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Are pulled out of there. and between, you know, city, state, local official who is are coordinating all of this which is a massive undertaking to try to pull survivors from wreckage that looks like that. so thats work that again, well continue not only through today but you would imagine on through the next couple of days. one of the things those geological surveys say is they tell you the magnitude of an earthquake. 7.1 or 8.1. another thing they do is they predict the loss of life towards the ...

Still bring catastrophic results. part of the island, part of puerto rico may be uninhabitable for months. meanwhile, in mexico, rescuers right now are literally digging through rubble. a strong earthquake centered about 75 miles from mexico city rocked that capital. mexican officials confirm, so far more than 220 people have been killed. rescue workers, some working with their bare hands, digging through rubble in an attempt to find survivors. nbcs ron mott is on the ground in mexico city. hes ...

Flooded at this point. gas stations completely ripped off. people that are calling in now saying, you know, my home is flooding and we cannot get to them. until the hurricane subsides. what we are seeing is the annihilation of an entire country. >> rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday. >> one woman in particular says her 26-year-old son is trapped back there in a small pocket. hes communicating with rescue workers, but the...

Thats the word from state of floridas governor who says more than half of florida is in the dark. he says its going to take us a long time to get the power back up. the head of fema says the cleanup is going to be a frustrating event. people across that state from coast-to-coast dealing with temperatures in the high 80s. for many of them, triple digit feels like in the next couple days with no air conditioning. the feds say theyre deploying aircraft today to inspect the damage and help with any ...

They were successful in doing just that. so a lot of people are, you know, praising this rescue attempt on social media, trying to heal so many good souls. looking out for human and animal neighbors during irma. chimed in saying thank you to all who are helping the animals affected by hurricane irma. now, despite the storms devastating side effects. some people are just determined to go on with their lives. like these two rescue workers who were supposed to get married next week. they were inste...

Media inundated with pictures and video that shows what happens when a storm of this size rips through several major cities. as can you imagine it is not good. of course there are the inevitable rescue efforts. what you are looking at right nau is shocking video that shows a couple being rescued after they tried to ride out the storm on a boat. now, why they decided to do that beats the heck out of me. but rescue workers were forced to enter jensen beach just as the storm was making landfall. th...

Areas that we had asked them to frankly evacuate. we have state assets helping us, and we trying to do everything that we can to get people safe. i have been out ander around the city today, and i have witnessed the heroes getting people out of their homes, and it is going to continue. >> are there enough state and federal and local resources on the ground, mr. mayor, in jacksonville at this point? >> the governor of the state of florida rick scott, we were on the phone earlier this morning, and...

Dark times for everyone in our country? >> sure. its the cop destruction workers who a -- constructionwoe we had the correct number and a lot of our firefighters were tired and a lot of our police officers were tired and rescue workers and construction workers, about 1,000 of them came down to help out i asked the guy in front why did you come? you have got to be careful, you dont have the right equipment. he said we are very strong. we can lift things. you just tell us what to do. that typifies...

Bit of trouble in touch screen, but thats okay because we still have a lot to talk about. what we are going to see right here is a video, false screen of it. there we go. this is video, this is unbelievable of a couple being rescued after they decided to ride out the storm on their boat. this is shocking footage. as you can see in the background, the waters are extremely choppy, the rescue workers should have never been put in that situation but the rescue effort was successful. good news on tha...

Wrap up by tomorrow. >> quickly, how many tornado did we register yesterday? >> i have to check. there were several report of tornadoes. these are very small spin-ups. theyre not your large tornado, just enough to throw debris in the air for three or four minutes and then they move on. >> i think yesterday, some tornado took a couple roove itself off from houses. >> -- rooves off from houses. >> they last five-to-ten minutes. at one point yesterday we were looking at several off the ocean. it wa...