2nd Fleet Focus: Responding to Hurricane Felix

It looks like the damage to Nicaragua caused by Hurricane Felix is more extensive than has been reported, calls for help have been sent out, and the US Navy is responding.

The Pentagon's Southern Command is sending a U.S. Navy ship to the waters off Nicaragua to help in the relief efforts from Hurricane Felix, which struck central America this week.

The Category 5 Felix slammed Nicaragua and Honduras Tuesday, killing at least 40 people in Honduras and Nicaragua -- and injuring many more.

In Miami, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, Navy Adm. James Stavridis, ordered a survey team to help the U.S. Agency for International Development, a State Department affiliate agency, evaluate what kind of relief the United States might give to those areas affected by the storm.

Then late Wednesday, Southcom announced that Stavridis had dispatched the USS Wasp from a huge multi-national naval exercise around the Panama Canal to help in any rescue and recovery efforts.