off of poles. electricity poles have been snapped and are covering the roadway. in fact, we were there and we came across a 20 foot by 20 feet piece of somebody s roof that came off a building. no one knows where it came from exactly. we were talking to some of the local police officers and they were commenting on it as well. that s the scene that people are waking up to this morning. as people slowly start to filter in highway 98, the causeways and bridges open up again, people will come back to quite a mess. back to you. thanks very much. what a scene there. look at the boat lifted right there. up and into someone s yard. we re going now to mexico beach. city council member on the phone now. thanks for joining us. it strikes us one of the biggest
in ellicot city. while they are grieving, they are comforted by his courage, strength and selflessness. in the meantime the city is facing new challenges as it tries to clean up from those storms. a sewage main broke and overflowed nearby spilling waste and leading to a health alert and there is a new policy for residents on the big island of hawaii. first responders will no longer go door to door to rescue residents who refuse to evacuate. he said if they refuse to leave once final evacuation orders have been given then they will have to fend for themselves. meantime, more than 400 electricity poles have been damaged due to lava flow. there are hundreds of power outages in lower puna. wilbur ross is supposed to head to china for trade talks and that may not happen according to the wall street
of the netherlands, into belgium and germany as well as france and now another low pressure system lining up to wry in more wind, rain and high elevation. snowfall. you can see the radar lighting up like a christmas tree across this region. specifically across the uk right now. we have a wet day for london. but high elevation snowfall as you head a little further north towards scotland. look at the wind gusts within the next 24 to 48 hours. easily exceeding 60 to 80 kilometers per hour. that could take down a few of those trees, or branches, or even electricity poles that were impacted by the storm earlier in the work week. snowfall totals are seriously impressive across switzerland, the french and italian alps. over 120 centimeters of snow. convert that to feet, well that s about four feet of snow. can you imagine that? australia also experiencing some wild weather. hot conditions across many of the eastern states. in fact, temperatures running 5
will be back around the end of february, but there s a lot of mountainous, very difficult areas to reach that they are saying may, we ll see at tend of may if everybody has power back. there s been a delay in getting supplies, the materials they need to get the power back on just haven t arrived. i mean, the things that they ordered two months ago are only showing up at the port in puerto rico now. so that all these thousands of electrical workers that have been trying to get the lights back on in puerto rico have been doing so without the cables and electricity poles that they need to do their job. so when you re on the ground there, francis, when you re talking to folks in puerto rico, what are they telling you? how are they feeling? you know, puerto ricans are really amazing. i don t say that just because i am puerto rican. they are resilient, they are brave. they look at the other side of the cup. i tell the story all the time and will keep telling it until the day i die, i int
storms in the atlantic for the first time in history. but it has run rush shod over so many places. and jose is a concern now, because as it went across the islands, people lost power and the accessibility to where this is headed. in bard buddbuda, 95% of the structures on this island destroyed. the prime minister got into a chopper, got to the island. he s bartering to get boats to get people off of the island. that island was cut off from the world for about 12 hours, no communication. now, to st. martin, an island shared between the french and dutch. roofs were shredded, boats were torn into pieces. electricity poles were snapped in half. on the dutch side, you have troops deployed to get people back on their feet there. moving east to west, the u.s. virgin islands, we saw the roof