latest. also ahead, it has been exactly one year to the day since hurricane maria hit puerto rico killing nearly 3,000 americans. the deadliest u.s. natural disaster in more than a century. we re going to look at what went wrong in the aftermath. at what t wrong in the aftermath do you think that the trump administration failed puerto rico? yeah, certainly. how so? well, i believe that help was late in arriving. it was politics, politics, politics, and the emergency was secondary. s secondary. and tiny. and this is laura s mobile dog grooming palace. laura can clean up a retriever that rolled in foxtails, but she s not much on articles of organization. articles of what? so, she turned to legalzoom. they helped me out. she means we helped with her llc, trademark, and a lot of other legal stuff that s a part of running a business. so laura can get back to the dogs. would you sit still? this is laura s mobile dog grooming palace and this is where life meets legal.
it is hard to tell what is accurate and what s not. you may see more deaths indirectly occur as time goes on. people have heart attacks due to stress. they fall off the house fixing the roof. they die in car crashes because they went through the intersection where stop lights weren t working. long says he has no plans to resign among a probe into personal travel with government resources. the white house was considering replacing long before hurricane maria hit. time for an early start on your money. president is planning to hit china with a new set of tariffs. mr. trump will hit china with 10% of troiariffs on $200 billi of goods. it includes refrigerators and air conditioners and toys. these are things american
in puerto rico. it was one thing to say that puerto rico was in danger and in a fragile place when it came to the winds and rain of that storm. what fell apart and why maria end eed up being such a disaste the plans, the supply chain weren t managed. cbs was broadcasting images of thousands of palettes of bottled water that never got distributed to people in puerto rico and still to this day, a year after hurricane maria hit, those water bottles are sigt tting on a run. it seems like supply chain management is the difference between life and death in terms of hurricane response. it is the difference between life and death. people who watch fema will tell you that last year was an unprecedented year. three storms, back-to-back. the fema administrator himself said that the agency was
fema itself didn t after action report discovered that there were deficiencies and that say that they are working to address some of the problems that existed, that affected the response to hurricane maria. the white house, on the record, won t dispute those numbers, the death count numbers. when the report came out and the numbers were fixed, sarah sanders put out a statement saying that, you know, they continue to work with the government of puerto rico. she didn t dispute the numbers on the record. but the president of the united states says different things than what his administration says. and certainly what members of congress say. and the president, i m just looking now. he was asked about this, when this gw study came out. listen, we had correspondents on the ground for months after hurricane maria hit, right? covered it. covered the updated numbers out of the gw study when those broke. i vividly remember that day. the president was asked about it when he was at this event
ryan, of course, commenting on president trump s tweet this morning, disputing without evidence, the death toll, 3,000 people dead in puerto rico after hurricane maria hit. kasie hunt is on capitol hill and was in that press conference with paul ryan. kasie, he talked about hurricane florence, right, encouraged people to listen to local officials. then he was asked, as paul ryan often is, about what the president is saying. there s always a question about the president s tweets, hallie. in this case, this is something another question that, frankly, republicans don t want to have to be asked about and, as you heard the speaker say there, he said look, i ve got no reason to dispute this death toll. he talked about visiting the island and how there was so much infrastructure devastation, that the death toll did rise in the wake of the storm, even if there were not immediate deaths from the wind, from the rain, from the floods. the number of people that were cut off from power, who lo