mainland, often in cities with large puerto rican populations. newshour weekend's ivette feliciano has this report. >> reporter: these days, this is a fairly typical start to theth morning forivera family in hartford connecticut. millie rivera gets her three daughters ready for breakfast before catching t school bus, and israel rivera will soon head to start his shift at a hartford window factory. but it's taken months to have a routine or sense of normalcy. since november, the family of five has been living out of a single room at a redf rn because their home in puerto rico was badly damaged by hurricane maria. maria's winds ripped the roof off of the rivera's small house in rural ciales in central puerto rico. ey say most of their appliances, furniture and family keepsakes were destroyed and that they have no insurance to cover their losses. >> ( translated ): i'd love to have my house back the way it was. i put so much work into that home. for six years i worked so hard, everything i earned, i invested in that ho. we had no luxuries, rarely we

so all of a sudden, some puerto ricans will be looked at with a different lens than other puerto ricansam against privatization of public schools for the exact same thing. there is a reason why essential services are handled by the government in an island nation that is 100 miles long by 35 miles wide. you: mayor, i want to ask on another issue, the issue of the role of the puerto rican ds threaten the united states. there are about more than 5 million u.s. citizens puerto rican dissent living in the mainland of the united states. hasr role since this crisis started in being able to provide support assistance to the fellow puerto ricans on the island. >> yes. in fact, i think we are now the diaspora. there are 5 million puerto ricans in the emojis days. about 3 million artery can in the island nation of puerto rico. but the diaspora has been the echo of our voices. so many times, they have in the past been at the forefront of when we, youts know, did what we had to do in order to get the navy out of then minas island, wi-lan. when we joined together in all different forces to get the re

puerto rico on september 20 last year the pain hit home in the bay area.>> i'm first-generation puerto rican a lot of family in puerto rico.>> reporter: they all have family on the island. these members of the latino peace officers association also felt another call of duty. for there puerto rican others and sisters in blue.>> we saw the news clips of police departments. literally being washed away. i knew that there would be a need for supplies and uniforms and equipment.>> reporter: they raise money and got donations from departments and on october 24 went to puerto rico. a world when trip to 20 municipalities in 17 days. taking donations to where they were needed the most.>> these local agencies just had jeans and t-shirts. that is it. that is how they were operating.>> reporter: the devastation was heartbreaking.>> our brothers and blue. as well. it was tough.>> reporter: everywhere they found gratitude despite the struggles.>> people with the least with no food water and electricity were the most humble and grateful.>> reporter: they are preparing to go back.>> it is still a crisis situ

community here and wanted leaders to inspire hundreds of thousands office puerto ricans in thetically active and fight for long time rights for peoples on the island but protesters wanted the governor to focus on the short term and puerto rican evacueeness danger, in pennsylvania, right now. more than a thousand puerto rican evacuees in pennsylvania are on the clock, to becoming homeless, next month, fema will stop funding its transitional shelter assistance program even though the island is still far from recovered. >> they have suffered enough in puerto rico to be here and home less not right. >> reporter: this group outside of esperanza college gathered to wait, outside, as he walk in for a local leaders breakfast. they wait todd ask the governor to add so date for his people who their homes in puerto rico and struggling to survive here. when the governor arrived he did not walk past protesters but stopped. >> listened. and committed. >> my commitment is that by today, by next 24 hours, i will verbally express my concern with these issues, and as soon as, you know, within th

this saturday they plan to join josi ortiz who is partnering with them on a joint puerto rican a trip. . >> we met good friends, those who will be our friends forever. >>> there may be a new way to go across the bay in the future. we will tell you how far they are seriously considering a second trans-bay tube. >>> traffic is off to a nice start in most areas including the debate bridge heading into san francisco. >>> a few widely scattered showers with maybe some snow on hamilton. and maybe over to sunnyvale and around san jose it will be a cold system dropping in. >>> welcome back. the mayors of the 11 biggest cities in california are throwing their support behind legislation that would earmark money to fight homelessness. they will use $1.5 billion from the state budget surplus to provide assistance for cities dealing with the homeless problem. the housing crisis has become worse so homeless numbers have surged. last year showed 35,000 homeless people across the state. . >> we believe that if the state of california invests its surplus into addressing this humanitarian crisis, it is

