enforcement and everybody did working along with the governor in puerto rico, with i think, was tremendous. i think that puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. >> an unsung success. again, nearly 3,000 people died and the vast majority of those were people who died in the weeks and the months after the storm hit, dying because of a lack of access to medicine, electricity, attention, and care. until recently, the government refused to acknowledge that the death toll was far greater than the official death toll of some 64 people. and in the days immediately after the storm, the president downplayed the scope of what had happened, saying it wasn't a real catastrophe, like katrina. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico. and that's fine. we've saved a lot of lives. if you look at the -- every death is a horror. but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous