as far as something that stays in the news cycle and resonates down to normal people who are looking back at washington, i think this might be one of those things that s inside baseball and more of a testament to the fact that even decisions that aren t policy related are also extremely partisan and hard to find coalition around. all right. ladies, good to see you both. thank you for your time. happening now uncertainty for hundreds of migrants on the u.s. border with mexico at this hour. most of them are wromen and the children. the trump administration is declaring you aren t welcome. g gadi schwartz is walking with a group of migrants. what are you hearing there? reporter: right now we re with this group of migrants. you can see them walking. it s interesting. we just crossed the bridge with a clear view of the united states. i m going to turn us around here and through these buildings that mountain range you see there, that is the u.s. that s how close they are. a lot of them a
in san juan. our correspondents are spread across the island there on puerto rico. g gadi schwartz with more on the desperation. reporter: in some remotes part of puerto rico, calls for help are written on rooftops, families desperate in the long wait for aid. roads obliterated by mudslides. they might be stuck in an area they can t leave. reporter: the paurt rico blackhawk helicopters getting aid to remote areas where this 8-year-old says her family needs supplies. she s worried about her grandparents she hasn t heard from in days. i hope you are fine and i love you. reporter: this chopper crew also responsible for preventing a major environmental catastrophe after nearby oil drilling rig was damaged by the hurricane. if would have come aground, hit puerto rico, how bad could things have gotten? pretty bad. reporter: just one of the
countless missions american soldiers protecting their island, looking for more people to save. again, gadi schwartz there in san juan. dr. natalie azaire and edwin melendez, professor of urban affairs and planning at new york s hunter college, an expert on puerto rico because you spent vast majority of your life there. i know you moved here in the late 70s. the washington post said today that this is colonial neglect. the relationship between the island and the mainland, how is that relationship, or perhaps lack thereof, how is that affecting the response and the recovery? well, from the very beginning puerto rico was an incorporated temperature. that means second-class citizenship for all of us since 1917. we don t have representation in congress. but we do have elected officials here and other community leaders that advocate for puerto rico. where the majority of puerto