no exception to the island wide months long crisis and we're now joined by the mayor of ponce maria melendez but jeter to her friends maria welcome to the big picture thank you for being here thank you for the british we spoke to puerto rico's non-voting representative to congress back in october and back then she was optimistic i think congress is acting as you know congress usually is slow in doing with this issue but this is the first time you had republicans and democrats in the same side. mayor please describe life in puerto rico today after four months that my reclaim the devastation still continue even though we've the mayors the seventy's mayors are in the phase of recuperation yes right now. but there are still people. there is the people with our water and we are coming here to washington to speak loud and said many things we are american citizens even though we are a territory jennifer gonzalez i want to missioners she has a voice in the congress but you don't have a vote but we are american citizens and we came here you as defeat we because we are in the he was mayor convention s

and body but serving the people down while we are elected for thank you ponce puerto rico mayor maria melendez godspeed thank you thank you thank you for your time. larry. survival guide if you just love the story simply. to get. back to. this a repatriation look at the seven years. philip said presently. turkey's decision to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what are anchor his objectives in syria and the region doesn't to silicate a final peace settlement to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in nato. morgan freeman asks. you're going to relegate my history to a month he said i don't want to black history month black history is american history as you channel surf this month you will see lots about black history respectful thirty second stories with commercials attached we don't play commercial so we have more time to give you a big picture in one nine hundred twenty six a story in carter g. woodson and the association for the study of negro life and history declared negro history week the second week of february to coincide wit