as the day went on and the helicopters were passing over and i was standing on rocks, waving them down and they re not seeing me, i m invisible, you lose hope. your hope meter starts to decline a little bit. you have a choice to make. you can sit on the rock and die. you could say mercy and feel pitiful for yourself and play victim or you can start walking down that waterfall and choose life. that s hiker amanda eller speaking out after 17 days lost in the hawaiian jungle. she survived on berries, insects, stream water and slept in the den of a wild boar while her friends and family never gave up hope. our next guest helped organize the search.
out and they re still struggling here with just the very basic necessities. it seems every time they take one step forward, it s then two steps back. let me give you an example. five days ago, they hit a major milestone here. having 50% power generation across the island. but this lasted only two hours before the first of four power failures. they re still also dealing with daily blackouts. now, let s talk water. the government is saying that they have water across 90% of the island, yet none of this water is safe to drink without first boiling it. there are some communities that still have no water at all. people are going and collecting stream water with a pvc pipe to get water to their households. we did speak with the mayor of san juan about some of these daily struggles. let s listen to what she had to say. while the energy is not stable, and the electric light is not stable, our economy will be stable. i don t want anybody at
mike isn t quite close enough to hear what the president is saying. we ll keep an eye on this and move to other topics. we ll bring you anything that happens. this week president trump signed a house resolution into law, which would roll back an obama-era regulation protecting streams from coal mining runoff to dig into the effects of this i m joined by nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson, who covers environmental affairs for us. good to see you. good to see you. first off, when you hear these rolling back a regulation that was to protect stream water, most of us would think, that doesn t sound like a great thing for the environment. no it s not, if you talk to environmentalists. they re very upset about this decision by the trump administration. essentially what this rule would have done is protect waterways
died in that strike. authorities say he was involved in a number of plots including the so-called underwear bomber case. funeral services for troy davis took place today in savannah. the georgia inmate was executed last week for the 1989 slaying of an off duty police officer and amnesty international is urging supporters to observe today as a day of remembrance. an anxious weekend for american amanda knox as she awaits to hear her fate. she s appealing her 2009 conviction of murder, her former roommate in italy. knock s attorney say she s a victim of overzealous prosecutors who decided her guilt regardless of reason. knox is expected to address the court on monday. and two more people are dead after eating cantalope contaminated with lifteria from a colorado farm. the centers for disease control says one person died in new mexico and another in colorado this week. the listeria outbreak was traced to rocky forward cantalopes fromm fromm frommen jone farm. drone attacks k