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
to learn hours later she was going to see damage at her home in vaejacksonville too. vs. i m lucky i have a supportive family that s going to help medical get out of here, save as much as i can, go forward and go back to work and figure it out. gary, what can you tell us about the everyall impact on jacksonville. it s hard to get a sense on the big picture. right anderson. the people of jacksonville said since yesterday, they ve conducted 356 rescues. not owl of those people and families were in dire straits but everyone was surrounded by water. last night in jacksonville more than 3,000 people slept in shelters. and we re told 15 different neighborhoods here in jacksonville were or still under water. anderson. all right thank you very much. i want you to meet lee
destroyed? yeah, it s pretty much gone, anderson. i was talking with my friends that i flew up here off island, and they reminded me of something that was very important. you know, listening to what she just said, a hurricane can can destroy an old, tear down houses, it can dev tastate all our friends home, my home or whatever, but the one thing i love about all the people of the island is their heart, spirit and how resilient they are. a hurricane can take away all of our stuff, my house, kate s house, all the boats she worked on, all my friends boats but they cannot take away our heart and spirit and how resilient everybody is. that s one of the things that drew me to the island in the first place. it was a very great group of people that loved life, loved
its ended up a few blocks away on its side on top of the bank here in the canal. there was a lot of damage here anderson. there still isn t any power. people had generators and there was police in the area. it s a very very difficult situation getting around here for a lot of these folks where the eye of the storm went right over. anderson. randy appreciated you getting there. it headed to florida, hurricane decimated, caused a lot of destruction in the island. i want to get a update from st. thomas. irma hit st. thomas as a cat 5 storm. what s the damage there like? anderson, it was absolutely stunning from the moment that we got here, actually from before we got here. we pulled up on a boat, trying to get on this island. as you mentioned, irma hit this island, st. thomas before it hit the continental united states.
distributed? i couldn t really guess on that, anderson. i know there s a gasoline pump on the island, so getting stuff around from the airport is difficult, but beyond that, i couldn t tell you. what kind of stuff are you flying in? are you flying supplies in? are you ferrying people back and forth? both. it s not just me. we have a team and a bumbling of pilots here and a bunch of people and crews here doing all the flying. we re doing both. the idea is bring people up. initially it was the dutch marines. now it s red cross and those sort of agencies. we don t have a spare seat when we leave. we load up people that desperately need to get off the island and we take them off.