it was very bad for puerto rico and the people of puerto rico. that was done by democrats and a republican is bringing it back. with that, we can take if you questions and we are again very advanced on the vaccine. we think sometime in the very near future we will have it. say,ld say, i think i can years ahead of schedule what it would be if it were an administration other than this one. you would have been years before you ever had anything approved by the fda. >> this huge aid package to puerto rico, why 46 days before the election? pres. trump: we have been working a long time to get it passed. very tough to get rings passed with democrats and they don't want to see this happen and they certainly don't want to see it happen at this point. it's a big package come a great package and the most exciting part of the package isn't necessarily the billions of dollars, it's going to be what we do with the pharmaceutical industry. we are going to get them back into puerto rico. they liked being there but they change the tax situation, so they ripped ap

in a sense they were voting to destroy puerto rico and bringing puerto rico back.he $13 billion, that's a tremendous amount of money. i think you're going to see something terrific and it's very exciting, to me, what's most exciting is bringing the pharmaceutical industry back, various companies are willing to go there, they want to have a little bit of help but they're willing to go to puerto rico and puerto rico's going to be very exciting, what's going to happen, they were on the verge of doing it and they took away all the incentives, they allowed it to happen and it was very bad for puerto rico and the people of puerto rico, that was done by democrats. a republican is bringing it back. with that we can take a few questions and we are again very advanced on the vaccine, we think sometime in the very near future we will have it where i would say, i think i can say, years ahead of schedule what it would be in it administration other than this one. would've been years before we had anything approved by the fda. >> this huge age package to puerto rico, by 46 days?

, he will never abandon us in our time of need in working hand-in-hand with puerto rico's leaders a future that will make life better for puerto ricans whether you live on the island or on the mainland, while i'm confident joe will have our backs as presidents and i also know he needs us, that means making our voices heard at the ballot box, if you weren't convinced by then maybe you will be convinced by me, goat to our vote.com. seriously do it now, register to vote and make a plan for when and where you are going to do it in text photos to 30330 to find out more ways to get involved in this campaign, nothing less than the future of our country is on the ballot in november. we cannot let our family down. [speaking in foreign language] i am honored to present vice president in the future president of the united states joe biden. [applause] [applause] >> i just have one thing to say, turn it on here ♪ ♪ >> i tell you what if i had the talent of any one of these people i would be elected. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hello and happy hispanic heritage month, it's great to be b

he even thought maybe we could swap puerto rico for greenland because in his words, puerto rico was dirtye people were poor. he has completely failed to respond to covid-19, a virus that has disproportionately hurt latinos. latinos are only 18% of the population, but we make up over 34% of essential front-line workers. 34%. those are your health workers, your drivers, your delivery people, your farmworkers who are putting food on your table. it farmworkers have always been the essential. we didn't need a pandemic to tell us that. cast outrategy is to latinos as being less than fully american. let me tell you how american we are. this year for the first time in history, hispanics will be the largest minority group of potential voters in the united states. latino voters will decide the 2020 election. that is a simple fact. in florida, hispanics are in even bigger part of the population, 25% compared to 18% nationally, and i want to be clear. increasing hispanic participation in elections does not help democrats or republicans. it helps america. try toia narratives reduce hispanics to single

cause puerto rico is an unincorporated territory, congress can override the island's laws. puerto ricans receive disparate medicaid and nutritional assistance funding. >> more than 47% of the island is under the poverty level line, most of them women and children. and many of the reasons for this is that there are different kinds of formulas for allocating funds to the territories. >> reporter: and like the >> reporter: in 2018, in response to the island's debt crisis, a congressionally appointed fiscal control board announced sweeping austerity measures in puerto rico that slashed the local government's budget by a third. in july the board suspended those cuts for one year, as the territory struggles to recover from hurricanes, earthquakes and the covid-19 pandemic. verÓnica noriega rodrÍguez and amira odeh are two climate activists in puerto rico. >> ( translated ): this relationship stops us om making our own decisions about what affects us as puerto ricans. we feel powerless,nd i'm speaking from my perspective as a youth. >> like, they always talk about poverty or corrup

