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Including carman, who had broken her arm sweeping water out of her living room. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i tweeted about her situation and the next day the army corps came and put a tarp on her roof which they called like a spectacular coincidence. there were people waiting all across the island for this basic thing which was a dry place to sleep. >> reporter: carman was eventually one of the lucky ones. almost a year after maria, she finally got an actual roof. but there are tens of thousands still waiting in line.

>> what is your biggest frustration today in? what do you need more than anything else? >> blue tarp. >> blue tarps the mayor told me. i need a thousand. it's been raining a lot. operation blue roof was supposed to fill that need. but when cnn investigative reporter john sutter dug into arm corps of engineers' records, he found nearly 50,000 requests for tarps still unfilled almost three months after the storm. including carman who had broken her arm sweeping water out of her living room. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> i tweeted about her situation and the next day the arm corps came and put a tarpon her roof which they called like a spectacular coincidence. there were people waiting all across the island for this basic thing which was a dry place to sleep. >> carman was eventually one of the lucky ones, almost a year after maria, she finally got an actual roof. >> but there are tens of thousands still waiting in line. >> look at this. i mean, this is the kind of scene i'm used to seeing maybe a month of after a storm. two months after? this is a year later. you're still living like this. >> like it was y...