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the days after this storm. people with private jets, people with yachts, things they would otherwise be using for fun time, using them to bring in supplies to this island and get people off. this island is very isolated. it takes time. the circumstances and what they re seeing here is the worst circumstances and they re struggling. thousands of islanders do not have power, and a lot of people do not have clean water. they re trying to bring medicine in on private planes, boats, diapers, food, bottled water. we talked to people who spent two or three days simply trying to chain saw their way off of their street to get to the main roads. and now what they re doing is trying to help each other get the supplies that they need. i talked to three brothers who
crying, looking dazed. some describing some fairly traumatic lord of fly-esque scenarios as they waited for days. food, water running out. and they described criminalality. staying up each night to kind of afford each other protection. so there was a sense of many enst. martin they were abandoned by the french government. we saw the french president today here. and he was vowing the place would be rebuilt, the water will be back, the schools reopen. but, frankly, wolf it is difficult to see how that will happen quickly. because we are still some 150 nautical miles away from st. martin. the situation there still very
now to eight here in the united states. the casualty count. many times in the caribbean with irma struck as a category 5 storm, we re getting new first-hand accounts of the devastation there as well. the urgent need for food, water and lots of other supplies. our senior national correspondent clarissa ward is on the island for us. tell us what you re learning. reporter: that s right, wolf. so this is essentially a processing center. and for for last four days some 4,000 people have passed through here. a vast majority of them come from the island of st. martin which has been decimated by irma. authorities now saying 91% of the buildings on that island have been damaged. many of them have simply been wiped out. and what we ve seen from the people, many of whom are almost staggering in here some on crutches, wheelchairs, many
made a complete unit and brought it back to the lab, and we are trying to do like a lab demonstration, and what you see here is like you have oil coming from the yellow pipe and water coming from the water coming from the yellow pipe and oil coming from the purple pipe, and it is a total separation and 99% efficient. two minutes ago you started this up and explaining it to us, and we see that you have oil and water mixed in that big bucket, big barrel, and in the yellow pipe, water running out, and in the purple pipe the oil coming out, and it separates it just that quickly, so it s fast. it is fast. it s almost instant. very interesting, doctor. let us know what happens if you do get to use this device at all during this cleanup. but, you know, ingenuity. last week i just like looking at this.
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