very good tuesday mornm jim and i m poppy harlow. right now hurricane fiona strengthening as it sets its sights on another batch of islands. but as it moves past puerto rico and the dominican republic, the damage is devastating. look at those images. in puerto rico two people are dead this morning after most of the power on the island is out. it could be days before it is restored. we re looking for gasoline, water, ice. all of the supplies necessary for getting through this. we were hoping it wouldn t be so big. but, well, it was bigger than we expected. and you have to make do with what you have. been through this before. rescuers have saved more than a thousand people from the floodwaters. as much as 30 inches of rain fell on the eiisland. that is like two and a half feet. they try to get to people in more hard to reach areas. this comes five years, to the day after hurricane maria made landfall on the u.s. island. many people who lived through that catastrophe fear
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understanding that you all started post maria. can you give us a sense of how folks on the island are doing right now? are people frustrated? and really, what is the temperature here? sure, the spanish federation actually opened a tournament office in puerto rico immediately after hurricane maria to continue to work with community based organizations in the long term recovery. to really try to prepare puerto rico for the future. as you mentioned, right now we are in an emergency phase. we have people who do not have food, do not have water, they are in a real crisis. so yes people are angry. they are frustrated. they are emotionally exhausted. not only have we gone through this hurricane, and not only are we still recovering from hurricane maria. but people often leave out that we went to earthquakes in 2020. this hurricane hit us on top of
are people doing there right now? what is the situation today and does it compare to what we saw five years ago? well, first thing we have to remember is that the damage of this caused by any storm is not only a function of the strength of the storm, but also how prepared you are. how vulnerable is the population. an we re not in the strongest position to weather this storm. right now we have like around 80% of the population without electricity, around 65% without water. 25% don t have cell phone service. approximately 2,000 people are in shelters and we have got in over 30 inches of rain in some areas as you reported. so there is widespread flooding and a lot of damage to roads and bridges and commercial infrastructure and homes. so we have our work cut out for us. so relative to maria, the fact that we re having this
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