commentators for more on the president s planned trip to puerto rico. a former special assistant to george w. bush and a columnist for the daily beast. good to see both of you. scott, you first. what do you want the president to see on this visit tuesday. i want him to see the devastation and the clean up and the rebuilding here is what is going to matter for the rest of his first term. the same thing in texas because of the other hurricane there. a huge part of his first term is going to be defined by how we rebuild these places that have been devastated by these amazingly powerful storms. he needs to see the devastation and hear from people what they need to get their island back up on its feet and needs to talk with local leader about an island that had an updated grid and road systems and telecommunications and they have
the road systems here in south texas. ed, thank you so much. appreciate that from san antonio. with me now, san antonio fire chief charles hood on the phone with me. chief, you know, describe what was seen, best of your understanding when the doors of that tractor trailer were opened upon discovering there were people inside? this was absolutely a tragic situation. we had the fire units respond with san antonio pd for a welfare check at the walmart. units arrived found the tractor with folks in the back. very hot, being in an oven if you can imagine. the tractor trailer had no air conditioning. we quickly removed people. we ended up calling a mass casualty situation because we did have 38 victims.