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Back of the police car. is that not correct? >> that is correct. and i do understand how people want to look at the dna evidence and whatever. i didn't see - - i had no knowledge of it, we can't see that in the video, but the judge was obviously able to look at whatever the evidence was. so there's going to be speculation on that. and probably rightfully so. but i still think we've got a balance this and also look at the long-term ramifications here especially in the city of st. louis, the city that i live that has shrunk from i believe 860,000 people in 1950 - - we had major companies who wer...

Buildings have been heavily destroyed especially in the hard hit st. john island. what is it going to be like to get clean water to these residents? >> people are going to think outside the box. there are alternatives to get fresh water to island nations. technology really solves the problem versus what the land based infrastructure used to be prior to the storm. now it doesn't exist. if you could take a barge with bottled water plant and marry that up with ships south, you could immediately start to get fresh water into those areas that are in dire need. >> sandra: thank you for lending your ...

Its ended up a few blocks away on its side on top of the bank here in the canal. there was a lot of damage here anderson. there still isn't any power. people had generators and there was police in the area. it's a very very difficult situation getting around here for a lot of these folks where the eye of the storm went right over. anderson. >> randy appreciated you getting there. it headed to florida, hurricane decimated, caused a lot of destruction in the island. i want to get a update from st. thomas. irma hit st. thomas as a cat 5 storm. what's the damage there like? >> anderson, it was abs...

Right now i want to get an update. irma hit st. thomas as a cat 5 storm. what's the damage there like? >> reporter: anderson, it was absolutely stunning from the moment we got here. actually before we got here, we pulled up on a boat trying to get on this island. as you mentioned, irma hit this island, st. thomas before it hit the continental united states. it was one of the first islands to be in the path of the storm. and it's very clear being here for just a few hours, this island is going to have a very long road to recovery. six days after that storm hit this island, it is still incredibl...

Hurricane irma came from the north, hit st. john and then st. thomas. really we got practically the eye of the storm the while it was awe category 5. although we have most of our infrastructure passing to code, we lost essential buildings. our hospital is now -- the roof came off the hospital. the airport terminals appears it has been blown out from the inside. government facilities. it goes on and on in terms of the devastation. we however, up like some of the other islands of the caribbean, we are part of the united states. we are all american citizens. fema has been working with our governo...