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Warning signs and danger making sure that people are safe, saving life. but immediately after that, start rebuilding puerto rico stronger than ever. >> governor, i know you spoke to president trump last night. what did you ask him for and what did he offer? >> well or the president has been phenomenal in this situation. hes been both at irma and maria, he offered an emergency declaration. he declared most of the island a disaster area so we can start the rebuilding process quickly. and he just s...

But you have the logistical challenges of the island being much smaller. theres no way to bring things in via bridges or other things. it requires strategic airlift and ships to come in. i think theres going to be a significant rebuilding process that will probably take at least several years for them to get back to some semblance of normalcy. >> several years. thats extraordinary, isnt it? whats your sense of the mood on the island given all that has happened? >> well, one good thing is the com...

A lot of american flags. people happy to be home and proud to start the rebuilding process and proud to be citizens of this country. a long rebuilding process in the keys. if you come back to the keys youll need a lot of things. ice, water, youll need maybe a satellite phone. cell service is spotty as you move south of the middle keys. understand you wont have air conditioning. we saw a couple of small quadrants come on with power last night and we were begging for ours to come on. that didnt ha...

Have priorities. our top priority is to protect human life. and from the state of texas side, we are working with local officials to do everything we can to protect our fellow texans. secondly, we are involved in the rebuildi rebuilding. we will be verying a agrees suffer in the rebuilding process. one of the most important aspects of my conversation with the fema administrator earlier today with us to help people understand that that the rebuilding process will be a long process, but its someth...

That are still around? how serious is the pollution and perhaps toxic pollution from some of these chemical plants? and will it be a continuing health hazard? >> chris, in any type of flood, especially any type of hurricane-based flood, there will be issues about contaminated water.it could involve chemicals, it could involve waste. people need to be very cautious as they go through the rebuilding process.understand that the water has been contaminated separate from that you are talking about ch...

For a total of six counties. as you probably know, i requested a federal disaster declaration that the president granted last night, this is incredibly important and extremely fast. what the presidential proclamation about our disaster declaration does is it immediately triggers the implementation of fema, and femas assistance for individuals in cities and counties for all of us to begin the rebuilding process as quickly as possible. something else i did yesterday is a issued a proclamation wavi...

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And we have now added 20 more counties for a total of 6 counties. as you probably know, i requested a federal disaster declaration that the president granted last night. this is incredibly important and extremely fast. what the presidential proclamation about our disaster declaration does is it immediately triggers the implementation of fema, and femas assistance for individuals as well as cities and counties for all of us to begin the rebuilding process as quickly as possible. something else th...

Situation where we have priorities. our top priority is to protect human life. and from the state of texas side we are working with local officials to do everything we can to protect our fellow texans. second secondly. with are involved in the rebuilding process and thats already begun, and as these storms begin to depart the state of texas, we will be very aggressive in the rebuilding process. one of the most important aspects of my conversation with the fema administrator earlier today was to ...

To hold on for victory saturday and all polls show he is expected to do so, that will mean a four-seat majority for donald trump and its clear that his incoming administration doesnt want to take any chances pushing forward his ambitious agenda. to a certain extent, this fits in with this thank you tour that donald trump is in, going on across the country. this is a state that voted for donald trump in november. its a state that clearly supports him. big crowd is expected here today. a long line...