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Impending crisis: foreclosures. >> two trump administration officials are visiting puerto rico today to assess the recovery, ben carson and homeland security kristen nielsen. they were under pressure and ordered a recount of deaths because of the hurricane. the official figure stands at 64 deaths, but media reports say the actual death toll could top a thousand. joining us now, reporter andrew scuria who has reported extensively on puerto rico. i thank you for that. it's easy to forget these stories when the camera leaves, and we cannot. >> he reported before because puerto rico had fiscal pro...

$200 million contract. they're looking at other companies. they're looking at mutual aid now from several states like new york and florida. also, the governor here in puerto rico, ricardo rissollo, blasting the army corps of engineers. escalating his criticism, saying there are only seven big grades here from the army corps here in puerto rico. he blames a lack of urgency. he is basically saying that they have not kept their promise. he said that they didn't -- puerto rico didn't necessarily feel the need to get mutual aid programs weeks ago because it was promised by the army corps that would...

Journal" andrew scuria. let's start there. 40 days ago, the governor of puerto rico could have gone with a mutual aid protocol and we could have seen florida power and light, states like new york, but they didn't. the argument at the time was they didn't have the money and they didn't have the phone communications so they could reach out. we know that's not true. we know according to official documents prep had 500 million bucks. so they would have had the $300 million for this kind of restoration deal and they also know that fema would pay for it and, second, based on documents, they communic...