in the world and when people have this idea of an island they generally think of an island like sadly most islands are actually relatively excessive. nothing but water as far as the eye can see for days on end the travellers pass the time in traditional british fashion by playing cricket on a sunday for example. on the net sand there simply to protect the spectators they also keep the bull from going overboard it's rare to see someone splashing in the pool but nobody wants to miss out on england's de facto national sport it's one of the last royal mail ships travelling in the world that actually still carries the queen's male in the back seat and probably in the proper fashion so yes i think all that adds to the charge of the ship and the atmosphere as well without supper kakar it up later and found that pot. another of officer mia henry's duty is is to announce the results of the cricket tournament something the british passengers in particular appreciate that. the a. on the last evening at sea the captain hosts a reception for everyone on board. her and another holdover from old emp

virgin islands. to address immediate health concerns, cdc deployed federal medical stations to serve as temporary, nonacute medical care facilities. each federal medical station can accommodate up to 250patients and includes cache of medical supplies and equipment.hhs deploys medical teams to staff these facilities and cdc has deployed six of these to puerto rico, four to texas and two to florida. cdc has used surveillance to monitor health-related data that may signal disease outbreak. our national syndromic surveillance program has collaborated with disaster medical assistance teams to collect data on patient encounters and works closely with the american red cross to monitor data on shelter population so that health officials can respond quickly when that is called for. surveillance during this response has indicated elevations in carbon monoxide poisoning. identifying and controlling public health, diseases ofpublic health importance in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands are a priority. the

the island has been plunged into the 19th century. the virgin islands shares that status. this supplemental must be followed in the weeks and months ahead by additional measures to provide disaster relief funding and financial assistance to bring the infrastructure of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands up to 21st century standards in order to prevent a repeat of what has occurred. according to a letter sent to the congressional leadership on onth 7 by the governor of puerto rico, pedro ros -- robert rosello, the damage on that island is expected to cost as much as $95 billion, 150% of puerto rico's gross national product. 24 funding package is an important step, though it fails -- though it fails to provide urgently needed medicaid funding to help the $1.6 million many puerto rico and the u.s. -- the 1.6 million in puerto rico and the virgin islands who rely on medicaid for their health care. congress must do its part and ensure that the resources are available. it's up to the administration to make certain that the resources we provide get to those who need them. so

then the island slowly comes into view. henry will safely navigate the ship into her own harbor with the help of the helmsmen. the island rises abruptly like a huge black castle from the ocean that sal charles darwin once described. cliffs everywhere it's only safe to land in a few spots. i was thinking when napoleon got here. must have felt well and truly exiled because it's taken us quite a while to get here it was a bit slower a nice day. you just can't. really comprehend. sounds the ships arrival it's one of the last henry will perform on board. and new job awaits on the island the royal mail ship may not be making the journey much longer. after seventeen years i'm told she's going ashore good to. me and is trading the wide open sea for the solitude of the island. jaynestown the capital and a new pool. much here is reminiscent of the former colonial power and not just the bobbies strolling the streets. the same telenor an isolated village in the middle of the atlantic is home to just four thousand five hundred people mo

virgin islands. our witnesses who have been on the ground in the area, making sure that americans in need get the assistance that they are aquired, it should not be partisan matter. certain agencies are not pulling their weight. we need to know if there are federal laws or policies that are impeding their efforts. in addition, we want to hear about best practices that can be gleaned from the recovery efforts to be utilized in the future. thanks to you and your teams for being on the ground trying to do the best you can in these horrible circumstances. we need to know the facts, what is working and what isn't, whether there have been shortfalls, what are the lessons learned and whether you need additional help. with that, i yield back the balance of my time and look forward to the testimony of our witnesses. before that, i would like to welcome our newest member, mr. duncan, who was just approved by the house conference this .orning, replacing dr. murphy we are delighted to have you on the committee.

