Were on the west coast but the effects of Hurricane Irma are being felt all over this state still. Theres a lot to report over the next two hours. Were going to be focusing on what happened in the caribbean where the storm has passed by the misery is remaining. There are now 16 deaths in the United States contributed to the storm. Twelve of them here in the states and at least others in the caribbean. Fema estimates 19 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. Over the next two hours well hear from survivors who rode out the storm and people who coming home to see whats left behind or not left. Virgin islands, the people there have told us theyre feeling neglected. The three largest islands in the virgin islands, st. Kroiks, st. Thomas. Here in the western side, they are shooting for september 22nd, thats next friday. More on that situation in a moment. First, we want to start in the keys. Lisa, is a nurse who wrote out the storm in key west. I spoke to her by phone a few moments ago. Lisa whats the situation in key west, what are you seeing around you . Right now theyre clearing the roads and debris in the key west, theres no power and the cell phones are not looking. I think people can look with a google map at houses. Some houses have roof damage in key west. They have high winds but not destructive. Big pine on the other hand, and
sugar love, loaf im hearing are destroyed. Fema has not produced the feed theyre suppose to or the amount of food. They brought some eres not enough for people who lined up to get them. We had Cell Phone Service for five minutes today. I have at t and i found a landline, thats how were communicating at Aqua Nightclub with harry hundredsman. You decided to stay behind, what was your thinking on staying behind . So we stayed here it was terrible. It flooded our home. Had we not been here for wilma and couldnt have gotten in our home immediately to fix it, it would have been a disaster. There was sewage water, saltwater, people couldnt get back into town for a week and a half. Im also an rn so i do have the ability to help people, im a volunteer for love is Love Foundation but im also an rn
period, i certainly can help. But mainly, i wanted to make sure my kids were out of town and we could get back, assess the damage and fix any problems. I think aaron was doing the same thing. Once youre out youre out. Its going to take a long time for people to get back here. Weve got looters that are around. We had someone knocking on our door last night as a matter of fact. So, its a situation where id rather be here than away wondering what happened to the house. We have a curfew right now from sun down to sunset sun up. You were riding out the storm in a hotel, what was it like during the height of the storm . Well, the hotel we were in a safe spot. The Holt Lost Power and the sewage line was backing up so the hotel was not any good, but it was a safe spot. You asked why we didnt run too, until the very end we looked
like we were going to be fine. Key west looked like the only spot in florida that was going to be fine. So, where do you run to . My son went to alabama, we stayed back to assess the home damage. Anderson im going to have to go that you are curfewing us right now. All right. Lisa i appreciate it. You stay safe. Jointing me now on the phone is key west city manager, jim shoel. We have two deaths confirmed in the keys is that still accurate and how are authorities in key west trying to account for everyone . Arneson, good evening. There were two deaths one was in key west, it wasnt immediately storm related we dont believe. The accountability of it, key west did not take a very major brunt of the storm. We dont have that much structural damage in key west,
it is worst up the keys. But our biggest challenge thus far has been moving debris out of the road way so that the roads are passable. I dont know of any issues with people being trapped, were not doing Search And Rescue in key west. I know theres still some some resources doing that up the keys from us where conditions were worse. Key west is in the process of recovery. We got 80 of the roads passable now, theyre moving the debris off to the sides of the road. Were going to start the cleanup process here soon where we go out and pick up all of the debris and get the town cleaned up. The biggest challenge we have is the lack of power, lack of water. And fortunately this evening we got our Waste Water Treatment Plant up and functioning but
that will help us once the water gets turned on to be able to work our way back to normal operations for the city of key west. Well, a lot of that is very good news. The Department Defense says theres more than 10 n,000 peop who rode out the storm may be evacuated. Do you have any clarity on whats happening . Do you think there will be a need to have large numbers of people evacuate from the keys if. Anderson, i dont think so at all. We were not aware of that information. Myself down here in key west and the Monroe CountyEmergency Management folks, everybody who evacuated and heeded the order that was good. Those that are here, were working to obviously provide services and not overextend the resources that we had. Daylight today. I live on the island of kudlow key, my house is Still Standing. The roofs intacted and the house was dry inside and so are all the neighbors house around me. Its not as high a number of damage as being what is publicly proclaimed. Thats certainly good news. Were trying to get as Accurate Information on relying on people like you and other officials. We appreciate it. Go ahead jim. The statement made earlier that 90 of the homes in the keys have major damage and thats certainly nowhere near the case down here in key west and the immediate area. Like i say up there in kudlow which was in the heart of the Eye Wall Landing in my small neighborhood t not any major damage that i saw. Well, thats really good to know again. We hear one official says one thing an estimate, and sometimes maybe they rode a chopper over and their guesstimating. We appreciate talking to you on the ground and you telling us what youve seen in the keys. Jim i appreciate it. The Power Outages is one of the biggest things at this point. Nearly 5 million customers without power in florida. Nearly more dark throughout the west in the southeast. In florida well see daytime high temperatures into the 90s this week. Its going to get pretty unpleasant. All that works got to be done. No phone, communication, if you have a landline that could work. Cnns Miguel Marquez with more. We put the pork chop, chicken and sauce savaged, he gone tuck
