a little more than three months ago, there was hurricane maria. you ll remember devastated the eyel island of puerto rico and still a lot of the island is struggling to rebuild. you ll remember the estimates after the storm that it would take until christmas for power to be restored to the entire islands. tens of thousands of people still have no electricity, no running water. cnn correspondent lall santiago is in puerto rico. the conditions are so dire. how are puerto ricans trying to celebrate christmas? reporter: listen. victor, rene, decorations are up and people are trying to be creative in finding ways to celebrate this holiday, but everyone can agree this is not a normal christmas. here in san juan, the mayor told me last night that about 70% of the people have power, but when we went into the interior of the
command office and that you should go by there to kind of get clued into what is really going on. well, yesterday, after my press conference, all of a sudden, things started coming in from fema. and when they give me my money, i can show you the text. i got a text saying that more supplies were coming. and all i want is more supplies. you know? reporter: you feel speaking out has actually pushed fema to bring more a lot of people, a lot of mayors are scared of speaking out because they think if they speak out, whatever help they haven t been getting will not get to them. cnn political commentator is with us. louis errol and julian zeleny are with us. we have katherine cortez masto
danger there with a dam risk of failure and hospitals closed and so on. i m not sure he wants to. but assuming he wanted to, one thing i would do and i ve wherein this on cnn.com every day he should say that residents of puerto rico are american citizens. a poll that most americans don t know that and to the extent people don t know it, they are wondering what the point of all of this activity is in the first place. so i think he should go out of his way to do that. then beyond that, look. there are some logistical bottlenecks there and all of the reporting needs to suggest on top of everything else, the lack of communication is making so much more intense and makes it harder to figure out when where the aid should go and when it should happen. if they can get some kind of communication system up, generators and cell towers, the president can make that happen, that would be a great thing. they could make it more fluid
applebee s two for twenty. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. welcome back, i m brooke baldwin. you re watching cnn. president trump s own cabinet members are putting his drain the swamp brand truly to the test. through three, three of his secretaries and epa administrator are under investigation for taking private flights. the worst, health and human services secretary tom price. a source telling cnn that the president is steaming over secretary price for his stupid use of private jets. price reportedly spent more than
previous administrations have had secretaries that flew an awful lot. let s talk to cnn s senior economic adviser, steven moore, who also advised the trump campaign and cnn global economic analyst rana feruhar, business associate and editor for the financial times. welcome to you. and steven moore, i mean, just honing in on secretary price, you know, he says he will, his word, absolutely stay on as health secretary. should he be fired for this? no, he shouldn t be fired for this, but he may not last. why shouldn t he be? well, look, this was poor judgment, but i think some of these criticisms are unfair. by the way, i m not justifying this. i hate these washington, you know, insiders being treated with royal treatment. it smells bad to the american people. and it contradicts donald trump s message of draining the swamp. my only point would be that i ve