the news of whitefish came out. everybody got scared including fema. fema tells me i'm not going to reimburse you anymore. i'm in chapter 9, you know, prepa is. people assume the worst and they stopped me right there. >> reporter: jose ortiz is the new head of prepa. and lessons learned he says if the island gets hit again, he has 32 power companies lined up ready to help. >> why didn't puerto rico do that for maria? >> they did too late. they did too late. i don't think we were prepared. we didn't realize we needed to have inventory, manufacturing for a major catastrophe like there. a lot of mismanagement. >> reporter: but power was just one snafu. shelter was another. a month after the storm, i found anita sleeping on a bed soaked with rain water, the smell of mold thick in every room. what is your biggest frustration today? what do you need more than anything else? >> blue tarp. >> reporter: blue tarps, the mayor told me. i need a thousand. it's been raining a lot. operation blue roof was supposed to fill that need. but when cnn investigative report

the news of whitefish came out. everybody got scared including fema.eimburse you anymore. i'm in chapter 9, you know, prepa is. people assume the worst and they stopped me right there. >> jose ortiz is the new head of prepa. and lessons learned he says if the island gets hit again, he has 32 power companies lined up ready to help. >> why didn't puerto rico do that for maria? >> they did too late. they did too late. i don't think we were prepared. we didn't realize we needed to have inventory, manufacturing for a major catastrophe like there. a lot of mismanagement. >> but power was just one snafu. shelter was another. a month after the storm, i found anita sleeping on a bed soaked with rain water, the smell of mold thick in every room. >> what is your biggest frustration today in? what do you need more than anything else? >> blue tarp. >> blue tarps the mayor told me. i need a thousand. it's been raining a lot. operation blue roof was supposed to fill that need. but when cnn investigative reporter john sutter dug into arm corps of engineers' records, h

he does not think that the whitefish contract was a bad idea. he says that in the end, because it was scrapped it cost taxpayers more and power took longer to be restored because of that. the white house, i should point out, this morning put out this list of talking points, saying it has been a historic recovery and the president still stands by that the federal government was successful in this. >> gabe gutierrez. thank you. there's a new documentary gabe's been working on. nightly news presents powerless, puerto rico's struggle after hurricane maria. it's a must watch. it's on amazon fire, it's on apple tv. gabe, thank you so much for all of your work there on puerto rico over the past year, thank you, sir. >>> just about every decision made inside the capitol right now being made with the midterms in mind. our man steve cokornacki, steve going to be at the big board. we're going to talk to him about how the confirmation process of kavanaugh, how it could be shaping strategies for november. . traders -- they're always looking for advantages. t

tonya is a jewish american realtor and wedding planner who was viciously cyber trolled in whitefish, montana. i'm fighting back by bringing a lawsuit against andrew england, the publisher of the daily stormer. we filed suit in montana federal court, claiming invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and harassment and intimidation. i truly believe that what they did to me isn't protected by free speech. they targeted me and that's against the law. nothing would have been more hurtful than giving up. but surviving and fighting back has brought me a sense of peace and justice, as long as i'm alive, i want to fight and make sure that nobody else endures this again. i remember telling my children when trump first -- was first elected president that there would be no trump jokes in our home, that he was our president, whether we voted for him or not, and we needed to be respectful. when asked about president trump in some of the early interviews after the incident, i was respectful and said no comment. what did he have to do with what happened to me? even when he w

like to go out and utilize public lands, we fought for them, got access and we could do things in whitefish to protect the water grid the list goes on and on and on. >> thank you both for additional thoughts on that important topic. we will move forward now and talk about the economy. >> the tax cuts and jobs act cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21%. the u.s. economy is seeing unemployment levels at the lowest in recent memory. wage growth remains a slow for most employees and rising inflation threatens to neutralize the increases. do you feel the tax cuts and jobs act has been good for america? why or why not? the first response comes from sen. tester:. sen. tester: i think simple find the tax code is critically important. i don't think the tax bill that was crafted in the dark of night in the back room does either of those things. i think there is an opportunity to get bipartisan support on a tax bill that simplifies the tax code and makes it more equitable. this tax bill gives most of the benefits to the richest of the rich. the biggest problem is what you said. taxing $1.9

. >> and whitefish, a ali, and you know whose hometown that is? the interior secretary. >> yes. >> and so now, looking at "powerless, puerto rico's struggle to rebuild" after the "nbc nightly news." >>> and now we go to the shooting there in maryland. >> the shooting happened at a 9:00 this morning, and that is when it began in a warehouse that is a distribution center for rite aid drugstores. the local sheriff and the police and the atf and all respond ed. it was a tense morning and some employees inside were texting to loved ones that they were hiding and fear iing to for their live and asking the loved ones to take care of the spouses and pets if they did not make it out. after two hours, the authorities say that they had found the shooter that unusually, it is is a woman, and she had been shot and taken to a local hospital. now, the total number of gunshot victims we think it is around seven, and the initial information that we have is that the number of fatalities is three or four. it is not entirely clear to us which number is which. but, an