t sausage on the grill. Reporter how difficult is it to live daytoday here . Its sad. And its hard. Because the stove dont even got no more meat when its gone out we done. Reporter with many displaced by the hurricane, walker now has 8 People Living if her house today, shes cooking for twelve and she still doesnt know when the lights are going to be upon. You keep calling they say they dont know when its gone be back on. Reporter how many times have you called . 60 times. Reporter nearly 60 of the people live in poverty. As you can see all of our vegetables reporter found tell has a wife and five kids. He works creating creole and english in a clinic. I couldnt get any milk,
when but even if i had bought it i wont be able to store it. There nowhere else for you to go . There no where else to go. Reporter the towns Grocery Store open but no power, no milk or meat. Reporter every day youre without electricity how hard is life . Very hard and stressful. Reporter Here In Cross Florida theres not one problem but thousands. Power lined toppled by winds, some snapped in half. Trees fell every where bringing power lines down with them. Crews from florida and beyond working around the clock but the damage widespread and massive. Water and sometimes ice cant be distributed fast enough here. Fresh food in short supply. I dont know what else were going to eat. I drove far away to get some food theres no hope. Reporter where does the next
male come from . No one knows. Reporter mayor steve wilson expects full power to be restored by the weekend. Towns across florida facing unprecedented difficulties. This is one of the most diverse cities you have found. First time in the history we have had a mandatory evacuation. Reporter a record they never hope to repeat or break. Cnns Miguel Marquez joins us. How realistic in that Community Fol fo folks may get power back . Reporter the robs are so widespread. I do want to point out that this is tuesday night in Downtown Bell blade and it is dark. There are parts of the town that are starting to see electricity come back, other towns around here are also out. Florida power and light says on the east coast they expect to
have most of the problem zaedea with by this sunday. On the ws coast they say it will take up to the 22in next friday. Here in the center of the state its very unclear. The mayors not making any hard promises but he hopes by the end of the weekend the lights will come back on here as well as the rest of the west coast of florida. Anderson. Appreciate that report today. Thank you very much. Fuel shortages in some places, people have a hard time getting around. Dan gallagher with the latest on that. Reporter i can tell you right now were in north tampa go ahead. What are they doing to combat this, whats the situation there . Reporter so anderson, the governor has done quite a bit at this point. Hes waved the fuel tax on fuel entering the state. He has also made it to where
theres a Napa Limit Entering the state. He has waved that requirement there. It still doesnt seem to be enough. Hes asked ten other states to also wave how much a vehicle can weigh, the Driver Restrictions just to get enough fuel as possible here. Its not working here. My producers and i got gas at this gas station three hours ago. Since then, no fuel whatsoever. People are lining up. This man is waiting here. The governors made it anderson so there are Highway Patrol officers dedicated to bringing fuel tracks like this one through the state of florida. Weve watched this rolling sort of progress happen throughout the state. The supply does not outweigh the demand and thats the problem. So many people who are coming home from nr florida and other states tried to go down south, they have got they have fuel requirements, there are people here who many of them anderson
dont have power in their house. Theyre using their cars as refuge. Theyre going in, its very hot here trying to get ac. So theyre running out of gas, theyre running their cars in the ground. We talk to triple as whose here say theyre going around replacing batteries as quickly as they can. The fuel is coming in at a faster rate but doesnt seem to be fast enough. Yeah, appreciate that. We got a lot more ahead from the keys the next two hours and from all over the state of florida. Also the Storm Hit Homes for music star in the virgin islands. He tells how he help people survive the storm, people using the house he wasnt in. Hes been trying to help people get out and get relieve in. Well talk about that coming upFisher Investments never does. And while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, Fisher Investmen do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. A farmers market. Ve whats in this kiester. A fire truck. Even a marching band. And if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. For any sort of discomfort in yours. Preparation h. Get comfortable with it. According to feng shui, the bed should on it. Orth east. Youre trying everything to get pregnant. New oneaday couples pack gives you both nutritional support you may need. For her to prepare for a healthy baby and for him to support healthy sperm. Be in it together. Lives