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Authority because of major safety concerns over water sanitation. highways and bridges took a major hit after the storm. heavy damage is making deliveries -- it's hard to make those deliveries and relief supplies to get that food and water. it has been massively difficult. "the wall street journal" reports this morning, they had out of puerto rico's 5,073 miles of road, over 4,000 of them remain closed. 30% of the hospitals are running on generators. this morning puerto rican officials say 21 hospitals were still on generator power while 4 remain completely closed. this week the hill reported ...

People tried to recover there. seeing it on both ends and appreciate the reporting you're doing. marp jana atencio in orlando. and a crisis developing in puerto rico, the kind of thing that's happens if you don't have running water. 67 hospitals on the island, 21 powered by generator power right now. four hospitals remain closed. one of the major medical assets provided by the u.s. navy is this -- a massive ship serving as floating hospital that is calls "the usns comfort." gabe gutierrez was on that ship now off the southern coast of the island and he spoke to some of the people there. gabe...

Conference today. the governor spoke about his first trip to washington since the storm ravaged puerto rico. >> the president reiter airted his-oairted -- reiterated his commitment to stay with puerto rico fon the long haul. talk to senate majority and minority leaders both committing to work with puerto rico so we can make sure that puerto rico is treated equally. >> well, the situation on the island is so dire that thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, are making their way to florida to escape destruction. msnbc's mariana atencio is live inside one of those destinations at orland...

Hurricane katrina and now here in puerto rico. it's been here since october 3rd. for this, 250 beds. there are about 50 patients here. the governor in the last several days blamed a lack of communication for not being able to refer more patients on to here. the responsibility of fema. the department of health and human services as well. as the puerto rican secretary of health to refer patients and we've spoken with a few from the western side of the i'dsland an they're trying to avoid an emergency. hospitals remain without power, running on backup generators and are sending some patients here....

Themselves, mostly in the parking garages and the, you know, in some of the lobby areas they have had some pretty good water. but that's to be expected too. and we knew that was going to happen. to my understanding all of the casinos are -- not all of them, but three or four that do not have power right now. they're working off generator power. and we have had a couple of calls to them. we have accessed them, assessed the situations and like i say, they'll have to do a lot of cleaning there. there was a lot of water on the lower levels of these areas -- these casinos, yes. >> joe, one other qu...