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Mind but mainly from the hot. in summer as in winter the sherpas keep the lodges of the high touches supplied and open to serve hikers and mountaineers the regions flora and fauna are unique in europe. so i was a device to so forth gives a strength about a bit but its great to be out all day makes around this part of nature. or you cant do this job if you dont love nature there are what we do involves a sense. ecological responsibility only because we carry the supplies up to the lodges can they...

D.c. u.s. virgin islands are known primarily for being absolutely gorgeous. theyre known for their white pris scene beaches, their old world castles and architecture, their incredible culture and incredible art and museums, incredible food. a really rich storied culture. and right now the u.s. virgin islands are really, really hurting. two of those three big islands, st. john and st. thomas, just got completely walloped by this murk. hurricane. st. thomas has one hospital and that hospital has b...

In st. thomas. theyre going to roll out the mobile hospital tomorrow, get that set up. and then well work on a temporary structure in the rear of that facility. we land aid d-mat team on st. john of 16 people to work with the myra keaton facility. as you said, we evacuated all of the patients in the hospital. weve been able to take the community of folks who required dialysis treatment and make sure that theyve gotten to puerto rico and st. croix to get their dialysis services. so we are really ...

To breach the tanks and break them apart. obviously, when the power goes, that water becomes -- rapidly used, its rapidly fed off the hills and then it dissipates. and the water plant is up and running. so now theyre beginning to replenish those plants and folks, you know, they dont need electricity to get water out of the pipes. so as we funnel pressure into the distribution lines on the ground, then folks are getting access to more and more water. weve even got water into the tan tanks in st. ...

Being here. i know you had no sleep. >> thank you, rachel. glad to be here. >> can you help us understand looking at this from a national perspective, whats the most important thing to understand about florida and the impact there and which parts of the state will have the longest and most difficult recovery? >> you made the point, rachel, the big point to know nationally is the vastness of this. we remember hurricane andrew and the total destruction. well, that was in maybe a couple hundred squ...

Crisis in the virgin islands. that number could rise before this is all over. officials are telling residents it could be months before power is restored and that st. john and st. thomas are not safe at this point. now that this hurricane devastated big parts of the u.s. virgin islands, it is americas problem now. its up to us as a country to fix it. the u.s. in front of the u.s. virgin islands is not there by mistake. the u.s. virgin islands doesnt have its own president. the people who live ...

Couple of days. you can get a sense by seeing the telephone poles knocked down because the communications were knocked out, no phone, no cell service, no power, no water. because of that, its been very hard to get information out. its been hard to know which parts of the islands are hit the worst. were hearing that st. croix has been largely spared. part of the blessing of that is that st. croix has been able to be turned into a sort of staging area for people to evacuate to, for people to seek ...

Connecting the keys to the mainland. parts of the u.s. highway 1 are still very much underwater. so how will they get those folks out of there? more than 6 million people in florida have no power. officials are warning it could take weeks, weeks before power is fully restored and there continue to be gas shortages across florida. the governor reinstated police escorts for fuel tankers to try to alleviate the problem. these are a lot of problems that not only exist right now concomitantly, they a...

And it gets really difficult. so its the -- i dont know how they administer this disaster. it is such a monumental thing in size. we thought houston was big. this is many, many, many times the scale of the houston disaster because its almost the entire state of florida. >> what about the keys? obviously, we had eyes on the keys worried those islands which are fragile in the best of times would take a direct hit from the storm at its strongest. what is the impact in the keys and when they talk ab...

"uss abraham lincoln," the aircraft carrier, and two other ships to the keys to help with the evacuation efforts. obviously, there was a mass evacuation, a mass exodus from the keys ahead of this storm. there was plenty of warning that this storm was coming and that it was going to hit the keys hard. but still there may be as many as 10,000 people who need evacuation from the keys now. now that the storm has left. floridas impact is major. well be talking tonight about where got it the worst and...