Trumps defiant u. N. Speech as he hammered iran and threatened to total a destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley here live to respond. And violent hazing scandal. The College Football players turning themselves in facing felony charges accused of abducting, beating and abandoning their teammate leaving him severely injured. One of the accused, the son of a former nfl star. The Major Investigation this morning. And good morning, america. We have two big breaking stories this morning. The death toll is climbing. From that massive earthquake in mexico. So much destruction and you see right there, the desperate Recovery Efforts continue right now. And millions in puerto rico are in the path of Hurricane Maria trying to find shelter from the deadly storm looking live at the hurricane right there slamming the island as we speak. It made landfall just moments ago as a category 4 storm. And the governor is warning it could be puerto ricos most catastrophic hurricane in nearly a century. Right on top of last week, our chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, george. Category 4 hurricane, the first for puerto rico to make landfall earlier this morning since 1932 and now its sitting on that southeast corner bringing those heavy winds, over 100 miles an hour and extreme wind warning for 115 plus Miles Per Hour including san juan and put on the gust at the last hour, 91 and that is where we find our Victor Oquendo. I will show you that track coming what happens after this, but we have to get to victor because the pictures coming out of puerto rico, amazing, victor. Reporter ginger, were down on the street level where conditions are just getting worse. The winds are so loud, so powerful and only getting stronger. If you can see behind me, there is already a lot of debris covering the streets out here in the area of san juan where we are. This is a very popular tourist destination. There are a lot of tourists staying here at the hole tell thinking they were okay because Hurricane Irma passed by. They were not expecting maria to become what it is now. The big concern here, the wind damage and the storm surge. Especially for Certain Homes across the island. Puerto rico is filled with homes that were built, no code at all built illegally and those are the homes speaking with an engineering professor at a university here, saying that those are the ones that are most at risk. Those are the ones that will be destroyed possibly washed away by the storm surge. That said, a lot of the homes were built to a certain code built to withstand winds of 125 Miles Per Hour but thats like a category 2 hurricane. Maria obviously much stronger than that. Ginger just mentioned it. Puerto rico hasnt been tested by a storm this strong since 1932. The winds as i mentioned continue to pick up. Just look at that. Theres a piece of metal shielding out here. Looks like that came from some kind of awning, and its only getting worse here in this area. As far as the storm surge is concerned numberwise we could be looking at about 6 to 9 feet and the people who work here at the hotel, they tell us that its already worse here than when Hurricane Irma passed by, much worse at this point. Guys, im going to send it back to you for right now. Were going to go back to our safe spot. You better get inside. Thank you very much. Senior meteorologist rob marciano in the storm zone in san juan. Lets get to him. Good morning, george. All night and all morning long, we have been hit with Hurricane Marias winds, slamming puerto rico with the island now taking a direct hit. The waves have been piling up, and the surge has been pounding these buildings along the beach. Just inland, a lot of damage on the city streets. Communications down, and phone lines are down. Power is out, so its tough to know whats been going on, and the southeast corner getting hit hard when it hit hours ago. We have several hours to go, but right now, the entire island of puerto rico feeling the feel force of Hurricane Maria. Reporter Hurricane Maria slamming puerto rico. The island now taking a direct hit. Infrastructure already weakened from irma. We have not experienced an event of this magnitude in our modern history. Reporter people scrambling to board up their homes and make it to 1 of the 500 shelters now open. The airport shutting down overnight. Were going to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic to get out of the storm. We hope. Reporter this group vacationing on a honeymoon taking cover in their hotel room as maria barrels over the island. We prepared. We have supplies. We thought about worst Case Scenario situations. Reporter the hurricane ripping through the caribbean. Cant really see it but you can hear it. Reporter wreaking havoc on the virgin islands. Winds have picked up a lot. Reporter at its height a category 5 storm with winds of 175 Miles Per Hour. Im scared. Im really scared. Reporter st. Croix taking a pounding and people trying to ride out the storm there. John rhodes was there with Three Friends as maria moved in. Were in a solid threestory concrete structure. We moved into our second room. Our first room started to have a lot of water come in. Its very scary and the wind i think is over 105 miles an hour right now. Reporter the storm claiming at least one life in guadeloupe with four missing. 