I really would appreciate any suppor that we get. I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people. And the limited number of deaths that h place in such a devast hurricane. When you are drinking for a creek, its not a good news story. When you dont have food for a baby, its not a good story. When you have to pull people down from buildings, im sorry. That really upsets and frustr me. Damn it, this is not a good news story. This i a people are dying story. Elaine duke is now in san juan, puerto rico. These are cnn exclusive pictures of her briefing on the plane later this hour. She will hold a press conference that we will bring you live when it happens. We hav teams on the ground to bring you the real story in realti it can be summed up in three words. People are suffering. It is getting worse with the lack of medical care and millio without Drinking Water and food is running out. There are shortages of gas and cars are lined up for miles trying get it and one of the most frustrating aspects, thousa of containers filled with supplies are sitting at the port of san juan. I want to begin with boris sanche you have been there several days now. Have you seen any in the distribution of aid . Rep bryanna, incrementally. So far here we are standing in san juan and we have seen the line starting to move steadily, but its a massive line. It is blocks long. We counted more than 100 cars and at about 5 00 a. M. , we had a chance to chat with the guy in the front of the line. He got here at 9 00 p. M. Last night. The gas station ran out of gas and he parked his car and went to sleep waiting until it was finallopen. If you look over here to the right, people are lined up with gas canisters. Some o them with many gas canist try to take it home and power their generators. We see people using all kinds of contai to put gas into, includ paint canisters and old jugs of laundry detergent. They are scraping by. Its not just gas lackin one told me that she spent severa hours in line outside a grocer store. When she finally got inside, she was heartbroken th not an water and the food she was looking for. There a lot of desperation here. I was chatting with a man who asked me where is donald trump . Where is the federal government and the military . They are not feeling the aid here. Make matters worse, there rain in the forecast for puerto rico. The ground is already saturate and some neighborhoods flooding is a serious issue even without a hurricane. In one neighborhoo yesterday, there a channel going through and it floods in a rain storm during hurricane maria. There sewage going into homes. A lot of people are homeless becaus their roofs have been blown off. They are going to have to find shelte there are two to three days of rain ahead for puerto rico. Sta as you keep an eye on things here in san juan. We will keep you close. Acting Homeland Security secret elaine duke responded to the mayors criticism. They said this is not a good news story. Here is what elaine duke said after landing in san juan. The end of my statement about good news is it wa that t puerto rico and many Public Services of the united and the people of puerto were working togeth i beli that is the way we believ in this community togeth trying to recover and suppor each other. I want to discuss this with my next guest. The press secretary for the depart of Homeland Security. Thank so much for being with us, david. Certainly a tough a tough job that you have ahead of you here. I want to hear about your bosss explan she said it was about people workin together. Thats not what she said. She said it was a good news story in terms of the ability to reach people. I understand the frustration of people on the ground that are not necessarily getting the suppli and they need to know that there are tens of thousands of federal Government Employees includ military personnel that are in puerto rico in the water and in the air above them as well. They are working hard. I know we had teams that reached every municipality on the island and we will keep doing that. We certainly understand the frustr but with the acting secretary, we try people are working hard 24 hours a day. There no shortage of concern about the situation there or the pe of puerto rico. They are hard at work and will stay hard at work until we get power turned on and clean water to people so they can move back into t homes and they can go back to school. She to reassure people things are moving in the right direction. You heard boriss from san juan. This i san juan, the major city. You get further away into the mounta and away from the big city, its a different, worse, more desperate situation. He said looking at aid being handed out, it seems increm thats word from the ground. Whats your response to that . Again, this is not something that people that are in desper circumstances like to hear, but given the devastation and the circumstances, its going to take time to make sure that that aid gets distributed as you said. Lots of things in san juan. The capital is open there, but leavin things from the port into the farthest reaches, we need airlifts because of the damage to the roads. Actual the department of agricu has the service team and th saw teams that are there cutting trees and limbs to try to open passage. There are 11 major roadways that have b open. Again, people dont want to that they should know that the govern is doing as much as we can, asquickly as we can. Does the federal govern have grasp of how bad it is on the ground in puerto rico . Accord to puerto ricos emerge website, they say 34 hospit are up and running. We heard from tom boss effort a simila number. I want you to listen to what sanjay gupta said last night. D number i want you to list sanjay gupta said if you give a hospital fuel, are they up and running . If you are running out of fuel and water, helps are buildings that cannot function at all withou power. You cant get Electronic Medical record or give insulin. You need power for everything. If there is not a consistent source its not a hospital that will t new patients. It may meet the criteria, but its not doing the service for the people who need it. Does the