the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] it went into the rafters, we were away up in it. it started pushing on us and, long story short, it [inaudible] took over serious water. the bone next to me, they got me going [inaudible] i didn t know if the building was gonna hold up or not. i went in hard, just seven [inaudible] my seventh hurricane. this is mature seventh? hurricane yes. [inaudible] now ian. and this is by far the worst. why? what was the worst of it? the wind, the tide. the tide surge! harvey, we had a tight surge, but
broken things, the houses, the buildings, the bridges, the boats, destroyed. but these images don t show you the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried, but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] we swung around, we were right up. and they started pushing us, and shoved us, long story short, shop this all the way in, leaned over the taken out of us serious water. they got me off with the airboat. i didn t know that building was going to hold up or not. this was my seventh one. this is your seven? hurricane yes, andrew, charlie, harvey, and now in. yes, by far the worst! wh
Carolina. it was an outside chance several days ago that is going to happen, but it happened. the storm came back as a category one hurricane. what s the situation now? you re exactly. right it came back in the category one hurricane, near where charleston is now, in charleston is telling nbc news this evening that they feel they dodged a bullet and that s not to say they did not have significant impacts by this as the national debt weather service that in the past day it rain about five and a half inches in charleston. that s historic. it has not rain that much in this area in one day since 1938. to the area got wind gusts of up to about 70 miles an hour, and tonight there are still about 40,000 people without power. but despite, that you have local officials saying they feel good about where they are. they re cleaning debris. the number of people without power, that s about half, the peak that we saw earlier today, and when you look at the coast
Carolina. shaq, it was an outside chance, several days, ago but it s going to happen. but it happens. the storm came back as a category one hurricane. what s the situation now? you know, you are exactly right. it came back as a category one hurricane, hitting about 60 miles from where charleston is right now. and because of, that austin s mayor is telling nbc news this evening that they feel that they dodged a bullet! that s not to say that they did not passing that the can impact by this. the natural weather service has in the past day, it waned about five and a half inches in charleston. that s a historic amounts. it has not rained that much in this area in one day since 1938! the area got wind gusts of about 70 miles an hour, tonight, there are still about 40,000 people without power. but despite that, you have local officials saying they feel good about where they are. they are cleaning debris, the number of people without power, that s about half, the peak that we saw earlier to
St. john. there is minimal amount of looting going on. a lot of it is people being desperate for water and such that we re trying to get to them. a lot of jockeying, a lot of pushing at distribution centers we re trying to bring under control. and i have to tell you unfortunately in part of the world we live in right now, there are going to be people trying to take advantage. . people who were robbing before it was a hurricane who find the opportunity now. but that is not at the level people were saying. i was there on st. john where there were rumors of so much police and armed robbers. and they tell us that s not the case, that people are really self-organized. they re cleaning debris, working with each other. they re locating family and friends, locating their neighbors people are being evacuated if that s what they need to do. they prioritize the elderly, the sick, the children.