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u.s.s. ships that are coming in and the strength and economic power of the united states to build them up. there are some dutch territories, french territories and british territories where they're going to get help from their mother countries, but there are independent islands out there that don't have that kind of money. >> barbuda is a perfect example. you're talking about 95% devastation. 95% devastation is basically a total loss on that island. the citizens, and you mentioned on st. martin, half dutch territory, half french territory, were evacuated because the security situation deteriorated so quickly that the dutch army has been deployed on the streets in the north of st. martin to try to bring some order to that island because we were seeing significant looting on that island. and i'm not talking -- i did say this two days ago. i always hesitate to say looting because oftentimes it's food and water. this was looting of goods, it was lawless in nature and it spun out of control.
irma's aftermath in the caribbean today. walk us through this. so many people are concerned, saying do not forget the u.s. virgin islands, the british virgin islands, cuba. they were devastated. again, these are places we visit on vacation, we say they're paradise. those little slices of heaven, what are they going through? >> especially barbuda. that tiny island that ali was talking about. 95% completely devastated according to the prime minister. he called it, quote, literally rubble. there was no contact with this island for an entire day. it is 2017 and nobody could get a signal out of that island. this was something that was just absolutely devastating. all the public utilities were destroyed. the one hospital on the island had the roof ripped off. they're trying to get that island evacuated still. as we move sort of west to east, st. martin, you mentioned that, it is a half dutch territory, half french territory. there are significant problems
all the public utilities destroyed. you can see it there. it will take six months, they said, to rebuild this island. moving east to west as the path of the storm did to st. maarten. st. maarten half dutch territory, half french territory. equally destroyed. very bad situation there developing on the north side of the island. we've seen dutch troops deployed to try to big security back to that island. i'm always hesitant to use the term looting when we talk about these storms. as we know, people are trying to get food, water. 1200 u.s. citizens have already been evacuated from this island. 1,000 tons of water have been brought in. 85 tons of food. the prime minister of france is on his way, tuesday, to the island. he is going to bring with him another wave of aid. the last place we'll check with here is the u.s. virgin islands. something very, very disturbing is sort of developing in the u.s. virgin islands. st. croix will become the staging area. new information into us just