today, there are far more puerto ricans on the mainland than there are on the island itself.r here. lilliam and adrian are just the latest. this is my mom and dad's hometown. when i first got here, there wasn't one empty store here. i could really feel something missing just by walking around the center of town. they were all -- there wasn't one empty building. all the stores were full, all of them. and how long have they been empty? did they close since the hurricane? no. no, they're weren't closed before the hurricane. but this was recently, so they were there. they were there not too long ago. what's that place? lilliam: that's the ice cream place. they're exotic, different ice creams where you need to taste one. heladeria lares is the oldest ice cream shop in puerto rico. they were telling me that you have, like, crazy flavors. yes. we have corn, carrot, pumpkin, sweet potato, and cazuela is like a pumpkin pie. as neighboring businesses melt away, alberto baretto is hanging on. is this a family business? yeah. it's my dad's. it used to be my granddads. third generation. y

like many schools in florida, alake howell has given ex attention to puerto rican students. the scol gives extra counseling and acamic support, provides financial assistance when needed, a has to be flexible about accepting transcripts from schools in puerto rico thatollow different systems than on the mainland. school counselor janibelle jackson uart, who is also puerto rican, helps students transition. >> we have to really look at the bigger p that we're trying to do with all these students that are coming in, and play to their strengths, cause they have strength it's just a different education system. and when you have a trickle, it's one thingbut when you have a flood, it's a whole different thing. >> reporter: how does their short-term future look like? do you think somhem are just going to try to settle here? >> these students that have come ngwere not planning on leahe island. they were going to finish their education on the island, in their mind, and they were going they never intended to live here they never intended to go to universities here. so they're just going

like this are luring away the best and the brightest researchers at the hunter college center for puerto rican studies say the d. population of puerto rico is one of the most significant hurdles to its economic recovery the reality. is the long term parole in the now is being intensified. those your people even after you train them which is part of what's up to me then the economy if lacking the skills base to live battle you know new broader new companies of enterprises that have actually promoted you're going to be brought home and why you require students to continue paying tuition to their schools at home to lessen the impact on their already strapped budgets still christian cruz has mixed feelings about being in new york as an. element of like guilt too because i'm over here and i'm pretty much getting a free ride just pay my city university back home and i'm getting all these benefits and they're not. but the longer it takes puerto rico to recover the stronger the pull to leave kristen salumi al-jazeera new york the body of the beloved bollywood actress sridevi is due back in india today

she got a google alert about fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. last october, brown scored a $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of $5.10 each. she subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate itterer in atlanta with 11 employees. did you really think that 11 toople were going to do millions of meals? >> she told me she was experienced with this work, and that as time got on-- as time ant on, that she would be abl to hire additional people to scale up. nl reporter: only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. mima terminated her contract due to late delivery. >> fema should have understood. >> reporter: fema picked brown after vetting her, even though

carmen san miguel has led significant fundraising efforts in philadelphia. >> puerto ricans in the diaspora aware of the situation in puerto rico. the dire situations that are com padres are having on the island. i believe that the governor is, you know, he's trying to develop additional bridges of work. >> reporter: governor ricardo rossello made a plea as the island now faces the possibility of rationing electricity. a 300 billion-dollar loan is being considered for puerto rico's electric power authority. >> the power authority lacksreqs money. there is no money to buy fuel. there is no money to execute a lease. >> reporter: rossello says the smaller loan would only helprate until march. pennsylvania is one of several states the governor is visiting to continue to bring attention to the humanitarian hat puerto ricans are still facing. reporting in hunting park, jeanette reyes channel6 "action news." >> time to get another check on the highways and bor your friday night commute. >> mation news" traffic center with the very latest. hi again matt. >> hello rick and monica. the drive on the d

in new jersey, i believe, we're the third largest of people with the puerto rican come machine so you know, if he fellow systems we need the help. you go people. the in are a structure being built back in puerto rico. i imagine most want to go home. >> listen no such thing as too much in the situation. if the goal is to go back to puerto rico the federal government should help. puerto rico is america. bill: the first as governor seems to talk in soundbites. you know, now talking about rolling back the christie gun sweep and these are not things that make new jersey affordable. no one wants to read the background. no one wants to answer the tweet and everybody wants to jump. in his position, now, he is just starting out. needs to get of where we need go. i don't think this is anything wrong with this soundbites. bill: great. two months in. >> a my news. bill: all right. we'll see. more time to go. all right. thank you. >> thankthank you, bill. >> a my news. am saying d plus. it is flexible. >> all right. >> plus in for the nj transit audit. >> all right. he let's bring in dan zarrow wi

