investigations against him a witch hunt. gabe gutierrez sat down for an interview with the ceo in san juan. reporter: facing audits and investigations andy techmanski, the ceo of whitefish energy says he has nothing to hide. there s people out there looking for something that does not exist. reporter: he says his company didn t have the just two the full-time employees when hurricane maria made landfall as reported but instead 20 to 40 working projects in the u.s. techmanski says he first contacted the puerto rico electric power that s right or prepa after irma in september. i found them on linked in. you used it to get a $300 million contract. linked in is going to love this but yeah. reporter: he strongly denied ryan zinke also from whitefish, montana or anyone else in the trump administration had anything to do with the contract. still, fema says it has significant concerns and never
coincidentally, the hometown of interior secretary ryan zinke. the washington post reports the company s chief executive and zinke acknowledged knowing one another, but only according to zinke s office because white fish is a small town where, quote, everybody knows everybody. and just two years old, the company only had two full-time employees when hurricane maria made landfall. it now has almost 300 contract utility workers down in puerto r rico. white fish says they have experience in mountainous regions and is willing to do business with a financially-strapped island. a spokesman for whitefish tells nbc news, most companies didn t want to do work for a utility that was in bankruptcy. i m going to point out, that s what the spokesperson said. we ll continue to follow this story. so whitefish, if you think you re switching away, i was on the swim team. i have spoken to investors who are some of the largest
see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. more than a month after hurricane maria made landfall and puerto rico, power and a sense of normalcy are still slow to return for millions of american citizens in the u.s. territory. take a look at the devastation in this new drone video we ve obtained. much of the caribbean island still underwater. only 20% of puerto rico has
by the u.s. army corps of engineers to pluck out the garbage from the garbage. we re talking about toxic materials, paint, electronics, refrigerators. those had to stay behind so the environmental protection agency can come in and dispose of that appropriately. as for the rest of it, that s all going to landfills, which is leading to another concern. this island produces about 8,500 tons of garbage a day. that s before maria. so all of this debris is now going to be going to these landfills that officials say are already to their capacity. so the question tonight, pamela, what will happen to all this furniture, these electronics, lumber, and of course other organic material get is scooped up off the streets? polo sandoval, thank you for your reporting there on the ground in puerto rico. it was an extraordinary sight. five former u.s. presidents sharing the stage at a benefit concert last night, all to raise money for hurricane relief.
islands of st. thomas and st. john, a local hospital devastated by irma and then maria. i found its staff responding with incredible grace under pressure putting the needs of their community above their own. take a look. it was like a tornado inside of this area, and the staff everyone took the patient, put them on a mattress, four person to each end and we slide them down the stairs. reporter: you had to slide them down the stairs on mattress? on a mattress, quickly, because we did not know the rest of the unit would be compromised, and they slide the patients down on to the labor and delivery unit, on to one side of the unit, at the same time we had patients actively in labor and were delivering babies, at the same time. reporter: and we see all the these wires. take a look. is this telephone wire? what is this? just about everything. a yeoman s job of cleaning up,