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Like this, possible problem with dams throughout the day today. >> ali, if you look at that video, you can see that that water is more than a story because youre looking at the stop of the second stories of those buildingsbuildings. so these people again -- yes, the win is an incredibly dramatic picture. look, theres not so much wind there, but watch that water rip through that town. everyone there is in danger from the flood. >> and remember outside of san juan, you dont have building codes. yo...

Be solid for a number of days. >> harris: we talk about kind of things being constructed the way they are around the world. you see something like this. 7.1 is huge. were seeing so many buildings. >> it is. >> harris: you use the word pan cake. theres just nothing left. >> no. we spent a lot of time in mexico city. theyve had larger earthquakes. they had over an 8 two weeks ago. the issue is this. mexico city has a variety of buildings. they have newer high rises. they have very strict building ...

The damage will be and has been so far catastrophic in portions of this island. so again, here in san juan, the most populated city, we got a lot of concerns as we head through the back half of maria as we head through lunch hour and into the early afternoon hours. and again things will start to quiet down sometime on thursday, but its going to be devastation as its safer to survey the area, but it is rough out here. again, third straight hurricane to impact the u.s. of a category 4 nature. by t...

32 years ago they had a massive 8.0 that killed nearly 10,000 people and so it was just cruel coincidence that they got another major rattler on that date. >> youre talking about earthquake response and how they were preparing for this because this was on the anniversary of the 1985 quake. building structures, building codes, i know mexico is build on an ancient link bed, theres a lot of sand that can lick qui fi and the building codes there changed dramatically after that. they had to be fortif...

Infrastructure? >> yes. thank you, ali. mexico city is one of the biggest ma knop liss in the world. and in metropolitan, 20 million people. city center, historical center there are for a millennia, as you know. its a big city and a very diverse city that is not only urbanized. most people dont know half of its territory, 40% still rural. >> right. >> but theres -- its a very concentrate e emetropolis. were seeing today some of the buildings built before the building codes were changed and befor...

Another cat 5. i mean, you know, its hard for people to endure and recover from. one thing that is interesting in these islands, they are a very strong building codes. and where we are in antigua, we got hit pretty hard today. not a lot of structural damage because they have really tight building codes. its not the same on some of these older islands that have not had new construction. barbuda that got wiped out by irma, that was another one. that was a place decimated. theres not a single perso...

They believe they have at least one person -- or signs of life in that building around the corner. i did speak to a gentleman who lives in this neighborhood earlier. he said he knows a few people who live in that building. he believes theyre all accounted for, but obviously because of the nature of earthquakes and how damaging this one was yesterday, it could be another day or two before we get the sort of all clear on what the final death toll will be from this. already its pretty striking that...

Come in and help with these search and rescue missions. that is still an ongoing situation right now. many of these search and rescue missions wont be able to get underway for the next several hours. of course, local law enforcement here have told people once winds got to a certain point, and they do this in hurricane after hurricane. once the winds get to a certain point, local law enforcement is just no help. when people hunker down and take their lives in their own hands, puerto rico is espec...

Equipment. just yesterday i spoke to president netanyahu and he is sending a team, and japan happens to be a country with strong expertise on these unfortunate type of episodes. so were getting help. we are extremely grateful, but right now our priority is the rescue operations. there might still be people under rocks, and our priority from not only the mexican government but all mexican people is to rescue the people that are now under this very difficult, very hard circumstance. >> after the 1...

City. youve got the building codes because its a coastal place as well as it has to adhere to earthquake rules. can we hope that were going to see these structures in san juan hopefully survive more than we saw, lets say, in tortola where it looked like dinosaurs had smashed, had marched right on top of these rooves of buildings? >> i dont know if paul can hear us. >> hes got it. >> i could hear you. that is a big concern. as you mentioned, st. john. were actually on old san juan yesterday talki...