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San juan is a place of 2.5 million people. irma was a glancing blow that figure to the knot, but still a billion dollars damage. on the drive on the way, we say the devastation and the city of san juan itself, rationing water sales, queues for gas stations. you have to be over 89 years old it likely seems to see anything as violent as the storm that will hit tomorrow morning. we know in this beach resort the people have mostly left. i saw someone before dark heading down the street in a golf buggy to check out the storm. but as you move in further i would not too, the risk is there of flooding...

>> right. what we're doing is making sure people can pass through, they can weather the storm. it's not going to be comfortable, but they're going to be safe. this is our key objective. we understand infrastructure is going to be devastated. we're going to have rebuild. but lives are not replaceable but infrastructure is. >> and just in terms of those buildings able to withstand those kind of winds, do you be them? are there new construction buildings with high building standards? >> we have building standards, and many of those do possess that. some of them are concrete buildings that stand a...

May get caught by the huge volumes of water the hurricane will throw at the island. where i'm standing we could see potentially an 11-foot storm surge, seven to nine, maybe 11. 11 is almost twoice my height. you may see extreme rainfall that will bring landslides and power outages. others think this island after irma is bracing itself, lessening what they can doft this is a storm, the fer rossty of which they haven't experienced in almost a 100 years. >> the building you're in, is it a new building? is it a building you feel good about? >> it's a concrete structure of three floors, so obviousl...

There are reports throughout parts of mexico city. a short time ago i spoke with brittany kaiser in the mexican capital. >> where were you when the earthquake struck? >> i was just east of polanco in southern mexico city. i was on the third floor of a building waiting for a business meeting to begin when the building started violently shaking back and forth, as you can imagine, like being in a tiny boat in a strong storm. we immediately decided to evacuate which was actually quite difficult to get down the stairs. >> difficult because there were a lot of people or difficult because the buildin...

Again, our concern was to get people out of flooding regions, have food and water assessable to them. and making sure that everybody in puerto rico is at a safe shelter. >> is there still time for people to get to shelters's at this point? i believe the hurricane is expected to make landfall early in the morning? >> it is. but right now the conditions are starting to deteriorate. early in the morning we're going to have the eye of the storm and hurricane type winds. but we implemented a protocol. it's a national protocol where once you get above sustained 50 mile an hour winds, we get the resc...