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Were on the west coast but the effects of Hurricane Irma are being felt all over this state still. Theres a lot to report over the next two hours. Were going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. There are now 16 deaths in the United States contributed to the storm. Twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. Fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. Over the next two hours well hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see whats left behind or not le...

Hour there? >> the situation is still a lot like it was when we woke up this morning. we have our operations crews and 911 personnel deployed, cutting and pushing debris from the roadways to try and clear our area, our infrastructure, so our residents can return home. >> we've heard from one of our reporters in laplace, reports of people going up to their attic to escape the water. are you getting those reports that there are people who had to go to their attics, go to the roof to avoid the flood waters? >> no, sir, not in st. james parish. we have not had that. to our good fortune, the storm ...

0 get him to the island and as long as there's communication, we'll be able to communicate with him and see what's going on there. but it's very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they're having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understand...

Impact on and we're set to go tomorrow to try to re-open the ports and waterways over there. >> you're in san juan now, correct? >> yes, sir. >> what are you seeing? >> we were fortunately spared, as you saw the track of the storm, it really minimal impacts here in the san juan metro area. certainly impacts to the east of puerto rico over into st. thomas, st. john and st. croix as well. >> how did the u.s. coast guard go about preparing for dorian? >> so, here in san juan we have seven fast response cutters and another coastal patrol boat. we sent them down ahead of time to curacoa to stage up...

Here in the san juan metro area. certainly impacts to the east of puerto rico over into st. thomas, st. john and st. croix as well. >> how did the u.s. coast guard go about preparing for dorian? >> so, here in san juan we have seven fast response cutters and another coastal patrol boat. we sent them down ahead of time to curacoa to stage up, to respond back to dorian in puerto rico and the virgin islands. in addition, the coast guard brought aircraft down from florida to set up staging for urgent search and rescue for after the storm. as we roll into this afternoon and tomorrow morning, we'll ...