doesn t that help with the fire season? sure. in essence the water has been great. it helps the agriculture business but it also adds vegetation. then you go into the summer, that vegetation dries out and that s the fuel for these fires so ironically actually we have more new brush now to burn for fuel than we did the last few years when we were in a drought. thank you so much for keeping us up to date. all right. more than three weeks now since hurricane maria and people across puerto rico are desperate and the daily struggle is now what s the new normal there. a lot of storm survivors are using some makeshift piping to get water and others are drinking water that s simply making them sick. also employees are comparing it to the titanic. we re talking about the future of the weinstein company. offen
a small fortune for gasoline he isn t expecting a lot to come out of the u.s. president s visit. and i hope donald trump will help put a recurrence you know that the u.s. is spending many millions because of the hurricanes in florida and houston so we must be patient. i mean so much i mean you and you know donald trump has rejected claims he s government s response has been too slow and he suggested hurricane maria wasn t as bad as previous storms. but what i would like every death is all right but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that. trump met a few selected storm survivors and officials during his visit but he is fleeting it
comes for those conversations to take place, then i think we need to look at things that might have a real impact. matthew? thanks, sarah. on puerto rico, can you tell us about the president s aims for his visit tomorrow and do you expect any tension given some of his comments over the weekend? we have several stops that we ll put out later this afternoon in terms of the specifics of that trip. we are going to be spending significant time there in puerto rico, meeting both with first responders as well as the storm survivors, and we ll again put out the details of that exact schedule later today. some of his comments over the weekend like the folks wanted everything done for them and do expect that to come up in any of the conversations? i expect the focus to be on the recovery efforts which we re fully committed to, the top priority for the federal government is certainly to protect the lives and safety of
things that may actually have a real impact. matthew? thank you, sarah. on puerto rico, can you tell us about the president s aims for his visit tomorrow? do you expect any tension given some of his comments over the weekend? we have several stops that we ll put out later this afternoon in terms of the specifics of that trip. we are going to be spending significant time there in puerto rico meeting both with first responders, as well as the storm survivors. we ll, again, put out the details of that exact schedule later today. some of his comments over the weekend folks wanted everything done for them. do you expect that to come up in any of his conversations? i expect the focus to be on the recovery efforts which we re fully committed to, the top priority for the federal government certainly to protect the lives and the safety of those in affected areas and to provide life sustaining service
that may actually have that real impact. matthew? thanks, sarah. on puerto rico, can you tell us about the president s aims for his visit tomorrow and do you expect any tension given some of his comments over the weekend? we have several stops that we ll put out later this afternoon in terms of the specifics of that trip. we are going to be spending a significant time there in puerto rico meeting both with first responders as well as storm survivors and we ll put out the details later today. some of the comments like the folks wanted everything done for them, do you expect that to come up? i expect the focus to be on the recovery efforts which we re fully committed to, the top priority for the federal government is certainly to protect the lives and safety of those affected areas and provide life sustaining services as we