action sooner and bringing in the military sooner. first i thank the mayor for providing aid. second the mayor is dead wrong in this case and i challenge him to go down and get a better understanding first before rendering that verdict on what we ve done. what we ve been doing and how blown away you ll be when you see the full totality of the picture. i wouldn t be critical of him personally but like with the jones act criticism rendered not yet informed on the facts. thanks for that question. and able to get supplies through and why are 10,000 containers waiting at the port of san juan? to my point earlier, getting a lot of supplies through. misreporting that misunderstands that fact. the president has referenced some of the debt and economic problems that puerto rico has been struggling with for some time here. when you talked about the lack of capacity, municipal and state level. are you faulting local officials for a lack of preparedness? no. let me be clear. when i say c
administration s response has been inexcusably slow and ineffective. we need someone overseeing the entire operation. one problem that they are facing is that there are 3,000 shipping containers sitting on the port. they don t have trucks. they don t have the manpower. that was the alaskan congresswoman, born in puerto rico, emotional, as you can understand. as of today half the island has no drinking water. fema said it has delivered 2 million litres of water and 1 million meals to the island but it s been a week. we re joined at the port of san juan. there are millions of water bottles there, fuel is waiting to be delivered. what are you seeing on the ground, mariana? reporter: andrea, those 3,000
trump waived the jones act so they can get supplies but more ships are at the port but it doesn t mean they re getting in. i want to bring in contessa to explain that problem. you ve seen the video of desperate parents feeding their children crackers. there are 9,000 containers just stuck in the port of san juan right now. these are all refrigerated containers and they re freezers and refrigerators, each run by a generator. crowley, one of the biggest shippers in puerto rico, is using more than 4,000 gallons of diesel day to keep these refrigeratednits up and running they re full of medice and food. there are big distributors for food here that have a hundred containers of food just sitting here. the problem is the diesel. so while they need diesel to run the generators, the truck drivers also need that fuel to
now at one of the biggest shippers in puerto rico. the trucks are unloading it, but there s nowhere left to put these containers. they re at the very last bit of space, way over capacity in part they say because there s no diesel that can get the semi truck drivers in here to pick up the containers and move them along. the port is running on generator power to run the operations here to keep those generators running that keep the refrigerated units doled. and that is the case all over the island. fuel and especially diesel in desperate shortage. and the trucking companies, if they can get ahold of these drivers by cell phone, the drivers then need to get gasoline in their cars so they can get to work. when they get to work, if they can get to work, they need to get into their trucks which they need to have diesel to do. because of all this back load, the cargo containers here, 10,000 of them, katy, stuck in the port of san juan. those supplies are not getting to the people who desperat
in san juan. geraldo? part of the problem is, i don t think until maybe this morning the president, the cabinet and the entire american government understood the magnitude of this disaster. they have been sending in aid. it s been trickling in. we saw the port last night, the port of san juan, operating what seemed to be minimal capacity. even the airport, which is just behind the camera does not seem anything like the activity you d expect in the berlin airlift. they don t understand that this is puerto rico s katrina. this is a generalized disaster. we found my father s youngest sibling. one of the last surviving of my father s big flock. he s one of 17 siblings. we found her in a darkened house last night with a tree through the roof and another tree blocking the streets.