let's go to puerto rico. because puerto rico's been hit very, very hard by a lot of different storms and they're great people. it is a great place. i know it well. great place. today my administration is making the largest emergency relief award in history to rebuild puerto rico's electrical grid and educational system. we're awarding $13 billion to permanently repair and replace thousands of miles of transmission and distribution lines that should have been done many years ago. this was beyond even the storm, it was just age and a lot of the salt the salt from that ocean is a killer for electrical stations and power generation systems. but on top of the salt, you have the massive storms or hurricanes come in. and maria in particular was a disaster. but for many years they've been trying to get there done and they have been -- had the political will power in washington to get it done. so we're going to get it done for them. we're also going to be bringing back very, very major amounts of medical work. we see

he would tell us he thought puerto rico was dirty. ident was surprised to find out that puerto ricans were americans because it was a u.s. territory. he didn't want to help the island. he was kicking and screaming every time we told him that we had to distribute more money to puerto rico. so it's no coincidence that now, as you know, just a few weeks before the election, the president is touting aid that's going to puerto rico. and in some cases it's too late. the island should've gotten this level of support seener. but again the president's always been reluctant to approve those funds. i witnessed all of this first-degree hand including the president either wanting to sell away puerto rico for greenland. i think it's good that it's happening, we should applaud the fact that he wants to help puerto rico. but he truly does have disdain for the people on the island, which i think is unfortunate. >> and we're also seeing some long lines today in a handful of states where early voting actually got started today. so what does that say abou

puerto rico had been a u.s. protectorate since 1898, when it went from spanish ownership to the united states. business people had gone there and developed industries, rum, tobacco, various other kinds of projects, but the people themselves were not well-cared for. there was a hurricane in the 1920's that destroyed much of the crop land. and in the 1930's, people were actually starving to death. the united states went to teach them better farming techniques, to build housing that would not blow away with each hurricane, because they were living in huts made out of poles and sugarcane. it was a very rough life. in fact, it was an enormously high infant mortality rate. there was no milk for the children. they were drinking coffee instead of milk, which does not have good nutritional value for young children trying to build bodies. and it was this kind of extreme poverty that he wanted to address. jack was the only one who got down there and made these photographs in part because, while he was there, pearl harbor o

of years saying that puerto rico got too much money, just last year you said, puerto rico's one of the corrupt places on earth. >> they have been. >> you said never again, you said congress gave too much money to puerto rico. >> we're building it up as a great pharmaceutical middling manufacturing. taking back a lot of the business we let go for years and we're going to bring it back, very good at it, they did a fantastic job but they destroyed it with their tax policy, they made it impossible to stay, people went tochina mostly and other countries. puerto rico has been very corrupt in terms of its politicians. it's been unbelievably corrupt and we're studying that and working on that and we think we have a good group of people working very well with the politicians right now, but i think more exciting than the dollars and you have to do something with respect to their grid, their grid is a disaster, their generators are wiped out and they've been wiped out for years long before maria came if we can build puerto rico back into a pharmaceutical manufacturing area, we're going to designa

around everything, like donald trump is, thinks that he can buy the conscience of the people of puerto riconever forget that because of him, 3,000 puerto ricans are dead. we will never forget that because of him, more than 200,000 americans are dead we will never forget children in cages and ripped from their mother's arms. these are things that are very close to the puerto rican people, to the latino people, because we are mindful of how you communities have been torn apart and very mindful of how despicable the president has been, calling immigrants rapists and murderers. you know, we need -- the world needs a man with a soul in the white house, and that certainly is not donald trump. in my case, i do believe it is joe biden and kamala harris. >> thank you so much for being here tonight, mayor carmen cruz. we got you to come on at the last minute so we appreciate your time. thank you. >>> never-before-seen deposition video of donald trump during the lawsuit over the scam formerly known as trump university. that is coming up. stay with us, you will not want to miss it how they gonna pay fo

