prepremiere of "this is life" with lisaling. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening i'm anderson cooper coming to you live from san juan puerto rico. in many towns across the island tonight families in puerto rico are waiting. waiting for electricity to be stolen and waiting to get fresh drinking waters and waiting to see what will happen to them and their town and island in the days months, and years ahead. today president trump says relief efforts are going really well, in his words, all things considering. tonight we'll talk to the mayor of san juan, the govern of puerto rico and regular people, american citizens all across this island to find out if they

think thing are going really well with the relief efforts. we have reporting from puerto rico tonight. first we want to turn to the bombshell out of washington today. the resignation will be the health and human services secretary, tom price. ryan explain how this all went down today. >> reporter: well anderson, it appears the president could not longer handle this controversy surrounding his health and secretary of human services. this afternoon the president made it clear that he did not like the way that this scandal surrounding the use of private airplanes reflected back on his administration and that a change was necessary. listen to what the president said earlier today. >> have you lost confidence in secretary price? >> i was disappointed because i didn't like it cosmetically or

otherwise. i don't like to see somebody that perhaps is the perception that it wasn't right. ordinary pers >> reporter: so, essentially what the president decided to do was accept the resignation of secretary price. it'll be official midnight tonight. there'll be an acting secretary that will take his place until someone can be brought in. this is something the president was keeping an eye on and decided today a change was necessary. >> surely tom price and his staff did tom price no favors. first they underplayed the extent of the use of private planes and yesterday he announced he was going to reimburse the government, meaning reimburse tax payers but only for the cost of his seats on those planes as if the planes would have been going off on those trips even without him.

what do we know now? is top price going to reimburse the 50 something thousand dollars he said he was going to yesterday? >> reporter: we have no reason to think he's not anderson, but to your point this response was not something that pleased the president at all. he thought it was lukewarm at best and it made the situation worse. the idea of paying back only $50,000 for expenses that got up to $1 million was a very small drop in the bucket. the president just deciding that the optics of this situation, as he said himself, was just to much for him to handle. we'll wait and see if tom price makes good on that commitment to pay that $50,000 back to tax payers. >> it is amazing whether you look at how many people from the president's inner circle have resigned or been fired since the amount of time he's been in the

white house. there are other secretaries that took private planes, some of them are billionaires and can pay for it themselves but others are under scrutiny tonight. >> reporter: yeah that's interesting. everyone to this point has been administrative officials that's worked in the white house closely with president trump, price about first that represent an entire department. three other cabinet secretaries have admitted to the use of private and chartered price. ryan sick can i who is the secretary of the interior, he calling the accusation of the use of these private planes, bs saying they were necessary for his travel. and he only used as coach in other situations. also scott pruitt the administration official, he also used private planes on a number of different occasions including taking a military jet before a flight internationally to catch that flight. also steve mnuchin, the treasure

secretary, his most famous interaction with a private flight when he went on a fort knox in kentucky and took in the eclipse at that time. mnuchin was considered using a private flight for his honeymoon and decided to backtrack on that. so certainly anderson, even though tom price is no longer in his position this controversy surrounding the use of private planes by the trump administration is not going away anyany time. > more on this throughout the afternoon. but back to puerto rico, we have reporters all over the island as we have all week. the president spoke about the relief efrlgts in puerto rico and how he sees it. here's some of what he said. >> i can tell you this, we have done an incredible job considering there's absolutely nothing to work with. and a very big question is, what are we going to do with the power plant, because the power

plant has been wiped out. it's not like, let's go back and fix it, that's what i do i'm a good construction guy, you don't go back and fix it there is nothing. it's gone. so we have a lot of big decisions. you're talking about the dollars -- the dollars that you're talking about are tremendous. i'll be talking with the democrats and we'll be talking to congress about what we're going to do a little bit longer term. in the meantime, we've saved a lot of lives, we've done a really good job and that will bring in the people for distribution. >> well, yes, you may remember, lane duke the press security secretary raised eye brows with her optimistic, shall we say, assessment of what's been going on. >> i am very satisfied. i know it's a hard storm to recover from but the amount of progress that has been made -- and i really would appreciate

