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Bringing in supplies. some celebrities have pledged. but puerto rico's economy was in trouble before this storm. it is crippled by $74 billion in debt. just filed for the largest eunice pal bankruptcy in history. puerto rico may have to renegotiate with its debtors. who owns its debt? wall street pros through hedge funds. this is going to take an awful lot of really important financial leadership to figure out quickly a rescue for this -- for puerto rico. a lot of people have pointed out that the president is the king of debt. he knows a thing or two about trying to get out from under bankrupt...

Towers crushed this home. thankfully the man who lives here evacuated before the storm. only about 50 people in the town of 28,000 evacuated. most rode it out. search and rescue teams aren't able to check on every because the roads are impassable. this will take months. this scene is being replayed across puerto rico and the need is so desperate. if this is any indication, puerto rico may rise again, but they are going to need a ton of help and a lot of time. >> a huge burden on puerto rico's economic damage a $85,000,000,085% of th $85,000,000,085% -- is puerto rico alone. it's ill equipped t...

Family, your day of reckoning is comin coming. >> at the same time, bannon did not criticize the president or try to explain why the president is supporting strange. instead, seeming to try to want to comfort the pro-trump crowd saying a vote for roy moore is a vote for donald j. trump. this is a complex race with huge implications. chris? >> thank you very much, alex. appreciate it. time for cnn money. hurricane maria, leaving behind billions in damage. that's a huge burden on puerto rico's economy. chief business correspondent christine romans in our money center to tell us why. >> damage ...

By the time it came through, some of the trees snapped and they lost all their leaves from irma. and it's against a backdrop of an economy that is simply reeling. $74 billion in debt. has not made a payment on that in a year and struggling to reorganize. detroit, $18 billion. that's another big bankruptcy. 446,000 people, americans in puerto rico left the mainland in the last decade or so and it's job related. this is really a tough situation here. you have three or four months without power. that would be critical for the rebuilding period. fema, congress and private insurers will bear the br...

A remarkable amount of waters as much as 10 to 15 inches of rainfall. i would not be surprised if the vast majority of the storm would be in the eye of this storm. >> thank you. >> the financial aspect of this storm, for heavily indebted puerto rico. hurricane irma already racked up a billion dollars in damage there but irma skirted the island. maria will make a direct hit. it is ill equipped to deal with the financial cost of rebuilding. it owes creditors $74 billion. that's more than four times the cost of detroit's bankruptcy. high unemployment drove many