She hit me hard, and i was like, all right, maybe she should be playing football. laughter this is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. He embarrassed the president , and it cost him his job. Dr. Tom price was forced to resign today as secretary of health and Human Services for using highcost charter flights when cheaper alternatives were available. President trump had campaigned against wasteful government spending. More now from nancy cordes. I was disappointed because i didnt like it cosmetically or otherwise. Reporter President Trump blasted price again today, but the secretary had already gotten the message. Ive heard the concerns. Nd ive heard the ive heard the concerns. Ive heard the criticisms. Reporter price, a former congressman, had tried to do g mage control, backing an internal review of his private flights, more than a dozen of rkem since may, including one from d. C. To philadelphia, a trip so short, most people drive. There will be no private air charters at h. H. S. Going forward. Reporter but the president was apparently unswayed by prices promise to reimburse the government 52,000, a fraction of the more than 400,000 price tag. Thats unacceptable to me. Reporter prices relationship with the president ips already strained. As secretary of health and Human Services, he was a point man on the failed attempt to repeal obamacare. By the way, you going to get the votes . Otherwise, ill say, tom, youre fired reporter prices travel problems have led to new scrutiny of other cabinet members, including treasury ercretarys steven mnuchin, mp. A. s scott pruitt, and interiors ryan zinke. Ry tvery time i travel i submit the travel plan to the Ethics Department that evaluates it nene by line to make sure that i am above the law. Reporter price becomes the ranth Top Trump Administration eificial to either step down or get fired. Ind going back to congress is ptt an option for him, at least ntr now, because his replacement was chosen, anthony, in a special election this summer. Mason nancy cordes. Thank you, nancy. Now to the crisis in puerto rico, where the recovery from the hurricane is slow, at best. Today, Omar Villafranca saw some of the worst in yabucoa, where maria made landfall. Reporter the tiny fishing iny fishingplaya el negro was the first to feel the wrath of hurricane maria. Many of the homes are now unlivable, but families here verehahee owls e go. To Yasmine Torres is trying to sirvive after losing everything, including the roof over her head. This is now where she is sleeping. Shes sleeping outside her hard house into a softsided tent. Thats all shes got, but it got wet because its still raining here. Today, the first government eflief finally rolled into the southeastern part of the island, nine days after the storm. Residents were evacuated. They returned home hungry and thirsty. Gracias. Reporter manolo morales was grateful to receive squash to eat. Hes been eating canned sardines, capturing rainwater in barrels and pots, just to have something to drink. No. Reporter no . We met this young and desperate couple begging for supplies for their sixmonthold baby. speaking spanish i asked if they have any milk for the baby. They do not. So this is the first help theyre seeing. Hopefully there is some milk for the baby. Residents here hope there are more relief supplies on the way and that the government does not forget about them. With more on that, heres my colleague, David Begnaud. Reporter in a place that is surrounded by water, people in aguadilla are desperately looking for a drop to drink. T me stood patiently at the freshwater truck, hoping to get enough for today. Many more cast their buckets here. At 8 00 a. M. Friday morning, rtung children started lining up irth their parents to get food. Everyone was given a bag with four bottles of water and three snacks that the mayor says may have to last them two days. Marie alda stood in line for hours. She left with four 16ounce bottles. How badly did you need this water . For my baby granddaughter, a lot. I have two more little girls at home, she said. Mayor Carlos Mendez is begging for more. This is an emergency for gods sake. The food has to get into my peoples hands. Met jiorter we met Jimmie Morales in line. Hria ripped off the roof of his house and hundreds of his neighbors nine days ago. Today they collected their water in clorox bleach containers. Its the only thing they had. Many of the roads are still impassable, and the u. S. Military is using helicopters to deliver Water Supplies to rural beas, but they havent yet reached aguadilla, and thats ents like blancaike blanca reyes boiling with frustration. We need help. We dont need money, just we need help. Thats it. Reporter today, the acting head of the department of d meland security praised puerto ricos recovery effort as a good fows story to which the mayor of san juan later responded, we are dying, and you are killing ar with the bureaucracy and the inefficiency. Anthony. Mason David Begnaud who ony. Scrossed puerto rico today. The president said today his administration is doing a very good job in puerto rico, a view not shared by retired general russel honore. Ru he led relief efforts in new orleans after katrina. Michelle miller spoke with him. Reporter is puerto rico worse than what you found here after katrina . Oh, yeah. The number one priority is riving lives, and when youre saving lives you have to figure out what rules youre going to break. All the rules we live by are designed for peace time. Reporter and this is what . This is like a war. Reporter what was their first mistake . Not giving the mission to the military. Look, we have army units that go do port openings, not called. We have special forces that could have been in every town, not employed. Reporter has the u. S. Government done anything right . Did they learn any lessons from katrina . They did the predeployment. That was good. They got an allgovernment approach, thats good. But they dont understand scale. Reporter Lieutenant General renore, called President Trumps response slow and small. General honore was hailed a hero after he went into the gulf states postkatrina weapons down weapons down, damn it reporter and put the relief efforts in order. I said, look, youre all looking at a damn calendar in washington and im looking at a mmn watch. Reporter who clear roads lrst . Would you get the power grid up, or is it all simultaneous . This is not a sequential operation. I would tell the local mayors to weart hiring people, get a yellow pad out, and we clear the damn roads. So you got 80 men with hand tools going to clear a road. Theyll clear five miles a day. Reporter after returning from his Factfinding