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Extent of the damage. nobody really knows yet. let me give you an idea of what were looking at here. this is what 155 mile an hour winds can do. ripped this metal wall off the building here. tore the doors right off. wrapped around trees. this is how powerful those winds were. now one other problem that they had going on right now on the island is the lack of communication. you know that power is out 100% across the entire island. we only have light here because were working on generators. power...

Now, youve got even more people without water. theres a lot of work to be done and right now the extent of that work is really unknown. >> you start worrying about health and sanitation. nbc, thank you. one organization is going to play a critical role in all of the recovery process. the red cross. the spokesperson for the red cross, thank you for joining us. i want to start off by asking you how the red cross is preparing to help the victims of hurricane irma in askand hurric maria. >> the red ...

Territory as a category 4 storm, flooding homes and according to officials there, 70% of homes on the im had their rooves ripped off. joining us from san juan, puerto rico, nbc news correspondent tammy leitner. tammy. >> reporter: good morning. you know as the sun comes up here in san juan, residents will give some of them their first look at the devastation and it is heart breaking. were standing outside of a bank and can you see that the doors just completely blew off the bank t. shutters are ...

He obviously lost a wall off the roof. structures behind it, lost roof, roof damage. this is the issue we will deal with. people dont have anywhere to live. they cant stay in these structures, let alone the water and food issues in the days ahead. this is also in the same area, look at the trees, all the leaves stripped. more rooves damaged. this is in san juan, this is an apartment building with obvious structural damage. a lot of water was still in the streets in the areas. this will be recede...

The next step is to make sure that everyone is okay in our staff of volunteers. assess the damage. and to move forward and help everyone on the island. >> we asked fema officials and asking the red cross as well, are you wearing yourself thin. are you wearing yourself thin between harvey, irma, and now maria recovery. >> it is absolutely incredible the season weve had so far. to be honest, yes. this has been an incredible couple of months. its something were going to do together and shoulder tog...

Category four storm. according to officials, 730% of homes had the roofs ripped off. could statake 4-6 months to rese power. the sun is rising. people are going to have to emerge from their homes and assess the damage. what are the biggest obstacles that officials are facing in the days and weeks ahead. >> i would say the biggest obstacle theyre facing is they dont have any idea right now the extent of the damage. thats the first thing. second thing is as you know, the power is out across the en...

Welcome back, everybody. before we toss it over to "morning joe," lets get a check on the stories you will be hearing about ahead. >> president trump has a full day of meeting as he spend his fourth day at the general assembly event. he is set to meet with the leaders of the japan, turkey and south korea. following his meeting, he will head to his golf resort in bedminster, new jersey house speaker paul ryan will tour damage left behind by hurricane harvey. they are scheduled to take a helicopte...

Theres no power on the island. first pictures near the land fall area. on the map show you the land fall right here. this is the first picture ive seen. these are wood structures. concrete bases. wall gone, roof gone on this structure here. this gentleman was in here to try to find any possessions he had left to scour. the building behind us, roof is gone. these trees are snapped in half here. these are the kind of damaged pictures were seeing from where the eye made landfall. this is a category...

Weve gotten so far, everyone is safe and accounted for, but our buildings have sustained significant flooding on the first couple of floors. a lot of fallen down trees. right now, we are assessing our own damage, but were happy to see everyone is okay. i have colleagues who went to san juan, puerto rico prior to in preparation. the next step once it is safe is to go in and assess the damage and see how we can mobilize and help pretty much the whole island. everyone is being affected by this. mir...

There is. back to you. >> thank you very much. lets go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. bill. >> good morning. typically, after huge storms like this it takes two-to-three days to get a proper assessment of how bad it was and the damage is. we are 24 hours after that. we will get more pictures today. it doesnt help the whole island doesnt have power a. 50 miles wide, lashing the dominican republic t. story overnight was the torrential rains would not...