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Tonight several developing stories as we come on the air. major new questions about puerto rico and your money. the small montana company that handed the $300 million contract with two employees at the time. we asked the white house can you definitively say the company did not land the contract because if connections or donations to the trump campaign. the snowstorm turning deadly and the other system moving up the east coast. a possible noreaster. our team on the ground tonight in niger. new ...

Employees, but clear political ties to the trump administration. >> and can you say definitively that the fact that the primary, that one of the primary investors in this company was a major donor to the trump campaign had nothing to do with the fact that this contract was awarded? >> right. the federal government, as i said, has nothing to do with this contract or the process. this was something solely determined by the puerto rican government. >> reporter: the company, whitefish energy, is jus...

The house committee that oversees puerto rico. the government power company known as prepa signed the contract with whitefish energy, a two-person, two-year-old company whose largest previous federal contract had been for $1.3 million to upgrade lines in arizona. prepa filed for bankruptcy in july amid the islands ongoing debt crisis. it bypassed a network of utilities and a mutual aid system that is usually activated for storm recovery. the $300 million contract is the biggest yet for puerto ri...

Florida, tonight. jason cook is seen on home surveillance allegedly stealing money, jewelry and prescription drugs from an 85-year-old man who needed help after hurricane irma. his attorney says cook has an addiction to pain medication. authorities are now investigating where he stole from other homes, as well. if you visit national parks, the national park service is now calling for a major price hike. the agency wants to more than double entrance fees at 17 national parks during peak season,...

The company has more than 300 workers in puerto rico. experience in mountainous regions. >> others not willing to take the risk and get an plane to ask for business. >> reporter: bankrupt in july after a long history of maintenance and corruption allegations. recently appointed ceo says whitefish could mobilize the fastest. today slammed the army corps of engineers response so far. army corps insists its working hard to meet the governors goal to restoring power to 95% of the island by mid-decem...

Awarded the largest government contract to rebuild the power grid there but congress has questions as residents continue to struggle. gabe gutierrez with the latest. >> we can do tuna. >> reporter: juan ruiz is struggling to prepare meals for a neighborhood desperate for power. >> we have many cases they told us this is the first food im having today. i dont know what im doing tomorrow. >> reporter: the largest contract awarded to rebuild the power grid is under scrutiny, up to $300 million for ...

No known technology displaying these symptoms. >> never been physiological response that reflects the symptoms reported ever caused by sound waves of any type. >> reporter: we went into the hotel room of one of incidents. vibrations through the window. cubans say they interviewed more than 300 neighbors, conducted medical exams, air and soil samples, studied insects and electromagnetic waves. nothing panned out. >> not even one person was sick. no person in the neighborhood affected? >> none. >>...

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2014 and considered its capital. the four-month battle to retake raqqa has been fierce, and holly williams, one of the few western journalists to report from inside the city, wasnt expecting what she saw today. >> reporter: there has been no tficial declaration of victory, but these u.s.-backed fighters arent waiting for one. isis is finished in raqqa, they told us, after hundreds of isis extremists surrendered over the weekend. theyve had some help from u.s. air strikes, but these syrian militi...