underneath her, and almost four hours now, since this whole saga began. and it seems that this protester is now willingly cooperating with authorities and climbing down that ladder there, to get down to the base of the statue. brynn gingras, if i can bring you back in, tell us what you re seeing right now and what your impressions are? it does look like we re getting closer to the end. we are, and jim, i just learned from a source, the person in charge there is a member who was actually part of the puerto rico rescue efforts. this supervisor from the emergency services unit actually went to puerto rico, was part of those relief refrigerates, was part of the crew that would create these rope systems to get across flooded rivers, to get to people and get them relief packages. so, it kind of speaks to the pulley system we re seeing here not pulley, but the rope system you re seeing there, how elaborate it is. you can imagine how long it took
right now are arch service unit officers. highly trained tactical officers they respond to suicide jumpers on bridges. they re incredibly, incredibly well equipped to handle the situations. highly trained. what that person is likely doing is talking to this person trying to get them to connect with them to get this person down to safety. but as i said, in addition to that, we know that hostage negotiation teams are headed there, as well. those people are specifically trained obviously to talk to these people out of these situations to get this person down. but these, again, esu members, what they re doing i m told through a source is building a system of pulleys, of ropes. you can see the ladder there but you can also see that the officers really don t have great access to the person so they re right now constructing i m told a ladder system, a pulley system that they can get more officers up there and probably closer to this person in order to get them down to safety because as we hav
half weeks after the hurricane. the bridges were knocked out and so they re using a pulley system across a river to get food and fuel. water. to the people. they re resilient, they put forth a good face, and in this case, they re not dying, but what about the electricity a long time coming to the hospitals and the dialysis centers. it s going to be a long time and we re going to have to spend a lot of money and a lot of resources to help our fellow citizens get back on their feet in the island. senator, let me play you one more thing that the president i want to play you something that president said yesterday about puerto rico. listen to this. we ve delivered tremendous amounts of water and then what you have to do is you have to have distribution of the water by the people on the island.
of a parking garage with duffel bags handing things out. i talked to the mayor. i saw her, hey, i was at this helter, here s the medications they say they need. she started sit iting down with me. here s where you get that, this, she brought a bunch of medications. it s a hostagedgepodge. it s working to some extent. sfims, through this system, people can get help, but it s not dependable hospitals have hours of fuel and how do you run a hospital on that? how do you continue to take care of people? would you admit a patient if you re not sure you can be open tomorrow in case you need to transfer the patient back out? that s the frustration and reality. we re ten, 11 days ott now, so this is ongoing. no doubt. sanjay gupta, thank you for that report. and here a look at some of the federal response efforts underway. a fema task force built a pulley system to cross the river to bring relief to dozens of
families stranded in the mountains of puerto rico. a bridge was their only access to the rest of the island, but it was washed away by flood waters from hurricane maria. bren crossed that river with a group of first responders and filed this report. miriam cruz rode out hurricane maria from inside this bedroom. the storm s eye wall traveled right through the area, a city about 90 minutes from san juan. the river that runs through this area rose more than 20 feet. prz what was your thought look out the window and seeing this river go up? terrible. i thought it was going to come up here, but it didn t. but the flooding caused landslides and knocked out this bridge. the only way for cruz s community to get out. we were afraid that we will be left alone. but they weren t. right now, we re crossing a river with a pulley system constructed by a task force