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Things. wonderful thing for the community to have done. south hall of the consensation center, s2. taking up entire south hall of the convention center. and set up to facilitate people dropping off nonperishable goods there, off sierra vista, just west of this convention center area command metro building. joe w. brown and sierra vista. thank the men and women of the fire departments. clark county near and dear to my heart and las vegas fire departments that were teamed up doing what weve traine...

Stations opening up? >> were getting such conflicting reports, anderson. the governor down here said that there were 185 open yesterday, but thats grossly inflated according to our colleagues at cnn español. they said 108 gas stations operational today. beyond the fuel, its more about security. a lot of the drivers either accountant report to work because they cant get there or they dont want to go out unless they have someone riding shotgun. a police officer. the good news is 90% of puerto ric...

Generators. we are starting to hear stories the relief effort is making its way into san juan the biggest airport, biggest port. there are a lot of towns sitting there waiting to see their first representative of the government of puerto rico or from fema. so san juan, people heading in there helping them. its so broad and so huge of a situation that even though the rest of the country is still very much struggling and waiting for beginnings of help. so yesterday, how painful was this? it was 10...

Keep calm because, i told my family if this week we dont see anything getting better, im going to have to leave the island. ive been here 20 years and im going to have to leave the island. i dont have a choice. >> what are you hearing about gas coming to the island, gas stations opening up? >> were getting such conflicting reports, anderson. the governor down here said that there were 185 open yesterday, but thats grossly inflated according to our colleagues at cnn español. they said 108 gas st...

Solution to this, despite any contradictions from president trump that he is saying or in those cases tweeting. ayman. >> yeah. and of course, the implications that the united states may have to accept a nuclear armed north korea. janis mackey frayer, thank you very much from beijing. lets get a check of your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, puerto ricos still in a dire situation. and youre telling me about the relentless heat and humidity thats there. and theyre really not ge...

Enough diesel to the island for the big, huge generators to keep them going, to keep some of the critical hospitals and level 1 places, we call them, up and running. there are patients on life support and these hospitals are running out of diesel, said the mayors. thats kind of crazy to think of. right now, heat index today is near 96. yesterday the heat index was 108. how punishing is that, day after day, to have heat and humidity like that without power and in some cases without running water ...

Weve seen a report of 108-mile-per-hour wind gusts, that storm surge up to 6 to 9 feet for most of the island, including san juan, 4 to 6 feet on the northwest side of the island. additional rainfall could be as much as 3 to 5 inches in and around san juan. a lot is falling in the mountains, source regions for many of the rivers that travel down into the populated city. so that could create even more flooding as the storm continues to rain itself out as it moves through puerto rico. we still hav...

Weather center where the worst effects of -- where are these worst effects being felt right now? >> craig, were going to start to see things improve in puerto rico because the storm is about to make its way back over land. you can see, here was the center of the storm before it made landfall as a category 4. then moving over the terrain did kind of shift and change that eye wall a bit, so its not as defined looking right now. its still a category 4 storm. winds still are up to 140 miles an hour....

Heres what happened to that crain. we just had a wind gust at miami international to 93. up 30 stories, thats 108. you go up to some of the tallest cranes still building buildings in miami, thats over 115. 1 goes up with height. thats why that crain failed, john. we do have that crain, we are also getting new pictures of flooding here. i cannot see much of anything frankly with the rain in nigh face. pet still have that surge, when we talked about the surge, its

It looks like the trees are tipping over. it reflects much of what we saw with the tree on the other side of the hotel that blocked our ability to get out of here. about 108 people in our hotel, next to us there is about 100 more people in a hotel. we talked to the rescue team, but there is only so much you can do. ten miles out the situation is unfolding. you said 100 miles per hour winds, the building blocks us most of the time, but over here you see tires, debris, everything pushed out by the...