80,000 people without power. Neighborhood streets now rivers. Dominica taking a direct hit. Communications nearly all cut off. Family members of a med student at Ross University trying desperately to reach out to the island still with no power. You want to know your loved ones are safe. Your family, your friends. Marco has been there since may. He is an awesome kid, and i just need to hear from him. Reporter firstyear med student marcos parents said they havent heard from him since monday night. Tell me when to go. And we are back here on the northern side of san juan here. I can only imagine what went down when this thing made landfall on the southeast corner of this island. Obviously the eye getting closer and closer to us. That eye wall now scraping the northern beaches. These palm trees are just being tested to their limit. Right now, you can barely see the surf behind me blowing all this rain sideways. It is just pounding this shoreline and coming up on some of the buildings here, the storm surge is actually really encroaching on this building here which is standing up fairly well. Its pretty impressive how this particular structure is built. Still communications have been hard. Our signal has been going up and down, but you can see the ferocity of this wind right here. Not a whole lot of damage reports coming in yet, obviously, because of the communication but i assure you even as a category 4 they will be substantial. This is the strongest storm that this island has seen in over 80 years and the governor telling us this morning that 10,000 people roughly checked into shelters last night, which honestly seems like a low number considering how many people are evacuated out of the southeast corner of this island so hopefully people got to safe and sturdy structures like we are right now, but theres debris flying around the city of san juan and really were just now getting into the tough stuff. Guys . We can see that, rob. We want you to get inside right now. You are way close to that balcony. Thanks for that report. Now back to ginger and our extreme Weather Center for new developments on Hurricane Marias track. Ginger . He needs to get inside. We just saw a 113mileperhour gust in san juan itself and the eye not even there yet. The radar had the eye on it and then the radar went out. Thats the type of thing were seeing with this category 4 storm. As it keeps going to the north and east, you dont have to worry not just about storm surge and the wind but the rainfall. You can see up to 25 inches with flash flooding possible, especially on the eastern side of puerto rico as it tracks north and east of the Dominican Republic theyll still get lashed with heavier winds and turks and caicos just east of them, and it stays east of north carolina. We could see this interact with jose. Ill detail and what it could mean for us next week coming up. Okay, ginger, of course, well stay on Hurricane Maria all morning long. But well turn to the devastating earthquake in mexico. The search is on for survivors after that deadly cake struck about 75 miles southeast of mexico city. The 7. 1 magnitude quake killing more than 200 people. Many are still missing this morning. Our Senior National correspondent matt gutman is there for us and has the latest. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, robin. That death toll continues to rise with each passing hour. We now know that there are at least 20 schoolchildren among the dead. Officials say they were trapped when their building pancaked on top of them and now in mexico city, the frantic effort to try to rescue those still living. This is what it looked like when the 7. 1 quake struck near mexico city. We just lost a building in mexico city. Reporter powerful enough to pancake Office Buildings and schools. At least 21 children and 4 teachers killed after an entire wing of an Elementary School collapsed. Rescue workers scrambling to find the missing. Overnight, they clawed at the wreckage some with bare hands. The injured hauled away on stretchers, even in the arms of first responders. And that shaking lasted four agonizing minutes. It got even more intense, and really started shaking. Reporter inside this newsroom the walls shaking. Throughout the city alarms blaring, cars frozen the moment the quake struck. At a standstill, drivers scrambling out. Things in your house are falling over and shattering. Reporter throughout central mexico those choking clouds of dust, people panicking and praying. I still dont feel safe. I feel like im living in an aftershock constantly. Reporter as windows slipped down buildings like sheets of ice, debris crushed vehicles. The water at this park splashing as if in a giant bathtub. The quake struck just hours after countrywide safety drills on tuesday, drills that were put into place after mexicos deadliest earthquake back in 1985. Shockingly that quake which killed thousands rocked mexico on the exact same date, september 19th. And hampering the rescue efforts even more is the fact that there is no electricity in much of mexico city. Nearly 4 Million People cut off from power, and the roads are in such bad shape that rescuers are struggling even to reach those who need help. One more thing, we flew in here to guadalajara, a sixhour drive away because the Mexico City Airport was so badly damaged. Robin . All right, matt. Just the destruction that you see there. A lot of destruction there, and President Trump has sent his condolences to mexico saying, we are with you and we will be there for you. As he continues his week on the world stage in new york, today hes going to meet with foreign leaders including theresa may, their first meeting since President Trump sent that controversial tweet about the london subway attack