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including st. maarten and all the food is gone. back in florida, we are live near ft. myers and brian todd is seeing lots and lots of damage. we will go to brian after this. . so there are no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives in any of the food we sell. we believe in real food. whole foods market. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.
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
then we grabbed this video after the air national guard's facebook page. this is a separate operation showing airlift and helicopter rescues as the guard worked to evacuate as many people as they could out of st. maarten. in miami this video found on an instagram account showing a construction krain next to high-rise buildings spinning around like a pinwheel. there are 20-25 construction cranes operating in the city. an app shows weather alerts, how to repair for irma and where the shelters are. so it continues to be an important part of the stories. bill: it's gaining strengths.
we're safe. we're rebuilding. but we are cognizant of what is going on in florida and virgin eye sachbt mt. maarten. and we will help. >> and that is much appreciated. governor from puerto rico, thank you so much and good luck. >> thank you very much. we want to go to gatti schwartz in key largo. how is the flooding looking there? >> reporter: the water is still going on up. we're heading down a little bit further on the 1. i want to show you what we're looking at. the outer bands are coming in and we're starting to see the winds really whip up. again, look at this, this trash can is going right across the road. in fact just come back here real fast, i want to show you what it
whipped through the caribbean, killed at least 17 people so far, at least 5 from st. maarten and people in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands and in barbuda. barbuda is next door to st. maarten, a little larger geographically but fewer people. fewer than 2,000 people live there overall. this is before hurricane irma hit. this is barbuda today. the prime minister says barbuda is barely habitable. the only airport and hospital were destroyed. there's no running water and no phone service because the communications tower that you see right there just snapped in half by irma. this was the headline in barbuda's main newspaper today, destruction unreal, hundreds desperate to get out. those hundreds of people still left on the island are desperate to get out not only because of what has just happened but also because of what may happen next. hard as it is to believe, another hurricane is heading
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st. maarten is half dutch half french. the island is 34 square miles, so small you could fit 35 st. maartens inside rhode island. they have a super famous airport, the princess juliana international airport. it is famous because it sits so close to the beach that when planes fly in and out the wheels on the planes come down so low they practically scrape the sand. it's supposed to be wild to watch. they had to post a sign on the beach warning people not to get too close. jet blast can cause severe physical harm. this is what that famous airport used to look like in st.
maarten. today it looks like this. st. maarten's landmarks including their world famous airport have taken a devastating blow. this is what it looks like inside the airport. check-in desks flooded, debris all over the place. local officials say huge swaths of the island have been leveled. about 80,000 people live on st. maarten. most have seen their homes damaged or destroyed. this is what the docks used to look like. now the docks look like this. this is one of the hotels in st. maarten in brighter times. it has replicas of famous paintings on the outer walls. this is that same hotel now. you can still see some of the paintings. nothing else really looks the same. st. maarten is famous for its beautiful, pristine beaches. the beaches of st. maarten now look like this. hurricane irma is expected to make landfall in the main lands u.s. this weekend but it has
additional risk extreme wind speeds like that pose. in 2017 in the particular part of the country that's about to get the brunt of the storm, what do we know about how vulnerable they are to winds that fast. what is likely to be knocked down by winds that fast. what can stay standing in wind speed like that. we have seen what these 180-plus mile an hour wind speeds have done in the caribbean already and what they are continuing to do. we can see in these caribbean islands what was left standing and what was not in places that have been hit so extremely hard in places like st. maarten and barbuda which we're going to talk about later in the show. in the united states and the mainland of the u.s. in florida we have different topography and different infrastructure over all. have our building codes here in the u.s. mainland anticipated wind speeds this fast? they know they're in hurricane territory but 185 mile per hour
the virgin islands in st. bart and st. maarten. witnesses saw the damage first hand. the storm destroyed homes, schools and businesses. it ripped rooftops off of houses as families huddled inside. a television station said i feel like i'm on the moon. there's not a single tree standing anymore. forecasters say the storm is extremely dangerous. maximum sustained winds are at 155 miles an hour down from 185 at the peak. still a powerful category four hurricane. the winds are widespread, extending 70 miles from the center. if it goes up the center of the state, hurricane force winds could be felt by everybody in the peninsula. we know by know whichever way