financial crisis. so there is a very deep relationship with washington and the frustration they feel, treated as a colonial entity. not as an independent entity. they want to be -- some want to be a state, some independent. this doesn't change things, but governor rossello doesn't want to leave. >> nick payton walsh, appreciate it. when we look at the conditions in puerto rico, for so many people, they may have first really woken up to what was happening there in the devastation left behind by hurricane maria. that was only in 2017. government officials, though, for some time have been accused of corruption. and misusing federal disaster aid. francis santiago is a journalist who lost her aunt, died in puerto rico in the days immediately following hurricane maria. she joins us now. part of what you're looking at, too, what's happened in the aftermath of hurricane maria. and a lot of what has happened is also bringing people out into the streets right now.