island right now because of lack of resources and stuff like that. i felt that s why some people should get off. but i would like to go back. it s my home. i have 11 years worth of stuff there. my brother s there. he just got back with a couple other guys that grew up down there. that he got bottom to saint croix and they brought supplies and they re ready to rebuild stuff. i thought i could do more up here to help than being down there. i d like to go back. i don t know if i would go back for good because what i do right now working on boats is out of the picture for a little bit. i ll go back down and see what i can do and help out, but i ll try to help as much as i can up here right now. just get the word out because everyone is doing everything they can do right now. anderson, i d like to say there s a group of people at my
are day six. they were hit on wednesday. today is tuesday night. we are a week in. they have the help, the services, and the finances of some top tier companies. the netherlands for the dutch side and france for the french side, and yet, this is where we find ourselves a week in. i ll say one last thing. we understood why that was. this is an island. i know i m saying something obvious, but that means everything they need to rebuild and they need a lot, has to be flown in or brought in by boat, and that makes things a lot slower, anderson. i m glad you found a place. we wish you the best. we ll check in with you tomorrow. there s a lot more to focus on. we ve been trying to get as much word out about what is happening in the caribbean because that seems to be an escalating reality, frankly. it s not a story, it s
anderson? just amazing all the i m glad we have reporters all throughout the keys. i appreciate that. it s not just the keys. food, gas shortages, lack of power, caribbean islands were hit very, very hard. people who survived are describing it s some nightmare scenarios. clarissa ward as more on that. the island of st. martin. last week, one of the jewels of the caribbean now a paradise lost. not a day went by, she says, without us thinking we were very lucky to live on this ideal island. six days after irma pummeled st. martin, officials say more than 90% of the buildings on the island are damaged or destroyed. food and water are still scarce, power remains out for most. thousands of tourists were stranded for days.
keys. all the rough seas out there, that battle group will arrive in the keys and start providing some of the needed medical support and helicopter support to reinforce that string of islands in the keys, as well as being able to to get phone cell services up. i appreciate it. coming up, more on my interview with kenny chesney, a friends of his who rode out the storm in his house with 16 of his friends on the island of success. he s trying to do all he can to help the virgin islands rebuilding and recover. we ll talk to kenny ahead. for my constipation,
justin, connor, tyson, josh. there s a lot of guys up there at the house that literally went to an area called bordeaux mountain two days ago and with chainsaws and crow bars cut through homes and saved 20 people s lives that nobody would have ever found. antonio too. there s a lot of people that goes to the heart and the spirit of that island and the people on it that have always helped everybody. and the nickname of that island is called love city. and that s part of the heart of that title and the nickname tot island is those guys that have done such great work. i m so proud of them and everybody on the island that s coming together to try to make it a great place again. i just wanted to mention those guys because they ve inspired me so much. it s a rough place to go. when i say rough, i mean terrain. you got to hike up to bordeaux mountain.