but i was in puerto rico and moved to puerto rico when i was 20 and stayed for 15 years and you can't vote for the u.s. everything if you live in puerto rico. so now i'm back and kid vote. host: host: when did you start supporting joe biden? caller: i always liked him. long ago when he was the only in israel. giving -- and he was the only one who was ever remotely had the nerve to say anything. i like that. and he also mentioned slap the cat, which is the only hope for social security. so if he sticks with that stuff, i'll be happy. host: before you go, what did you do? puerto rico? why did you come back? caller: why did i come back? i came back two days before hurricane maria not knowing it was going to be a hurricane. i'm not very mobile. it would have been difficult for anybody who was disabled. host: what kind of work did you do in puerto rico? caller: i had a building in old san juan. it is a godgeous place, cobblestones, gas lights. i had a building. three years later i had to sell. because i fell in love with my grandson, i wanted to spend time with him. they live in north kore

president trump blamed the puerto rico economic whoas on biden's support in 1996 to eliminate tax breaks that would hurt the puerto rican downturn. >> i've gone through it. whether it was president obama or haven't biden, they were a disaster for puerto rico. what we're doing will be fantastic for many years in the future. >> president trump also sought to dispel thoughts about a coronavirus vaccine. the president said the u.s. is on track to have a vaccine for every person that wants it by the spring. >> hundreds of doses will be available every month. we expect to have enough vaccines by april. >> a coronavirus relief bill remains elusive. nancy pelosi again rejecting the white house's idea of a slim-down bill. >> state and local governments is a hangup. contempt for science and disdain for states and local government. >> on his way out to minnesota for a campaign rally tonight, president trump suggesting that his fbi director may be on thin ice after telling congress russia was actively trying to denigrate joe biden. >> i did not like his answers yesterday. i'm not sure he liked them

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for everyone here in puerto rico.00 homes destroyed, some had no roof, some only had a toilet left standing. we don't have to live this way. >> my mission is to build homes that are earthquake proof and hurricane proof. we're using shipping containers add a base structure. i'm a third generation architect. my father and grandfather taught me that being a part of a community and helping out that community is really important. some days after hurricane maria, i joined fema to work as a construction inspector. i remember this one case, this one lady came to us, we couldn't find the house. we wreelized we couldn't find the house because there was nothing left. the desperation in that woman's face, i'm just never going to forget it. the name of my company is called konti, it combines into many phrases in spanish. you can take your home with you. >> these actually look really good. >> and then we go inside. >> there's no holes on the roof, there's no holes on the walls. it's a really beautiful container. >> our first konti

. >> exactly three years ago, back to back hurricanes devastated puerto rico. this year, an earthquake struck. puerto ricans are getting back on their feet, thanks to this architect who builds new hope with old shipping containers. >> maria changed everything for everyone here in puerto rico. there were 70,000 homes destroyed, some had no roof, and some only had a toilet left standing. we don't have to live this way. my mission is to build homes that are earthquake proof and hurricane proof. my company is challenging the way we look at construction. we're using shipping containers as a base structure. i'm a third generation architect. my grandfather and father are both architects, they always taught me that being part of a community and helping out that community is actually really important. some dayses after hurricane ma ye ya, i joined fema to work as a construction inspector. this one case, this lady came in to us, we couldn't find the house. we realized we couldn't find the house because there was absolutely nothing left. the desperation in that woman's fa

