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Pushing, no shoving. and no men. after almost three weeks of increasingly unruly confrontations aid groups on sunday came up with a new plan that almost a dozen distribution points across the city, women only. u.s. soldiers provided security here checking coupons which had been given out a day earlier entitling each woman to a bag of rice. enough to feed a family for two weeks. a moment to rejoice. halleluj hallelujah. >> reporter: not only for these women but also for master sergeant ronny lewis originally from the island of antigua. >> it was difficult. you know, tears was coming. it just --...

Now, both by the federal government, and frankly, by the organizations in puerto rico. they're supposed to be facilitating the assistance. how do you view it? >> well, we still have a problem with scale and having the adequate ability to handle logistics on the island. things suddenly got better in the last week since the national guard. the great national guard from all the states stepped up and sent enough teams in to set up distribution points, but i still sense we have a problem with distribution with enough trucks. and to get enough bridges, the type of bridges that can reestablish some o...

District three which includes the keys. heather, you have been on conference calls with emergency management officials already a few times today. how long is it going to take to get food and water to those people? i mean, you've got so many people in the keys who didn't evacuate. they're stuck in their houses. >> yeah, we don't know exactly how many people didn't evacuate. i guess the latest estimate is about 10% which is about 7,000 people. i think most people who did stay knew that this was going to be a long haul, so they're probably personally well provisioned. that said, we had red cross ...

It's not confirmed clean to drink. a boil order water is in effect so residents can flush and shower with it. the city hopes to have this water fully restored and saved in the next week or two. >> it feels like we won the world series. we are so excited. the river had encrusted yet so we sandbagged our electrical system and it didn't reach it. so we're on our way to water. >> in the meantime three distribution points have been set up like this one. residents are lining up to get ice, food, and water by the case. looked on this line of cars. there are hundreds of thousands of them every day loa...

Out to sea. along the way it's going to take a lot of things with it. >> it will be interesting to follow this and try to stay ahead of it. ten dams are failed, this per the governor. those failed dams put more pressure on every dam remaining, on roads near rivers and bridges near rivers. the pressure keeps building even though we have a bright sunny day here. further down south there could be some trouble over the next 36 hours, shepard. >> what's the word on water problems and how to know what's safe and what to do about it? >> reporter: 40,000 people without any water at all. as far as the ...