last week and the president s blistering speech to the General Assembly where he threatened to destroy north korea and taunted kim jongun with a new nickname rocket man that sparked strong reactions around the world. Well talk to u. N. Ambassador, nikki haley, about that in a moment, but first, lets get to jon karl because he has more. Jon . President trumps grave threat to north korea is getting some blowback here at home from his critics. One prominent democratic senator is accusing the president of isolating the United States and using the u. N. As a backdrop to threaten war. Lets give this as a toast to the potential, the great, Great Potential of the united nations. Reporter with a raised glass and upbeat toast, President Trump welcomed the world to his hometown tuesday. But his u. N. Speech is generating headlines about the prospects of war with north korea. The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself for its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Reporter trumps 42minute speech at times drew audible gasps and murmurs from the crowd. His warning to north korean dictator, kim jongun, unlike anything the General Assembly has ever heard from an american president. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Reporter the north korean delegation had front row seats but boycotted the speech. Some of the iranian diplomats stayed to listen as trump hammered their leaders for funding terror. And he lashed out at the Nuclear Agreement president obama and americas closest allies in europe brokered with iran. That deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and i dont think youve heard the last of it, believe me. Reporter that sure sounded like a hint the president is considering ending the iran deal, but today, the president meets with the leaders of jordan and egypt, our arab allies that have a great interest in maintaining the Iranian Nuclear deal. They along with our european allies are encouraging the president not to walk away from the deal. Along with the u. N. Secretarygeneral, jon karl, thanks very much. Lets bring in nikki haley, ambassador haley, thanks for joining us. You heard some of that reaction to the president s speech yesterday, especially those words about north korea. The people jon quoted, the european foreign minister said we never talk about destroying countries. How do you respond to that . Well, i think what you saw yesterday from the president was he was being honest. I know that, you know, people and countries dont want to hear it, but here is a man who continues to test ballistic missiles. He continues to test now Hydrogen Bombs. He continues to threaten our allies. He says hes going to destroy the United States to ashes and says he is going to continue to send us gift packages to the United States. So if you want to talk about who has been giving the threats, its certainly been the kim regime. What we are saying is we have exhausted every diplomatic means and we are going to continue to do that. While hes continuing to be irresponsible well be responsible and tried to do dialogue and sanctions and the International Community actually very much appreciated the blunt, honest approach that the president took on north korea as well as on iran. The president also said the denuclearization is the only acceptable outcome for north korea. Does that mean that the United States is going to destroy north Koreas Nuclear weapons if kim jongun doesnt give them up . What it means is he needs to stop. He needs to stop with the Hydrogen Bomb testing. He needs to stop with the threats. He needs to stop with the does he need to give up the weapons . To the point we can have a regular conversation. Does he need to give up the weapons . Yes, he does not need to be a nuclear power. He has shown in every way why he would be an irresponsible nuclear power, and no one in the International Community wants to see that happen. Do you think its appropriate to use a term like rocket man to talk about the leader of another country who has Nuclear Weapons . Ill tell you, george, it worked. I was talking to a president of an african country yesterday and he actually cited rocket man back to me. So i will tell you that, look, this is a way of, like, you know, getting people to talk about him but every other International Community now is referring to him as rocket man. Ambassador haley, thanks for your time this morning. Thanks so much. Okay, george. We want to go back to Victor Oquendo in san juan, puerto rico, where Hurricane Maria is hitting right now. What are the conditions right now . Reporter robin, the conditions just continue to get worse out here. The winds really picking up and the debris starting to fly around in just about every direction. This black building behind me moments before you guys came to me, windows just blown out left and right. There was an awning on that building as well. If we pan over to the right if we can, a huge awning came down over there. Its a huge screen it was, like, a billboard of sorts. There was metal flying all over the place. At this point, the residents and everybody visiting the island has been told to schett ner place. Our security came by at our hotel saying, get out of your rooms and we dont want you near glass nearby. Go inside this one central room they have isolated for everybody to get safe. Maria hasnt reached san juan yet, and were feeling the strong effects, and for us, in our location, were surrounded by some concrete here, so we feel pretty safe, but if we need to, well obviously move inside. Plea