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If you need to place blame at all, i think it's on the failure of the electrical power system. the electrical grid. you know, i was here september a year ago where the electric power grid went out for three days because of a fire in a single power plant. irma knocked out 70% of the power grid that was not yet restored when maria came and knocked out the rest of it. that's why they can't pump the gas out of ground or the water out of the ground or can't run elevators or air conditioning. that's why hospitals are relying on emergency generators. there is no power. the bankrupt and the president ...

Government were not ready for the storm. they are running off of 20 emergency generators, and using about 5,000 gallons of fuel per day so it's going to be a challenge to keep the airport open, and never mind trying to print boarding passes or get people through the airport screening. usually this airport presents 120 flights per day, and they are at ten yesterday. >> boris sanchez for us at the airport in san juan. what a scene behind you. such a complicated web to unravel there. appreciate it. and then health crisis

Airport, the airlines have sold tickets that are now unable to be confirmed. on a typical day at this airport, you have 120 commercial flights. they're now down to 18, yet the yeah of the airport tells me that that is a success, because just a few days ago, they were down to 9. yesterday, they had 10. today they're up again to 18. but, as you mentioned, the air-conditioning isn't working. something as simple as printing a boarding pass is impossible. not to mention the amount of energy it takes to turn on some of the tsa screening equipment, that which isn't damaged, is simply too much. they'r...

To tell them i was alive. >> despite the ordeal that he's had to face, he certainly considers himself lucky, because there are so many people here who don't have homes to go back to. again, thousands of people coming to the airport here in puerto rico, trying to catch flights out of the territory, but they simply are out of luck and on top of that, i heard from the ceo of the airport this morning who says that they are using more than 5,000 gallons of fuel a day to keep emergency generators running. he says at some point they will run low. he's making a plea to the federal government to dedica...

Some special machinery and special medication to stay alive. they were turned away from a hospital and came here. because, again, they didn't have anywhere else to go. that child's father actually told me that he did not believe that the government of puerto rico was ready for this storm. on the other side of that argument, i spoke to the ceo of the airport, who told me that there was no way for puerto rico to be ready for this kind of storm at all, because of the magnitude of it. remember, just a few days prior, the island was hit by hurricane irma, then you have that category 4 storm that co...