i know a lot of people have seen the images coming out of dominica. in the images that came out of barbuda and st. thomas and saint martin from hurricane irma. if we continue to see hurricane maria pack the punch of sustained winds and the pressure is still dropping, it s intensifying. if we sit back and continue, i have a big fear that we will deal with some catastrophic damage. tucker: puerto rico is not barbuda. it s pretty densely packed. have people evacuated at all? most of the people did evacuate. there are some that were not able to get out but they have hunkered down. we ve seen most of the people boarding up vehicles to elevated areas. it s going to be big, big issues here. tucker: it s really horrifying to think another hurricane is coming. maybe the worst of all.
i know a lot of people have seen the images coming out of dominica. in the images that came out of barbuda and st. thomas and saint martin from hurricane irma. if we continue to see hurricane maria pack the punch of sustained winds and the pressure is still dropping, it s intensifying. if we sit back and continue, i have a big fear that we will deal with some catastrophic damage. tucker: puerto rico is not barbuda. it s pretty densely packed. have people evacuated at all? most of the people did evacuate. there are some that were not able to get out but they have hunkered down. we ve seen most of the people boarding up vehicles to elevated areas. it s going to be big, big issues here. tucker: it s really horrifying to think another hurricane is coming. maybe the worst of all. brett, godspeed. thank you for that.
irma, especially devastated the island of barbuda where 90% of the structures have been damaged and every single resident has been evacuated leaving the island without human inhas been tupbs for 300 years. joining me now is a congress wapl representing the u.s. virgin islands and bloomberg reporter, jordan holmen. there was significant damage in st. john, but throughout the usvi. how is the recovery going? we were grateful before the hurricane came we had fema embedded on the island. being part of the united states means we have had support from the dod and the navy is there and the marines are on the ground, but the devastation, as you said, is extreme. we were hit as a category 5,
support and the aid from the federal government the states have, and now it s that fight to not be forgotten. there s another hurricane coming. we are telling everybody to get in shelters if you are on st. thomas or st. john, go to st. croix because there s a hurricane coming to the islands directly on tuesday. let s talk about st. martin, which has been utterly devastated by the storm. what is the status of barbuda? has anybody been able to go back? as you mentioned at the top of the segment, there s not that many habitatents there. you are trying to figure out how to return home if that s possible. we know the virgin islands because it s a u.s. territory,
there are certain rights and the obligation the u.s. has to it, and for the rest of the caribbean, where is the aid going. is the same level of aid coming to places like st. martin and barbuda? that s a tricky one. the u.s. virgin islands, they are u.s. citizens and have a connection to the u.s. economy, and for the smaller caribbean nations there s not the large federal aid. they experienced hurricanes before and it s going to be a year s long thing looking for where aid can come from to help rebuild. joy, one of the things you needed, in the u.s. virgin islands we were prepared and fema was there on the ground before. when you look at places like barbuda and st. martin, their parents were not there and now it s a rush to try and bring that support to them, which i think is going to be a difficulty in the recovery for them. absolutely.