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. >> we got an update from lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan leading the u.s. military operation on the island. >> we have got a lot of stuff coming in. medical support, logistics, rotary wing aviation. when i got here two days ago we had 25 helicopters. today we are up to 44. we are going to go up to 72 in the next five days. we need to get the truck drivers who live here back to work. because we need to help the local economy recover. and the way to do that is the people themselves. >> fema federal emergency management agency opened 11 staging areas across the island. with hopes of owning up to 25. food, water, medicine are distributed from there. a regional fema administrator. >> we don't like that there are still people drinking rain water. what we want to do make sure we are moving forward, getting logistics, commodities to the people. as much as we can. >> puerto rico filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. and today the governor warned that he believes there could be a mass exodus of puerto ricans to the u.s. mainland unless congress passes a financial a

general jeffrey buchanan, thank you very much for the status report.l be watching closely when the president shows up there and we'll talk to you again. thanks for being here. >>> we have much more on the las vegas massacre. what we now know about the gunman and his life and how it was seemingly escalating over the weeks before this. we'll bring you all the latest. >>> you are watching "new day." alisyn is in new york. we have insight into every part of this catastrophe. we have never seen a mass shooting like this. it is the deadliest in modern american history. the volume, the type of weapons, the positioning, the planning, all carried out by a mystery man with purely evil intentions. at least 59 people have lost their lives now. 527 injured. and the range of those injuries goes to the very severe. people are still fighting for their lives. we know that the gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the

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. >> we got an update from lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan who is leading the u.s. military operation on the island. >> we've got a lot of stuff coming in, medical support, logistics, aviation, when i got here two days ago we had 25 helicopters. today we're up to 44. we're going to go up to 72 in the next five days. >> the long-term answer is not a soldier driving a truck carrying gas. we need to get the truck drivers who live here back to work. we need to help the local economy recover. and the way to do that is the people themselves. >> reporter: fema has opened 11 staging areas across the island with hopes of opening up to 25. food, water and medicine are being distributed from there. john rabom is a reg all fema administrator. >> we don't like people drinking rainwater. we want to move forward and get those logistics and getting those commodities to those people as much as we can. >> reporter: puerto rico filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. and today the governor warned that he believes there could be a mass exodus of puerto ricans to the u.s. mainland unles

lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan talked with pbs after he took a tour of the island.d. >> sometimes we don't know what is going to happen until the storm actually hits and this is the worst i've ever seen. i'm not a republican, i'm not a democrat. i'm not a member of the blue party or the green party. i'm a soldier. and i'm here to help people. the people here need help and we are going to give them all of the them they can get. the people of puerto rico are going to be very resilient and we need them to be resilient so that they can help rebuild this commonwealth and make it what it really should be. but there is going to be some parts where we are going to have to start from scratch. >> julian, do you think the president going there on tuesday and seeing things firsthand and possibly talking to the people there will change his mind based on what we saw from him yesterday in his tweets about the severity of what is going other and what they are trying to do? >> well, it might. sometimes presidents actually seeing the effects of a crisis firsthand can have an impact o

the pentagon has appointed lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan to oversee the federal recovery effort on thursday the white house authorized a 10 day waiver of the jones act. federal law that limit shipping. the puerto rico government requested this argument it would up-to-date the shipment of much-needed supplies to storm ravaged areas. the president is scheduled to visit puerto rico next week. we are back with wall street journal comments mary anastasio o'grady. how dire is this situation? >> it was a really forceful hurricane and a direct hit on puerto rico. 155 mile an hour wind. eating in electricity grid that was already extremely vulnerable, old and fragile. as a result, basically the island lost all electricity. it also had all of the downed trees, roads were not passable and so forth. and this was a humanitarian crisis for the first 10 days because it meant that there was no electricity for the elderly and the sick. so hospitals in particular, people that needed dialysis treatment, people that needed anything refrigerated, that is when humanitarian crisis came in. >> what abo

that he took too long to a point that 3-star general, jeffrey buchanan that was appointed on day 8 inhe aftermath of the storm. people are hoping when the commander visit and once he gets the briefing from the governor in puerto rico, they will get the aid they need. and they especially tell me they want more people on the ground here to restore the power grid. that is what has really slowed the recovery down here in puerto rico. back to you guys. >>> and developing in mexico, authorities have raised the death toll in last month's massive earthquake, 363 people are confirmed deed. 7.1 magnitude quake struck outside mexico city. still a few active recovery efforts under way. the vast majority of people who died were in buildings who were built before and survived a 1985 kwoek who killed thousands in mexico city. >>> this morning the search continues for suspect to beet a berkeley student over the weebd. police are releasing this surveillance video of the suspect. take a look. they say all three men beat the student early sunday morning in the dorm room. the attack so bad the student lo

