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Leave st. thomas or st. john and ended up going to puerto rico and have now had to endure yet another hurricane in puerto rico. >> yeah. those people left and some went to puerto rico and some went to st. croix. >> whats your message to people either havent been to the islands or dont have a sense of what its like to live through one of these storms and have to literally pick up the pieces of your home, of your life? >> yeah. its all about starting over. i was able to be down there and go around...

Electricity back up. you can get poles back up, so thats one step. and then also just making sure that people have the proper housing, that the house something safe is another factor of this. >> lets listen to the governor, and this is from thursday. take a listen. >> we have already put on the ground on st. thomas 100,000 cases of water, and we have five c-17s sitting on the ground in st. croix and the marines and the army folks are offloading them and you see the choppers and planes bringing t...

Support and the aid from the federal government the states have, and now its that fight to not be forgotten. >> theres another hurricane coming. >> we are telling everybody to get in shelters if you are on st. thomas or st. john, go to st. croix because theres a hurricane coming to the islands directly on tuesday. >> lets talk about st. martin, which has been utterly devastated by the storm. what is the status of barbuda? has anybody been able to go back? >> as you mentioned at the top of the se...

Almost a direct hit. we lost hospitals. we lost our police station, fire station, airports, everything on the island of st. thomas and especially st. john. thank god st. croix is still there and that is the base camp. >> people are mostly going to st. croix? >> a lot are going to the mainland. because we are u.s. citizens, people are able to move there. >> jordan, your reporting has been spectacular on what is going on as well. talk a little bit about what the recovery is going to require in ord...

Parts of cars, parts of homes just torn up, like a sandwich. its really insane. i covered harvey, in texas, and just the physical destruction in st. thomas and st. john right now, and and the ecological destruction is like nothing i have seen yet. >> and the rebuilding is going to take so long. in some places we heard the power is not going to be on for six months, not six days, six months. >> i spoke to another family in the piece and they said they dont feel theyll have power for eight months....

>> yeah. this was my room. whats left of it. >> joining us now the vice news tonight correspondent you saw there. she was one of the first reporters to travel to the region to speak with survivors there. she joins us. also nancy gibbs who reveal third down weeks cover story learning from disaster. the storms keep getting stronger and so do we. we saw in the clip. we see pictures on tv and from drones and helicopters. what was it like to be on the ground? >> its really breathe taking. as you just...

Unfortunately at least eight of them have lost their lives. ? imagine being one of the family members of those people. how horrifying. gabe in hollywood, florida. thank you. the caribbean bore the brunt of irmas path. residents there attempt to pick up the pieces. hurricane irma spared much of florida from the worst damage. but the storm showed no mercy at all to the u.s. virgin islands. and to the 100,000 american citizens who call it home. this is a high raise in st. thomas. hurricane irma...