look at this. i mean, this is the kind of scene i m used to seeing maybe a month of after a storm. two months after? this is a year later. you re still living like this. like it was yesterday. yeah. reporter: wow. wilfredo cruz filled out his paperwork months ago and heard a lot of promises unfulfilled. today when it starts raining, do you get worried? it s not raining, forget it. when it start raining, the water drop down here. reporter: while the puerto rican government is set to receive $20 billion in federal funding to rebuild, homeowners like wilfredo will likely have to move somewhere less vulnerable to get their share. to meet these massive needs, fema headquarters in san juan is packed and buzzing these days as if the storm was still blowing.
to come in? are you begging your bosses for more men. no, i m not. why. because we have 4500 coming in. qule i met puerto rico s number two in command in puerto rico one month after the storm, he told me he had 17,000 people working on the island. two weeks after the haiti quake, the u.s. had 22,000 troops on the ground in a foreign country. this is such a massive disaster, so much humanitarian need, shouldn t it be all hands on deck? that s what i m hearing from the locals. we have all hands on deck at this time. reporter: an internal fema report would later reveal more than half of those 17,000 were untrained, unqualified, or didn t speak spanish. if you could go back in time the week before the storm, the month before the storm, what would you do differently? i would actually look at the plans, i would come in and talk to the commonwealth of puerto rico and revise the plans. do you think the puerto rican plans were bad or fema s plans
what is your biggest frustration today in? what do you need more than anything else? blue tarp. blue tarps the mayor told me. i need a thousand. it s been raining a lot. operation blue roof was supposed to fill that need. but when cnn investigative reporter john sutter dug into arm corps of engineers records, he found nearly 50,000 requests for tarps still unfilled almost three months after the storm. including carman who had broken her arm sweeping water out of her living room. [ speaking foreign language ]
lot of promises unfulfilled. today when it starts raining, do you get worried. it s not raining, forget it. when it start raining, the water drop down here. while the puerto rican government is set to receive $20 billion in federal funding to rebuild, homeowners like wilfredo will likely have to move somewhere less vulnerable to get their share. to meet these massive needs, fema headquarters in san juan is packed and buzzing these days as if the storm was still blowing. i have people working here that don t have power still. the disaster survivors that their house is leaking, that the house doesn t have a roof. and we re working with them day to day because they re committed to this. back in washington, d.c., the head of fema, brock long, told me that he understands the frustrations. but in a new normal of more frequent, more powerful storms, americans should adjust their
arrived. she showed us video of the neighbor s motor home being tossed like a toy. and i met her husband, 75-year-old combat vet named miguel. which is scarier, combat in vietnam or hurricane maria? the hurricane was worse. reporter: they were down to his last vial of insulin spoiling in a powerless fridge and they were worried. wow, that s a good sign. look at that. they ve got it back up. but a month later, a happy twist. you remember me? the veterans administration saw our story. sent plenty of medicine and dianna was excited by the prepa crew raising that fallen tower topped with the puerto rican flag. but on there visit, while her kind warmth remains, the love of her life is gone. two months after the storm, on their 50th wedding anniversary, miguel passed away.