said, listen, first of all, we don t have the drivers to be able to take the supplies to the people of puerto rico. secondly, the infrastructure of the island is completely devastated. thirdly, there is a problem with cell signal. 90% of puerto rico does not have any cell phone reception. fourth, you have a problem with access to fuel. it s almost what i ve been calling the perfect storm after the storm. you can just imagine how frustrating it is to know that that fuel, that medicine, that building material, that gas that people need is just sitting there at the port, stranded since saturday. thousands of containers. and they re not being able to be moved for the people of puerto rico. i also checked up with him later after the white house said that that wasn t really the information that they were handling. and they said that they had seen some movement, but that only today, according to quality, 250 of those containers had been moved. 250 out of thousands. and then finally, jose, the
don t have the drivers to be able to take the supplies to the people of puerto rico. secondly, the infrastructure of the island is completely devastated. thirdly, there is a problem with cell signal. 90% of puerto rico does not have any cell phone reception. fourth, you have a problem with access to fuel. it s almost what i ve been calling the perfect storm after the storm. you can just imagine how frustrating it is to know that that fuel, that medicine, that building material, that gas that people need is just sitting there at the port, stranded since saturday. thousands of containers. and they re not being able to be moved for the people of puerto rico. i also checked up with him later after the white house said that that wasn t really the information that they were handling. and they said that they had seen some movement, but that only today, according to quality, 250 of those containers had been moved. 250 out of thousands. and then finally, jose, the vice
today we saw 1,000 people waiting in line to board a royal caribbean ship. we saw hundreds of people at the airport. there are only 24 commercial flights leaving the island. the average is 170 flights per day out of san juan international airport. a week after the hurricane hit, when people should be returning home, as we ve seen in harvey and irma, people here desperately trying to leave and the desperation is growing. what is frustrating what you explained in items of getting the much needed supplies distributed within the island. the lack of access to fuel, the devastated infrastructure, the fact that 91% of the island doesn t have any cell phone reception makes this challenging but not impossible to deal with. the latest numbers from fema, they re on the ground 600 fema
hi there, yes. as rain continues to fall, this is a flood emergency in the aid of social media. that matters because local residents are using their phones, using facebook and twitter to call for help. we have seen hundreds of cases on sunday of people trying to tweet to local authorities or post on facebook to their local lawmakers listing where they are located, what their phone number is and what their condition is. asking for boats or for helicopters to come in and rescue them. i have not seen this on this scale in the united states before. we have certainly seen other countries where social media has played a vital role in rescue efforts. think back 12 years ago, last time a major hurricane made land fall on the united states. facebook was brand-new and twitter didn t really exist yet at all. smart phones were not nearly as widespread or commonly used as they are today. obviously cell phone reception is an issue. electricity is an issue.
ibthin this stairway. this is the corner that i was sitting in and i would stick this phone out. they remember and i would stick the phone out trying to get reception on it to send messages out. most of them were to our producer who was updating us with the information he had. i was waiting right there all night. that s where i parked. and i remember thinking back then this is what the population of mosul has to go through, sneaking upstairs to get a little bit of cell phone reception, knowing that they would be executed by isis if they were caught.