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Power, water, hospitals, and retail fuel distribution. you are right. in terms of the power grid we are looking at about 10% off line. that's coming up on a daily basis. the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> when do you think it will be 9 90%? >> weeks or months? >> in a couple of weeks that 10% will bump up 10 to 15%. >> public schools are closed in much of the island right now. these kids from kindergarten from high school are not going to school. >> two sides of this. getting the grid up and the hospitals and the airport are all on grid power. in the meantime, we have other critical faciliti...

Central part of the island, it's a hospital that's caring for some 200 patients. they have patients in the icu. they are still on generator power. the generators were working when i was there, but they have no idea at it generators are going to continue to work, or if they're going to continue to get fuel. they had to move patients twice from the icu to a different part of the hospital. would you take care of critical patients not knowing if you're going to get fuel, or medications you need? there's 70 hospitals. we have sat phones. there are hospitals out there that can't communicate with fem...

Transactions are still all-cash, so the lines pile up at the atm. most hospitals operate on emergency generators, which is supposed to be temporary. the elderly and weak helplessly swelter with no air conditioning. the top general leading puerto rico's recovery emphasizes distribution of food, water, and medicine, but says that everything ultimately goes back to the issue of power. >> if you're talking about a hospital, it is depending on generator power, then i am worried about the generators. are we giving them enough gas? >> the further that you get from the coast or the city, the worse thi...

Now at one of the biggest shippers in puerto rico. the trucks are unloading it, but there's nowhere left to put these containers. they're at the very last bit of space, way over capacity in part they say because there's no diesel that can get the semi truck drivers in here to pick up the containers and move them along. the port is running on generator power to run the operations here to keep those generators running that keep the refrigerated units doled. and that is the case all over the island. fuel and especially diesel in desperate shortage. and the trucking companies, if they can get ahol...

35, raise lower from 10% to 12%. even if it goes into effect, they lost the debate. >> i appreciate it. always good to have you. president trump also addressed the crisis in puerto rico calling it a very difficult situation there on that island as leaders plead for help. necessity say the island, home to roughly 3.5 million americans, is on the bring of a humanitarian crisis. 97% of the island has no power. half the island has no water. generator power is limited. most places still don't have cell service. and many of the hospitals are still shut down. fuel shortages have led to hundreds of ...