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Bigger, stronger than one of the more destructive hurricanes, hurricane andrew, in 1982. >> do not sit and wait for this hurricane to come. it is deadly and will cause devastation. >> reporter: tom sater is tracking irma. we're going to start with cnn's leyla santiago. she's in puerto rico right now feeling the brunt of it. leyla, there is no simple way to evacuate puerto rico, so how are residents taking cover? >> reporter: just in the last half hour, the governor of puerto rico has announced that there are about 3,000 people in the nearly 500 shelters that have been established on this islan...

They're concerned but we should be operating in kick start. i'm not letting money get in the way of my operation and i'm pushing forward. >> good luck to the workers, all the people of fema. you're doing lifesaving fork. . we're counting on fema to get the job done. >> real quick, it's the whole community. it's like what we saw on harvey, too. it's the citizens all the way up to the management agency. >> it certainly is. we're grateful to everyone involved. brock, thank you for everything you're doing. appreciate it very much. good luck. >> thank you, wolf. we'll have more on the breaking ne...

5 hurricane. it's charging toward the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico, packing maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. this is incredible. it's expected to make landfall in puerto rico later this arch as one of the strongest hurricanes ever regarded in the atlantic. it will likely take aim at southeast florida next. mandatory evacuations are under way in the keys and throughout the state where 7,000 members of the national guard are standing by. nbc meteorologist is tracking irma's path. this is complicated, rafael, because it's getting to some places already and it's going to meand...

Schumer. >> reporter: and ignoring the requests of steve mnuchin as he put his support behind a three-month proposal to raise the debt limit and a stopgap spending bill. >> everybody is very agreeable to taking care of that situation. >> just hours after speaker ryan panned the debt ceiling on the hill. >> i think it's ridiculous they want to pan the debt ceiling at this moment. >> reporter: on a day when democrats had been fiercely critical of the president in the wake of his decision to end the so-called daca program. >> the president's decision to end daca was heartless and it was brainl...

Children. trump appeared to be looking for some wig gill room, tweeting, congress now has six months to release daca. if they don't, i will revisit this issue. trump insists he wasn't muddying the waters. >> congress, i really believe, wants to take care of the situation. >> and he said he hopes to sign legislation that protects the dreamers and beeves up border security. >> i would like to see something where we have good border security and we have a great daca transaction where everybody is happy. >> reporter: as trump navigates a jam-packed domestic agenda, he's also juggling escalating ...