i'm hala cook and you're watching the big picture on r.t. america. hurricane maria ravaged puerto rico over three months ago killing hundreds destroying nearly one hundred billion dollars of property and plunging the entire united states territory into the dark tens of thousands still are murders and suicides are up banks are beginning to foreclose on homes across the island because these americans cannot afford to keep up with mortgage payments. the city of ponce on the south end of puerto rico is 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 mont