By a powerful earthquake. Plus a rare spotlight for the first lady Melania Trump. A big speech at the United Nations as we steps into a more public role. I will always stay true to myself. And be truthful to you. No matter what the opposition is saying about me. Were keeping an eye dramatic search and rescue operation under way in mex skoe city at a school where rescuers hope they can still find children alive in the rubble. Well take you there in a moment. A very dramatic situation playing out in mexico city. For puerto rico, its an entire day under a wet and windy siege pummeled by hurricane maja. Its the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly a century. It first slammed into the island with winds of 155 miles per hour. So strong you see it right there almost lifted our reporter laila santiago off her feet. More than 11,000 people hunkered down in emergency shelters. Remember, 3. 3 Million People live on puerto rico. Many found refuge in stair wells or even bathrooms padded with
Continuing to put their lives on the line digging on hands and knees trying to locate possible survivors. Just incredible moments here as a woman is pulled to safety. Freedom after being trapped for two long days. Can you imagine . At least 50 people have been saved from under the debris so far. And the rescue efforts continue. And i want to go straight now to miguel marquez. He is in mexico city live for us where another rescue effort is under way for a little girl. Any indication, miguel, that theyre getting closer to rescuing this little girl stuck under the rubble . Reporter well, i think every moment that goes by they get a little closer. I want to show you a little of the scene thats going on here. All the people here off to my right are volunteers waiting to go in. The reason they need so many volunteers is because as they are pulling rubble out of the two locations that they are digging into they think they have a position on where she is, theyre trying to get in through two di
Tell our viewers exactly what youre seeing. Well, at this point, we still have heavy winds and rain, still coming down as Hurricane Maria continues her path through puerto rico. But ill let you take a look behind me. Because if you just look at the debris on the ground, if you just look at the trees that continue to sway, i know were wiping off the camera right now, given that there are heavy rains coming down, but take a look at these apartment complexes, that no longer have some of the boards that were put up. Some of the metal sheeting that went up. They are just completely exposed in areas. And then let me bring you back down a little bit, so that you can see the impact to businesses here. The trees are still swaying quite a bit. A little left on them. And then look at that hard rock, cafe, that has a tree completely come down. The Hard Rock Cafe sign is on the ground. Starbucks coffee, next to it, only has the word coffee up because the rest of the sign came down. And its neighbor
Sounds like it was a team effort and very difficult to accomplish. Right now, this site behind us, this ship that we want to show a little closer view of, its a sight that stops you in its track. This is one of many cargo ships that pass here on a daily basis that locals see, but never have they seen a ship not going anywhere, on its side. You can see right now that the u. S. Coast guard is kind of on standby right outside the ship there. And you mentioned, they had to put a hold on their rescue mission on the ship. And thats because earlier today, there was black smoke and flames visible. Lieutenant phillip van der white of the u. S. Coast guard told me that there was possibly even multiple fires. So because of that, they had to get off of the vessel and stop that operation for now. Just about an hour ago, the u. S. Coast guard did tweet that they have a Damage Assessment team coming from station brunswick. And so thats the team thats going to have to come here and make sure its safe
winner. i understand that we are actually going to bring up our reporter who s standing by gustavo valdez have we got gustavo standing by? gustavo and talk to us about the outcome here? of course, we ve learned that claudia sheinbaum has one. but what was the holdup here well, it was something that the institute of elections called off the first conference about an hour ago, they said there was a glitch the system they assured everybody that it wasn t hacking. but within men as they just announced, their results and they re really shocking because even though it was expected, the cloud is sheinbaum was going to win the polls earlier during the campaign, showed that she had broad support, but she might get up to 60% of the vote. this is even hired that what andres manuel lopez obrador we ve got six years ago. so the support for the morena party that they represent, it s much higher