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>> shepard: there's breaking news on fox news channel. the house of representatives has just passed a bill to provide more than $36 billion in disaster said. the emergency funding set to go to areas that have been taken damage in recent hurricanes and wild fires. that includes puerto rico where middles of americans are still facing a humanitarian crisis. the measure heads to the u.s. senate. the feds will stand with puerto rico until the job is done. that's a promise from the white house chief of staff john kelly after the president tweeted this morning we cannot keep fema, the military and th...

>> shepard: it's been three weeks since hurricane maria slammed into puerto rico. 85% of the island is still without power. millions of americans are short on food and water and officials say 45 people are confirmed dead. president trump also tweeted that puerto rico's infrastructure was also a disaster before the storm and the island is dealing with a financial crisis of their own making. phil keating has more. >> remember, the mayor of san juan has pushed back on every positive claim by president trump. i quote "i ask every american that has love and not hate in their hearts to stand with pu...

Whether local officials there on the island are mishandling critical supplies. >> yeah, this just broke about an hour ago. the fbi in puerto rico is receiving phone calls from across the island accusing local mayors of hoarding critical fema relief supplies like pallets of food and bottled water and giving them to their political supporters as special treatment and not distributing fema's pallets for people that need them. one wild accusation involves a local party official driving his personal car around the back side of a government car and loading it up with fema supplies all for himself. s...

Puerto rico. still no power. a third of island lacked clean running water. this morning ben carson took the heat at the house financial services committee. >> puerto rico is a very important part of who we are. >> so you don't agree with the president? he tweeted electric and infrastructure was a disaster before the hurricanes. do you share that opinion? >> i think our job is to make sure that we take care of the disaster that has occurred. >> a few days ago, the trump administration asked congress who quickly approved $5 billion in low interest loans for puerto rico for immediate relief needs...