Boggling Devastation News Today

State as they support that. and then fema, who backs up the stat state. >> understandable. this place has gotten hit worse, in my nonexpert opinion, the level of degree and frequency of the devastation. its going to take a long time. i can tell you this. those first responders were given their own water, own gatorades out to people they found. they were supposed to start at daybreak, dave. if their resolve is any kind of indication of what youre going to see in the waves of those who come in to ...

Long. and the conditions that theyre dealing with here, luckily the national guard did a really solid job of clearing a lot of the roads so they can get through with their heavy equipment. no normal vehicles would make it through. but the devastation that theyre seeing is remarkable in its frequency as well as its degree. its like nobody seemed to escape it down here in big pine and, as we get closer to cudjoe. whats your understanding of what remains behind and what the situations are. >> the s...

Brazilian author paolo quello has a passage, fate whispers to the warrior, you cannot withstand the storm and the warrior whispers back i am the storm. that is the resolve you see in the first responders. they look at the devastation around them. we picked this because its a good scenario. darwin is still alive. they feel theyre equal to the task. thats so important in being able to overcome just completely mind boggling devastation, alisyn. >> chris, first of all, let me just say its remarkable...

And immediately organized, alisyn. they immediately got into groups and going tout homes after we got here, after this incredibly long drive. none of them slept all night long. they went house to house in these horrible conditions dealing with their own shock of what is here. this is ground zero for hurricane irma. 120-mile-an-hour sustained winds. what you saw us dealing with in naples, it was 140-mile-an-hour gusts but the sustained winds were about 100 miles an hour. here they had it much wor...