Hurricane irma, a category five storm, is bringing with it gusts up to 320 kilometres an hour, thats 200 miles an hour. The hurricane has already battered several of the leeward islands. The Prime Minister of Antigua And Barbuda says 90 of buildings on barbuda have been demolished, barbuda now is literally rubble, he said. The centre of irma smashed into the island, which was home to about 1,600 people. Six people are reported dead on saint martin and the neighbouring french territory of st barts. The eye of the hurricane has passed over the British Virgin islands, President Trump has declared a state of emergency on the Us Virgin Islands and puerto rico as the storm approaches. Our correspondent, laura bicker, reports from the capital, san juan. This is what it sounds like to be at the heart of one of the strongest storms recorded in the atlantic. The winds, like a jet engine, roared through the eastern caribbean. The category 5 hurricane ripped roofs off homes and devastated parts of