weave been seeing cars coming and going all afternoon. we re outside sam s club. it s a monday. schools are closed today so that people can take care of this. they re calling it an emergency on the island. banks are only allowing people to take sought so much money. the concern is water. 66,000 people on this island are still without water. this has been a line all day here. this is burt, you re originally from new york. sure. reporter: you live here now. why don t you tell me a little about about what you ve seen. okay. basically what i ve seen is some people, we ve been through storms before, we ve been through hurricanes. irma, thankfully, didn t hit us so hard but this one looks like it s going to hit us hard. some people nervous, some people a little more confident. me personally, i m confident. we got water just in case. that s the most important commodity you need. reporter: you talked about people being panicked, downright fear. fear, exactly. if you go inside sam s,
they re flooding the from the count country. reporter: that s right. president trump once famously said or accused the u.n. of being a place, a club where people get together and talk and have a good time. i can assure you this. regardless of what s happening behind the closed doors here, the people trying to get here on the streets of manhattan are defin nifly not having a good time, in a car or on foot. you know, this city as you know is a security challenge on any given day. you take on top of that and add 190-plus member states and deg gagss and word leaders on top of that protests that are scheduled throughout this week, one of them taking place this evening at 5:00, a group of rise and resist planning a march from grand central up to trump tower. on top of that, you put president trump himself and trump tower which is in midtown and you have an incredible headache. you know, you mentioned that the nypd referred to this as the kind of super bowl of security. well, that s really
ty cobb delivering accolades, many praise on mcgahn after the fact, saying he s helped me throughout the course. do you buy that? i think that was a little damage control, certainly. the concern among whout counsel and among the chief of staff is ty cobb was being incredibly indiscreet in having this conversation about such sensitive issues in such a public place. i would just add, peter, this was not only at this restaurant, blt steak, that is precisely 171 feet from the new york times d.c. bureau, but in the sidewalk seating area where not just any diner, but any passerby could potentially overhear these guys. cobb himself is a very recognizable guy with the big handlebar mustache. there s the photo you took. he s not inconspicuous at all. the substantive debates and the mistrust, that s what worried don mcgahn and white house
to churn its way through the atlantic. gaining strength and slowing its forward speed down within the next 24 hours or so. just punishing deja vu for so many in that region. dave price, thank you. fear setting in for residents of puerto rico. the island is now preparing for hurricane maria s potential impact after it was largely spared from the most devastating impacts of hurricane irma. tammy leitner on the ground in puerto rico, outside aisam s club where you can imagine people are buying up supplies. give us a sense of the feeling on the ground there and the status of the evacuations as people try to find safety. reporter: peter, you mentioned fear setting in. i can tell you we have seen, honest to god, panic out here. we ve been speaking to people all day. you see people making a run for the grocery stores, stocking up on cases of food, cases of water. take a look.
although that s obviously going to come up in the discussion, as you heard the president say. it s about the iranian nuclear deal. peter, you had a better ear for this than out here, but it sounded like he was going to be talking about it or announcing something very soon. there s a lot of people waiting to see what happens here, with iran and the view of the administration, perhaps adhering to the letter of the deal but not necessarily the spirit of it. that also plays into one of the other huge headlines that is looming if not the biggest headline looming over this united nations general assembly. that is, north korea and how to deal with the threat from a nuclear north korea. what are you going to hear from president trump tomorrow? what kind of tone or rhetoric will ambassador nikki haley have? she s been, obviously, very tough on this from a diplomatic sense inside the u.n. general is assembly but has made overtures that the u.n. is running out of patience, running out of time wit