s juan carlos davila for -- in san juan. nowre bringing in right xiomara caro diaz, joining us from san juan, puerto rico, a lawyer, activist, and the director of new organizing projects at the center for popular democracy. and still with this is luis miranda. xiomara caro diaz, describe what is happening now. we just heard this report of people helping each other, this community relief response. what about what is happening on the ground, what you need, and our response to president trump coming tomorrow? >> thank you, amy. right now what is happening is that the veil of colonialism has been lifted for the world to see what it looks like when a place that has been left out of the political infrastructure and has been exploited for 119 years by the united states goes through something like this. so people are organizing because that is what they've been doing to survive for a very long time. we have established -- there are several groups, many probably we don't even know of, that are assuming the responsibility not of immed

the storm's eyewall traveled right through mountainous utuado, 90 minutes from san juan. the river that runs through this area rose more than 20 feet. what was your thought looking out the window and seeing this river go up? >> terrible. i thought it was going to come, you know, up here, but it didn't. thank god for that. >> reporter: but the flooding caused landslides and knocked out this bridge, the only way for cruz's community to get out. >> we were afraid we will be left alone. >> reporter: but they weren't. right now we're crossing a river with a pulley system constructed by a task force under the direction of fema. across the river about 40 families who haven't seen relief up until today, up until this system was constructed. this group of specialized officers, firemen and ems come from new york, indiana and ohio. and in the past week, their teams across puerto rico have saved more than 800 people. >> thank you. >> reporter: this task force took us to cruz's neighborhood. >> while we were conducting those assessments, that's how we received information from the loc

s juan carlos davila for -- in san juan. nowre bringing in right xiomara caro diaz, joining us from san juan, puerto rico, a lawyer, activist, and the director of new organizing projects at the center for popular democracy. and still with this is luis miranda. xiomara caro diaz, describe what is happening now. we just heard this report of people helping each other, this community relief response. what about what is happening on the ground, what you need, and our responsese to president trup coming tomorrow? >> thank you, amy. right now what is happening is that the veil of colonialism has been lifted for the world to see what it looks like when a place that has been left out of the political infrastructure and has been exploited for 119 years by the united states goes through something like this. so people are organizing because that is what they've been doing to survive for a very long time. we have established -- there are several groups, many probably we don't even know of, that are assuming the responsibility not of imme

>> he criticizes the mayor of san juan -- >> the mayor of san juan is a political hack! >> wow! >> she is saying the praises the president until her political adviser from gutierrez from chicago got there and brought her the t-shirts and said you want to run for governor, if she wants to run -- >> if i can't hear you, i can't go back and forth with questions. until i get this fixed. maria, i'll let you try to get a response while i try to get hearing you fixed. >> clearly, my colleague jose has drank the kool-aid because he is spewing out ridiculous republican talking points or apologizing for the dismal response this president has done toward puerto rico. this was not something unexpected. i'm sorry. we knew hurricane maria was coming. yes, it was on the heels of irma and harvey, but we knew that if puerto rico had a direct hit, which it did, it was going to be cataclysmic. this is something that could have been much better planned for. the president took seven days to repeal the jones act which could have given foreign vessels the opportunity to take supplies much earlier on t

sara murray is in san juan. what are you hearing about how the president's messages are being received there? >> reporter: well, so far we don't know much about what the president is going to do when he gets here. when he tells people about the visit and what they want to hear from him residents want the president to know that they need the federal government to do a lot more than what they have been doing so far. even if he does come here to san juan and does see power coming back and cell phone service returning and restaurants and bars open you don't have to travel far outside the city limits to see people whose entire lives have been devastated, who have lost their homes, who no longer have roofs and who spent weeks without power and are still grappling with the fact that they are cut off from the world without cell phone service and internet and without ability to tell the federal government they still need a lot of help. so i think the residents here are hoping that the president will lead with that messag

of san juan and others in puerto rico. they want everything to be done for them, when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on island doing a fantastic job. what exactly does president trump mean when he says, "they want everything to be done for them"? who's "they" and what's the "everything they want done for them"? >> i think what the president is trying to get at is, folks think this is going to be easy. they saw what happened in texas and florida and they thought, oh, this is easy to do. and it's not. this was an island that was absolutely devastated, not by one hurricane, but by two. i think it's 1,100 miles from the nearest mainland american port. this was always going to be harder. and we knew that, which is why we positioned assets on the island before the storm. it's why we have 10,000 people on the island right now. but i think it's possible that folks just said, oh, this will be easy and it's not going to be easy, and they're surprised it's taking as long as it is. and it's not easy. it's

