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We suffer. let's get a check on weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, we're talking about a warm november. even weather down in texas where the 2017 world series champion houston astros having their parade. it's going to be in the 80s for them. >> yes and today is going to be in the 90s. you think texas and 90s in november. it hasn't happened in the dallas area. the weather record in dallas goes back to 1898. pretty impressive that today we're going to hit 92 degrees. first time ever in about 120 years that we've been keeping records that it's ever been in the 90s in november...

You said the president's approach was bigoted. what do you mean? >> i think there is tones here, you talk of people of color, this idea we are an other. when you hear of republicans speak about puerto rico, you would think their foreigners and we don't have the relationship we've had with the united states, a congress mon woman at a hearing said in 1898 puerto rico was invaded by the united states that invasion has responsibilities. 1917, we got u.s. citizenship, we have 100 years, we served with distinction, disproportionately in every major conflict. we shed blood for this country and we pay...

Senator mccain is a strong advocate for that as well as many others. we've been talking about getting rid of the jones act. we have country that to provide aid to us but we can't accept shows ships and provide supplies. >> what happens if fema and u.s. military pull out of puerto rico? >> i can't imagine. it's catastrophic. we're seeing people dying right now as it is. again, people are doing incredible work on the ground. but there's a moral responsibility and obligation. we've had u.s. citizenship for 100 years. puerto rico in 1898 was invaded by the united states. when congressman velasquez...

Said, oh, trump came into the richest town in puerto rico and threw toilet paper at people's heads, he's trying to humiliate us. in general it's viewed as an extension of the same racist, colonialist, stereotypical thinking that america has had for puerto rico since it colonized it in 1898. >> do you think -- do folks have hope that things are going to change in the short-term? or this sense that this -- adjustments we've made to eke out survival, which is food, water, electricity, diesel, that that is going to be the status quo for a while? >> some people have accepted that that will be the s...

That critical. but even he said all we want is the same. these same tweets, same support. you're telling texas and florida, we are never, ever going to leave you. there are still people in louisiana from katrina in 2005, in fact -- >> after sandy here in new york city. >> people in from the "wall street journal" a spokesman said thursday that the agency has personal at work in louisiana supporting efforts dating back to hurricane katrina in five and supporting new york and new jersey's recovery of superstorm sandy of 2012. people who are not critical of fema and the president in puerto rico ar...