any support that we get. i know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane. >> the mayor of san juan quickly pointed out today it is not a good news story what has happened here on the ground. she also had this to say. >> i am begging, begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. i am mattis health. -- mad as hell because my people's lives are at stake. and we are but one nation. >> and i'm joined now but

dr. sanjay gupt that who has been here now reporting in the state. what are thinking right now as far as medical supplies getting out? san juan is one place but compared to the rest of the island there are other islands going okay. >> you get beyond here in -- 15 or 20 minutes beyond here you really see nothing. i was asking the first few days when i was here, have you seen anything. nobody saw no fema or trucks coming in. what i saw today was private organizations, disaster relief and hope particularly going out and doing things. we've been talking to these doctors asking what do you need. one doctor was telling us what she needed specifically. and also came up with a plan to sort of have and address those needs. >> we're tied up here because we don't have anti-biotics to give

the patients and we have no place to get them. >> i kept thinking to myself how difficult this would be. if these life saving supplies are on the island why aren't that getting to the people that need it. what's standing in the way? first i want to draw the disaster management assistance team, hhs, this is the federal government and see what they have to offer. i was with the doctors yesterday volunteering and this is what they're asking more. we've been waiting outside for 40 minutes outside the hhs tent. we know they have communication, they have to run it up through two lines of kplands and they'll get back to us. but it's been 45 minutes. we're going to try somewhere else. we're going to try to get some of these medications because we wen to the shelters. >> you can get some here. >> there's medications here? >> we have the medications authorized. >> okay thank you.

because the hospitals has been slow to start back up, these are volunteer doctors over here, who come try to gather supplies and take it out to the people who need it. they're trying their best, it's a slow process. let me see, why don't we help them. okay. >> if we can get a few doses we'll taking it over there. we have only anti-biotics. >> yeah that would be great. all right perfect. okay doctor. thank you. >> the other one i will get you. >> appreciate it. thank you. it's all about getting the supplies and getting them to the people who need it. these come from an organization called direct relief. set up underneath this parking structures with all these medications, we got them now we're going to take them. what dr. morales asked was that

we get these medications and see if we can bring it to this clinic, this hospital. this is a place that's up and running but without these medications they haven't been able to take care of patients. dr. rodriguez. i was told to bring you this. >> thank you. >> these are -- let me tell you what we have. there's all sorts of anti-biotics. dr. morales said you were needing a lot of this. >> yes. >> you can go through it. there's also pediatrics. i hope this helps. >> yes, a lot. thank you. >> you've done great work here. keep doing what you're doing. it's such a patch work. again there was no coordination. people putting these medications under a parking garage and

duffel pga bags. there are hospitals here -- >> it takes you making the connection, that's odd. >> it can be done. the distribution can happen. all these thing are here. it's like in medicine you develop this great treatment. everyone's applauding its great but the people that who's need it don't get it, what value does it have. the same thing's here but only half the job. distribution is the biggest problem. >> i want to bring in lieutenant who led military on the ground during hurricane katrina. when you see sanjay going to a place and picking up medications where it's needed what are the lodge j lo jiks here? >> well we need capacity. we need to have a team that can call in for emergency medicals. we know how to do this we got medical people in the military, they know how to get here.