the eyewall traveled through this city about 90 minutes from san juan. the river that runs through this area rose more than 20 feet. >> what was your thought looking out the window and seeing this river go up? >> terrible. i thought it was going to come up here, but it didn't, thank god for that. >> the flooding caused landslides and knocked out this bridge. the only way for cruz's community to get out. >> we were afraid we were going to be left alone. >> but they weren't. the system construct booed i a task force under the direction of fema and across the river about 40 families who have not seen relief up until today until this system was constructed. this group of specialized officers, firemen and ems come from new york, indiana and ohio. their teams have saved more than 800 people. this task force took us to cruz's neighborhood. >> while we were conducting the assessments, we received the information from the local emergency management officials in these particular areas, we haven't gotten there and we have no communication with them. can you help us

but, you know, that is not who we are here in san juan. but really -- >> reporter: have democrats said anything to you? >> no. >> reporter: about how you should treat -- >> actually, i am not a democrat. i share values with the democratic party in the united states, but i do not participate in the democratic party. so it's interesting. senator marco rubio sent representatives to here. so he's not a democrat. i just think he is looking for an excuse for things that are not going well. >> reporter: brock long, the fema administrator, has said today about you that there is a joint command and that is essential. there is a unified command and that there is a joined field command office and that you should go by there to kind of get clued into what is really going on. >> well, yesterday, after my press conference, all of a sudden, things started coming in from fema. and when they give me my money, i can show you the text. i got a text saying that more supplies were coming. and all i want is more supplies. you know? >> reporter: you feel speakin

for the people of san juan. and i will just add, puerto rico doesn't have any power to speak of, so no one in puerto rico understands anything that is going on because they don't have power for their iphones and for their computers and for their television sets. so this is all going to play out in the weeks to come if she doesn't get her act together. abby: well, we will see. it's a sad, sad situation going on down there. thanks for being on, david. pete: a marine corps veteran forced into the fight of his life after being told he only had months to live. three years later he and his wife with speaking out against a controversial medical option that some say some veterans like him are being offered. todd: and did you know, abby and pete, that hard work is racist? yep, that professor on your screen right there is teaching your kids. we are not kidding. we'll discuss it when we return. ♪ and i'm burning my candle at both ends where's gary? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico. goin' up the country. la

we will be back with the mayor of san juan. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to puerto rico, where united nations expertrts are warning of alarmig coconditions now more than five weeks after hurricane maria. in a report released monday, the u.n. experts also condemned the united states' handling of the disaster, saying the response was ineffective and that the mainland s states of florida a d texas s had receivived far moroe support after being struck by hurricanes than puerto rico did. leilani fafarha, the united nations special rapporteur on housing, said -- "we can't fail to note the dissimilar urgency and priority given to the emergency response in puerto rico, compared to the u.s. states affected by hurricanes in recent months." amy: t this comes as "ththe wall stre j journ" isis rortingnghe fbi isis investigating t the $30 million contract between puerto rico's electrical power company, known as pr

so the lack of drinking water, even in san juan. you may think, well, we are not drinking out of creeks but the creeks and rivers we get the water from, you know, can turn out some sort of this bacteria. we have already had reports in our own staff of two members that are suspected, still not confirmed, of having diseases that are related to non-drinkable water. ska byes is a problem. conjunctivitis is a problem. because people are not eating enough. or are not eating their regular diet that they're used to. so we are running into a situation where we may be in the verge of a health crisis. without enough medication and without enough hospitals to deal with. there is a hospital that's on board of a ship from the united states navy, i believe. and people are being transported there. but i have no information of how many parents, no confirmed information of how many patients are already in there and for what conditions they have been taken to the ship. >> san juan mayor cruz, appreciate you keeping us updated. please keep us apprised.

san juan and others in puerto rico. they want everything to be done for them, when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on island doing a fantastic job. what exactly does president trump mean when he says, "they want everything to be done for them." who's "they" and what's the "everything they want done for them"? >> i think what the president is trying to get at is, folks think this is going to be easy. they saw what happened in texas and florida and they thought, oh, this is easy to do. and it's not. this was an island that was absolutely devastated, not by one hurricane, but by two. i think it's 1,100 miles from the nearest mainland american port. this was always going to be harder. and we knew that, which is why we positioned assets on the island before the storm. it's why we have 10,000 people on the island right now. but i think it's possible that folks just said, oh, this will be easy and it's not going to be easy, it's never going to be easy. but we're doing things on puerto rico, jacqueke

