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Cars and equipment driven to your state, we have to get them either flown in or we have to get them through ports. i just want to be truthful. i know it's hard to reconcile. but both of those components are truth, are the truth. there is an effort. the men and women on the ground are working hard so we can get out of this emergency phase. but we still need to put the pedal to the metal and work as hard as possible, find creative ways to get out of the emergency and stabilize the situation. of course, on a parallel track which i think is very important, very critical, look forward and see how w...

Part of the problem is it was pretty well destroyed before the storm and we are working together to get that back up but also to make it long-term. they were working on a long-term prior to the storm. so now they are really working on it. >> that's part of the litigation strategy. i can't stress enough how important it is that we keep this for the long haul, that we work together so that we can make sure that we don't just put things back. again as they were but that we make it better than before. i think that's the critical that's better for all u.s. citizens of this happens. i think in puert...

Recognizing we're still in the emergency phase, this could allow puerto rico to be a showcase in terms of energy production and other by way of mitigating and innovating. >> mr. president, between 1 and 10, how would you grade the white house response? >> i'd say it was a 10. i'd say it was probably the most difficult -- when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all of the different levels. and even when you talk about lives saved. you look at the number. this was i think it was worse than katrina. it was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen....

Mountain and they are worried about starvation. we will monitor the efforts of the congress. thank you very much on that topic, senator. go ahead and finish. >> again, we probably toured, i don't know, a quarter to one-third of the island by helicopter, very close to the ground. no doubt about it, you have isolated a number of homes together, two to three, maybe ten, and those homes are definitely isolated, but 78% of the municipalities are all accessible by road. again, they are getting out of that emergency phase and move into the intermediate phase of -- >> i hear the terminology. i am sayi...

Are working on and believe me when i say if somebody is not delivering that food for any reason to the people of their town, they will have a tough time ahead of them. >> a lot of eyes watching you, sir. so many americans watching you, so many americans on the main land, if you will, also watching you to try to make sure that you get the help you need fp qui. quickly here, sir, google, jetblue a couple who have been trying to get different solutions to you. are you hopeful about those particular companies pitching in? >> yes, i am. particularly because they are innovators. and what we are look...