we have loved ones. it s a very small island. so, you know everyone. so, to hear the story where they were flooding and then i have family members and friends who had to come to my house for safety because their house were flooding. they were in the attic and they had to run to my house for safety. it s very scary. i can certainly understand. as you re speaking we re seeing aerial footage of free port and the destruction there. what are you hearing as far as aide that s coming in from the government, the response, and when will that get there? this is the problem. i have not seen the government do nothing much. i have seen our people help more than the government. we are literally all we have right now at this moment. i have seen citizens and regular civilians help more than the government. people came on their own jet skis, risked their lives while
talking during the commercial break that you had friends on st. croix. they got spared when irma went through. they did not get spared this time. not at all. the eye wall went right over st. croix. that did not happen. it s a very small island, but a u.s. island. harris: it is part of the united states. huge impacts. we have no idea what happened. i m sure it was a cat 5 when it went through. i m sure there are winds of 1930 mi 190 miles an hour. lot of land mass. lot of islands that are in incredible need. not just one spot. harris: our people off the continent, the contiguous part of us. thank you very much. fema and members of the u.s. military are standing by, ready to rush aid into the hardest hit areas of puerto rico. our military at work.
far shorter runway? right, and that s the scenario we ve set up here. we re actually aiming for a very small island, a real island with a real runway, airports being a little extravagant here, located off of period, australia, an hour s ferry ride. so it s in the area. this is an airplane as you point out needs 6,000, 8,000 feet of runway. we re aiming for something almost half that. and mitchell will claim that i have purposely done this just to make him look bad on tv. because on top of the fact that it s a very short runway, we ve added in bad weather, which of course you never know what the weather s going to be. any port in a storm at this point. the aircraft would be pretty much running on fumes. and you re trying to make it to a runway which right now is almost invisible but it s that very narrow strip, say about, oh, 1:00. the air speed of this aircraft is about 140 knots now.
lifeboat, on the island where they life. they re familiar with the territory and indeed this lifeboat station. what about souvenirs? are there any for this particular event, the lifeboat or some would hope for a love boat. reporter: no. you stole you stole my line. there are it s a very, very small island. but the souvenirs of william and katherine on sale in london, it s absolute saturation coverage. i even saw a football with william and katherine s emblem on the front. tea towels, and everything. and the cover, the saturation of the souvenirs will become even greater over the next few weeks. mark saunders, cnn s royal wedding contributor. freezing over there in wales. waiting for the world s hottest couple to arrive. thank you very much. you are watching world one live from london.