. >>> and dozen of puerto rican refugees who seeked shelter in philadelphia will soon run out of aid.he housing assistance allowed refugees to stay in local hotel rooms while getting back on their feet will run out tomorrow. mayor jim kenney said the city will do whatever it can to help. however, he said the real help needs to come from the federal government. >>> in new jersey, governor phil murphy signed an executive order to help replace puerto ricans in the garden state. to speed up getting benefits to those who need them. the panel will also examine new ways to help them directly. >>> rested behind the wheel, ride sharing service uber is making a safety push for its drivers. landon dowdy is here with the cnbc business news. good morning, landon. >> hi there, tracy. uber will now require drivers to take six-hour breaks after 12 hours on the road straight. the app will not let drivers log back in until it's offline for six hours. drivers will also get a warning when they're approaching that cutoff time. the driving accounts for 6,000 crashes a year. >>> on wall street, it could be

you cannot continue to treat the puerto rican situation as a standard operating procedure.g us around the first week, after september 20th when we have no elect rhys tric use our telephone or the internet connection to just call in and just register to get aid. now what fema doesn't get and they have since been forced and i want to say thank you, not only to the american people, but to you and great britain because you have been very, very cognizant of the fact that if it hadn't been for the british people and people in europe and south america, the people of the united states, the world would have want known what is happening in puerto rico. what is happening in puerto rico is that people are still dying, it's that people died when they weren't supposed to die because of the botched effort of an administration of a man that is more enamored with the idea of making himself look good than doing what is the right thing. so, no, it is not enough. while our electrical grid is not up in a constant, it will not be enough. >> indeed, we understand a third of the people of puerto r

and today some five months since the last storm four hundred thousand puerto ricans are still without power which gives them the dubious honor of being part of the longest the blackout in u.s. history but what about the evacuees according the new york times federal officials estimate that nearly four thousand families spread across forty states and puerto rico remain in hotels under freeman's transitional sheltering assistance program with more than fifteen hundred currently located in the state of florida alone william boo her of the most spokesman told the media the quote this is a bridge to other longer term solutions survivors are responsible for their own recovery and to actively look for permanent housing solutions and tragically time is indeed running out not just with the evacuees waiting to return home but for those still in puerto rico because remember the next hurricane season is just five months away june first and we still haven't even cleaned up the last one we're taking care of the displaced peoples from the last one. think about that as we start watching the whole. the

looking for financial support for his battered island but many puerto rican it will be big business not the residents that benefit from benefit from rebuilding after last year's hurricanes she had britons who reports. rick other o. ses as investors who take advantage of puerto rico's opportunities. and enjoy. the benefits of what. the government plans to privatized electricity grid their house holders will make a profit even as they invest in a reliable electricity source for all hasn't been explained. only history is cautionary in the ninety's governor rosales father privatized the water system when he was governor a failure that polluted the environment and raised prices authorities eventually read took control having paid to french multinational companies hundreds of millions of dollars it's this whole idea that their public utilities are men because they're public and you just sell them off and then everything is going to be great for everyone even though they're clearing off privatized water services and things. so why do you think it's not mentioned. because all the people involve

orlando florida i would say is to say can stay with someone of puerto ricans in the united states new york on this economy's us we are two hours away on a flight is twelve hours away too i don't have hours and we're here so because of the concentration of guns and i want to say flow that's like a melting pot i mean there's people from everywhere from all over the world so when they come here they feel confident that what i mean many places they speak they have speak their language as well i mean you know this is this is home for them they come to this new world where they're here is here house well so they have come in their past they have family members so this is like you know it is not. different like going to new york on their way. here is go to chicago in both through the ohio where there whether it's i mean it's different so they're trying to say here because of the weather because of the people that are leaving here. and the vicinity so close the committee has been amazing the response of the community i have to say that he has been amazing. people i mean they were helping neig

a combination of people came from puerto rico we have the puerto ricans who are here in the in the states. we wanted to bring our parents or our grandparents are always aunties because they always say called we don't want to go through this there so we brought them here and then we all these young calls they were caught and i will the children with their children their dedication i mean what was going to happen the services so we have a combination of everything coming here and. i want to talk a little bit about children the children coming from puerto rico that are dealing with quite a bit of trauma what have you noticed most that they've been affected by the good thing is we have amazing partners for example in the we have the orlando area and then we have it which is in the orange is part of orange county and then we have p.c.b. which is part of also that county but the port that he comes coming they have been going to these two towns two story areas i would say the orlando area and they also are the you see me all see on the. school department and the department of education and the o

