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Duke. that last comment about the president's, you know, the president has been tweeting for the last few days about the debt problems that puerto rico was in and the infrastructure problems they had before hurricane irma hit. elaine duke saying we will deal with that later. right now they need some help. breaking news out of saudi arabia. the king has announced an end to its long standing ban against women driving. women in the kingdom have been protesting the ban by posting videos and pictures of them driving. a dangerous thing. the decree won't immediately go into effect. the kingdom says...

Workers. do they have enough people to try and fix at the very least the infrastructure problems? what is the expectation for how long they're going to be in the dark? >> reporter: two big challenges. first one is communication. we're hearing from rescue workers they're not even getting alerted as to where people are trapped because the communication is down. as you know, power is out 100% across puerto rico. the only people that have power are people that have generators and that's usually hotels. so, that's the biggest problem. the second problem is, the flooding here. most of the roads are ...

Issue is going to be the wind damage, structural damage, people getting fresh water and food is going to be a issue and the infrastructure problems in the mountains with flash flooding, trying to get them food and water. this is going to be a humanitarian disaster. dominican can just be grazed, bah ham aus safe, georgia safe. we haven't ruled out anything for the carolinas. i expect by this time tomorrow night we're going to be in a full all out disaster in puerto rico. >> puts a lump in your throat especially after what everybody's been through. for those on special media, he's a terrific and...

Poor island to begin with. they have billions in unfunded pensions to teachers and government employees. when you're talking about an island with five million people, that is astounding. tens of thousands of puerto rico's best and brightest leave the island each year for better jobs in the u.s. the good news is the state of emergency in puerto rico declared by president trump could mean a lot of federal dollars flowing into the island, which could boost the economy at least temporarily. shep? >> shepard: trace, the storms have shown how bad some of puerto rico's infrastructure problems are. >>...

The eye, to the left of the eye might not get as damaged or as strongly damaged as another area that's farther away. so with sandy, that was kind of the problem. the problem was the storm was coming apart was sandy was moving toward new york, so you had this big wall and these pockets of wind. and that strong surge that was still pushing along the coast well away from where the center of sandy was. >> i don't want to put you on the spot, either of you, have we heard anything about dominica? i haven't heard anything. >> but you're not going to see a lot out of it. the infrastructure problems, i...