the pentagon has appointed liewlt general jeffrey buchanan to oversee federal recovery efforts and onvernment authorized 10-day waiver of jones act, puerto rico's governor requested the waiver arguing that it would expedite the shipment of much needed supplies to storm-ravaged areas. president trump is schedule today visit puerto rico next week. we are back with wall street journal mary anastasia ograd. how bad was it? >> 155-mile an hour winds hitting an electricity grid that was extremely vulnerable, old and fragile and as a result basically the island lost all electricity and it also had a lot of down trees, the roads were not passable and so forth. this was a humanitarian crisis for the first ten days because it meant that there was no electricity for the elderly and the sick, so hospitals and particular people who needed dialiss treatment which needed to be refrigerated. paul: what about water shortages, are those being alleviated as we speak? >> again, this had to do with electricity, 45% of the water, the island that was without portable water in the first ten days, those peopl

she quoted the lieutenant general, jeffrey buchanan, who is leading the response effort and said we don't have enough equipment, we don't have enough troops to help at this moment. and to that to reengage the president. now he goes down there today and he says hey, only 16 people died in puerto rico. nothing like the thousands that died in katrina. you think what? oh, my gosh, . >> kimberly: next, one cnn reporter's stunning remark on the victims of the las vegas massacre. we'll be right back. how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges. ♪ if you could book a flight, then add a hotel, or car, or activity in one place and save, where would

>> reporter: thomas, i actually took a tour with the lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan assigned by the president to lead the relief effort. the governor puerto rico was there and we were able to tour these two satellite islands and surveyed them by air and then both these gentlemen were on the ground to speak with the mayors of these two islands to hear specifically from them about their most immediate needs. from the air, we could see just how the vegetation of these islands was just completely decimated. and we could sense the isolation from above that these 20,000 or so u.s. citizens on both these islands are feeling and i was on the ground with the lieutenant general and asked about the needed supplies and said that the supplies are not where he'd like them to be. >> we're working it. we're not -- the people don't have everything that they need yet and it's going to take work. >> reporter: what's the biggest challenge two weeks after the storm, sir? >> i think from our perspective, the municipalities are strong. it's communications throughout the island. >> we need generators,

this morning, lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan in charge of the military response in puerto rico calls the hurricane damage here some of the worst he has ever seen. >> it's not going to be a quick solution. it's not going to be easy. we're going to be after it until they're back on their feet. >> reporter: 4600 troops on the ground right now. some 10,000 people remain in shelters. two-thirds of residents still don't have cell service. lives still in peril as hospitals desperately need fuel. >> so it's absolutely critical to get fuel there right now so the generators can go. >> reporter: fema launching staging areas, set up with food, water, and other necessitienece. prepared to deliver 2 million meals. at the ports, finally more commercial supplies moving out for distribution. headed to store shelves. at every available gas station, endless lines. waiting for what's become a precious commodity. nadia, who lives in rural puerto rico, bounced from station to station for three days to finally be able to fill these two gas canisters. the first day you were in line for 14 hours? >> yes. >>

. >> reporter: lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan said more resources are coming, but the recovery willer after hurricane harvey. >> texas needed helped. who helped? louisiana. they were right next door. geography makes a difference. >> there's no next door to puerto rico. >> reporter: at the president trump's cup golf tournament, mr. trump dedicated the trophy to recent hurricane victims. >> if you look today and see what's happening, but we have it under really great control. puerto rico. >> reporter: mr. trump will visit the island tuesday. >>> fema says they've so far distributed $7 million in assistance to about 63,000 puerto ricans. >>> panic onboard an air france flight after one of its engines exploded mid-air. new video shows the blown out jet making an emergency landing in canada yesterday. the flight was bound for los angeles from paris and today passengers onboard the plane finally got to l.a.x. some of them described the terrifying experience. >> it has been a long couple of days for these passengers who are now, many of them dealing with lost luggage here at the airport. t

one of the latest examples, jeffrey buchanan, the three-star in charge now of relief efforts down ining on the ground, saying that more was needed, more troops, more helicopters, more aid, that it was the worst he had ever seen. general buchanan being a combat veteran has a lot of street credibility on all of this. no white house spin, no message-meisters from the oval office. this is a u.s. general simply saying in public what he believes. we've seen the head of the air force academy. we've seen the joint chiefs all come out post-charlottesville and condemn racism, unequivocally. no language of equivocation c, e coming out very bluntly on all of this. so you would think, isn't this what we pay our generals to do? speak truth? but in this administration, as we see with so many cabinet members now, there's a lot of sensitivity about upsetting the president, a lot of pressure not to come out in public in opposition to the white house or say anything that diverges from the white house. and i think that's what people are going to be watching to see what secretary tillerson has to say. wi

people including two satellite islands that i was also able to visit with lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan. they told me that the port national guard there, that distribution center got no supplies. it was in documents they showed us, no supplies on day nine after the hurricane last friday. so that just speaks to the fact that the recovery, especially for the areas outside san juan, getting people those supplies that they're desperately waiting in line for is much slower than what people here are expecting and expect being u.s. citizens. i want to talk to amanda here who has been waiting in this atm line about your expectation. president trump coming here 12 days in. do you expect things to change? what is your expectation? >> i don't really expect anything from donald trump. donald trump thinks that we want to get everything from the states for nothing, and he has to remember that we are american citizens, and we just received help from u.s., late help. >> you thi >> reporter: you think the help was too late to come in, that he was too late to come in. >> i hope the president of north kor

