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First responders, repairers and managers of the municipal government functions. so what we're doing is trying to restore baseline municipal government functions because they have been affected. their homes are destroyed and families put in peril. that's the capacity problem i'm addressing. when you talk about money, the island authority in general, puerto rico was $72 billion in death. there's a restructuring underway. the congress weighed in. that $72 billion is being handled through bankruptcy proceedings. >> how is that impacting it? the president brought it up. >> i think the president -- ...

Alluded to, we're willing to negotiate with according if there's a better idea. it's important to understand that fema just got a $7.1 billion appropriation on october 1. we're going to ask for that in the form of an emergency supplemental to provide money into the funds that does this life-sustaining effort and even early recovery efforts. whether we have to address or should address at that point the existing $72 billion of debt and how it's been restructured is something that i'll have to take my lead from deeconomists on and the budget hawks. i think the best idea for us would be to focus ...

Anticipating? starting to -- compile that? >> as my league alluded to, willing to negotiate with congress if there's a better fiscal idea. from an emergency management perspective, the next coming weeks, fema got a $7.1 billion appropriation released october 1st and what will happen now, go back for more, ask for that in the form of an emergency supplemental to provide money into fund that does this lifesaving, life sustaining effort and even early recovery efforts. whether we have to address or should address at that point their existing $72 billion worth of debt and how it's restructured is ...

People being victims that would otherwise be the first responders, repairers and managers of the municipal government functions. we're trying to restore baseline municipal government functions because they've been affected. their homes destroyed, families put in peril. that's the capacity problem that i'm addressing. when you talk about money, i believe that the island authority in general was 72 -- puerto rico $72 billion in debt pap restructuring effort under way. congress weighed in with a pra misa act and that is being restructured handled through bankruptcy proceedings and so forth. >> ho...

As it moves north. it is expected to leave expensive extremely trail of destruction the largest state economy, the fact that it comes right on the heels of the devastation of hurricane irma, makes the economic outlook a lot worse. one-two punch, two big hurricanes back to back. >> that makes this hurricane season likely the 2017 hurricane season likely the most expensive in history, if not almost on top of the list. the top of the estimates for irma are $172 billion, how does that compare with katrina, for example? that would be worse than katr a katrina. we just don't know the sprawling scope...