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Nearly decembnear ly destroyed by hurricane michael. residents will be allowed back, though a curfew will continue. authorities have a much better handle on the number of people still missing. that estimate thankfully down to three. scott mclene joins us now. scott, really just beginning to pull themselves out of this. what is the latest today? >> reporter: hey, jim. so the president was able to see the destruction here for himself. he flew over the mexico beach area and the panama city area and was able to get on the ground not far from where i am right now. he said it was tough to see the de...

Now on the eve of a huge category 4 hurricane hitting the carolinas is just amazing. >> so harvey, of course, around this time last year, came into texas with some horrible flooding. similar to this storm in some ways, kind of hanging over inland areas for some time. the president bragged about his response to harvey today, as well. seeing as your district was affected by this, as well, how would you grade the administration's response to harvey? >> again, my district was affected a little bit in san antonio. but the houston area, the coastal bend area of corpus christie was -- bore the brunt ...

Faces. and they are doing everything they can and knowing that it's not enough. so let's just set that aside for one thing. on the other level, look, monday before maria struck puerto rico, already in chicago, there was a mobilization. if the people of chicago, if the people of new york, it's the puerto rican diaspora from across the united states was preparing days before maria got here and was able to bring resources within hours of the hurricane hitting, yes, hitting the island of puerto rico, why wasn't the federal government ready? is there no plan in place for the people of puerto rico w...

You helped rescue hundreds of americans who were stranded on st. martin after the storm hit. you were planning to evacuate the island but the hotel director called to ask you to stay because of your previous experience with hurricaness so what made you decide to stay, trinity? >> i guess just that, one there were no flights out, and two because i had gone through the hurricanes before. i knew what our guests were going to need at the hotel. and so i did go ahead and stay because i wasn't able to get out either. and started to make phone calls to get help prior to the hurricane hitting. >> so y...

It gives democrats leverage forcing two unpopular debt ceiling votes by year's end, instead of just one. it all began early in the day t. democrats put out a news release calling for a three-month funding bill, which got an ice yes reception from paul ryan. >> i think that's a ridiculous idea. ehope they don't mean that. let's think about this we got all this devastation in texas. we got another unprecedented hurricane hitting, about to hit florida. and they want to play politics with the debt ceiling. i think that's a ridiculous and disgraceful and to play politics with the debt ceiling like ...