like this are luring away the best in the brightest researchers at the hunter college center for puerto rican studies. say the deep population of puerto rico is one of the most significant hurdles to its economic recovery the reality is that the population of puerto rico is a long term problem that now is being intensified if you loose those young people even after you train them which is part of what's up any then the economy it's lacking the skills base to live battle you know new products new companies and enterprises that have actually promoted the economy development and why you require students to continue paying tuition to their schools at home to lessen the impact on their already strapped budgets still christian dollar cruise has mixed feelings about being in new york there's an element of like guilt too because i'm over here and i'm pretty much getting a free ride just pay my sin university back home and i'm getting all these benefits and they're not. but the longer it takes puerto rico to recover the stronger the pull to leave christensen leamy al-jazeera new york. rates of obesity

well, i think it can have a big imact and i'm hopeful for it and i will tell you why, right now puerto ricanstizens and we don't have a vote, we don't -- we have a second-class citizenship unless we reside on the united states, so a lot of those u.s. citizens from puerto rico that come to florida can have the opportunity to vote, now, i think that their is up for grabs, in my view puerto rico would have been a battleground state, and what they're hoping for who has the better message and who helps puerto rico. a lot of these people have to leave puerto rico so it's very fresh on their minds what the problems are and if they see friends of puerto rico, they will make sure to help them and if they see that oppose puerto rico, they will oppose them as well. so what i've been doing in the past couple of weeks is i've been identifying several states, we have gone to florida, we are going to be here in puerto rico, we will go to pennsylvania and other places to establish a structure where puerto ricans and friends of puerto ricans can organize so they can vote for those who have been friends, look,

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. >> i am first-generation puerto rican. i have a lot of family who was still there. >> reporter: they all have family on the island, the members of the latino police officers association also felt another call of duty to their puerto rican brothers and sisters and move his . >> we saw some of the news clips of police equipment being washed away. i knew that there would be a need for supplies and uniforms and equipment. >> reporter: they raise the money and got donations from bay area departments and then they went to puerto rico. they want to 20 municipalities in 17 days. some of the local law enforcement agencies just had jeans and t-shirts and the gun belt. and that is how they were operating. >> reporter: the devastation was heartbreaking. smith they are our brothers and blue. so that was out. >> reporter: they say everywhere they found gratitude, despite the struggle. . >> the people with the least, with no food, water or electricity where the most humble. and they were grateful. now they are prepared to go back. it is

some puerto ricans do not have power due to hurricane marie. deep debt and infrastructure is hampering restoration. >>> a plea from puerto rico here who fled to philadelphia as marie i can't landed her punch. they called for federal housing for all evacuees in philadelphia. they say most of the 1500 evacuees in the city face eviption. they want philadelphia to be declared a hope city which would open up more housing for them. john rawlins is looking at mayor jim kenny's response we'll have more on "action news" at 4:00. >>> tsa is asking local travelers to sign up for precheck at philadelphia international airport. the agency has reopened precheck in the terminal b baggage claim. once approved you'll be allowed to go through the precheck security lane that is faster than the regular line because travelers are allowed to leave their shoes on and keep their laptop in its case. >>> coming up at 11:00 p.m. bargains that may be bogus. if you love a good sale. we have revealing information and advice. >> reporter: bargain hunters be aware. nearly long

if you contracting a gripping to provide 30 million meals to puerto ricans. but halfway through the contract they had only delivered 50,000 meals. they say the agency did not pay her so she cannot pay her subcontractors in puerto rico. with 500,000 people still without electrical power, the locals are pitching in to help the crews worked to get electricity back. >> reporter: we talked to the residents and agree with them on how they can help us and give us a hand. cutting brush and trees and anything that needs to be done to get the electricity back up. some of the governor says they need help with medical services and housing. >>> we want to check in with now, i know there was construction earlier on. select yes fortunately, since it is early and has not affected a lot of people. we will start off with the gilroy commute. it looks pretty good san jose. you see traffic moving along very well. a lot of people make this commute and getting into the valley looks okay. there is a crash at northbound 880 and 23rd. a lane or two has been blocked from time to time. b