>> there needs to be more troops on the ground you're saying? >> yes, sir. and i'm sure they're working on that. we don't have enough capacity. when you come into the air ports you see the c-17s on the ground, when one forklift worker he's going to assess that he sees the same thing. we need a big unit from the airport so we can get that in movement. one thing is the function, capacity. this thing cost 500 dpla$500 a d it's a satellite phone. if you don't use it you don't pay. and you can contribute it to a box and create a hot spot so the whole town, government can be able to communicate. if you can't communicate you're in trouble. couple of other recommendations, walgreens, big brand came in and

took over the pharmaceuticals. the stores are not open. all they need is a generator. and we need a generator law in puerto rico to look for resilience and all the stores had generators. >> one of the problems i saw at gas stations were there were a lot of people waiting in line who work at the big store who is can't get to their job because they need gas in their dar. they're waiting for ten hours they finally need gas. and luckily they're bosses are sympathetic, you have to have gas. >> every person in puerto rico needs to have it because when storm comes the lights out. at&t needs to get the cell towers up. we did it in new orleans. trooper wen on top of the building found the towers, stood them up and put a small generator on them. if you can't coordinate you can't communicate.

>> the doctors are they frustrated? >> oh yeah. we keep hearing the numbers 40 out of 70 hospitals are up and running. >> you look at the status -- >> yeah, couple problems they have no communication, no one's communitied wi communitied communicated with them. number two they don't have medications. patients come in, maybe they have power but they can't treat people. finally, they are told they have fuel for six hours for example. what do you do with that, how do you plan? can you admit patients? it's a very frustrating situation. many of the doctors are volunteering their time, sitting in these gas lines we're describing and then trying to do this work. >> general i talk to brock, an administrator of fema.

he was saying the fema supplies are getting loaded and moved out. the guys from the port yesterday, there's all these goods, some nonpar shashl, that can go out they're not getting distributed because there's no truck drivers. >> three truck loads of troops coming in from the airport, and i saw 7-t that 7 trans. they're going to bring more in but we got to get industry working. some of these require special skills can we got to get distribution warehouse opening. there's going to have to be a demand on the system from the governor to get people to work. until people start getting back into the drugstores, back into the distribution houses, the cycle won't work. good news today i did see six

trucks showed up with money at the airport that came in with cash so he can be paid. >> that's the problem with banks running out of money -- >> that's an indication the government is starting to think ahead because payday is tomorrow. 24% of the population are on social security. >> you think it's still going to be months before electricity is restored? >> that being said with the grids down, multiple grids, school system, hospitals, we strongly suggest the government start an evacuation of the vulnerable. particularly the people who want to stay with family and friends. everybody in here is eligible for fema. we got to get them to sign up. we need to have a fema register team at the airport so you sign up before you leave. whether you get to your destination two days later so you have cash flowing for you. we're going to take a short

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coming to you live from san juan puerto rico, an island still reeling. relief efforts are underway, there's disagreements certainly between a lot of folks in washington and people here on the ground about how effective they have been, whether the military should be brought on the ground sooner, that's to be discussed. we wanted to go out. we've had correspondents here for the last week. i went to a place called louisa, it's a 20 minute drive where there's no water or electricity. gas stations were open and they weren't rashes gas, you could feel up your tank. but i wanted to see what the process was like. >> reporter: in louisa, gas stations are open but the lines are long and slow.

it's 91 degrees and glory beth munoz trying her beth to stay cool. >> how long have you been waiting here? [speaking foreign language] >> since 5:00 a.m. >> yes. >> and just sitting here in the car? >> she can't sit in here car any longer, she's been waiting for nearly 10 hours. i been here since 4:30 a.m. she said just waiting for the generator to turn on. they turned it off because it got overheated. when the generator starts against so does the pumping. here cash is king. credit cards can't be processed so dollars rule the day. >> a lot of people can't bring their cars here, they're waiting in line in person with as many gas can gas -- gas cans as they can. what's it like day-to-day? >> well i haven't been able to

come back. even my boss says don't come back unless you have gas. during the day we have from 6:00 a.m. all the way to 7:00 p.m. to be out in the street looking for what ever you can -- >> that's how you spend your days looking for stuff. water, gas -- >> yes. today it's just gas. >> slowly the car inched forward. louisa's deputy mayor says the needs are overwhelming it and all starts with the need for gas. >> this is another place no fuel no work no money -- >> it's all connected. >> people are patient but they're tired and fed up. >> i don't understand why things are so traffic and out of control. we have gasoline so why isn't there in the stations? >> do you see relief supplies

