn more about the full extent in the coming hours. just look at what they are dealing with, this is the picture from mass of what looks like from the international space station, it was taken as burma made la ndfall station, it was taken as burma made landfall in the caribbean, it is huge —— it was taken as irma made landfall. the caribbean expects irma to hit at some point on saturday or sunday, these lines of vehicles lining up at petrol stations as the hurricane approaches. forced evacuations of people living in florida have begun. i have spoken to james fares, a british citizen living in st

st. maarten. irma blasted through at full-force... this is video is from a web camera at the airport. web camera went offline a short time later.offline a short camera went the web airport.camera at the this is video is through at irma blasted maarten.island of st. caribbean on the earlier today scene from for november. postponed and has been that game sunday.buccaneers on sunday. that game has been postponed and rescheduled for november. (pam) kron four is raising money tonight to help the victims of hurricane harvey... (steve) our telethon kicked off with the morning news team and continues tonight until 10pmj.. our vicki liviakis are in the newsroom with more.. (steve) okay thank you vicki and grant. and we hope you keep those calls coming in. the number is on your screen. it's 4-1-5 five six one --- eight zero six three. (pam ) meteorologist lawrence karnow has the latest on our local weather. lawrence karnow: we enjoyed cooler temperatures today as the sea breeze was stonger and brought fog inland overnight. highs today were in the 80s in the valleys and 60s at the coast. hurrica

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st. maarten. we'll get a new advisory out. now it takes it just north of puerto rico where the eye wall may not come on shore now. again, this is an hour-by-hour situation. that would be very good news for puerto rico but still expecting dang from the tropical storm-force winds and hurricane wind gusts. then it moves towards the turks and caicos islands and this is the big question mark. notice how the cone is narrow here and opens up here. this is room of uncertainty. this is why we need to watch south florida and why south florida needs to be prepared. it could be on the western side of the cone or the eastern side of the cone. rooting for the eastern side of the cone because that would keep the real damaging winds just offshore so we'll be tracking this hour by hour. new advisory out at 11:00. >> rooting for the eastern side of the cone. i'm rooting, praying, hoping, it steers enclosure of haclear of >>> up next, congress returning with a full docket of legislation to pass. from d.r.e.a.m.ers to tax reform, we're going to b

meanwhile french president emanuel surveying the damage in st maarten eleven people died there when hurricane tours through the caribbean island which is split between the netherlands and france micron's promising to boost security as people rebuild. well on the out into the government estimates ninety five percent of the buildings are damaged most residents have been moved to the neighboring island home and reports. roger has a right back home this move caribbean island of devastated by hurricane needed he's heading to his house to find out if it survived there's nothing. there's nothing you know that i know. god. is like. with a population of one thousand six hundred everyone seems to know each other here it makes the scars of destruction we see as we pause even more painful for roger you know it's kind of hard to see this as my friends host to. really think about. this scene and make me feel like. homes sheered open like those houses inside the remnants of lives interrupted a stopped water logged watch clothes and toys tossed around dishes still waiting to be put away there's no knowing wh

st. maarten. >> the families had survive after irma ravage the island of st. ding from looters and they were never quite sure until they saw the c-130s start to land. take a look. we've just touched down in st. ma maarten with the puerto rico national guard. the hope is to get these 300 people onboard and on their way home by nightfall because it's been a journey just to get to this moment. at a makeshift security gate guarded by dutch and u.s. special operations lee hillgardner is headed for the flight home. >> what we're doing is process the american citizens that are here on st. maarten and there are people staying in relatives 'houses and other people's homes. >> hurricane irma slammed into st. maarten as one of the strongest storms ever recorded. >> what have the last few days been like? >> horrible. >> reporter: for many there the aftermath was even more menacing. >> there have been reports of looting and rioting. >> yes. yes. >> back at the security gate. hillgardner finds a spot on a charter flight. one of the many who lost everything in the storm. >> w

flooding in the united states meanwhile the french president emanuel micro is surveying the damage on st maarten eleven people died in a tour through the caribbean island which is split between the netherlands and from smartphones promising to boost security as people rebuild. that's really. the priority and what we're focusing all our efforts on is returning the island to normal life or as normal as possible in terms of public order we have massively deployed police military police and soldiers which will come from this region and from france and from ghana boost the number of security and military personnel by two thousand and that number will rise to three thousand by the end of the week well the island of barbuda has suffered extensive damage most people have been flown to and nearby home and as more. you may be able to see in the oven you go home it's just like any of the other news here on bob you they're completely sort of abandon this really is that there's an island right now there's no water there's little food and there's no inhabitants apart from a couple of ponies or horses and dogs

st. maarten. major flooding. 60 degrees our temperature out .here right now, julie wright the fog burning off. we are dealing with another october like day. eileen is back with the latest track of irma. julie: big backups westbound along route 100 at i-97. we have an overturned vehicle and the westbound lanes were completely diverted. northbound 210 toward the beltway, the low-speed from swan creek road. only the left lane is about to get by. checking delays on the blue and due tolines of the metro problems out of king street. we have some z2hywz zi0z y2hywy yi0y dad,i got it dad.ar... thanks. alright, you're all set. you're welcome. play oldies. nice dad! free-range chickens. organic free-range chickens, non-gmo, 100% vegetarian fed- raised with no antibiotics ever! we should post this. perdue. raising more organic chickens than anyone in america. hashtag organic. hashtag happy. hashtag... well, all the hashtags! air at 6:46, tracking hurricane irma and brand-new pictures com

st. maarten a minute ago. we're getting a better idea of exactly what the storm did.'s pictures coming in to us there. they're not good. >> no. the "wall street journal" put together this view. >> the before and afters. >> you can see with the slide. the boats are on top of each other. the buildings are gone. all the green vegetation has turned brown from the sand and wind snapping. >> shepard: you don't have different vegetation codes. this is more than codes. people ought to try it. >> here again a town totally demolished. these roofs are gone. empty spaces where houses once sat, this is from barbuda that was totally destroyed. before you had this nice neighborhood. now blank areas of debris left. >> shepard: turks and caicos. and this is provo, the big town. >> right. it has some massive devastation. all this rubble. >> shepard: i wonder what grace bay is like. you know, we just haven't gotten pictures from everywhere. got more? >> no. that's it. >> shepard: there's a lot out there on google. when you think you have it bad, somebody has it worse. sad. thinking abou

st. maarten took a direct hit. the dutch military will fly in relief supplies.me minister of antigua and barbuda said the smaller island of 2,000 people is completely decimated. >> the carnage in barmy da is un-- is unprecedented. >> reporter: in florida everyone has been ordered out of the keys. >> leave. get out. we can't save you once the storm starts. >> reporter: boards are going up at miami beach businesses. the city along with other parts of miami-dade and broward county are also under mandatory evacuation. gas trucks are barely keeping up with demand. eddie barrett has a full tank, but he's planning to stay. what point do you think you might change -- >> tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow midday if it's going to be a direct hit. >> reporter: biscayne bay sits at the end of carlos ramirez's street. >> worst case scenario this house is going to be mostly under water. so we have to get out of here. >> reporter: he's constructioning a barrier to try to hold back some of the water. then he's heading inland with his family. just to give you some perspectiv