provisions to individuals, helping with temporary shelters, assessing the damage for moving debris. just to give you an idea, right now we have on the island of st. thomas 70% of our utilities infrastructure is gone. 100% on saint johns john s. we re looking at so while we have people in shelters, the shelters are operating on generators. if there are generators in those shelters, which means we have issues of getting fuel to them and fuel to keep things pump it makes it an ongoing challenge that our we underthat i had a
provisions from the other islands. there s quite a bit of desperation going on on st. john with people there. that island was hit extremely hard. wo we re trying to get search and rescue and others on to that island to support them. the good thing is that fema has been on the ground for some time before the storm working with our governor, working with our local emergency management agency and national guard and our police department are really trying to continue to get distributions together. but we ve been hit pretty hard. as you re aware, irma passed almost directly on the north side of the island and while it was a category 5 so we had a tremendous amount of destruction here. and what are the top priorities for what your constituents need now? so right now it s getting
she s fortunate in that she made it inside the arena with irma just hours away. now i want to turn the congresswoman who represents the u.s. virgin islands. thank you for joining us. what are you seeing and learning about the devastation there? thanks so much for having me. sorry, i m losing my voice a little bit. i flew into st. thomas courtesy of the coast guard today. did a flyover of sant tt. thoma st. john. absolutely devastating t structures that are gone, hospitals that a compromised, government building roof is gone, police station, fire stations and also we have the real issue where the coast guard is trying to pull debris out of our ports so that the ships can come in so commercial boats, barges can come in, bringing