here year around. We rode down with him in this helicopter, you can see as the deeper and deeper we got into the keys the worst it got. Boats flipped on theyre side, docks from homes that were out in the middle of the water. Roofs ripped off homes. Were in cud owe key where these guys have their home. We drove around and we could see there were boats off their mirrorings and in peoples yards. Heres the a sample of our trip with them today. Mike whine haufr has lived in the keys for 30 years. Hes about to see whats left of his house. My boat is still there, my house is still there. Re reporter how does your house look to you . Looks like its still there. Wow. Really kind of suck to see whats left. I dont think we got the ten or 12 foot storm surge. Somebodys homes are totally destroyed. Thats totaled. Reporter this is your home right here . Yeah one of them. Its not beat up. Reporter what do you think . Its not horrible. I still have a house. Underneath the house looks different. Why, how so . Well, i didnt have a lot of this stuff here before a lot of this stuff isnt mine. This will be the telltale. Yeah. The eye went right over your house. Went right over. Isnt it amazing its Still Standing . They changed the building codes five years ago and i think
it made the difference. Reporter so we are told that there were 130mileperhour sustained winds over the island with gusts going about 160 to 180mileperhour here which explains why there were so much damage. The other guy on that helicopter with us, don brady, we had pretty bad damage. There was a room on his first floor, the doors were blown off and there were two huge freezers in that room. His house is down that way, his freezers are all the way over here. Were in the neighbors lawn, were working on limited recourses here. In this house across the street, the garage door is bent, the roof where that brown area is has completely fallen off the house. They had a 42foot yacht that was here and tornado watched to the water. It was just banging around between the homes and canal and
its ended up a few blocks away on its side on top of the bank here in the canal. There was a lot of damage here anderson. There still isnt any power. People had generators and there was police in the area. Its a very very difficult situation getting around here for a lot of these folks where the eye of the storm went right over. Anderson. Randy appreciated you getting there. It headed to florida, hurricane decimated, caused a lot of destruction in the island. I want to get a update from st. Thomas. Irma hit st. Thomas as a cat 5 storm. Whats the damage there like . Anderson, it was absolutely stunning from the moment that we got here, actually from before we got here. We pulled up on a boat, trying to get on this island. As you mentioned, irma hit this island, st. Thomas before it hit the continental United States. It was one of the first islands to be in the path of the storm and its very clear. Being here for just a few hours, this island is going to have a very long road to recovery. Six days after that storm hit this island it is still incredibly difficult to get people and supplies on and off this island. What we witnessed here today were the locals helping each other, to get those essentials into this island. People with resources like yachts, boats, private jets and airplanes, things that normally made for very happy times, caribbean life on an island, theyre using them to fiery in bottled water. Medicine, food, formula, supplies like diapers for babies. Things they are running out of. I spoke to so many people who spent days trapped in their own homes and neighborhoods and
eventually had to chainsaw themselves out just to get out down the street. The majority of this island has no power, many people have no water, little water or no drinkable water. And the foreseeable future, this could go on for weeks if not months before we see that power restored to this island. Its simply the nature of an island like this, even in the best of times its hard to get resources on and off. What theyre looking at in the future is what this will do to their committee economy, tourism if they cannot bring power and infrastructure back soon, this will affect their wellbeing in general anderson. Sarah i know youve been there for a few hours, have you seen much federal, u. S. Government support on the ground . Youre talking about supplies running low and residence there
or american citizens helping each other, but is there a massive Relief Effort coming in at this point, or is it still kind of piecemeal . Reporter there is a Relief Effort. Were at the local emergency nmt headquarters. Fema was here before the storm even hit, they were prepared. The Lieutenant Governor camped out for the storm in this building behind me and there is military assistance here. The thing is, the airport is badly damaged. The fiery terminals started to be up and running today and yesterday. Getting those supplies in and out is still tricky and getting people out is tricky. Evacuations, there was a cruise ship that came and evacuated some people today, and there are fiery boats but the majority of the people we see theyre waiting on their baggage and belongings who are bringing their boats in trying to get
people out to st. Croix, puerto rico, nearby island to get to safety. Some people say they will return, some say they will not. Thank you. Im glad we have you on the ground there. Up next, more than a dozen people survived a direct hit from the hurricane on st. John. Ill speak with kenny and one of hi friend that just got out today. Next. Times up, insufficient prenatal care. And administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people are numbered. Same goes for you, budget overruns. And rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. Were coming for you too. At optum, were partnering across the Health System to tackle its biggest cha