of san juan. so just imagine being off of the remote areas. both airports in those two islands not operational. again they need absolutely every single thing you can imagine so i was on if ground with lieutenant general. i asked him about his plans for the recovery. he gave us a firsthand look at his planning. let's see. >> right now we have 11 distribution centers. that are based -- but we're expanding to 25 to 30. and these are going to be based on the national guard armory and army reserve centers. we'll move the supplies from these four hubs to those 23 places so that they'll have much easier access to all the municipalities. there's a couple now -- with the red stars there's a couple we have to get into by air. we can't get there by ground right now. of course that will limit the amount of supplies. >> reporter: the those two he was referring to they're in -- smack in the middle of the island. again, i mean, places they haven't even been able to get to. so that just shows you the logistical c

we will be back with the mayor of san juan. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to puerto rico, where united nations experts are warning of alarming conditions now more than five weeks after hurricane maria. in a report released monday, the u.n. experts also condemned the united states' handling of the disaster, saying the response was ineffective and that the mainland states of florida and texas had received far more support after being struck by hurricanes than puerto rico did. leilani farha, the united nations special rapporteur on housing, said -- "we can't fail to note the dissimilar urgency and priority given to the emergency response in puerto rico, compared to the u.s. states affected by hurricanes in recent months." amy: this comes as "the wall street journal" is reporting the fbi is investigating the $300 million contract between puerto rico's electrical power company, known as prepa, and the tiny

nearby is spanish-built port san geronimo. san juan's newest hotel. let's listen to unique caribbean music from antigua. the melody out of sawed-off steel drums and an oil drum serenade. >> ♪ narrator: here are headquarters for big game sports fishing. many world record catches have been made in the fishing waters here. the most popular historical attraction in san juan is the largest spanish fort on american soil. visithan 30,000 tourists each year. french, dutch, and british buccaneers tried vainly to capture it. 400 years ago, people were dependent upon this for for protection. in the last war, it was armed against submarine attacks. gold at a fort? seeing is believing. this is one of the sportiest on the island. baseball is not just a sport here. it's a crusade. mainland big leaguers play with professional puerto rican teams during the winter season. broad avenues in san juan lead to residential districts where houses resemble those in florida, california, or texas. >> ♪ narrator: puerto rican architects designed all of these homes for real co

that's not who we are here in san juan. but really, you know -- >> have democrats said anything to you about how you should treat -- >> no, actually, i am not a democrat. i share values with the democratic party in the united states but i do not participate in the democratic party. so it's interesting, senator marco rubio sent representatives here. so he's not a democrat. i just think he's looking for an excuse for things that are not going well. >> the fema administrator said today about you -- >> i was asking her about comments brock long, the fema administrator, had said that there's a unified command and that's essential to organization here and that she needs to go to the joint field office and basically kind of get linked in on what's going on. she certainly, you know, took issue with that. she says she is at a separate building, a separate office than the rest of the government offices, the fema response. she said he has two fema envoys who are based in her office and she felt that was satisfactory. >> anderson, i kn

we haven't been able to get that under control in san juan. ever since maria, we have picked up more than 66 million pounds of debris and general trash, but there's still a lot more. so we have hired additional contractors today for different companies, additional to the one that we have already at the municipality to increase the power base that we have in order to get at that under control. >> madam mayor, we have been following reports about people dieing from water-borne illnesses, not necessarily in san juan but people in puerto rico in other parts of puerto rico not as well served. we're concerned about the basic medical care getting to people who are being forced to live in these conditions and people who are starting to die from those conditions. do you know anything about the overall plan for the island in terms of that kind of medical care? >> yes. the secretary of health for puerto rico has advised that in the next coming days an educational program will begin to make sure that people know how -- that they need to boil their water,

se referÍa a la alcaldesa de san juan. ella ha sido quiÉn ha puesto la caray se ha quejado de la lentitud de la ayuda. algo que nosotros hemos visto personalmente. carolina: muchas gracias, vilma. es un momento bastante importante para la isla ya han pasado 13 dÍas del huracÁn marÍa. justamente veÍamos a travÉs de univisiÓn esa conversación que tenÍa el presidente trump con el gobernador. Él ha dicho que han tenido una buena relaciÓn con el mandatario. javier: no serÁ la Única conversaciÓn que tendrÁ el presidente. tambiÉn, se va a reunir con el gobernador de las islas vÍrgenes. vamos a cambiar de tema. el atacante de las vegas era dueÑo de un arsenal. stephen paddock tenÍa varios rifles. en la habitaciÓn del hotel habÍa 23 armas y 19 mÁs en su casa. carolina: tambiÉn, en su auto habÍa un fertilizante con el que se pueden fabricar explosivos. jaime garcÍa ha seguido el minuto a minutode la masacre. en este momento, han pasado 24 horas. quÉ sabemos? es importante mencionar que este hombre tenÍa li

