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island to darkness. the failure of the power adds to frustration to residents. joining us now from san juan, puerto rico. lunes, what's the latest on the effort there to restore power? >> reporter: that's right, jose, almost half a million puerto ricans are without power today. the spokesperson for luma energy, the company that's in charge of distributing power in puerto rico says that around 43% of their customers have had their power reestablished, reconnected and that's about 660,000 households. that leaves half the population of puerto rico without service for over 24 hours. they tell me it is the largest outage since hurricane maria and decimated the energy system here