federal government have a grasp of which hospitals are up and running and what that means for them . Does that mean they have power or are an hour away from running out of water which would impede a lot of medical care. Heres where the big issues are and where it is very acute with this medical care in this part of puerto rico . It say that we do. Its an incrementa approach and you will have hospitals that yester he had three hours of power. How are you in touch to know . Its having teams on the ground the infrastructure has been damage its difficult to get the communications and we are putting people on the ground physic at those hospitals. With the backbones to be in touch . And i heard that the marines are going out in teams with commun to be able to facili that discussion and gettin word passed. Sanjay is a doctor using that. Especi our viewers. They are handing backbones to people who didnt have communication. You are talking about someone in a hospital. This i a more official role than someone in their neighb and so many thousa of people are dealing with that. A hospital is an acute situat does that give you concern that there are not people there yet at these hospitals providing that essential communications channe and do people know dire it is . I think there are people in the hospitals and not all of them. There of hospitals that are not reopened for variou reasons that are working througthat. We have people on the ground. Again, our priority is life saving Life Sustaining and hospit are a huge part of that. Thats one of the Top Priorities in the Homeland Security. Ver man. Thank to us. President trump is considering whethe to fire him and fire tom price because of the expensive travel he said he was goi thats small fraction of the price. We think its important and they say there will be no private air charte at hhs going forward. A second is to cooperate fully with the inspector general. I called for a rev with the depart itself. To pay for my portion of the trips. This iunprecedented. Never been done by the secretary the president is a remarkable leader and im privileged to serve in his cabinet and work on behalf of the American People and i look forward to regaping the trust that the American People may have lost in the activi that i took. To not only gain the trust of the American People, but the admini and the presid we have david gregory. And media and business reporter. This i a question, david. Is this something that will give tom price. He lower thresholds to fire people. He may look and see how much there and decide thats not enough did tom price understand the proble here . Is he getting it . I dont think is. I have to agree with you. He is paying a fraction of the cost. 400,0 and he is paying someth and i will pay you 2. Thats what it is. When you pay that back, this has been a through line from this whole thing. Its a story that has been dragging on for 10 we follow all the regulations and he had to meet with the americ people. And they get a sense of how caller are reacting and calling him a swamp rat and saying they have to take it this is supposed to be this messenger and at a time when he is giving it away to the rich. How bad does this look for the admini care a lot about object and searches for tom price peaked in the last few days after this and people are rememb about him right now. These flights. Thats not what you want in the drain the swamp administration to have people think about taking private jet they thinking of him health ca shot. Its not working right now. Thinking about him for health care, gloria borge reporting that if price is fired while there concern about finding the replacement, its a two for. He did this thing with the planes but also the Obamacare Repeal is not going so well. Him out of h. He hasnt gotten much of the blame on that. It is mainly congress with the presid hammering on leader you would have people lining up to replace somebody like this. You can draw from republican govern democratic govern the admini the problem with this admini is you may not be able to find somebody who could replac him. It might give them turning the page on health care and its not going to make it easier. We will see what they end up doing. Its friday and we will get the news. There is these 13 trips on the private charter planes. Many defy thought here, but price travelled on the intern trips. Exactly. The government planes, thats not as bad as a charter jet and you ca keep in mind she is a physic a lot of the staff didnt fly with him on that plane. They flew commercial. When ivanka trump now to german she flew commercial. She is arguably more high profil and flew commercial and he took a flight costing 500,0 thats huge amount of money. All americans. Thats five times the annual income according t econom adviser. Actual more. For nancy pelosi from flying in a private jet. To the news point, somebody who is a member of the house who had expertise is not successful in the area of health care. Thank you so much for that. Just ahead, cnns dr. Sanjay gupta a suffer woman to the hospital becaus red tape is keeping her and others away. Cnn unfolds on what americans think of the anthem protest and attack nfl players and an emotio speech on race after severa africanamerican cadets are targeted with racial slurs at the airport acts prep school a lieutenant stern if you cant treat someone with dignity and respect, yo need t get out. If youre 50 or over, what comes to mind when you think about healthcare . Understanding your options . Or, if youre getting the care you need . At aarpadvantages. Com, you can find helpful information about healthcare options. Leaving you more time to think about more important things. Like not having to think about healthcare at all. Surround yourself with healthy advantages at aarpadvantages. Com health. Hey youve gotta see this. Cno. N. Alright, see you down there. Mmm, fine. Okay, what do we got . Okay, watch this. Do the thing we talked about. What do we say . Its going to be great. Watch. Remember what we were just saying . Go irish see that . Yes im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. This hour revealing how americ really feel about protes during the National Anthem the new polling comes a day after a game between the Green Bay Packers and chicago bears. At the start both teams walked on to the field and locked arms during the anthem. They asked fans to join them, but take a look at the people in the crowd. One man held up a sign saying protes on your own time and not on my dime. Anothe said we stand. I want to bring in david. How divided is the country on this issue . The country is pretty divide take a look at this poll number cnn poll conducted and we asked americ are the athletes that are kneeling during the anthem doing the right or the wrong thing. 