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acres. many families grieve while others simply host their loved ones will find their way home. you ve got to be scared. i ve been in different situations and that s the scariest. it comes in with the speed of water but has the mass of earth. it smothers. when the water leaves, when the fire leaves, you now have this new layer of completely smothering, destructive, deadly mud. it is really scary. they are overwhelmed. i can t believe this video captures people being pulled out from that mud that seems like lava. can they get everywhere. no, you can t travel in that stuff. it is is the worst of the worst. we have to move on to cnn money now. protecting the d.r.e.a.m.ers. christine romans has more. hi, alisyn and chris.
on that island. new york governor visited puerto rico friday to survey the immense damage and also help to deliver emergency supplies. governor, welcome back. on the phone with us right now so many new yorkers with family ties in puerto rico. some even living in new york some part of the year and in puerto rico. give me an idea of what you saw and why it was so important for you to visit. good afternoon, fred. as bad as it looks on television, it s actually worse in person. the damage is widespread. it s all across the island. you have structural damage to homes, commercial buildings. you have flooding that is still hasn t receded on the island. flooding brings long term problems. it s water and the water leaves.
rather than $4.50 or $7, like we had calls coming in. we have to go out and fix these isolated situations, which we can do legally. we will remind people that we have to be patient through and after the storm, knowing that prices are going to adjust a little bit on fuel and other commodities. trace: you know, once the water leaves, which could be in the next several days, you ve got another brand of people coming in that are trying to help that really aren t always trying to help, correct? that s correct. we want people to be certain that when contractors, roofers, rebuilders come around, they make sure they have credentials, they can call our office, ask questions, they can report. we have a hotline, people manning the hotline, they can go to the website of the attorney general s office and find out how to tell who the german people are. trace, the other thing is, we ll
today, and there s still so much cleanup to do once this water leaves. our problem will be that three, four, five days out we re still going to have a series of problems. we ve got to do the kinds of cleanup that many towns won t have to. we ll have debris all over the place, sewers we have to check, infrastructure. cracks in our roadways. we don t know what kind of damage that s going to bring. reporter: and he hopes that he ll have a chance to express that sentiment of the needs here in paterson alone to napolitano and fugate when he sees them this afternoon. tamron? thank you. right now relief workers in vermont are funneling supplies to towns that are completely cut off by irene and left without running water or power since this weekend. only one town, wardsboro, has not been reached. that has forced national guard helicopters to airlift food and medicine to the people trapped this. nbc s ron mott is tracking the relief efforts from rutland, vermont.