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and so the mayor is currently the mayor of ponce other, electricitied during the puerto rican general replaces the first woman elected in office in porn a degree in dental medicine for at the university of puerto rico school of dental medicine. worked as a dental assistant until she established her own dental practice in ponce. we're pleased you're hear and willing to speak to us. >> thank you. thank you for the opportunity to address our fellow mayors, but before i address all of you i like to present part of the mayor right ooh whoa have been suffering what the cate e and mayor turner, the mayor from central part of the island, the mayor in the east coast, and the mayor in center, but to the north, the mayor who is also nelson from the south, and the mayor who are my neighbors in the south. three in the south, one in the north, in the west coast in the east coast -- the other win is central part. this hurricane hits the 78 cities of puerto rico. deputy secretary elaine duke went to ponce. she went to visit puerto rico and knows what the saw. she knows everything. she tell all of you

. >>> governor ricardo made an impassioned plea for puerto ricans living here to pressure the government for more resources. they are facing a humanitarian crisis five months after being devastated by hurricane maria. the army corps of engineers says people should have their power back by the end of the march. and now they face the possibility of rationing electricity. >>> two students received the congressional awards this morning. they were given to students ages 14 to 24 who excel in the areas of voluntary public service, physical fitness and exploration. and this year's recipients is caylee barnes and michael who attends the conrad school of science. >>> penn state's thon will kick off in just a few hours from now. the annual dance marathon is aimed as raising money to enhance lives and families that are impacted by childhood cancer. chad pradelli is at state college later today as thon kicks off the largest state run charity in the world. last year thon raised more than $10 million. >>> much more ahead on "action news" at 12:30. security cameras in the gym capture the moments that a

. >> per a puerto rican family.d race kids. >> when families make a decision, they're not alone in addressing the trauma that kids often come with. >> they have their own case manager from agencies who are in the home. >> on this day, they need to discuss ways to improve the foster care system. that includes more than 5,000 children in philadelphia. >> my life changed the day he came into my life. i had to switch work schedules, school skels, move around, juggle some things around. >> she went through the process to back foster parent to help a friend. instead another little boy was place in the her home. she adopted him in january. >> the mother made a self-less in fact my opinion and expressed to the courts that she didn't think she would be able to be, to care for him. >> but most foster children are returned to their biological family. that's the priority. >> every accomplishment, we're saying, hey, we're going to be showing mom this. hey, we're going to let mom know. let's call dad and tell him you just learned

. >> the governor of puerto rico continues, ricardo rosario owe , met with local puerto rican leaders the college he also met with protesters, now, they're upset that fema will stop funding it transitional shelter assistance program, next month , and that means some evacuees from the us territory , who are staying in our area, could soon be homeless. now the governor promises to ask governor tom wolf to make pennsylvania, evacuee host state that would allow fema to continue funding puerto rican evacuees here, assuring continued housing assistance. >>> in other news today: black panther is the latest marvel movie to arrive in theatres. it is full of action and special effects of course, but thanks to a local principal, some area student lent soon discover this movie teaches a powerful lesson, as women. "eyewitness news" anchor, ukee washington, has the story. >> a superhero out of africa. marvel's black panther hits theatres friday, and the anticipation is growing. >> i've been waiting for this movie for a long time. >> sixth grader christopher brings will be watching on february 20th

ricardo row saya met with local puerto rican leader yesterday, but on his way into college he also met with protesters, they're upset that fema will stop funding it transitional shelter assistance program next month. that means some evacuees from the us territory staying in our area could be homeless soon. the governor is promising action. >> my commitment is that by today, by the next 24 hours, ill verbally express my concern with these issues, and as soon as within the next 24 hours i will have a letter drafted, both toward fema and to the local government. >> the governor there promises to ask governor tom wolf to make pennsylvania an evacuee post state to allow fema to continue to fund puerto rican evacuees here and assure them house ago cyst tans. >> switching gears now, nothing like a cup of joe to get you going every morning, i can a test to that, and happening today national cafe owe lay dodd. anita oh, live in center city this morning at a place wherever day is cafe owe lay day. i would agree with that personally myself. anita, good morning. >> it certainly is for me, too , ja

hurricane maria, new details about how fema failed to provide millions of meals to starvie ii puerto ricans also known as americans. we begin today with the president, soon to be former staff secretary, rob porter who resigned yesterday in the face of domestic abuse allegations. just 48 hours, two days ago, the white house was defending him and now a former white house official tells nbc the administration knew about the allegations for months but they let him stay on. i have a great team here to help us break down all of this, starting with nbc's peter alexander at the white house. who specifically knew about the allegations and when? because if he didn't have full security clearance, they had to know. >> it's a good question. not only that one, but frankly who else here is serving without full security clearance at this time. among these questions, why was rob porter allowed to take and keep that job? how long did the west wing know about these domestic violence allegations. denying the allegations by two ex-wives he was physically and verbally abuse, first reported by the daily mail.com.