Mission in ngerto rico next week, the tneral says hes going to gtshington. Im going to see senator mccain and senator graham, and were going to write some bleep in the Defense Authorization bill that every hurricane come will have a task force follow it in. G reporter general honore says Lessons Learned must lead to a better response. Michelle miller, cbs news, new orleans. Mason along with food and water, medicine is in short supply. Dr. Jon lapook is following the medical crisis in puerto rico. Reporter ricardo revera has diabetes, and this is the fourth drugstore hes been to today. My insulin ends today and i need it to stay alive. Reporter yet again, he came up empty. They dont take my insurance. Reporter many people have pen out of medicine or lost it in the hurricane, so local doctors are now setting up very special house calls. Theyre doing checkups at clinics and shelters, then going clinics and sh ed get the medicines people need and delivering them to wherever the patients are. Enbert alsina is volunteering his time and car to take walgreens pharmacist Ileana Rivera on the road, setting up a makeshift dispensary at this shelter in catano, outside san juan. Antibiotics, insulin you uame it. Reporter this is a full Service House call that i have never seen before. Luis rivera has high Blood Pressure. When was the last time you took a Blood Pressure pill . Nine days ago. Wow. So you need these pills right now. Uhhuh. Reporter Chris Oquendo got insulin for his grandmother and immediately tested her blood sugar. Its high. 174. And thats really high for her. Reporter unlike the physical devastation obvious all over the island, the medical devastation is often hidden. Hoats going on inside those apartments, so a major challenge remains, anthony, figuring out who is suffering and what they need. Mason dr. Jon lapook in san juan. F florida, a 12th patient died las night after being stuck for days in a sweltering nursing home after hurricane irma. The facility in hollywood, florida, lost air conditioning in the storm. A criminal investigation is under way. The Trump Administration today slashed the u. S. Diplomatic presence in cuba and warned americans not to visit. This is in response to mysterious acoustic attacks on diplomats. Margaret brennan reports it marks a sharp aboutface in u. S. Relations with cuba, which had been improving during the obama years. Some very bad things happened in cuba, very bad things. Reporter the Trump Administration warned americans that it is not safe to travel to cuba, and yanked more than half of u. S. Personnel from the embassy. The actions come almost a year after 21 u. S. Diplomats staying at this and other Havana Hotels reported hearing loss, dizziness, headaches, and difficulty sleeping. Some suffered traumatic brain injury. The attacks were first reported by cbs radios steve dorsey. Most of the victims that have come forward with symptoms from these attacks are men. Only six are women. Most have been in havana for just less than a year. They did some bad things in cuba. Reporter investigators have not determined who they are or what those bad things were, but are considering inether some sort of sonic weapon was involved. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson did not blame cuba or sever u. S. Ieplomatic ties, which were restored just three years ago by president obama. Republican senator marco rubio of florida called todays Embassy Drawdown weak. Ts wants tillerson to shutter g the. S. Embassy, something the secretary said earlier this month he was considering. We have it under evaluation. Its a very serious issue with respect to the harm that certain individuals have suffered. C reporter canadian diplomats suffered similar attacks, but their government is not warning against travel to cuba. Today, a cuban official, josefina vidal, denied that the castro government played any role and said cuba protects all diplomats without exception. Anthony. Mason Margaret Brennan at the white house. Thank you, margaret. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, a military leaders powerful message against racism. And later, rock slides hit one of the countrys most popular ofimbing spots. Ost popular climbing spots. And were pumped to open my own salon. But i couldnt bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. So i talked to my doctor and she prescribed lyrica. Lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. Tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling or blurry vision. Common side effects dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, swelling of hands, legs, and feet. Dont drink alcohol while taking lyrica. 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Nhe Lieutenant General in charge, a combat veteran, responded with a lesson in leadership and a powerful message against racism. Heres Barry Petersen. Reporter the words, scrawled s Message Boards outside the caoms of five black cadets in the prep school, were blunt, go home, and then the nword. Just as blunt, the words from air force Academy SuperintendentLieutenant General jay silveria. Ra if youre outraged by those words, then youre in the right place. You should be outraged not only as an airman but as a human being. Reporter he talked to cadets, faculty members, and senior officers. Silveria, a bronze star recipient, who once commanded Bagram Airbase in afghanistan, insisted that cadets tackle americas racial issues headon. We would be naive to think that we shouldnt discuss this topic. We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of whats going on in our country, things like charlottesville and ferguson, the protests in the n. F. L. Thats why we have a better idea. The power that we come from all walks of life, that we come from pal parts of this country, that c come from all races, we come from all backgrounds gender all makeup, all upbringing. Thats a much better idea than small thinking and horrible ideas. Reporter as for silveria, as miey say in the military, his message was crystal, as in crystal clear. This is our institution, and no one can take away our values. If you cant treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. If you cant treat someone from another gender, whether its a man or a woman, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. If you demean someone in any way, then you need to get out. And if you cant treat someone from another race or a different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. Reporter the academy is conducting its own investigation, and, anthony, whoever wrote those racial slurs could face a courtmartial for conduct unbecoming an officer. 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