juan. >> james: and the mayor of san juan, one of president trump's critics illness was tweeting on her own today. she tweeted at one point "they really understood that the disconnect between how things are supposed to happen and how they really happened." she added that hopefully the newly opened channels of communication will help us accomplish our goals, save lives. the president it seemed it to be saying that the merit was walking back her initial criticism, but it seems that she was only complementary hear of the white house staff. >> yeah, i don't like the way that donald trump has handled a lot of this in terms of the rhetoric. i think that he created some needless problems, with his administration handling harvey and irma remarkably well. just as democrats are looking for an opportunity to call republicans races, the media is looking for this it being disastrous or ill managed, and they couldn't find it. at least nothing that stuck. and i think that one of the frustrations that the trump administration had was they lost that political capital with puerto rico. maybe they fix

juan. >> reporter: the governor visited san juan's port early saturday morning. there, fema had received 2.4 million liters of water and more than a million servings of food. >> we're going to move them quickly to the 11 points in all puerto rico where all of the mayors can go, get food, water, for their communities. >> reporter: after asking for volunteers to drive trucks due to a shortage of drivers, the governor watched today as truckers pulled out of the gate at the port of san juan. hauling supplies to grocery stores around the island. more than 50% of gas stations are back up and running. home phone service has been restored to 30% of the island. and 10,000 people are still living in shelters tonight. >> are we satisfied? , of course, not. we still need to do more, and we still need to get to everybody in puerto rico. >> reporter: fema, the federal emergency management agency, says they've already delivered aid to almost every municipality on the island. the official death count is 16. it's expected to go higher. we've confirmed that three sisters died when

we know there are supplies in the port in san juan. why are anybody in puerto rico worried about purchasing goods when so much is being sent and should be delivered to them? >> assemblyman, identify got my little fact sheet here and it says the death toll is 16 officially. there, of course, has been reporting, you're very aware of this, that it may be more, but they're waiting to say whether they're officially declared as deaths as part of this catastrophe. what could ydo you know about t? >> about we were there, the governor talked about the challenges in securing a solid number. there were multiple reports of similar dints incidents. it will take a while before they get into all of these communities. i think they're still trying to figure out how to disperse supplies. i don't think they've knocked on every door to check on the families and there are a lot of rural neighborhoods in mountainous areas that have not been cleared or checked as far as we know. so, that's likely to quickly rise, but every life deserved better and deserved a

el corazÓn estÁ en san juan. >> me despido desde san juan un puerto rico que le queda mucho por recuperar con el servicio que es la base para comenzar la verdadera recuperaciÓn, todavÍa en muchos pueblos en lo que no ha llegado ayuda y tambiÉn necesitan alimentos. >> tendremos el testimonio de una mujer que trabaja en el hotel que se hospedaba el presentador: pplaticamos con katerin y nos dijo que este momento la prioridades atender a las vÍctimas y sus familiares, tambiÉn nos dijo y nos adelantÓ que la primer mujer piensa llevar el del bate al pleno de este cuerpo legislativo. >> mi prioridad es atender a los familiares de los afectados por la tragedia y ofrecer los recursos necesarios para ayudarlos y darles respuesta. sin duda nos hemos preguntado si habrÁ un momento para debatir medidas mÁs seguras. yo soy una de las primeras que ha promovido el sentido comÚn en cuanto buscar medidas mÁs seguras. presentador: estuvo en el hospital, donde estuvieron 214 de los lesionados. las personas tambiÉn quedan con una cicatriz. a veces un sentido de habilidad de haber sobrevivido a la

here is the mayor from san juan. for documentation and i think we have given them enough documentation. and they have the gall this morning -- look at this. look at this? do you think this weighs enough? they have the gall this morning of asking me, what are your priorities? where have you been? and i have been respectful of fema employees. i have been patient but we have no time for patients anymore. so i am asking the president of the united states to make sure charge that is up to the task of saving lives. up to the task of africa when ebola came over. they were up to the task in haiti, as they should be. because when it comes to saving lives, we are all part of one community of shared values. i will do what i never thought i was going to do. i am begging. i am begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying. if anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. of sanhat was the mayor juan which created a twitter storm friday and saturday including these tweets from the in new jersey. the president tweeted