virgin islands. we will assist in any way we can. we will continue to be diligent in our oversight that the agencies are doing and needs of the people there. i'm very pleased that dr. burgess who chairs our health subcommittee has already been to puerto rico, visited some of the hospitals, looked at the health care issues. we know we have much more work to do and we hope to hear from all of you today to see what's out there ahead, where we've made progress, where there are still problems we need to get better solutions to. today we're examining the department of health and human services 'continuing efforts in texas, florida, puerto rico and virgin islands. this is the first in a series of hearings on the preparedness for and responses to hurricanes harvey, irma and maria. in the coming weeks we'll also hold weeks before the subcommittees on these matters. this committee will be conducting oversight of the reed building in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands for years to come. the public health r

but myself i won't be able to just go and do some retail therapy now as we go off but i think the island and everything that goes with it has other advantages that you will not find any be alpha live out we can enjoy the sea as you know i'm passionate about the i can spend my weekends even in the ocean or out on the edge. mia's partner liver oil also shares her love of the sea the coast or around the island is a habitat for hundreds of dung since. it's just off to six o'clock in the morning liver is out on a boat with his brothers when they go fishing they always hope to catch something big. before they drop anchor in an area frequented by gina fishing is one of the few ways to earn money on the island today leroy is in luck. don't give up. the fish puts up a fight but after twenty minutes leave manages to pull one hundred and ten kilos of pine tuna into the boat. so price wise i think it would go up with a full scale for be a frozen so the value drops but freshness for shia freshly caught we get. fresh on a flight of good summers up to two to three hundred. which is a big difference fro

virgin islands. american citizens, mr. speaker. too often congress reacts to cries sees. crises.me for us -- it is time for us to be proactive and time for us to legislate before another disaster strikes. the humanitarian flight fairness package is a commonsense solution to a problem that directly affects our constituents. mr. speaker, i always try to deal in common sense. as a matter of fact, i have a constituent back at home who constantly reminds me of how shallow i am. so i can do nothing but rely on common sense, based on this constituent's feelings about me. but i want to thank the congresswoman again for hosting this special order hour. and i look forward to continue working with you as you address he issues faced by americans ffected by natural disasters whether it is on the mainland or in the territory. they all are american citizens. when it benefits this nation to have puerto rico and the virgin islands be a part of the united states, it does not hesitate. but when these american citizens

across the island. we're facing roadblocks, we're facing fuel shortage, and so all -- and then no power, no streetlights, no cell phone service. so that's why a lot of this has to drop in from the air, particularly the a lot of these towns -- to a lot of these towns in the mountain areas and other areas outside of san juan. and, yes, i agree, we have the assets to air drop these in, and i just didn't see it over there serving many of the towns on the island, not seeing humvees, not seeing air drop station, not seeing personnel around. that's where the real issue is. we have the ability to do it. it was slow going and now we still don't have the assets in place that we need. >> host: representative, "usa today" highlights that 5% of electric customers are with power on puerto rico. how long before the power needs are addressed, and when is the expectation you're going to see more people on the island have access to power? >> guest: so the governor told me it's going to take months which is why this suppl

virgin islands. this committee stands ready to assist in whatever way we can. we will continue to be diligent in the oversight in the work that the agencies are doing and the needs of the people. i am pleased that dr. burgess has already been to puerto rico, visited some of the hospitals and looked at the health care issues. we know we have much more work to do and we hope to hear from all of you today about what is out there ahead, we need to uncover and get better solutions. today we are examining continuing efforts to protect the public health in texas, florida, puerto rico and u.s. virgin islands in the aftermath of hurricanes harvey, irma and maria. this is the first of series of meetings and in the coming weeks we will hold hearings before the energy and environment subcommittees on these matters. as vice chairman stated this committee will be conducting oversight of the rebuilding of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands for years to come. the public health risks typically associated with na

virgin islands.f you are interested in seeing the hearing which took place on capitol hill which featured richard smith of equifax, you can go to our website, , to view it in its entirety. here is a highlight. >> congressman, there is a process that is a little different as far as the consumer. the protection that he would she -- that he or she would get doing one versus the other is virtually if not exactly the same. exactly is notd the same. so, your product is the same? >> as far as the protections -- >> we will get into that either. i appreciate the clarification. pay consumers who have lost money during the freeze in which their data was stolen? >> right now, we offer a free lock product for one year and a free lifetime love product -- lifetime lock product. equifax be willing to pay for that freeze for that block for experienced in trans union for users who information -- whose information was stolen from equifax? encourage, to be clear, i would encourage trans union, experian and others to do

