Geoscientist Jesse Kearse has returned from California with a treasure trove of earthquake data which he expects to be invaluable to explain and predict behaviour of fault lines in New Zealand. The scientist from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University .
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They built by hand, essentially, to tug this vehicle onto land. that just speaks to the serious challenges right now to be able to rebuild infrastructure, what it is taking to get these islands back up to speed. obviously, there s a long road of recovery and cleanup ahead in these communities. we also saw more of the same along the way there. a boat up in the tree line. we saw houses with damage. we saw a dock that was mangled and twisted and we were climbing over it as if it were some kind of jungle gym. that is what we are seeing throughout this area and it speaks to the devastation on top of all the heartbreak we ve been hearing about, mika. so, jesse, do the officials there that you spoke to, do they suspect there are still people trapped, still people who need to be rescued on sanibel island? or are they pretty confident they found everybody and ferried them away from the island so they can begin the cleanup? reporter: frankly, willie, we
Joining us now live from ft. myers beach, florida, nbc news correspondent jesse kearse. you ve had access to one of the hardest hit places yesterday. what did you see there? reporter: yeah, willie. we saw more of what we saw in ft. myers beach. this is a boat that has beens toed over. gives you the idea of the scale of devastation here. we got an up-close, rare look at sanibel island itself yesterday to see what has been done on that island. by water, we were able to see up close those images we ve seen from overhead for days. the causeway wiped out, watercoursing through. once on the island, we were kept close to the docks by police, but we did see equipment being brought ashore by at&t. they had to use a small barge to get this equipment to land, and then once they made it to the docks, you could see that they had to improvise a ramp that