i couldn t get one mayor to just say yes. the mayor of baillamon told me he s as prepared as he can be but acknowledged the vulnerabilities of the island coming into the 2018 atlantic hurricane season, and then you have this. you have people wondering how prepared can puerto rico be if they still don t have an exact number or even an official number that reflects what many believe is the true number of how many people died at the hands of hurricane maria. anna? that speaks volumes, that even officials who want to be able to say they re prepared, who are trying to be accountable to the people they are leading, still admit they are not ready. leyla santiago, thank you for your incredible reporting from puerto rico. now to a major difference in the number of people reported dead from this storm and its horrible aftermath. let me break it down for you because remember, initially t puerto rican government reported
and the leader of north korea, something that s never happened before. so this absolutely helps him. i need to pause our conversation just to get some breaking news. puerto rico has suffered an island-wide power outage. puerto rico still reeling from the devastation caused by hurricane maria seven months ago. cnn s leila santiago joins us now from mexico city. horrible development. reporter: yeah, john, i ve been tracking the developments for the last hour or so. here s what we know. there is an island-wide power outage in puerto rico right now. that means 1.5 million clients from the puerto rico power authority in the dark, unable to turn the rights on. the power authority telling me it s going to take between 24 to 36 hours to restore this power. so what caused this? those details still not available. we know there was a line that went down on the southern end of the island, and that is where the trouble is. but exactly what caused that we don t know.
to be out in the field doing the job they are trained to do. they will be doing air support missions, surveillance, intelligence gathering, and some desk jobs, clerical work to free up border patrol to be more visible and to enforce the laws that president trump wants on the borders. kate? kaylee, ramping up there and ramping up across the border. let s go across the border and why the president is moving troops to the border. a group of migrants from central america is headed through mexico to the u.s. border. the president is calling it a drastic surge of illegal activity at the border, but it s worth noting this is an annual trip meant to highlight the problems asylum seekers are running from. it s clearly taken on much more meaning now. leila santiago has been following their progress throughout. she s on a bus with some of
it is hard to say, yes. even harder to accept. that six months later it wasn t a normal death. it wasn t. maria is still destroying lives. leila santiago, cnn, puerto rico. coming up, the president, on a twit are tirade today for the first time attacking robert mueller by name along with the department of justice. now fired fbi director james comey. former deputy director andrew mccabe. could this back fire on the president? we ll discuss, next. why use three skincare products when you can use one that works? new garnier 3-in-1 moisturizer with 96% naturally derived ingredients. one, use it by day to hydrate. two, at night to nourish. three, as a mask to soothe.
southeast where we were last week, it is so different in the level of recovery. they still don t have water. they still don t have power. you know, just in that story you see jorge there, he actually still locks his home because that s the only place he has to sleep at night, but it s destroyed. there is no roof. so for me, what has been most eye-opening is just where the recovery is and where it s not. leyla santiago, thank you for your continued reporting as we move into 2018 in puerto rico. we do appreciate it. coming up, a royal wedding, a world cup and a record-breaking stock market. we ll tell you what to watch for in 2018. are upgrading their water filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids. pour it through brita s two-stage filter. dissolved solids remain? what if we filter it over and over? (sighing) oh dear. thank goodness zerowater s five-stage filter