She grew up on the USA territory and moved back there 10 years ago. His uncle lives across the street, and though his uncle’s place had a strong foundation that could withstand the storm, the summertime retreat of Miranda’s didn’t: “As Maria roared toward the island, my family in Puerto Rico braced for impact”.
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Officials say they are facing numerous logistical challenges, including damage to airports and ports.
The Navy’s hospital ship, the USNS Comfort will be heading to Puerto Rico. He said that Puerto Rican residents would have to pay at least twice as much for food, drinking water and other supplies without the waiver.
Power outages in Puerto Rico cut off communications on practically the entire island.
Facebook (FB) is dispatching employees to Puerto Rico to help restore telecommunications services on the hurricane-battered island, as well as contributing funds to the recovery effort. “Their island was virtually destroyed”, said Trump at a rally introducing tax reform. “That’s not a question of ‘Gee, let’s dry up the water”. This is not my work, this is the work of colleagues, friends, administrators, medical students … a number of people who have reached out and said ‘How can I help you?
“Unfortunately, because of the severity of the hit, there is diminished capacity of local governments and state government to respond similar to what we saw with Texas and Florida”, Long said. “This is the time to help a fellow American citizen”, he said earlier on Tuesday. Military aircraft were dropping food and water to the parts of the island that are still cut-off, he added.
The desperation in Puerto Rico is growing in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Vicens sent her girls, 9-year-old Jalaya, twin 13-year-olds Kaylie and Kyla, and 19-year-old Nijah to live with her parents in San German about 65 miles southwest of San Juan at the end of July so they could learn Spanish.
The world needs a lot of love right now. John McCain to waive the act, said it is not “legally allowed to waive the Jones Act to make goods cheaper”.
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They joined mounting calls from Democractic and Republican leaders for President Donald Trump to waive the Jones Act, a little-known federal law that bars foreign-flagged ships from shuttling goods between US ports.
