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We understand it is a disaster that just happened. the grid was in bad shape before the storm. and puerto rico got hit by two hurricanes. and they were among biggest we've ever seen with the second one being even worse. the second one hit puerto rico as a category 5. i don't believe anybody has ever seen that happen before. hit land with that kind of velocity. the governor has been extremely generous and i appreciated it. we right now have our top people from fema. we are unloading on an hourly basis massive loads of water and food and supplies for puerto rico. and this isn't like florida wher...

Systems when the storms come so that the sea blast and tleaves and everything that's blowing around don't contaminate that water and then they have that supply of water in their homes they can access by opening the hatch and getting the water out of there. >> kenneth mapp, governor of the u.s. virgin islands. you have an incredible challenge ahead of you with both st. john and is st. thomas. >> i want to thank, if i can quickly, i want to thank the president because i've spoken to him twice. he's expected to be in the virgin islands in the next six, seven days. and the federal response to the ...

Hotel where that wanted ha. people were inside when this happened. and actually we talked to one person who said she heard it she said she jumped out of bed, scared, didn't know what was going on. and that was -- southwest of where we are right now is a town called lakeland. that got hit by the eye of the storm and like land got hit really hard. [broken audio] you hear this happened or just come back. >> i just come back to come home and we come back to nothing. and this is like the first major hurricane. i have only been down here since august of last year. so this is the first major hurrican...

We're not going to get too much closer to this one because you can see it came down on top of a power line, knocking out power for this entire apartment complex of about 450 people. that's been the story around town, around southern georgia where a lot of these big trees have come down. thousands of folks without power. they'll likely be without power for quite a while. the georgia power company has put a temporary stop on their line crews going out and working because they're worried those high winds we were experiencing this morning may come back. didn't want to put their people in danger or...

25 years ago this month in august 1992, florida got hit by a category 5 hurricane, hurricane andrew. in addition to the immediate concern for human life and well being, there was also a lot of worry at the time about this place. this is called turkey point, florida's oldest nuclear power plant. and as the eye of that hurricane passed over the turkey point nuclear plant in 1992, some of the facilities around the reactor buildings took a beating, including stuff that was supposed to be hurricane-proof. within ten miles of the plant, within ten miles of turkey point, there were 41 warning sirens ...