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Air's purchase of boeing jets. >> 70,000 jobs. >> the president praised the relationship between the u.s. and singapore. in the rose garden, the prime minister, who told the white house he didn't want to take questions, cautioned president trump over north korea. >> there is no quick and easy solution. pressure is necessary but so is dialogue. i express my hope that the u.s. will be able to maintain a stable and constructive relationship with china. good u.s.-china relations would benefit the region and the world. think of the visit comes before week president trump departs to east asia, touch...

The u.s. virgin islands are getting ready for a second major hit, al just said, st. thomas, st. john, main focus for fema efforts after hurricane irma decimated the land and left both islands almost entirely without power. the congresswoman of the u.s. virgin islands delegates joins me now. congresswoman, thank you for keeping us close to you about the things you've been doing. you've been to the virgin islands twice in the last two weeks? >> i went down, was on all three of the islands. spent quite a bit of time on st. thomas and st. john, you saw, the ones most decimated, was able to be in t...

Myers. if you are looking for good news there is that. i want to show you a waterspout. what was the location? fort lauderdale. a waterspout. we are playing this out on the deck here. these have been dropping out of the sky quite often. it's not that uncommon to see in south florida on a normal day. but when you watch them in the middle of the storm, it's quite something to see. they don't do any damage. they are funnel clouds until they touch the ground and then they are tornadoes. we have had reports of tornadoes touching down, but no reports of any damage. john there was one item you wanted...

They've been so busy in the helicopter. they hold six or seven people. so they're only able to pull out one or to people at a time. so right now they're having more luck in the helicopters. when we flew in, this was actually in the cargo hold. this is why we touched down here at the police station was to release these rafrts so these teams could get to work and free up space for air rescues. but it turned out very quickly that air rescues would be the faster mode of getting these folks out. we've got guys down here. these are all u.s. air force team members. they're suiting up, getting ready t...

These helicopters with the clothes on their backs. many not even with shoes on their feet. those, that's the typical situation. the lucky ones have a purse or a backpack. nothing larger than that because they just can't bring them on these helicopters. the rescue teams are telling them they're lucky to get out, get out now. as you can see here, this family right here, just a bag or two with with them. and this is one of the main rescue guys who has been with us all day long. he's been a hero. we've seen him all day long. and here he goes, ali. he's now carrying other peoples' clothes. he's bee...