una asignación el gobierno federal autorizó 13 mil millones de dólares que serán distribuidos a puerto ricostadas >> el conjunto más grande por le gobierno federal a través de fema (agencia federal de manejo de emergencia) por zona sur afectadas por detrastres naturales >> para que regresen a su isla >> 10.500 millones de dólares para restaurar el sistema eléctrico otros millones irán a la reparación y reconstrucción y las destruidas por el terremoto pasado >> suma 20 mil millones de dólares para la reconstrucción de puerto rico >> resaltó la importancia al sistema eléctrico >> va a permitir las líneas de distribución que van a hospital a centros importantes a áreas de manejo de emergencia >> dicen que proyectos como nueva planta de generación y la sistitución no estarán atados empresa que administrará la construcción de proyectos >> el acuerdo es entre fema (agencia federal de manejo de emergencia) el gobierno de puerto rico >> la gobernadora dice que hay legislación que obliga a empresas en la isla para ciertas compras agradecieron al presidente donald trump por dar fondos, es la antesala

steve: he said in announcing the additional funds for puerto rico that nobody has done more for puertoico than i have. jonathan: i was there in the wake of hurricane maria and i also covered the way the president dealt with the aftermath and he complained bitterly about the amount of money that congress had authorized to support puerto rico's recovery efforts. said it was way too much. he had talked about how puerto rican politician, all they do is complain and ask for more money. and now suddenly on the eve of an election, where he may need some puerto rican votes in florida, he's portraying himself as the great savior of puerto rico. you just played the tape. steve: let's turn our attention to foreign policy. as you mentioned earlier, jonathan karl, one of the key moments in the first four years of the trump presidency, his leadership with the north korean leader, kim jong un. this is what he told the u.n. general asem assembly in fall of 2017. president trump: no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in nort

i think it will be unbelievable for puerto rico, unbelievable for the people of puerto rico and we cansuccessful. >> a larger question on the vaccine and other issues regarding the experts in your government. last night you criticized what christopher wray told congress, your fbi director, you obviously said the cdc director was flat wrong on a couple of things this week. how is it that you don't trust your own experts? do you think -- >> no, i think -- yeah, in many cases i do. i think we have a bigger problem with china than we have russia. i think china's a far bigger problem, and i said well, that's okay if you want to think about russia, but what about china? i think that's appropriate. i thought that the definition of antifa was absolutely incorrect definition, so i speak up. i like to speak up. i have fantastic people. that's why we're able to make these great trade deals. that's why we're able to do things like we're doing today. that's why the country has done so well. the country has done numbers like nobody -- had we not had the china plague come in, if that virus didn't com

in puerto rico 15.1%. that is the top five states with the highest insured unemployment rates in the united states, where the impacts are being felt by the most people, but it is happening around the country. we are hearing from callers around the country about your job situation. this is thea on that line for those who are unemployed. what kind of work did you do? due to covid-19, i could not work because i had the underlying diseases. i have sarcoidosis. i have sickle cell. and at that time, my sugar diabetes was a 10. my doctor thought it was time for me to leave the job for a while. i was a health care worker. i had been working this job for 33 years. i tried to file for unemployment. at this point, i don't even have insurance to take care of myself. i lived in my house for 25 years. i don't even have the money to take care of myself. i am a single parent. i took care of my children, and now i feel like i have to go ask my kids. my job, i think i was sabotaged, really, to keep directing unemployment. t

you know that's a great question and i'm not entirely sure about puerto rico and d.c. if that would actually push their agenda forward because this is their only opportunity if they've got lobbyist in high places they need to be working those things right now but you know certainly when it comes to that there's no question that there's democratic outrage and they've got to use whatever leverage they've got to try to you know push it towards their agenda but i miss already dead in previous you know times that he is not going to back the court that he doesn't want to tip for tat that you know if he does add more judges posing he does win the presidency his focus is going to be on stopping donald trump's nomination and if he doesn't land and certainly democrats have that option try to you know add more seats and. add more states in order to swing it but you know biden our president can't if the democratic side has basically said i don't want to support that because i feel like if we move that direction it's just going to create this animosity in the next time the republic

