puerto rico today, devastated by hurricane fiona two weeks ago and the president and white house officials did their part to try to tamp down that controversy. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. white house officials are putting out the word that federal help is on the way for people who need it the most. race is not going to be a factor, despite what the vice president said. hello. surveying damage from hurricane fiona. president biden is already sounding the alarm about storms that won t hit for years. today i m announcing more than $60 million in funding to help coastal areas in puerto rico. [applause] become better prepared for the glorm he says his response doesn t favor friends. times like these our nation comes together, put aside our difference our political differences and get to work. we show up. that s different than what vice president harris suggeste
teensover dosing on fentanyl. two survive, one does not. wake up. that s right. just push it in. this was a serious case. and it deserved serious charges. prosecutors charge jocelyn lopez sanchez with distribution resulting in death after the 23-year-old smuggled 1,000 fentanyl laced pills known as mexican percocet and sold several at a high school party. she is now serving 12 to 20 years in a federal prison. what drug did they take? what drug? in las vegas, recently. six died of overdoses in just 36 hours. fentanyl? increasingly, state prosecutors are also charging dealers not with just distribution but with homicide. i m not going to let drug dealers get away with murder. if we can prove poisoning under the law, we can charge first degree in certain circumstances. d.a. mike charged 19 fentanyl dealers this year with second degree murder. joseph castanza was the first after pills he sold killed a teenager. 5 years to life and first degree murder is 25 years to