Were on the west coast but the effects of Hurricane Irma are being felt all over this state still. Theres a lot to report over the next two hours. Were going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. There are now 16 deaths in the United States contributed to the storm. Twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. Fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. Over the next two hours well hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see whats left behind or not left. Virgin islands, the people there have told us theyre feeling neglected. The three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. Kroiks, st. Thomas. Here in the western side, they are shooting for september 22nd, thats next friday. More on that situation in a moment. First, we want to start in the keys. Lisa, is a nurse who wrote out the storm in key west. I spoke to her by phone a few moments ago
that was a complete swing and a miss. it s going to be a 70 mile per hour storm or very close to a hurricane when it runs over st. croix and even into the eastern half thereof puerto rico. and a lot of times you see the storm being bad on the right side, this one actually has more rain on the left side. 100 mile per hour storm somewhere between miami and maybe charleston. and i know alisyn talked about this with the hurricane center. it could be a lot less, could be more, this is still five days out. many, many things could still happen here. here s the radar. oats not an eye, but what we will see this heavy rainfall will get to st. kroiks, will get to all of puerto rico and at least 6 to 10 inches of rainfall coming down. and in those mountainous areas that will be bad. new hurricane hunter aircraft, alisyn, just had a flight level
we re on the west coast but the effects of hurricane irma are being felt all over this state still. there s a lot to report over the next two hours. we re going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. there are now 16 deaths in the united states contributed to the storm. twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. over the next two hours we ll hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see what s left behind or not left. virgin islands, the people there have told us they re feeling neglected. the three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. kroiks, st.