this morning, we are getting new reaction from the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. president accused her of poor leadership, you ll remember, in the wake of two devastating hurricanes. that is after she made several emotional pleas for help saying people were dying in her city and that federal relief was bogged down in red tape. here is some of our anderson cooper speaking with the mayor. you woke up this morning to a tweet of the president of the united states. what did you say? i smiled. i smiled. i really have no time for small politics or for comments that really don t add to the situation here. reporter: he said that he talked about you, your leadership and he said they i don t know if he meant they, the leaders, or they, the people of puerto rico, want everything done for them. i believe you know, it was kind of funny because i got them real late because we don t have
danger there with a dam risk of failure and hospitals closed and so on. i m not sure he wants to. but assuming he wanted to, one thing i would do and i ve wherein this on cnn.com every day he should say that residents of puerto rico are american citizens. a poll that most americans don t know that and to the extent people don t know it, they are wondering what the point of all of this activity is in the first place. so i think he should go out of his way to do that. then beyond that, look. there are some logistical bottlenecks there and all of the reporting needs to suggest on top of everything else, the lack of communication is making so much more intense and makes it harder to figure out when where the aid should go and when it should happen. if they can get some kind of communication system up, generators and cell towers, the president can make that happen, that would be a great thing. they could make it more fluid
and much smoother in terms of the way they are trying to recover there. listen. lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan talked with pbs after he took a tour of the island. listen to what he said. sometimes we don t know what is going to happen until the storm actually hits and this is the worst i ve ever seen. i m not a republican, i m not a democrat. i m not a member of the blue party or the green party. i m a soldier. and i m here to help people. the people here need help and we are going to give them all of the them they can get. the people of puerto rico are going to be very resilient and we need them to be resilient so that they can help rebuild this commonwealth and make it what it really should be. but there is going to be some parts where we are going to have to start from scratch. julian, do you think the president going there on tuesday and seeing things firsthand and possibly talking to the people there will change his mind based
a controversial referendum supposed to be going on here. classes broke out in one of the northern cities earlier. police were preventing voters from entering at least one polling station. spain s highest court says the vote is illegal and unconstitutional and the government vowed to shut it down. but police then broke windows and padlocks. they were trying to get into that building. spain s interior minister tweeted that national police have seized ballot boxes from some polling stations. in the run-up to the vote they confiscated material and sent the national police to the region. the president of catalonia cast his vote and praised those lining up despite the spanish intervention. saturday night live is back. it s back with another season. they wasted no time going after president trump again. we will have all of the best highlights after the break. i m begging you.
when i saw them come the first time, i saw heaven. finally we knew that they knew about our situation. reporter: with a broken bridge, food and supplies will be needed again and communications are still out. this man can t get in touch with his daughter, bringing him to tiers. what do you want to say to your daughter in texas? you re surviving? even without the help, we found this community doing all they can to stay alive. you see that line? that is how we got the water on this side. reporter: you did that yourself? no. the people here. not me but the men. you know? the men. reporter: if you didn t have that? we have no water. reporter: that despite president trump s recent criticism of puerto rico leaders and local response. of course, we get frustrated because we have done what we