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abc s victor oquendo in san juan tonight. reporter: tonight, united and defiant. calls for puerto rico s governor, ricardo rossello, to step down reaching their highest levels monday. an island-wide strike. belting out their battle cry ricky resign. puerto ricans are flooding the streets. this is actually the on-ramp to the highway, and if you take a look down at the overpass, they ve shut it down. singer ricky martin, born and raised here, among them. all protesting for a tenth straight day after the leak of those obscenity-laced, sexist and homophobic group chats between the governor and his closest advisers, mocking and insulting some constituents. we want a government that really represents us, that is working there for the people of puerto rico and not for their own benefit and the benefit of their own friends. reporter: in a facebook address sunday, rossello said he won t seek re-election, but he will finish his term. the governor reaffirming that today in an interview
out into the streets. sure. we are on a major highway. this is the away into san juan and the way south. and i want to show you what some of the protesters have just done. they are individually spelling out ricky resign, for the governor of puerto rico. so many people have been telling me this is about respect, this is about dignity. they have had enough. i m actually going to see if i can talk to one of them. i m going to try to talk to one of them to see if we can hear in their own words, why are you here today? we are here to protest the injustice that this government has thrown upon us and we re here to overthrow ra sal oh and ask him to resign. what does it mean to you? it means disrespect toward my children and toward my family, towards my elders and ancestors,
these roads are now blocked. they will not be able to have business running around here, to have any sort of transportation. and you can see it does not really take that much to get these folks to continue to demand. let me read some of these for you. ricky, resign. demonstrate to your children that you are a better father than you are a governor. that is the translation of one of them. a lot of flags out here today showing their patriotism and sense of unity here today. again, we have the trucks in the background, maybe hard to see, but in one lane we have trucks blocking the road. there a cyclists here and younger people and older people. and right now an ambulance is actually coming by and you can
operate in close proximity to one another raising the risk of miscalculation. all right. i know you re watching this carefully this morning. please keep us posted. overnight, new developments in the crisis in puerto rico. a new round of celebrities joining the calls for puerto rico s governor to resign. so far governor ricardo rossello is refusing. leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you seeing? reporter: you can see there are still people guarding the governor s mansion. there s also been a standoff here between protesters and police in the last few days. now, let s go over sort of what developed overnight. as you mentioned at the youth awards for univision last night have joined to say ricky resign.