recovery efforts on the island after was devastated by back-to-back hurricanes. the meeting coming after the president received harsh criticism for his handling of the crisis with hurricane maria made landfall almost a month ago but hundreds of thousands of people are still without water or power. let s take a look at something happen now, tensions as they looks to stop catalonia s push for independence by imposing a direct rule. the country s fight to restore constitutional order. what is the latest? reporter: a real showdown in spain, the country s prime minister had given the leader of catalonia, and autonomous region within spain, until 10:00 am madrid time, that was half an hour ago, to either abandon his plan to take that region out of spain or face direct rule from madrid.
ask your dermatologist about otezla today. otezla. show more of you. welcome back. puerto rico by the numbers. 25 days since hurricane maria made landfall. food and fuel widely available. 70% of grocery stores are open. 80% of gas stations are operating. communications are better but still spotty. 58% of land lines work on the island, only 40% of the cell towers are back on line. biggest challenge is power. only 14% of the island s electricity has been restored. this is anything about the president s fine hour. the island s infrastructure was a mess before the hurricane hit, but the president s tone is callous. tweet thursday, a total lack of ability, congress should decide
hurricane maria made landfall in puerto rico. the government anoupsed today the death toll has risen to 48. the guardian quotes fema officials as saying the government and its partners are only providing 200,000 meals a day to meet the needs of over 2 million people who need food. they also report fema s contract with world central kitchen which provides 20,000 meals a day in puerto rico expired on tuesday. it will, quote, take several weeks for a new contract to emerge. the washington post reports over 80% of puerto ricans are still in the dark without power. this one example, this one city home to about 40,000 people. this first frame shows the lights of the town visible from space at night. the next frame shows it after maria hit. the final frame shows it this week as some lights have reappeared incrementally. most of them, of course, apt to be from generators.
americans, three weeks since hurricane maria made landfall, governor of puerto rico confirmed first deaths on the island he attributed to bacterial disease called leapt ospearosis, a bacterial infection that humans can get using water sources contaminated by animals. humans drinking or in contact with water contaminated by urine from wildlife, particularly rodents, this is the disease you can get. it s treatable but not treated, can kill you. two weeks ago we spoke to the mayor of san juan, puerto rico, told us on air having turned around supplies because she found a mayor that needed them more. mayor in town in puerto rico where people not just hard up like san juan but two weeks ago, telling us about people in other
the soap opera and palace intrigue and continually unspooling chaos around this president and his unbelievably chaotic, impenetrable white house. regardless of why it s going to happen, i don t really care why it s going to happen, if we do end up getting a homeland security secretary because of that mess and out of that mess, that would be important. if only because it would be really nice for us as a country to have someone running the agency that overseas fema, for example. fema s part of homeland security. who s running homeland security? nobody since july. today there was some very bad news ot ut of puerto rico. home to 3.5 million americans, three and a half weeks since hurricane maria made landfall. today the governor attributed