as they re clearly searching for someone. gustavo, i want to make sure we re really clear, we have heard previously from the president of mexico that there were some 30 people that were still missing tuesday night. are there still some 30 people that are still missing at the school today? officially, we haven t heard any number. overnight, they had set up a signup sheet for those that have somebody missing, so they could write the name and then for people to come back and write the names of people who have been found. however, we re hearing from security people there that a lot of people just came and signed up names and they re not sure if they re real or not. so we haven t heard officially from somebody here on the ground as to the actual number people that might have been looking for or how many might be missing
this is what a category 4, category 5 hurricane will do to the vegetation around here. look at take a look around me. i m surrounded by debris. all kinds of different debris. wee see a lot of installation, for example. i m pretty sure that s what it is. there s also a lot of pieces of loose metal. but then there s a lot of other things that i don t even know what they are, that flew from somewhere. and that was because the force of the winds was so strong overnight that it did considerable damage to some of the main buildings on fajardo. the thing is, if those buildings were so badly damaged, just imagine how bad it ended up being the houses that are not built for hurricane strength winds. it is a very delicate situation. and also, we have to take into account that more than half the
island remains without power and is going to be weeks and weeks, kate, before things go back to normal. back to you. absolutely. rafael there, as well. as we ve seen from the images this morning to what we re seeing right now, a lot is changing. this storm, as we ve seen in the past, can change so quickly. and what it looks like on the ground. just look at this from earlier today in san juan, puerto rico. the whipping winds with, the torrential rains. this is one of so many images and videos that have been brought in of the storm. just moments ago, the national hurricane center released its new update on hurricane marina hurricane maria, pardon. let s go to the cnn weather center and our cnn meteorologist, chad myers. chad, where is this history-making storm right now? just moving offshore, west of san juan, puerto rico. so about to get back in the water and try to regain strength. it took about five hours to go all the way from palmos delmar,
and the british virgin islands with relief and relocation. now we are the ones that we need to take care of. of course, we re going to get ahead of this. we re going to get stronger after this, but still under a lot of rain, a lot of flooding. a lot of damages in the infrastructure. so that means we ve got more than five of the biggest rivers on the island overflowing their own banks. i m sure it s not even to a point where you can get a scope and assessment of what the damage is going to be. not just from this but you re still dealing with the follow-up from irma. you first deal with irma. and it wasn t even a direct hit and it still knocked out power to much of the island. it hurt and created a lot of damage. how do you make sense then of another even more powerful storm hitting it right on its heels? actually, this is had the worst and scariest hurricane
we re keeping our eye here. but this is just one of so many devastating stories coming out of this horrible earthquake. you know, it s agonizing for these parents, kate. i ve talked to a lot of parents here, where i m at, where this building has collapsed behind me. and these metropolis aoms are i waiting, hoping, praying that their loved ones will be emerging from the rubble alive. and i m sure that s the exact same experience that these parents at this elementary school are living right now. i ve seen moms who haven t slept all night. their eyes are swollen. every now and then, they just begin weeping as they re overcome with emotion as they re hoping for the best news. with that school, we have learned that 7 hurricane people were out trying to go through that rubble, sifting through the rubble, picking up the pieces, putting them in buckets and driving them off, hoping to find signs of life. the other thing that we ve