can you imagine, you know, getting the grid up for the puerto ricans. >>> community clinics are considered vital to the recovery. it will cost some $3 million. the community foundation is heading up the fundraising efforts. back with more in a moment. would you believe...it sbaseball season? hello buster posey. spring training starts t >>> would you believe it's baseball season? hello to buster posey. fresh haircut and all. spring training starts tuesday for the giants in arizona. today hunter pence in san francisco. a quick hello. the guys are best. fan fest is tomorrow. open to the public at at&t park. >> before that, tonight we have the opening ceremony. look what raj brought in. he has his own 0 olympic torch. we're sharing it with the news room. i'm passing the torch to you. >> i'm going to pass it to jeff. >> yeah! >> it's like a whole ceremony! it's so exciting. >> there you go, jeff. >> beautiful. >> we'll see. i guess i have to keep it with me. >> all right. at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts. which means... more of the eye balls you want watching

more than 38,000 puerto ricans remain without power sincehurri. >>> the cause of a plane crash killed allnboard remains a mystery this morning. the jetliner disappeared from radar moments after taking off from a moskow airport. emergency crews found the wreckage 25 miles away. the flight was headed for the city of horst in southern russia. nbc has learned the russia administration ministry is working with families of the victims to identify the dead through dna testing. >>> and take a look at this vid fro yum china. a truck carrying natural gas burst into flames on an expressway. you can see the wall of flames seems to appear out of nowhere. firefighters say the truck was leaking gas. paramedics rushed two people in the truck to the hospital. three other people nearby escaped unharmed. >>> police are investigating a crash that killed a man and woman over the weekend. happened just before midnight saturday around grove road. police say the driver passed over a lane and hit another car. >>> and holding a vigil tonight to remember a woman killed on roosevelt boulevard. the 22-year-old vi

we may not all have gone to puerto rico or know any puerto ricans, but by the fact that we are part of the same community, we are supposed to have relations of obligations towards them and have care and concern for what is happening to them. so in the book, i develop this concept of racialized solidarity to talk about the way in which i think race shapes solidarity. instead of functioning in this ideal way i describe, instead i think because of racism, the pain and suffering of nonwhites is often rendered invisible or when it's visible, it is seen as less deserving than that of whites. i'm using whites as the dominant group in this case in the united states. so then racialized solidarity then for me refers to the way embodied racial difference, that is when we look at other people and see somebody who is different from us or hear them speak or have an accent or see snag is not like us results in differential care and concern towards their pain and suffering. and this leads them to differences in policy. if we are able to say in some way these people are not american or they are less or

an official did not comment on his condition or explain why he was hospitalized, but a puerto rican newspaper claims to have reached out to a family friend. according to those reports, the 80-year-old fell in a parking lot yesterday and hit his head. he was last seen in public last month during a birthday celebration for willie mccovey. >>> a workshop is running from 6 to 8 this evening at st. john the baptist catholic church. participants will be able to ask experts questions about financing and rebuilding. thousands of buildings burned to the ground during the october wildfire. >>> as athletes battle for gold in pyeongchang, there's another battle in south korea on craft beer. the interest came from a 2012 magazine article in the economist called fiery food, boring beer. it praised the suddens from north korea, while trashing the south. after it was published, relaxed liquor laws ignited the craft beer scene. >> it was an international product that was here, and now people are seeing it as, oh, this is a locally made product, we can put our own stamp on it. >> one beer in south korea is bre

