and go without. hurricane maria, a category four first made land fall six months ago today. while many places in puerto rico have returned to something approaching normal and have power and water now restored. there are still towns without power and water. it certainly does not help if the army core of engineers decided to scale back its resources devoted to puerto rico. it is clear that recovery efforts from this past means season of hurricanes have been faster in the lower 48 than they have been in puerto rico. a number of americans with money to spend who have the ability and means to vacation some where warm this time this year, have chosen to visit puerto rico and make no mistakes. puerto rico counts on that and will only get better at with time. it could be so much better with a little more help from the government here on the mainland.
there are still towns without power and water. it certainly does not help if the army core of engineers decided to scale back its resources devoted to puerto rico. it is clear that recovery efforts from this past means season of hurricanes have been faster in the lower 48 than they have been in puerto rico. a number of americans with money to spend who have the ability and means to vacation some where warm this time this year, have chosen to visit puerto rico and make no mistakes. puerto rico counts on that and will only get better at with time. it could be so much better with a little more help from the government here on the mainland. that s our broadcast on a tuesday ooerevening. thank you very much for being with us, good night from headquarters here in new york.
continue to cut regulations. we have a tremendous way to go. we re probably 40% of the way there. statutory requirements make it where you have to give a 90 day notice, you have to give a 30 day notice, then you have to give a six month notice. time goes by. but still in 12 months, at the end of the 11th month, we cut far more regulations than any administration in the history of our country. whether it s four years, eight years or one case 16 years. we re going to cut a lot more. we really have a lot more to go. we re working with general mattis very much army core of engineers. they ve been not so fast. they re slowing up some jobs. we ll get that taken care of. we ve been working on that. the army corps, epa gets it
still it has been nearly weeks since hurricane maria plowed into puerto rico and 70% has no electricity. martin savage is in san juan. how does it impact the ability to get the lights back on? the experts say it s hard for anyone to believe that the action that the governor is taking today that it s going to speed up the process in any way. by immediately bringing an end to the contract with the company that had been so far thea largest supplier of both equipment to do this job. by ending it, you have a big hole here you have to fill. that will be the great task for puerto rico. they have brought them. the trucks over here and the personnel over here. they had begun the job. what s interesting is no one at the power authority from puerto rico nor with the army core of
spinal column of the power system. maria devastated it, crushed it. how do you fix it? you get guys like troy and nick, guys who aren t afraid of heights, and you send them up to heal the lines. they are journeymen linemen contracted by white fish energy, a small, two year-old company out of montana. raised a lot of eyebrows when they were given a contract without any input from the army core of engineers. you know the headlines down here was, how the hell did you get this contract? you re a brand new company, right? we ve been around for a few years. we specialize in difficult and mountainous terrain projects. all s i can say is we took the call and we re here. they called you? we called each other. he struck a deal with prepa, the publicly owned utility notorious for high prices,