this as president trump s health and human services secretary tom price is forced to resign after a scandal. remember price dominated headlines after it was revealed he used taxpayer money to take private flights for government business. he ran up a tab of more than $1 million for noncommercial flights. well, let s get back to puerto rico here, because officials there and here in the states are pleading with president trump for more aid after hurricane maria destroyed most of the island. we talked earlier with new york city council speaker mark vivarito and she says, you know what, for her this is personal. this is serious. this is about life and death. this is about lack of preparation, lack of planning, lack of appropriate response. this has to be acknowledged. we all knew this hurricane was a category 5 and catastrophic. we all know puerto rico is an island. we all knew it was going to be a direct hit, so all of that
so he s calling on the new 21st century policing task force which he launched on monday to issue recommendations within 90 days, alisyn, chris? jim acosta. thanks so much. we want to bring in the speaker of the new york city council melissa mark vivarito. what was your reaction when you heard the grand jury s decision. to be honest, angry and very much frustrated and exasperated. because we were seeing a sense of injustice that is being meted out in communities feeling that somehow justice is elusive. so we have to heal obviously as a city and we have to consistently demand reform, which many of us are doing. but the anger and the frustration is very valid. and we need to be able to express it in productive ways. i mean you say a sense of injustice, but this is the justice system. they went before a grand jury with 22 civilian witnesses, 38
buildings. extraordinary, fast, precise response by our first responders. i want to thank the police, oem, everyone who has been a part of this operation already. we have a lot of people in this community right now deeply concerned. a lot of people who have been negatively affected in their buildings surrounding a lot of people from the buildings that collapsed wondering where their loved ones are. speaker mark vivarito has been talking to a number of families. i ve spoken to the pastor of the church that was one of the storefronts in these buildings. there is a tremendous amount of anxiety, but suffice it to say that every effort is being expended to locate each and every one of these individuals. finally, for any relatives who are looking for information about their loved ones, special