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Outside world to help people recover from this. >> do you have concerns that a storm surge is still in your future? >> yeah. i mean, we stayed up well past hours we really were able to stay awake because we were waiting for high tide. to see if the storm surge was coming, again, the wind picked up again just so people can see, so the water is lashing against the seawalls where we are but it hasn't yet risen too high. we're still very much paying attention to that. this is completely unprecedented. it is completely unnatural. i don't know how to describe this other than we're in the middle of a...

Communities, energized by lech tris. the first wave of 300 linemen out with the water and power authority rebuilding the distribution system. so you know, we need help. we -- we're recovering from two cat 5s, but we're making progress, and the strength and resiliency of the people in the territory, as you witnessed, when you were here. >> and you know, governor mapp, i asked about fema. we reached out to fema as we do each week trying to update our viewers what's going on in the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico. who has pow jer statistics at all. what we got back was a press release touting...

Is it maintaining or getting stronger? >> the storm has actually, sadly -- sad to say the storm is actually getting stronger. the latest aircraft in the center measured a pressure of 914 millibars which is the lowest it's been and we're continuing to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eye wall which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. there's -- you really can't over-hype this storm. it's the strongest storm that has ever formed in this part of the atlantic. we've had cat 5s that have formed f...

The 914 millibars which is the lowest it's been and we're continuing to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eye wall which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. there's -- you really can't overhype this storm. it's the strongest storm that has ever formed in this part of the atlantic. we've had cat 5s that have formed further to the west, closer to miami. of course, we had andrew then we have had storms like katrina and rita in the gulf of mexico back in 2005, but we really haven't seen a storm l...

>> in terms of what the storm is doing right now, can it getting weaker, maintaining, getting stronger? >> the storm is actually, sadly, sad to say, the storm is actually getting stronger. the latest aircraft in the center measured a pressure of 914 millibars, which is the lowest it's been. and we're continue sting to see winds measured directly by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots at the surface in the eyewall, which is over 180 miles per hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. you really can't overhype this storm. it's the strongest storm that has ever formed in this ...