the president will have a chance to come face to face with the mayor of san juan as well, a mayor the president has accused of playing politics in the aftermath and also slammed for poor leadership since the hurricane hit. this is also the same mayor who has been sleeping on a cot alongside her family and constituents after the hit from hurricane maria. as the president was leaving the white house this morning he had this to say. >> in texas and in florida, we get an a-plus and i'll tell you what, i think we've done just as good in puerto rico and it's actually a much tougher situation. but now the roads are cleared, communication is starting to come back. >> here's the latest update from the ground. 6.89 % of customers in puerto rico have electricity. just under 7%. 40% have cell service. 45% have water and sewer services back up and running. so let's go to the ground right now to puerto rico and our correspondents who have been covering every angle of the disaster and recovery. cnn white house correspondent sara murray is at the air base where president trump will land soon and cnn'

es la iglesia san juan bautista. tengo a enrique aquÍ conmigo. sabemos que se estÁ llevando a cabo esta reuniÓn comunitaria. cuÉntame, qué elestÁ pasando ahÍ adentro? >> tenemos a los supervisores del condado de napa, jefe de policÍa de la ciudad. lo que tratamos de hacer es brindarle informaciÓn a la gente hispanohablante lo que estÁ ocurriendo con los incendios de los condados y alrededores. flavio: hay muchas personas que no saben quÉ hacer. estÁn ofreciendo listas de albergues, informaciÓn muy importante para que estas personas tengan a mano, en caso de una evacuaciÓn. hÁblame sobre eso. >> que le hemos de dejarle saber que hablarÁ de que no importa si tiene papeles o no. pueden acudir a los albergues para que los ayuden si les toca evacuar. flavio: hablemos sobre eso, hay informaciÓn errada que se da de boca a boca. estÁ circulando en las redes sociales, muchas personas latinas piensan que, porque le pide la identificaciÓn, piensan que sacarÁn informaciÓn. >> lo que sabemos aquÍ es que toda la informaciÓn que estÉn aga

el corazÓn estÁ en san juan. >> me despido desde san juan un puerto rico que le queda mucho por recuperar con el servicio que es la base para comenzar la verdadera recuperaciÓn, todavÍa en muchos pueblos en lo que no ha llegado ayuda y tambiÉn necesitan alimentos. >> tendremos el testimonio de una mujer que trabaja en el hotel que se hospedaba el responsable de la masacre .] presentador: pplaticamos con katerin y nos dijo que este momento la prioridades atender a las vÍctimas y sus familiares, tambiÉn nos dijo y nos adelantÓ que la primer mujer piensa llevar el del bate al pleno de este cuerpo legislativo. >> mi prioridad es atender a los familiares de los afectados por la tragedia y ofrecer los recursos necesarios para ayudarlos y darles respuesta. sin duda nos hemos preguntado si habrÁ un momento para debatir medidas mÁs seguras. yo soy una de las primeras que ha promovido el sentido comÚn en cuanto buscar medidas mÁs seguras. presentador: estuvo en el hospital, donde estuvieron 214 de los lesionados. las personas tambiÉn quedan con una cicatriz. a veces un sentido de habilid

his first stop there at the airport hangar in the capital of san juan. the mayor will be in attendance as well as the governor who's been leading up much of the relief efforts on the ground. we are told he's going to be boarding marine one for an aerial tour where he will get a better understanding of what things look like from the sky. he'll also be landing on board one of the u.s. ships there, the comfort that arrived in recent days from norfolk to help provide relief to that area as you see the president's motorcade pulling up to pick him up for the short drive over to the hangar where the first me meeting will take place. and then another on one of the u.s. ships there to help in the effort in this point. there's really been a disconnect as evidenced by the criticism the president's received between his comments and the experience of day-to-day puerto ricans on the ground right now. even today as the president prepared to leave, he talked about roads being cleared and that communications were in many cases back up and running just a short time therea

we drove an hour and a half outside of san juan to a city in a very mountainous area. they have a river that runs through this city and that river flooded by more than 20 feet during the storm . it knocked out bridges and caused landslides in that area. so there are literally communities that are islands on an island. they are constantly going to need supplies and it's very difficult to get those to them. so, these are people that are, you know, just doing what they can to help themselves. we saw people that were creating pulleys on their own, just to bring water from the -- the spring water from the mountains into their homes. we saw them making benches that they could send a runner across every day to get supplies for themselves. so they are really doing what they can. but yesterday, i do want to mention, we went around with a search and rescue task force group. now, these are the people that come in first, right, they respond to medical needs. they see if there are buildings that are collapsed that people need to be rescued inside. and their mission, a good number h

in san juan where our a.j. plus colleague and occasional co-host on the stream dean was on the ground when the category four storm hit take a look. i just tried to sign on and it's very difficult to drive around because fifty percent of the city was flooded and it's not water that's preventing you from going from one place to the other it's broken power lines trees debris. is most. people with their doors. hers. here my street it was really money for the house over to another neighbor so she lost her house completely. renee two weeks later what is your area of san juan look like. hi renee thanks for being here thank you for joining us it's two weeks after the hurricane what is your area look like. hi dan and milliken thank you for the opportunity to be here talking about puerto rico so san juan is slowly i would like to say that we're returning to normality but things are getting a bit better gas lines are a big. there is still a big problem with and cash. eight percent of people in the island have electricity

