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Them in the wake of hurricane maria. a distribution bottle neck stifling relief efforts in. >> we have not scaled up quick enough. >> the former general who coordinated military relief efforts after katrina says maria is a bigger challenge and the trump administration isn't doing enough. >> we have to do better than now, otherwise we won't get this done and more people are going to suffer. >> the white house says there are now enough resources on the ground, including 10,000 federal relief workers and 7200 others. >> the president is behind you. >> the president tweeting fee in a and first res...

Remote areas that are hard to access. people that do need medical attention, people that are on ventilators. people that have asthma or other debilitating diseases are having a hard time. and people are, as the mayor is saying, dying. hospitals are running on generators. that cannot happen endlessly. generators burn out. access to fuel. it's just layer upon layer of challenge. and right now, we only have 10,000 between troops and relief workers, 10,000 people on the ground. that general that you spoke to that dealt with katrina said right now he'd have 50,000 troops on the ground. >> not feder...

These localized areas causing flash flooding. the night is going to be long and people are starting to heed the call to stay inside if not evacuated. >> you look at some of the islands that weren't hit particularly hard by irma less than two weeks ago they are the base for recovery operations where a lot of relief workers have been and many people who fled irma took shelter and now they are in the path. clearly a lot of the work done in the last couple of weeks are going to be severely impacted in the next couple days or week or so. >> it's unfortunate they cleaned up from two major hurricanes...

Add on top of that the 6 to 9 feet of storm surge from the national hurricane weather center, that's a recipe for disaster, john. you remember storm surge and water related deaths, that's where we find the highest number of fatalities during a tropical system such as this. >> thank you for that. relief workers have been hit with the 1-2 punch of irma and maria as well. the mobile response team arrived in the virgin islands in the aftermath of irma now to be caught in a second storm. it was irma and jose and now of course maria posing is real threat. what precautions have you taken? what are co...

Basically humanitarian crisis. you have police here joined by military. joined by local, state, federal. all law enforcement on scene here, to try to help as best they can to get people out of there. and part of that work is to identify who's already been found in this crisis. you can see back here, some of the relief workers with their helmets. people bringing food and relief supplies. but also you see signs up here, these are people that have been discovered in the rubble. and so that work will continue, the help of identifying family members who may be trapped inside there. that will contin...