Emergency declaration across the entire state where one person died after a tree fell on their house. The death toll from the storm now at 40. Irma brought extensive flooding to charleston, south carolina. Look at the downtown area covered in water and nearby an isle of palms the winds whipped up a spout from the atlantic spinning into the beach, dump ping even more water on the flooded shore. Over 8 Million People remain without power meanwhile, while new footage comes in, thrashing homes and vehicles. Surging in a lobby in miami. One of the many cities devastated by flooding. The floridas governor gave an update on the response. Everybody is going to work hard. The way i think about it, we have to keep everybody safe. We have to get, weve got to get our hospitals back open. We have to get our fuel back here. We have to get our roads open. We have to get everybody electricity back. And i cant tell you anybody thats not working. My experience is everybody is working their tail off. And unfortunately everybody is going to have to be patient because its going to be a lot of work to get this undid. The coast guard is helping out meanwhile rescuing over 100 people in jacksonville, florida. They saved more than 100 more in other states making a vast area of evacuation for federal response teams. We are marshaling the federal response for alabama, georgia, louisiana, tennessee and all of those wonderful places and states in harms way. When americans are in need, americans pull together, and we are one country. And when we face hardship, we emerge closer, stronger, and more determined than ever. The u. S. Is also helping out in the storm ravaged caribbean with the navy sending an Aircraft Carrier along with multiple ships and hundreds of marines and sailors to help provide humanitarian relief. Many are already there part of First Response efforts evacuating those in need via helicopter. While the coast guard has already delivered over 100,000 meals and other needed supplies like generators and baby formula. He lets turn to my coanchor fi phillip mena at Fort Lauderdale airport. Today is likely the day everybody gets to come in and out. At least thats the hope. Reporter yeah, that is the hope, frances. Good morning. Today everybody is looking forward to right now miami and Fort Lauderdale international airports, they are set to reopen today at 9 00 a. M. We have been seeing steady trickle of tsa employees and airline employees and even the handful of passengers who have shown up hours before the first flight is scheduled to depart at 9 00 a. M. Many of the people here are just excited to try to either get back to their homes, and theres also plenty of people who evacuated during Hurricane Irma or prior to it, hoping to be safe from it. And now theyre trying to get back and there is going to be some issues getting back. Its going to be slow going. The big stories here are that the travel in and out of here as well as the cleanup effort, driving around neighborhoods yesterday, thats what we saw, just a lot of damage in those neighborhoods. But mostly we spoke to a lot of people who were thankful that irma spared not only their lives, but their homes. And we spoke to one of those individuals yesterday. Take a listen. When andrew happened, all my roofs went. I had to put my daughter, my two daughters and my wife in a closet. That was the only thing that was left. I had to stand outside the clos et holding it. And watch everything go by me. And the wind. Every time the wind went, it just felt that feeling when its going to happen next. Is it going to happen to me . And you know, i prayed a lot, and i will continue to pray because, thank god, thats why im here. Reporter just a harrowing experience for that man and so many others who survived this thankfully. Now, traveling in and out of here for the next few days is going to be tough. Flights are limited as well as rental cars and Train Service is still not available yet. So, patience is going to be a virtue today, frances. All right, philip, best of luck to the people there. Thank you. Before barrelling across florida, then Hurricane Irma swept across the caribbean leaving nothing but utter devastation in its wake. Relief is arriving in the region, but many remain in desperate need of help. Nbcs ron has more from san juan. Reporter the usually lush green u. S. Virgin islands are a lifeless dull brown paradise torn apart by irma. Many homes damaged or destroyed, looting and burglaries reported from American Service members arriving to help clean up. Its still a mess. Home invasions have been high on property. Thats a big concern. Lots of people are Walking Around armed. Reporter Britney Gonzalez who evacuated to mississippi worried about her husband still there. Its not going to be the same saint john and we dont know if it can even be our home again. Reporter further south on st. Maarten, the hurricane is said to have destroyed 90 of the island. American medical student mike shot this video of the damage where he lives. Cars tossed around the parking lot, finally able to leave on an American Military plane. Hes in puerto rico. There were plenty of times, you know, that night and also throughout the week where i really wondered, gees, you know, how is this going to end . Reporter now cruise ships are arriving to take others out. On bar bud a nearly 100 destroyed, Tour Operator craig ryan, ferrying people off the island. Families on nearby antigua taking strangers into their homes. These families have lost everything. You couldnt believe that there was a town there before. Its surreal. Snoosh officials seri construction in barbuda alone could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Billionaire Richard Branson posting these images of destruction at his island home. Branson already helping with the relief effort. That was nbcs ron mott reporting. As the president continues to monitor