>> i was down last monday, also came down friday to san juan. i will tell you this, we did fly to the middle part of the island to take a look at the power structure. it was truly something to see. i think there is some good spots to hear about the infrastructure. i heard yesterday the local power of authority indicated they expect to get about 14% of the customers on the island back up the grid. in the next two weeks, in fact. you see the central business district in san juan, they are back on the grid. there is a focused effort by all the federal government, volunteer organizations, really getting down into puerto rico and helping out the folks down there. >> harris: i'm glad to hear 14% of the customer base outside of san juan will be back on the power grid, it's a situation you couldn't miss, they have not had the chance to clean up the way texas did and florida did and now you go in there, you said it was something to see, tell me what you saw. the president said this would be a chunk of budget to help pay for this, he is in it to make it g

the mayor frederica's capital san juan is accused the u.s. government of killing people through inefficiency. says help for the u.s. territory hit by hurricane maria is not coming quickly enough white house has appointed a general to oversee relief operations and aid is starting to arrive but the mayor says puerto rico isn't getting the same support as other communities and the us. via twitter accusing his political rivals of telling the mayor of san juan to criticize have another tweet he said such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers to help trace about reports from san juan. the generator went down in this hospital and some one who more than one hundred patients had to be urgently transferred to other locations a lot of his mother is still inside he's worried about where they're going to take her she. just several complications in the she is old and i'm not sure where we will go but she is not alone on site there are others who are recovering from surgery among oth

in san juan where our a.j. plus colleague and occasional co-host on the stream have a dean was on the ground when the category four storm hit take a look. just ride some lawn and it's very difficult to drive around because fifty percent of the city was flooded and it's not water that's preventing you from going from one place to the other it's broken power lines trees debris. this mess. with their doors. hers. are mysteries that people are really going to cost over to another neighbor so she lost her house completely . renee two weeks later what is your area of san juan look like. hi renee thanks for being here thank you for joining us it's two weeks after the hurricane what does your area look like. down and melich and thank you for the opportunity to be here talking about puerto rico so san juan is. i would like to say that we're returning to normality but things are getting a bit better gas lines are a big. there is still a big problem with and cash. eight percent of people in the island have electricity and

straight to san juan, anderson cooper is there. you have been all over the island these past few days. what is it like outside the bigger cities compared to san juan? >> reporter: we were in aguadia in the west red, a town oguntas in the mountains and the south. stories still of no electricity in many places. it's a story of long, long gas lines. today along highways on the way to oguntas cars pulled alongside the road. first i thought it was a gas line. it was an area where people cell phones were work so long people would get in their cars, drive to this part of the highway and sit on the side so they could finally have communication with people elsewhere on the island and united states and beyond. it's a story in many of these towns and basically every town that i've been in, we've seen community members, people on the street cleaning up, hacking down trees that are blocking roads, doing whatever they can with whatever they have but there is still a lot of need obviously and a lot of people waiting for that electrical grid to ge

in san juan where our a.j. plus colleague and occasional co-host on the stream have a dean was on the ground when the category four storm hit take a look. i just tried to sign on and it's very difficult to drive around because fifty percent of the city was flooded and it's not water that's preventing you from going from one place to the other it's broken power lines trees debris. this mess. with their doors. hers. will be a year of mystery he was really funny. oh my god another neighbor said she lost her house completely. renee two weeks later what is your area of san juan look like. hi renee thanks for being here thank you for joining us it's two weeks after the hurricane what is your area look like. down and melich and thank you for the opportunity to be here talking about puerto rico so san juan is. i would like to say that we're returning to normality but things are getting a bit better gas lines are a big. there is still a big problem would be so and cash. eight percent of people in the island have electri

in san juan where our a.j. plus colleague an occasional co-host on the stream she had been dean was on the ground when the category four storm hit take a look. just write something on and it's very difficult to drive around because fifty percent of the city was flooded and it's not water that's preventing you from going from one place to the other it's broken power lines trees debris. sometimes. people with their doors. personnel. that are mistreated that people are really going to cost over to another neighbor so she lost her house completely. renee two weeks later what is your area of san juan look like. hi renee thanks for being here thank you for joining us it's two weeks after the hurricane what is your area look like. millikan thank you for the opportunity to be here talking about puerto rico so san juan is. i would like to say that we're returning to normality but things are getting a bit better gas lines are a big. there is still a big problem with and cash. eight percent of people in the island have el

