all. then saturday afternoon, they set out for rocky mountain national park to go on a hiking trail harold had scouted out a few months earlier. but just about 24 hours in, the perfect weekend turned tragic. 911, what s the address of your emergency? hello, my name is harold henthorn, and i m in the rocky mountain national park. okay. i need an alpine mountain rescue team immediately. reporter: it was just before 6:00 and harold needed help urgently. my wife has fallen from a rock on the north summit of deer mountain. on the deer mountain trail. and she s in really critical condition. reporter: harold told the 911 operator that toni had fallen from the edge of a cliff. we need to be sure that you know my location first. i have really bad cell coverage. okay. okay. i m on deer mountain. reporter: immediately, the park launched a ranger who was also a trained emt, but the only way to get there from the trail
are you there, mike? all right, we lost, mike, we ll see if we can get him back. there you are. i m back. we ve got cell coverage going in and out. it reminds me of hurricane harvey last year, it was a lot stronger obviously, but once it came ashore it came apart and athat s what s going to happen the this storm, unfortunately. i think this is topsail beach you took this video. explain to me this, mike. it got a little hairy and we got forced out. police didn t want us there because it was going to get too dangerous, and they were right. we were pushing the envelope there, but high tide we had storm surge coming over the
call to you? he called me and i didn t pick up my phone so he actually dictated it into my voice mail. he is currently on vacation away from cell coverage away from wi-fi coverage, he felt strongly that he had something to say. i ve known him for a very long time, since fifth grade as it happens. he is not a partisan, he is a patriot. he is someone who in fact has i think sought out to the clinton years but he was also sought out by the trump administration during the transition. he had any number of opportunities in his life to be political but he decided here that he felt he had to speak ou out. bret: morgan, your thoughts. it comes to if he could take his security clearance clearly the president has the authority to do it and there s a lot of people upset by it. as someone who was formerly in
services and longer plan. so you mentioned the communication numbers, that s probably closer to 64% of the island with cell coverage. not a great number. it can get better. but the carriers are surging cap bills like cell on wheels and trucks, in fact over the weekend you may have seen google is using technology to increase that. that s a way to increase some services that will help the puerto ricans get back up and running. longer term, 300 cell towers off line. so you have to rebuild. so, again, short term plan, interim measures, and long-term plan. and in the meantime we are making pros rest, seeing pros rest, progress on the power side. but we can do more hand push more resources down into the island. so sounds to me you have your hands on this. but again go back to the president who has been painting more of a rosy picture and the
that 20% of the residents in st. thomas and st. john have power. 8% of residents in st. croix have power. 31% of cell coverage is operating territory wide. there s a boil water advisory in effect. there was a piece in the new york times that talked about the fact that the virgin islands are ignored by politicians. they re not really on the radar. when she would try to get members of congress to take note of issues in the virgin islands, she would be met with incredulity, they d say, we re here to focus on the united states, and i d say, they are in the united states. your thoughts? that s my main drive with washington, talking with members. just even this week, a piece of legislation came up in the energy and commerce committee about re-authorizing the child health insurance program, everybody in the united states was talking about it in its support. there was language in there for