heard anything from anyone, and no information has been disseminated at all. and who what members of your family have you been trying to contact? well, this very brief item here, my mother-in-law is here with us here in long island, new york as she returned with us when we left from a vacation that we had there in july. so my mother-in-law, which is my wife s mother, all her brothers are there, sister-in-laws are there, nephews, niece, cousin, relatives. we would say somewhere in the 100 area, the relatives are located there in anegada. so just to clarify, you re talking about 100 members or so of your family of whom you have not been able to contact. have you been able to get in contact with any neighbors, even with the british embassy? well, what is interesting
he said what is this about? i said it s about the island anegada. he said where is that located? i said it s in the british virgin islands. this is one of your territories. he said i never heard of it before. would you spell the name for me. so i had to spell anegada to someone who works in the embassy that didn t even know that bvi had anegada even in its throngs. so it was completely upsetting. and after doing that, i called a couple of other news outlets. no one had any information about anything to get to us. and the only reason why ultimately i said to myself, chad myers mentioned anegada multiple times in his report. he is the only person that did. so we re missing our family members. we don t know what s going on. we heard all types of things. so that s where we came about. but no help from the british embassy whatsoever. well, pastor, we ll keep your
about that is this. my you can see the concern in my mother-in-law s face continuing to rise on a daily basis, looking at all of the horrible images of the devastation that irma has put into place on television. but at no time except for chad myers, he did mention anegada several times a couple of nights ago, no one else, even the word anegada ever came out of anyone s mouth. after seeing all that, we decided that we were going to reach out to the embassy in new york, the british embassy in new york. the british embassy in new york stated they could not help at all. so then we were transferred to the home office in britain. and when we were transferred to britain, and i spoke directly to the officer that was there, and i was explaining to him our situation. we ve not heard from our relatives. where are you? what is going on? do you have any information.
and a task group is on its way on hms ocean with several hundred uk troops. and of course we ll continue the look at what is needed and provide what is necessary. well rkthe most northerly of the islands and about 300 people live there. just over 100 of whom got out ahead of the arrival. we re still waiting to find out really the extent of the damage communication with the island has been impossible since the hurricane hit. well, let s get more. leonard miles jr. joins me on the phone now from long island, new york. he has a family on anegada and says he has been unable to reach them for days. pastor, thank you very much for joining us on newsroom l.a. tell us, when was the last time you spoke to your family? the last time we spoke with the family was some time on monday. and since then, we have not