and this isn t an overnight fix. it is not. and we are in this for the long haul. thank you so much. governor kenneth mapp from the virgin islands. i want to turn to the attention facing puerto rico, the dire situation where ron mott is standing by at the port of san juan and ron, i know there is a lot of headlines about the dialogue and this public spat between the mayor there and the president, but there was the bigger story the other day about this port and containers that were sitting idle of goods that people could be utilized right now. so give us an update of what is going on with the port. reporter: well, hey, there, thomas. the manager of freight services telling us that the reporting about fema hurricane goods sitting here in the port and no one coming to pick it up is grosslia grossly exaggerated. he said they started with 40 foot long containers and in 20 minutes they are expecting to
because they don t know whether their loved ones are accounting for. yesterday we stayed in line all day with people waiting for ice and we spoke to people who were still trying to locate loved ones on the northwestern part of the island on the northeast part of the island, anything basically outside san juan. you still probably are cutoff of and one of the more dramatic things that we witnessed during this reporting is a lot of the supplies there in the port of san juan that they re simply not enough resources meaning enough drivers, meaning enough gas to be able to take them to the people who need them the most and that is why you have the mayor of san juan saying that people are dying because these are folks that are running out of food, running out of medicine and still have no power. da dara? i am begging, begging anyone that can hear us to save us from
well know, after the hurricane in this case people could die of total total totally preventible things, simple treatments but people are likely to die for lack of very basic things. getting antibiotics to people is not logistical, it s life shf saving thing. people are suffering because gone without so so long. boris, you were at port of san juan, where the containers were waiting to get trucked out. saying that fema could get emergency supplies off ships and distributed best as they can in lot of different ways but guy from the port you talked to, what did he say was in the containers? everyday supplies, simple
people who are in need right now after the hurricane. the governor, this is the verbatim, he said we will not allow our food and water just remain there due to lack of executing. also, i wanted to give you guys an update, 90 branches, bank branches, have reopened on the island, although with some restrictions. cash is beginning to be a problem because many merchants are not taking credit cards. they re only taking cash, precisely because of lack of power. 36 hospitals, according to the governor, are now operational out of a total of 69, john and poppy. raphael romo, thank you for your reporting. keep an eye, of course, on the port of san juan and when the containers with this aid actually gets out to the people. thank you so much. so much could happen so fast if puerto rico had the fuel and the resources necessary. boris sanchez is at a gas
sit in the port of san juan. but there aren t enough trucks or drivers to get them moving. today the administration defended the response they say is proceeding well. why has it taken eight days to get a three-star general on the ground to start organizing this? we know the island situation, et cetera, but why eight days? yeah, well, because it didn t require a three-starp general eight days ago. you are seeing devastation in puerto rico. that is the fault of the hurricane. the relief effort is under control. it is proceeding very well. considering the devastation that took place. and more on all that later on in this broadcast. and then there s the tax plan this white house and congress have pivoted to in search of an issue to win on. trump has called it a miracle for the middle class. but experts say it s hard to determine whether that s true based on the information we have thus far. from what they can tell, it does