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Georgia. president briefed earlier today by fema. we have team coverage in the bah ma whats and up and down the east coast of the united states and we have the white house reaction, as well. all our correspondents standing by. bill, what's the latest? >> good afternoon. we'll start with the bahamas because that's where the horrific, catastrophic, record-breaking, whatever you want to call it, that's where it never looks the same. there will be brick structures to remain. cement structures will be there when the storm is over with. but a lot of the other stuff like the trees, any of the wood st...

Have to be thoroughly examined by bridge engineers and road construction engineers. in some cases, they will have to be closed for a period of time as they have to ve build them. obviously, as you are looking right now. >> that kind of damage to that highway will close that for a considerable people. then you have to done assessment of all of the surrounding structures. were any of them compromised as a result of this quake? not just the damage that's obvious and we see with the gaping hole on the highway. do the cracks extend further down the cement structures, further down any metal structur...

Using. you saw it with your own eyes. how bad is it? >> it is pretty bad. the situation is dire. it is not level like you saw from barbuda. there is a different kind of destruction. in many cases, these were cement structures. if they had zinc, aluminum, metal roofs, we saw mud inside people's houses. in some cases, their roofs had blown off and they got flooded. so they were hit in two ways by the storm. there are a lot of rivers that overflooded. and it was just one calamity after another, town after town without power, without water. this was a couple days ago so i can imagine now it is wor...

Police cars burned. the city's public schools are closed tomorrow. and a call for 5,000 additional officers. 5,000 additional officers to help restore the peace just hours after the funeral of freddie gray. miguel has been witnessing much of the violence and the happenings here in baltimore today. miguel what's the very latest? >> yeah you're looking at the southern baptist church here. this was an elderly home that was going to be finished in about nine months here. 60 units. it was going to provide services on the community. this is about two and a half miles from the worst of it up near nor...

So worst case is they won't be able to use cement structures and we will have a spill of some magnitude until the well is capped and shut off below the surface. and that is not a very pretty picture in terms of the amount of oil. right now we are so early we don't know the ultimate fate but that's why we're getting samples, to try to understand what happens. ultimately, some of this stuff will evaporate and microbes will eat off chemical structures, and you are left with something tarry like this. we don't want most of it to be tarry like this. >> you are part of a scientific team for noaa. th...