tens of thousands of people fled puerto rico after hurricane maria hit in 2017.ed in florida. mario rosa relocated, and will soon vote in his first presidential election. >> what did you make of president trump's response to the hurricane hitting puerto rico? >> well, not sufficient, putting it lightly. inadequate. >> reporter: perhaps, attitudes like that inspired the trump administration to, suddenly, announce $13 billion in aid to help rebuild puerto rico, three years after the storm. for his part, biden is, also, promising to rebuild the island's infrastructure. he recently visited florida as well to mark hispanic heritage month. >> it's great to be back in florida. >> reporter: the campaigns are also flooding the air waves, committed to spending upwards of $70 million, each, in tv ads. with outside groups like super pacs throwing another $50 million or so into the mix, according to data from media. the lincoln project released this ad against trump about the coronavirus pandemic. >> more than 175,000 americans have died from a deadly virus donald trump ignor

and puerto rico, and the number of deaths have jumped in 10 states.nnouncement came just hours after the c.d.c. reversed its controvers who are exposed to the virus dn. cbs news has learned that guidance did not go through the c.d.c.'s clearance process and was reportedly published over the objections of scientists. >> this is basically an abuse of power. it's an overriding of science by politics. >> reporter: the president has repeatedly argued that the country has a high infection rate because there is too much testing. >> because of all these tests we have far more cases. >> reporter: but the guidance person with covid should get issued today clearly states that anyone with close contact to a person with covid should get tested. household, but instead, sent questions about a report that the administration had intended to send masks to every american household, but instead, sent them to nonprofit organizations and state and federal agencies. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, paula reid, thank you. both president trump and joe biden are campaigning in

it's great that puerto rico is finally getting help, but puerto rico getting help because trump thinks it'll help him win votes. don't watch what they do. in this case watch what they say. watch what trump and the people around him say they are doing. this week trump refused to commit to accept the results of the election if he loses. and he refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses. his attorney general has lied again and again about voter fraud claiming widespread fraud exists when it does not. this morning trump's chief of staff tried to dismiss comments made by the director of the fbi because the director said that he had seen no cases of widespread voter fraud. >> your own fbi director says he has seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud by mail or otherwise. >> well, with all due respect to director wray, he has a hard time finding e-mails in his own fbi let alone figuring out whether there's any kind of voter fraud. >> oh, snap. why does the chief of staff think he knows more than the director of the federal bureau of investigation about this? >> now, we ha

companies operating in puerto rico. many of those companies were pharmaceutical companies. they all left, and they went to china, so the president trying to bring them back. the president also going off again on unsolicited mail and voting. not applications for absentee aboubalance, but this mass mailg of ballots to people who are on registered voter rolls. >> this is going to be the scam of all time, and hopefully the federal judges, all respected, all highly respected, hopefully they will be able to see this clearly and stop it. >> what the president was talking about there is legal challenges that are being launched in states that are sending out these unsolicited ballots, and a lot of them already going out, so we will see what the court action brings, but the president may be on the losing side of this. we will see. >> neil: john roberts, thank you very, very much. we do understand he has been taking some questions. on his way to minnesota tonight, so when that comes into is there, we will play that back to you. also planning to hear from joe biden, who will also be ta

the second was puerto rico's evolution from a territory to commonwealth which was made possible by a line of ricans.inded puerto these strands were widely divergent at the beginning but by the end, they come together. resources are pooled, agendas that had been local are nationalized, there is a large wrasse root movement, -- large grass roots movement, groups raza, which is a more radical movement come together. this time in congress when his panic americans serve a, institutional apprenticeship, the length of service increases for them. they receive more prominent committee assignments. just a handful of the people here who stick out in this time serving resident commissioner from puerto rico and the principal architect of the rico's move to commonwealth status in the early 1950's. he was widely respected i house colleagues. he had a very close working relationship with the longtime was the sonnor who of munoz rivera and that partnership produced the commonwealth change in the 50's, which changed. can autonomy. and other individual here -- henry gonzales, he gets his start in local

