On, and so does she. People are like, wow, if i could do what youre doing, i would do it. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. Puerto rico is an island in crisis. More than two days after Hurricane Maria hit, the power is out, roads are blocked, cell phone towers are down, streets flooded, and now a dam may be failing, threatening anotherica tat fee. Officials are scrambling to evacuate 70,000 people downstream. David begnaud is in san juan. What do you suggest we do . Reporter san juan mayor waded through the hardest hit streets of her city. This is the area called ocean park. Its got a little bit too much ocean right now. Reporter all around her, floodwater and devastation. Its very difficult. Its unfathomable. Think of your worst nightmare, and there it is no power anywhere in puerto rico. No water. We have the reservoirs of Drinking Water have been depleted. Diesel is very quickly running out. Reporter already, residents are trying to cope without pow
People are like, wow, if i could do what youre doing, i would do it. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im anthony mason. Puerto rico is an island in crisis. More than two days after Hurricane Maria hit, the power is out, s e arkeadocelbl cd,l flooded, and now a dam may be failing, threatening another catastrophe. Officials are scrambling to evacuate 70,000 people dostream. David begnaud is in san juan. What do you suggest we do . Reporter san juan mayor yulin cruz waded through the hardest hit streets of her city. This is the area called ocean park. Its got a little bit too much heean right now. Floodwater and devastation. Its very difficult. Its unfathomable. Think of your worst nightmare, and there it is no power anywhere in puerto rico. No water. We have the reservoirs of Drinking Water have been depleted. Diesel is very quickly running out. Reporter already, residents are trying to cope without power. Totdated and fragile, most of ab
This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Puerto rico is pleading for help. Food and water, gasoline and electricity, they are all needed desperately by the islands nearly 3. 5 million residents devastated by hurricane maria. President trump today defended the federal response, and hell soon see it for himself. He will visit puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands next tuesday. We begin tonight with David Begnaud in san juan. D reporter six days after ancea hit with a vengeance, mayor yulin cruz is at her wits end, trying to find help. I know that leaders arent supposed to cry. And especially not on tv. But we are having a humanitarian crisis here. Reporter some survivors, she says, are facing a second brush with death. Like other hospitals on the island, the maestro has no power. A generator powers lights on justwo floors. Theres no air conditioning. Jesus garcessotos cancer took a turn for the worst the same day maria hit. H