raining. the outer band still lashing puerto rico. t a least four deaths reported so far. emergency crews have rescued more than 1,000 people. the efforts are still ongoing as responders try to get to people in hard to reach areas. parts of puerto rico are still recovering from hurricane maria that made landfall there five years ago today. cnn s leyla santiago is live for us in san juan. what are you hearing? brianna and john, as i checked in with families this morning, if you were in san juan, the metropolitan area, there is a small portion of areas that have had power restored. they are getting water back this morning. but if you are in the interior, if you were on the southern coast, really hit hard by hurricane fiona, there is still no power, no water. there are still people at shelters, and there are still crews trying to get access to some areas because of that flooding. i know you went over a lot of the numbers in terms of how much water has come down, the deaths
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Of books that you may not know about of the lines. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week, and we are joined by the president of the university dementia is the coauthor of this book, the spirit of compromise, white governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. President , are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if you recall, i know you werent there then, but if you recall it historically speaking our Founding Fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution. They were as polarized as any set of americans who had been throughout our country and history. There were a pro and anti slavery and yet they compromised. So, yes, we were founded in compromise. Today compromise has become more difficult than ever before. What do you mean when you talk about the uncompromising mindset . Well, we live in an era t
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