from back in the courts to ending a filibuster, pushing fo in puerto rico in washington, d to steel democratic majorities in the senate. the washington post says they are particularly annoyed with democratic senator ed martin fo raising the court packing issue. team biden wants to focus on less polarizing issues now just 42 days out from election day. do voters deserve answers from biden and his running mate

he hails from puerto rico. after high school he moved to pennsylvania where he began his career in the health industry. in 1994, he relocated to orlando, florida, with his family while he studied business administration at the florida metropolitan university and later business management at the university of phoenix. in 2003, he began working in the advertising industry with the largest newspaper in puerto rico. which just recently expanded to central florida. he later co-founded and served on the board of directs -- professions amigos network. it connects hispanic professionals and business owners in central florida. in 2010 he founded cordova marketing solutions, a firm that specialized in the development of small businesses by providing consulting, marketing and advertising services. during this time, he joined the puerto rican chamber of commerce of central florida as its executive director and in 2013 was elected their president until the end of his term in 2016. he would resume his role as president in 20

hurricane maria hit three years ago, the president complained congress allocated too much money to help puerto rico recover from the hurricane. he even tweeted last year, all their local politicians do is complain and ask for more money, so why the $13 billion announcement today? recent polls have shown the puerto rican vote in must-win florida is going to be crucial. >> yes, many of those american citizens now in florida. jon karl, thank you tonight. >>> we turn next to the wildfires in the west. a firefighter has now died, authorities say, in a fire allegedly caused by agender reveal party. that fire in the sarn san bernardino forest. crews bracing for new fires a flare-ups. kaylee hartung from the region again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the california wildfire sparked by a gender-reveal celebration, taking the life of a first responder. the u.s. forest service confirming a firefighter was killed overnight while battling the el dorado fire near san bernardino. new video shows the fire flaring up, crews fighting flames on both sides of highway 38 in rugged mountains. this afternoon, a solemn p

and puerto rico puerto rico as states. that's four new senators. speak >> laura: why stop at four? keep it going. oh, by the way, gets worse. if those threats fail their surrogates will try old-fashioned physical threats as well. >> we need to be out in the streets. we need protest everything all day. >> laura: remember what i said back in january of 2019 about alexandria ocasio-cortez? i think it's a mistake for conservatives not to take her seriously, to brush her off this kind of a flash in the pan or an upstart. she is as close to a thought leader at the democratic party has today. this entire unhinged response to the rbg replacement is being driven by the far left of the party, aoc plus three plus whatever else she's going to drag along with her. biden was basically hiding most of the weekend. the man doesn't even know what to do. surely the leader of the senate democrats isn't appearing with a freshman congresswoman on a matter that the house has zero authority over. wouldn't do that, right? chuck schumer. oh, yes, he would. >> would you be in support of potentially redoing h

so for the people of puerto rico. they were disaster for you. and i have to say in a very nice way very respectful way the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. nobody even close. >>the grant money also comes as former vice president joe biden is scheduled to meet with voters in the crucial swing state of florida. florida is home to a large number of puerto ricans including many who fled hurricane maria's destruction speed of hurricanes along the alabama coast in florida panhandle, hundreds of thousands of people are still without power after hurricane sally devastated, those communities. the power outages continue today as officials assessed millions of dollars in damage. 2 people reported killed in alabama. >>a big story out of the east bay, the city of martinez has decided to pave over the black lives matter mural which was painted on a street in front of the city's courthouse, the mural has attracted a lot of the local attention and national attention since it was painted in july. >>kron four's reyna harvey has the story. >>the city

