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Every person does the best they can. >> what kind of help are you getting from the outside? have you seen fema? >> weve seen fema. we see the group that came from connecticut. they purify the water. >> are these the veterans? >> yes, thats right. >> we met them at the airport? >> they are beautiful people. >> thanks to juny and his mini monster truck, we get past yet another mud slide and track down one of femas top men on this island. >> couldnt you use national guardsmen in two-week rotations ...

Do you feel taken care of as citizens? >> were not people that say the government must help us, santiago says. of the were all part of humanity. every person does the best they can. >> what kind of help are you getting from the outside in have you seen fema? >> weve seen fema. seen the group that came from connecticut and they purify the water. >> and these are the veterans? >> yeah. >> we met them at the airport. >> yeah. they were beautiful people. >> thanks to him and his mini monster truck w...

Veterans. >> yes. they were beautiful people. >> thanks to he and his mini monster truck we get past another mud slide. >> couldnt you used national guardsmen in two week rotations to come in? are you begging your bosses force more men. >> no im not. >> why not. >> because we have them coming in. >> two weeks after the haiti quake, u.s. had 22,000 troops on the ground in a foreign country. >> i dont know how much more we can bring without affecting the puerto rico. if we keep on flooding the pla...

With little hope for road crews, the neighbors are building their own bridge. >> do you feel like americans in moments like this? do you feel taken care of as citizens? [ speaking foreign language ] were not people that say the government must help us. santiago says, were all part of humanity. every person does the best they can. >> reporter: what kind of help are you getting from the outside? have you seen fema? >> weve seen fema. we see the group that came from connecticut. they purify the wat...

? >> yes, thats right. >> we met them at the airport? >> they are beautiful people. >> thanks to juneny and his monster truck, we get past yet another mud slide and track down one of femas top men on this island. >> couldnt you use national guard in two-week rotations? are you begging for more men? >> no im not because we have more than 4,500 national guard coming in. >> in the haiti quake, the u.s. had 22,000 on the ground in a foreign company? >> i dont know how much we can bring without impac...

And supplies up to the area and its impassableme. much of is collapsed. lot of it was mud slide. thats mud slide. theres one here. all the foliage ripped off the trees. >> thats nbcs gadi schwartz in puerto rico earlier today. rural community. as gadi was saying, its been largely cut off from the outside world since the storm hit a week ago. residents with zero power and zero running water all week long. walking miles for gasoline to power generators. had zero assistance until today, very first ...

Was blown off the hillside. theres a roof over here in this ravine. its down there. when this area was hit by hurricane, there was tremendous amount of flooding. theres a road right over there. its critical for getting gas and supplies up to the area and its impassable. much of is collapsed. lot of it was mud slide. thats mud slide. theres one here. all the foliage ripped off the trees. >> thats nbcs gadi schwartz in puerto rico earlier today. this is tape were now getting in from this rural com...

Going there. people here are already lacking the basics. what are people afraid of? its the flooding and mud slide that is come afterwards. le youre already perched on the side of a ill h. and all of a sudden this storm comes barrelling through, you think the worst is over. the wind has died down. the guess what? you have a wall of water and mud just rushing down the side of the hill. these are the kinds of things that are very terrifying to people. they have seen it before just last year hurric...

Protests over what we saw in charlottesville, virginia and over monuments. obviously well be continuing to cover these stories. >> its going to depot on. and just hopefully somehow we can stay peaceful through it. >> still ahead here on "newsroom," spanish authorities have a daunting investigation ahead of them as they work to find the links among three terror incidents and bring those people responsible to justice. also, sierra leone, tragedy continues there. a mud slide killed hundreds of pe...

Islamist ideaelg. we already know it is a factor. >> reporter: and we appreciate your thoughts this morning out of london. we are in barcelona. coming up sierra leone still reeling from this weeks mud slide. hundreds killed, hundreds more missing. and now a potential crisis for the health of those who survived and others. whoo! testis this thing on?! huh? cmon! your turn! mmmm... where do pencils go on vacation? (loud speaker) pencil-vania! pencilvania! (laughing) frosted just right. crunch in e...