coming, do you see the federal government coming? >> no. >> necessary list that finally makes it to the front. fuel is no longer being rashed so she can fill her tank and a small gas can. she drives off happy. tomorrow she'll look for water and other basic necessities. the line inches forward. it's another car's turn at the pump. >> i'm seeing a 25 minute drive here from san juan, i'm watching. gas is such an obvious thing, we all take it for granted in the states. as the deputy mayor say you don't have gas you don't have a car, you don't have a car you can't get to your job, you don't have job you don't have food. >> yeah everyone's a chain here. the other intriguing or disturbing thing is people standing in line have no information, no telephone, no internet, no televisions working

right now so they don't know if a tanker's going to come and deliver gas or what. i keep asking everybody i meet, has anybody come from federal government, anybody? today i encountered a teem of fema workers in a small town. >> reporter: pic to florida, florida puerto rico. like so many other communities on this american island, this town suffers from fuel shortages with the collapse of many other utilities. >> no electrical in the water in the house. no telephone, no internet, nothing. >> have you seen any -- >> people from government. >> officials. >> no, no one, no one passed by my neighborhood. >> reporter: one neighborhood in florida is struggling with an additional problem. >> are these fish in the road? >> yeah, fish in the road. >> you've got fish in the

street? >> little and big one. >> a flood. this town is up in the hills nowhere near the cost and yet somehow the storm backed up a nearby creek creating this flood that has inundated dozens of families homes. among those homeless, edith. >> we loose everything. >> she's now living with her son and family in a local government shelter. the municipality provided this pump to suck out thousands of gallons of flood water and its zbribting fuel to volunteers. much of the clean up here is also being done by ordinary citizens. during our visit, the mayor of florida appeared accompanied by officials from fema, the federal disaster relief agency. the mayor tells a representative

he's worried the flood could spread disease. residence made homeless by the storm have their own questions for fema. >> what are your sources for food wise, gas wide and water? >> we're going to bring that need with the mayor reporting directly to us, reporting back to san juan -- >> and how long would that take? >> well, we are the first to come here apparently so -- >> because for us to move back in here it gushes black water. there is no type of moving back in there. >> yeah. right. >> fema's first visit to florida comes nine days after the storm. >> we've said this is the first of many visits, fema is not going to forget about this community or about the needs that they have. we are going to work with our people back at the field office in san juan about what we're going to do. >> the people here could sure use some more help.

so, my question here anderson, i've never covered a hurricane in the state of florida. i wonder after one of these monster storms come through would it take nine days for fema to reach a town in the state of florida like i took to reach in puerto rico? >> there's concern about the equipment getting destroyed and also obviously it's not florida where you can just drive trucks. but you were saying the roads -- the florida town you were in in puerto rico that's only an hour from san juan. >> yeah. >> so, you take a helicopter to get there -- >> no, you take a highway and an exit off. what is remarkable the roads i've been on has been cleared. you can travel back and forth easily. that fema team i went with i asked did you bring anything to this community. they said they supplied is a

satellite phone to the mayors because the mayors can't call to the headquarters here when there's an emergency. >> so that's the assessment of fema, they look at what needs are, report back to the organization here and i guess the idea they then send out supplies at some date to be determined. >> do you know twn the road. but what's strike g is how much of the clean-up effort is just puerto ricans themselves helping each other out and cleaning up on their own with some assistance from the municipalities that are obviously victims also. >> yeah, i was down one street and there was a central house where people are cooking together and feeding people on the block. we're going to take a short break and more from puerto rico. we'll talk to the mayor of san juan. coming up next. ! self-appendect! oh, that's really attached.