. >> hurricane maria changed everything for everyone here in puerto rico.ed. some had no roof and some only just had a toilet left standing. we don't have to live this way. my mission is to build homes that are earthquake proof and hurricane proof. my company is alcohol eng wicha way we look at construction. we use shipping containers as a base structure. i'm an arctic. my grandfather and father are architects. they taught me being part of a community and helping out that community is actually really important. some days after hurricane maria, i joined fema to work as a construction inspector. i remember this one case, this lady came in to us and we couldn't find the house. we realized that we couldn't find the house because there was absolutely nothing left. the desperation in that woman's face was just -- i'm just never going to forget it. the name of my company is called conte design studio. in spanish it combines into many faces. the word with you. as in you can take your home with you. these actually look really good. and then we go inside. so there is

cases are now rising in 33 states and puerto rico. dr. anthony fauci telling "gma" he's concerned about the level of infection. >> we're not in a good place with regard to what i said back then, because as we get into the fall and the winter, you really want the level of community spread to be as low as you possibly get it. and i hope not, but we very well might start seeing increases in deaths. >> reporter: new york sounding the alarm after topping more than 1,000 cases for the first time since june. it comes as thousands more students go back to new york city classrooms and limited indoor dining reopens. today, president trump announcing 150 million rapid tests are on their way to the tests. the vice president today with this blunt warning. >> the american people should anticipate that cases will rise in the days ahead. >> reporter: but moments later, the president once again claiming we are rounding the corner on the virus. >> we are rounding the corner. very importantly, vaccines are coming, but we're rounding the corner regardless. b

national news today, the trump administration announced 13 billion dollars in additional aid to help puerto rico rebuild after hurricane maria which devastated that us territory in 2017. the move is most likely an attempt to appeal to puerto rican voters who moved to the battleground state of florida. after the hurricane. in november of 2018 white house officials said the president did not want any additional relief funding sent to the island. today. mister trump said he did not approve the aid package years ago because quote democrats did not want to see this happen. today the president also said he was quote the best thing that has ever happened to puerto rico. the past few weeks wildfires have of course been devastating the western us because of their vast numbers our washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports on a possible legislative solution why so far. >>it's been hard to make it a reality. >>in california wildfires have already burned 20 times more land than in a typical year and the fires that stretch into oregon and washington are sending a blanket of smoke across the country am

>> so as the caller just mentioned puerto rico, this is something that is an interesting story partlypened with hurricanes maria and irma, we've seen an increase in migration at least through 2018 into 2019 and the number of people leaving the island and coming to the u.s. mainland with florida being the largest destination for those migrants. it looks like migration has stopped in the last year or so and looks like perhaps the economic downturn has an impact on decisions of some people to leave or return but because of the nature of puerto rico, people born there are u.s. s citizens at birth. they are able to par 'tis paut in elections when they move to a state just like anybody who moves state to state can because they are american sut zencitize. that is why people talk a lot about the impact of puerto ricoans in central florida and what it might mean for the outcome of the election. puerto ricans are a growing size or growing number in the state of florida and rival cubans and tend to lean more toward the democratic party than cubans do. >> carol in atlanta, georgia. >> caller: hi.

naciÓ en puerto rico y su abuela padeciÓ alzheimer., me duele verlo asÍ porque yo digo "wow, ¿cÓmo es posible que Él ni siquiera sabe quién soy yo en este momento?" y en realidad es bien doloroso. aguiar: a pesar de los avances de la medicina, el alzheimer sigue siendo un verdadero misterio. cientÍficos de todo el mundo han tratado de descubrir sin Éxito hacia dÓnde van aquellos recuerdos que los enfermos comienzan a perder paulatinamente. una enfermedad que no discrimina y que puede afectar a cualquier raza, gÉnero o condiciÓn social. lo que han logrado comprobar es que primero se pierden los recuerdos nuevos. dÍaz: es porque en el alzheimer empieza con la memoria recientes, pero deja sin impactar estas memorias del pasado. aguiar: cuando a su padre lo diagnosticaron, Álex zurdo quiso saber cÓmo conservarlo mÁs tiempo a su lado y fue a travÉs de la mÚsica zurdo: con una guitarra en su mano es regresarlo a quien en verdad yo conocÍ desde pequeÑo, a ese mÚsico profesional que todos admiraban. aguiar: alex, quien es cantante y compositor

