the clock is ticking for those in the bahamas waiting for crucial aid like food, water, baby supplies, batteries, and medicine. but heavy damage to the airport is, of course, complicating this entire situation. cnn s patrick oppmann got an exclusive look at what s left of the airport in freeport. going to point the camera over here. look at this. that s a wheel. this is the underside of a plane. this is what s left of the wing. you think of the force required to throw a plane from the runway into a terminal. if anybody was here, i don t know how they would have survived. okay. so much of the aid is making it through to the islands from international aid groups via private aircraft. and one of those organizations is called be strong disaster relief. it s founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist bethenny frankel. you may know her from the real housewives of new york city.
please broadcast it here if there s something that you want to make sure. medical supplies, of course, and again we need a way to move. loot homes are gone and we need tents and sleeping bags and mattresses. in terms of personal items, we need clothing supplies and women sanitary supplies, baby supplies, we need depends for some of our elderly folks. on the medical side of it, we have dialysis patients, diabetic patients, we need wheelchairs, hospital beds, walkers. we just need help. with respect to rescue items, we need boats and rafts and life vests, we need flashlights, water boots, rain coats. we just need it all right now. whatever you can send, we ll take it. because we are in trouble.
campaign? i know the president has gone some heat for continuing this fund-raiser and a rally that he is doing in erie, pennsylvania, tonight, so what has you are been? rep. desantis: we canceled our fund-raisers and we had public rally scheduled for yesterday and today and we converted those into supply drives. we had rented a u-haul and we had people come and bring water and nonperishable food, baby supplies and things like that. we ve been loading up the truck, and then what we will do is once the storm passes and people get a sense of what s needed on the ground, we will drive that to wherever northwest in northwesa it s needed. that s the best way we can help the effort. martha: it very helpful. looking at the polls, andrew gillum is now up by about 3.7% in the real clear average of the polls. these promising medicare for all in florida, and a $15 minimum
it s not the statistics. i keep hearing all about statistics. well, it isn t about that. it s about human lives. i had yet the mayor of a town who said, look, we haven t seen of anyone trying to pull up our electrical system. we don t have enough food, we don t have enough water, we don t have any baby supplies. so the municipality of san juan shared some of what we got. the mayor of a town right in the path of where the hurricane s eye hit said, look, i just don t have enough. that s why i keep talking about a robust and continuous supply chain of aid. we are doing much better in that sense because we re getting a lot of private donations. whatever private donations san juan gets, we share with
greetings to the congressman who was kind enough to be in san juan last week. it s not the statistics. i keep hearing all about statistics. well, it isn t about that. it s about human lives. i had yesterday the mayor of bars lonita, a town where most of the pharmaceutical are, saying, we haven t seen anyone here that is trying to pull up our electrical system. we don t have enough food. we don t have enough water. we don t have any baby supplies. so the municipality of san juan shared some of what we ve got. just this morning, the mayor of cora zal, which is right in the path of where the hurricane s eye hit, said, look, i just don t have enough. that s why i keep talking about a robust and continuous supply chain of aid. we are doing much better in that sense because we re getting a lot of private donations, and whatever private donations san juan gets, we share with