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Having a hard time getting access to food and water and very basics. >> it's been incredibly difficult for a lot of people. part of the reason not much information is coming out is we can't get it out. literally. this is a first time i've been able to make a phone call and have any confidence it would last for more than a few seconds. internet is still down. no internet in the office and a lot of people on the island that were already struggling before the hurricane hit. and now they are being told, you know, they are finding themselves having suddenly to walk in search of food, water, gas, yo...

Category 5 hurricane last week, killing at least 38 people. it's statemented 90% of homes in the florida keys were damages or destroyed by hurricane irma. come have restarted returning to the island chain. the death toll in the state stands at 12. satellite images from nasa have a unique view of the destruction irma left across the caribbean. on the top, you can see what the u.s. and british virgin islandses looked like before. most of the vegetation has been uprooted. this is a side-by-side. irma changed its color. and this is barbuda and antigua. >> adam joins us from st. john in the u.s...

Those emergency rationens are going to antiga and st. martin along with tarps and again raters and prefab indicated buildings and communications equipment. and as i mentioned at the top tonight, the u.s. state department has announced there will be evacuation flights for u.s. citizens leaving from st. martin and from the british virgin islands in the morning. state department says u.s. citizens who can get to st. martin and the airport to arrive no later than 8:30 a.m. local time at the airport and the british virgin islands at the airport, on tore tolla, the deadline for u.s. citizens to get ...

It speaks to what we saw and are seeing after harvey, of being getting out there in boats and saving one another. that interconnectedness is not just a beautiful statement of humanity along with a ugly statement of mother nature, but a necessary component of recovery. in your experience, the volunteers of regular citizens to help their own, whether they know them or not, how important is that? >> it is extremely important. you're absolutely right. i've seen enough here, you know, from st. peters berg to clear water to the va that i toured today, people that are volunteering. i met with volunte...

>> all right, thanks so much. i appreciate it. and we also know, you know, with the keys being first impacted that the reporting coming out is that by daybreak, they could see 145-mile-an-hour winds, 145 miles per hour -- excuse me. it's about 145 miles away. but the system itself, bearing 125-mile-per-hour winds as we continue to clock this storm, we want to find out exactly how state and local and federal officials are dealing with it. joining me is congressman charlie crist joining us from st. petersburg. congressman crist is the former governor of florida and knows all too well what it's l...