virgin islands. the commission of the fda testified about serious concerns he has regarding puerto rico since it's a major hub for drug manufacturers whose facilities have been severely damaged. this is about two and half hours. >> i'm going to go ahead and get this straight. thank you, everybody. appreciate it. we are here today to examine the department of health and human services' public health preparedness for and response to the 2017 hurricane season. in the last two months, texas, florida, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands have been devastated by hurricanes. i first want to express our heartfelt sorrow for the millions of americans impacted by these devastating storms and say that all members of this committee on both sides of the aisle stand with those affected by the hurricanes. i would also like to thank dr. burgess and dr. ruiz, both members of this subcommittee, who each recently visited puerto rico to assess the impact these hurricanes have had, and continue to have, on our fellow

which country will be standing and the fact is we have never to run we island. we just but this is a. place where you could we could go from one province to annoyed or four ones to daughter to secure so from the hurricane this is an island and you feel flown over the country and where could this people go to run away from the hurricane they were in shelters the shelters were affected so they left their home and went to the shelters said it was impacted there's no adequate gun so there's we have no. no reservation to say emphatically that climate change is responsible for what we've experienced in and dominate and we need to acknowledge because if we've not had conflict america and we're not making the case only for dominic we're going to case for all of the world and especially for developing countries like ours that are going to receive in the brunt of the destruction and devastation from the stones and this tubs in order to happen in during the hurricane season happen outside of hurricane season a few years ago we had a trough system in december christmas eve.

few know that better than the island's dissidents. system in cuba are the ladies in white. originally formed by the wives of political prisoners, their weekly protests to call for free elections are often broken up by the police and state security. the organisers, arbitrarily detained. they say they're calling for greater human rights on the island. the cuban government accused them of being mercenaries funded by right—wing anti—castro groups out of miami and washington. certainly the cuban government allows them no room to operate. this was their protest on the eve of a visit by president obama in front of the world's watching media. when our cameraman tried to film a weekly protest outside the lady's house, the police intervened. he was told he couldn't film there. and the police removed the camera from the scene as the mood began to heat up. what happened next was predictable and swift. a number of women were detained that day. it's a side of cuba thatjars with a new hip image of the island in the eyes of the rest of the world. in

got their first glimpse of hell it's just like for a moment the windows of their small caribbean island nation was destroyed people were missing some of your dead these images filmed by a camera man who works for the government is some of the only footage from that morning the night before the eye of category five hurricane maria made a direct hit it ripped apart anything in its path. the entire country was left without electricity water or phone service there was no way to contact the outside world or the world to reach and buddy inside domenico when dark for nearly forty eight hours nobody knew you could even existed anymore eventually the scale of the destruction was evident the nation of domenico would need to be entirely rebuilt. the man leading the recovery efforts is the prime minister of domenica roosevelt skerritt when he took office in two thousand and four he was only thirty one years old at the time making him the youngest head of state anywhere in the world he faces huge challenges right now how to rebuild a country that is in ruins and how to uplift people that are facing

islands on tuesday to survey relief efforts. joining me now to discuss this and much more is the office of the director of management and budget, mick mulvaney. always good to see you. i know you want to talk about tax reform, but i want to start with the humanitarian disaster up folding in the american territory of puerto rico. the president has been attack san juan mayor, yulin cruz, saying, such poor leadership by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico. they want everything to be done for them, when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on island doing a fantastic job. what exactly does president trump mean when he says, "they want everything to be done for them." who's "they" and what's the "everything they want done for them"? >> i think what the president is trying to get at is, folks think this is going to be easy. they saw what happened in texas and florida and they thought, oh, this is easy to do. and it's not. this was an island that was absolutely devastated, not by one hurricane, but by