and that is in san juan and in the metro areas on the outskirts of san juan, where we've been for the past couple of days. but actually, today i just got off a black hawk, where i was able to survey some of the damage in the satellite islands of vieques with general buchanan, the three-star general that was assigned to lead the relief here in puerto rico and ricardo rosa-yu, the governor of puerto rico. it was just this aerial surveillance. and then we went on the ground in these two islands, and you can just imagine the isolation those american citizens are feeling. we're talking about 15 to 20,000 people on these two islands that depend solely on the bigger island. when we were on the ground there, locals told us that they were actually harder hit by irma, but the recovery was much easier because the larger island was able to supply them with what they need. but now with the decimation that we're seeing here on the larger island in puerto rico, in areas like all of these that we're seeing, you can just imagine those people there are not remotely getting what they need 11 days after

in the capital of san juan, some were unhappy with mr. trump's visit. >> it is just like he is showing off. it is a show. >> i don't see that what he said was appropriate to what we are suffering now as a country. >> reporter: one of the president's fiercist critics mayor of san juan who said you are killing us with the inefficiency. but today she met with white house officials walked away saying they understand the disconnect between as she put it how things are supposed to happen and, how they really happen. anthony. >> david begnaud in san juan. thank you, david. when we come back, tom petty, a rocker who never backed down. ♪...nausea, heartburn,♪ indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ here's pepto bismol! ah. ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ have you any wool?eep, no sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters, smart tv and gaming system. luckily, the geico insurance agency recently helped baa baa with renters insurance. ever

. >> wheels down, san juan, this d.c. eight just navigated the traffic. >> very, very busy, a lot of relief flights coming in. >> it carries a 36 tons of aid, water filtration kits, and hygiene kits. america's purse is small, they can use their own transportation and work around the bottleneck stranded at the seaport, unable to reach the people who need it. >> we aren't able to cover the whole island so we work to serve those who might have fallen through the cracks that fema can't cover. >> 86-year-old gladys is one of those people. it soaked insulation on the floor, she has no ability to even start cleaning up. she says everything is destroyed and i don't have a house. going to wait and see if someone will help me. the metal roofing here is pretty similar to the construction of a mobile home and it just didn't stand a chance when that hurricane moved so slowly and so powerfully over puerto rico. the sad thing is that this is not unique, this theme is repeated over and over again through the neighborhoods here in puerto

. >> wheels down, san juan, this d.c. eight just navigated the traffic. >> very, very busy, a lot of relief flights coming in. >> it carries a 36 tons of aid, water filtration kits, and hygiene kits. america's purse is small, they can use their own transportation and work around the bottleneck stranded at the seaport, unable to reach the people who need it. >> we aren't able to cover the whole island so we work to serve those who might have through the cracks that fema can't cover. >> 86-year-old gladys is one of those people. it soaked insulation on the floor, she has no ability to even start cleaning up. she says everything is destroyed and i don't have a house. going to wait and see if someone will help me. the metal roofing here is pretty similar to the construction of a mobile home and it just didn't stand a chance when that hurricane moved so slowly and so powerfully over puerto rico. the sad thing is that this is not unique, this theme is repeated over and over again through the neighborhoods here in puerto rico cr

pasamos con ilia calderÓn, que estÁ en vivo desde san juan. ilia: desde que pasÓ el huracÁn marÍa se ha convertido el centro de operaciones de la alcaldesa de san juan. vamos a hablar con ella en segundos. el presidente trump llegÓ hoy y repartiÓ algunos objetos. comparo la tragedia de puerto rico. reportero: el presidente trump llegÓ acompaÑado de la primera dama. no se esperaba la presencia de la alcaldesa de san juan y ese apretÓn de mano a quien ella habÍa criticado. estas imÁgenes de trump lanzando suministros ha producido todo tipo de reacciones. el presidente felicitÓ a los puertorriqueÑos porque segÚn Él sÓlo se perdieron 16 vidas. hay una realidad que trump no vio cerca. esta familia ahora se ha visto obligado a estar en el segundo piso de su vivienda. >> no es fÁcil porque yo enferma y mi esposo tambiÉn. reportera: estas imÁgenes reflejan cÓmo estÁ en las viviendas de los puertorriqueÑos. nada se salvÓ de esta tragedia. reportera: me encuentro con carmen y la alcaldesa de san juan. despuÉs de las discrepancias