. >> we got an update from lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan leading the u.s.> we have got a lot of stuff coming in. medical support, logistics, rotary wing aviation. when i got here two days ago we had 25 helicopters. today we are up to 44. we are going to go up to 72 in the next five days. we need to get the truck drivers who live here back to work. because we need to help the local economy recover. and the way to do that is the people themselves. >> fema federal emergency management agency opened 11 staging areas across the island. with hopes of owning up to 25. food, water, medicine are distributed from there. a regional fema administrator. >> we don't like that there are still people drinking rain water. what we want to do make sure we are moving forward, getting logistics, commodities to the people. as much as we can. >> puerto rico filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. and today the governor warned that he believes there could be a mass exodus of puerto ricans to the u.s. mainland unless congress passes a financial aid package soon. elaine. >> david be

>> reporter: so, richard, i got off this black hawk with lieutenant general jeffrey buchanan, assigned by the president to lead the relief efforts here. we were able to survey from the air but also go on the ground to these two satellite, vieques and another town where many citizens are isolated. they depend on the larger island for absolutely everything -- the gas, the medicine, the water. so, given how things are here in san juan and just here on the bigger island, you can just imagine how desperate people are feeling on these two satellite islands. both the lieutenant general and the governor of puerto rico spoke to the mayor of these two islands and asked them what their immediate needs were, and very specifically, they said that they need security, which was something very surprising to me. it's not something you're hearing too much of in san juan. but there they said there's looting of these gas shipments that are coming in. i know boats that are coming in with these desperately needed supplies. then i pulled aside the lieutenant general and asked him what the progress has been f

jeffrey buchanan is spearheading the relief effort here. nbc news rode with him on a supply air drop mission on the western part of the island. >> we shouldn't pretend this is going to be pain-free. this will take a lot of hard work to get people back on their feet. >> reporter: the mayor blasted fema in a series of tweets for not moving fast enough to deliver supplies. the head of the agency firing back. >> we filtered out the mayor. we don't have time for the political noise. >> reporter: there's been improvement in puerto rico. 78% of gas stations are now open. 77% of supermarkets. but only about 12% of the island has power. and not oneven one-third of cel phone towers are working. >> water, food, are critical. we're working to develop critical pathways to get to everybody. >> reporter: president trump tweeting, nobody could have done what i did for puerto rico with so little appreciation. >> we really did a good job. they had beautiful soft towels. very good towels. and they were screaming and they were loving everything. i was having f

three star general jeffrey buchanan is spear heading the military relief effort here.bc news rode with him on a supply air drop mission to the western part of the island. >> we shouldn't pretend this this is going to be pain free anytime real soon. this is going to to take a long time and a lot of hard work. >> reporter: hours before they dealt with new flash flooding overnight in san juan. the mayor blasted fema for not moving fast enough to distribute supplies. >> reporter: 78% of gas stations are now open, 77% supermarkets but only about 12% of the island of cellphone towers are working. >> water, food, of course, are critical. we're still working to develop critical bath ways to get to everybody. >> president trump tweeting nobody could have done what i've done for puerto rico with so little appreciation, bushing off criticism of his visit to the island last week. >> we weren't treated fairly by the media because we really did a good job. they had these beautiful soft towels, very good towels and they were screaming and loving everything and i was having fun, they

over the weekend, we joined lieutenant general jeffrey s. buchananis first aerial tour of the damage. he was named on thursday to lead all military efforts in response to the storm. an appointment that many welcomed, but said had come a week too late. why that week, that whole week that lapsed? i mean this is part of the u.s. >> so, it is, absolutely. we've had elements here on the ground since the 4th of september. and they were here at first for irma. sometimes we don't know what's going to happen until the storm actually hits. and this is the worst i've ever seen. >> reporter: this is the worst you've ever seen? >> it is. >> reporter: on the island's east coast, buchanan receives a briefing from marines, deployed there for days, in a hangar without power or cell phone reception. >> what's great about, you know, the marine corps being here and working with the local population is that these are americans. we're normally, you know a warfighting organization. so we have all this heavy equipment that normally are abroad doing engineering type efforts.

general jeffrey buchanan. here is general buchanan. >> tough logistical situation. have a handle on it? >> it is tough. we're getting better every day. but we really have to bring fuel here. we are working hard to get fuel. without fuel, people can't go to work. we need them to get back to work so we can help the people help themselves. >> what's the logjam on the fuel? >> initially it was ports. the sea ports were closed. the airports were closed. now we have got them open so it's starting to flow. it's a matter of getting there. in the center of the island we have still got some roads down, we are trying to clear those roads so we can gas all the way up in the mountain. >> do you think you should have been appointed the incident commander a couple days sooner? >> the navy had the lead here from the get-go. they have been here. i have had teams here since the 4th of september. this storm hit and had such a devastating effect my boss general robinson made the decision we needed to shift to a land baled effort. that's why i'm here. >> do you think the worst is over?