Across, not roads, but more like rivers with a few bags in their hands. Th they just grabbed a few snacks, pillows. In many cases they were carrying pets. As we talked about last night, still one of the big issues is power. 100 of the island not having power right now, only those that can get to generators, also, the first thing people still ask me is, do you have signal. People desperate to find out the condition of loved ones who they cant get to because of flooding many because of debris . And loved ones who cant get out, because of that same reason. The government has announced that fema has critical supplies right now enroute to puerto rico, and that is via ship. Anderson. What are some of the main priorities now that the storm has passed . Power for the government. I mean, they have already before maria even came here, the government said that they believed that it would take not days, not weeks, but rather months to restore power. Remember, this is a power system that lacks maintenance and infrastructure. So power is going to be a big deal. And the communication issue, not just for Puerto Ricans on this island. For tourists on this island, but also, as i spoke to Emergency Management officials right now, just trying to work logistics, just trying to get to the poem who need help. Even they are dealing with a communication issue. So many factors, debris, floods, roads that you cant use. Major roads, interstates, communication, power, its just a combination of factors that for many Puerto Ricans on this island tonight, its a nightmare. Leyla santiago. Earlier tonight i spoke to
san juans mayor, she said the city she knew no longer exists. People at home are elderly, they dont have their insulin, they lost their heart medications, they lost their Blood Pressure medications. And if we dont get to them in ti time, it is those that i cannot get to that really worry me the most. San juans mayor tonight. Joining us by phone, carlos ramos. What can you tell us about the extent of the damage to the power grid . Well, anderson, the whole island has been devastated and so has the electric power system. You know, we have expect it today on two of the Transmission Lines, and we found over 40 Transmission Line towers completely crumbled. And on other areas, we found
conductors down. And we still have no communications with two of our power plants. So its devastating. I mention in some areas, theres still flooding, even beginning to work on that is going to be difficult. How long do you foresee taking to get power restored. Well, you know, were working on priorities first and foremost. The same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, Water Treatment plants and pumping stations. We have a plan will shortly bring power to at least the Central Medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the federal government and the health aid is going to be operating from. At least that center should have power within the next three days. So those hospitals, do they have i assume they have generators now . They do. But those are emergency generators, they need to be
stopped frequently for oil and filter changes. And some of them are somewhat outdated. Even before the hurricane hit, i know your company was facing serious issues, including, but not limited to needing 4 billion to update outdated power plants. Is that fair to say . You were facing big struggles before this . Well, in preparation, title 3 under the law, which is basically a title a bankruptcy scenario, and we were requesting liquidity of close to 1 billion per year, for the next 10 years, in order to update the Power Generation system. And its completely outdated. But, you know, this administration with the governor, our plan was to modernize it as quickly as possible, and make it a utility of the future. Possible, of course, keeping our people safe. You have a big job ahead of you, i appreciate your time tonight, thank you. Just ahead, the earthquake, the latest from mexico, areas closer to the quakes epicenter. I count on my dell Small Business advisor for tech advice. With one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. Sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx tmobile mnemonic sfx tmobile mnemonic tmobiles unlimited now includes netflix on us. Thats right, netflix on us. Get four unlimited lines for just forty bucks each. Taxes and fees included. And now, netflix included. So go ahead, binge on us. Another reason why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. Sfx tmobile mnemonic i am so busy. So ive asked Chase Sapphire Reserve Cardmembers to scout the world to find my next vacation. Dija, where is that . Im on a rickshaw in japan. Hes so fast this is delicious. Im sorry. Do you guys know who james corden is . Dont ask them that, its embarrassing. No. Okay, that is embarrassing. Sapphire reserve, from chase. Make more of whats yours. This inot this john smith. Smith. Or this john smith. Or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana Medicare Advantage members. No, its this john smith. Who we paired with a humana team member to help address his own specific health needs. At humana, we take a personal approach to your health, to provide care thats just as unique as you are. No matter what your name is. Steve chooses to walk over the26. 2 miles,9 days. Thats a marathon. And he does it with dr. Scholls. Only dr. Scholls has massaging gel insoles that provide allday comfort to keep him feeling more energized. