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In, throughout the east coast. so i would say dozens of aircraft are involved in the mission. >> leland: well, as a present has set at 70 times, the work of the coast guard will always be very important. i know that the motto is you have to come out, you dont have to come back at, and you guys have made so many americans so proud over this past month or so. godspeed, sir. >> oh, thank you very much. we certainly appreciate your support and the opportunity to highlight our operations. >> leland: ...

Dominica. and the images that came out ofo barbuda and st. thomas and saint martin from hurricane irma. if we continue to see hurricane maria pack the punch of sustained winds and the pressure is still dropping, its intensifying. if we see that continue, i have a big fear that we will deal with some catastrophic damage.al >> tucker: puerto rico is not barbuda. its pretty densely packed. have people evacuated at all? >> most of the people did evacuate. a there are some that were not able to get o...

>> i know a lot of people have seen the images coming out of dominica. in the images that came out of barbuda and st. thomas and saint martin from hurricane irma. if we continue to see hurricane maria pack the punch of sustained winds and the pressure is still dropping, its intensifying. if we sit back and continue, i have a big fear that we will deal with some catastrophic damage. >> tucker: puerto rico is not barbuda. its pretty densely packed. have people evacuated at all? >> most of the peop...

Impacted heavily by hurricane irma. the east coast of florida who still dont have power should have it by sunday night and on the west coast, this is fort myers, naples, tampa bay area, if you dont have power yet, its going to be another week. next friday should have it all back. another week of sweating it out in the hot floor to sun. back to you. >> leland: you and your crew, heather and chris also doing a great job down there. some power crews are sleeping in jails because its the only place ...

Have stayed? >> yeah, he would have. he bought a house in key largo and said he would never leave. my boyfriend and i stay and we were safe. >> i had two complete strangers give me precious gasoline. its one family in the keys. do you think that will rebuild the place? >> absolutely. its already happening. a boat in one of the marinas a couple of miles north of here, the key largo princess knocked into the charter boats and all the guys went out to save each others boats from sinking. everybody ...

Thanks. leland: thanks. godspeed. liz? elizabeth: in other headlines this saturday, twin emergencies in mexico. hurricane katia is now a tropical storm as it moves over the central part of the nation killing at least two people. forecasters expect it to dissipate over the weekend but not before dumping 10-15 inches of rain in some areas. this as rescue efforts continue from a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 64 people with massive damage reported. the 8.1 earthquake off the southern ...

Collier county emergency center as well as the naples emergency operations center, they have manpower all over the place. its like a chessboard, theyre moving things as they need to. >> the update coming in ten minutes from the national hurricane center. i know youll be watching because it will give everybody more needed information. the more data you have the better. communications manager for the city of naples, florida, now looks like irma,that is where the category-5 hurricane may make landf...

120 miles an hour, and so some pressure variability. well be deploying this in the eyewall, wherever that sets up. right now the forecast track takes it up the center of florida, an absolute worst case scenariolo for the keys. >> where do you stay when this happens? i mean, are you going to be physically down there? are you going to remain in the keys? >> yeah. well mount it on edge, then retreat to a structure. we have enough water or food ife we get trapped down here. we alsoga have a backup p...

Going to think about maybe lifting that curfew tomorrow after seeing what happens tonight. perhaps an indication that the looting may subside. today authorities in harris county said thereve been over 60 arrests for storm related crimes involving burglary and looting. >> jason: thank you. you have done a wonderful job. we love watching your reporting. godspeed to you. the scum that would do this in peoples worst hour. what would you do? >> kat: hopefully i would do with that one person did, writ...

Protection and sieve be liberties our forbearers fought and bled for. regardless of the push and pull of daily politics its up to us to lead her to instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them. finally, take time in the rush of events and responsibilities for friends and family. theyll get you through the inevitable rough patches. michelle and i wish you and melania the very best as you embark on this great adventure and know we stand ready to help in any ways which we can. g...