cell phone wars to kick off the new year. one carrier in fact offering up to $700 off the iphone x. abc s linzie janis tonight out to save your money. reporter: tonight, cell phone carriers battling it out for your business, kicking off the new year with some big deals. at t mobile, buy an iphone 7 or higher and get up to a $700 rebate for another iphone, including the iphone x, when you trade in your old phone. sprint promoting an unlimited plan, free for one year. experts say be sure to read the fine print, and when choosing a plan it s important to understand how you use your phone. if you just check e-mail or text here and there, you don t need a lot of data. time for a switch. reporter: some of the best deals out there may be from lesser known carriers like cricket and boost mobile. both selling four phone lines with unlimited data for just $100 a month. there is just a whole world out there of great deals if you move beyond the four major carriers. reporter: many of t
deal news these are manually edited deals. people that are actually studying this and keep their brain on this and really do great to share with us what the great, great deal right now. then finally the other one, flick deals app. this is sort of new. new to me anyway. flick deals will hook you up in terms of finding out what deals are around you. but, also, allows you to slide in what percentage off you want hey i want a mix from her kitchen aid. i m only going to buy it if it s 40% off or below certain price. it will notify you. really great tools to let you know. steve: that s cool. when to buy it on that one. dos amend don ts of the day. things you are going to save on would be like tv s. you see those today. best buy s ad came out. really good deal. smart phones perfect day to bay smart phone. last quarter of the year is when cell phone carriers really want your business.
power. we re hearing the hum of industrial generators this this part of the island. much of many streets in san juan are flooded, and it s very difficult to get around. as you mentioned, broin, a curfew is in effect and local authorities are just beginning the recovery effort here. search and rescue missions are set to get under way. fema is on the ground and preparing rescue missions tomorrow. the mayor and local authorities here were busy tonight cleaning up the streets and trying to get this population center back on track. but, brian, the big question right now is what we don t know. the unknown, because communications have been down for so long today, cell phone carriers are down. really only one major one is working at this point and it s tough to communicate with other parts of the island. when this massive storm came onshore earlier this morning on the southeast part of the island and cut through it, you know, there was flooding roads turned into rivers and the question is
six months. again, that s a major concern right now, the issue with the power grid, the weakened infrastructure on this island. communications is very difficult. most of the cell phone carriers simply are not working. we ourselves had to switch to a different form of transition in order to bring this live report to you today. andrea? gabe, while we have you, and please be in a safe location there, what about the military? can the army corps of engineers and military relief bring in generators, bring in supplies? reporter: well, yes. that is certainly well underway. there are plans being made, as you know, andrea, from the federal government perspective. president trump has approved an emergency disaster declaration ordering officials to the island. the question is now when it can be safe for those resources to come in. we were speaking to the coast guard yesterday who were moving some of these assets as they often do in these types of hurricanes to a safe location. after the storm
more than 10,000 people are in emergency shelters. that s at the minimum. and the governor says that they have opened 500 shelters. we have seen that people were streaming into them throughout the past 24 hours. there has been a run on gas, a run on supplies, stephanie and ali. i can tell you that communications are now a problem. most of the cell phone carriers on this island are no longer working and it is difficult to establish a communications signal. but as you can see, this is not letting up any time soon. we have seen plenty of debris going through the city of san juan. this could be the strongest storm to slam into this area in nearly a century. stephanie, i know you ve been following this quite a bit, the economic fallout from this. this is a this is a catastrophe in the making for an island with weak infrastructure and already dealing with this debt crisis, the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. there is a huge concern of course for the lives lost but also for the rec