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. What would you do if you had even more time to explore . Book your next stay through the fine hotels and resorts program and enjoy a world of benefits with the platinum card. Open up the world with platinum. Backed by the service and security of american express. Backed by the service and security of american express. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, your testimony will save lives. Mr. Stevens . This is your new name. This is your new house. And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. The death toll in mexico climbed again today. Its approaching 300. It will most likely climb because people are still unaccounted for or trapped in the rubble. Natural disasters not only caused by changing destruction, they also bring chaos and confusion. The chase in point the school in mexico city, a girl believed to still be trapped. That turned out not to be the case. Part of the fog of war in these circumstances. In addition, were just now getting access to areas beyond the capitol, in the state southeast of mexico city, the quake damaged a Church Killing a girl who was being baptized as well as 11 others. 9700 homes, 100 plus government buildings were damaged in the tremors, elsewhere its even worse. Whats the damage where are you and whats the damage like . Im in a town here called
this. Street lamps are working right now, theres some electricity here. And whats remarkable is in the two days since the destruction and death and the shock of the earthquake. A lot of the roads have been cleaned up. I know on your journey there, you encounter a lot of people who were volunteers, who wanted to help . Thats really something thats incredible about this. And you may be hearing applause, this is from volunteers who are in the area here helping clean up. On our drive from mexico city, we passed convoy after convoy of people driving, Passenger Vehicles with handwritten signs saying theyre bringing assistance. And everywhere you turn in this town and in the surrounding areas, you see volunteers who are distributing everything from medical supplies to food to drinks. A woman came up offering me water just now, theres an
incredible grassroots mobilization, not just in the capit capitol, but its spread out into the countryside. Its not just ordinary mexicans, its international as well. I came in on a flight today from tokyo, with japanese disaster relief, with a team of helmeted Uniformed Police officers. When they arrived at mexico city airport, they were greeted by applause, cheers and tears of gratitude. As everybody comes to try to help mexico in the wake of this deadly natural disaster. Just in terms of the noise were herring around you, is that an area where people are being searched for . What is the applause about . Is it encouraging searchers or what . There are volunteers who are helping clean away some of the rubble. Im not sure what they were cheering about just now, theres also a great deal of pride im hearing from volunteers. I talked to a 15yearold High School Student who had been out
helping clean things up. One of the things the volunteers say they need is basically portapotties because the Sewage Treatment is messed up right now. People who cant be in their homes right now, thats one of the things people say they need on the ground right now. Again, i dont think ive ever seen quite such a mobilization on a Grassroots Level of volunteers as ive seen here in the wake of this natural disaster. Ivan watson, appreciate that report. Just after the earthquake in haiti in 2010, i had the honor of watching fire and rescue. One of the people we talked to on the ground as they worked, was captain jason vasquez, part of his team is now in mexico. He joins me now. Thanks so much for being with us. When you see the destruction in mexico, and you see the huge crowds of people working on a site. Is it is there a challenge with having so many people on one site . Is there benefit to having fewer people or is it is just more
hands better . Well, they sent us down to haiti, we had a search team looking for worksites with rescue teams to follow us up. And rescue those victims. We break it up into a Search Component and a rescue component. As one site is being worked on, well have a small team out looking for other worksites for our guys, so were not wasting any time. I was with your team when a woman came up to your team on a street, a mother who said her daughter was trapped and were showing some of the video from back then. And your team spent i mean, just heroic hours combing through that wreckage, putting in sensors, sending the dog in, you believed you heard something, people believed the dogs seemed to indicate life, and then sadly after many hours, there was no more sign of it. Im just wondering, in terms of how much does is this like
