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Georgia. president briefed earlier today by fema. we have team coverage in the bah ma whats and up and down the east coast of the united states and we have the white house reaction, as well. all our correspondents standing by. bill, whats the latest? >> good afternoon. well start with the bahamas because thats where the horrific, catastrophic, record-breaking, whatever you want to call it, thats where it never looks the same. there will be brick structures to remain. cement structures will be th...

Have to be thoroughly examined by bridge engineers and road construction engineers. in some cases, they will have to be closed for a period of time as they have to ve build them. obviously, as you are looking right now. >> that kind of damage to that highway will close that for a considerable people. then you have to done assessment of all of the surrounding structures. were any of them compromised as a result of this quake? not just the damage thats obvious and we see with the gaping hole on th...

Using. you saw it with your own eyes. how bad is it? >> it is pretty bad. the situation is dire. it is not level like you saw from barbuda. there is a different kind of destruction. in many cases, these were cement structures. if they had zinc, aluminum, metal roofs, we saw mud inside peoples houses. in some cases, their roofs had blown off and they got flooded. so they were hit in two ways by the storm. there are a lot of rivers that overflooded. and it was just one calamity after another, town...

Police cars burned. the citys public schools are closed tomorrow. and a call for 5,000 additional officers. 5,000 additional officers to help restore the peace just hours after the funeral of freddie gray. miguel has been witnessing much of the violence and the happenings here in baltimore today. miguel whats the very latest? >> yeah youre looking at the southern baptist church here. this was an elderly home that was going to be finished in about nine months here. 60 units. it was going to provi...

So worst case is they wont be able to use cement structures and we will have a spill of some magnitude until the well is capped and shut off below the surface. and that is not a very pretty picture in terms of the amount of oil. right now we are so early we dont know the ultimate fate but thats why were getting samples, to try to understand what happens. ultimately, some of this stuff will evaporate and microbes will eat off chemical structures, and you are left with something tarry like this. w...

Intersect the damaged pipeline and cut it in half. you can imagine the difficulty of doing something like that. so worse case is they wont be able to use cement structures and we will have a spill of some magnitude until the well is capped and shut off below the surface. and that is not a very pretty picture in terms of the amount of oil. right now we are so early we dont know the ultimate fate that is why we are getting samples to try to understand what happens. ultimately, some of this stuff w...

Damage from irma. nbcs gadi schwartz is joining us from cudjoe key, this is the epicenter of where it started in the u.s. >> reporter: thats right. you can see right through the living room the windows were blasted out and hurricane irma came straight through that home and hit this neighborhood very hard. fortunately, the cement structures we have seen have taken some of that punch. but you can see this shed right here, this shed was blown into this brick wall. and anything that was basically wo...