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The same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan that will short ly bring power to at least the central medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the federal government and the federal health aid is going to be operating from. at least that center should have power within the next three days. so -- >> those hospitals, do they have -- i assume they have generators now? >> they do have generators, but those are emergency generators, they need to be stopped frequently for oil...

Conductors down. and we still have no communications with two of our power plants. so it's devastating. >> i mention in some areas, there's still flooding, even beginning to work on that is going to be difficult. how long do you foresee taking to get power restored. >> well, you know, we're working on priorities first and foremost. the same level of priorities, we have the hospitals and water system, water treatment plants and pumping stations. we have a plan will shortly bring power to at least the central medical center, which is our largest public facility for medical services and where the...

Clean water. how are they going to work? >> that's our task. and congressman velasquez has taken a leadership role as well as the city counsel speaker here in new york city in making sure we take emergency help immediately to puerto rico. that means emergency generators, tphop perishable goods. all the items that are usually important right after the storm. it is important we take the items that are needed right now, not two weeks from now but right now. >> let's talk about how congress is going to pay for this. puerto rico will need billions in federal assistance. what's congress prepared to ...

And into people's houses it is clear, they are on their own. the government told them you have to hold out for 72 hours. they are trying to do that. living out on the streets, cooking on the street, washing on the streets, waiting and hoping that help comes soon. back to you, neil. >> neil: incredible. brock long, the fema director, fema headquarters. you said it would be a long ordeal and the worse would the come after the fact. this is proving it. what is the latest you can tell us? >> well, i just got off the phone with the governor a little bit ago and we're continuing to meet his goals of...

Upon for supervision by their management staff and by their ownership. state regulations sure. i think this begs the question as to what regulations are in place in terms of power outages at these types of facilities. are they required by state law to have emergency generators kicked in? this opportunity like you said at the top of your comments begs the question of how are we preparing these types of fas for multiday power out ands in the heat of summer. >> do we know for sure, mr. mayor, that this facility lost power? because i know a lot of hollywood did lose power. but did this facility as...