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Storm said he had 17,000 people. two weeks after the haiti week the u.s. had 22,000 troops on the ground in a foreign country. thus is such a mass v disaster, so much humanitarian need. shouldn t there be all hands on deck? we ehave all hands on deck at this time. reporter: an internal report would show over half were untrained, unqualified and didn t speak spanish. if you could go back in time, what would you do differently? i would look at the plans. it i would come in and talk to the common welt of puerto rico and realize the plans. this is a cnn special report you won t want to miss. storm of controversy is
Reimburse you anymore. i m in chapter 9, you know, prepa is. people assume the worst and they stopped me right there. jose ortiz is the new head of prepa. and lessons learned he says if the island gets hit again, he has 32 power companies lined up ready to help. why didn t puerto rico do that for maria? they did too late. they did too late. i don t think we were prepared. we didn t realize we needed to have inventory, manufacturing for a major catastrophe like there. a lot of mismanagement. but power was just one snafu. shelter was another. a month after the storm, i found anita sleeping on a bed soaked with rain water, the smell of mold thick in every room.
If he knew how vulnerable the system was. and after the storm, when the grid needed fixing, why did puerto rico offer $300 million to a tiny company from montana? ooh now the hell did you get this contract. we ll keep digging when storm of controversy continues. flintstones! meet the flintstones. they re the modern stone age family. from the town of bedrock.
Montana company a $300 million had contract, they got suspicious. the head of whitefish energy negotiated that deal over the phone while the storm was still blowing. a deal that seemed to pay him many times the going rate for men and equipment. when the governor and fema found out, he was fired. everyone used that as sort of a symbol of what was going wrong down here at the federal level but what was happening with prepa? right. the power authority, prepa who actually has a good grasp on this island, they know the land, they know the challenges, lost control and it went to the arm corps of engineers. this area is going to be down for a little while fortrist night why wasn t prepa more prepared if they knew how vulnerable the system was. because in the power system, you don t fix in one day. you don t fix in one week. you don t fix in one month.