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>> people will not wait long. >> reporter: puerto rican ballooning debt crisis forced many people to leave over the last several years. about 500,000 over the past decade. now there are concern thats widespread devastation from marie ka coum maria could speed up that process. >> with me is fema administrator brock long. i want to start with president trumps tweets last night. puerto ricos debt crisis has nothing to do with the hurricane of a category 4 or 5 wiping out this island. just a few min...

To bolster everything on top of it. >> being compared to hurricane katrina-like devastation. is it that bad? is it worse? what is your assess men of how bad things are on the ground? >> every hurricane is unique. one of the difficulties in the virgin island and in puerto rico is the total, because they are these smaller islands, the total devastation. in the virgin islands in puerto ricoo we had zero power its going to take a long time to restore the power grid and we dont have the adjacent area...

On the entire virgin islands. >> in the aftermath of hurricane maria, today the president issued a disaster declaration for puerto rico and st. croix and u.s. virgin islands. that means federal funding is now available to support recovery efforts there. electricity in puerto rico and st. croix out for months. both hospitals in the u.s. virgin islands, one on st. croix and one on st. thomas destroyed and all patients evacuated. also a major education issue now since the schools that are still sta...

Buildings across mexico city. >> these are people coming here with household tools to see if they can help break some of the concrete in the school. >> the officials say they theres indications of signs of life. >> puerto rico officials say it could be six months before everybody gets power back on the island. >> well get down to st. croix and drop a medical evaluation team to assess the requirements needed of st. croix for patients, get them prepared for shipment to the united states. >> this i...

>> when she said the infrastructure is damaged, she is not exaggerating. restoring power to everyone may take months. the entire system is down. no one has power. president trump said the u.s. territory is obliterated and vows to visit the island. the president said he approved the disaster declaration. lets go straight to the weather center for the latest on the storm. what can you tell us? >> 115 miles per hour, john. still a really healthy storm here. the hurricane hunter aircraft had been fl...

In tears with psychologicalen eyes they, say every now and then the first responders ask for a moment of silence because theyre trying to listen for signs of life and trying to follow those signs of life. this is mexico city. were 75 miles from the epicenter of this horrible earthquake. that just gives you an idea of the magnitude. there have been school closings in seven states. the mexican government has issued whats equivalent to a disaster declaration in the united states that allows federal...

Florida leaders discussing disaster relief and recovery efforts after hurricane irma. what will secretary price be checking in on down where you are today? >> he is here to check in on efforts, coordinated efforts with the state of florida to head off health concerns that are popping up now that irma is gone. i talked to secretary price on the way down here to the keys. he says that of particular concern right now are things like mold, mosquitoes and water-born illnesses, as well as the hazards ...

>> harris: i want my food from the president and i want to handshake and you can have all of it. its all yours. >> sandra: lisa, the president just announced that this is going to be one of several more visits that he is going to make. he said hes going to continue to follow-up the progress being made on there, but how does this trip as far as what we are seeing right now, passing out the food that he and the first lady provided, how does this compare to his previous trips down there? >> lisa: t...

States, the president, as you all know, moved quickly to put forward presidential disaster declaration. its very important, specifically in florida right now. the county is under individual assistance declarations. theres quite a few. i want to read those off. broward county, palm beach, clay, duvall, flagler, putnam, st. johns, charlotte, collier, hillsboro, lee, miami-dade, sarasota, pinellas. if youre a citizen in those counties go to disasterassistance.gov to begin registering for assistance...

Been down gragraded to a catego it is still a hurricane. cnn is everywhere in the path of this storm and we can show you where hurricane irma has been and what she has done. it is a category 1 but at latest count, at least 4 million floridians are without power, the governor saying not only without power but he doesnt know when it will be restored. will it be days? weeking longer? the need to be great here. thats why the president of the united states already signed a disaster declaration. that ...