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Crisis in the virgin islands. that number could rise before this is all over. officials are telling residents it could be months before power is restored and that st. john and st. thomas are not safe at this point. now that this hurricane devastated big parts of the u.s. virgin islands, it is america's problem now. it's up to us as a country to fix it. the u.s. in front of the u.s. virgin islands is not there by mistake. the u.s. virgin islands doesn't have its own president. the people who live there are u.s. citizens subject to u.s. law and part of the united states. just like any other st...

Couple of days. you can get a sense by seeing the telephone poles knocked down because the communications were knocked out, no phone, no cell service, no power, no water. because of that, it's been very hard to get information out. it's been hard to know which parts of the islands are hit the worst. we're hearing that st. croix has been largely spared. part of the blessing of that is that st. croix has been able to be turned into a sort of staging area for people to evacuate to, for people to seek shelter. as reports start to trickle out of st. john, though, in particular it's started to becom...

Connecting the keys to the mainland. parts of the u.s. highway 1 are still very much underwater. so how will they get those folks out of there? more than 6 million people in florida have no power. officials are warning it could take weeks, weeks before power is fully restored and there continue to be gas shortages across florida. the governor reinstated police escorts for fuel tankers to try to alleviate the problem. these are a lot of problems that not only exist right now concomitantly, they are going to complicate each other. massive flooding, blocked roads no power and in some cases no gas...

And it gets really difficult. so it's the -- i don't know how they administer this disaster. it is such a monumental thing in size. we thought houston was big. this is many, many, many times the scale of the houston disaster because it's almost the entire state of florida. >> what about the keys? obviously, we had eyes on the keys worried those islands which are fragile in the best of times would take a direct hit from the storm at its strongest. what is the impact in the keys and when they talk about needing to evacuate people now after the storm, how should we understand that both in terms o...

"uss abraham lincoln," the aircraft carrier, and two other ships to the keys to help with the evacuation efforts. obviously, there was a mass evacuation, a mass exodus from the keys ahead of this storm. there was plenty of warning that this storm was coming and that it was going to hit the keys hard. but still there may be as many as 10,000 people who need evacuation from the keys now. now that the storm has left. florida's impact is major. we'll be talking tonight about where got it the worst and what the challenges are going to be for florida come back and what the prospects are for the keys...