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Government authorized 10-day waiver of jones act, puerto rico's governor requested the waiver arguing that it would expedite the shipment of much needed supplies to storm-ravaged areas. president trump is schedule today visit puerto rico next week. we are back with wall street journal mary anastasia ograd. how bad was it? >> 155-mile an hour winds hitting an electricity grid that was extremely vulnerable, old and fragile and as a result basically the island lost all electricity and it also had a lot of down trees, the roads were not passable and so forth. this was a humanitarian crisis for the...

Stations. what other kind of help do people need down there right now? >> reporter: everything at this point. the entire island is without power. 95% of the island has no cell phone service. people are starting to run short on food if you go into the grocery stores and if you're able to find groceries, you'll see lines that are three and four hours long. the there is no running water on the island. basically everything pipt's becoming a desperate situation here. >> we see the crews cleaning up. have you seen efforts of them coming in and bringing the supplies? >> reporter: absolutely. it's str...

Lot of down trees and flooding. we have neighbors that aren't open yet that you can't get to. our newly rebuilt pier that's only a couple of years old took a serious, structural hit and of course, adding the no power and everyone is in the same boat there, and it doesn't make it easier with the temperatures that we have here. not a lot of structural, very, very minimal, structural and water main -- water pipe breaks and water main breaks just -- you know, it's sad. in perspective, the fact that we did not get that storm surge because the back end of that storm dissipated, and that would have b...

Tropical storm warping for -- warning for atlanta, georgia area. that has never happened in meteorology history. heather: thank you, janice. >> as power punch goes up the coast, the path of destruction causing rapidly rising life-threatening water levels. heather: could climb up to 15 feet, the biggest threat in naples, florida, that's where griff jenkins picks up team coverage for us. he joins us live on the phone. griff, how is it looking right now? >> hey, heather and todd, total carnage, communication is at a minimum. we couldn't get up on this thing. it's pitch black. we are feet from the...

At this point we're seeing a lot of down trees and roughly half the county does not have power and i will say the police chief and i'll get out here and walk so you can see. i will say that the police chief said this is almost like a really bad summer storm, that this didn't seem like a hurricane and my producer will have to stop the vehicle so i can walk out and show you just how substantial some of this damage is and a lot of the roofs in this area and if we can look here and we see at this point. as i come through here, john, some of these and i just lost my hat for a second because it is w...