49 say they are doing the wrong thing and 43 of americans say they are doing the right thing. Divide leaning a bit toward Donald Trumps position. We wil goet to him in a minute. Its d and age. 59 of whites say that the athlet are wrong for protes during the National Anthem 12 of blacks say they are wrong and 34 of hispanics. Thats the racial components. Lets look at age. A big divide. People under 45 and over 45 see this. Under 4537 say the athletes are wrong for protesting. Over 45 years old, 59 say they are wrong for protesting during the National Anthem. Now as i said, donald trump called on the nfl to put a rule in place. We asked americans should profes sports demand or requir that athletes stand for the National Anthem . 49 said yes and 47 say no. Again, complete divide. Where there is more consensus on this issue is the country saying donald shouldnt be involv take a look at this. Did donald trump do the right or the wrong thing with criticizing the players who were kneeling . Only 34 said he is doing the right thing and 60 of americans say he is doing the wrong thing. You rarely get that consensus on anythi these days, but clearly a healthy majority think he is doing wrong thing. We want to look at how it breaks down by race. 51 of whites say trump was wrong to criticize athletes for kneeli across every racial group, its a majority. 97 of blacks said donald trump was wrong and 72 of hispanics and if you look at the partisanship, that is involved here too. You will see that 86 of democr say donald trump was wrong and 61 of independents. The great middle of the country that donald trump is looking to court. And yes, also, nearly a quarter of republicans and his base say he was wrong to criticize the athlet for kneeling. Thank you very much for explai all of that. A lot of interesting numbers. I want to bring in the panel to talk about it. Sports analyst and columnist for usa t Christine Brennan and former nfl player and presid of the players associ Dominique Fox worth back with us as well. That really stands out to me, that 97 of africanamericans say they are saying this is wrong for donald trump. He said its not about race. The effect of the perception of it among black americans is that it very much is. Absolutely. Thats something we have been talkin about all week. What really struck me was that 6 in 10 americans are saying he made a mistake. I have to believe that is a real shock to one person in partic donaldtrump. When you see the fans out there who are either saying usa or whatev and linking arms as they did and you kind of think that must be the mood of the countr but its basically a balanc act on this. I think its interesting too. It really goes to what the nfl has done over the last week. Thats to say embrace the player we have never seen this unity betwee the union and the owners i think this will prove that the nfl is doing the right thing when you look at the future. The younger people. The season Ticket Holders in the next 20, 30, 40 years. That was an interesting dividi line. What do you think about this . Also the president even though you have 6 out of 10 people saying that the president should weighing in on this, he has a lot of support. Is he in nfl players with this . I hope not. That polling is disappointing, but more disappointing was the signs. The signs that say and people who say he should separate race and politics from sports, that is a form of pernicious suprem in and of itself. Black people like me, i dont have a choice to forget about. When they asked me to come on the show, they asked me how to spell my last name. I got it from my father and he got it from his father. There not a time im not remind of racism and not remind of this countrys histor people get angry that we want to interj reality and the consci on occasion. You cant take five minutes to acknow the injustices that contin to go on because it makes you uncomfortable because you paid your dime . Its disrespectf and a bit of unfair that people experi and dont even recogn there are so many diffe thread here. We know that a lot of americans, the majority of americans dont like this form of protest. We have a debate about that and even if you have been watching the vietnam war documentary, even w turned agains the war, a majority did not agree with the tactic of the protesers because there was a sense of rallying around the flag. Donald trump has done siz the president is cast the nfl player most of whom are africanamerican, as not being entitl to make this protest as if they are out of control and many of them, not all of them, powerf successful, people who have a platform and are going to use that platform. Thats their expression. He is saying no, you shouldnt be able to do that. A lot of the players are saying maybe we will not kneel, but lock arms to defy the president and say we respect the disagreement about during the anthem which is tough for a president s. I can just word you are hanging on here. I dont thi that we can have a discussion on whether its okay or not. Thats not a thing we can have a discus on that. I hate to disagree, but thats part of the problem. We are willing to have a conver on whether what they are doing is okay or not. Players should be stand. We are venturing into hypocrisy. Its the right to protest. We can go through our nations histor as far back as when slaver was around. Not black people because we were not allowed, but we became a countr from the root of protes anyone thinks that protes is unamerican or disres to the flag and the athletes have to live up t