. >> reporter: for two weeks, resident nick prouty has been flying almost daily runs to pick up the sick and drop off supplies. >> the roads seem impanel up here. even now, it's hard to measure the staggering toll of the hurricane. >> where do these people go? there's absolutely nothing left. >> reporter: these houses are absolutely destroyed. they're in splinters. many of the new deaths are from the island's rural interior, where most people are still without water, without power, and aid is arriving very slowly. estimates are iestimates are ite months to restore electricity. >> flash lights, you don't need them anymore! >> reporter: that's at odds with the president's upbeat remark about power to a selective crowd in a church. further inland, we landed near a community hospital in utuado. do the respirators work? with dwindling supplies, dr. jose villafane is struggling to get help for his sickest patients. >> as we stabilize them and try to transfer them to another hospital, they are dying in the other settings. >> reporter: so they end up dying either on the way to the hospital elsew