trees were falling on houses, my friend is a true business, able to do emergency work. i would get out now before it gets bad because people were in bad trouble. laura: bianca, a word of caution, a word to the wise, we appreciate your sharing that story. so many difficult natural disasters over the years. on this anniversary of 9/11, we remember the past natural disasters and we got to employ those lessons of how we deal with this next threat to the mainland. up next, a moving last bite. keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424.
up to speed. governor mapp called me, i know the governor, and there are a lot of connections between new york and the virgin islands. the governor himself actually was a new yorker. he was a member of the nypd at one time, actually. so there are a lot of connections. i had worked in the federal government, as you know, as secretary of hud. i had done a lot of emergency work here in new york. so he asked us to come down, help with an assessment to see how we could pitch in. the virgin islands doesn t have the depth of government that we have here in new york or most states. so that was the purpose of the visit. but it is devastating. i want to ask you as well, you made some other news today in the midst of this trip on immigration. you signed in new york state as the governor an executive order that tells the state police they can t be inquiring about immigration status. i know you ve got some conservative critics saying this amounts to a form of amnesty. tell us about what the order
island was down. the poles, snapped like twigs. tables down but i don t mean here and there. all of the cables, power cables down in the street, poles blocking the roads, homes, steve, that had two walls blown out literally. and people still living in the homes. so it s going to be a really long, long time before they come up to speed. governor mapp called me, i know the governor, and there are a lot of connections between new york and the virgin islands. the governor himself actually was a new yorker. he was a member of the nypd at one time, actually. so there are a lot of connections. i had worked in the federal government, as you know, as secretary of hud. i had done a lot of emergency work here in new york. so he asked us to come down,
and personal belongings are out on the front. it is a painful scene to see. but it is even more painful that they don t have water. they don t have medical care. and they don t have and they don t have food. the city and county are doing an excellent job as you well know. we have the convention center shelter that is set up early. i ve been there since sunday. nrg combining a lot of shelters there and so certainly the local leaders have done the emergency work. now we have to deal with placing people, but more importantly we have to deal with people who were able to stay in place, who were still around areas where they can t access the basic necessities. so that is why i think this request of which we emphasize, i ll give you two points that i emphasize. one, replace the dam. put in new dams and secure those dams and make them able to with stand the catastrophic incident of hurricane harvey.
more than 800 apartments and five tower blocks evacuated. there are concerns that these buildings could ignite the way the grenfell tower did last week. the death toll in that blaze stands at 79. emergency work is still under way to replace exterior material feared to be flammable. now to that small plane crash back here at home, all caught on camera. that single-engine piper losing control, on the right side of your screen, crashing into a daycare center in florida. luckily no children were there at the time. but officials reporting that one person died and another person has been rushed to the hospital from that scene. now to the f-16 thunderbird accident at an ohio airport, the jet flipping over on the runway, trapping the pilot and his crew member. this all happening right before a major air show. tonight, the famous thunderbirds are grounded, following this crash before the dayton air show. one of their f-16s flipping off the runway.