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as we showed you at the top of the broadcast earlier today, president trump said things are going very well here, those were his words. the mayor of san juan had a different take today. listen. >> i am begging, begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying. i am mad as hell, because my people' lives are at stake. and we are but one nation -- >> mayor carmen cruz joins us. thank you for being with us. you said you're mad as hell

earlier today. tonight you're wearing a t-shirt that says help us we are dying. that's really happening. >> it is really happening. >> that's not a metaphor. >> no it's not. if you go also inside the island it's very important for people to know people are drinking out of creeks here in san juans. you have people in buildings and they're becoming caged in their own buildings. old people, retired people that don't have any electricity. we've taken 37 people out in a few days from their homes. some of them have been left to die there. no dialysis, nothing of a sort so there are dying. >> when you heard the acting secretary of homeland security say that it's a good news story -- >> that's luewd chris. maybe where from when he was sitting going back to her air-conditioned office it's a good story. it's not a good story. when people are dying, starving,

thirs thirsty, can't go back to work, you got to put people back to work, we have to have communication up and running, power restructured, we have to rethink the society to build from. i don't know who in their right mind would say this is a good story to tell. >> windy, the administration was saying at a white house briefing was this was done text book, this was done how they wanted it. they didn't need a 3-star general eight days ago because that's not the way things worked. would you have like to see a bigger military presence? >> i would have. when you look at some of the comparison and the newscast between what happened in haiti and what happened here was so good, we were all so proud when this happened in haiti and when

the e bow lie crisis happened, here it seems to be something that's now allowing people to do what they have to do. today when i ranted and raved all of a sudden a whole bunch of fema stuff appeared at the coliseum. >> after you publicly complained. >> i had mayors say, well it was coming. sure. but i'm glad. yesterday i got a chief of staff and all of a sudden i get a call from the white house and i was very happy. john reagan the regional director we've been communicating. i'm hoping things will change. this is me i'm in capital city, we are dying here mr. cooper. people with not fathom what it is to have children drinking from creeks. people at nursing homes don't have any oxygen. today we met with dr. gupta and

he said look i'm going to the eastern side of the island and they asked for this medication. we brought it for him today to take -- >> which is crazy. sanjay he's a doctor and great person and it's great he can do it, but you'd think after this many days that message would have gotten cross. >> not only that it's very simple. one you get your communications up and running, two you get your hospitals up and running. three, for those that are really ill when the power grid is going in and out, we had our hospital we thought it was going to start working then the power went out. so you have to do all the tests again so you don't have an sbrensive care unit. one of the things we need to do is put these people in places where they can be taken care of, because really -- and i'm glad you said it that way. because people think, oh, they're exaggerating. on the one hand we see 3,000

containers there with the medicine, supplies, everything that we need. but on the other hand the wheels are not churning fast enough. >> fema says look, our supplies got out port quickly, we make sure they get distributed. the box cars are the thousands that were in the port yesterday we were interviewing people about, the port people say those are commodities that should be in stores because it will help people, it's food, water and medicine. >> with all due respect there's a disconnect between what the plan says and what is really happening. >> so you don't see that fema pipeline moving? >> no, i got it yesterday. three cratings of water, four cates of food and four cates of baby supplies. and i gave it to another town. they had gone to the fema distribution center and when they got there they said sorry we got nothing for you. make a call on monday and we'll see what we can do.

>> because that's what fema says, they've set up distribution centers around the country. municipalities come and get the supplies and distribute. >> they set up if you register for fema on the internet you're okay. well, we don't have any internet, we barely have phones, we don't have power anywhere. isn't that the marine's moto, you improvise, you adapt, overcome, that's what we have to do. this is not a standard operating procedure. everything has just gone away so you have to improvise and makeshift. if you cannot go on the internet you just fill out the form and somebody with an internet connection does the data entry for you. >> how are you holding up? you've been working nonstop. >> my house got flooded, got cleaned up everything inside is lost. i'm staying at the coliseum, where we have the largest

refugee station in all of puerto rico, 685 people. >> that's where you're staying? >> that's where i'm stay being my family, we're sleeping on cots, eating the same food refugees are eat requesting doing the best we can. and i'm getting whatever -- i'm exhaustedky tell you that. but you know what, i have to get the voice of our people out there. i lived in the united states for 12 years, i went to school there, i had my child there in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. i know what the u.s. heart is all about. you know, you are intelligent, daring people, so i just don't understand why things have become so complicated and the logics are so un surmountbling. >> it hurts me so much to here so many people on this island say to me and reporters, we're americans, we're more than.

