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Island was down. the poles, snapped like twigs. tables down but i don't mean here and there. all of the cables, power cables down in the street, poles blocking the roads, homes, steve, that had two walls blown out literally. and people still living in the homes. so it's going to be a really long, long time before they come up to speed. governor mapp called me, i know the governor, and there are a lot of connections between new york and the virgin islands. the governor himself actually was a new yorker. he was a member of the nypd at one time, actually. so there are a lot of connections. i had ...

And personal belongings are out on the front. it is a painful scene to see. but it is even more painful that they don't have water. they don't have medical care. and they don't have -- and they don't have food. the city and county are doing an excellent job as you well know. we have the convention center shelter that is set up early. i've been there since sunday. nrg combining a lot of shelters there and so certainly the local leaders have done the emergency work. now we have to deal with placing people, but more importantly we have to deal with people who were able to stay in place, who were ...

More than 800 apartments and five tower blocks evacuated. there are concerns that these buildings could ignite the way the grenfell tower did last week. the death toll in that blaze stands at 79. emergency work is still under way to replace exterior material feared to be flammable. now to that small plane crash back here at home, all caught on camera. that single-engine piper losing control, on the right side of your screen, crashing into a daycare center in florida. luckily no children were there at the time. but officials reporting that one person died and another person has been rushed to...

But this morning, like i say, as of last night, people that were not a member of the law enforcement ems or fire community, we withheld sending them outdoing the emergency work. now that that is finished, we can utilize a lot of this help in the private sector. we can't assume the responsibility that we don't know what training people have. so that's been the probably the hardest part of managing hundreds of people that you never met until that moment. so i think we did a really good job at it. got a lot of good help, you see all of the gentlemen standing behind me. that's the support team tha...

But this morning, like i say, as of last night, people that were not a member of the law enforcement, ems or fire community, we withheld sending them out doing the emergency work. now that that is finished, we can utilize a lot of this help in the private sector. we can't assume the responsibility, we don't know what training people have, so that's been probably the hardest part of managing hundreds of people that you have never met until that moment. so i think we did a really good job at it, had a lot of good help. you see all these gentlemen standing behind me. that's the support team that ...