virgin islands and joining me is stacy who serves the virgin islands. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. the president was talking about the awesome job that's been happening in puerto rico. excuse me, for the u.s. virgin islands and would not comment on puerto rico because admitted that cell service is bad and was not able to keep up on national headlines. update us from what you're hearing. >> thanks so much for having me. yeah, what i do know is that i've been on the ground and have talked to many of the citizens there, many of the residents on all three islands, spent quite a bit of time on the island of st. croix this week. irma struck st. thomas and john as a category 5 and we've had two direct hits from two category 5 hurricanes. the federal government was prepositioned before the storm, very involved in what is happening on the ground in the virgin islands. but i have to say that there is some disconnect somewhere because as i talk to residents, they are without water and unable to put tarps on top of their homes in a timely fashion and th

the island has been plunged into the 19th century. the virgin islands shares that status. this supplemental must be followed in the weeks and months ahead by additional measures to provide disaster relief funding and financial assistance to bring the infrastructure of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands up to 21st century standards in order to prevent a repeat of what has occurred. according to a letter sent to the congressional leadership on onth 7 by the governor of puerto rico, pedro ros -- robert rosello, the damage on that island is expected to cost as much as $95 billion, 150% of puerto rico's gross national product. 24 funding package is an important step, though it fails -- though it fails to provide urgently needed medicaid funding to help the $1.6 million many puerto rico and the u.s. -- the 1.6 million in puerto rico and the virgin islands who rely on medicaid for their health care. congress must do its part and ensure that the resources are available. it's up to the administration to make certain that the resources we provide get to those who need them. so

the caribbean island which was annexed by the u.s. in eighty ninety eight is about to elect a new governor. many young people have turned out before this ruth wants to make us a. little bit to take another look like oh but if i lose i am a little slow down when you must elect to seventy percent that's. dying out on the south china. sea to look at it look at the illegal alien fund. the new law has been passed bringing austerity measures to overcome the crisis. a federal american board is supposed to govern puts a rico. dog is the independent candidate she's determined to defy washington for many view the federal board is a humiliation as it is in the senate can be only looked at me because i mean i said it was a little simpler disability took him a little second to look at. the ceiling here easy to listen to despoil he says he'll get a pretty good. i mean. when you consider that. to me. part of the u.s. has poverty and. if you go to your. diddy you look up how. hot. it will be. getting. i think i. was. paralyzed that public debt is six

as the island redraws its future, the uncertainty is tangible. today's cuba becomes further removed from the one he helped to create. so far this weekend, many of us have had cloud, some of us have seen rain, and only a lucky few have seen some sunshine, so a couple of york weather watcher pictures from saturday's weather showing a good deal of cloud, but a few of us had a few hints of blue — if you look very hard, they are there in derbyshire. now, for part two of the weekend, for sunday, looking at the big picture, no big areas of low pressure, no big ridges of high pressure. it's all a bit in—between with our weather at the moment. we are still having a flow of air coming in from the atlantic, which is a moist flow, so that brings in a fair amount of cloud, but fewer wind arrows for sundany, so a lighter wind. still a few showery outbreaks of rain running through north—west england, north wales and into the midlands. a bit of patchy rain edging from northern ireland into western scotland, maybe still dull, damp, misty and murky into the far so

virgin islands. so the other big headline that we have been following not only from the president's tweets and what's taking place in puerto rico but something that happened overnight. and a lot of people were asleep when it happened. if you blinked you might have missed it. o.j. simpson is seen free, leaving jail. after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence in a nevada prison. simpson was granted parole in july. and he was released roughly i think 3:00 a.m. today. most of us were asleep. our time. eastern. simpson landed in prison for armed robbery and kidnapping charges after an incident in las vegas and it concerns his own personal and career memorabilia that he stole back during an armed kidnapping attempt in an infamous collector's hotel room in vegas. nbc's steve patterson has more on this. we understand that o.j. is staying in the state, hasn't filed paperwork to leave, correct? >> reporter: well, the process to file paperwork, if he was leaving the state of nevada, that process would have

