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We saw some additional aircraft arrive on the island this week. navys hospital ship is right off san juan. the situation on the ground is still pretty bad. as of yesterday, only 5% of residents on the island have power. 12% of the island had cell coverage. defense department is working. bringing in mobile cell towers to improve that. helping to distribute fuel and food and water with other fema representati representatives. its still a long road until its back to normal. >> live for us in washin...

Took. she got in a blackhawk, and she was looking down upon puerto rico, and we got a sense from the sky -- i dont know if we can pull that video up again -- of her trip. but it did not look good, she said, from many stops. she went to a couple of islands that are off the main island, but also said theyre getting some help now. and just to read some of the shipments hitting the ground right now, millions of meals, millions of bottles of water. do you think maybe now, as we lead up to the tuesd...

And i think they are breaking the log jam, truck drivers are showing up. lets face it, the truck drivers couldnt communicate with the emergency centers because the cell towers were down. very little cell coverage on the island except for near san juan and the center of the island. paul: if you compare to texas, a lot is essential poverty of the island, the island is much more vulnerable, electrical grid is more vulnerable and cell towers werent as reinforced as they were on the mainland. >> yeah...

For chile were able to have some cell coverage and be able to communicate amongst ourselves. our larger concerns remains with st. thomas and st. johns along the northern coast of puerto rico. geography down here, there is the varied systems that are used to move a lot of the preparation around in one of our focus areas is ensuring that we can get that operation to move first responder personnel between all the islands to support the population. >> heather: i have some friends down there and st. ...

Not a big profit margin? so youve got to do what we did back in the day in this country and help to electrify. utilities are going into places where theres a market but youll have to provide some type of subsidy, some sort of floor to get everywhere. you cannot get a cell coverage for miles. and so you dont -- and even in towns, you know, the president was just in harrisburg. i was in harrisburg during the campaign and i met with a bunch of people and one of the things they said was there are a ...

Margin? so youve got to do what we did back in the day in this country and help to electrify. utilities are going into places where theres a market and youre going to have to provide some sort of subsidy or floor to get everywhere. if you drive around in some of the places that beat the heck out of me, you cannot get a cell coverage for miles and so you dont -- and even in towns, you know, the president was just in harrisburg. i was in harrisburg during the campaign and after it was over i met w...

Floor. you cannot get a cell coverage for miles and even in towns, you harrisburg.resident was just in i was in harrisburg during the campaign and after it was over i meant with a bunch of people and one of the things that they said was that there are a lot of places in central pennsylvania where we dont have access to high-speed affordable internet. we have dial-up. and we dont have kids in a lot of places who have the technical capacity to do the homework assignments that they are given. were ...

Some sort of floor to get everywhere. if you drive around in some of the places that beat the heck out of me, you cannot get a cell coverage for miles. and so you dont -- and even in towns. you know, the president was just in harrisburg. i was in harrisburg during the campaign. and after it was over i in et with a bunch of people. one of the things that they said was, there are a lot of places right here in central pennsylvania where we dont have access to high-speed affordable internet. we have...

Very little cell coverage i can tell you. the actual community college is a satellite campus. theres a bigger campus an hour or two away. this is the smaller part of the small community college. that point is, shes trying to say, this is not about me. this is about you. just like the announcement video on sunday. that shes reaching out to the middle class. shes getting -- going to have a round table with young voters and educators as well. its a soft launch if you will. i think one of the questi...

>> he needs to realize that there are people in congress that dont have his best interests at heart and he needs to fight back harder than he has been. >> sorry, president, but go home. >> thats your home! are you too good for your home? >> youve got more important things to do than be here. >> whats the best part about obama visiting the vineyard? >> the opportunity for him to get some r & r. >> and he works hard and deserves a break. >> what kind of job do you think hes got? 24 hours a day. wh...