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We saw some additional aircraft arrive on the island this week. navy's hospital ship is right off san juan. the situation on the ground is still pretty bad. as of yesterday, only 5% of residents on the island have power. 12% of the island had cell coverage. defense department is working. bringing in mobile cell towers to improve that. helping to distribute fuel and food and water with other fema representati representatives. it's still a long road until it's back to normal. >> live for us in washington, d.c. thank you. president trump and secary of state rex tillerson revealing the heightene...

Took. she got in a blackhawk, and she was looking down upon puerto rico, and we got a sense from the sky -- i don't know if we can pull that video up again -- of her trip. but it did not look good, she said, from many stops. she went to a couple of islands that are off the main island, but also said they're getting some help now. and just to read some of the shipments hitting the ground right now, millions of meals, millions of bottles of water. do you think maybe now, as we lead up to the tuesday trip from president trump, things will be getting better as they trickle in more help? >> well,...

And i think they are breaking the log jam, truck drivers are showing up. let's face it, the truck drivers couldn't communicate with the emergency centers because the cell towers were down. very little cell coverage on the island except for near san juan and the center of the island. paul: if you compare to texas, a lot is essential poverty of the island, the island is much more vulnerable, electrical grid is more vulnerable and cell towers weren't as reinforced as they were on the mainland. >> yeah, i think when you have a political class like you do in puerto rico that has not managed , has n...

For chile were able to have some cell coverage and be able to communicate amongst ourselves. our larger concerns remains with st. thomas and st. john's along the northern coast of puerto rico. geography down here, there is the varied systems that are used to move a lot of the preparation around in one of our focus areas is ensuring that we can get that operation to move first responder personnel between all the islands to support the population. >> heather: i have some friends down there and st. thomas that i've been trying to reach today and there's no phone service. i spoke with them before ...

Not a big profit margin? so you've got to do what we did back in the day in this country and help to electrify. utilities are going into places where there's a market but you'll have to provide some type of subsidy, some sort of floor to get everywhere. you cannot get a cell coverage for miles. and so you don't -- and even in towns, you know, the president was just in harrisburg. i was in harrisburg during the campaign and i met with a bunch of people and one of the things they said was there are a lot of places where we don't have access to high speed affordable internet. we have dial up and ...