virgin islands.s of puerto rico and virgin islands will be meeting with the president later on today. one of the people the president is expected to meet with is the mayor of san juan, carmen cruz who was very critical of the federal response late last week calling it ineffective and also being very critical of the acting dhs secretary elaine dukes comments that it was good news the federal government is starting to get relief supplies into the hardest hit areas of the island was inappropriate. it is not a good news story. it's a people are dying story. on his way to the helicopter this morning i asked the president about that and what he would say to the mayor when he meets her. >> president trump: i think she has come back a long way and acknowledged what a great job we've done and people are looking at that. in texas and florida we get an a plus. i tell you what, i think we've done just as good in puerto rico and it is actually a much tougher situation. but now the roads are cleared, communication

virgin islands. after those phone calls, he fired off a series of tweets, a readout of those calls, speaking highly of those leaders and also talking specifically about the work of those first responders on the ground. u.s. military forces and fema employees that are a part of the effort to try and restore some sort of normalcy to puerto rico. meanwhile, vice president pence announced in an interview with a television station out of florida that he would visit the u.s. virgin islands next week. pence visited the headquarters of fema on saturday, and he said in that interview that he believes that the mayor of san juan is becoming a political distraction to the cleanup efforts there, supporting the president's criticisms on twitter from earlier in the day. this is what he said, well, it is frustrating, i expect, to millions of americans to hear rhetoric coming out of some in puerto rico, particularly the mayor of san juan, instead of focusing on results. our joint field operation at the convention cen

it has a senator on manus island to try to help with that legal effort.e next few ours, the camp will officially close and, as you say, water and electricity shutdown and those detainees expected to move on. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: scientists warn that international targets to limit climate change may be unattainable after a surge in co2 to levels not seen for 800,000 years. also on the programme: kevin spacey apologises after being accused of making sexual advances towards a teenage boy in the 1980s. indira gandhi, ruler of the world's largest democracy, died today. 0nly yesterday she'd spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, "i would be proud of it, every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation." after 46 years of unhappiness, these two countries have concluded a chapter of history. no more suspicion, no more fear, no more uncertainty of what each day might bring. booster ignition and liftoff of discovery, with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one american legend. well,

eight percent of people in the island have electricity and about fifty percent have running water so many some places it's it alternates depending on the day. but outside of the metropolitan area it's where the real story is where there's a lot of it with a lot of areas are still in communicated there are still people that don't have access to food supermarkets haven't been able to get. good stare there's long lines for gas no do you so. there's problems for people to get refills permitting. people that are losing their jobs because there's no power i actually i work for a. nonprofit financial institution and most of the people we are helping are asking for extensions because they've lost their jobs or are asking for permission to take their cars out of puerto rico to get jobs on the mainland so it's complex there's a lot to do and even though once again things are getting better on the gas side in san juan it's still very hard to go to a supermarket and get food with mine or to get cash which is the only thing that is accepted on the streets so when you're talking about what i do we

territory but government officials on the island have vowed puerto rico will rise again so what does that look like when joining us from san juan to discuss this we have been a bargain as a lawyer and newspaper columnist in puerto rico is about the managing director of con p.r. a nonprofit focused on the social and economic development in puerto rico in new york hector figaro a puerto rican activist and president of thirty two b.j. service employees international union also in new york kate aronoff she's a reporter with the intercept and a writing fellow at in these times welcome everyone to the stream know we also invited the mayor of san juan on charge show she originally agreed but later declined due to her scheduling conflicts so let's start here on my laptop with this headline via the washington post when hurricane maria hit puerto rico everything collapsed simultaneously renee with a disaster of this magnitude where does the recovery even start to start with roads electricity grid water. well first of all we have to work to get things. they can then i don't think that they'll b

virgin islands. to date the department of defense has responded to three hundred 11 mission assignments from fema and our other federal partners. using the total force and its response, thousands of active and reserve and guard have responded to these hurricanes. under the command of general robinson, federal forces conducted search and rescue, evacuation operation, provided damage assessment, surveyed and made repairs to open airports and seaports. critical roadways transported life-sustaining commodities of food and water, provided fuel distribution, conducted assessments of civilian hospitals, and provided medical support to include it back to the continental united states. u.s. trends, has flown 2800 flights over the last 60 days in support of these operations. with 1900 flights in support of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. transporting urgent first the disaster medical teams, relief supplies and equipment, and evacuating hundreds of residents and patients. hasdefense logistics agency pr

