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Next tonight here, as the recovery simply begins here in florida, the destruction despair becoming clear in the caribbean. these nasa satellite images show the caribbean islands from the sky before hurricane irma struck, and then those islands seen again in the storm's aftermath, turned brown by the power of hurricane irma. and in some of those islands, u.s. forces are now racing to evacuate so many americans who are still stranded. here's abc's linzie janis tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. military scrambling to get stranded american tourists out of storm-ravaged st. martin, as teams m...

That island? >> oh, my gosh. that was the most sad thing for us. when we left the hotel to go to the airport and seen the whole devastation, everything was destroyed. it's very, very sad. we are very concerned about those people because they are running out of water and food. it was very, very sad to see, the shelters there, little kids saying their house was destroyed. it broke our hearts and it was very sad. >> it certainly makes you count your blessings. it's gives you a little bit of a duty. you need to tell all the people back in boston, as the weeks and months go by and they hear about c...

Pretty much every other news organization picked up and left before the storm because the forecasts were too dangerous so we ended up being one of the few organizations in town covering it. and we rode out the storm and then as the storm is still going on it was safe enough to start surveying some of the damage and then again today we made it out to pretty much the entire length of the keys and all the way back up to miami. we had to come back to miami after filming footage and doing interviews and surveying everything because we couldn't file our stories and a video from the road because all ...

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Floodwaters consumed many parts of miami-dade county during hurricane irma with the damage assessments still underway. bryan llenas is with us tonight with an update. >> it is now dark and really the only light that you are seeing is coming from our cameras. also from police vehicles, which are all canvassing protecting those that are out there. so many hundreds of thousands had to evacuate leaving their properties vacant. you take a look, a beautiful moon out here. it's a little eerie in the city but when you're out here in florida city this is where among the only entrance you can get into k...