he met with local puerto rican leaders but on his way in he talked with protesters, upset that fema will stop fund, the transitional assistance program, meaning some evacuees could be homeless, by the next 24 hours, i will verbally express my concern with these issues, and as soon as you know within the next 24 hours, i will have a letter drafted both towards fema and of course, to the local government. >> the governor promised to ask governor wolf to make pennsylvania an evacuatee host state that will allow fema to continue funding evacuees here assuring housing assistance. >>> straight ahead, we're giving three cheers to an iconic symbol of philadelphia. >>> some encouraging news on the flu front, what health officials are saying about this record breaking season. is it finally leveling off and how local hospitals are handling the increased number of flus. >> coming to one of the would recall largest casino resorts, what caesar said it will do to help hotel guests and employees stay safe. >>> a life look on this friday night, just like a light switch, water weather making a return, kat

we have had hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans come to florida sense maria. my goal is for us to be most welcoming place for those displaced by hurricane maria. [applause] [applause] we have set up to help americans get connected to services. we made it easier for them to get enrolled in our schools, we remove barriers for professional licenses so they can get to work in our state. there's more we can do to help puerto rico and everyone impacted. patient proposing $12 million in funding to establish the english language learners academy. focus on reading apartments and making sure students to space bar hurricane maria have access to important learning programs. ask each of you to support me in making sure we get funding for the program this year. [applause] as we saw throughout the storm, first responders came to the rescue of many. that only did they do a outstanding job but they came to aid outside of florida. following maria, the highway patrol members were appropriate following her can have in texas, within two dozen after bc officers helped rescue the 50

he met with local puerto rican leaders but on his way in he talked with protesters, upset that fema will stop fund, the transitional assistance program, meaning some evacuees could be homeless, by the next 24 hours, i will verbally express my concern with these issues, and as soon as you know within the next 24 hours, i will have a letter drafted both towards fema and of course, to the local government. >> the governor promised to ask governor wolf to make pennsylvania an evacuatee host state that will allow fema to continue funding evacuees here assuring housing assistance. >>> straight ahead, we're giving three cheers to an iconic symbol of philadelphia. >>> some encouraging news on the flu front, what health officials are saying about this record breaking season. is it finally leveling off and how local hospitals are handling the increased number of flus. >> coming to one of the would recall largest casino resorts, what caesar said it will do to help hotel guests and employees stay safe. >>> a life look on this friday night, just like a light switch, water weather making a return, kat

. >> so just like they have puerto rican day parade, st patrick's day parade, and all these differentarades to celebrate culture and history. we decided to develop the annual juneteenth parade and festival. hopefully we'll have some good entertainment for you. in addition to that, we're going to be working with abc. we're going to be on tv. so we're really really thankful. >> we are certainly excited about that new partnership and you'll hear more about it in the coming months. >> and every year for black history month, 6abc takes time out to celebrate community leaders making a difference. >> this year we honored independent black media companies in print, talk radio, film and the digital sphere. >> here's sharrie williams with a recap of the awards dinner. >> mr. bogle, you've been i this business and survived for 48 years now. you've been through the highs and lows and you're still doing it. >> we have 300 years of history books about non- african americans. they know very little about us. you don't even know there is a philadelphia tribune for most people. yet we've been here for

things like that like we get one another where you feel it's all around i mean i guess that i'm puerto rican and all in terms of my what's going on here i don't feel like i am like right now my grandfather been up for it and he just had like so much right talk about the american public and where american stuff like that that's happening right now and very unique to not feel like when they need it that's their part that they're here because you know any other place you stand they got ready maybe it would take to get it i don't want to train up the much knowledge box and you know on that day on the legality part talk like you can't. leave after. all this went down the trains were running they kept the trains running to let people get out of there yes. and there were like law enforcement with like huge guns in like backpacks like all over the place like and just people panic yeah and your girlfriend was pretty sure running to the wall she couldn't write the time you know yeah yeah. scared and it was terrifying actually because we didn't know if there was going to be another one that to go off o

. >>> puerto rican who's left come to philadelphia from hurricane maria are pleading for help. they say housin housing that the gotten from fema is set to expire this week and they fair they'll be homeless. today outside city hall, activist along with evacuees called on local governments to extend the temporary shelter assistance program. no more than 1500 evacuees are in philadelphia. >> out in the street with all three of my kids one of them being deaf. >> why we don't have an extension. how can we do this? this is inhumane. this is why we are screaming loud. help them! help them get the services in the city of philadelphia. >> puerto rico continues to deal with another set back an explosion and fire through much of the island territory without power once again late last night. although most customers do have power back as of now. third party and independent candidates will have easier time running for office in pennsylvania. long-standing federal lawsuit just been settled a judge approved a provision that requires less petition signatures for candidates to ya'll if you for t