it was interesting because our pilot who flew us around the island, he flies the islands for living, this is what he does, and even he was shocked. the next day the runways were cleared to be safe, but there were assessment teams going in and the like and it was hard to get permission to land. but the prime minister himself wanted us, wanted cnn to come in and see what happened to his island. so he and his aviational authority said you're clear to come in, please, come in. not only do they have immediate needs, their entire industry of agriculture, the tourism industry that they were trying to build up around those rain forests, gone. the drive between dominica's capital roso and the coastal village of point michelle usually takes no more than ten minutes. after hurricane maria getting between the two is going back on an odyssey of hurricane carnage. it was a difficult walk, because we're climbing over all this debris, climbing over tree trunks that now formed what was the road and we knew we had to get there. we just set off and we walked and we walked and we filmed and we filmed. a

, food to the island, water to the island, gas to the island, that is just -- it is unspeakable!ow what world trump is living in. people in puerto rico are suffering one of the worst disasters in the history of that island. we have got to do everything we can to help them. we all have got to remember, the people of puerto rico are american citizens, entitled to the same help as the people of any other community in american. >> the white house denies it, but there are a lot of critics who say that race or ethnicity may be playing a factor here. what do you think? >> well, look, given the president's history on race, given the fact that he, a few months ago, told us that there were good people on both sides, when neo-nazis were marching in charlottesville, yeah, i think we have a right to be suspect, that he is treating the people of puerto rico in a different way than he has treated the people of tx exas or florida. >> let's turn to the president's tax plan. the president wants to double the standard deduction so that a married couple won't pay any taxes on the first $24,000 of in

virgin islands. but it wasn't one -- it was two. and i was going to be here a week ago, if you remember, and that was the day of the hurricane -- that was the day of the second hurricane. so brock has been unbelievable. and this has been the toughest one. this has been a category 5, which few people have ever even heard of -- a category 5 hitting land. but it hit land -- and, boy, did it hit land. so i want to thank you. i want to thank elaine. elaine, thank you very much. fantastic -- acting secretary. elaine duke has been incredible. tom bossert is here someplace. tom, great job. great job. president trump: and to all of my people -- and i have to say, general buchanan got here a few days ago, and there's no doubt about it you are a general. there's a reason you're a general, right? but he's no games. i said, give me a general; i don't want to have any -- i don't want to have a general that plays games. and you've done a fantastic job. the whole team has been amazing. president trump: your governor has been -- who i didn't know; i

that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for island of one hundred miles like thirty five miles. so maybe. we are. it's been two weeks since the strongest hurricane to hit puerto rico in ninety years made landfall delivering a massive blow to the u.s. territory hurricane maria decimated the island's infrastructure the storm snapped power lines like toothpicks and toppled homes like they were made of playing cards more than thirty people have died and the death toll is expected to rise in the wake of the storm there's been much talk about the territory's relationship with the united states president trump's administration has been widely criticized for its slow response and sending much needed aid to the island on tuesday the president made his first trip to puerto rico to see the devastation firsthand puerto rican officials say what he saw was that little if anything has changed the three point five million residents living on the island continue to struggle to find water petrol and other basic needs so who will help and joining us from san juan to discuss

the island was hit by hurricane maria and trump travel to the island -- trump will travel to the islandn tuesday. caller: good morning. i couldn't help but notice that everything you said from the moment you came on the air was negative. against trump. everything that you read. out on'm calling you that. that is not true. we read to you what trump said in his tweets. we hear from trump himself in a moment. i disagree and i want to be clear about that is what we are doing is giving you the information as it is being reported and letting you make up your own mind which gives a better reflection of what people are saying, both good and bad. tweets from trump don't count. it is the people that you had on first that bashed his efforts. that island was wiped out and strewn with trees like tinker toys thrown with a child. to get to those people was a logistical nightmare and all they showed was the containers on the floor. thousands of them, complaining they couldn't be distributed. that wasn't fema. and look.l costco when you did the by the numbers, look. expose it to and the people that hate