And he criticized a live report earlier on “Fox News Sunday” that pointed out fewer federal recovery-effort flights are landing at the San Juan airport.
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“We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency”, Cruz said in a news conference. “This is ‘there’s a truckload of stuff that can not be taken to people” story.
Long acknowledged the difficulties, saying, “Every day we have progress”.
Cruz said that while Duke’s comments were upsetting, she did get a call from the White House about moving supplies more quickly to the island for distribution.
In the rural towns of Salinas and Fajardo, the vast majority of locals reported having no cell service on Friday and Saturday, and said they had not seen local or federal officials in the area. “It’s been wiped out”.
“Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen”, she told the New York Times. “I can tell you this: We have done an incredible job considering there’s absolutely nothing to work with”.
Buchanan surveyed the damage on the island this weekend.
Elaine Duke, the department’s acting secretary, drew a sharp rebuke from San Juan’s mayor for seeming to play down the suffering.
In another tweet, he blamed “Fake News CNN and NBC” for going out of their way “to disparage our great First responders”.
In enumerable ways large and small, numerous 3.4 million inhabitants of Puerto Rico struggled through a 10th day with little or no access to basic necessities – from electricity and clean, running water to communications, food and medicine.
Trump said he will travel to Puerto Rico on Tuesday with first lady Melania Trump.
The Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency’s (PREMA) request last week made to law enforcement agencies in the US was for 1,500 bilingual officers.
“Let us not talk about the debt; let us not talk about the cost of reconstruction”.
The agency added that creditors should “refrain from making unsolicited financing offers at the expense of the people of Puerto Rico”. She aligned herself with Puerto Rico’s large and long-marginalized Dominican minority. “We used to make system-wide decisions before, but this time we’re going to allow the different regions to make their own decision as to when they can reopen”. And President George W. Bush was faulted for not immediately returning to Washington from his Crawford, Texas, ranch after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
As it turned out, Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown was forced to resign for incompetence in handling of the disaster. Two more Navy officials fired over ship collisions Senate passes 0B defense bill Dems fear lasting damage from Clinton-Sanders fight MORE (I-Vt.) said Sunday that President Trump’s rhetoric about Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria is “unspeakable”.
Away from Puerto Rico, the opening sketch also brought on Kate McKinnon as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and commented on President Trump’s attacks on NFL players who kneel during the National Anthem in protest of social and racial injustice.
Hector Marquéz, 66, said he goes to the ice line every day at 3 a.m.to be ready for its 7 a.m. opening. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying. Basic necessities like running water and electricity are still far from being restored for most of the island’s citizens. “We can choose to look at what (Cruz) spouts off or what others spout off or we can choose to look at what’s being done”.
In public appearances Cruz has a penchant for hugging people and sometimes crying during interviews, prompting some to praise her sincerity while others call her overly dramatic.
Tesla, Inc., is sending Puerto Rico hundreds of its Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to help restore electric power to the island, according to a story from Bloomberg.
“Puerto Rico will be built back better”, he said.
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Some humanitarian aid still can not even get to Puerto Rico.