precisamente hoy se cumplen 6 aÑos del azote del huracÁn marÍ de puerto rico, marÍa devastÓ l isla y en la isla con la red elÉctrica y la reconstrucciÓn de las viviendas. >>> el ojo del huracÁn marÍa entrÓ por yabucoa al sureste de la isla y ahora esperan por ayuda, nuria de nuestra estaciÓ telemundo puerto rico nos tiene esta historia >>> ya elella ha vivido en estaa la Única mujer peso cada conoce bien la costa pero admite que el 20 de septiembre del 2017 subestimÓ el poder del mar ante marÍa >>> nosotros somos categorÍa un y conocemos el oleaje pero no apresuramos rÁpido pero llegÓ l hora de las 3 de la tarde y >>> fue precisamente por esta costa en yabucoa donde entrÓ el huracÁn marÍa y hoy ven el mar tranquilo hace 3 aÑos para esta misma fecha, las olas llegaban hasta unos 18 y 22 pies de altura >>> la casa de mÁs abajo se la llevÓ completa >>> la situaciÓn de ella y la comunidad se replicÓ en varios sectores de este municipio >>> hicimos un censo y habÍan 1 mil viviendas que se vieron afecta afectadas >>> pero muchas reparaciones son temporales, ella no puede esperar por la bur

hurricane maria may have devastated puerto rico even more than originally thought. u.s.esearchers estimated nearly 3000 people died when maria struck the island in 2017. now they are taking another look, saying some deaths may have been missed. at the time, puerto rico's government came under heavy criticism for severely undercounting the death toll. the government raised the official toll from 64 to nearly 3000 after an independent study by george washington university researchers. californians, many without power, awoke to a dark-orange sky ---coated cars as hundreds of fires and costs from a powerful windstorm blanketed the state in dense smoke. power outages are the latest blow for california, where climate change is making weather more extreme. toperatures have soared records from napa to los angeles, formed -- forcing estate power grid to the brink. thanires have torched more 2.5 million acres this year, the most on record. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. crumpton.

puerto rico continuar operando del por acÁ marÍa de 2017. -- huracÁn marÍa.normales, miles de personas cruzan la frontera para trabajar, ir al colegio o realizar otras actividades. ilia: en mÉxico fue declarada culpable de homicidio culposo la directora y quitarÉ de la escuela privada, que se desplomÓ durante el terremoto de 2017, causando la muerte de 26 personas. una corte determinÓ que mónica garcÍa villegas no respetÓ las normas de construcciÓn de la escuela, poniendo en riesgo a la comida educativa -- comunidad educativa que debÍa proteger. reportera: aquÍ murieron y si no niÑos, 26 personas en total, es el trÁgico derrumbe del colegio ocurrido el 19 de septiembre de dos 2017, en la capital mexicana, atrÁs casi tres aÑos, un juez determinÓ oficialmente que ademÁs del terremoto en mÉxico es el dÍa, la responsable de esta tragedia fue mÓnica garcÍa, la dueÑa y directora de lugar. >> el tribunal determinÓ que la compresora es culpable, --- compresora es culpable del delito de homicidio en una modalidad culposa. >> los padres de las vÍctimas agradecieron la

before it intensifies -- intensified and hit the gulf coast, laura ravepbled puerto rico where three years ago hurricane maria, our felllow americans there are still recovering from its damage and devastation. think about that reality. our fellow americans are still putting things back together from the last big storm as they face the next one. we've seen historic flooding in the midwest, often compounding the damage delivered by last year's floods that cost billions of dollars in damage. many of you travel through the midwest with me on that bus tour and you saw it. this past spring in midland, michigan, experienced a flood so devastating, with deadly flash flooding, overrunning dams an roadways, that it displaced 10,000 residents. it was considered once in a 500-year weather event. but those once in many generation events, they're now happening every year. the past 10 years were the hottest decade ever recorded. the arctic is literally melting. parts are actually on fire. what we're seeing in america in our communities is connected to all of. this with every bout of nature's fury c