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Your family? >> i love you. miss you. hopefully i'll see you soon. >> with that we'll send it back to you guys. our thanks to the sergeant for joining us on this thanksgiving morning. i want to bring in colonel jake jacobs. your reaction to the scene on the ground at that camp base in texas. your reaction to what we heard from the secretary of defense yesterday. initially there was some thought this mission would be complete by december 15. now the secretary saying it could be longer than that. >> general buchanan said he would like to see everything closed down soon and certainly before chr...

Only heard "thank yous" from the people of puerto rico. i'm curious if you think that's actually helping with the recovery effort there. >> you know, i understand that there's a discussion in washington about, you know, the president and his statements and whether, you know, it's inelegant at times, the way he expresses himself and all that. but with 3.5 million americans needing help right away, only 8% of americans down there have power today. and the concern that i have, you just said that the death toll has come up to 34. that has doubled in the last few days and the reason is the need for...

Continue. >>fortuna, former governor of puerto rico, thank you so much for being with us right now. >> we appreciate it and good luck. >> we do have to run. we are getting some news just into cnn. this as we're waiting for secretary tillerson to speak. we have new reporting at cnn and a much closer look at how the administration's generals have been working with the secretary of state. i want tag to co go to cnn's ba starr with much more on that. barbara? >> let me clarify a little bit. we've been poking around into this, and what we're finding is a little bit unexpectedly, we are seeing a gro...

Rico. coming out of the white house, if only the local truck drivers in puerto rico would show up, there would be a crisis solved. there's a massive fuel shortage. there's not just trucks waiting for the drivers. general buchanan said the number one challenge is there's not enough fuel and the roads are impassable. i don't know -- i don't understand about the blaming of the truck drivers. >> i don't get why it has to be about him. it's really appalling as the president of the united states -- there are local leaders frustrated. he may think that's legitimate or illegitimate. the bottom line is...

Other hurricanes that, frankly, were not nearly as severe. i have such respect for fema for for the people who got here early and what they have been able to do. governor, you wanted to say something? >> we are grateful for the president. we are grateful for the effort that the federal government has embarked on. mayors to fema. the dod, general buchanan here with us as well. mr. president, we couldn't have done this if we didn't have that support. of course we recognize and the president recognizes that we still need to do a lot more. but we know we are going to do it together. this is a comm...