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reporter: this is a question for the general and it s a two-part question. we are now one week and two days since maria walloped the island. why do you think, general, now is when you are coming in with all of these resources? secondly, what was fema doing exactly after the storm when there were washington post reporters getting into towns when people had not seen anybody from the government? can you take us through what steps you took us after the storm to address the situation that was taking place? sure. i will start and hand it to you. i am john the acting administrator in fema region ii. thank you for your question. i appreciate the word wallop, and i used catastrophic but might use the word wallop as ....
Collapse on to first stories. people are wondering where is the help. they are indeed, as we heard the mayor emphasize. thank you for your reporting, you and your team. while puerto rico struggled to recover to have water and food in the aftermath of maria, more rain is expected. flash flood watches go into effect at 11:00 a.m. this morning. two to four inches of rain expected today alone. let s go to our meteorologist, chad meyers, who has more. this is the last thing they need. you think it might be a blessing because people could use the rain water for something, but it s not. two to four inches across the island will cause flooding because the gray spots there, 20 inches of rain or more, and some spots picked up almost 40 in the rain gauge itself. i would love to show you the radar, but this is what the radar looks like in san juan. ....