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Thanks. and puerto rico has declared a state of emergency as waves of blackouts roll across the island. aging power plants and infrastructure have crippled puerto rico. and gabe guttierez has more. >> reporter: good afternoon. this island with more than 3 million american citizens has faced power problems before. but there is new frustration here. and in congress, a house committee is now looking into the outages. across puerto rico, an urgent power struggle. frequent blackouts as times impacting hundreds of thousands of people. >> we are having practically weekly shutdowns. >> reporter: and...

Plants throughout the island. people are taking to the streets to demonstrate against the blackouts with another round of protests planned for this friday. the island's power grid has been in a fragile state since it took a direct hit from hurricane maria four years ago. nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez is in san juan with the latest. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: jose, good morning. this island with its more than 3 million american citizens has facd power problems before, but there is new frustration and in congress, a house committee is now looking into the outages here. this morning...

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The entire city of new orleans without electricity. some outages could last for weeks this is a massive electrical power that collapsed during hurricane ida with several feeder bands, all throughout new orleans. a lot of people think this may be one of the epicenters of the city's power problems. so many tonight anxious about how long this could last. >> reporter: you look at this, and you're thinking we're not going have power for weeks, if not months >> exactly exactly right. it will be a long time before we get power here again >> reporter: all of it beginning sunday as the powerful storm m...