irmas path of destruction, his former chief strategist steve bannon is busy making headlines that have roiled the west wing saying the biggest mistake of the president and warg on the gop. Someone said you described the firing of james comey, youre a student of history, as the biggest mistake in political history. That would be probably thats probably be too bomb bass tick even for me, maybe modern history. The establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That is a brutal fact we have to face. Bannons website breitbart followed up going after trump, the vicepresident , Jeff Sessions and others. For more well go to nbcs tracy potts. Bannon is showing how much pressure he can put on the white house now. Reporter pressure on the white house, pressure on the party just as they are facing some big decisions, frances. But here on capitol hill, bannons message not resonating so much. Listen to what john mccain, a republican, said when asked about steve bannon and his comments on the firing of james comey. [ inaudible ]. Steve bannon, these are things that all he does is provide gossip. Im supposed to comment on [ inaudible ] . Good night. Reporter mccain not wanting to deal with this at all, tim kaine a democrat called it inside baseball. He said it doesnt really affect anything that has to do with americans, things like tax reform that the white house wants to focus on now, except theyre peppered with all these questions about bannon at the white house briefing. Sara huckabee sanders, the president s spokes woman defended firing james comey, saying that he did what he wasnt supposed to do, that he talked to reporters. And so now the president is dealing with this backlash from the man who used to run things on the inside. Meantime, tonight a dinner at the white house focusing on tax reform, hes invited in two republicans on the finance committee and three democrats these are the three democrats that did not sign onto their partys tax plan. Tracy potts for us. Tracy, thanks. Its going to be a long dinner, long, long dinner. Lets check in with meteorologist bill karins on the remnants of irma, my friend. There is only a little bit left. The rain were dealing with, the current conditions, 35 mile per hour winds northwest at 15. And now it is just drifting its way through georgia. And we still watch the rain. Its made its way all the way to the mississippi river, through mississippi and also through tennessee. Thats kind of rare. You dont usually see that with tropical sis temtz especially heading onto florida. 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We havent had much flooding, but we have had were a city thats literally in the forest. If you get above about five stories, you cant see our city because of the tree coverage. So, when we have storms like this, we have a tremendous problem with trees coming down across power lines. Weve got over 80 calls in right now with power lines down. Several houses have been damaged by falling trees and limbs. And a lot of Electrical Outages and georgia power, which is the primary electrical provider here, cant send crews out until the storm ends. So, we expect when the sun comes up in about an hour and a half, that the damage around here is going to be very substantial. Weve asked people to stay off the roads. Weve asked businesses to delay opening until weve had a chance to assess how bad the damage really is overnight. Mayor paul, were looking at the damage in your town. Did you ever think that when we first started covering this storm over the weekend when everybody in miami, in the caribbean, and the keys and when it started tracking west, were all fearing for their communities and their lives, that eventually that you would be the victim and seeing this aftermath from irma . Well, we started preparing on monday. We were working very closely with the National Weather service to track the storm, and we had a feeling that this may happen. This is the first time weve experienced Tropical Force Winds in recorded history in this area. Wow. So, we began to anticipate it. And, so, the good news for us is people went about their business preparing and getting ready for it very calmly, and we havent had a lot of panic or problems and people are just hunkered down right now in their homes waiting for the sun to rise and let us do the evaluations we need to do to see how quickly we can get it cleaned up. Today is going to be focused 0 n on clean up. 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Weve got clouds to start. We will have clouds throughout the day. More of a mostly cloudy forecast. Not the big, thick, puffy cloud coverage necessarily, but high clouds. Take a look. The rain not too far off. The outermost bands, sprinkles possible for delaware. Most of us, the rain not coming in until we go tonight, tomorrow morning. Then well have on and off showers in the forecast for several days. Well talk more about that coming up in a few minutes. Right now, well go to traffic with jessica boyington. Were watching the boulevard now. Our cameras around 9th street. We actually have a construction project underway here. On the southbound side. In between 9th and summerdale avenue, lane restrictions. Theyre partially blocking the intersection. Some traffic is moving by here, maybe the outer lanes. For now, definitely watching some of this construction project. Hopefully that clears by 5 00 or so. Well keep our eyes on that for you. Also watching the schuylkill expressway. Theres a construction project in between belmont to gulf mills, lane construction westbound. A 12minute drive time westbound from the vine and center city to the blue route. Speeds high, into the 50s. 4 00 a. M. 52 degrees. Breaking news in wilmington. A house fire kills a man and leaves his wife in critical condition. A third person who rushed in to help was not seriously hurt. The call came in around 11 20 west