they have to explain that as if we should know that. i find that so -- i think it says something about the way people here feel. >> there's a lot of linked history. there's a lot of cross moving. people in orlando, philadelphia, los angeles, houston, every time there is a problem we are the kind of people that share our sorrows but also share or triumphs. we just don't understand and sorry, maybe i'm too tired i get a little emotional, but we're dying here. we truly are dying here. and i keep saying it, s o s, if anyone can hear us. you know, if mr. trump can hear us, let just get it over with and get the ball rolling. you know, when you have to do an emergency take yacht my, you're

not concerned if what you're doing it with is the accurate precise knife. >> you want things done. >> you just want things done. you have to build the plan as you go along. i was suppose to go to a fema distribution system that was miles away when there's one here 20 miles and the answer was that's the way plans are done. things have got to change, we need to move fast. we have to show the world that we can do it. and in that respect i want to thank all of you people from the news that have been doing such a great job in amplifying our voices and making sure people know that we're here and that we count on you to get our voice out there. >> a lot of people counting on you. thank you very much for being with us. more from puerto rico. be right back.

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we're going to have a lot more reporting from here in san juan and all over the island of puerto rico over the next hour or so. i want to turn back to the story out of washington, a stunning development that hhs secretary tom price has resigned after downplaying the reporting about admit koe and jet use and saying he was going to reimburse the tax payer, but not the full reimbursement for a plane he could have gotten cheaper. he's just going to reimburse for one seat. as if the plane was beginning to go to those places without him. dan diamond from admit koe broke the story wide open. dan, when you started reporting on this, a, how long ago was it and did you have any idea it

will lead to this? >> anderson, i remember the night vividly. it was four months back in may and my colleague gotten the first tip on tom price taking chartered jets. hadn't been able to make head way but then i remember how big it could be had we just gotten the story right. it took time and care to get all the details we needed to show he was not only taking chartered flights but the cost of it. >> and dan, all the song and dance tom price and his people did about your reporting from denials to saying there wasn't that many trips, to i have such a busy schedule i had to take these planes, to there was no commercial flight available, to i'm going to reimburse to not really. there was one thing after another. >> there were stories involved over ten days even until the

moment on thursday when tom price said i will repay for my seat on the plane. we were told by hhs testifiit w defensible, normal and needed. it was a rapid move from admitting some guilt to now being out of office. >> amanda, clearly president trump is not happened about this and that is why the resignation happened, i guess it was a firing but they called it a resignation officially. there have been a lot of people from trump's inner circle who have now left in a short time. i'm wondering what you think this says about the trump white house and what this says about the president. >> it really puts republicans in bind when it comes to obamacare. but -- i do have to just go out of the way to thank dan and his colleagues at admit koe. this is real accountability journalism, because they exposed

these improper practices they have likely saved tax payers millions of dollars. it's not just tom price, donald trump's administration does have a plain problem. there's more investigations going on. i think with price resigning there may be an end put to this. general kelly, chief of staff put out a memo saying they're going to start vetting and looking at all these. just because it may pass league muster does not make these activities right. this proves how shining a bright light on these sort of practices are necessary. anderson, you are standing in the middle of a crisis in puerto rico. we must have leader who are good status wards of tax payer dollars and give it to people who need it and not only to administration who want cushy plane rides. >> i said this last night, tom price was flying over the swamp

in a private jet, and he was criticizing nancy pelosi when he was in congress for flying a jet. >> not only did he criticize congress, just a few months more than $600,000. he himself took more than $600,000 worth of travel. we quantityified over $1 million in domestic travel and international combined, in a four-month span of time. >> if i can jump in. tom price is a guy who knew better. this is why there was no support for him when this news came out. for republicans he was supposed to be a model fiscal conservative. he was budget chairman, head of the republican policy committee, the republican study committee. this is a really good pedigree for a republican. there were high expectations for him. and so when this started to drip

