before. volume of water was so fast. the spillway itself had some structural issues and it undermined and ripped out the bottom half of the spillway. if if the loose soil erodes that the bottom of the dam, it could cause catastrophic flooding below. u.s. marines are working with navy pilots to ch-53 naval helicopters. it s a pretty cool experienc experience. glad to be out here to help. in the end, it s not a sophisticated solution. they are turning those into a big pile of rocks. but the problem is so big, they ve got more than 200 areas in the pile and it s not enough. they need to keep adding to the pile before it rains again. this continues to erode back, these concrete pieces you will see behind us will fall away. and it could lead to failure of the dam behind there. remote towns in the island are still unreachable by truck. tactical helicopter unit of the fbi s only hostage rescue team
before. volume of water was so fast. the spillway itself had some structural issues and it undermined and ripped out the bottom half of the spillway. if if the loose soil erodes that the bottom of the dam, it could cause catastrophic flooding below. u.s. marines are working with navy pilots to ch-53 naval helicopters. it s a pretty cool experienc experience. glad to be out here to help. in the end, it s not a sophisticated solution. they are turning those into a big pile of rocks. but the problem is so big, they ve got more than 200 areas in the pile and it s not enough. they need to keep adding to the pile before it rains again. this continues to erode back, these concrete pieces you will see behind us will fall away. and it could lead to failure of the dam behind there. remote towns in the island are still unreachable by truck. tactical helicopter unit of the fbi s only hostage rescue team
that spillway to make a pile of rocks. if they make the pile big enough it will shore up the foundation of the spillway and stop the erosion. sandra: amazing work they re doing there. bill: the trump team clarifying the president s remarks on puerto rico s staggering debt. press secretary sarah sanders addressed it again yesterday. there is a process for how to deal with puerto rico s debt. it will have to go through that process to have a lasting recovery and growth. this is a process that was put in place and set up under obama and that has a board of advisors that deals with that debt and it will go through that process as we move forward. bill: we ll see how the process works out in the end. you coming from the money background. sandra: that rocked markets. bill: you pulled it off the graph on your phone and said look at this. sandra: the puerto rican bonds. $74 billion in debt.
rocks to stop the erosion. it works in theory. the bad part of the equation they are still getting more rain every day here. the army corps of engineers will hook up pumps the try to prevent a catastrophe if the spillway erodes all the way up to the dam. melissa: thank you for that report. big story. thank you. jon: a mother held in contempt of court after she refuses to vaccinate her child. our legal panel explains why the judge is recommending jail time. responsibility for my actions. i stand scared and vulnerable begging the court to understand i m not a lazy parent. treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support, with align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. also in kids chewables.
since the 1980s. what happened during the course of the storm normal output pipes jammed. you had a tremendous amount of water going into the reservoir. the spillway functioned as it should but hadn t handled this volume of water up to this point. the volume of water came through so fast and the spillway had some structural issues and it ripped out the bottom half of the spillway. it is starting to erode back to the bottom of the dam. the foundation is sand. if it erodes all the way up to the dam you could talk about a failure of the dam which would flood hundreds of families that live below the dam. what you have happening on the ground, u.s. marines are looking up jersey barriers to cables. navy pilots come in with helicopters and they hook the barriers to the helicopter and the helicopter pilots drop these at the foot of that spillway. in theory what they re trying to do is build a big pile of