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It was drafted by burch. if the vice president and majority of the cabinet decides the president is incapable of executing the powers and duties of his office, they write a letter, send it to congress and the vice president can become the acting president. the president then can appeal that, take power back, and then theres what i think of as the great, mysterious four days. the first group has -- the vice president and cabinet has four days to decide if they really want to press the case. if th...

For the families in the mountains, the sunsets on another night as they wait for their gift to arrive. >> we should note the two children you saw at the end of the story, they actually have not had power since before hurricane irma. not just maria. they are now 116 days without power. i also want to touch note of the number. 55% of people who have power can get power. they are not taking into account and their homes have been destroyed. >> its heartening to see people celebrate when they get the...

When can they expect the lights to turn back on? >> right. and the fact is, we really dont know exactly how many people have power. the government is putting out power generation numbers, but that doesnt reflect how many clients, how many people actually have power. when you talk to the u.s. army corps of engineers, they tell us most people should have power back by generator or another form by march, but for some of the outer lying areas, rural, hard to reach, remote, interior areas it could be...

For an extension of the hotel vouchers past the january 13th deadline. but we can do better. and we need the state legislature to make sure that valuable housing trust funds go through as well as our bill to expand section 8 houses that im working on with senator nelson and congress woman murphy. >> representative, folks are saying im not going to have full power until february. >> it is outrageous. but the thing that the american people understand, it is still bad in puerto rico. we saw the whi...

What needs to change? do you see a world in which it can change in. >> yeah, i do. again, i think what were seeing right now is that women are finding a voice and they are finding a voice because they actually they speak up. theyre seeing the monuments come down. theyre seeing big men sort of fall. prior to this, what recourse did they have? go to the hr department and make a complaint ? they couldnt find an attorney to create a lawsuit. what theyre doing is finding out they can take their power...

Water right now dont have water because theres no power. so, people are drinking still off creeks. we have had a blessing in san juan. we have the support of operation blessing, a nongovernmental organization out of virginia that has been putting generation, and the generosity of americans that continue to send their love, their affection, and moved over there. the afl-cio took 2100 union workers from different unions in the united states, doctors, medics, people that went to puerto rico out of ...

How this was going to be. power has not been restored to everyone who lost it. >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to give you an update. not only has power not been restored, but it is intermitt t intermittent. this is really a blow to the economy. its really a blow to our medical system because we have to have hospitals operating on generators. and of course generators are not made to go seven to eight weeks of running on a continuous basis. so it is very difficult. yesterday we went to...

They took forever to pay you, right? no, i got paid right away, but... at the very end of it all, my agent... wouldnt even call you back, right? no, she called to see if i was happy. but if i wasnt happy with my claim experience for any reason, theyd give me my money back, no questions asked. can you believe that? no. the claim satisfaction guarantee, only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it. >> shepard: its always florida, isnt it? a woman said she was out for a drive when she saw ...

Building for trick or treating, hes invited them to come into the oval, so if you would like to have your kids participate, please meet us here and well walk them over shortly. and then give them back to you so that you can sugar them up and take them home to your house to run wild. thanks so much. and have a good friday. >> there she goes. i thought i saw kids. so all right the headlines. pa lot of questions about whitefish this company out of montana which happens to be the very same town in w...

The excited scram from a single bag of ice is that power are still luxuries over a month after maria. which puts pressure on the men paid to electroif i puerto rico. 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 $300 million contract without any input from the army corps of engineers. you know the headline down here for a couple days was how the hell did you get this contract? youre a bran...