that is the view of mayor of san juan, not everyone. the governor of puerto rico commended the president's efforts. he got a prime seat next to the president. she did not but was still there. erin, getting from a lot of viewers, forget by it being demeaning and self-serving for president seeking out praise from the room on his recovery and help efforts, i am the one being demeaning pointing it out but i thought it was weird. that is all i'm saying. >> neil, whether the relief efforts are going well or not going so well, what you don't do is declare victory in a crisis. any public relations professional will tell you that. whether it is going well or not, because, there are still people suffering. you wait until after. and i think the best example of that is president bush saying mission accomplished in iraq and he got absolutely demolished for that for years afterward. i think that was a big lesson, that you have to be careful about what you say. and he doesn't show empathy when what he is doing, going around the table, praising everyon

just touching down in san juan ahead of the president's trip. what are you hearing about how the president might be received when he arrives on tuesday. >> for the most part people have bigger problems on their hands than wondering what the president might say or do on twitter. most people are hoping that president trump will arrive and talk to some people and go on a tour and understand that they still need more help here. we talked to people who have been without power since before hurricane maria. since hurricane irma. they haven't seen a federal aid truck with food and water and so many people without cell phone service. they don't even know how to contact the authorities and say i'm living in a house with no roof or food or running water. i think from the people we talked to, they are hoping that the president will get here and understand that there is a lot more that needs to be done. >> and sarah, this morning the u.s. treasury secretary spoke about the president's attacks, verbal attacks and tweets against the san juan mayor. what did he

the president lashed out at san juan's mayor. "such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in whoe in puerto rico who are not able to get things done. they want everything done for them and it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers on the island doing a fantastic job. >> this is when everyone shows their true colors. i have no time for distractions. >> reporter: the mayor spent her time saturday wading the streets, using a bullhorn to help stranded residents. >> i hope he really gets a chance to look at people's faces, see them drinking from a creek. >> reporter: trump suggested her criticism of the administration's response is politically motivated, tweeting, the mayor of san

hurting a lot of people in small towns and outside of san juan. to hear it from the white house, they're working as hard as they can to get the distribution channels in line so that no one else loses their lives in the horror that has been puerto rico. in just a moment, we'll return to trace gallagher who is in las vegas. again, the headline from this hour, we now have reports from the daily mail the united kingdom that the gunman brought along with all the weapons to create his carnage, cameras to record it set up at the window where he was shooting at least one of them and in a hall so he would know when police were coming. new details on the suspect and the victims straightaway on fox news channel. patrick woke up with a sore back. but he's got work to do. so he took aleve this morning. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. check this sunday's paper for extra savings on pro

the mayor of san juan was left at the end. he shook her hand, but a remarkable presentation from the president trying to say i'm doing fine, puerto rico. i'm doing fine for you. not much discussion about how to get more aid there faster and more medical personnel. let's get back to the ceremony live on the ground in san juan. cnn and franco from a class c newspapers. sarah, let me start with you. the president goes there and graded himself a plus before he left washington. he knows the dust up in puerto rico. he knows that even a lot of officials like the governor who said the president has been available every time i needed him. i know know washington is trying to do everything, but we need more. the president clearly there deciding to have a love fest for him and his team. >> that's right. and look, i don't think when you talk to people on the ground, people are not criticizing fema and first responders. they said we need more of these people out here in communities where we don't have access to foot and power. we don't have

el corazÓn estÁ en san juan. >> me despido desde san juan un puerto rico que le queda mucho por recuperar con el servicio que es la base para comenzar la verdadera recuperaciÓn, todavÍa en muchos pueblos en lo que no ha llegado ayuda y tambiÉn necesitan alimentos. >> tendremos el testimonio de una mujer que trabaja en el hotel que se hospedaba el algunas veces, una tos puede interrumpir una buena noche de sueño. es entonces cuando el necesita vicks vaporub. medicina probada para la tos. con 8 horas de vapores. para que él pueda dormir. vicks vaporub. buenas noches tos. incluso ser la parte de catrás de un unicornio. por suerte, la parte de adelante lavó su camisa con gain. ah... el irresistible aroma de gain flings. presentador: pplaticamos con katerin y nos dijo que este momento la prioridades atender a las vÍctimas y sus familiares, tambiÉn nos dijo y nos adelantÓ que la primer mujer piensa llevar el del bate al pleno de este cuerpo legislativo. >> mi prioridad es atender a los familiares de los afectados por la tragedia y ofrecer los recursos necesarios para ayudarlos y darle