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Florida's oldest nuclear power plant. and as the eye of that hurricane passed over the turkey point nuclear plant in 1992, some of the facilities around the reactor buildings took a beating, including stuff that was supposed to be hurricane-proof. within ten miles of the plant, within ten miles of turkey point, there were 41 warning sirens set up for the nuclear plant. of the 41, hurricane andrew blew down 36 of them. they left the plant running on backup generators for more than a week in order to keep the reactors and the fuel cool. debris from the storm blocked the access road to the plant....

The 456 emergency shelters that have been set up all across the island. and this particular one is being run by the city of san juan. i want to show you what we have here behind me. yesterday when we came, this coliseum was empty as people were beginning to prepare food, waiting for these people to arrive. and as you can see, we've got hundreds of people, entire families, who have lined their costs up. they brought everything they can they were able to evacuate with. and this is full-on emergency response mode here. we have food, bottles of water. as we mentioned, meals being prepared, and bac...

Rupture other chemicals on-site? >> like we said, we believe that they are in a remote enough area that we don't anticipate any other damage to property on the site. >> you said that the chemicals could burn -- is there any potential for them not to burn as they are released into the floodwaters? does that do anything to the environment? >> no, we anticipate that they will decompose once they start to warm up, and then they will burn. we had a generators, backup generators, backup backup generators, so i am not sure what more we could have done to provide additional layers of security. >> did ...

Other cases it continues to rise. you have families with the understanding that their loved ones are going in this particular flights to jasper, ambulances are going to other locations. the hospital here is organized. they're keeping a list of which patient is going where. they're setting up a phone number for people who don't necessarily have the main number to call to find out where loved ones are to be aware of where they are moved to. they started with 193 patients here. they're starting to go down. we saw between ambulances and what i saw on the helicopters at least 20 patients already le...

Military vehicles. the chemicals used to make things like hoses, foam cups and plastic pipes need to be kept cold. but more than 40 inches of rain knocked out electricity, killed backup generators and now threatens the remaining cold storage units. what is not clear tonight is exactly how big a fire or explosion might be, and exactly what the impact would be on people or the environment. tonight, state, local and federal officials are watching closely, tom. >> a story we're going to stay on top of for the next several days. clayton, our thanks to you. tonight, we're broadcasting from the ele...