yumts f premiums for the year could go up to $25,000. they are not on board with this. one of your objections today do with cost for seniors. how do you scare that? again, if you look at the safe guards put in there with the mcarthur amendment, preskgsipreskg preexisting conditions were locked in. they couldn t go up further than what the law would allow. if there s no lapse. if there s no lapse. if there is no lapse in coverage. but 30 million people could go into that lapse of 63 days between having insurance and getting well, you will always hear that story out there. if you heard before, with the affordable care act, you know, our prices were going down on our premiums. you can keep your doctors. so there s a lot of jockeying out there in advertising, false advertising. and then if you heard the cbo talking about how many people were going to be covered with the affordable care act, they anticipated 24 million people signi signing up.
on the streets. if we fear and live in a culture of fear they have won. what we saw clearly tonight with this, it turned out to be nothing but with this moment of panic and terror we saw in people s faces, it s clear france is traumatized and there s a lot of work and time here before people really start to live their daily lives again. life for now here has fundamentally changed and people are very much fearful as much as they want to embrace that spirit of defiance and as much as they want to get back to their daily lives. it s true. and clarissa, we went to the eiffel tower, still crowded underneath with tourists, they couldn t go up. completely closed because it is a state of emergency. as long as it s a state of emergency things are not open.
we have team coverage on this from puerto rico to the white house. let s begin with cnn s boris sanchez in san juan. so boris, we ll get to the president s verbal attacks in a moment. but i want to start now with what you ve heard from what we ve heard from the mayor of san juan after she was begging for help and the president unleashing. reporter: yeah. the situation is improving, though incrementally here in puerto rico. and not just because there are several thousand federal workers here. also because the community is coming together. we re in a neighborhood, the condado district. there are a lot of citizens here, a lot of the buildings you see behind me. when the power went out, their elevators were rendered useful. they couldn t go up and downstairs. i spoke with a group of doctors that were going into the highrises to look after these