island of martinique to the southeast. in puerto rico, the government says 90% of preparations are done. officials say they are more ready now than they were for maria two years ago. puerto rico has been through worse situations. i trust in the people of puerto rico, we are ready, we are going forward, we are going to wait and see how this emergency unfolds, and we are going to be better prepared. the government says puerto rico has a 41-day stockpile of gasoline, infrastructure supplies across the island. 300 generators with 100 more on stand by. and police and national guard troops set to provide security at shelters. among other preparations, miami-dade county is sending a 45-member search and rescue crew to puerto rico. airlines and cruise lines, they re modifying their schedules, so check with your carriers before traveling through the area. the tropical storm door unanimous bears down tropical storm dorian bears down, the trump administration is taking
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morning, this could be a category two landfall around the eastern coast of florida or southern portions of georgia. keep in mind margin of error for a storm five days out is over 200 miles. this storm has had the trend of recent days here of shifting to the east. so still exists the chance here the storm skirts away from florida and even away from the united states. we ll watch this throughout this weekend. we know you ll be watching every one of those updates. thank you so much for that. president trump s emergency declaration for puerto rico came after a push from florida senators marco rubio and rick scott. and also after president trump vented about the storm wow, yet another big storm heading to puerto rico. will it ever end? congress approved $92 billion for puerto rico last year, an all-time record of its kind for anywhere. as we reported, those numbers are misleading. more than half of the money is based on white house estimates of potential costs over the next 20 years.
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thank you so much. president trump s emergency declaration for puerto rico came after a push from florida senators marco rubio and rick scott. also after president trump vented about the storm. quote, wow, yet another big storm heading to puerto rico. will it ever end? congress approved $92 billion for puerto rico last year, an all-time record of its kind for anywhere. as we ve said before, those numbers are misleading. more than half of the money is based on white house estimates of potential costs over the next 20 years. dorian is still growing, look at the flooding in martinique to southeast. in puerto rico the government says 90% of preparations are done. officials saying they more ready now than they were for maria two years ago. puerto rico has been through worse situations. we are ready, we are going forwards, we re going to wait and see how the emergency unfolds, and we re going to be