out, and then watching members of his administration defend the practices, members who we knew the names of who were good conservatives try to justify this, it was staggering to think held let republicans down this way. so i hope all republicans take a look at this because he was supposed to do better. this was all his own making. the opportunities for republicans are dwindling by the end of the year, so this better be a blowback pitch for republicans getting out of line. >> thank you for your reporting. makes us all proud. we're going to have more from here in san juan and across puerto rico. one of the greatest chefs in the world, jose andres joins me. a lot of people are coming to try to do whatever they can. more in just a moment. my dell small business advisor

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jose an dress. i ran into him in haiti a couple months ago of the he was in nauv houston feeding people. you came down here just to try to do what you could. >> again, i came to learn. but in the process of learning, first day we did 15,000 meals, second day, 3,500 meals. third day we did 5,000 meals. 8,000 today, and we're going to reach 10,000. >> i can't do this by yourself. >> i'm only a cheerleader.

i want to make sure i was going to have food. as a chef, i always have to get food. i have many friends on this island. that's why i have a restaurant here and i've been coming to this island fund-raiser many years. i went to a restaurant named jose enrique. i told him, wave parking, we're going to start doing more. okay, let's do it. became with you thousand, 2,000, 4,000. today is no match. dropped, but tomorrow we're feeding 10,000 meals. >> i was in town not far from here earlier today. just on one street, they were in a home cooking for everybody on the block. you see that really all over the place. you're part of that. you said you were crying a lot today. >> i was crying a lot today because i know we can do better. i know that the people of puerto

rico are amazing people. we need to remember and we need to send this message. the people of puerto rico are americans like you and like me. don't forget about that. the people of puerto rico are americans that happen to live on an island. they're family people like every single american in the home hand, and they are religious people and they are liberals and republicans and democrats. they are people that they are only looking far better tomorrow. what you see is the heart of puerto rico, that when there are moments of hardship, they come together and with nothing they are able to do a lot. >> i said to the mayor i think it's so sad. i had people say to me i'm american. tell people i'm american. the fact that people on this island feel like they have to say -- the fact that you have to say these are americans, it's

sad. >> i've been in haiti, i've been with anthony bourdain before a hurricane. and the a. help that came from america was far way bigger than the amount of help has come to puerto rico from the military. at one point we had 25,000 military in haiti, and we're not even close to that here in puerto rico. so this message is simple. mr. trump, we want you to lead, but let's keep doing what we've done sullivccessfully before, n less. let's make sure we don't fall in past mistakes. >> you don't want you to get into a fight with the administration because you've already done that once or twice. but in terms of -- what the administration is saying is this was part of the plan. we don't need a three-star general. do you wish that impact was bigger sooner? >> let's put things in perspective.

nobody's more organized than the military. when i was a young boy, i was in the navy. i understand the values that the military bring to occasions like this. they are organized. they understand command, hierarchy, and they make things happen. so what you have situation like this, military is always welcome. so i wish they came before. but i know they are trying to be -- they are bringing the three-star general is here. i hope they're bringing more military. but i'm a cook and i care about feeding people. and we have three million people and probably over a million and a half need somebody to be feeding them for the nexus two or three weeks, and i'm asking what is the plan with nothing, no support. we've been able to feed tomorrow 10,000 people, probably 13,000. i just offer the mayor of san juan 3,000 meals and she began crying. so i cannot believe the --

sunday we're going to do what i think is the first hot food operation in biacas. food on this island bakeries, factories like budweiserer and coke. they stopped the plants to make water. the issue is the lack of gas. we need to make sure that we cover their needs and start moving this forward. >> gas distribution. jose, thank you for being here. we'll talk to the governor of puerto rico when we rush. when it comes to heartburn trust the brand doctors trust for themselves.

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