technology dependent, having those sensors, the microphones you can put down, those listening devices, cameras and the dogs. Each one of those components in itself is equal to its worth. Listening devices can listen through concrete up to 20 feet. The rescue youre talking about, was actually pretty interesting, that one we had half our team working on that site. We went Walking Distance probably a city block. The next morning thats when we rescued three victim the. We were still in that fast light mobil stage. We maybe stopped the search around 10 00. Then we did some more searching that evening, and our crews went to work that morning. Thats incredible. How long have you seen someone pulled out of the wreckage still alive after an event like this . I cant remember i remember in haiti, there was an elderly woman pulled out more than a week after, what have you seen in your career . I believe the max ive seen is about 10 days. But thats not saying somebody can be stuck, just stuck somewhere with food and water, that can extend their life span. Also, depending on the condition of the person. Are they trapped. The one we were talking about, that lady was pinched and it was close to 7 days, we got her out. Am i right in saying you create a grid of an area, and each team is responsible for that grid . One of our trainings is set getting the area in sectorizing it up, a grid. Well focus a heavy team on each one of those grids, so were not wasting time. Right now, time is our enemy right now. Captain vasquez, i appreciate you taking time to talk to us. Ive never forgotten the hours i spent watching your team, extraordinarily professionals doing their job, and as you said, moving on to save other
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that they havent had to grapple with before this issue of propaganda. I think were very much seeing this play out in realtime, as they try to make these calculations and figure out where their values are. A russian propaganda used facebook to organized more than a dozen Pro Trump Rallies in florida last year. Its fascinating the degree to which. I dont think five years ago, anyone would have thought that facebook would have such a role in a u. S. Election . Yeah, i mean, some people believe the 2016 election was the facebook election. The number of people who use their news feed to get all of the information for the day is huge. The total spending was 6. 8 billion. Theyve identified 100,000 in facebook ads. Proverbial drop in the bucket. Its important to identify it, and do what facebook has said theyre going to do. Be transparent, crack down on bad actors and work with congress. I wondered about how we should
view facebook today. And im thinking about the way we view other Telecommunications Platforms. If someone were to abuse automated telephone call, we dont get mad at the phone company, we get mad at the bad actors. Its interesting to me, are they a Telecommunications Platform or a news organization. What do you think it means for the investigation . If facebook is handing over how important do you think it could be or not important. I want to make one point of clarification. 100,000 versus the 6. 0 billion. Buying ads on facebook are incredibly cheap, compared to buying television spots. It sounds like it was nothing. But that isnt nothing. 100,000 out of 6 billion is still a small amount. Youre minimizing. Theyre more targeted to an audience than an ad running i think thats a little trump spin to keep things down, and thats all we know of it. Look, i think theres an interesting parallel in this to me, if you look back a couple years ago, when really the issue of online bullying and online sexual predators started to get more attention, maybe eight years ago or so. And facebook and the other platforms said, theres nothing we can do. We have to be hands off, all we can do is help train parents. That perspective evolved, and they knew they had to had a responsibility. I think were seeing this here too, theyre saying they have a responsibility. But and i think well continue to see that evolution from social media. From an investigative perspective, the sense that this was going to be a narrow focus on just one aspect relating to
russia, that sean spicer and others called fake news, thats blown out of the water, were now bringing facebook into it. Theyre part of the investigation. If you believe this is going to happen again in the next round and the next round, its only going to increase with sites like facebook and others. They built this gigantic machine, and its eye little ironic, but perfectly appropriate that its now through that Social Network theyre being called to account. People understand that 100,000 is pretargeted and can do all kinds of fancy stuff is an enormous amount of money, if it was a radio station, if it was a television station, that was like pumping out stuff to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, with targeted messages, we would all be pretty clear there was something seriously going on. A violation of the laws that problem hit foreign interfere e
interference. They are taking zuckerberg on this tour, as if hes going to be a national candidate, and they still might be. You cant get that deep into politics and then say, were just the phone company. Facebook is really facing the Unintended Consequences of having two billion users, from a business perspective, everyone was in awe with how this company grew. I was surprised, that as soon as people started questioning facebooks role. We had absolutely no involvement in this election at all, all we are is a Social Networking site. The fact that theyre complying right now, it could be a catchup on zuckerbergs i recently saw this piece on 60 minutes about Brain Hacking and how Companies Target people. The people that said to me, a guy that works in this. We think were the customers of facebook, were not the customers of facebook, Coca Kwoel La and the advertisers, theyre the ones th