Development that folks were hoping for. Thats an arrest in this. Of course, a lot of investigation to move forward. Are there others . Is this certainly the person . Those questions investigators working on right now. But our colleagues are going to continue to follow this throughout the day. We have our colleague kate bolduan coming up right now. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. As you said, breaking news out this morning. And a new chapter begins. A man arrested in connection with these bomb packages. With these suspicious devices. 11th and 12th suspicious devices intercepted today. A lot to get to. Let me get to Shimon Prokupecz. You and the team have been iworking on this all morning. What do we have . We dont know who he is. We dont know anything about him. Heres the bottom line. Since last night, i would say, early last evening, we had heard there was significant progress made, and that they believed they had identified someone who
was responsible for this, or at least that
he sent. have you been able to get a sense of how long this person has been under surveillance? i have not. i have not even gotten a sense that this person is necessarily under surveillance, but in these kinds of cases, that s what normally happens. of course. what was the break here? i think ultimately, and i don t know 100%, but just in talking to people, some of the fr forensic stuff. i also think it s going to be photos that help them link this person to some of this. you have to assume that this person had to go somewhere to mail these, right? maybe a mail box, maybe a post office, so there could be images from there. also, we have become law enforcement, you have to think, just in this country, we have become so good at tracking cell phones. so they could have picked something up and triangulated. they look at cell phone sites and triangulate cell phone sites
regional drop-off points to their towns. shortly after trump wrapped up the visit to puerto rico, the death toll doubled from 16 to 34. no matter how great he claim it is recovery effort s going, the numbers are stark. 91% of the island in darkness. no power. 88% of cell phone sites down. most hospitals technically open and offering critical services. because they don t have supplies or space or are dealing with power outages. while the administration flip flopping today on what sounded like a promise to wipe out puerto rico debt, the fcc approving $70 million to get the telecom back up. the money towards helping the u.s. virgin islands and 70% of cell towers are still down. and word of another looming crisis. bloomberg reporting tonight puerto rico burning through the cash on hand before the hurricane hit and faces a government shutdown by the end of the october.
the visit to puerto rico, the the official death toll has doubled now from 16 to 34. no matter how great he claims the is recovery effort s going, the numbers are stark. 91% of the island in darkness. no power. 88% of cell phone sites down. most hospitals technically open but only offering critical services because they don t have supplies or space or are dealing with power outages. while the administration flip flopped today on what sounded like a promise to wipe out puerto rico debt, the fcc is approving a lump sum of $70 million to at least get their telecom back up. the money goes towards helping the u.s. virgin islands where 70% of cell towers are still down. and word of another looming crisis. bloomberg reporting tonight puerto rico burning through the cash on hand before the hurricane hit and so it faces a government shutdown by the end of the october, by halloween unless congress gives up some more emergency money and puerto rico s treasury secretary telling us without the assi
$90 billion in damage. the hurricane wiped out the island s power grid and fewer than half of the residents have running water. nearly 88% of the cell phone sites are still out of service. residents are struggling to find fuel for their cars and generators. as we have reported, mayor of san juan has been very critical of the emergency response from the trump administration. you can see them shaking hands there today. president trump speaking after that. here s a clip of what he had to say. they have come back to to ag way. what a great job we have done. and people are looking at that. and in texas and florida, we get an a+ command i tell you what, i think that we have done just as good in puerto rico. it is actually a much tougher situation. but now the roads are cleared, communication is starting to come back, we need the truck drivers, their drivers have to start driving trucks. we need them to do that. on a local level they have to give us more help. but i will tell you that the