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Later. a landscape of the british virgin islands is now littered with twisted metal and tangled tree trunks. >> it's something like a horror movie and also when you just look at the landscape as well, we've seen the decembimation ofl green landscape. >> reporter: more than a hundred tons of aide have arrived there. in the u.s. virgin islands residents feel they've been left in the shadows of puerto rico's recovery. >> we understand puerto rico is a lot more populated people there, but we do have our own needs here on the island and we don't see the supplies coming in for us as much as we need ...

Blow by hurricanes irma and maria. irma during the first week of september, then maria two weeks later. once pristine, the landscape of the british virgin islands is now littered with twisted metal and tangled tree trunks. >> frankly, the scene is like something out of a horror movie. very apocalyptic. also when you look at the landscape, as well, we've seen the decimation of all green vegetation. you know, everything has gone basically. so it's pretty stark. >> reporter: some 2,000 british military personnel are on the ground in the british virgin islands. more than 100 tons of aid have arriv...

Can see there is just patches of the highway that are completely surrounded and flooded in, making it very hard for residents to come in and out. people here are in desperate need of supplies, of water. there is a huge military presence here. yesterday the military delivered 60 cases of food to residents trapped inside of viter. they have also set up a command center about two miles from here with a mobile medical unit as well as a distribution center. you can just see how the water flooded this church over here to my right. law enforcement tells us that the water flooded more than half of the...

Including their pets on dry land. so we actually went to one of the staging areas and joined them on their boat. and the difficulties that they have, especially in the middle of the night, is staggering. they have had to navigate around fully submerged suvs, tree trunks, downed power lines. it's dangerous out there. the men and women who are part of the search and rescue operations are extremely brave. >> gosh, we're showing pictures now from yesterday. trucks and people walking through the standing water. we're expecting more. and this is -- you covered this so many times. this is the really ...

Term there'll be communities next to the eye wall. it will have an impact for those folks. jon. >> jon: we spoke earlier with the eye of the hurricane which passed right over rockport, texas. i was in the eye for hurricane hugo 28 years ago next month. an unbelievable experience. i was literally crawling in my hotel room and suddenly the wind stopped and the storm passed over and there was an eerie silence except for the tree trunks falling from the shock they'd been through and then the wall came back and we were in the storm again. it was one of the strangerest experiences of my life. adam k...